CUDS Members,
Annual General Meeting Agenda
This is the agenda for tonight's AGM. Everyone is welcome to come out. We still need
someone for the Vice President for Debate position. You can add items to the agenda at
the meeting. Essentially, we want to find out how we did this past year and look at how
we can improve next year. All suggestions will be treasured.
1) Statements by Exec:
-Novice Rep
-Secretary-Treasurer
-VPFundraising
-VPDebate
-VPcommunications
-President
2) Constitutional Amendments
a) A motion to create a Touranment Results archive:
Quote:
Past Tournament Results By-Law
1. The Society shall maintain an accurate and accessible record of past tournament
results dating back no less than 2 (two) academic terms prior to the current date.
2. Participants who attend subsidized tournaments shall report his or her results to
the Secretary-Treasurer within two weeks of the date of the tournament.
b) Motion to reword Section III(7):
Remove the italicized:
Section III, Article 7 wrote:
All students of Carleton University are welcome to become a member of the Society,
with the exception of students demonstrated to have been involved in the circumstances
resulting in the decertification of the Carleton Dorchester Debating Union. The Chair of
any Business or Debating meeting shall be empowered to remove any person who disrupts any
proceedings, or acts in a threatening or abusive manner
c) Creation of "Tournament Director" Positions
-to be created as SEction III, Article 4, and read as follows:
Quote:
In addition, the Society shall elect Tournament Director(s) who shall be responsible
for coordinating and organizing CUDS hosted events, such as the Xerxes and Dorchester
Cups. Tournament Directors shall operate as officers of the club, and be responsible to
the executive, not members of it. A Tournament Director may also concurrently sit on the
Executive
d) Executive Transfer - following elections section:
Quote:
Upon completion of the election, the newly elected executives shall take their
respective offices three weeks thereafter. The intervening period of time should be used
to transfer all necessary articles, effects, legal authorities, etc. from the departing
Executive to the incoming Executive.
e0Motion to renumber as appropriate.
3) Policy Talk/bylaws
a) CUSIDnet forum
-Allow non-CUDS people in?
-Primary means of Club Communication, i.e. signing up for tournaments, etc.
-Code of Conduct/Participation rules
b) NATS 2007
-Make hosting Nats in 2007 the goal of the club
c) Tournaments Hosting?
-Dorchester and Xerxes again?
d) Summer Debating?
4) Elections
-President
-VP Communications
-VP Debate
-VP Fundraising
-Secretary-Treasurer
-TDs (if needed)
5) Other Business
6) Adjournment
Joshua Prowse
Vice President (Communications) - VPCom(a)CarletonDebate.org
Carleton University Debating Society (CUDS) -
www.CarletonDebate.org