On January 17th, Ryerson Engineering Student Society held it’s first Board of Directors meeting of 2010. Follow the jump for the meeting’s minutes!

BoD Meeting – January 14, 2010

Jan14-1: Call to Order

6.04-Richard Called meeting to order

Jan 14-2: Announcements

6.04-Amanda: Blue Mountain Trip is coming up and 5 spots are still open. Need to go to classes and tell students about the open spots so that RESS does not have to pay extra.

Date for Semi – March 19, price is $60 before a certain date and will then rise to $70.

6.06-Stephen: Iron ring is coming up. 4th year reps are getting a ring seizer. Need names of reps by the 20th.

Jan 14-3: This Semester’s Schedule

6.08-Richard: Reading week (13th-21st) will not conflict with anything else as previously thought by some students. AGM: march 10 from 6-9. Frosh leader tryouts will be held sometime at the end of February.

Jan 14-6: Website

6.10: looked at website.

Jan 14-7: N.E.W.

Jan 14-7.1: VW BUdGet

6.19-Steph: Will come up with a list of solid numbers for budget proposal to give to Omar.

6.20-Amanda: Will help out with N.E.W. budget, as she has already done an estimate on it. (Approx $2000).

Jan 14-7.2: Rube Goldberg

6.21-Steph: Need interested students to help in building a Rube Goldberg machine. It will be created in collaboration with other engineering student societies in Ontario). An internet signal will be used to connect to other schools and will be sent to city hall. Any interested people need to inform Steph by Monday.

Jan 14-7.3: N.E.W. Workload Sharing

6.25-Amanda: Need to go visit one’s previous high schools to see if they have any interested students who want to enter engineering to attend the high school outreach day and learn more about engineering. Can email numbers of interested high school students to Amanda.

6.27-Stephen: Suggested there should be more advertising for national engineering week.

6.28-Amanda: For the bug push, anyone can push as long as they sign form.

Jan 14-8: Elections Manual

6.28-Richard: In the past, elections have been very sketchy and not very fair. It would be nice to put together a committee to make rules and regulations for the elections and for them to make some sort of manual to pass on to future years. The manual would include things such as outlines for campaigning and ballots. Last year, not many people votes (only about 2.5% of engineering population). It would be the committee’s job to advertise the election, do everything in preparation for the election, and have a standard protocol which they can run every year.

6.32- Imran: Asked whether someone in the election committee can also run for a position.

6.33: Richard: Yes.

Jan 14: Blood Drive

6.33-Richard: Can rent the gym and put on movies while running a blood clinic, or do a field trip to the clinic instead.

6.33- Steph: Went to charity organization at congress, and they made a good point that definition of a charity isn’t the same definition of a fundraising. Doesn’t think movember and bug push should be all the things RSS does, and that a blood clinic would be good as well.

6.36-Richard: motion to take 4 and 5 until next meeting.

6.37-Motion passed.

6.41-Figuring out office hours