From my WORK BLOG...




Friday, May 29, 2009: (A. ~12:20pm - 1:15pm - about an hour in Richmond; B. 2:00pm - 7:00pm - 5 hours in Surrey): A. I first attended the Richmond Campus, to see if a volunteer meeting was happening that had been previously scheduled - but unfortunately it wasn't. So I talked with Richmond Director Reena Bali and Richmond Officer Nicole Joe about Council, Finance Committee, and the structure of Campus Councils as currently setup in 2009 at the KSA. B. I went to Home Depot with Robert Kovacic to buy supplies for repairing the concrete pic nic tables that we had brought over earlier this week. I signed off on a fees collection letter that was sent to Kwantlen. I also checked and responded to a number of e-mails. Finally, I started cleaning the executive offices as it had become quite dusty and it was bothering my allergies. And while I cleaned, I installed a number of updates to my computer.

Thursday, May 28, 2009: (~9:00am - 10:30am - 1 1/2 hours in Surrey): I attended a meeting of the Kwantlen Surrey-Cloverdale Space Planning Committee as a KSA representative. Following that meeting, I met briefly with General Manager Desmond Rodenbour & Registrar Jody Gordon regarding communication Kwantlen had received about CFS fees.

In total, from May 23 - 29, I worked about 30 hours on KSA related tasks.

From my WORK BLOG...





Wednesday, May 27, 2009: (~8:00am - 4:00pm - 8 hours in Surrey): Checked and responded to e-mails from David Borins regarding the civil suit; and I concacted the RCMP regarding possible criminal charges that the KSA is hoping will be pressed. I met with Robert Kovacic briefly about what supplies we need to finish fixing the one pic-nic table that we moved. I also reviewed minutes for financial motions and updated the copy of the budget that Rolando is using; and in addition, I reviewed general ledger accounts on overspent line items and posted a spending summary update online for council members and other interested parties to access. Specifically, that document is posted here:

http://kusa.ca/files/pdf/2558.pdf

Finally, I attended an executive board meeting, where we passed $750.00 to buy a cargo van that the Society will use to move stuff from campus to campus, as well as to our external storage locker. We also tabled a motion to release $10,000 towards increasing the current endowment of the parents bursary.

From my WORK BLOG...




Tuesday, May 26, 2009: (A. ~7:00am - 7:15am; B. 9:45am - 10:15am; C. ~10:30am - 2:30pm; D. 11:15pm - Midnight): A. Checked and responded to various e-mails; B. Returned the rental truck to U-Haul; C. Meeting with Desmond regarding work and projects; created a summary of current committee membership to identify which voting members of council are not currently on a committee, and e-mailed it to the executive; attended council; reviewed budget update provided by Financial Controller Rolando Navarro, and asked Rolando questions about it via e-mail; sent a motion regarding releasing money for increasing our parents bursary endowment to the executive for approval at our meeting tomorrow; D. Sent an e-mail to our lawyer David Borins concerning our civil suit; reviewed executive minutes our Records Coordinator Kari had sent; browsed the reports section of our Replicon timesheet system to see what the system is capable of producing; and revised my hours for May-June and submitted them via e-mail to Desmond (and posted said hours to these very forums.

From my WORK BLOG...




Tuesday, May 26, 2009: (A. ~7:00am - 7:15am; B. 9:45am - 10:15am; C. ~10:30am - 2:30pm; D. 11:15pm - Midnight): A. Checked and responded to various e-mails; B. Returned the rental truck to U-Haul; C. Meeting with Desmond regarding work and projects; created a summary of current committee membership to identify which voting members of council are not currently on a committee, and e-mailed it to the executive; attended council; reviewed budget update provided by Financial Controller Rolando Navarro, and asked Rolando questions about it via e-mail; sent a motion regarding releasing money for increasing our parents bursary endowment to the executive for approval at our meeting tomorrow; D. Sent an e-mail to our lawyer David Borins concerning our civil suit; reviewed executive minutes our Records Coordinator Kari had sent; browsed the reports section of our Replicon timesheet system to see what the system is capable of producing; and revised my hours for May-June and submitted them via e-mail to Desmond (and posted said hours to these very forums.

From my WORK BLOG...




