AMS Annual General Meeting failed to make quorum
The AMS’s March 12 Annual General Meeting failed to reach quorum.
Eighty-eight voting were present of the 100 required.
According to AMS bylaws, if quorum isn’t met the AMS must provide notification “in the Journal and other appropriate ways” within one week of the meeting. Any students wishing to contest the motions ed can do so with a 100-signature petition, forcing the AMS to hold a “replacement” AGM.
If the replacement AGM doesn’t make quorum, the first AMG’s results are binding.
The Commission of Internal Affairs didn’t announce the failure to meet quorum.
The deadline to bring a petition striking down the motions ed is two weeks after an AGM.
Commissioner of Internal Affairs Caitlin Adair said anyone who wants to contest anything ed at this year’s AGM should her.
“It’s not their fault [they missed the deadline]—they didn’t know,” she said, adding that if a student wanted to contest the results and collected enough signatures, the AMS would have to hold another AGM.
“If it wasn’t possible [in the spring], we’d have to do it in the fall, right.
—Anna Mehler Paperny
Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) reappointed
Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Andrew Simpson has been reappointed for another five-year term, Principal Karen Hitchcock announced Monday.
The Board of Trustees ratified the decision after a unanimous recommendation from an 11-person advisory committee.
“It’s a great thrill and a great honour,” Simpson told the Journal. “I couldn’t be happier.”
Simpson said he wants to see the major capital projects—phases one and two of the Queen’s Centre and the School of Business expansion—completed on schedule by the end of his next term.
—Gloria Er-Chua
Queen’s Centre debt could impact department budgets
If the Queen’s Centre continues to be over budget, it could hurt the University’s operating budget, said Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance) Andrew Simpson.
“If we have to borrow money … there would be debt servicing, interest repayment,” he said. “That would be in the operating budget in future years.”
The operating budget includes departmental budgets, which suffered a four per cent cut this year. Having to include interest payments in the operating budget could mean departments would have to face more cuts, he said.
Apart from that, he said, capital costs and operating costs aren’t linked.
Departmental budgets fall under yearly operating costs, which are covered by provincial government funding, tuition and returns on investments.
—Gloria Er-Chua
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