The Insiders
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Posts by Neal Yonson:
- Art Gallery gets $23,000
- New pricing policy for Whistler Lodge in February 2010
- Read the letter from the RCMP about problems Athletics has been having controlling alcohol and drugs at concerts held in the arena.
- This letter was posted yesterday on the the @ubcinsiders Twitter feed. For up-to-date news, follow us!
- The full agenda package can be found here, and contains a wealth of documents about the application, though hopefully I will be able to save you the trouble of reading through it all.
- Olympics, Olympics, Olympics!
- We support Iran… being referred to committee
- 2009-2010 budget
- Provincial Elections campaign budget revealed
- Executive quarterly reports released
- Student Court appointments
- Blake’s Broadcast: 1st Quarterly Report available here; everything is in there.
- VP External: 1st Quarterly Report available here; went to CASA conference; over 300 applications received for U-Pass subsidy; Translink is running “Be Part of the Plan”, encourage everyone to participate; looking forward to external policy committee meeting
- VP Academic: 1st Quarterly Report available here; met with residence coordinator at UWaterloo, want to not only increase residence space but also its relevance; met with Michelle Aucoin about Olympics issues; hired student court; remodeled offices; working on TA training, university has allocated funding for it; met with fraternity and sorority representatives; reinstated University Commission
- VP Finance: 1st Quarterly Report available here; AVP Catherine Metrycki did a lot of work to get a lot of stuff online; orientation for clubs with how to navigate AMS finance; looking at marketing for the upcoming year; attended alumni association retreat regarding alumni centre; looking at online payment systems to enable clubs to process credit card payments for memberships or events; Business Operations Committee is looking at Point-Of-Sale options, and AMS businesses contributed $1,114,981 to the AMS last year; preliminary budget prepped, found deficit, looking at budget reductions; budget will be presented next council meeting.
- VP Admin: 1st Quarterly Report available here; met with student development about proposed renovations to Brock Hall; hired assistant
- ECSS: missed this, but 1st Quarterly Report available here
- Emmanuelle Frederic – Chief Justice
- Sara Askari – Judge
- Feruza Abdajalieva – Judge
- Alexander Cooke – Judge
- Wilfred Chan – Judge
- Adam Flanders – Alternate Judge
- Jordan Snel – Alternate Judge
- Constance Chan – Clerk
- Fundraising and Sponsorship Committee: John MacLean
- External Policy Committee: Dusty C.
- Equity and Diversity Coordinator – $9.62/hr
- Assistant to VP Admin – $8/hr
- Executive Projects Assistant –$8/hr
- Internship Coordinator (AMS Connect Assistant Coordinator) – $10.23/hr
- Campus Development Commissioner –$8/hr
- First Year Seminar Commissioner – $8/hr
- International Students Commissioner – $8/hr
- Childcare Commissioner – $8/hr
- Olympics Commissioner – $8/hr
- AVP External – $10,380
per annum”
Jul
31
Koerner’s Pub Patio Project
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At the last GSS Council meeting on July 23, 2009, a plan to expand Koerner’s Pub came up for council approval. However, before it could be dealt with quorum was lost for the third month in a row and no decision could be made. This project has been on the table for quite a while now, and many people have put a lot of work into refining the design and financing options of the plan.
Most graduate students and other patrons of Koerner’s Pub are unaware of the planned pub expansion. Since it represents one of the biggest and most meaningful projects the GSS has considered in a number of years, this post is meant to inform all of those people about what the project’s all about, why it’s worthwhile, and what the current situation is. Most of the information in here represent the findings of the Pub Patio Project Task Force (PPPTF) and its presentation to council, which can be viewed here.
Jul
30
AMS Council: July 29, 2009
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Highlights from AMS Council tonight:
Long overdue, you can now get the agenda and documentation on the AMS’s own website!
Geoff Costeloe wants everyone to know he is hot and sweaty. But I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it in the fun boy-girl way.
Jul
23
The new Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre is currently applying for an amendment to their liquor-primary licence. The matter will be coming before Metro Vancouver’s Electoral Area committee for approval this Friday and there seems to be a significant hurdle in the way: as a result of past violations, the RCMP does not support it.
