Board of Directors Summary (May 2025)

Motions

The Board of Directors approved the following motions:

Appointment of the Legacy Director for the 2025-26 year

  Running of a by-election to fill the two remaining Director positions

  Addition of student leader compensation to the SOGS Unified Documents in accordance with the requirement laid out by the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 (ONCA)

  Assignment of additional responsibilities to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker role and a corresponding increase of hours in order to dissolve the Governance and Policy Manager role. Additional duties were also added to the Vice-Board Chair and Vice-President Finance roles to fulfill all aspects of the Governance and Policy Manager role. These additional responsibilities will be incorporated to the next version of the SOGS Unified documents

  Establishment of an ONCA Compliance Taskforce which will be led by the Vice-President Finance and include several members of the Board of Directors and two Councillors

New Business: 

  • Modification of the Board land acknowledgement
  • Placement of a microphone in Board meetings to improve online accessibility in the SOGS boardroom