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Council Papers? What Papers?

Feb 09 2003 17:13
Tweety Pie
ICU Council heads towards yet annother unprepared meeting.
Does someone need secrecy like the Rector did? (photo: BBC online)

Despite continued complaints about availability of papers prior to meetings, those for the next meeting of council (Monday, 6pm in the Union Dining Hall) seem to be having difficulty appearing in the relevant place. Whilst some papers did turn up on the 5th of January, (try looking at these dates ) some of the links currently showing as the agenda for Monday's meeting refer back to papers submitted to January's Council meeting.

Notably one of these is the President's report. The other is for the minutes of the Executive Committee which were rejected at the last meeting of Council as they were old versions that failed to incorporate corrections noted at subsequent meetings of the Executive. However despite the many interesting items of business that the Executive has dealt with since then, no minutes after the 25th November have been presented to Council. Bizzarly it is impossible to say what happened at the last Council meeting, as the link to the minutes for January actually points towards the minutes for November.

Still to appear on the website is more fees related stuff. Live! wonders whether these will appear in enough time for members of council to actually read them before they disscuss their content. One union source has already expressed their concern that this late presentation of many papers in advance is one way of getting policy past a Council who will not question (or even read properly) the papers prior to voting.

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Feb 10 2003 09:02
 

They're up now...

Feb 10 2003 10:09
 

...except for the Exec minutes. Which look like someone has copied the minutes from the Jan meeting into the Feb meeting directory. Certainly there are no minutes tabled from either December or January....

Feb 10 2003 17:19
 

Surely the solution for Council for lengthy papers which they haven't had the time to read is to reject them. Then they can read them at their leisure and approve them at the next meeting, if need be.

Simple!

Feb 11 2003 10:32
 

Or howabout the chair rejecting them because they are too late? Can the chair do that?

He could at least warn the president, as the previous chair did (although to little effect, because spineless council members won't enforce discipline correctly)

Feb 11 2003 11:17
 

*ROTFL*

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