Hello fine UW Engineering students, I’m Trevor Jenkins, and along with Jordan Lui and Praveen Arichandran, we are half of your Federation of Students Engineering Councillors for the 2010-2011 term. In total, engineering has six seats on FEDS’ Students Council, with three having been filled this past term and three being filled this term. By the time this issue of The Iron Warrior comes out on Wednesday, nominations for the remaining three seats will have closed as of yesterday and we’ll have one of the following scenarios: 1. An upcoming by-election later in June , 2. Three acclaimed individuals, or 3. Some acclaimed individuals and some unfilled seats. We’ll let you know what happens in our next article, or check out vote.feds.ca for up-to-date information.
Many of you are probably unaware that Students’ Council existed until now, so what does it actually do? Council is composed of elected representatives from all faculties, disciplines and affiliated colleges based on the total population of each constituency. At the most basic level, the purpose of council is to uphold the goal of the Federation of Students under its Charter and its by-laws, and to establish the policies of the corporation. It provides a forum for student input into Feds activities, including overseeing the performance of the Executive team in certain areas of their performance. Council meets once a month to consider matters that affects the Federation, to hear updates from exec, and for councillors to provide updates on issues affecting their constituency.
Since coming into the positions at the beginning of May, council has only met once. There’s not too much to update as the Exec are transitioning in, and various council committees begin to start-up. As issues arise and are dealt with, we’ll provide updates at EngSoc meetings and in IW Reports in order to make sure you’re as informed as possible. We’ll pass on information on how to get involved with Feds in different capacities. For information we can’t get into the IW due to timing, we’ll send out relevant updates to the EngSoc mailing lists.
As mentioned before, council is composed of six councillors from our faculty. Engineers have a strong say in what goes on so if you have any problems, concerns, issues, or suggestions that you want addressed, let any of us know and we’ll follow-up on it.
Take it easy!
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