Monday, May 25, 2009: (~12:30pm - 6:00pm - 5 1/2 hours in Surrey): I went to U-Haul on 84th & King George Hwy to pick up the rental truck I had reserved earlier in the day. I choose U-Haul as it was very inexpensive to rent a truck for a 24 hour period of time (about $20 plus a low, less than $1 per kilometer charge), and as such the rental of said truck should cost less than $50. The truck was brought back to the Surrey campus by me, where I met with GM Desmond Rodenbour, Mature Students Liaison Robert Kovacic and Cloverdale Assembly Coordinator John O'Brian to go to the old Newton Campus to rent a truck for moving two concrete pic-nic tables to the Surrey campus. The move was successfull, although difficult > the concrete tables, even when taken apart and in pieces, were very heavy. I snapped a few photos of the benches and will post them to the KSA flickr sometime in the near future.

From my WORK BLOG...



I haven't posted lately, but here is a summary of my work over the last week of April and into May...

Monday, May 25, 2009: (~4:30am - 8:00am - 3 1/2 hours): E-mails; updated replicon timesheet for last two periods for submission; e-mailed Deep about banning a number of spammers on forums and deleted spam posts from these forums; e-mailed Ashley about a number of executive meeting submissions I'll be sending her today and tomorrow (those procedures and at least one of the sex-ed policies); researched and booked truck rental so that we can move those concrete pic nic table benches from the Newton campus this afternoon.

Thursday, May 21, 2009: (A. ~1:00pm - 2:00pm - 1 hour; and B. 8:00pm - 11:30pm - 3 1/2 hours): A. Sorted more files at my desk in Surrey - so want to get it organized. I just have so many files at my desk! B. More work on the procedure updating project.

Wednsday, May 20, 2009: (~1:00pm - 6:00pm - 6 hours): Did more work on preparing files for posting - many are now ready to post... (in the next week or so I'll get them uploaded to the site).

Tuesday, May 19, 2009: (A. ~2:00pm - 4:00pm; and B. ~6:00pm - 7:00pm): A. Attended / chaired Runner newspaper General Meeting; and B. Went to Home Depot with Robert to look at supplies for repairing pic-nick table benches.

Sunday, May 17, 2009: (A. ~12:30am - 4:00am - 3 1/2 hours; and B. 10am - 1:30pm - 3 1/2 hours): Yet more work on preparing scanned agendas / minutes from 1990s for posting.

Friday, May 15, 2009: (~3pm - 5:30pm - 2 1/2 hours in Surrey): Signed cheques and a letter regarding CFS; met with Derek and Desmond over general issues while working at my ongoing sorting and organizing of files at my desk; had a phone meeting with Desmond & DJ regarding student paper.

Thursday, May 14, 2009: (~10pm - 11:30pm - 1 1/2 hours): Reviewed postings of minutes, agendas and notice of meetings as posted for past meetings and upcoming meetings.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009: (A. ~10:00am - 11:30am - 1/2 hours in Richmond; B. ~Noon - 2pm in Richmond; and C. 8:00pm - 11:30pm - 3 1/2 hours): A. Attended Executive Board meeting; B. Attended Council meeting; C. Continued work on ammendments to procedures.

Monday, May 11, 2009: (A. ~5:00am - 9:30am - 4 1/2 hours; and B. 8:00pm - 11:30pm - 3 1/2 hours): A. Worked on sex-ed policies so I can finally get them to next executive board meeting. B. Worked on reviewing procedures posted online > started changes to promo products and event attendance procedures to reflect current practices.

Saturday, May 9, 2009: (~6:00am - 10:00am - 4 hours): More work on getting the minutes and agendas from the 1990s preped for online posting.

Thursday, May 7, 2009: (A. ~6:00am - 7:30am - 1 1/2 hours; B. ~9:30am - 12:30pm - 3 hours; and C. ~6:00pm - 7:30pm - 1 1/2 hours all on Surrey): A. Prepared for meeting with CIBC - reviewed financial statements from 06-08; reviewed court situation; reviewed fee changes. B. Meeting with CIBC / carpooled with Rolando to meeting. C. After my Thursday class to check e-mails, and sorted files at my desk.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009: (~Noon - 7pm - 7 hours on the Surrey Campus): Attended the executive board meeting; sorted files at desk; went to Newton Campus with Robert Kovacic to prepare pic nic table benches for moving.

Monday, May 4, 2009: (~6:00am - 8:30am - 2 1/2 hours; and ~3:30pm - 7:00pm): E-mails; more prep work on the 1990s minutes / agendas (a seemingly never ending task).

Saturday, May 2, 2009: (A. ~2:00am - 4:15am - 2 hours 15 m; B. ~5:00pm - 10:30pm - 5 1/2 hours): E-mail; checked phone messages on my KSA phone line; more prep work on 1990s minutes / agendas (this involves pulling out individual sets of minutes from a master file that has all the scanned documents in it).

