Meeting 2
Meeting information
Date: 2024-09-11
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Treehouse Lounge (Bartlett House)
Attendance
People
- Callum
- Seth
- Jing
- Pranav
- Kushi
- Sumeet
Motions
Motion to Start: Seth
Second Motion to Start: Khushi
Topics
Health and wellness/Sustainability votes (3 mins)
- Combine Health wellness and sustainability roles
- Either we have 2 with both roles one just one role
- Two people for one roles could be redundant
- However combining roles allows for two people to collaborate
- Vote to have 1 first year on council pending on Callum
Inventory Digitization and Item sharing (5 mins)
- All items in OCRA inventory have been put on a google doc available at link
- Items from different residences could be shared
- Discussed at RHA training
- Use the digitized system to allow for tracking
- Include an item condition column/before to track item damage
- Vote for equipment sharing passed unanimously
Cotton Candy Machine (5 mins)
- Return from Exchange council
- If it cannot be repaired replacement (new) should be found
- New Nostalgia brand cotton candy machines available between $50-70
Floor Rep Posters (10 mins)
- House presidents prepare posters and Qualtrics forms for floor rep signups
- Use First + Last names room number and student number to verify
- Include cutoff date at September 30
- Potential draft submission date: September 13 for approval and Monday printing
- Delete all student numbers
- Posters should be up by September 16
- Posters should be 1 per floor including commons block (2 per ritz floor)
- Signatures for floor rep applications
- Could provide proof of engagement
- However could alienate others
- Alternative could be for application questions to determine interest
RA Pitches (7 mins)
- Either hold RA pitches in OCRA meetings or delegate to house councils
- OCRA would be more centralized and easy to track
- Will be potentially easier to reject/request reworks for pitches
- However, will take up 15/20 mins of each meeting and may not be possible with many RA pitches
- Note that 40 RAs must have 4 events per year along with small group events
- Earliest RA pitch date on September 26
- Add tax adjustment for RA budgets
Kickoff Event (20 mins)
- OCRA Kickoff event
- Proposed collaboration with TPRA and PVRA
- If collaboration goes through, it might shift the focus of the event
- Council decided to keep event in OCRA
- Planned date on September 27 starting ~5:00pm for at most 2 hours (4:00 pm setup time)
- Planned:
- Outdoor games (Soccer, Frisbee, Spike ball, Cornhole, Tug of war, Badminton)
- Henna done by (Sumeet, Khushi)
- Cotton candy
- Interpersonal Games (Human knot) (requires program runner)
- OCRA hoodie worn and free members make conversation and talk about OCRA
Conclusions
To do list
- Jing to work on checks and balances on Thursday @ 8pm
- Pranav to look for cotton floss
- House presidents look for used cotton candy machines
- House presidents prepare posters and forms
- Perform further preparation (logistics, henna, candy floss) for kickoff event
- Callum to make posters (with OCRA Instagram included) for kickoff
- If first year roles are changed the constitution to be changed
Motions
Motion to Adjourn: Pranav
Second to Adjourn: Sumeet