- - Apurva: Our Facebook leader group is live, I know a lot of you are leaders, our Facebook page is also live so if you wouldn’t mind sharing it, that would be great. Thank you.

## INTRODUCTORY ITEMS

- - Chair - Emily
- • Emily: So, does anyone really want me to go through Robert’s Rules or are you okay? Okay. So, basically I’m doing a very basic form of this. If you want the floor, just raise your hand or if I can’t see you, sort of jump around a little bit. You have to be recognized before speaking, but it might not be very formal, just make sure that you have my attention before you speak. I’m not going to, at least for now, use any sort of regulated rules, in terms of model UN kind of stuff because that gets confusing for me and for everyone else. Make sure that every motion is raised by a voting member and seconded before we can vote. There are some things that will need a larger majority but we’ll get to that when it comes up. Basically we’re going to be sticking more closely to the constitution than to anything. If there’s something particularly important please let me know and I’ll try and put it further up on the agenda. I know that the agenda is arranged in a particular way and a particular order with different groups going at different times, that’s not going to stay. I’m going to change it around every week until we find an order that works for everyone. And make sure you give me a very specific breakdown with what you’re going to say, with time you actually need and will use, including questions, and what you’ll be talking about.
- - Co-Presidents – Ben and Gabe
- • Introduction and Welcome
- - Ben: Hi everyone, so before we get down to the business of actual government we’d like to congratulate all of you, especially the council members here, on either your appointments or elections. We’re very, very excited to be working with all of you, this is a very fresh council, which we think is very important, and we’re looking forward to working with you over the next year. We want to emphasize that this is a new government; it’s completely new. Whatever past issues, and experiences you may have had with VUSAC either last year or the years before, they don’t matter here and they’re not necessary to the current operations of our administration.
- - Gabe: And with that in mind what we do want to do is very simple. We want to make things better, we want initially for that erasure of memory to occur, but then also to keep it that way, not repeating mistakes of the past and also building a foundation for the future to make things better for students. Constant reminders of failed potential will not hopefully, fingers crossed, exist this year and as well as that, we want to achieve that we, and everyone else, campaigned on. We want to make life better for students, and I think that’s why we’re all here today.
- Stuart leaves at 6:30pm.
- - Administration Priorities and Progress Updates
- • Ben: We want make VUSAC relevant to every student. We want to do that by being a student government. Not a student council, an arm of administration, or a club, but being functional and current by being useful and efficient. We can do that by setting achievable goals and working with all of you, by doing this together. Basically our message to you is

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