Friday, May 1, 2009: (~Noon - 6pm - 6 hours on the Surrey Campus): Finalized my summer schedule & e-mailed it; edited hours worksheet; meeting with Desmond re: work & projects; did a bit of work on legal case; further work on editing the old volunteer procedure.

Thursday, April 30, 2009: (~2:00pm - 6:30pm - 4 1/2 hours on the Surrey Campus): Attended the Kwantlen Polytechnic University's naming committee as the KSA student rep; met with Rolando re: credit; started to figure out what I need to do to finish getting stuff for lawyers.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009: (~9:00pm - 10:30pm - 1 1/2 hours): Checked e-mails; Reviewed updated regulations document; prepared summer hour schedule. The set in stone hours for which I can usually be found in the Surrey Campus main offices from May - June, 2009 will be from 2:00pm - 6:00pm on Mondays and Wedensdays.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009: (A. ~7:00am - 9:30am - 2 1/2 hours; B. 9:30pm - 10:50pm - 1 hour 20 m): A. Searched old hard drive files for copies of old volunteer procedures; as well as monetary funding procedures for clubs / programs that used to be in place - started proposal for bringing those things back. B. Checked e-mails; updated some meetings on the kusa calendar, more prep of 1990s minutes / agendas.

Monday, April 27, 2009: (~5:00pm - 9:30pm - 4 1/2 hours): Checked e-mail, continued work on preparing scanned minutes / agendas from the 1990s for posting online.

Saturday, April 25, 2009: (~6:00am - 9:30am - 3 1/2 hours): Checked E-mail, continued work on preparing scanned minutes / agendas from 1990s for posting online.

From my WORK BLOG...



As I noted in my last post, most of my work over the past few days has been related to my extra duties as Chairperson. But I have done some finance related work this week, as follows:

Monday, February 9, 2009 (12:30pm - 6:00pm - 5 1/2 hours in Downtown Vancouver): I met first with our legal counsel and with our general Manager, Desmond Rodenbour, over lunch at White Spot where we discussed issues related to the upcoming provincial election campaign that the KSA will be launching, as well as our breach of fiduciary duty civil suit and prep for the 2pm meeting we were going to have with Gary Wozny, the KSA's auditor. At 2:00pm, we walked over to Gary's offices (which were across from the White Spot) and we met with Gary to discuss his response to the questions we had about the 2006 and 2007 post audit memorandums. Gary was able to answer all the questions we had and will be finalizing the post audit memorandums for those years alongside the post audit memo he develops for 2008 and all of them should be out and posted in April 2009.

From my Chairperson WORK BLOG...


Wednesday, February 11, 2009 (a. 8:00am - 9:30am - @ Home 1 hour 30 min; b. 10:15am - 12:15am @ Cloverdale Campus, 2 hours; c. 2:20 - 2:30pm @ Home - 10 minutes): a. I compiled and posted online the agenda for today's executive meeting. b. I attended and chaired the executive meeting. c. I sent out an e-mail to the KSA Council about the start time of Thursday's Council meeting, and I also updated the online events calendar with the rooms for our meetings happening on other campuses.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 (a. 7:30am - 8:00am @ Home - 30 minutes; b. 8:45am - 10:00am - 1 hour 15 minutes @ Cloverdale Campus): a. I sent a few e-mails related to my work as Chairperson, to our legal counsel and general manager. b. I also went to Cloverdale and took photos / video of the porta-potty bathroom dedication ceremony.

Monday, February 9, 2009 (11am - 11:45am @ Home - 45 minutes): I finalized and posted online the agenda for Thursday's Council meeting and responded to an e-mail received from KSA Room Bookings regarding securing space for our council and executive board meetings that will be taking place on other campuses.

From my Chairperson WORK BLOG...




Sunday, February 8, 2009 (7pm - 8:30pm @ Home - 1 1/2 hours): I received reports from the Disabilities Liaison and Richmond Campus Council which I inputted into the agenda for this week's Council meeting. Last night, I had inputted reports from Langley Campus Council, the Director of Operations, Academics, Events as well as the Cloverdale Campus Assembly and the Mature Students Liaison. I also started my Chairperson's report last night and I just finished that report.

Finally, today I started working on a Directives Report, which is designed to summarize all the directives issued by either Council or the Executive Board since November 2006. Work on this involves inputting data into tables I created in a WORD document, with said data been drawn from agendas and minutes as posted online at kusa.ca. I am going back this far because I feel there may have been projects that Council or the Executive felt was worth pursuing but that got left to the wayside by other projects (such as the CFS Referendum work of fall 2007 / spring 2008). I’m into 2007 and Titus / Trevor did do up a list of directives in the summer of 2007 so most of the work on this is somewhat done > once I’ve updated the list of directives I will bring it forward to the executive board and the general manager to get a good summary of what has and has not been completed and that report will come most likely to the second meeting of Council in February.

