The Ubyssey has released an editorial in opposition to the motion revising the AMS's Records Policy mentioned in this article.
Last night, a short AMS Council meeting touched on the AMS's Annual General Meeting (AGM) updates and student advocacy plans.
Speaker Neal Cameron opened last night’s meeting by noting that a motion of revising its Records Policy (SR2) was removed from the agenda. Arts Councillor Audrey Chow, who chairs the Governance Committee where this motion originated, said the committee hopes to “take another look at [the motion] ... to discuss it and come back to Council hopefully next time.”
For executive updates, AMS Eshana Bhangu said a “big win” was securing food insecurity funding from UBC that will be allocated to AMS Food Bank, Sprouts Cafe, the Acadia Park Food Bank and UBC Meal Share program.
She also said the next AMS AGM — scheduled for October 31 — will touch on motions such as AMS supporting CUPE 2278’s unionization efforts, sustainable funding for food insecurity and calling for a tuition freeze.
VP Academic and University Affairs Dana Turdy said the UBC Orientations Steering Committee was looking into revising programming for orientation week and Jumpstart for the following years.
Turdy also said the Advocacy Committee had completed its final ESG principles report on pushing UBC to adopt human-rights-based ESG principles in its investment and business relationships. The AMS voted to produce the report when it approved a motion to call on UBC to divest from companies involved in Palestinian human rights violations in March.
Later in the meeting, Turdy said the AMS could run a referendum during the spring elections on whether students would support UBC adopting human rights based investments.
For VP External, Erin Co said she hopes to touch on four big recommendations in preparation for federal lobbying, which are student financial aid, student employment, mental health and Indigenous education. She added that she hoped to “hop on” municipal lobbying before federal lobbying.
The meeting ended in a little over an hour with little discussion from councillors on motions or executive updates.
The next AMS Council meeting will be next week on Wednesday, November 2.
This article was updated at 11:55 a.m. on October 31. A previous version said it was the AMS Steering Committee that was reviewing orientations for future years. The Ubyssey regrets this error.