[GSA Council] Arts and Science Vacant director positions.

Thu Feb 21 22:35:27 PST 2019

Vice President Mobilization is seeking our opinion to* accept* or reject
the application for the director position without bringing the GA election
up! This is totally different from seeking an opinion to allow the student
to show up in the council meetings.

According to the by-law, every graduate student can participate in the
meetings; no need to get permission from directors or executives! You could
have invited her to the council meeting without asking us as you followed
the same approach while asking the person to attend GA for by-election !!!

Moreover, It is a good signal that you are moving forward but I am very
surprised why you are emphasizing a lot "working on GA and upcoming
elections and transitions" as the timesheet shows that you worked much
fewer hours compared to the previous months. For example, overall, every
executive worked on an average of 37.14 hours in December/November period.
However, each of you worked on an average of 21.65 hours in the last period
(January/February)!

I conclude that you have not been working as much as you are advertising.
Please stop it!!!

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:26 PM Aathi Prasath Agasthiappan <
external at gsaconcordia.ca> wrote:

> Hi Masoumeh,
>
> Please find the answers to your questions below,
>
> 1) As told by the chair and other directors we finalized not to fill the
> vacant positions and rather start working on GA and upcoming elections and
> transitions.
> 2) Y send email after seeing your agenda point ? - because we thought
> telling you our answer now itself so that we could discuss about other
> important aspects in our meeting.
> 3) Your question to VP Mobilization ? First of all it’s a collective
> decision and all execs are aware of his email before he sent. Yeah as per
> last council meeting , we ( execs & directors) thought of not filling the
> vacant position but we suddenly got an application and we didn’t wanna
> reject it. So we asked the person to attend Ga for by-election. However
> what we thought was it would be better if she can come to meeting and know
> what’s happening if she is gonna be a part of us so that she doesn’t miss
> one among the few council meeting left. And she can also formally introduce
> herself to all directors. So that’s y we want to make sure if we can call
> her to meeting and that’s y we asked all directors. And to confirm once
> again- she will be elected only in GA( as per bylaws), though she may
> attend the council meeting this week.
> All directors kindly let us know your thoughts whether to call her for the
> meeting.( as she can win anyway becoz we hav 2 vacant positions left and
> only one person contesting).
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Thursday, February 21, 2019, Masoumeh Zaare <masoumehzaare at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nura, as a chair I expect you to not underestimate filling the vacant
>> position issue. As you know, three months (one-quarter of the mandate) is
>> left, I do not believe that it is an insignificant point that would be
>> resolved without considering the vote of all directors. I will
>> totally respect the voting result but we will need to do so. It is not a
>> worthless issue!
>>
>> Furthermore, if you believe that this issue is already resolved (no need
>> to fill the vacant positions), why would the Vice President
>> Mobilization have sent us an email seeking our opinion about accepting her
>> applications? It shows that this issue has not been resolved!!
>>
>> Aeisha, in the last meeting, do you decline that you had not encouraged
>> anybody to make an effort to fill the vacant positions? If so, I
>> really have no more words to discuss.
>>
>> The executives' team, you have not gotten back to me yet regarding the
>> question that I raised in my first response: why were you seeking our
>> opinion when you already made a decision (sending an email by the president
>> to the candidate 9 days ago!!!) ?!!!
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 3:55 PM Aeisha Vyas <internal at gsaconcordia.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Masoumeh
>>>
>>> We really appreciate your inputs, but I would like to add to what Nura
>>> and Jean- Simon said previously. Since, in the last council meeting, we
>>> decided to keep the vacant positions as such, because we need to
>>> concentrate on GA and the other tasks on the action plan, we sent an email
>>> to have everyone's thoughts on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Thank You*
>>>
>>> *Regards,*
>>> *Aeisha Vyas*
>>> *Vice President Internal*
>>>
>>>
>>> *Graduate Students Association*
>>>
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>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:14 PM Masoumeh Zaare <masoumehzaare at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Jean-Simon, Nura and Harish,
>>>>
>>>> We discussed it but the vice president internal also encouraged the
>>>> Arts and Science directors to fill the position. Everybody was talking and
>>>> you might not have heard what we discussed. As a result, I made an effort
>>>> from my side to reduce the burden of work from the executives' work. I also
>>>> believe it is shame for us not to be able to fill the vacant positions
>>>> during our mandate and I am very concerned about the reaction of the new
>>>> team when they notice that we just started taking an action after 8
>>>> months!!!
>>>>
>>>> Second, I was surprised when I received this email exactly after adding
