TREASURER

Christopher R.J. Charles
PhD Candidate - Collaborative Program in Geology & Physics

treasurer.gsu@utoronto.ca

• Personal Statement
  

• Duties

• Committees

• Contact Christopher

PERSONAL STATEMENT

My most heartfelt thanks are extended to all the graduates who showed their support for me as Treasurer. In this position, fiscal responsibility and accountability are essential. My responsibility to you includes proper allocation of university funds to projects and activities that directly effect and enhance the graduate student experience. My accountability to you means full transparency in
decisions and policies of fund allocation. Additionally, I will represent the interests of graduate students on the Council of Student Services (COSS), Council on Athletics & Recreation (CAR), and the Hart House Board of Stewards.

My personal mandate is to implement positive change at our university by (1) lobbying the administration to lower tuition fees; (2) monitoring private/commercial funding to the university and the impact this has on graduate students, and (3) ensuring that the interests of graduate students are protected and strengthened during potentially difficult student-supervisor relationships. My
goal is to represent your best interests and ensure that your voices are heard during these difficult situations.

I welcome any input or ideas on any issue that is pertinent to the student body.Please do not hesitate to contact me and always remember that I, and the other GSU Executive Officers, are here to advocate for you.

DUTIES OF THE TREASURER (from GSU By-law):

1. to be responsible for keeping records of the monetary transactions of the Corporation;

2. to present the Executive's and/or Finance Committee's recommendations about financial policy to General Council;

3. to be responsible for the calling of meetings of the Finance Committee and for providing information and agenda necessary for the meetings;

4. to be responsible for the preparation, completion, and submission to General Council of a full and complete audit of the last fiscal year;

5. to present the financial estimates and supplementary estimates to General Council;

6. to present to General Council financial reports at the end of each quarter or more frequently if General Council should so decide, and to furnish to General Council such relevant financial information which General Council may, from time to time, require;

7. to be responsible for representing the Corporation at all meetings of the Council of Athletics and Recreation (CAR) and Hart House Board of Stewards and any subsidiary boards to which s/he is appointed;

8. and to perform such other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

COMMITTEES:

GSU Sub-Committees

• Outreach (Co-Chair)
  
  

University of Toronto Committees

• Responsible Investment
  
  
• Committee to Allocate Student Activity Space (CASAS)
  
  

Student Services

• Council on Athletics & Recreation (CAR)
  
  
• Hart House Board of Stewards
  
  

GSU Internal Committees

• Finance
  
  
• Gym
  
  

CONTACT

Email treasurer.gsu@utoronto.ca, or see other ways to contact GSU.

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