Meeting highlights
PRESENT
Francisco Hernandez (Chair), Blake Luff, Zac Gawn (Conference Call), Lucy Gaudin, Ruby Sycamore-Smith, Pippa Benson and Keir Russell
IN ATTENDANCE
Donna Jones (Minute Secretary), Darel Hall (General Manager) and Logan Edgar (Observer) and Sam Clark (Critic observer)
APOLOGIES
Kamil Saifuddin, Gianna Leoni and Jordan Taylor
Moved from the Chair
218/13 THAT the above apologies be accepted.
CARRIED U
Keir arrived at 6.07pm
OUSA GOVERNANCE AND REPRESENTATION STRUCTURE REVIEW WORKING PARTY TERMS OF REFERENCE
The Secretary advised the meeting that if a policy wasn't passed by a unanimous vote it would then have to go for notice and then be voted on at another meeting.
Gawn/Luff
219/13 THAT the ousa Governance and Representation Structure Review Working Party Terms of Reference be set.
CARRIED U
REFERENDA POLICY BREACH
The Referendum held recently wasn't filmed or live streamed owing to three people in attendance. This was an oversight and the executive apologise.
Davidson/Luff
220/13 THAT the Executive accepts there was a breach of the Referenda Policy clause 5.2 and direct the Administrative Vice President to ensure this isn't repeated.
CARRIED
ELECTIONS POLICY AMENDMENT
It was discussed that the policy should be amended have a choice if the forums would be filmed or not. The executive have made arrangements for one of the media departments to be in charge of filming the forums in future.
Luff/Sycamore-Smith
221/13 THAT the Referenda Policy be amended.
CARRIED U
Moved from the Chair
222/13 THAT Darel Hall, Donna Jones, Logan Edgar and Sam Clark be granted speaking rights for the duration of this meeting.
CARRIED U
Zac hung up at 6.14pm
GENERAL BUSINESS
The Captain Cook Tavern - There was discussion that OUSA would like to support the idea of retaining the Captain Cook Tavern. There has been a lot of student and alumni support on local media.
There was discussion about OUSA having a web based "pledge.me" strongly supported by the President but after a long discussion it was decided not to.
Davidson/Sycamore-Smith
223/13 THAT OUSA create a web-based platform to gather national and international support to retain The Captain Cook Tavern as a student bar.
CARRIED
University Book Shop
Moved from the Chair
224/13 THAT the meeting move into committee of the whole for reasons of commercial sensitivity at 6.35pm
CARRIED
Luff/Sycamore-Smith
225/13 THAT the meeting move out of committee of the whole at 6.51pm.
CARRIED
The Otago Daily Times had printed information this morning about the UBS restructuring, Logan Edgar addressed the meeting as a member of the Board to explain that it was their internal matter and the UBS Board along with the General Manager had acted professionally and the matter needed to be confidential.
Meeting closed 6.52pm