From my Chairperson WORK BLOG...



In January 2009, I became Chairperson of the Executive Board. The bylaws state the following regarding the role:

"Chairperson of the Executive Board" shall mean that member of the Executive Board who has been appointed Chairperson by a Resolution of the board or, if Council has exercised its prerogative as stipulated in these Bylaws, who has been appointed by a Two-thirds (2/3) Resolution of Council;

Duties defined by the Bylaws...

Article 3.3. The Chairperson of the Executive Board, or such other individual as chosen by a Resolution of Council, shall preside as chair for all General Meetings of the Society. Notwithstanding this clause, the membership may appoint a chair from among the Members present, by an Ordinary Resolution.

Article 10.2. Subject at all times to the Constitution, Bylaws and Regulations, and the powers of Council, the Executive Board shall: ... x. appoint by Resolution one of its members to be the Chairperson of the Executive Board, however Council may overrule this decision at any time by a Two-thirds (2/3) Resolution;

And the regulations state this...

Article 8. Chairperson of the Executive Board
1. In addition to the powers and duties of her elected office, and those stipulated in the Bylaws, the Chairperson of the Executive Board shall:

i. co-ordinate, in general, the activities of the Executive and the Society as a whole;

ii. be the spokesperson of the Society on general issues, and fulfill the role of liaison or spokesperson on specific issues if the appropriate other Executive Board member is unavailable;

iii. work, on average, an additional five (5) hours per week above and beyond those hours worked in the performance of her primary portfolio;

iv. write letters on behalf of Council;

v. after a general meeting or referendum, cause to be filed with the Registrar of Companies the documents as required by the Society Act, and any other documents;

vi. ensure that bodies and individuals report back to Council on actions Council has directed them to take;

vii. inform Council members if they are not in compliance with their requirement to serve on a minimum of one (1) committee;

viii. submit copies to Council of any correspondence or other documents delivered to her which are addressed to Council;

ix. provide a written report regarding the ongoing activities related to her portfolio and the Executive Board in general to every regular meeting of Council;

x. ensure that the Policy Analyst or other staff member designated by the General Manager prepares the provisional agenda for Council, and ensures that all accompanying documents, minutes, reports etc. are in order; and

xi. have such other powers and duties as are assigned by Council or the Executive Board from time to time.

I'm the fourth executive member to hold the Chairperson role during the current 2008-09 term, after the Executive choose to adopt a rotating schedule during the summer of 2008. Nathan Griffiths, Trevor Loke, Derek Robertson and Ashley Fehr all held the position prior to my assuming the role.

Since becoming Chairperson, I have (Among other things)...

- worked to ensure all elected officials have submitted their hours;
- worked to increase the number of reports submitted to council meetings; and
- continued to oversee the work being done on our breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against former staff and elected officials of the Society.

Saturday, February 7, 2009: (~ 10:30 - 11:00am; ~ 4:30pm - 6:00pm; 10:00pm - 1:30am --- approximately 5 1/2 hours) > I checked my e-mail and in particular, I sent a reminder to Council about submitting reports and agenda items for this Thursday's meeting to me so that I can include them in the agenda. Later in the afternoon, I had received a number of reports and I started compiling the agenda.

From my WORK BLOG...



Thank-you for re-electing me to my position, for what is likely going to be my last year at the KSA. I am humbled to be able to continue serving the students of Kwantlen.

And on with documenting what I do...

I haven't done much related to Finance portfolio this weekend - and as such, I'm going to start a work blog related to my work as Chairperson.

From my WORK BLOG...







Happy new year.

Wow, it's once again been awhile since I last posted. I keep promising not to let time drag on in between posts and yet it does. Since my last post, I've moved to a new place in South Surrey that it is very close to the Surrey campus and I found the other day that I'm only a 20 minute drive from the Langley Campus if I head along 32nd Avenue in South Surrey. I really like being in my new place - my allergies are under control as I'm able to keep the place organized - no longer do I have all my belongings crammed into a 10 by 10 space. And my studio space is setup so I can do more artwork.

But I digress.

Here's what I've been up to the last few days...

