[GSA Council] IMPORTANT questions

[leili astaneh]

I rather maintain silent now!! Election is a hilarious show !!

On Friday, October 24, 2014, Keroles Riad <k_riad at encs.concordia.ca> wrote:

> 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
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>  *From:* David Clos-Sasseville <clos.s.david at gmail.com
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> *Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2014 12:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [GSA Council] IMPORTANT questions
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> 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
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>
>
>
> 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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