News Brief: Clubs Day event not approved in KSA executive meeting, no council meeting date set
The KSA's next executive meeting is scheduled for Oct. 7. (File photo)
Correction: a previous version of this article stated KSA VP Finance Lesli Sangha did not vote in favour of the $2,000 donation to the Guru Nanak Modi Khana Food Bank. The Runner regrets the error.
The Kwantlen Student Association held their most recent executive meeting on Sept. 23 in hybrid format. President and VP University Affairs Armaan Dhillon, VP External Affairs Karan Singh, VP Finance Lesli Sangha, and VP Student Life Manmeet Brar were in attendance.
After a land acknowledgement, Club and Outreach Coordinator Gurnoor Virk presented a planning tool for approval of a Clubs Day event on Oct. 4 in the Surrey Spruce Atrium from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. The event usually happens twice a year in the spring and fall semesters, and this would be the first back in-person since the pandemic.
In the Zoom chat, Singh said he had doubts about the tool, but did not want to discuss them in this meeting, although an executive committee meeting is the place for executives to discuss and approve proposals.
The motion did not pass, as Brar wanted to hear what Singh’s doubts were. Sangha suggested discussing and approving the tool in another meeting given the timeliness of the event.
Singh organized his first campus event this semester, Pop with a Cop, on Sept. 20. Surrey RCMP officers gave a presentation on safety and Minister of Labour and MLA for Surrey-Newton Harry Bains met with students.
In Dhillon’s report, he said the event was successful and looks forward to more seminars.
“We look forward to having these types of seminars to help students move closer with the policing [sic] and so that to break the stigma that students have with police uniforms in the future with much more seminars coming in the future,” he said.
Brar is working with Kwantlen Polytechnic University International to host a Diwali event on campus.
The KSA cancelled their attendance to the Canadian Federation of Students’ sexual violence forum due to hurricane Fiona on the East Coast.
After their meeting on Sept. 16, executives met to pass non-meeting motions, which included the approval of a $2,000 donation to the Guru Nanak Modi Khana Food Bank. Singh, Dhillon, and Sangha voted yes, and Brar’s vote was not listed.
At the executive meeting on Sept. 16, Singh acknowledged the KSA food hamper couldn’t always supply produce and wanted to look at donating to food banks.
In the same meeting, Executive Director Ben Newsom noted that no executives attended KSA Welcome Week from Sept. 12 to 16.
“The Welcome Week [was] a success. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be present, I had some engagement with my classes starting off this semester…. I was just concentrating more on my classes, but I do believe that our staff did [sic] an impression for Welcome Week,” Dhillon said.
Newsom is working with KPU to prepare for the KSA byelection this fall semester. An announcement will be made soon.
According to KSA bylaws, a notice of a general election or byelection can be given no less than 14 days before nominations close through posters on campuses and an advertisement on the KSA website, and “any other media available that Council deems appropriate.”
The first KSA council meeting of the semester has not been scheduled, but the next executive meeting is on Oct. 7 at 10:00 am in hybrid format. KPU students can email info@kusa.ca to join the meeting.