Thursday, January 15, 2009: (~4pm - 9:30pm on Surrey Campus): Attended and chaired the KSA Council (Board of Directors meeting from 4pm until later... I forget when the meeting ended. Following the conclusion of the Council meeting I stayed on campus until about 9:30pm, helping Kari Michaels and Vanessa Knight move furniture and equipment out of the KSA Cafe Lounge space and into other areas in preparation for the Underground 09 club night.

Friday, January 16, 2009... (1. ~10:30am - 1pm on Surrey Campus; 2. ~4:30pm - 11:00pm): 1. Went to Home Depot and picked up muchly needed supplies for keeping the cafe lounge area clean. This included a new professional mop bucket as the old one had broken wheels. I helped move some more items and did some cleaning in the lounge before going to class. I also signed some cheques! 2. Later in the day I helped with more prep work for the Underground event and was chosen to oversee the ticket booth where we sold entrance tickets, drink tickets and coat check tickets. Some great people were assigned to various tasks - John O'Brian manned the coat check and Kari Michaels lead up the drink ticket sales while I looked after the door sales. Overall it went well. Final numbers are not yet in but we did a quick count at the end of the night and the KSA made approximately $400 off ticket sales, and $500 off of alcohol sales (beer and coolers). And I believe another $40 was in the coat check by donation tip jar. Altogether, we brought back about $1,000 on the event which is very good. More than 170 people were in attendance - the majority of whom were students. Later in the evening, after the event was over I helped with some of the preliminary cleanup.

Saturday, January 17, 2009... (~1:30pm - 4:00pm): More cleanup of the cafe lounge. I primarily assisted with mopping the floors and moving furniture. Kudos to Nathan Griffiths, Vanessa Knight and Kari Michaels for being amazing and on campus before 8am.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009... (~1:00pm - 4:30pm): Worked on the final draft of the budget which I should be able to send out later tonight. Aside from sending a number of e-mails, I also worked on the executive board meeting agenda and the finance committee agenda.

That's it for now folks!

WOW.

Tonight I sold tickets to a theatre play I was going to go see but can't because my girlfriend Jessie is working. I posted the tickets a few days ago to the famous Craig's List website and was able find two purchasers, one of whom offered more and I met her tonight and she paid me cash for the tickets.

But when I posted the tickets, I saw that there were many postings by people selling Canucks hockey tickets. Specifically there were many available for the amazing December 17, 2008 Canucks vs. Edmonton Oilers hockey tickets which is also the same night that the Canucks will honour long time player Trevor Linden by retiring his number.

Now, I was already able to get a ticket for myself from a friend, as I had missed the initial sale for Canucks tickets (as Ticketmaster failed to send me a reminder that the tickets were coming up for sale). So I felt bad that I had a ticket but my girlfriend, who is the real fan in our relationship, did not.

So I e-mailed many of the postings for lower bowel tickets but found to my dismay that the reasonably priced ones were selling like wildfire. And everything else was very expensive. But tonight, three possibilities arose:

1. From Craig's List, one guy had a pair of tickets that was off to one end of the rink for $450;

2. From Ticketmaster's Ticket Exchange, another better pair of tickets was available for $460 (plus stupid service charges); and

3. From Craig's List, another guy was selling tickets in what seemed to be an amazing section, well here is the ad: http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/tix/928580373.html (the heading says section 105, row 4 but I just noticed that the description says section 105, row 8).


The first guy seems legit - but I chose the Ticket exchange because I'm not sure I trust Craig's List yet. I talked to him and he said he would be downtown tonight and would call me to meet up. I was prepared to meet him.

But still, in looking at what was on Ticket Exchange - the tickets were much better seats. So I bit the bullet and got them there. I'll be going to GM place to get them tomorrow. I'm glad with this decision --- I know I'm not getting ripped off. The two tickets are legit, they are from GM Place itself. I also made the decision based on the fact that another friend of mine said she would buy the second ticket, so between getting money from her and from my theatre ticket sale tonight, I won't be out too much money and the ticket for Jessie I told her would be her Christmas present.

But the third guy. I heard back from him about 4 hours after I had sent him an e-mail, which is about the same amount of time that had passed since I finalized the purchase online of the Ticketmaster tickets. Here is his response:

My name is Ryan. I still have Tickets. I would like to offer the following payment options to you for these tickets because I am not in the city. Me and my wife are unable to make it due to work schedules.

Best way would be bank Transfer using debit card via this website
@ http://www.interac.ca/consumers/productsandservices_ol_emt.php
or
www.westernunion.com < http://www.westernunion.com
just click on locate agent and go Directly into an outlet like a moneymart ect...
or
www.moneygram.com < http://www.moneygram.com
these are often located in Post Offices or you can click on there site to find something close to you.

