Carleton University Debating Society AGM

The fifth CUDS Annual General Meeting will take place on April 6, 2005 at 6:00pm (location TBA).  The AGM is where you can put your mark on the club by deciding on club policy, direction, and of course, electing next years executive members.  The following motions are currently scheduled for debate:

• Executive structure changes
• Changes to voting privileges
• Changes to conditions of membership

You can see full descriptions of the motions at http://www.carletondebate.org/agm.  Please note that any motion that calls for a change to the CUDS Constitution must be approved by two-thirds of the members present at the AGM.  See http://www.carletondebate.org/constitution for the CUDS Constitution and http://www.carletondebate.org/bylaws for the CUDS By-Laws.

To introduce a motion, please post the motion on CUSIDnet at http://www.cusid.ca/community/viewtopic.php?t=7002, or raise the motion at the appropriate time at the AGM.

Executive Elections

Following debate on motions, we will have the elections for the 2005-2006 Executive.  If the motion on executive structure changes is successful, the following positions will be elected: President, VP Administration, VP Communications, VP Internal, VP External.  If the motion is not successful, we will elect the following positions: President, VP Communications, VP Debate, VP Fundraising, Secretary-Treasurer.

See http://www.carletondebate.org/agm for full descriptions of the positions.

Any member of the Society may stand for election and may run for up to two positions.  If the candidate is successful in his/her first attempt, he/she will be dropped from the remaining ballots.

In addition, we will be electing the following non-voting executive members: Xerxes Cup Tournament Director, Lord Dorchester Cup/CUSID National Championships Tournament Director.  Candidates may run with an additional person as Tournament Co-Directors.