2014 Committee Lunch

By admin, 30 March, 2022
Date of Meeting

    2014 Committee Lunch

    Date: Wednesday 5th week, Hilary 2014 (2014-02-19)

    Present: Dan Turner (President), Krista Halttunen (Vice-President (Administrative)), Georgina Wilson (Secretary), Max Dalton (Treasurer), Alex Mullan (Lindsay), Anna Hufton (Dr. WHO), Joe Mansour (Dr. WHO), Darryl Braier-Lorimer (Foody), Matthew Lynch (Foody), Caitlin Tickell (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Isaac Rose (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), Colm Britchfield (Design & Maintenance Officer), James Kavanagh (Design & Maintenance Officer), Elizabeth Tulloch (Student Disabilities Officer), Alex Cheng (Entz Officer), Kelly Brotherhood (Entz Officer), Xavier Cohen (Environment & Ethics Officer), Rivka Micklethwaite (Environment & Ethics Officer), Holly Marriott-Webb (John de Balliol), Harry Rimmer (John de Balliol), Thomas Posa (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Eniola Oyesanya (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Ian McFarlane (LGBTQ Officer), Alastair Bassett (LGBTQ Officer), Richard May (Website & Computing Officer), Claudia Freemantle (Women's Officer)

    Agenda


    1. Matters Arising
    2. Denise's birthday present/card [Max]
    3. Hall-idarity [Xav]
    4. Projector socket in JCR [Richard]
    5. Bi-weekly mailing lists [Richard]
    6. Constitutional amendments - what next? [Richard]
    7. Library Questionnaire [Caitlin Tickell]
    8. AOB

    Minutes


    1. Matters Arising
      • Taxi Fund - CT said that Doug hasn't replied to her emails. Denise says that there is a taxi fund for tutors but that it is unlikely that College would want students to use it. DT urged this to be followed up.
    2. Denise's birthday present/card [Max]
      • MD said that he had a card for Siobhan and Maureen for us to sign. He would like us to sign £31.51 for Maureen's present. We passed the money.
    3. Hall-idarity [Xav]
      • Xav explained the high food costs for Hall at Exeter. Exeter are boycotting their Hall this week to campaign to bring down food costs. Xav would like Exeter students to be able to come to Balliol on Friday, and for Balliol people to use their cards for Exeter people to get them discounted meal prices. Xav has asked the Exeter students to come at about 7pm and not to eat the meat option. If there is not enough food the left-over people will be sent to Pantry. We might then encourage Exeter students to go to Balliol bar. Xav has not yet told Hall about this in case Hall don't want Balliol to share their discounted prices. About 80 Balliol and Exeter people are currently attending on Xav's Facebook page. MD said that Friday would not be a good day to do this again because of the two veggie/one meat arrangement that day. ML said that he thought this should have been done more formally. DBL said that he would like to know how many people might come to Pantry so that he didn't run of food. RM pointed out that when we did a similar thing for Mansfield it went through a GM. CT suggested that we should arrange to meet up and buddy up in the lodge with Exeter people before they go to Hall. I said that we should tell Hall and co-operate the lower prices for Exeter rather than just have lots of people turn up on the day. XC decided to let everyone know beforehand so that Balliol students could either take part or go earlier (at half six) and avoid the crowd.
    4. Projector socket in JCR [Richard]
      • There's a projector in the JCR that needs fixing. We mandated D&M to sort this, and to fix the Sky TV to the Projector and get an ethernet cable so that a laptop can reach the projector.
    5. Bi-weekly mailing lists [Richard]
      • RM said that he gets lots of emails for the mailing list, and that often things go out of date. He suggested doing two bulletins a week. We agreed that this was a good idea.
    6. Constitutional amendments - what next? [Richard]
      • Following the GM on Sunday, RM asked what people thought we should do now given that not all his motions at the GM passed. DBL said he would like to know where money spent on welfare and entz goes, so it might be useful for their meetings to be minuted. CF said that some people on committee assumed that people aren't interested in motions who aren't on committee, but that actually that wasn't the case. DT said we should debate putting sports rep on the committee. We also need to debate men voting for women's officers. IR asked who would vote on whether men vote for women's officers in the GM. RM said that we would have to have a procedural motion to withhold the standing orders if we only wanted women to vote. But that procedural motion would require a two thirds majority out of everyone - so some men would have to vote not to vote.
    7. Library Questionnaire [Caitlin Tickell]
      • With library committee coming up, the ACAF officers are going to send out a questionnaire to see what we want discussed. DT suggested sending out a Google doc.
    8. AOB
      • AS pointed out that current building work means that some people can't work in their rooms in working hours because of the noise and the room shaking. AS asked if there could be any compensation. CF pointed out that this would get worse near exams.
      • DT said that he would find someone to attend OUSU because Nina is ill.