I've just sent a copy of our financial and handover procedures to the University's Corporate Secretary. These were requested in June 2005, so six years later we're getting around to it. It's procedural cock-ups like this that I intend to minimise and rectify over the course of my term, but there's one hell of a job involved.
One of the other things going on at the moment is the choosing of a new community logo for UL students to get behind. The idea is a long time getting to this point and the discussions started almost 15 years ago when the Vikings name was first born. The American Football club is now branded the Vikings, but this brand is designed to bring all clubs together, so while the Vikings will still be the vikings, they will be part of the wider Cheiftains or Wolves when support travels to see them play. Whether you travel to Dublin to see the Camogie Team play in the Ashbourne, Poker Soc compete in Irish Poker Open the idea is that you will be a Chieftain supporting your tribe or a Wolf supporting your pack.
Check it out on Facebook (www.facebook.com/chieftainsvwolves) and vote on the link below.
I spent most of today with the Commerical Manager developing the sales budgets for ULSU Services up to Christmas before the board meeting on the 8th of August. The company is being turned around and will become stronger over the next 3-4 years. Watch this space...
Yesterday I met with a guy from a youth leadership programme designed to make the CEOs of the future more ready for their role, be it in the public, private or not-for-profit sector. I'll be looking into this to guage how effective it can be and pointing some people in the direction of the programme. Anyone interested should drop me an email.
I've signed all my forms and I'm now a director of the follwing companies on your behalf:
- ULSU Services Ltd
- SUDPT Ltd
- Plassey Campus Centre Ltd
- Plassey Campus Arena Ltd
- Plassey Trust Company Ltd
- Kilmurry Village Ltd
As part of my manifesto promise to shake up ULSU and make it more effective, I've been working with Aoife on a new Council structure which we're putting to the other officers this week and will be sending to exec when we come back from the UK conference in 2 weeks.
It's a quite radical overhaul and reduces the Council (the Union's governing body) from a potential 566 members (more than 3 times the size of the Dáil) to below 100. When the Union was established 40 years ago the structures developed suited a very small operation on a very small scale. Much of what we are going to propose to you in September will be completely new to you, but the aim is to give people a clearer purpose to their role in holding the Executive to account, developing Union structures and positioning the Union for future change whilst allowing the existing class rep role to concentrate more on class issues.
It's a really exciting time at ULSU and I'm enjoying the challenges.
Take care!
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