Council minutes Thursday 4th June, C&T Room 101 5pm

1)Welcome from the Chair

Sana welcomed the Council to the meeting and advised that Council had not met quorum. To meet quorum over half of Students’ Council has to be present to pass anything proposing policy, bye-laws or articles.

2)Apologies for absence

Noted in the attendance.

3)Motion – the tax on menstruation should be abolished

As the meeting was inquorate Josie will take the motion to board and report back as the matter is a financial matter. It was agreed Josie would take this to Board as a Board member and report back to Councilat the next meeting.

4)Any other business

Dyslexia PowerPoint’s

Stevie updated the Council that Disability Support Services have done some research and there is not one all-purpose template for how to ensure lecture PowerPoint slides are accessible. The Support Services will produce a number of different PowerPoint templates, which will not be mandatory for lecturers to use.

Democracy Review

Sana outlined that at the Council residential there was a discussion around the Democracy review. Sana confirmed that there will be another meeting of Council to be organised this month before the 30th June where Board would take place which will hopefully meet quorum and take into account further feedback from Council members.

Stevie wanted to pass on his thanks to Gareth and staff involved in the democratic review. Sana outlined that with an emergency meeting to review the democracy review proposals it could then be approved providing we meet quorum. Alternatively the Trustee Board could approve it first and then it could come to the next Students’ Council.

It was then discussed as to whether to remove those members of Council who had not sent apologies for the past two council meetings. It was agreed to hold a vote to remove the following members of Students’ Council after discussion that this would be at the end of Council’s term where many of those being voted on had already left for summer vacation. Several School Presidents had apologies sent on their behalf by another Council member at the previous meeting and it was confirmed by Council these would not be accepted.

The following people were removed from Council:

Fiona Burke

Giulia Canigiani

William Gregory

Theodore James

Kennedy Kwelulem

Janean Laverty

Emma Li

Bright Morgan

AbinhavPalkar

Oli Phillips had also submitted his resignation to enable Council to meet quorum at future meetings.

The vote was passed with 6 people voting for and two against.

It was confirmed that Council now has 21 members and to get quorum this will now need 11 people in attendance.

Course Rep System

Ali asked for clarification of changes to the Course Rep system. Stevie explained that courses are going into colleges and that course reps will be made using a formula. Gareth confirmed it was 1 rep per 40 students. Sana asked that Stevie share the paper with all School Presidents so that those not at residential would know what was going on

AOB – Next Council meeting

Sana confirmed that another meeting would need to take place by the 22nd to get the Democracy review paper to the Union Board of Trustees. Sana will do a ‘doodle’ to confirm people’s availability.

Sana wanted to thank SAC for all their work and that Council had a lot to thank them for.

Next Meeting – TBC

Students’ Council Meeting Attendance

Name / September / October / November / December / February 2nd / February 9th / March / April / June
Pam Jat - Black & Minority Ethnic Rep / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Apologies
John Meghen- Representative of Disabled Students / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present
Abigail Law - Ethics and Environmental Officer / Apologies / Apologies / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Apologies
Kennedy Kwuelum – Representative of International Students / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected
Nick Sanderson - Representative of LGBT Students / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Bright Morgan - Postgraduate Students' Representative / Present
Emili Peake - Women's Rep / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Present / Present
Rebekkah Yates- Open Council / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Eric Sutton – Burnley Rep / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Present / Present / Apologies
Sana Iqbal – Council Chair / Present / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present
Rachelle Cohen - Open Council / Present / Apologies / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present
Theodore James - School President of Art, Design and Performance / Present / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Present / Present / Present
Jade Cannon - Lancashire Business School President / Present / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Emma Li - School President of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Abbie Bartlett - School President of Education and Social Science / Present / Present / Apologies / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Present / Apologies
Fiona Burke - School President of Forensic and Investigative Science / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Jo Schumacher - Lancashire Law School President / Deputy Chair / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Apologies / Apologies
Giulia Canigiani - SoLLIS School President / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Present / Apologies
Ali Miah - School President of Pharmacy / Present / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Present
Carolina de Almeida- School President of Psychology / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present
Jenean Laverty – School President of Social Work / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Rachel Marlow – School of Health President / Not elected / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies / Apologies
Oli Phillips – Open Council / Not elected / Present / Present (Part) / Apologies / Resigned
Lee Mac – Union President / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Apologies
Lucy Haigh – Campaigns Officer / Present / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present
Stevie Seymour – Education Officer / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present
Matt Murphy – Media Officer / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present
Josie Linsel – Activities & Participation Officer / Present / Present / Present / Apologies / Apologies / Present / Present / Present / Present
AbhinavPalkar – School of Architecture, Construction and Environment / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Apologies / Present / Apologies
Hannah Mason – School President of Journalism & Media / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present / Present
William Gregory – School President of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors / Not elected / Not elected / Not elected / Apologies / Present / Present / Apologies
In Attendance
Gareth Pye – Membership Services Manager
Matt Webber – Student Engagement Manager (minutes)