Thunderbird Arena currently has a liquor-primary licence which covers the seating area in Father Bauer arena as well as the location of the former Thunderbar. When the new facility was erected around Father Bauer arena, the new areas were not covered under the existing liquor licence. As a result, UBC Athletics is applying for an amendment to the existing liquor-primary licence to cover the seating area and floor of the new arena. This application is not only in UBC’s interests, VANOC wants it too. It’s in the venue agreement, and so UBC does as VANOC wants.
Jul
9
Big party tonight! Highlights:
There was a very full house tonight, 90-100 people for the hour-long Olympics presentation by Michelle Aucoin, UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat, Kristen Harvey, PR person for VANOC (and former AMS president!) and Manon Chouinard, PR for the Integrated Security Unit. Although those were the speakers, the delegation was much larger including two RCMP officers, three ISU members and other Olympics Secreteriat staff.
Jul
7
AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009
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Since the AMS has not yet mastered the art of putting meeting dates and agendas online yet, the next one is:
Wednesday, July 8, 2009. 6 PM. SUB 206.
The most interesting thing will be a presentation from Michelle Aucoin, Director of the UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat about what to expect when the Olympics happen on campus. If you or anyone you know is curious or concerned about the impacts of the Olympics at UBC, I encourage you show up, and to spread the word! TIP: there’s also free food. If you spread the word about that as well, you may have more success.
For example, UBC released a memo outlining how fields in Thunderbird Park are getting paved over for the duration of the Games. The fields will be handed over to VANOC July 17, 2009.
Jun
21
More from the CIS AGM
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The Coles notes version of this post was already published: CIS restricts dual membership with NCAA.
Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the organization that governs high-performance sport at the post-secondary level, held its Annual General Meeting from June 8-12 in Gatineau, Quebec.
When UBC decided to defer its decision on NCAA membership until at least 2010, one of the reasons cited was unresolved issues reagarding CIS. In the context of potential NCAA membership, the three main issues identified were (1) Dual membership rules, (2) Athletic Financial Aid rules and (3) Quality of competition within Canada West. The CIS AGM is the only time of year where these issues can be dealt with formally by the CIS membership.
Jun
18
AMS council tonight. Highlights:
It’s a proxy party tonight. Low turnout, lots of substitutes. Leftover food also means a weird dinner combination: Pi-R-Squared with smoked salmon appetizers.
CASA Conference Recap
First up was a presentation to recap the recent CASA policy conference in Calgary. However, the presentation by Blake and Tim, which lasted just shy of forever, spent a lot of time outlining a laundry list of complaints about CASA, all of which have been brought up before. Less time was devoted to what actually occurred at the conference. Summary: Tim and Blake don’t like CASA. I would also suspect CASA doesn’t like Tim and Blake.
Some division within the executive was made apparent immediately when Tom Dvorak stated that CASA sent a letter addressing the AMS’s concerns in late April and that this letter was not shared with other executives or council. Hmmm.
Plenty of boring discussion (if you really care, I can send you notes), but the quote of the night came from Bijan:
“When students go to conferences, they like to have sex. There’s something about having sex with someone you’ll never see again that’s exciting.”
I could put it in context, but it’s so much better without it. Another great quote came from Jeremy McElroy, who noticed Blake’s constant negativity about CASA and asked: Did you have any fun in Ottawa?
In a show of more executive division, Johannes questioned where the numbers came from which outlined the cost of being CASA members, saying that the actual cost is much lower than claimed by Blake and Tim.
Lots of discussion; not much concrete came out of it, other than that documents need to be made available to everyone, and not hoarded. Also, this will continue to be an issue this year.
Provincial Election Campaign Presentation
Tim got up and gave a recap of the provincial election campaign that he ran. While there were successes including lot of work put into awareness and over 500 voters registered by the AMS, the most hotly anticipated part of this presentation was the budget for this campaign.
For background, I’ll refer you again to this Ubyssey editorial as well as a related radical beer tribune post. You can also read the recap from two council meetings ago about how part of this campaign was botched. And, as was confirmed tonight, it was at no small expense.
Without further ado, here is the budget breakdown:
[no idea why the huge gap is here]
| Banners | 616.85 |
| Printing Costs | 3,652.92 |
| Ads in 24 Hrs | 18,484.28 |
| Bus Ads | 3, 715.25 |
| Website | 2,627.29 |
| Buttons | 1,220.80 |
| Design Services | 445.70 |
| Stickers | 195.36 |
| Hand Stamps | 33.89 |
| T-shirts | 440.99 |
| Videos | 1,500.00 |
| Campaigners | 3,340.00 |
| TOTAL | 36.273.22 |
The ads in 24 Hrs (the newspaper) are absolutely mind-blowing. Geoff Costeloe was particularly enraged over this, calling it a crazy waste of money. I… concur.
