VSL STUDENT GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE

Our student government has two jobs; to be efficient and effective. How will we do these? To be effective we need to do what is in the student's best interest. This means we will have to have communication between students and representatives. Being efficient means we MUST be productive and do our jobs of structuring ideas and presenting them to the board. In order to be efficient, we need a smaller number of people. Small enough to get things done quickly, but also large enough to accuratly represent the student population. We have decided upon having seven officials. We will have a president, a vice president, and five council members that will each be representing a smaller group or class of students. The roles of each official will be listed below.

THE PRESIDENT

The President of the Village School of Louisville's student government program will have a very specific job. They will be a communicator and decision maker of sorts. The President will have a non-voting seat on the Village School of Louisville's Board of directors to bring formalized ideas from the student council to the staff. The president will also get to weigh in on decision making at the top of the school's heirarchy. The president will have one more duty. Which gives them the power to knock down any bills they do not agree with that the council has passed.

THE VICE PRESIDENT

The Vice President will have a different, but equally important job as the president for the Village School's student government. The Vice President will be chosen by the president and will run on the ballot together in one election. So, if there will not ever be a senario when the president did not choose the VP. The Vice President will have a voting seat on the student council and will serve as a student ambassador to any people touring the school. This means the VP will be very influential in Village School's public relations. The Vice President's last job is of course to step in for the president if they are absent.

THE COUNCIL

Village School Student Council

The Village School of Louisville's Student council will be the center for the creation of ideas. The council will consist of five members, each representing a corresponding group of people. Each member will be elected by the class they represent and will need to collaborate with other members to compromise on ideas to improve the school. Anyone can run to be a council member and council members will be the heart of the student government, essentially being the base for all of the government's ideas.

IDEA BOX

Students will be able to drop their ideas for what the government should do in a suggestions box which will be read by their respective council member.

Google Form

Another form of communication between students and representatives will be via online forms through Google Classroom.

IDEA FORMALIZATION

AMENDMENTS

Amendments are going to be a key part of student government. Based on the fundamental idea that governments must change and adapt as time goes on, amendments will be a proposal to change a function of the government. Amendments will have to pass through by the majority of the student council vote and be approved by the president, but because they only pertain to our student government, they will not need to be approved by the board or staff of any kind.

BILLS

Bill are how the student government will perform its most basic duty. A bill will just be a document containing ideas that the majority of the student council agrees upon. A bill can contain anything from a fundraising idea to a schedule change. Once agreed upon by the majority of the council, bills must be passed on by the President to the board, where the board will either approve of it or put it straight into action.

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