Voting ground to a halt July 30 when the Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) council noted they did not have enough members present to continue their annual budget meeting.
During a lengthy debate over an amendment to the special projects funding each executive is entitled to, members began to drift out of the meeting room.
“The job of council is not to do the job of the executive, the job of council is to keep the executive and the organization accountable, which you’re doing well, but you’re expanding on the little things,” CUSA president Folarin Odunayo said while addressing the council during the debate. “Council’s all about the big things.”
The funding is used by executives to assist projects they care about when the money is not readily available elsewhere, according to Odunayo.
Voting on the amendment started, but stopped when CUSA council chair, Andrew Kwai, confirmed there were not enough actual councillors present to continue the meeting. Voting on the budget could not consist of just proxies for councillors and could not include more than three executive members.
Kwai gave councillors five minutes to call the missing councillors back to the meeting room since councillors cannot participate electronically. When too few people returned, Odunayo motioned to reschedule the meeting.
The new budget meeting will be held Aug. 6.
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