Council 3: 8 December 2016
University of Northampton Student’s Union
MINUTES
MEETING NAME / Student CouncilDate / 08/12/16
Venue / Avenue MY120
Chair / Prince SadikChaudhury (Education Councillor)
Present / Liam Bligh, SU President
David Lewis, SU Union Development
Danjie Zhong, SU Education
JemmaVobe, Mature Students Officer (JV)
Rebecca Chapman, Women’s Officer
Anastasia Lampadariou, Postgraduate Students’ Officer
Jen Dobson, LGBT Officer
Stephanie Nixon, Faculty Rep (Education Councillor)
Joe Atkins, Faculty Rep (Education Councillor)
Dean Davies (Education Councillor)
Prince SadikChaudhury (Education Councillor)
TisharnPanglose, AU (LEFT EARLY, NO APOLOGIES)
Christopher Watkins, AU (LEFT EARLY, NO APOLOGIES)
Carly Ayre -(AU Councillor)
Krish Gandhi, Socs
Tyler Spencer Pote, Socs
Artemis Artemiou , non-portfolio
Elliot Spurling, non-portfolio
Apologies / Joseph Foster (AU Councillor)
James Channon, Entertainments Officer (JC)
Zoe Pape (Education Councillor)
James Walker, non-portfolio
Kate Truong, Socs
Esther OluwabukolaOlorunsomo, Socs
Lauren Hamper (Vol Councillor)
Kealey Nash (Vol Councillor)
Not present, No Apologies / OlaideAbiodunOjo, BME Officer
Chelsea Eede, Moulton College Officer
Hannah Foggett (Sports Officer
WuliangZhnag, International Officer
John Lewthwaite, (Education Councillor)
Hannah Botwright (Education Councillor)
PoulaChaitika (Education Councillor)
Sarah Lee (Education Councillor)
Jessica Burnside, Socs
ZeinabAudu, Socs
EilisBurbirdge, AU
Ashleigh Taylor, AU
Meeting Begins
Prince voted in as temporary Chair due to Zoe Pape’s absence.
Vice chair Joe Atkins
Minutes from last meeting accepted
Motion discussion point
1. Discussion Point on Postgraduate Students’ Officer being a full-time Sabb role
Anastasia explains motion
Dave speak against. Full sabb should be in welfare as this reflects wider uk and NUS. Don't see it as a full time role it should sit within education role.
A. I haven't seen much focus on undergraduates. There is too much to do. Education committee makes apparent there is a need
Dl. Student trustees have one postgraduate officer.
Lb. there is a lot of things it has to go through, eg constitution change and board of governors. Need full time effort from sabs, also don't know where funding come from. I do like idea but maybe in the future, I'm not sure post grad would be full sabb role.
Aa. Education role focuses on TEF. Can we address on end of the year when there is more time?
Lb. lots of others SUs have fourth but on welfare. President assumes a community role
Aa. What about a postgraduate team?
Sn. Maybe have a panel to talk about issues
Dz. if we make postgrad role full time, they are still hard to engage with because of their workload.
Jv. Break officer role into three roles? So not chase up everything but focus on different things
Al. It could happen, open for discussion. Full time gives you way more than part time
Sn. Lucy at looked to split between research and taught
Dl. Have sub committee
Vote
8 yes 8 no 2 abstain
2.Discussion point on obtaining Green impact reports in Council
Artemis presents motion.
Dl. Dave wouldn't be accountable?
No just to bring forward like finance report
Jv. How often does book get filled out?
Dl. Meant to be within the year
Aa. It means council has more agency on it
Jv. How accessible is report?
Aa. It's hefty. To more about bringing issues to council to be brought forward
Vote
16 yes 0 no 2 abstain
3. Discussion Point on how Nightliners are being represented
David presents motion.
Jen. Have someone to represent night liners
Dd. What about anonymous discussion board? Post statements and questions
Tyler. Is the issue having someone independent but isn't operator
Dd. How is it being recruited for? This role?
Dl. We publicise but rather do word of mouth
Jv. Have two nightline reps?
- Policy Proposal for Ethical And Environmental policy
Artemis presents motion
Dl. Transport. Sometimes it's quicker to fly somewhere far e.g. Glasgow. It's also cheaper
Aa. This is already within a SU policy
Jv. Point six it says guidelines will be for event for 200 people but societies may do smaller events and not take down posters. Maybe it should be 100
Dl. Karaoke have more than 100
Aa. It still applies to these events. It's open to interpretation. We would have guidelines for 200
Jv. Do we have facilities like litter picking?
