Standing Committees of Students' Council shall report to Students' Council at least once per term through the Chairperson and shall have Duties and Powers and Term of Office.

The current Standing Committees of the Federation of Students of Students are listed as follows:

Responsibilities of the Committee:

• To ensure that existing policies, procedures and by-laws are consistent with each other;
• To propose amendments to the policies, procedures and the by-laws;
• To ensure that any unwritten policy or procedure commonly utilized by the Corporation, be proposed in the form of a written policy. These policies or procedures shall be presented to Students' Council as if they were new policies or procedures; and
• To ensure that the policy, procedure and by-law manual is updated and complete.

Contact Information: Allan Babor, (pres@feds.ca), President and Committee Chair

Current Committee Make Up: 1 member of the Board of Directors, at least 2 ouncillors

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a yearly basis.

Length of committee:

• One meeting shall be held no sooner than four (4) weeks before the General Meeting nd the Annual General Meeting at which the by-laws will be reviewed;
• One meeting no sooner than three (3) weeks before the General Meeting and the Annual General Meeting at which changes to the by-laws will be proposed for inclusion in the General or Annual General Meeting agenda; and
• Any other time as deemed necessary by the Chair.
• Time commitment to the Committee: The committee meets normally on a biweekly basis.

Responsibilities of the Committee: The budget committee is responsible for setting the service side of the budget for the Federation of Students Students' Council. This includes the executive, service, and council budgets.

Contact Information: Chris Neal, (vpaf@feds.ca), Vice President Administration & Finance and Committee Chair

Current Committee Make Up: 1 member of the Board of Directors, at least 2 Councillors

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a yearly basis.

Length of committee: Meetings shall be held as necessary at the discretion of the Chair.

Time commitment to the Committee: Most of the work for this committee will be done in May and June so being available then to help with the budget is a must. After the Spring Term the Committee will meet once in the Fall and Winter terms.

Education Advisory Committee

Responsibilities of the Committee:

To advise the Vice-President, Education on policy and other issues relating their portfolio that are not addressed by Co-op Students’ Council.

• To make decisions on behalf of Students’ Council relating to the Vice-President, Education’s portfolio. Such decisions may only be made when, in the opinion of the committee, they justifiably do not warrant the consideration of Students’ Council.
• To assist Students’ Council in developing policy on educational matters and to recommend to Students’ Council of these polices.
• To assist Students’ Council in oversight of external lobby organizations in which the Federation of Students holds membership and to recommend to Students’ Council from time to time any courses of action related to campaigns and membership.

Contact Information: Justin Williams, (vped@feds.ca) VP ED and Committee Chair
Current Committee Make Up: 3 Councillors, 2 Students At-Large

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a term-by-term basis.

Length of committee: This committee must meet at least three times per academic term.

Time commitment to the committee: Meetings are generally held once every 2 weeks.

Responsibilities of the Committee:

• Recognize, dissolve or otherwise deal with Federation of Students’ lubs in accordance with the provisions of the Council Procedure governing clubs;
• Make recommendations to Students’ Council on all matters relating to clubs, services, and commissions, including proposals for new clubs, services and commissions;
• Supervise, maintain and recommend changes to all club, service and commission constitutions or operating procedures;
• Conduct an annual review of each service and commission, to examine the effectiveness and classification of each service and commission.

Contact Information: Sarah Cook, (vpin@feds.ca), Vice President Internal and Committee Chair

Current Committee Make Up: 2 Councillors and 2 Students At-Large

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a term-by-term basis.

Length of committee: This committee must meet at least three times per academic term.

Time commitment to the committee: Meetings are generally held once every week.

Responsibilities of the Committee:

• The committee will be responsible for administering a Special Projects Fund and the Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation Fund.
• The committee shall adhere to the Council Procedure governing the Special Projects Fund in its administration of the Special Projects Fund and to the Council Procedure governing the Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation Fund in its administration of the Enterprise, Opportunity and Innovation Fund.

Contact Information: Sarah Cook, (vpin@feds.ca), Vice President Internal and Committee Chair

Current Committee Make Up: 2 Councillors and 2 Students At-Large

Length of appointments: Appointments are made on a term-by-term basis.

Length of committee: This committee must meet at least three times per academic term.

Time commitment to the committee: This committee must meet at least once per academic term, but typically meets on weekly or biweekly basis.

**Terms of reference is available in Federation of Students Bylaws.