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

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