Hi all, at the last meeting, it was approved that all members should know about the following, because it affects the co-op directly. This is just to let everyone know what the situtation is and how it could affect the Coop. Obviously its up to everyone to decide what they are an individual do and dont want to do.The purpose of this email it not to try to sway people's opinions and/or actions any particular way but rather to provide some background infomation and context and to ensure Coop members know what is going on and then its up to eveyone to choose for themselves what they do and do not want to do. The Student Guild has called an annual general meeting for next Thursday the 7th of April. At that meeting they want to abolish the old Guild Consistution and replace it with a new one. Amoung lots of other things, the new version of the constitution abolishes the Environment Department and this affects or could affect the Coop as follows. *Part of the Environment policy states that the Student Guild supports the Food Coop (and this has taken a variety of forms, if you would like more info or details please feel free to ask) and removal of the Enviroment Department would most likely imply removal of the Environment policy or in anycase makes it very easy to abolish the Environment policy, Lack of an Enviroment department would also mean there is no one to develop, implement and enforce any Environment policy. *The Environment department are also the group that orginally started and set up the Coop in 1994. They did so in a way that keeps the Coop as separate from the Student Guild as possible in terms of affliation in order to minimise political fallout and factional politics interferring with the Coop in order to protect it while at the same time ensuring that the Guild does provide support for the Coop as appropriate. Ie the Coop is not affilicated with the Guild in any official way as such but it is supported by the Guild. Elimination of the Environment department c ould result in this situation changing. The annual general meeting meeting is on Thursday the 7th of April (ie this week) in the Club Bar (upstairs i n the uni bar) and there will be free pizza, wine, beer soft drink etc. All current Student Guild members (ie all current UNSW students) are eligible to vote on whether or not the new constitution should be accepted at this meeting.
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