2014 Committee Lunch

Date: Wednesday 6th week, Trinity 2014 (2014-06-04)

Attendance

Present: Dan Turner (President), Krista Halttunen (Vice-President (Administrative)), Georgina Wilson (Secretary), Max Dalton (Treasurer), Anna Hufton (Dr. WHO), Joe Mansour (Dr. WHO), Matthew Lynch (Foody), Caitlin Tickell (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Sam Bumby (Access and Admissions Officer), Anonymous (Access and Admissions Officer), Robert Walmsley (Affiliations Officer), Nina Plowfields (Affiliations Officer), Henry Wisbey-Broom (Charities and RAG Officer), Aisha Simon (Charities and RAG Officer), James Kavanagh (Design & Maintenance Officer), Elizabeth Tulloch (Student Disabilities Officer), Alex Cheng (Entz Officer), Rivka Micklethwaite (Environment & Ethics Officer), Holly Marriott-Webb (John de Balliol), Harry Rimmer (John de Balliol), Eniola Oyesanya (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Ian McFarlane (LGBTQ Officer), Alastair Bassett (LGBTQ Officer), Richard May (Website & Computing Officer), Claudia Freemantle (Women's Officer)

Absent with apologies: Darryl Braier-Lorimer (Foody), Colm Britchfield (Design & Maintenance Officer), Kelly Brotherhood (Entz Officer), Xavier Cohen (Environment & Ethics Officer), Thomas Posa (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Izzy Williams (Women's Officer)

Absent without explanation: Alex Mullan (Lindsay), Isaac Rose (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer)

Agenda

Matters Arising

1. Doug's Drinks [Alex C]

2. Air Con in the Computer Room [Dan]

Agenda

1. Freshers week [Krista]

AOB

Minutes

Matters Arising

1. Doug’s Drinks [Alex Cheng]

Alex originally envisaged having drinks between about 8.30 and 9.30 – inviting Doug and anyone else that wanted to come. It turns out that there is a dinner in Hall for the rowers, so we might have the event earlier in the evening (and limit everyone to one drink each!) DT said that he would hear from the Master tomorrow what Doug actually wanted to do to mark his leaving. CT asked if we are getting Doug a present – DT thinks we should and is hoping that the Master is also going to get some subtle hints about this. RC asked what the budget would be – DT said that we could get a picture with the Picture Fund money and ship it to America – he thinks about £1000. RC doesn’t think the money should come from the Picture Fund.

2. Air Con in the Computer Room [Dan]

DT spoke to the Clerk of the Works about the temperature of the computer room. It has recently been made colder, but various member of the committee think that it is now too cold!

Agenda

1. Freshers Week [Krista]

Krista said that everyone on Committee will be expected to be back on Sunday of 0th to help with the freshers. Krista is going to arrange our vac res with the domestic bursar. She would like all the people who are in Jowett next year to send her an email so that she can sort out vac res.

Krista is going to have a meeting on Sunday about freshers committee.

AOB

DT is trying to hook up the Sky TV box to the projector so that we can have it in the JCR. CB said that they would try and find a very long cable in the next 8 days. We agreed to pass up to £50 so that D&M could purchase a cable. DT pointed out that we’re not allowed to broadcast after 11pm because of College rules.

DT also reminded us that there are Hustings tonight for ball committee. Votes will happen on Saturday 6th June.

RM said that the College are going to merge their IT services with New College. We used to have two people on full-time support, and now will have one for Balliol, and one across College. RM is concerned that people will have wifi-issues around exams. CT said that Wadham have a College laptop that people can borrow if theirs breaks and she thinks this might be a good thing for Balliol.

JK said that Committee Lunch always clashes with sport because University Sport always happens on a Wednesday.  DT is going to send out a doodle poll over the summer about optimum times.

KH said that she thought there are too few chairs in the JCR. ML is going to look into buying new chairs.

ML thinks we should buy second hand sofas for the TV room because some now are not in good condition. He thinks that the pool table will be moved back into the bar next year, and then we could do something with the back of the TV room. AH said that we could maybe put in cupboards to store sports things. MD said that Maureen thinks that the sports things are supposed to live in the gym – but we thought that this would cause difficulties for people that aren’t signed up to the gym. RM also pointed out that there is a lot of broken entz stuff by the computers in the JCR.