Personally I also took issue with the fact that it took $2,600 to build this webiste. Andrew Carne pointed out that it was based on WordPress. I just buried my head in my hands at that point. Still, nothing compared to the money wasted on ads in 24 Hrs.
The budget is the subject of a Ubyssey article, but here’s the bottom line: it was a waste of money.
Executive Remarks
Some Appointments-review stuff about salaries passed
Student Court Appointments
Conflict of Interest Motion
A motion came to council which would have required any member of council who also serves as a director of an organization which the AMS conducts business with to remove themselves from any In Camera sessions of council dealing with the other organization.
The goal appears to be the exclusion of UBC BoG reps, specifically Bijan, from In Camera sessions. However, while BoG is the most obvious example, there are probably other people on council who would also be affected by this and would also be required to sit out of In Camera sessions from time to time.
This was a Matt Naylor motion, who was not present tonight. His proxy, Alex Lougheed, did not feel comfortable motivating the motion since it was not his. I
t was eventually sent to Code and Policy. Should be interesting to see if this comes back to council sometime in the future.
Olympics Motion
Bijan brought a motion to invite Michelle Aucoin, who is in charge of Olympics stuff at UBC to present at the next council meeting for an hour. There should have been no discussion about this, but there was some. This also should have never been a motion in the first place, but it was. (Council doesn’t need to pass motions to invite people to present to council.) Anyways, next meeting, look forward to an hour of Olympics presentation/discussion.
Committee Appointments
Dave Tompkins: “Like the guy from Die Hard?” (Different speling, unfortunately. Dave looked it up on IMDB as a distraction from council.)
Next meeting: July 8.
Jun
12
The Ubyssey-edited version of this can be found at ubyssey.ca.
Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the organization which governs high-performance athletics at Canadian universities, sent a bold message to schools looking to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at their annual general meeting on Thursday. Voting 55-20 in favour, CIS members instituted a policy which places stringent restrictions on schools who pursue membership in both the CIS and the NCAA. Under the new rule, member schools are only allowed to play in the NCAA in sports not offered by the CIS.
“The NCAA is a gigantic, multi-sport business entity and quite frankly the CIS is not. So we believe that it could be a threat to the existence of CIS and we reacted accordingly,” said Dick White, University of Regina athletic director and outgoing CIS president. “I hope it at least creates some pause for thought, but I also understand that the school and its athletic director and its president will ultimately make a decision which they think is best.”
The two schools in question are UBC and SFU, the only CIS members who have openly expressed interest in the NCAA. SFU’s senior athletic director Dr. David Murphy spoke passionately against the membership restrictions during the meeting, arguing that it “reeks of insecurity and protectionism,” and that the CIS shouldn’t shy away from competition, but rather use it as an opportunity to better itself and grow stronger. Dr. Murphy expressed his regret that the new rule was adopted, but that SFU’s plans are already in motion:“The [NCAA] application form is in. We wait, and we find out in July whether or not we have been accepted.”
For UBC, which deferred its decision regarding NCAA application until at least 2010, this provides one more piece of the puzzle. Uncertainty over what action, if any, the CIS would take regarding dual membership has long been one of the sticking points in the university’s consideration of NCAA membership. While the new rule is not an outright ban on dual membership, it essentially makes the pursuit of the NCAA an all-or-nothing proposal since the pool of sports offered by the NCAA but not by the CIS is very narrow.
“We’re not saying ‘you can’t join’,” explained CIS CEO Marg McGregor. “UBC and SFU and any university that wants to can join. But as a result of that, we will not be the league of convenience. We want to be the league of choice.”
The issue of personal choice was indeed one of the key reasons UBC opposed the new rule. “I speak in favour of dual membership because I believe it does provide universities choices,” said Theresa Hanson, director of varsity athletics at UBC. “From a dual membership perspective, we could still make a commitment to CIS sport, continue some sports in Canada as well as move a considerable number of sports to the NCAA.”
