目的
The Campus Sustainability Committee was established to support and promote sustainability efforts at 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校. 提高可持续发展意识, integration of sustainability practices into all community work, and publication of 蒙特中音’s sustainability commitment and successes are 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校 strategic plan strategies that are upheld by the Sustainability Committee.
委员会组成
The Sustainability Committee membership includes a voting body of faculty and staff. The Sustainability Committee will also encourage student representatives to serve terms to bring the student perspective to the group.
会员条款
站成员
The campus Chancellor may appoint standing members to the committee to ensure that those members can share their specific expertise, as it applies to campus sustainability efforts.
校园代表
Campus representatives are solicited as volunteers from the campus community.
- The committee should consist of both faculty and staff.
- If no students answer the call to volunteer, the committee may look for recommendations from the Office of Student Affairs for representative students to invite to join the efforts.
- 没有成员任期限制.
一般责任
The Sustainability Committee elevates 宾州州立大学蒙阿尔托分校’s work toward sustainability goals
The following are examples of possible endeavors to support that undertaking.
- Research ways to cut electricity, fuel, water, and materials use
- Develop strategies to increase campus recycling
- Educate the campus community about sustainability
- Infuse sustainability into the curriculum
- 减少校园碳足迹
- “绿色”校园采购
- Reduce what the campus sends to the landfill and waste in general
- 宣传校园工作
- Identify funding sources to support campus sustainability efforts.
报告
对校园的透明度
Meeting minutes will be disseminated to campus stakeholders.
Regular reporting to Policy and Planning Committee
An annual report will be shared to summarize activities, 决定, 以及全年的成功.
成员的责任
- Attendance at Sustainability Committee meetings
- In order to best vitalize the collaborative work being done, committee members are strongly encouraged to participate in monthly meetings.
- In the case a member may not be able to physically attend meetings, alternative methods of participation may be configured.
- Make self available as representative member of committee through sustainability efforts on campus and in community.
- If a member has volunteered to contribute, the committee depends upon that member to serve as an active member through the remainder of the operating year.
执行委员会
执行委员会成员
- 主席、教师
- 主席、员工
- 秘书
执行委员会遴选
- Sustainability 执行委员会 members may volunteer or be nominated.
- Election to the role formalizes the 执行委员会 member.
- In the case a different committee member has volunteered or has been nominated to serve on the 执行委员会, a vote decides which member will assume the responsibilities of the 执行委员会 member role, 从下一个营业年度开始.
- In the case an 执行委员会 member must step down, an election process will take place to vote another member into the role, to assume responsibilities as soon as is necessary or possible.
执行委员会 Rules and Responsibilities
- 执行委员会 plans Sustainability Committee meeting agendas.
- At least one Sustainability Committee co-chair conducts meetings.
- Sustainability Committee co-chairs perform administrative duties, such as reminders to the group about meetings.
General Sustainability Committee Operations
会议
可持续发展委员会每月举行一次会议, 从九月到四月, but may agree to meet more frequently in order to address current responsibilities.
运行一年
Sustainability Committee operations follow the University's fiscal year.
决策
- A quorum of 5 committee representatives must be present to vote.
- A majority yes is required for a vote to pass.
- In the case of a tie vote, the issue will be re-introduced at the next meeting.
- Sustainability Committee reserves the right to determine appropriate method of voting.
《欧博体育官网》的修正和变更
- Any member of the Sustainability Committee may propose an amendment to the charter at any time.
- An amendment may only be ratified by an affirmative quorum vote of the Sustainability Committee. Clerical errors or omissions are not considered amendments and may be corrected at the discretion of the 执行委员会 leadership, as long as the correction doesn’t change the meaning or intent of the original.
- Approval: Individuals authorized to approve the Sustainability Committee charter sign with their approval.
Approved by unanimous vote, April 2, 2018