>>>> my point into the agenda two days ago!!!. Third, I'm a bit confused why
>>>> Likith was seeking our opinion when they had already made a decision
>>>> (sending an email by the president to the candidate 9 days ago!!!) ?!!!
>>>>
>>>> Jean-Simon, regarding your point about the GA, I just invited the
>>>> executives' team to hear from us about our experience in organizing GA by
>>>> sending an email to everybody on February 3rd. Unfortunately, nobody,
>>>> including the directors, has gotten back to me about that this
>>>> initiative!!!
>>>>
>>>> Some of the directors who joined us recently blamed me for criticizing
>>>> the executives' team. It was not the first time that I showed my goodwill
>>>> by offering some initiatives but most often I have been ignored by some of
>>>> you. However, I decided to put everybody in CC in my last email to keep you
>>>> informed about my conversations with the executives' team.
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, what really makes me upset is that some directors believe
>>>> nobody has successful experiences since quorum hasn’t been met in years.
>>>> Some of them also frankly expressed it to justify the failure in getting a
>>>> quorum in GA during the last council meeting. I believe it is the duty of
>>>> each of us to start working hard without thinking about the result. It's
>>>> better to fail despite work hard rather not to do it.
>>>>
>>>> Jean-Simon, regarding your point about focusing on the proper
>>>> transition, I have already brought them to your attention by mentioning a
>>>> point on the agenda when nobody has added a single point to the agenda.
>>>>
>>>> Have a great day,
>>>> Masoumeh
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:15 PM Jean-Simon Castonguay <
>>>> jsimon.castonguay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Masoumeh,
>>>>>
>>>>> last meeting, we did discuss that there was no point in spending
>>>>> energy to appoint new directors since there's only 3 months left in the
>>>>> mandate.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this energy could be better spent elsewhere (such as GA and
>>>>> proper transition to the new team).
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> JS
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:05 AM Masoumeh Zaare <
>>>>> masoumehzaare at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Likith,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your email. As I remember, we have never decided in the
>>>>>> last council meeting that the vacant positions will not be filled. As you
>>>>>> know, it is a very important decision and we should definitely have
>>>>>> mentioned it in the minute. However, it was not included in the minute
>>>>>> (please take a look at the January minute).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Moreover, I am really surprised why you have sent us such email
>>>>>> exactly after adding my point into the agenda yesterday. Please see the
>>>>>> details below to find more information about my point:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Follow up question/discussion regarding vacant Arts and Science
>>>>>> positions. In our council meeting on January 31st, Vice President Internal
>>>>>> encouraged the directors in Arts and Science to fill two vacant director
>>>>>> positions in Arts and Science after our failure in organizing the election.
>>>>>> Therefore, the director in the Education Department started the discussions
>>>>>> with the hope that more Arts and Science directors can show up in the
>>>>>> council meetings. An interested candidate sent an email to the executives'
>>>>>> team. Finally, after 8 days, the president responded that the vacant
>>>>>> positions need to be voted in GA. The executive team should explain why
>>>>>> they are not working collaboratively."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Furthermore, as far as I know, one of the candidates had shown her
>>>>>> interest to join GSA by sending an email to the executives' team on
>>>>>> February 3rd. Finally, the president responded to her on February 11th that
>>>>>> the position should be voted in GA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I mentioned in my point on the agenda, unfortunately, you are not
>>>>>> working collaboratively as a team. I'm a bit confused that you seek our
>>>>>> opinion (sending an email by the president to the candidate 9 days ago!!!)
>>>>>> when you already make a decision?!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Masoumeh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:52 PM Likith Reddy Chavva <
>>>>>> mobilization at gsaconcordia.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>>>> Hope you are doing well.
>>>>>>> We have received an e-mail from a student of Arts& Science Faculty
>>>>>>> that she is interested to be a part of GSA as a director, a few days ago
>>>>>>> but as our Elections are done and If execs are not wrong,Council have
>>>>>>> decided in last council meeting that the vacant positions will not be
>>>>>>> filled. So, In this case, do you want us to inform the student that we are
>>>>>>> not accepting any applications or shall we ask the student to come to the
>>>>>>> council meeting happening next week?
>>>>>>> *Thanks & Regards*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Likith Kumar Reddy Chavva
>>>>>>> *Vice President Mobilization*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Graduate Students Association*
>>>>>>>
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