UBC and SFU were not the only schools to oppose the new rule, with a handful of other schools also expressing their disapproval. Ivan Joseph of Ryerson opposed the change because he thought allowing dual membership would enable more Canadian athletes to stay at Canadian schools. Jennifer Brenning from Carleton was also opposed, pointing to the fact that the CIS now has three different sets of dual membership rules depending on whether you want to play in the NCAA, the NAIA, or the CCAA. Before this year, the CIS had no policy at all on dual membership.
While uncertainty surrounding dual membership has finally come to an end, the result doesn’t make UBC’s NCAA decision any easier. One of the biggest issues, academic accreditation, remains unresolved and Theresa Hanson acknowledges that the closer you examine the issue of NCAA membership, the more complex it becomes.“I think it provides more challenges, the outcome, but I really think that [Toope] will make a decision that’s in the best interests of the university and of our student athletes.”
May
12
Ah, election day. The day I walk into the SUB for my morning coffee and notice over a dozen cameramen and reporters just milling about in the concourse. Were there more bonfires last night? Another murder in the park? Doesn’t seem likely.
Who’s that grey-haired man with snazzy glasses walking in with an entourage? Why it’s Gordon Campbell, coming to the SUB for his voting photo-op!
I wish I had had my own camera on hand, but I suppose you can watch some footage on any newscast this evening. It was interesting to see the news machine at work.
He brought the full entourage, including the seldom-seen wife, kids and grandkids, with one big burly RCMP officer dressed in black, constantly standing on the periphery.
As he entered a voting booth, he had his back to the reporters. Being hopelessly naive, I expected the cameras at that point to turn away, or stop filming at least temporarily, to respect the fact that voting is supposed to be private. Instead, they stepped it up a notch. The CityTV cameraman was particularly shameless, holding his camera aloft above his head in hopes of getting a better shot. For Christ’s sake, do you want him to just pass around his marked ballot? It’s not like you don’t know who he’s voting for.
Then came the posing with his ballot half in the box. If the photo-op nature of this event was not yet obvious enough to observers, he asked everyone if they had gotten the shot they wanted before actually putting it in the box. Then the scrum moved outside for a brief Q&A.
At this point I was thinking: where’s the AMS? Let me first say that I absolutely don’t have any expectations that it is the AMS execs’ duty to constantly harass Gordon Campbell or other politicians. That should not be one of the primary duties in their job description.
However, the external office did put out a press release in April bitching about how ministers made themselves unavailable, (followed of course by the obligatory NayloRant™). The AMS has told the world that they are quite eager to meet with politicians, and are unhappy that they were not able to. So you might think that having the premier walk into their own god-damned building on election day followed by a gaggle of reporters and cameramen might represent a good chance to ask him some questions! No such luck today, though Blake and Crystal did leave whatever they were doing to catch the very end of the scrum.
I couldn’t actually hear most of the questions and answers since in the interest of informing the public about this absolutely vital story (Premier ♥ voting and democracy!) the media formed an impenetrable wall around him, keeping the actual public away. He pimped out his grandkids, and gave some pretty stock answers to some pretty milquetoast questions. Then it was off to the parking lot by the bookstore to do… whatever else he is doing today.
Edit: Well, there it is. Gordo and his ballot, currently the lead picture on globeandmail.com. You can even make out the out-of-focus AMS logo in the background.
May
7
AMS Council: May 6, 2009
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After a month-long break for exams, AMS council met tonight. Highlights:
1. AMS to reimburse AUS $35,062.04 for accumulated Arts County Fair debt.
2. Azim Wazeer, Joel Mertens and Josh Sealey recommended as new student senators
3. Lots of committee appointments
4. Whistler Lodge improvements
5. External Office to stop distributing some provincial election campaign materials deemed partisan, must remove some already-posted campaign materials deemed out of line with lobbying priorities
Since this is the start of a new year, in a way, there were many new faces and lots of introductions to be made. Dave Tompkins is speaker for another year. Sheldon proudly mentions that he and Dave are the only ones in the room who have been with the AMS since since the last century (last millennium actually, as someone else astutely pointed out.)
Executive Remarks:
Blake’s Broadcast: Lots of meetings with UBC admin; Block Party and Great Farm Trek; Hired a new assistant; Held student-staff appreciation lunch; New SUB negotiations with university are progressing, albeit slower than hoped for.
