MEETING START TIME:
7:05
ATTENDANCE:
Stuart, Kilduff, Rode, Solomon, Lanoie, Cicero, Sit
-FINANCE CHAIR:
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-STUDENT ORGANIZATION ADVISORY AND REVIEW COMMITTEE (SOARC) CHAIR
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-ACADEMIC AFFAIRS CHAIR
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-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS CHAIR
Lanoie: I just had an introduction today because it was the first meeting. My committee is pretty friendly. The housing fair changed from the 23 to the 30th. I’m going to try to get a table. I met with one of the realtors who want to work with me to inform students of their rights like knowing who lived in their house before them and if they got their security deposit back. I’m also think of a “rate my realtor” type thing for off campus housing.
-CULTURAL AFFAIRS CHAIR
Solomon: Gabby Goldstein is our new liaison for LGBTQ. I’m working on spirit of giving and I want people signing up for booths for Saturday. The booth is 9-1.
Rode: We need to light the area for the new LGBTQ area at the top of campus
Solomon: Ace of Cakes will be December 4
Kilduff: Last year we had a cap for the amount of people, right?
Solomon: We did
Cicero: Last year we opened it to anyone
Solomon: we’re doing 40 this year in the ballroom. We’ll start advertising and registration in November.
Sit: Can we have bigger teams?
Cicero: I feel like if you’re in the ballroom it can be bigger
Solomon: I still want it to be free this year and I’m thinking 4-8 people in a team. Once homecoming is done we’re really going to dive into this. What do you think about doing the Rhammy’s? I don’t have experience with that, so I don’t know if it’s worth it.
Cicero: We have to find a way that isn’t so big scale.
Kilduff: I’m fine with an end of the year wrap up at the President’s meeting.
Cicero: I think if you water it down it’ll be good.
Rode: Our students don’t like living on campus and this isn’t a one year thing, it’s a 1, 3, 5 thing and it’s a cultural change that is going to take time.
Kilduff: What we have to try to do is sell living on campus. But that is very difficult to do because people can live on the beach for cheaper.
Sit: We do have a marketing problem on campus and what Amanda and I want to do is work on it.
Kilduff: I just really don’t want to waste money this year.
Sit: We can try really hard to work on that, though.
-CAMPUS AFFAIRS CHAIR
Rode: I know in the past you said Paul doesn’t need to come to meetings but it could be nice to have him here occasionally because I have some stuff for him sometimes.
Sit: I’d like to have him here too. I’d also like to have a 1 year, 3 year, and 5 year plan.
Rode: I’d like to see that too, maybe sometime in November. I’ll start brainstorming.
Kilduff: The report format is something that we’ve always been doing but if we want to change it to more of a committee, maybe that’s something we should look into.
Sit: This is also so committees can work together and there are some projects that belong in the middle of committees.
Kilduff: Things like the carnival can be divided up between a few committees.
Rode: The safety and lighting walk went great. I had 33 people go. I’m drafting up the final report for it. There are a lot more problems than I expected.
Kilduff: Is there anything that you really want to get fixed that needs to be that we can do?
Rode: No because I know the things that need to be fixed will be fixed. We also want to work on display boxes on campus for advertising to any students. On the safety and lighting walk I talked to Vice-President Dugan and I can use the List Serve for the campus for the Survey Monkey for arming campus police. We need at least 1300 students. My other thing is I want to set up booths so students can do it there too.
Kilduff: At the presidents meeting talk about it and I want to have every URI 101 student do it. We’ll vote on whatever the survey ends up saying.
Rode: The survey isn’t done because we don’t want students voting more than once and we don’t want staff voting but I want it done by Friday so we can get it out by Monday. I just don’t want faculty input with student input. I’m also going to put on a bill on the floor for the renovations of the union. That’ll be an easy opinion bill.
-EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
a. Chief Information Officer
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b. Director of Communications
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c. Director of Marketing & Recruitment
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d. Secretary
Stuart: Senate soirée and formal.
Kempler: We’re trying to get a bus for formal.
Kilduff: Everyone on SAA goes to formal
Kempler: I want to do it at ABC. I need to know how much money I can do and that’ll make it easier.
Cicero: I’ll be looking into that within the next couple weeks.
e. Treasurer
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f. Vice President
Cicero: My only report is getting the scholarship ready to go, and apply if you can.
g. President
Kilduff: I’ve got a lot of interesting rights and responsibilities this year so that’ll be difficult to go through. I sat with Mary Jo last week and she’s new so students will have a lot more say in what goes on because she wants me to be the new co-chair in running the meetings because she
doesn’t know how. I need ideas. Polling the students is an interesting thing and I don’t know if it’s worth doing a booth.
Rode: I don’t think we need booth hours, personally, we can just have Paul and Sydney work on it and we just need to publicize it really well.
Kilduff: This committee for the student handbook is all about rational meeting. Proposing things like wet campus is difficult. I’ll tell the general members that they are going to email me as to reasons why they want to join. I think that’s fair and I’m debating as to whether or not I want to do the freshman, sophomore, junior, senior thing. I have a fear that if we put one person on that will be around in two years and they drop it’ll be difficult. Maybe I can get a shadow. I can have 4 on it, and Kyle and I are already on it.
MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:
8:30