MEETING START TIME: 6 PM
ATTENDANCE:
Committee: Anderson, Buck, Boutmy, Donnelly, Garcia, Inkley, King, Kraft, Montecalvo, Stikeman
Absent: Araújo
Non-Committee: Bailey
COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:
- Finance Chairman Buck
- Finance Handbook revisions
- Emailed all exec to take a look at changes
- Fencing Club
- Two purchases that they made two years ago and the company did not receive the money
- Fencing paying for one of the bills for $500
- Looking to senate to pay the other $1500 bill out of contingency
- Academic Chairwoman Garcia
- Had a conversation with Faculty Senate about procedure with students’ academic complaints-
- Maybe not add to syllabus but add a memo mid-way through the semester (students usually have more academic complaints towards midterms)
- Idea of sending out a URI Communications blurb with edited language
- Want to work with Sabrina on PR campaign about academic affairs
- Student Employment
- Holding off for a little while, letting Cody primarily take over
- Would love to see GSA involvement with Student Senate
- Looking into best practices
- Library
- Don’t have a library liaison as of now, so can’t start a conversation with them about hours yet
- President Anderson
- Ryan Center Project
- Meetings in Green Hall
- Chris Daigle wants Student Activity Tax raised
- Trying to simply reduce cost for ice time so more funds can be allocated to other items for CSIC
- Met with Kathy Collins and Dave Lavellee about article in “The Independent”
- DOC Araújo
- Recruitment video went out today!
- Received an email from a reporter from the Good 5 Cent Cigar about how Senate is being audited
- Senate is not being audited, we conduct a self-audit at the end of each academic year to make sure we retain non-profit status
- Thinking about possibly live streaming Public Forum during General Senate meetings
- Occasionally do a state-of-the-union like address from the President of Student Senate
- Vice President Montecalvo
- Working on recruitment for elections
- Working on scheduling one-on-one meetings with senators soon
- Recruitment video as well as URI Communications email went out today to work on recruitment
- CIO Inkley
- Working on Bylaws Quiz, going out soon
- Talking to Andy about using Google Forms to administer quiz
- Alumni outreach
- Secretary business
- Working on Bylaws Quiz, going out soon
- Treasurer Stikeman
- Bill concerning Greek Leaders SOLC retreat
- General discussion about finance handbook
- Suggestions made by Chairwoman King about overnight retreats
- External Chairman Donnelly
- Events for this upcoming year
- Hunting Grounds
- Bringing sexual assault awareness to campus
- Possible campus wide video event
- Food Drive
- Looking to partner up with Rhody Outpost
- Rhody Outpost looking to move into the Union soon
- Campus Chairwoman Boutmy
- Three more complaints this week
- Garbage Trucks
- Public Safety
- Blue Light going out during campus blackout is not safe
- Cultural Chairwoman Kraft
- Pumpkins for programming are no longer free
- Possible $500 budget for paint/pumpkins
- SOARC Chairwoman King
- URI Club Soccer
- Looking to get recognized
- Chairs looking to do a Senate office hour in the MSSC biweekly
- Changing the office setting
- General Discussion
- Recruitment
- Senators need to do their elections booth!!
- Purchas Req approved for Dels
- Mike Steiner has been in contact with someone in the office of the Secretary of State
- Physical Polling booths
- ID Scanners
- Possibility for elections
- Snapchat Geofilter
- Draw more attention to elections
- 10-3 on the first day of elections
- Recruitment
- URI Club Soccer
- Pumpkins for programming are no longer free
- Three more complaints this week
- Ryan Center Project
- Had a conversation with Faculty Senate about procedure with students’ academic complaints-
- Two purchases that they made two years ago and the company did not receive the money
- Finance Handbook revisions
MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 7:39PM