JCR General Meeting

Sunday 12th November; 20:00, Leech Hall

Opening Prayer

Read by Ian Kent

Apologies

Chris Leach
Stuart Morris
Alison Dancer
Dan Baxter
Richard Gale
Dan Beresford
Amanda Taylor

Approval of Minutes; Matters Arising

The minutes were accepted on a General Aye; there were no matters arising.

 

Reports

Josh Heald, JCR President

I'd like to say thank you to Alice and SEC for a great ball on Friday. Now onto what I've done... I've been working on the FInancial Memorandum which governs how the University sees our finances. The original one would have severely curtailed our ability to spend money. I've had another meeting for the Unity campaign, and we're working on the mass participation side of it; I've written a paper about it with the President of Hild Bede. The Committee agreed on the document, and PresComm has agreed on all the documents. I went to NUS's regional conference which was really useful to see what other people are doing in the North East. We also held their president to account for the national demo a few weeks back, where NUS had a load of placards campaigning for free education again, which is a foolish argument. The issue is keeping the fees at the lower level. I went to Bar Committee and Resources Committee.

Any questions?

Katie Wray, VP:Estates

I had a meeting about the PA equipment in Leech Hall, had a meeting with the gardener, and formal signup worked.

Ed McCarter: What were the projects (in the garden)?
Katie Wray: There were trees in the city wall which need to be taken down. I want to clear the walk down by Cruddas down to the river.

Jeanna Shalkowski, VP:Welfare

Not much going on in the world of welfare since my report in This Week. I went to the Health and Safety committee meeting and we discussed issues such as lighting on the main stairs outside college. I've been preparing for Sexual Health Awareness Week.

Felix Schubert, Treasurer

Good evening everyone. We had the Bailey Ball, which involves financial work. We're finalising everything over the next couple of days. We had resources, bar, and finance committees. We've been working with the BTC helping to get the play going for next week.

Richard Kelly, Senior DSU Rep

OK, haven't done enormous amounts since my last report. DSU Exec has reratified all societies. There's a general meeting on Wednesday in Dunelm house at 7:30, where there will be a talk on climate change, and another thing on residence charges. Thirdly there's a DO NOTHING campaign about housing next year, and there's no need to rush. Even next term there's no huge rush.

Martin Hodgetts, Services Manager

Hi everyone, sorry I was a couple of minutes late. There's not much going on since the last meeting. i met up with Enoch about things, getting him ready. He's your main contact in college, so if you have immediate problems see him. The stash is sorted and I have had telephone meetings with companies to make sure things run smoothly. I gather there have been problems with the laundry; it's difficult to get people out at the weekend. If you've lost money oin the laundry let me know. On top of that, you CAN'T do laundry in Cruddas at night, as I've had complaints about people being woken up. That's about it.

Phil Wallbridge:
When's the SMG piano being tuned?

Katie:
I rang the tuner and he said the piano needed time to acclimatise.

Tim Marshall, Comms. Officer

I haven't much to say - I went to bar committee which was fun, and I've been updating the website - if you want to get involved, please email me

Alice Manuel, Social Secretary

Yeah, not much... laughter
Everyone knows what I've been doing! It's over! I can sleep again. In a couple of weeks time, there'll be a small SEC event in College that everyone can come to. the next big thing after that is the christmas feast. Any questions?

Ian Kent, Cranmer President

I don't have very much to say either. I went to cranmer committee and resources committee. Been talking to the Principal about resources and estates. Most of the Cranmer students are on reading week.

Ed McCarter, MCR President

Right, good evening, I'm Ed McCarter. I need to tell you what me and my exec have been up to for the last fortnight. You can ask me nasty questions in public. We were elected last week and have achieved a functional exec.
I and one other exec member now have a fortnightly meeting with the senior tutora and postgrad tutor.
We started with the intention of creating a solid base of members. We spent a lot of time at Margaret's. A lot of people in the MCR haven't been to a collegiate university before. We have been comparing ourselves to MCRs and Hatfield Castle and Chads. We intend to evolve our organisation, so changing meetings to make them more fun than dull. We are going to get board games, books, and a Nintendo. We intend to put our subscribing members up to 35. We need to work out where the physical manifestation of the MCR will be. Any questions?

Non-exec reports:
None

MfS: To Pay for First Aid Kits

Passed by Finance Committee.

MfS: Referee Courses

Passed by Finance Committee.

Motion to create John's Ultimate Frisbee Team

Stuart Morris: Basically we already have a team, it's just a case of getting it official. There isn't much to explain really.

No questions.

Motion Accepted on a General Aye

Policy Renewals.

