council: minutes

Minutes/2024-2025/Council/2024-09-24_Semester-1_Week-03.md

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+# Council
+## Agenda
+(copied in from email, then later expanded out into headings)
+
+1. Minutes & Apologies
+2. Matters arising
+3. Startups and Wind Downs:
+   1. New Society – Pool
+   2. Wind Downs
+4. Clubs and Societies Budgets and Finances
+5. Advice & Advocacy Department Presentation with Nicole
+6. Meet your student officer team
+7. C&S Fair Feedback
+8. Scholars
+9. AOB
+
+
+## Housekeeping
+Submit agenda items to Jana
+
+## Minutes and Apologies
+History + Games proposed
+
+
+## Matters arising
+
+
+## Start-ups and wind-downs – standing item
+### Startups
+#### Pool
+Deferred to Week 5
+
+### Wind down
+* Good Deeds
+* Astronomy
+
+## Clubs and Societies Budgets and Finances
+* Tomorrow is the last day for appeals
+* Pool is 400k
+  * Same as last year
+  * Lost out on teh Enablement fund (40k eur from BOI)
+  * Postgrad SU is developing and cut funding for C&S
+  * Lost arts and sports fund
+* Noted that Clubs get more than societies
+  * Floated idea of 25% to Socs
+  * Takes effort to build up budgets (for societies)
+    * More things to count as income/expenditure for clubs?
+* 600k is what is needed to give everyone what they asked for.
+* Will have more to talk about it next week
+* Going to have to have a look at how many oversees trip for clubs/socs is feasible
+
+## Advice & Advocacy Department Presentation with Nicole
+advicehub@ul.ie  (see slides)
+
+### Speak yer mind
+* Election seems to be more   bribery based  
+  * Not really the space for it here
+* 2 core + more) is fine
+* Request for networking event
+  * Will have a network event in teh future
+  * Discord specifically requested
+* Update on storage situation in PESS
+  * They will check
+* Enquiry about teh new handball
+* Hockey asking for support
+* No limits on collabs
+* Room Bookings
+  * Room swapping isnt encouraged
+
+
+
+## Meet your student officer team
+
+## C&S Fair Feedback
+* Few more days notice next time
+  * Always wednesday week 1
+  * Recommendation to pop it in handover
+* Numbered pod groups were liked
+* More categories on teh C&S website
+  * Group ballsports
+  * Feedback from council before was to not do that
+* Lots of folks didnt know about Wolves
+* Not a lot of folks have teh wolves app on their phone
+  * THERE IS AN APP??????
+    * No we dont use teh app
+    * I know keith was trialling it last year
+* More accessibility for disability/neurodivergent
+  * Headphones + sensory toys
+  * Start a half hour earlier (computer)
+
+
+## Scholars
+Scholars is accepting bookings for thursdays and weekends (if enough notice given)
+
+Problems before, seems good now
+
+Pizza + Drinks for admin because of freshers week (normally scholars).  
+If we have any issues with Scholars we wont be going there after hustings
+
+## AOB
+* Booking rooms main building
+  * Do socs actually get rooms in main building?
+    * Seems like always gets bumped to kemmy/schuman
+    * Kemmy -> Schuman -> Main building