Hello engineers! As the title suggests I am here to talk about the governance side of the Society. The first topic I would like to talk about is elections; as you hopefully know, we just elected a new set of Executive to serve the Society for the next sixteen months. Unfortunately the team was incomplete with no candidates running for the position of VP Education and VP External. This means that a by-election will be held this term to try to fill these positions. Both are very important positions within the Society and if you have any interest in representing the Society either internally to Faculty members or externally to external groups I encourage you to consider running and come talk to the current Executive. There is also a post on the website which details the requirements for each Executive position.
The next topic is a very exciting one for me: the first ever Joint General Meeting will be on Sunday July 5th at 10:30AM in CPH 3607. At the Joint General Meeting every EngSoc member receives a vote, can submit motions, and can speak to issues that matter to them. This is the most important meeting of the Society of the year and it is important that we have a strong turnout of voters.
Agenda Items can be sent to David Birnbaum at speaker.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca – if you are unsure how to write a motion or what can be added to the agenda, you can read through the manual on in the document section on the website.
To get you even more excited for the meeting, current agendas items include a complete restructure of the Executive, changes to the leadership award policy, removal of the term “general meeting”, and Board of Directors Elections. Lunch will be served midway through the meeting and an ice cream/dessert bar will be provided at the end of the meeting!
If you cannot attend the meeting or know someone who cannot attend the meeting, please submit a proxy form to the speaker (speaker.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca) at least 24 hours before the meeting. Proxy forms can be picked up in the EngSoc office or on the website.
The final topic of my article is the Executive Restructure mentioned above. This is an exciting committee that has been going on for the past year to investigate the current structure and see if it is the most effective for the Society. After the year of work the committee has developed a new structure which will be proposed at JAGM. The full report is available on the website but a summary of the main changes are removing VP External, moving all outreach, events, and services under a VP Student Life, and creating a VP Communications. The hope of this new structure is to increase the communication the Society can achieve, as well as to focus the VP Student Life on creating new events and services.
This was a long article with lots of information so if you would like to discuss anything more in depth or have questions please stop by the EngSoc office!
Leave a Reply