VP Finance: Looking at some renos to get some more office space; Block Party brought in ~$100,000 in revenues, but expenses were a bit higher than that; recently resolved a student fee issue that resulted in AMS getting ~$500k they were due; Blue Chip will be getting renovations to be fully equipped to do chilled drinks over the summer.
VP Admin: New SUB survey completed and results will be posted online soon in condensed, more readable form; new water fountains coming this month and will encompass both drinking fountains and bottle-filling stations; AMS will try to phase out bottled water at their outlets and sell AMS re-useable water bottles.
VP Academic/UA: Has been liaising with RCMP regarding olympic security and liquor policy issues; Sgt. Dan Wendland is gone with replacement coming this month; UNA and RCMP are working on a noise by-law to bring to the province; has been talking to provost and CUPE about TA training issues; NSSE founder will be making presentation tomorrow; who wants ice cream?
VP External: Lots of work on provincial election campaign; Translink AGM is coming up; looked into applicability of residential tenancy act on campus.
ECSS: mostly has been doing a whole lot of hiring for the upcoming year.
Code and Policy: Will look into why Code places restrictions on holding more than one AMS position at a time.
Senate Appointments: Student Senate Caucus went through a number of applications, did some interviews and ended up picking Azim Wazeer, Joel Mertens and Josh Sealy. There was some concern about whether the advertisement for this position was done, but given that way more people applied for the appointments than for the elections seems to indicate something was done right. Motion passed unanimously. Joel Mertens returns to council as Senate rep. Awkward moment: Guillaume Houle tried to get Geoff Costeloe to say that the meeting to pick the new senators took place during a hockey game, to no avail.
SUS Referendum Results: SUS recently had passed a referendum to index their student fee to CCPI (Canadian Consumer Price Index) and needs AMS to rubber stamp this. There are multiple versions of the CCPI; some debate over which one to use since it was not specified in the referendum question. Although SUS finances were admittedly fine, they feel is more sustainable and hopefully saves them from going to referendum every few years to raise it. SUS is the first constituency to index their fee to inflation. Motion passed.
Arts County Fair Debt Repayment: As expected, discussion on this item was quite lengthy. I won’t summarize it right now and the arguments for and against are already known, I hope. Before I give myself carpal tunnel typing it all out, let’s see what the Ubyssey comes up with. End result: 23-7 in favour of repaying $35,062.04 to the AUS for accumulated Arts County Fair debt.
Commitee Appointments: Sorry for the lack of last names, but Dave generally doesn’t put them up, so if I don’t already know it, it won’t be there. Also, I apologize in advance since I’m certain there is a mistake or two in here.
CiTR: Duncan McHugh, Aaron Nakama, Tahara Bhate, Bijan Ahmadian
Irving K. Barber Library Stewardship Committee: Crystal Hon, Kyle Warwick
LEAD: Tahara Bhate, Bijan Ahmadian, Lin Watt
Oversight: Jimmy Yan, Joel Mertens, Laura Silvester, Kyle Warwick, Tony Yang
Budget Committee: Kyle Warwick, “Ben”, “K”
Appointments Review: Kat, Aaron Sihota, Tim Chu
Business Operations Committee: Guillaume Houle, Laura Silvester, Aaron Sihota, Joel Mertens, Hafiz Dossa
Impacts: Hannes Dempewolf, Madeleine Schaefer, Kyle Warwick
Sexual Assault Support Services Fund: Elena Kusaka, Pavani
Code and Policy: Andrew Carne, Tahara Bhate, Matt Naylor, Blake Frederick, Jeremy Wood, Emily Griffiths
Campus events committee: Fraser, Carolee Changfoot, Tony Yang, Lin Watt
Fundraising and sponsorship committee: Madeleine Schaefer, Tony Yang, Tagg Jefferson
Campus Planning and Development: Jeremy McElroy, Andrew carne, “Pierce”
Renovations Planning: Andrew Carne, Jimmy Yan, Carolee Changfoot
Sub Renew: Luke(GSS), Jeremy McElroy
AMS/GSS Health and Dental Plan Committee: Matt Naylor
Equity: Geoff Costeloe, Tim Chu, Kat
Executive Renumeration: Aaron Sihota, Jimmy Yan
External Policy Committee: Matt Naylor, Kat, Tahara Bhate, Kyle Warwick, Elena Kusaka, Kiran, Iggy Rodriguez
SAC Appointments:
SAC Member: Elin Tayyar
Bookings Commissioner: David Le
Buildings Commissioner: Kyle Lai
Special Projects Commissioner: Cindy Zhan
Art Gallery Commissioner: Jeremy Jaud
Club Commissioner: Elaine Chin
Administrative Commissioner: Sima Shoker
AMS Preliminary 2009/10 Budget: 2008/09 highlights include higher than expected business operations revenue ($1.165M) contributing to an extra $440k which is to be allocated to other funds. However, with the food-housing merger, the AMS expects to lose some of its conference catering business to UBC Housing and Food next year. 08/09 ended with a small surplus.