These would be the best payment options that I can ask for, I cant accept Paypal because its been an issue with my credit union for payments. my info is below you will need that

Ryan Dunn
8 Crocus Crescent
Brandon , Manitoba
R7B 2R1
Canada

I will be using Fedex overnight express to send you the tickets, there is no extra charge for this I will also send you a vaild tracking confirmation once you have sent the payment to me, I gurantee you will get these tickets within 24-48 hours of payment because i use the express service for fedex from my company account. i hate scalpers so this is why i have made payment as stated above like this. I hope this is not an issue, If you need any more info please contact me asap

Thanks
Ryan

It seemed too good to be true! He accepted my offer of $450 for the tickets. But even when I sent him the offer, part of me was like... "WOW THOSE SEATS ARE GREAT. They are probably gone." So I was a little surprised to see that he accepted my offer.

But something nagged me. I talked with Jessie about the great seats. And I re-read the e-mail a few times and saw this:

** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

So I visited the Craig's list page. A lot of the things they warned about seemed to relate to the e-mail he had sent me. But still - the tickets looked too good to be true. I thought... "Should I e-mail him back and see about sealing a deal?" Then, for some reason I decided to Google "Ryan Reynolds, Manitoba" to see what would come up - maybe I could find out what company he worked for or something. Instead, at the top of the list, this came up:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/370/RipOff0370743.htm

It said:

I recently tried to purchase tickets on craigslist, and got the following email... --- above e-mail word for word is quoted --- ...I was ready to purchase them, but I happened to google his name and came up with a variety of reports saying this guy takes the money and doesn't deliver the tickets. I then sent him a very polite email saying I'm not going to take the tickets and he responds with a nasty email! So far, I've received two of them!!

Make sure you don't send this guy money! He seems like a real piece of work!

Sarah
Toronto, Ontario

One other person commented on the page saying they got tickets from Ryan Dunn but I somehow think that is not true, as another person actually was ripped off $400. There are more than 8 other reports on the site:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q5=ryan+dunn&Search=Search&q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search!

So yeah... not a good guy. I'm glad I didn't go through with it. I'll probably buy something off of Craig's List in the future - as I know many people have had good luck with it and provided people follow the information on their "Watch out for scams" page above, then they should be okay.

In a way though, given things like this, I wish Ticketmaster made it easier to resell tickets on their website. Many tickets for shows do not allow you to resell them on the Ticketmaster website but a lot do.

- S

From my WORK BLOG...




Monday, November 17, 2008: 2:00 pm - 2:20pm (~20 m in Surrey): Reviewed and signed cheques. There was a KSA Council meeting at 3pm in Langley which I was not able to attend. I unfortunately did not even know it was happening until after the agenda was sent out. With many people being on different conferences, no e-mail notice was sent out to councilors reminding them to submit reports (as has been the unofficial but regular practice in the past).

Monday, November 17, 2008: 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm (~2 hours at home): Checked and responded to e-mail. Apparently Council voted to reduce my hours to zero if a draft budget is not e-mailed to the executive board by November 24. Part of that motion also said I was to cease working on the archive (which I actually haven't been doing since October), and that I was to cease updating my work blog. Well, I'm not going to stop working on the work blog and if Council wants to reduce my hours to zero for telling people about what I am doing then so be it - I can rally against that when that time comes.

I have been negligent enough in regards to maintaining this blog, and I feel it is of the utmost importance that students know what is going on. Students deserve to know what I am doing for the 25 hours of work I get paid for every week. And to that end, I will continue to update this blog.

I also got accused of claiming hours for posting to my blog and to newspaper sites, which I don't do. But we are all supposed to track our hours and I think a more in-depth tracking should be required of all officials. Too often, no meaningful summary of work completed is done by executives and just a tally of hours is submitted to our payroll people. We require our campus councils to keep paper log books - so executives should have to do the same. I just choose to post it online instead of on paper. And I vow to keep doing it from today until the day I leave office - unless I fall gravely ill, there won't be a missed update.

So since I got that motion, I put more work into the 2009 draft of the budget that I have been working on. I already have a packed week ahead of me, so this motion will make it even more packed as I will be doing in one week what was originally planned to happen over the course of two to three weeks. To that end, I believe a draft of the budget was already posted to these very forums a few months ago. But Council is right in wanting an update and so they will get many this week and as close to a completed draft will be ready by week's end.

