Hey guys,
Unfortunately my main avenue of updating SRAToday.com is on the fritz right now, so the highlights and updates of the latest SRA meeting will be posted below like usual but there will be no follow up on SRAToday.com until a later time, nonetheless, enjoy:
SRA 10C Highlights:
Mary Koziol gave a delegation from the floor about the upcoming restructuring and renovations to the MSU site (
http://www.msumcmaster.ca/home.htm). Among restructuring the site to make it more user friendly and easier to navigate, new modules will also be installed to increase the site's functionality and use to students. One of the upcoming features would be MacID integration allowing students to use their MacID to login
An MSU Inc. meeting was held in which:
1) the new Board of directors were confirmed as Officers of the corporation
2) The selection of next year's auditors for MSU was postponed to a later meeting.
3) Julianne Simpson was appoint secretary to the Corporation for 2010-2011
4) Amendments to Corporate Bylaw 3 (
see here) were aproved
5) A variety of items were allocated for and then expended, this includes the work to be done on the site by Orbis communication and UTS, several computers and network storage solutions in a variety of areas and services in the MSU. see
here for full details
What happened in the general SRA meeting:
1) Bylaw 5 - Financial affairs (
see here) and Operating Policy 2 - Employment (
see here) were amended.
2) The 2010-2011 MSU Clubs were ratified (see the clubs
here)
3) Board of Director year plans were approved (see them:
Mary Koziol (President),
John McIntyre (VP Admin),
Nick Shorton (VP Finance),
Joe Finkle (VP Ed)
Interesting Information that came up:
- The new system replace ELM will be called A(venue) to Learn and will be accessed at:
http://avenue.mcmaster.ca/
- The new Campus Events Manager, 1280 Manager, and Diveristy Services coordinator have all been hired
- The OUSA Campus coordinator and Teaching Awards Coordinator have been hired
- Online voting is on track to be tested earlier in the year in preparation for the major MSU elections later in the year. It will be through the MacVote system and use MacID logins.
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MUGSI has a limit of 500 students that can access it at once
SOLAR has a limit of 250 students that can access it at once
(talk about the maximum allowable number of users....)
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