MEETING START TIME: 5:32pm

ATTENDANCE:   Murphy, Nowinowski, Sit, Stewart (Weinreich was late)

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

 

 

Surf Club – Extreme Sports caravan Monday Oct 29th between 4-8pm

 

• Give a sense of Community
• Bring together different groups

o   Sports and clubs

• Build and recruit members
• Providing activities not just tables of information
• On the Quad
• Big Event
• Brings together the small events
• Free Stuff and Free Music
• Rock Wall
• Asking for money for $11,000
• Big Fish
• Some of the Lighting costs
• It’s too much – not worth risking putting the bill on the floor
• Other Sources of Funding
• SEC 4-5 thousand dollars for lights
• Diversity Fund
• Sponsors each pay $250
• Attendance last year:
• 800 ppl at the show even though location and time had to go.

o   Pretty well put together event

• Concerns
• Bringing the same very expensive band 3 years in a row

o   SEC brought in Guster for 10 years in a row

o   Used to be 20k now 10k

• $11,000 is 78% of our Contingency Grant Money

o   We can move to next semester and it will be better

o   We can grow contingency later in the year when we know how much we could have spent

• Timing

o   Monday

o   Dark & Cold

o   Weather

o   Homecoming Timing

o   They want to make it a Homecoming Event

• Monday is the last day of Homecoming

o   Sponsors may back out if moved to next semester/year

• This event could be moved to the Spring

o   The event could be an end of the year bringing the community together

o   Murphy: “I think it would be much more successful in the Spring”

• Purpose would be better served in Early Fall

 

 

• Budgets can be kept open

• More risky this year than last year
• This can be so much more if we wait
• If you’re trying to bring varied groups in, does it make sense to put that much money into music that a lot of groups wouldn’t necessarily like.
• Lots of Sponsors:

o   Breakwater is paying 1k for T-Shirts

o   Hurley $200 paying for the banner

o   Anarchy, Orange Leaf, Jeep

• Voting on $11,000 2-2-0 Chair counts as 2 in a tie, Denied
• You can ask to get a 5 senator bill put on into the floor.
• 30 minutes to go write a bill and get 5 senators to sponsor
• ¾ vote

 

 

GSA – Halloween

 

• Uhuru Sasa is working it this year
• Provides experience and manpower
• Everyone loves a free party
• This year it’s about Halloween
• The party last spring was avoided because of the LGBTQ focus
• Lights being donated
• Passed: 4-0-1

 

Muslim Student Association – Eid Festival

• Food
• Talked to Anne Gregson to waive concerns for outside catering
• Anyone can come
• Food – buffet Style
• Quote for the Food: $1440
• “Not so convinced about the chicken wings and pizza”

o   More ethnic food would be better

• We don’t usually fund food unless it’s part of the event

o   Eid part 1 – end of fasting

o   Eid part 2 – Charity and community – like Christmas

• Henna Tattoos: $300
• Artist is already confirmed
• Education about Muslim culture
• No Contingency Grant form filled so we can’t vote

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 6:10pm