Hey everyone!
We’re making some changes to our governing documents which are called the Articles of Association.
We legally have to do this every 5 years. You, as our members, have the final say on any changes we make.
The Board of Trustees agreed the following changes in a recent meeting:
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Reference
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Change
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Contents
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Remove reference to student council and remove all references to student council
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15.1.2
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Remove ability for student council to call a referenda
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15.4
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Remove reference to student council
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20.5
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Clarify major office holders of the students’ union
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21.1
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Remove student council as confirm
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21.2
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To move the power for confirming new Trustees to the appointments committee
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24.2
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To remove the ability of student council to no confidence a trustee
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26.2.2
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Remove the ability for student council to no confidence an officer
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28.3
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Remove student council from the reference of things the Board may override
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30.2.3 and 30.2.4
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Remove reference to defunct Board committees and add in Audit Committee
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32
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Remove executive committee as it still meets but serves an internal rather than governance function
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40.2
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Remove categories of membership for quoracy as there have been problems in previous cycles
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Part 4- Student Council
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Remove all references to student council
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46
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Remove all reference to student council and their role in editing the bye-laws
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The original articles can be found here: USSU_Articles_of_Association_.pdf (unioncloud-internal.com)
If any of you have amendments to make, please email A.Imran14@Salford.ac.uk and E.Moloney@Salford.ac.uk
If there are no proposed amendments, then we’ll be hosting our Student Members Meeting on Wednesday 2nd October at 2:00 pm to ratify this, where we’ll be having lunch too.