Nestlè Boycott policy.

Martin Hodgetts: Has research been done about whether or not Nestle are committing the same problems that caused the boycott originally?
Ed McCarter: May I oppose it?

Josh Heald: The last time it was re-ratified, a member of Exec put a lot of work into proving how bad they were.

Ben Jarvis: Why?

Felix: They do things like selling baby milk powder to people in Africa so they become dependent on it. There are a whole load of other issues.

Ian Kent: THe methodist church has a policy of boycotting nestle which was recently overturned. They were advised by David Clough who is a tutor here. THe gist is that many other companies are just as bad and we would ythen need to boycott them.

Martin Hodgetts: If you're going to boycott one company, unless some form of action is taken outside of the boycott it's a pointless motion. We haven't been spending money with Nestle since 1978, so I'd like to propose that if this is kept in, we should look at doing something else alongside the boycott.

Sophie Godfree: Would you propose that we suspend it until the next meeting?

Ed McCarter: I'd like to consult the MCR. A lot of other colleges don't bother with this any more.

Phil Wallbridge: If we postpone it will it remain active?

Sophie Godfree: Yes

Martin Clarke: They recently bought shares in the Day Chocolate Company which manufactures the chocolate in the JWS.

Richard: This is JWS policy.

Martin Hodgetts: I propose that we postpone the motion until the next meeting so we can work out if the problems are still going on, and work out if this is the most effective means of opposing their policies.

Katie Wray: Who's going to do the research?

Felix and Martin volunteered.

Ed McCarter: Can we also find out the legal dimensions of this?

Felix seconded Martin's proposal

Accepted on a General Aye.

Poster Policy

Josh Heald: I'd like to amend this., College would like to have a system in which cleaners and exec could come round college and pull stuff down if it's not authorised. I'd also like to have a policy about the size of posters. Large ones get stuck over smaller posters which may well be more of interest to college people. The idea being that all posters be approved by the President, Comms, and Estates.

Phil Wallbridge: Is there a poster rep?
Josh Heald: It's just an office manager position.

Stuart Morris: What about posters which don't go out of date?

Ian Kent: Can I add the CCR and MCR presidents?
Josh Heald: Yes

Josh proposed himself, Katie, Tim, Ed, Ian, and the Office Manager as the people able to change posters.

Ed McCarter: There's an issue with poster size. it might cause problems for the union society.
Felix: The Union Society wouldn't come and ask us anyway.
Josh Heald: It would be good to limit the size of posters anyway to A3. It might cause problems for DUS but if they can afford A1 posters every week then they can afford smaller posters.

Martin Hodgetts: What size are the Bailey Ball posters?
Alice Manuel: The issue is more things like the Union Society posters.
Ed McCarter: you should have a personal option as to who takes the call.

Josh Heald. i'd rather have a policy that said the rules in stone, rahter than having to say a personal no to each poster.

Proposed Amendment to Limit Size to A3
Proposed: Josh Heald
Seconded: Alice Manuel

Amendment Accepted on a General Aye

Rosie Bishop: Some of our posters don't have an appropriate noticeboard. Can we still put them up on the wall?
Josh Heald: What do you mean?
Josh Heald  We could list them as signs rather than posters.

Enoch Cheng: It says that people have to put a date for posters which don't have an expiry date.

Motion Accepted on General Aye

Communion Wine

Ian Kent: This was passed in 2003. This was intended to make provision for those who wouldn't have alcoholic cpommunion wine. It's quite difficult to enforce this as canon law in the Anglican church says you must have alcohol. It's hard to enforce this as it's out of our hands. My suggestion is that we ditch the policy but that if it's still important that we have the wine then it's important to have a discussion.

Accepted on a General Aye.

Elections

Drum Kit Rep.

No Candidates

Sponsorship Assistant

No candidates

DUCK Secretary

Josh Heald: you get involved on the committee in college and in the events that happen. Get involved.

Candidate:

Katherine Sleight

Proposed: Katie Wray
Seconded: Joanna Crawford

Elected on a General Aye

Toastie Bar Manager

Candidate:

Natalie Freeman and Emma Matthews

Proposed: Chris Leach
Seconded: Harry Broadbent

Phil Wallbridge proposed the joint candidature
Martin Hodgetts seconded
Accepted on a General Aye

Elected on a General Aye

Asst. Environment rep

Candidate:

Martin Clarke

Proposed: Enoch Cheng
Seconded: Laura Devitt

JJCR Meeting closes 20:40:12

JHJCR Meeting

No business to discuss.

End of JHJCR Meeting at 20:40:58