AGM format lame and boring
The USU Students’ Association held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week to a lacklustre crowd in The Hub.
USU Student President Pete Hodkinson says the purpose of the yearly meeting is to appoint a solicitor and auditor for the association, and to propose any new changes to the association’s constitution.
Hodkinson proposed making the AGM an online system in the future.
Hodkinson suggestion was an online AGM which must be voted on by at least 500 students, instead of the current 40 students required.
In the future students will have between five and 10 days to vote online rather than requiring them to be at The Hub during a small window of time when they may be in class or having lunch.
“What we are trying to do here is make constitutional changes in order to ensure students have the option and time to check [the AGM] out.”
“It will be held online instead of in 15 or 20 minutes with whoever happens to be in The Hub.”
Hodkinson also proposed extending the maximum term served by a student president from two years to three.
Hodkinson says it takes time to make things happen and with a high turnover there is a risk that Presidents will have only just grasped the complicated role before their term ends.
“I don’t think two years is long enough, [Presidents] don’t have enough time to implement changes.”