WHEREAS, The Graduate and Professional Assembly (GPSA), at the conclusion of a year-long charter review process, amended its Charter and Bylaws on May 14, 2011;
WHEREAS, These amendments changed the meeting structure from an alternation of business and discussion meetings to simply regular meetings;
WHEREAS, This change introduced some ambiguities in the Byline Funding Allocation Procedures (the “Procedures”) and the Eligibility Criteria and Obligations for Byline Funded Organizations (the “Criteria”);
WHEREAS, This resolution makes only the minimum changes necessary to resolve these ambiguities; therefore be it,
RESOLVED—
a) That the Procedures are amended—
- 1) in Item II—
- A) in section (e) by striking “at the second to last GPSA business meeting” and inserting “no later than the fifth regular meeting”.
- 2) in Item III—
- A) in section (a) by striking “Executive Vice President” and inserting “President of the GPSA” and by striking “GSPA [sic] discussion meetings” and inserting “regular GPSA meetings”; and
- B) in section (a), subsection (i) by striking “GPSA discussion meeting” and inserting “regular GPSA meeting”; and
- C) in section (a), subsection (ii) by striking “GPSA discussion meeting” and inserting “regular GPSA meeting”; and
- D) in section (b) by striking “GPSA business meetings” and inserting “regular GPSA meetings”; and
- E) in section (b), subsection (i) by striking “business meeting” and inserting “regular meeting”; and
- F) in section (b), subsection (v) by striking “GPSA business meeting” and inserting “regular GPSA meeting”; and
- G) in section (b), subsection (vi) by striking “business meeting” and inserting “regular meeting”.
- 3) in Item IV by striking Sections 4.02 and 4.03;
- 4) in Item V—
- A) in Section 5.01 by striking “second to last GPSA business meeting” and inserting “fifth regular GPSA meeting”; and
- B) in Section 5.04 by striking “Chair of the meeting at which the GPSAF was passed” and inserting “President of the GPSA”.
b) That the Criteria are amended—
- 1) in Section 4—
- A) in subsection (4)© by striking “at the second to last scheduled GPSA business meeting” and inserting “no later than the fifth regular GPSA meeting”; and
- B) in subsection (6)(a) by striking “second to last GPSA business meeting” and inserting “fifth regular GPSA meeting”.
- 2) in Section 5—
- A) in subsection (2)(d)(i) by striking “discussion meeting” and inserting “regular meeting”.
c) That a copy of this resolution be sent to the Office of Assemblies for the purpose of updating the official documents on the GPSA website.
Respectfully submitted,
Evan Cortens
GPSA President and Humanities Representative
Christoffer Heckman
GPSA Appropriations Committee Chair