OUSA is set to have ANOTHER by-election, after Finance Officer Lucy Gaudin announced that she would step down from 1 August. Gaudin resigned in order to take up a new, full time role as OUSA Accounts Administrator.
Other members of the Executive were quick to pay tribute to Gaudin. President Francisco Hernandez praised Gaudin’s “dedicated and loyal service … We didn’t see eye to eye on every issue, but there is no doubt that Lucy was a committed, passionate and effective leader of the student movement.”
Gaudin was sad to no longer be working on the Executive. “I’m moving on from a representative role in an organisation I feel passionately about, so I was a little sad to say goodbye to my fellow Executive members.” Fortunately, her new office is only five metres down the hall.
Gaudin described her role as Finance Officer as “keeping involved in the financial aspects of the organisation, and just providing that governance-level financial oversight of the activities that OUSA does. There are a lot of other little things that I do, but they’re kind of boring so I don’t want to put you to sleep.”
If anybody is keen for a kind of boring role that will put you to sleep, nominations for the by-election are open until 4pm Thursday. Voting will take place from 13-15 August.
This is OUSA’s fourth by-election of the year. It is currently beating VUWSA, which will hold its first two in the coming weeks.
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