Councillors approved the 2022/23 budget and discussed the future of the Nest’s mask mandate at last night’s 6.5 hour-long AMS Council meeting.
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Councillors approved the 2022/23 budget and discussed the future of the Nest’s mask mandate at last night’s 6.5 hour-long AMS Council meeting.
On Wednesday, AMS execs and councillors met in the Michael Kingsmill forum to discuss a new subsidy for constituency events and the 2022/23 budget. They also voted to appoint a new student senator-at-large.
At last night’s AMS Council meeting, the new execs and councillors met for the first time in person to fill committee vacancies and waive a presentation of the 2022/23 preliminary budget.
The 2021/22 AMS Council met for the last time on Wednesday night to hear an end-of-year report on AMS services and to vote on executive transition honorariums.
Several motions were successfully passed at yesterday’s AMS Council meeting with little to no debate, including code changes on executive accountability and funding for renovating a lounge in the Nest.
Following the AMS’s deconstitution of fraternities in 2019, a preliminary assessment in early 2020 found UBC Sororities to be in violation of AMS policy. A full review was put aside due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but began again this year following The Ubyssey’s coverage of the delay.
Cheers erupted in Michael Kingsmill Forum last night at around 9:40 p.m. when AMS Council voted ‘yes’ to urge the university to divest from companies involved in or complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.
Council met last night in its first meeting after reading break to discuss the society’s sexual violence policy and respectful community and workplace policy reviews, AMS elections and code changes.
AMS Council discussed all things AMS elections at the last meeting before nominees are released on Friday.
AMS Council met over Zoom on Wednesday night to discuss potential referendum questions for its upcoming elections and the results of its unsuccessful campaign to elect students to the University Neighbourhood Association’s (UNA) board in November.
Employee wages and UBC’s return to classes were major topics of conversation at AMS Council’s biweekly meeting on Wednesday, January 26.
On Wednesday evening, AMS Council met for the first time in 2022, returning to a virtual format amid the spread of the Omicron variant.
AMS Council met last night for its final meeting before the new year to discuss the progress executives made in the first half of their terms.
New developments came through on AMS Council personnel, Get Thrifty’s planned expansion and postering for AMS election candidates, among other issues.
After two hours of an in-camera session discussing a matter of “employee conduct,” AMS Council lost quorum at around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.