Exec + T? meeting
apologies – JG, HLE
website (JC)
MC wants to redesign the website
get matt to make a facebook group about it
jcr meeting relaunch (TR and LM)
2 major changes
propose a steering comm – non contentious motions can just get passed by steering comm
people can be invited or just rock up to steering comm
people can also request a motion goes to a jcr meeting if they want
add a couple of lay members?
everyone has vested interests in something
how you decide on what’s contentious
phrase it like a mini jcr meeting – you can come along if you want to but the fun stuff will be in the big jcr meeting
put motions online and people can send in comments
steering comm meetings need to be widely publicised
don’t call it steering comm, makes it sound a bit more exclusive
all budget motions should go through a jcr meeting
ratifying societies or motions like the society execs motion can go through steering comm
steering comm can meet whenever
reduce jargon in talking about motions
someone speaks on behalf
any opposition
then comments in turn from each view
LM to summarise positives and negatives and hopefully inspire debate
don’t read out the motion – the first thing to be said in someone speaking on behalf
keep it in plain english – phrase it in an accessible way
need enough copies of the agenda around so people can read them themselves
jros and stool are also publicising meetings
make as many people hosts of events
make the freshers group the host of the event
pick keen beans and ask them to be reps – make them feel special and get them to be your friends
house/block reps
start ‘help us help you’
want to find out what people want from us
– online or whiteboard style
‘can you do my job better than me?’
send targeted emails to certain people
use members of the exec to advertise positions and roles – ‘i want you to run for my role’
make it competitive between the exec on getting people to run for your role and your committee roles
slimline jcr meetings
jcr lite
only 45 minutes (calories)
new years resolution to lose weight – slimming down jcr meetings
make the point that we know they haven’t been good
– need to say that they’ve changed not just that they’re great
do three small ones in the first few weeks – break people in gently
straw poll at the next jcr meeting
should allow campaigning online
– reduce bureaucracy
– e.g. person who makes the best video wins but to be fair cares the most
– seems more fun and attractive when it comes from other people
– more natural than coming from just T? and LM
selects candidates that have a good online presence
– a very different skill to being good online to being being good at a role?
excludes that don’t have facebook or have fewer friends
makes it into a popularity contest
– but it drums up interest in the positions and makes them more attractive in the future
– shows that people care
– would it put people off running because – they feel they have to do a lot
put it across through the same platform
– can post in groups but not as statuses – access is equal that way
messages are quite invasive – statuses you can engage in if you want to
make it clear that there might be change from a straw poll
getting rid of posters
rebrand ron – change it from ron
– ‘request new candidates’
sometimes unexpected things are more contentious than anticipated
– be careful not to
eyes closed for method 2 so people don’t mind ronning
change it so you need to get twice as many votes as ron – this is one for the future
calling to hust –
ideologically everyone should hust, but logistically can’t necessarily
at least have them standing up and be able to ask them questions
add a point of information in questions so you can say the answer to certain questions or correct someone who’s said something factually incorrect
governance review after elections last week
have committees (finance) elected by their committee head through interviews and cvs
– extra responsibility for committee chairs
exec proposing/seconding
– it’s our responsibility to be more selective about who we say yes and no to
– exec names are valued more, regardless of the candidates
– certain people not getting votes based on them not thinking to ask exec to propose or not being friends with them
do we need to list proposers online – you’re influenced by them at the last minute
candidates should be allowed to have weighty names behind them
removing the names from du vote
won’t announce them in a jcr meeting
straw poll
review of the term