Elections – 2 open seats for At Large – rest has at least the minimum
DOC – Native American Group wants their event to be spotlighted I’m going to highlight them and just keep going with it and if you guys talk to any other organizations can you find out if any others want to be put in. Not just anyone – just the legitimate ones.
Cultural – 3 people on committee. Moving time to Mondays at 4. if your gonna be on cultural the new thing I wanna do is require that once a month if your on cultural affairs you need to go to at least one event and write me some notes on it because the multicultural groups were “fuming” over senate’s consistent absence from most/all of their events. Is it ok to make things like that mandatory for my committee?
President – Yeah its ok just say it in your committee. Will talk to you about the holiday fair in late November early December
SOARC – talked about the multicultural groups and how we could alleviate their concerns. Maybe possibly having all senators go to at least one event as part of the senate outreach program. Diversity week is next week. I haven’t been able to get a hold of NAACP or the HDF club.
VP – whats the point of everyone going to a event.
SOARC – just so groups know we support them.
VP – are people really gonna introduce themselves like “hey im on senate”
SOARC – well they should that’s the whole point
VP – its probably not gonna work if we don’t enforce it [Vidhi rants for a bit]
Treasurer – paid some stuffz. Payday on Tuesday.
Campus – Ellery is back to square one according to Frisbee. Hertz rental service is going through the senate and URI lawyers. Parking is more of the same.
VP – Bad mood. Roar. Mandatory retreat. Lame excuses. Only 3 people have let me know they aren’t going but I know way more than that can’t go. I need your minutes from the meetings – send them from your own accounts not underlings.
President – Dr. Dooley and his wife hosting people at his house – and want senate to be the first ones up there. The date they offered me is Sunday (day of the retreat). I need to know who on senate would be interested.
Collective – no
President – we’ll be going on October 4th at 7 then. And I will open up Sunday up for other groups to go. We have a meeting with the president and the vice presidents in the green hall conference room at 4-6 on Tuesday. At 6 we will meet in the union with Bruce about the projects – because we have to be careful about how we handle the money and make sure everyone is on board. At the meeting wednesday we will have a closed meeting in the senate to go over it.
Treasurer + Cultural – what projects?
President – well we have around million dollars typically (one years budget) on reserve in case something happens, like the radio tower falling down. We currently have 1.3+, and we would like to bring that number back down, so we are looking into lighting the intermural fields, putting in another outdoor basketball court (unlikely), a rock wall in the area of north woods ropes course. Wouldn’t have to pay for climbing passes anymore if we got that. Also want to talk to Bruce about a possible parking garage. We would be contributing into these projects, not solely funding them.
SOARC – are exec meetings open to regular senators?
President – yeah they are.
Treasurer – whats the status of homecoming?
President – jon stewart turned us down. All of the other possible acts have also turned us down as of now but Mike Nolf (SPELLING FAIL) is looking into a few other options. Worse come to worse we can have a small thing in Eddy.
DOC – maybe we could have another battle of the bands type thing instead if we cant find anything.
President – other than that we are going to have a hot dog eating contest at Rhode ville, this time we’ll have buns. I’m going to report tonight at the meeting that the senate representatives and liaisons will be playing a more active role. I’m going to collect reports from liaisons at the end of every month starting next month. Dr. Dooley is coming tonight and I’m not going to limit his time in pubic forum.