Build A Better Union 2009
AGM 2009 Results Summary
Quorum was not reached, so all motions are subject to ratification at Student Council. Please note this is a summary only and may be subject to corrections. Download the minutes in full.
Education Zone
- Broke and Broken – oppose lifting the cap - passed
- Postgraduate Study - passed
Union Development Zone
- Build a Better Union - passed
- Motion to Formalise our Residences Committee - passed
- Ban Facebook - fell
- Pro-platform Policy - passed
- Emergency Motion - not discussed (not quorate)
Student Activities
- Engagement with Student Activities - passed
- Setting the Wheels in Motion for Transport Change - passed
Welfare and Equality Zone
- Autonomous Campaigns - passed
- Reclaim the Night - passed
- Equality for International Students - passed
- Free Access to Minority Media Publications - passed
- Keeping Residences Student Led! - passed
- Bristol University - are halls as multicultural as its membership? Resolves 2 passed. Resolves 3 + 4 fell.
- Taking Sexual Health Seriously - passed
- Student Employment - passed
- Safe Space UBU - fell
- No Platform for Fascists - Protecting Bristol Students - Resolves 1-2 and 5 not discussed due to previous motion. Resolved 4 passes.
Community Zone
- Community Strategy - passes
- Revoke the Esso Ban! - passes
- Building a Timebank for UBU - ran out of time
- Motion for Sustainable and Ethical Banking - ran out of time
- Motion Regarding a University Ethical Procurement Policy - ran out of time
- More Environment Reps! - ran out of time
What is the AGM?
AGM stands for Annual General Meeting and that is basically what it is. The university gives you the afternoon off each year so that every student has the opportunity to attend. The student body take over the Anson rooms in the Union to have their say on Union policy. It is a massive meeting that requires 401 students to turn up in order for it to be quorate. We need it to be quorate in order to pass constitutional motions, plus the more students that get involved the better.
There are formal procedures that keep the meeting under control and these are explained to you by the Union's Steering Committee who will be there throughout the afternoon. The meeting is chaired by the Chair and Deputy Chair of Student Council. On the day all part time officers should be around to help explain things. They will all be wearing grey-blue hoodies.
Anyone can submit a motion to the AGM, just have a look down this page for more information about how to write a motion.
Why attend the AGM?
The Annual General Meeting is your chance to make Union policy! It is the one time in the year when each and every student can have their say and vote on a variety of motions. Normally policy is decided by Student Council by elected part time officers and sabbaticals. At the AGM any full member of the Union can come along, get up and debate the issue, and vote.
Part One - The Referendum