In relation to the budget, I asked for an update from Catherine and Desmond in regards to the status of the Gift Cards program. I understand Catherine has been working on it lately and I want to know if we will have it in place for January. In November 2006 Nathan first brought information on this program to the KSA's attention and up until recently, very little was done to implement that idea.

I also obtained the latest enrollment data from the Kwantlen website, which will be used to inform some of our membership fee revenue projections for 2009. I also used the data to crunch the proposed budgets for campus councils.

Tuesday, November 19, 2008 - 12:15am - 3:15am (~3 hours At home): I searched the Kwantlen website to see if they had any data about how many students are full time and how many are part time to help further crunch our membership revenue fee projections for 2009 - and I was glad to see that they did have this data and it helped a lot. I also e-mailed Kwantlen to see if they had preliminary data on the head counts of students enrolled on each campus for this fall 2008 semester as I have heard our numbers on campus have dropped a lot this term, which could affect our projections.

I started work on a draft agenda for a possible finance committee meeting which I would like to hold this week.

I noticed some inconsistencies with how the health & dental fees were presented on the Kwantlen calendar, and I also noticed that the fees don't even appear in the summary of fees page that is a part of the spring 2009 registration guide. I e-mailed Desmond, Rolando and our benefits office about that.

I e-mailed Ashley to see if she had any plans for expanding the advocacy service in 2009.

And before revising this blog entry, after I finished my work I did a quick update to the KUSA forums, starting a new discussion topic for the 2009 budget. Finally, a draft of the budget has been posted on the Financial Documents page of our site.

- S

my mind creates thoughts about you
and those thoughts - they flow
through my mind so easily - like
water flowing in a gentle summer stream

i close my eyes

relax

there's this sweetness in the air
and i remember its your scent
that helped me fall in love

From my WORK BLOG...



Friday, October 31, 2008 - 2:00pm - 4:30pm (2 and 1/2 hours at the Surrey Campus KSA Offices): Attended executive board meeting and while the meeting occurred, I prepped some more minutes and agendas from 1994 for uploading to the website. Responded to e-mails, and asked our Computer guy to make a few tweaks to the forums as per suggestions by a forum member.

From my WORK BLOG...



Well, it has been awhile since I posted. Early September was my last real post? There are a whole host of reasons why I haven't posted which I won't get into today, to help save time and to simply get back on track with what I have been doing this week. In short, I apologize to the students and my fellow elected officials for not reporting to the last 2 council meetings, and for not maintaining my blog. It's not that I haven't been doing anything - I have been attending meetings and doing work - I just have not been properly tracking and reporting on the work I have been doing. Which I know, is not acceptable.

So, it's now back to blogging and keeping people up to speed with my work!




THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008 - A. 11:00am - 6:30pm (7 1/2 hours in SURREY CAMPUS KSA OFFICE); B. 7:30pm - 9:45pm (2 hours & 15 min in KSA SURREY); C. 11:30pm - 12:45am (1 hour, 45 minutes at HOME):

A. I spent my morning completing a review of the monetary motions that Council moved over the year, with an eye for finding what money the KSA Council has allocated for release from its reserve funds. At 2:00pm, myself, the General Manager and our Financial Assistant met with officials from the KSA's bank, CIBC to discuss the state of our investments and other related issues. After that, I worked with Titus to help sort and catalogue some of the documents at my desk.

B. I helped Derek count the U-PASS plebiscite ballots. When we finished that, I continued organizing stuff at my desk - and luckily, I found all the agenda daytimers I thought had gone missing. Someone had taken them out of a box that they were in and put them into a cloth bag, that was at my desk. There are a few that still seem to be missing but I actually don't think the missing ones in question were even in the archive to begin with, those being the 2002-03; 2003-04 and the 2004-05 daytimers. So they are all now nicely filed away into a drawer in the executives office and the ones that have not yet been scanned will be and should be online by the end of 2008 (scanned documents are already here: http://kusa.ca/index.php?pid=72&comid=35 ). I've also been discussing stuff with Vanessa and Derek who are also in the office working tonight.

C. At home, I responded to a number of e-mails and posted some updates about PIPS to this forum. I also sorted some files that I intend to upload to the website in the near future.

Cheers,

- Steve

From my WORK BLOG...