Dl. Yes
Jv. On ethical purchasing, who determines what is ethical?
Aa. Go from NUS ethical suppliers
If had issue with this list we take it to NUS
Vote
17 yes 0 no 1 abstain
- Bye law amendment: Student Council
David presents motion
Lb. are halls and first year not just the same? Will you not just have the same problem in recruiting them?
Dl. No you would look at those actively engaging in sports etc and support them and get them develop skills earlier
Jv. 4.5 it looks like they are going to run from 1st April but they won't sit on council till November it means they won't be first years
Mistake
Es. When I was first year one on first priorities is not about council it's about settling in. We are not actively seeking extra things
Dl. That's why it's good to look at those already engaged.mtheres bound to be one or two that one to get straight in
Dd. How many first year students co,e and watch council?
Do.l. They complain but they need to be more active
Jv. For education how many will be elected by first November? Same with activities
Jv. I don't think the timeframe is realistic
Aa. We didn't have this many members until we had councillors. Also everyone's experience of student council and beginning of uni is different
Jd. Can we have election just for first years? For example in January
Tyler. I was a first year last year and a councillor. I think the issue is awareness. I think they would be interested if they knew about it from the beginning
Rc. I think you are looking for too many, maybe numbers can go down
Dl. I just took numbers from halls reps
Rc. If we can't get 9 now how will we?
Dl. We haven't worked on halls this year
Lb. if we can't recruit full number we aren't losing anything
Jv. Could it be like non portfolio?
Dl. I was full campus wide and reflective of campus
Dd. How would you publicise?
Dl. Ask staff and students
Tyler. Do council have any presence on union day? We could have a little stall?
Lb. at the moment we have zero and if we split and get some that is better
Dd. Who sort out publicising?
Dl. Do through voice team and promote, cascade down and not leave it too late
Aa. There's all these logistical issues but we are a creative team and if they think they can do it and get a couple to council let's give them a chance
Dl. On next point, what about chairs automatically elected?
Joe. Can we have vice chair if main chair can't go? What if in more than one role?
Dl. I think chair shouldn't be pto.
Tyler. Aren't councillors supposed to report back to committees
Vote
9 yes 5 no 4 abstain
2. Bye law amendment on officer role descriptions
Lb. are we able to alter officer descriptions in council?
Aa. Yes it's in constitution what the titles are and bye law can add description
Dd. Did you say the officer leaving can change role
Aa. No it has to be someone in the role
Jv. Can it be added in that council need to discuss why role not filled after two year
Aa. Yes bring up in separate vote
Vote
13 yes 3 abstain
- Bye law amendment: Mandating officer
Artemis presents motion.
Vote
15 yes 1 abstain
- Bye-law amendment: Elections
David presents motion.
Jv. Will three points be for full and part time?
Joe. In terms of doing it like Twitter, you make be able to be v vague with that
Lb. makes it easier for marketing if 144 characters
Joe. Subcommittees be screened as well?
Dl. Yes
Rebecca. Three is too little
Dl. Makes it easier to hold to account
Aa. It makes it easier for officers to do other work she. Actually in role.Eg part b is all about extra things. Having 3 actually focuses people too and we may have diversity
Lb. that number should between 3 and 5
Rebecca. Is it other universities do this?
Procedural motion vote in parts
Jemma. It will help if we are more specific with each point
Vote
8 yes for first point
14 yes 2 no on printing
11 yes 3 no 2 abstain
Reports
- Liam presents President report.
Aa. You said you attending TEF meeting r u writing a blog?
Lb.Can do
Aa. Could you write blogs about your meetings? So we know what happens
Rebecca. How many students have you spoken to?
Lb. I have been more reactive than proactive and agree we need to be more proactive
Vote
15 yes 1 no
David presents procedural motion to Adjourn Officer reports to later meeting
Vote – majority vote in favour. Officer reports are adjourned
Committee minutes
- Education committee minutes
14 yes 2 abstain
- AU committee minutes
Aa. Are sports growing too quick? With storage and kit? How they are growing can we accommodate them?
Lb. I think sports are stagnating. the grow has slowed down. Storage etc is an issue
- Socs committee minutes
14 yes 2 abstain
- Volunteering minutes
None submitted
Still good to have minutes so we know what was discussed
Another other Business (AoB)
Resubmit vote of no confidence
Joe. Can we do vote of no confidence with fac reps?
Roger. It may be something to look into adding in bye law. Need it written down