What have you accomplished this summer?

I’ve been working on having meetings with all of the services to go through all of their budgets and get them better set up for this year. I’ve also been working on office allocations on the fourth floor. Instead of office moving day—which is really chaotic—we’re going to have an orientation. We’re also going to be doing midterm reviews of these services to make sure they’re actually being used;for example, that groups actually know they have a locker.

My other role is as co-building manager. Lease negotiations have been a big conversation all summer. There are a lot of building renovations, like to the legal information clinic, which is getting much-needed space. I’ve also been talking to our lawyers and trying to rewrite all the bylaws. This was a big project last year, but they didn’t really get to bylaw book 3, which is the one I deal with a lot.

What are your long-term goals for the year?

Improving all of the staff exit report systems and the VP Clubs and Services exit report. Last year, the office switched mid-year to this new document online management system, which makes a really big difference in how we work day-to-day.

My big long-term plan that I’ve been working on this summer is a better club management system. What I’d really like to see, ideally, would be an online document management system that we and clubs could use in the office; so that when you’re transitioning between executives you could just pass on your login name and password for your clubs and they could see their constitution. We’re also trying to improve the club accounting process, because it really is a problem that no clubs do their own audits. So JP and I have been working to make these little accounting kits for all the clubs.

How do you plan on running Activities Night this year?

Fall Activities Night is going to be traditional, but we’ve been talking about a lot of ideas for Winter Activities Night. One idea we were bouncing around for Winter Activities Night was to have a differently themed night each night, for about a week. So one night might be Musical Groups Night. You go if that’s what you’re interested in, and we could have different groups perform… it would basically work more with club categories and get clubs to be in touch with each other. I really don’t see too many other ways [Fall Activities Night] could be executed, because it is a really hard time for clubs to get organized. But we can play around with Winter Activities Night a bit more and make it a bit creative. I’m definitely looking for suggestions and feedback.