Friday, September 12, 2008 - 11:30am - 6:00pm (~6 1/2 hours in Surrey): I am uploading another video that I found yesterday to the Concerned Students website regarding the January 2006 RAF run election and it is now located here:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/concernedstudents/87B4E9376592474CAB57283AD8A963A9/january-17-2006-newton-camp.aspx

I started to hookup the VCR to my computer at work but found the options for connecting things to not be as wide ranging as I had hoped. I'll see what I can do in terms of getting a converter switch box hoooked up before I can upload more stuff. I had noted when I started this post that I'm going to take a look and try converting to digital format the on-campus all candidate debates the KSA organized for the 2004 Canadian federal election. The videos are long though, so I don't know if uploading them to YouTube is workable as they only allow a video length of about 10 minutes per video. I may or may not make a "highlights" video but I'll figure that out once I have the footage converted. I expect to have some stuff up soon.

We had an executive board meeting in the afternoon which lasted about an hour and a half? I TOTALLY forget. I organized more at my desk and scanned more of the 1997 minutes. I scanned a black & white photo of myself to test the scanner for photo scanning - which is one of the things I'll be doing once I'm done the minutes. I uploaded the test scan here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveleenow/2852265036/

It's not bad.

I also organized more papers and placed all of the documents we had regarding the KSA as filed with the provincial registry into a binder which I'll be passing on to Titus next week. The organizing is coming along well and my desk should be nicely organized within the next two weeks - which excites me!

That's about all I did. It doesn't seem like a lot but it was - and I'm happy with the progress I made on a number of things.

- Steve

From my WORK BLOG...



It has been awhile since my last update and for that I apologize. In talking to Derek the other day, it appears he does read my work blog and I encourage him to start one up too so that others can know what he is up to as well.



Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 11:00am - 7:00pm (~8 hours in Surrey); and 11:00pm - 3:30am (~4 1/2 hours @ Home) - I came and helped out with the Surrey Welcome Day today, mainly filming and taking photos of the event. I then came into the office to upload some of the videos I took but to no avail as I didn't have the right cords on me in the office. So I took a quick trip to Future Shop & London Drugs to get the right cord and for some dyslexic reason I bought the WRONG cord!

I created a few new accounts for us at the KSA:

http://www.youtube.com/ksavideo
http://www.livevideo.com/ksavideo

Which will be used to house copy of videos of KSA events. We had thought of creating a section of the KSA website for videos but in the end decided not to as more people visit youtube and sites like that. I will be uploading later tonight (or over the weekend) some of the video I shot today.

I also created a flickr account today:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30397312@N05/

I will be uploading new photos to that site from now on. I'm not going to re-upload the KSA photos I have online from past years as that would just take too long. Those photos are already part of a few Kwantlen groups that are on flickr and I joined the new KSAphotos user up to those same groups - and will just add new stuff to that group so that anyone interested in photos of Kwantlen can find that group.

I scanned more minutes/agendas from 1997. Only 2 years of stuff left to scan and the scanning will be complete. With the scanner at work now I can move faster to getting this done soon. I know it bothers Derek that I'm doing this but having an archive online is important to me --- it's something that I've wanted to see done ever since I started in the KSA back in 2001. It's also important for having a history of the KSA accessible and feeds into the fact that the oversight of the KSA website is under my portfolio. Once the archive is up I will work on completing a section online for our minutes agendas. I know Derek thinks this is something that a staff member could do - but a. we don't have many staff and the ones we do are already super busy doing other more important things. And the KSA doesn't have to pay me as much money to do it as most staff members get paid more than elected officials. So it's a win-win situation in my mind. Plus, it's almost done. And no, Derek, it's not taking away from my other duties. Finishing the archive was also an election promise I've made in the past.

I also did some cleanup and organization of my desk area. I found some videos I had taken back during the RAF era, videos that were on my personal site but that I had wanted to upload to Youtube / LiveVideo. I uploaded one of these to the Concerned Students LiveVideo site and will be doing some more uploads in the near future. It's something I had wanted to do for awhile now so I'm glad I found the discs in question. The first video is uploaded here:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/concernedstudents/7F98A578BE8341C3BAF6A44EC4494623/january-16-2006-ksa-all-candi.aspx

Later in the evening from approximately 11:30pm - 3:30am I edited more scanned documents in preparation for uploading them to the website.


Wednesday, August 10, 2008 - 7am - 10am (~3 hours at HOME): Worked on regulations revisions for the next finance committee meeting.

Tuesday, August 9, 2008 - 5pm - 6:30pm (~1 1/2 hours at KSA SURREY): Checked and responded to e-mails. Worked on fee structure proposal that will be brought to next finance committee meeting.

Monday, August 8, 2008 - 8:30am - 10:00am (~1 1/2 hours at KSA SURREY): Checked and responded to e-mails. Called and spoke to the KSA lawyers about the civil suit, the student newspapers and other issues.

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Later tonight or on the weekend I will update the forums with information on what other work I've done since my last post on August 22.