[GSA Council] IMPORTANT questions

[Keroles Riad]

I definitely think that the by laws need to be completely rewritten. Throw this one out of the window and start from a white sheet of paper 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

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      From: David Clos-Sasseville <clos.s.david at gmail.com>
 To: "Gsaconcordia at lists.resist.ca" <Gsaconcordia at lists.resist.ca> 
 Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 12:10 PM
 Subject: Re: [GSA Council] IMPORTANT questions
   
HI Everyone,

Let's not fall prey to panic here. I totally agree that we should sit and discuss about the GA.

Here's some answers/comments on Keroles questions:

2) Council can appoint Trevor as VP. But, keep in mind that it could be perceived as the council trying to impose its candidates where the issue as not been resolved here. In the long term it could play against the council and event against Trevor. So if council really fell it is important to do that take the time to prepare a full proof rational to defend it.

3) Clarification here: Election as in normal election are out of the GA, by-election are not. The problem is that Election (outside of GA) cost around 9000$ and span over a lengthier ammount of time so what would happen before is you would have empty seats not filled because either it would cost to much to have a full election for 1 or 2 seats and/or people would deemed that there is not enough time before the next general election. IN the meantime the job those seats could have done would be left out.

Possible solution: It has been said by others than me, but we could divide our general election in two, one in the end of winter to elect half the council seats and half the execs, and a second at the beggining of Fall semester to elect the other half. Then between those two, if needed, we could have by-election in GA, but it would dramatically reduce the number of seats to be filled. 

Just removing by-election would just bring back old problems and not necessarily resolves all the other problems we have.

By-laws/By-law committee

I know this GA can be discouraging, it could have been better. Last year by-election ga's were better than that. It is a work in progress and believe me there are really really worst GA than that (which doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make ours better, And I think we do)

Personally, I worked with different by-law committee in the last 2 years in GSA and I feel that the main problem is even if everyone agrees that the whole thing should be revised, everything people just want to work on specific issues within the actual set of by-laws. So the whole revision which would do more than just patch is always delayed and in the mean time we keep the old patched by-laws.

David

2014-10-23 23:10 GMT-04:00 Keroles Riad <k_riad at encs.concordia.ca>:



Hi,few questions:1) when is the next council?2) Can council reappoints Trevor (should he so desires) to council?3) what needs to happen in order to take elections OUT of GAs and go back to the normal election styles?4) Knowing that the next senate is October 31st (in a little more than ONE week, who has the authority to send official notice so that the new senators can get the documents ASAP so that they are ready for the senate? (could the GSA president take care of that please?)

Requests:Today's GA was quite discouraging I find that the by laws committee should have a much bigger sense of urgency to address the many many problems with our bylaws.
1) Can we, the bylaws committee, set the next meeting ASAP?
 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

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