09/10 forecasts $13.8M of revenue, with another small surplus at the end of the year. Point of interest: Rogers will no longer be providing free Blackberrys to AMS executives.
AMS Whistler Lodge/ AMS Office Renovations:
1. $21,900 for the Whistler Lodge, including: $1,800 for bunk bed improvements to combat bed lice; $6,600 for painting and patching walls; $9,000 for carpeting; $3,000 to build a boot storage area near the lodge entrance.
2. $16,000 to move, divide and create some new offices in the SUB for some of their employees.
Code Changes 2009: VP Admin Assistant: Crystal gets to hire an assistant to maintain her sanity.
Appointments Review Committee: Concern expressed that $8/h is too low; how wages are set and hours calculated; differentiation between wage and salary positions; whether some positions are necessary. Mostly however, I was going through a post-11pm zone out for the majority of the discussion. Wages set for the following positions:
Blake ceasing and desisting: You should probably just read the motion for yourself:
BIRT AMS Council direct the President to cease and desist any imposition of deadlines regarding the submission of motions above and beyond what is specifically enumerated in the AMS Code of Procedures, Bylaws and Constitution
This motion came from Matt Naylor. Background: AMS council meetings are always Wednesday evenings. Sometimes, motions would come up and councilors would claim that they were previously unaware of the motion or had not received supporting documentation. At Blake Frederick’s first meeting as president, he asked that agenda items be in by the previous Friday.
This was misinterpreted as being a hard deadline imposed unilaterally, when Code actually says agenda items must be in 72h prior to the meeting, which would be Sunday 6 pm. Blake stated that he was merely trying to give councilors the courtesy of extra time to look things over; he has never rejected motions that come in after Friday but meet the 72h timeline; he will gladly follow council’s wishes on this topic; felt a bit slighted that the motion came the way it was, he thought it would have been more appropriate as an informal discussion period.
Matt simply felt that sometimes committees need a bit more time to work on items and Friday was too early; he also didn’t intend the motion to sound as confrontational as it does; also felt that if the deadline needed to be changed it should come from Code and Policy, not the president.
A lot of councilors appreciated having the weekend to go over agenda items and the extra time available to consult with constituents, if necessary. Andrew Carne advocated for the pragmatic solution: send out preliminary agendas on Friday with as much as possible included (especially the more involved motions) with the final agenda sent out Monday. Sounds like a good plan. Motion failed 15-3.
External Lobbying: So maybe that $30,000 was not spent so well. This entry is too long already, so for background I will direct you to this Ubyssey editorial as well as a related radical beer tribune post. There was quite an in depth discussion, but I will kept it shallow cause I’m tired.
The AMS external office recently released a report card on the parties’ platforms in this election which was up on the AMS website. It has now been removed, but I’ve uploaded it here. Rating the parties? That makes the AMS look partisan when they are not supposed to be; extremely partisan since the BC liberals got a big fat F. Council decided to pull the report card off their website, and not distribute it anymore.
Also, have you seen ads like this around campus?
Well, AMS council never said that lowering tuition fees was one of the principles they were lobbying on in this provincial election, so these posters are misrepresenting the AMS’s priorities. Not to mention only the Greens are promising tuition reduction so it could also be considered partisan. All of these posters are to be taken down.
Essentially, this boondoggle was all due to the fact that the external office didn’t follow proper procedures when putting together the campaign. It made a campaign based on the VPX’s priorities and judgement, not council’s or the External Policy Committee’s. So, the $30,000 spent on the provincial election campaign? A waste of resources on a partially botched campaign and the AMS admits it.
Class dismissed. Next Meeting May 27.
