Today is Brighton SUs AGM

To paraphrase a fav film of mine:

I'm feeling very democratic today (rubbing my hands together to keep warm)

The keen movie goers will know that I am of course talking about the classic "cool runnings" :)

So what is the AGM I hear you all ask!

First and foremost it is a legal requirement, in which the Union has go go out report on our finances, work we have done over the year, plans for the future year and for our trustees to receive and answer any questions that the members have.

Now I realise that seems very boring, but in reality it is students opportunity to shape the work done by the Union and hold the trustee board to account for the decisions made on how to run the Union.

The second part of the AGM is for students to pre submit motions for what they think the union should be working on. This is followed by a debate on these and a chance for students to decide if this is an area of work the union should be concentrating on.

This years AGM also has an additional part to it! Woop Woop, bonus! After the proceedings of the formal AGM, we will also be holding a debate on the upcoming referendum entitled "should Brighton SU remain a member of the National Union of Students?"

This will be a chance to have an honest debate about the pros and cons of membership to the national union. There will be a member from the national union coming down to take part and many SU officers there to answer questions that any students may have.

So I do urge as many students as possible to turn up to Huxley Lecture theatre tonight at 5.30 to have your say on how the union is run!

And to finish with a quote from my fav TV show,

"decisions are made by those who turn up!"

And of course this is from the spectacular shown, The West Wing!


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