MEETING START TIME:  3:00 PM

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Sam King, Eric Wang, Ana Duque, Laura Creese, Jen Scotti, Luis Gonzales, Nina Succi, Regina Sarpong

Absent: Janay Lewis

Non-Committee: Ryan Buck

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

• Planning Meeting times
  • Go to online form to put in your available times
• President’s meeting tonight
  • Check in at 6:45 pm
  • Starts at 7 pm
• Stipend Review
  • New stipend legislation passed last semester requires SOARC to conduct review of all stipended positions
  • All stipend positions must come with a portfolio of their work and a copy of their bylaws
  • Draft the process by the end of the week and notify the relevant people.
  • May need to schedule special meetings to accommodate the people coming for review.
  • Ensure that the group meets the senate requirements to be stipended
  • Then examine the position on a case by case basis to judge if the position is indispensible to the university.
  • Prepare guidelines for what qualifies as a stipended positions next week
  • Possibly have secret ballot when considering Student Senate stipended positions
  • SOARC only determines whether the position qualifies for funding.  Finance committee determines the amount.
• Liaisons to groups
  • Prepare mission statement binder for senate useage
  • Try to get it started by the end of the semester

• Extra
  • Include anything else (i.e. next meeting time if different than usual meeting time, future ideas, future goals, etc.)

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:  3:22