AMS PRESIDENT PLATFORM

My Platform: CV

Expand the EmpowerMe program to include the 16,000 students currently not in the program by October 2019.
Increase psychology coverage by about 60% per student without a fee increase
Provide better support for SASC and build strong partnerships outside of UBC to provide victims of sexual assault with external options.

Support the development of the AMS Ticketing Platform and finalize the current Secure Online money transfer system for efficiency and to reduce events cost by 10-15%
Restructure the AMS Annual General Meeting(AGM) in order to achieve more than the quorum in attendance by centering the AGM on discussions about the society’s future, as well as discussions about fun and engaging activities necessary for the student campus experience.
Review AMS elected executives’ budget compensation and reduce executive compensation by about 10-15%, to truly reflect student affordability as well as creating more opportunities for the students.

Develop a written consultation guide by the end of August 2019 to ensure wider consultation with student groups, and that groups affected by the society decisions are fully informed and fully engage in the consultation processes
Increase the council attendance by 10 – 20 % by ensuring that the council meetings end at the allocated time, thereby creating consistency for council meeting duration whilst simultaneously encouraging friendly productive debate

Working with student groups to ensure that the AMS continues to lead by example in the field of sustainability by engaging with other student unions within the city of Vancouver, the Province and in the country. Not only to would we inspire other organizations to take climate actions and divest, we would also to promote fair practices and hold companies that invest in fossil fuels and don't follow ESG (Environment, social governance) to account.
Strategically plan to utilize students’ sustainability funding to better support society and university groups that set great examples in engaging the campus community in sustainability, and that also promote strong advocacy for divestment within UBC and outside UBC.

Include a policy in the AMS Code of procedures that requires both society and university groups(current and future) that receive dedicated student fees to prepare either bi-annual or annual financial reports for the public. This would be readily available on the AMS website for the society membership to review for the purposes of accountability and transparency
AMS shall prepare separate Fiscal Year budgets and financial reports specific to businesses expenditures, revenues as well as investments returns to be submitted to council and available to membership, following the AMS Code of Procedures
Strengthening the recently re-established Advisory Board to the Society (ABS) and ensure that the board becomes operational, strategic and effective in the summer of 2019.

Strengthen relations between the AMS and GSS and work together as a team on matters related to advocacy aimed at the University and/or Municipal, Provincial and Federal governments.
Engage councilors by involving Committees and by establishing regular monthly sessions/meetings with Students, Board of Governors, Senators and AMS Councilors. (For efficiency’s sake, the President would meet with counsellors from each constituency as a group. For example, the President would have monthly meetings with five Art Undergraduate Society Councilors and so on).
Based on the Consultation Guide in Goal 3, I will create consistent time frames where individual representatives from various student groups such as Residence Associations, Indigenous Students, Greek Life, Resource Groups and International Students Association, constituencies & clubs amongst others can reach out to the AMS president and share concerns and/or priorities, and together, we can figure out how the AMS can provide better support to various groups.

VOTE KUOL FOR AMS PRESIDENT