[GSA Council] Proposed change in number of council members for 2015

[Jon Summers]

How about a very simple compromise solution? Intervals of 700 students. I
believe this meets the 3 key criteria I outlined previously, and is easy to
explain to our members.

1-700 students: 1 councillor
701-1400 students: 2 councillors
1401-2100 students: 3 councillors
2101-2800 students: 4 councillors
2801-3500 students: 5 councillors

This would give 4 ENCS; 3 A&S; 2 JMSB; 1 FA; and 1 indi.

The total is 11 councillors.

What do you think?

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Keroles Riad <k_riad at encs.concordia.ca>
wrote:

> Jon, it is not arbitrary, it is the smallest council can possibly get. You
> have 4 faculties and SIP. You give 2 each that is 10. You want to do semi
> proportional then encs is biggest, SIP is smaller so you add 1 to ENCS and
> take one from SIP and you still have 10.
>
> This way you need 3 groups to agree to pass things in council. In your
> case the top 2 can dictate council.
>
> Last how many do you think are we now in council? We are supposed to be 20
> but we have a few seats open. We ARE at 15, do you think council runs
> smoothly now?
>
> This change needs to be fairly more drastic and even have my doubts about
> 10 being too many.
>
> Kero
> Thanks
> Keroles Riad
> Research assistant and INDI masters student
> B.Eng Mechanical Engineering
> Laboratory for the Physics of Advanced Materials
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> ------------------------------
> *From: * Jon Summers <jsummers6 at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:12:04 -0400
> *To: *Keroles Riad<k_riad at encs.concordia.ca>; Sean Boivin<
> sboivin001 at gmail.com>; <Gsaconcordia at lists.resist.ca>
> *Subject: *Re: [GSA Council] Proposed change in number of council members
> for 2015
>
> Thanks Sean and Keroles for taking the time to address my proposal for
> 2015 (and its possible variations)!
>
> As I mentioned, I believe that my moderate proposal has the advantage of
> (1) reducing the size of Council by about 1/4; (2) keeping representation
> proportional by faculty; (3) preventing smaller faculties from being
> dominated by larger ones.
>
> I'm afraid that Keroles' proposal seems too arbitrary for us to be able to
> justify it to our membership in a General Assembly.
>
> Sean uses the number of students this semester for his calculation.
> However, the current bylaws state that "This ratio will be determined by
> the total enrolment number in the Winter term of the previous academic
> year." This could of course be changed as well.
>
> According to David, the number of students in the winter of 2014 was 2734
> for ENCS, 1920 for A&S, 1179 for JMSB, 506 for FA, and 157 for indi. The
> seats on Council, by my math, would thus be 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (for a total of
> 15). Works out nicely, don't you think?
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Keroles Riad <k_riad at encs.concordia.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> I personally won't make council bigger than 10. 3, 2, 2, 2, 1
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Keroles Riad
>> Research assistant and INDI masters student
>> B.Eng Mechanical Engineering
>> Laboratory for the Physics of Advanced Materials
>> Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
>> Concordia University
>> 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
>> Montreal, Quebec
>> Canada H3G 1M8
>> Ph: 1-514-476-3686
>>
>> Follow me
>> @Kerologist
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:40:51
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