MEETING START TIME: 5:00
ATTENDANCE:
Committee Members: Montecalvo, Oliver, Stikeman, Boutmy, Stuart, Rode, Glass, Ferrara, King, Hetland, Serenosiniscalcha, Patterson
Absent Committee Members: Anderson
Non-Committee Members:-
COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:
President
• Have anything for the exec committee agenda sent to Amanda by Monday night so she can add them
• We need to work with liaisons more
• Get the senate name out to campus
• Things I have been Up to:
• JCAP: Student Summit is Wednesday April 22 Atrium 1 3:30-5:
• We need at least 40-50 people there
• Push students to come to the Summit
• Topics are research, equity and diversity, globalization, and improvements in learning
• Try to get students to come
• The academic summit is setting the goals for the university for the next 5 years
• Alumni Association Executive Board meeting Wednesday
• Working on establishing a Security Policy
• Working on a Stipend Bill
• Advisor: we need to select one, we can choose the person and for how long
• Give the new advisor a grace period to get used to the position
• We need somebody who is an advisor and protector—an administrator who is looking out for us
• Fundamentally understands how senate operates
• Goal: be a protector for senate for the upcoming year—increase student voice on campus—reach out to students before committee meetings—more open conversations with students on campus—a ton of liaison positions that we didn’t know about
VP
• Paper for senate office behavior—what you can do in the senate office for senate
• Welcome booth this Saturday from 9-2—sheet for the senate meeting
• Sent an email to all committee heads to hold people accountable for meetings
Finance
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SOARC
• A lot of groups that had frozen budgets are not unfrozen
• President’s meeting April 6th happened
• Who is a group and who isn’t?—de-recognition might be happening
• Nomination for vice-chair: Eric Wang—11-0-0
Treasurer
• Banner with money from programming
• A lot of co-sponsorship money—help with lobster bake on the quad
• Money from advertising to recruitment
Academic
• Goal: Help senators realize what academic does
• Working on student summit—recruiting
• Working with liaisons
• Bill from Rhode Island Legislature
• Nomination for vice-chair: Katie Bryan—11-0-0
External
• Goal: increase student knowledge on Rhode Island legislation and get absentee ballots ready for the fall
• Working on Magnets April 8th 2015 (final design so it’s ready for fall)
• Having a commuter event in the fall
• Working on the new legislation
Campus
• Goal: Make campus a “doing” committee—golf carts for safety walk—more capital improvements to benefit the campus
• Committee walking tour of campus
• Supporting APO in a campus clean up
• Quote about pillars–$681—what should we do about this?—it needs to be moved back off the road—we will try to put through a contingency bill for this—feeling thermometer 11-0-0
• Nomination for vice-chair: James Cucozza—11-0-0
Cultural
• Goal: more programming—each month around a different issue and have a program around that issue
• SASA—fashion show—they’re still figuring out money—co-sponsorship—went to finance April 6th—even if we’re not co-sponsoring it financially, we are with people—event is April 25th—help with tickets: $7 for URI students, $10 non-URI
• Lobster Bake
• MUSIC is putting on an event (One Love) this weekend—co-sponsorship?
• Updated multi-cultural events posted in senate office
CIO
• Send anything you have to Sarah
• Updating the Bill-log
DOC
• Send Amanda a little bit about who you are and how you can help organizations
• Instagram cut-out
• Any Rhody-Paws
• “Meet your student senator” videos/pictures
• Important to let student organizations what we can do for them and how we can help them
DOMR
• Give ideas to Jordan
Secretary
• Eric Wang—SOARC
• Katie Bryan—Academic
• Emma VanLoon—Cultural
• James Cocozza—Campus
• Waiting—External
• Waiting—Finance
Project—Stipend Bill
BILL SS-15/16-XX-BILL CALLING FOR AN AMMENDMENT TO THE STUDENT SENATE BYLAWS IN RELATION TO STIPENDS
• Talked about corrections and changes*
• Important: elected in accordance with Student Senate standards, within a student organization recognized by Student Senate as a Funded Organization non-affiliate, that provides a free or unique service not currently provided by the University
• Elected to student senate standards
• “has existed for three semesters”—amendment made: 11-0-0
• For the 2015-2016 fiscal year
• Groups should be non-affiliates because anybody should be able to benefit
• Bill committee recommendation 11-0-0
General Discussion
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MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME:
6:37
Rode, King, Montecalvo, Glass, Patterson, Stuart, Boutmy, Ferrara, Oliver, Hetland, Stikeman