Attendance: Boutmy, Cicero, Hetland, Kilduff, Maynard, Rode, Sit, Solomon, Yip, Uy, Zawatsky

6:34

 

Vice President Report

• Senate Exec Retreat

o   On a Sunday

• Work on the Drop-box idea

o   CIO and DOM

 

President’s Report (read by Hetland)

• Exec needs to confirm office hours
• Committees, please confirm information: members, meeting time, etc
• DOM: Kim needs a photo for the bio
• Promote the Scholarship
• Co-sponsorship idea

o   Increase football game viewers

• For the next 4 home football games, whatever student group brings the most amount of people to the game will get $500 from URI Foundation, $500 in Senate Co-sponsorship, and $500 from Athletics

• By-Laws committee

o   Need 2 new members

• One new Senate member and one current

 

 

SOARC Report

• By the end of October Bruce will have recognized all the academic clubs on campus.
• Next Wednesday a By-Laws Bill will be introduced to get rid of the recommendation from SOARC for Funded/Unfunded.

o   In the By-Laws, it will state that SOARC will recognize a group as Funded/Unfunded etc

o   Changed the wording on it: the words “full budget”, “contingency” and “budget line” were removed and that is all that was done

o   Wrote an updated version of the bill because the old one was not approved by Sam.

• Said it was unclear of what’s qualified as Funded/Unfunded
  • Didn’t understand the distinction between what’s Funded/Unfunded and what it takes to be recognized as a particular sector

o   Will meet with Sam or email him before Thursday to make sure the new version is acceptable

o   The final bill needs to be done and on the floor before Re-rec

• If it’s good we can vote in on, and if still needs work we can vote it down

 

External

• Forum is Wednesday, 5-7 so send questions if you have them

o   Will be taped and can send it out to news media if we want

o   Attendance looks promising; may have a booked auditorium

 

DOC:

• DOM I need the posters
• Got a lot of re-tweets yesterday for Elections
• I have a list of things already for the October Newsletter
• Plan on updating the board once new senators are voted in

 

 

Academic:

• Meeting with various people regarding complaints, etc
• Question 4

o   Want a considerate effort on Senate’s behalf to campaign for this

o   Need to educate Senate about what this vote actually means

o   Encourage students to go to polls and vote

o   Doesn’t feel Academic should or can tackle this on their own so need Exec to work together

o   Ideas for Campaigning:

• Can reach out to engineering fraternities
• Do an Opinion Bill
• Contact Kyle Weinreich who is working for one of the two people running for governor
• Team up with Friends for Question 4, others, or campaign on our own

 

DOM

• Everything people requested is all done
• Working on a project for External

Campus Report

• Sent out emails about Safety and Lighting and I have only heard from a couple of people
• Met with Zipcar today
• Meeting with Dining Services and Facilities because the facilities have been slacking and to touch base on Butterfield
• Waiting on campus architect regarding biking situation
• Need to deal with Butterfield Thanksgiving Situation

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Finance Report

• Went over with Bruce and it seems all the sports and fitness clubs will have to book space off of campus

o   Wrestling has a $3000 bill coming up

o   Fitness club and MMA will most likely have bills following

o   Will end up being a lot of money

o   Hetland will appeal to NCAA Advisory Board

• SOLC

o   Don’t know what’s going to happen as SOLC grows because as of last year they spend $5000 for each of their trainings

• Only group that has two overnights per year

o   Want to split SOLC outside of the Senate Accounts to avoid spending marketing dollars for retreats

• Changes this will make: Will no longer need to get a signature from Treasurer, Finance Chair and President
  • This means they can process their own paperwork on time
• Will take time for Accounts to move this over but once down it will be set forever
• This spring when they did budgeting for our line they didn’t come to us at all so the Treasurer had to think about how much SOLC spends
  • No need for these inconsistencies

o   Possibly connect SOLC training to the leadership class offered for leadership majors/minors

• Don’t fund academic organizations
  • Don’t do this because a lot of times groups will use the money for academic classes, which could instead be funded by the academic college

o   Most likely will be something SOARC deals with instead of Finance

• Request from CVSA

o   5k for Soles

• Money raised is by the number of miles walked
• Free to do the 5k, money is made based on miles walked

o   Just need to provide funds for the tracking

o   Need to have the entire workings of a 5k figured out

• See Sheri

• Want Senate to increase the basic resources we can provide to student groups

o   Easels, boards, etc

o   Currently all we provide is a camera

• Electronics from Groups

o   Musicians Guild and EMA are going to apply together for a computer

o   Cigar has a lot of equipment they want to dispose of

• Will develop a protocol for how to get rid of it

o   This also means these groups will be asking us for new computers

• Yearbook and Cigar need new technology; current computers don’t work efficiently and need the custom equipment
  • Yearbook currently has no members though so this issue needs to be resolved
  • Need to complete the yearbook for this year; students already paid

o   Once taken care of, decide what to do with the Yearbook Club

• Yip plans on tackling this issue/taking over

 

 

Treasurer Report

• Stipends are in

 

CIO

• Fixed the reports
• Will work on electronic posting of the Senate scholarship
• Bios of Senate members

o Plan on plugging in a 2-3 sentence bio for every Senate member on the website under each committee

o Basic information of where each member is from, major, Senate position, etc

• Ventful

o Will be an intermediary between Ventful and whatever they need