Like every Agora, there are proposals to modify the CIA, and, like every Agora, The AEGEEan is covering them all. In this article, we’ll provide summaries for the following three proposals: “Improving reimbursement criteria for the Mediation Commission”, “Proposal to raise the maximum height of membership fees”, and “RTC Reform”.
Improving reimbursement criteria for the Mediation Commission
This proposal was submitted by Damien Latacz on behalf of the Mediation Commision and Zvonimir Canjuga of the Comité Directeur. The idea behind this proposal was that there is currently no money allocated for the MedCom in the budget of AEGEE-Europe; it, in general, does not get any reimbursement for the Agora, while the commission is expected to actively participate and function during this event.
This proposal, if voted in favour of, will remove the clauses from the Statutes of AEGEE-Europe that deal with the prohibition of reimbursements for members of the MedCom. It will also add two new rules to article 18.12 of the General Financial Rules, that will allow for travel costs to Agorae to be reimbursed for one member of the MedCom, but that full reimbursement may not apply to the travel costs for other MedCom meetings.
You can read the full proposal, here.
Proposal to raise the maximum height of membership fees
This proposal is an rephrasing of an earlier proposal by AEGEE-Enschede at Spring Agora Patra in 2014. This proposal was then rejected, but is now brought back by Evelien Kroon, Steyn ten Kate and Lea Watzlawek of AEGEE-Enschede. For the past couple of years, members of AEGEE-Enschede were required to pay a membership fee that was higher than the maximum amount of €50,-, for which they have always been given an exception.
However, this Agora, they will propose the maximum height of the membership fee to be changed from €50,- to €70,-, which, as projected by AEGEE-Enschede, will create more financial security for AEGEE-Europe, which, in turn, would make the odds rejecting exceptions to the maximum height of membership fees asked by locals, like AEGEE-Enschede, smaller.
This proposal would affect the maximum height of membership fees according to article 1.1 of the General Financial Rules.
You can read the full proposal, here.
Proposed by Mareike Wegener, on behalf of the Network Commission, this proposal is intended to curb the decrease in the number of RTCs that is organised. The proposal itself serves as a two-pronged attack; on the one hand, it is intended to make organising and participating in RTCs more attractive, and, on the other, it intends to clarify what the minimum requirements of an RTC are.
The RTCs are made more attractive to organise by adding them to the Antenna Criteria on an equal level of importance as Local Training Courses. RTCs would, furthermore, become recognised as European Events, because of which all requirements for European Events would apply. RTCs will furthermore be provided with materials for delivering the compulsory parts of the training course by the CD, and the content of which will be confirmed by the NetCom or another CD approved body of AEGEE-Europe. Financial support can be provided in accordance with chapter 5 of the General Financial Rules.
As for the requirements of an RTC, the organisers must at least provide three of the following five compulsory sessions: Member management and how to run a local, Communication with other locals, Teamwork and conflict solving, Goal setting and Strategic planning related to the Action Agenda, or a session about bodies in AEGEE, how they are working and why they exist.
You can read the full proposal, here.
Written by Willem Laurentzen, AEGEE-Nijmegen