Recap: USU Special Board Meeting (1/9/20)

By Jossie Warnant

3:03 - I enter the Zoom meeting and we are waiting on President, Irene Ma and and Vice President, Nick Forbutt 

3:04 - It appears that some of the Board directors are Zooming in from the People and Culture office. Immediate Past President, Connor Wherrett submitted a late arrival for 4pm. 

3:05 - Irene Ma declares the meeting open. 

3:06 - Irene Ma requests approval for the minutes of the last meeting. The minutes are approved. 

3:09 - Pulp requests that the Board comment on The University of Sydney’s (USyd) recently released Sustainability Strategy. Irene defers the question to Board Director, Prudence Wilkins-Wheat who currently holds the University of Sydney Union (USU) environmental portfolio. 

Wilkins-Wheat says that she was glad that steps had been taken to improve the Sustainability Strategy which was previously “incredibly insufficient” but that this strategy cannot be an end to the University’s work on sustainability. She referenced the Board’s vote to call on USyd to divest from fossil fuels as a display that environmental sustainability is something the USU is passionate about. 

3:10 - The meeting moves in-camera. 

5:10 - The meeting returns from in-camera proceedings. Irene Ma declares the meeting closed.