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Sep 20 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
And we're back for the final #UBCBoG meeting of today: Executive Committee.

Here's the (short) agenda for the open session: bog3.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/09/…
BoG + committee chair Nancy McKenzie opens the meeting with a land acknowledgment.
McKenzie welcomes Chaslyn Gillanders and Joel Solomon who were recently appointed as chairs of the Indigenous Engagement + Sustainability & Climate Action committees, respectively.
The agenda was approved.
Here is the consent agenda item:
It's approved, bringing the open session to an end.

Thank you to everyone who followed along for today's meetings! We'll be back tomorrow morning for a short Audit Committee meeting.

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