Board Meeting Recap June
![The image shows a vibrant restaurant storefront in an airport with colorful wall art depicting Indian street food and cultural scenes. A prominent sign reads “Chaska: Indian Street Food Obsession.” A large poster outlines the restaurant’s story and mission, almost like a board meeting recap from June. The image shows a vibrant restaurant storefront in an airport with colorful wall art depicting Indian street food and cultural scenes. A prominent sign reads "Chaska: Indian Street Food Obsession." A large poster outlines the restaurant's story and mission, almost like a board meeting recap from June.](https://8d3cdb9a.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Media-scaled.jpg)
The monthly Board Meeting for June took place on the 13th of the month. Let’s take a look at the major milestones and updates that were discussed.
Updates about projects undertaken by the Board are outlined below:
- After overcoming several obstacles WUSA’s new Indian food outlet, called Chaska, is nearing completion with a target opening date in July 2024.
- This Spring term, SmashBites will continue to operate out of the Student Lounge, with plans to evolve WUSA’s convenience store as well.
- The Lounge on 3 will have more seating added and the Bombshelter Lounge Project is still in development with Plant Ops.
- WUSA’s IT and Clubs staff upgraded the clubs expenses reimbursements process for increased efficiency, with several transactions already conducted successfully using this new system.
- WUSA staff have attended several conferences and industry shows throughout the first half of the term. WUSA is currently hiring additional contract staff to better facilitate Clubs and Student Services.
- A draft for the budget/annual operating plan for 2024-25 is being worked on by WUSA’S Executive Director and Management team.
Some important discussions and decision from the meeting include the following:
- The Board approved up to $20K towards gifts for first year orientation kits.
- Discussions took place to move forward on securing a third-party HR consulting firm to report on the termly progress of the Board for the rest of the governing year.
- Work and reviews for the petition continue to be worked on. The Board decided to investigate further into the upcoming changes to Co-op processes and will be conducting research on these changes before any direct advocacy action can be taken.
Published: Monday, July 8, 2024
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