MEETING START TIME: 4:05 pm
ATTENDANCE: Nowinowski, Murphy, Sit, Stewart, Weinreich
COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:
Gay Straight Alliance
o National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2012
o Halloween Dance Party is October 26th
- Space and Time is already booked
- ii.Working with Uhuru SASA and LASA
- iii.Less expensive than the Break the Silence Dance since payment will mostly be for the DJ and fewer decorations.
Student Organizations Leadership Consultants
o No longer a student senate recognized group
- Not a budget but they still get money through us with an administration budget line item
o Budgeted $1200 per year
- They also get money for the Leadership Center
- W: treated as a campus service like Readership Program
o No formal agreement on payment
- ii.Petty Cash
o They wanted reimbursement for some snacks that provide at retreats
- Stewart: do they get some money from the groups, nope.
- Senate didn’t get money for their retreat
- iii.Should we only fund them for retreats with Student Senate recognized groups?
o W: the retreats are quite inexpensive, for example the senate one cost no money
o Incentives to being a senate recognized groups is getting free retreats
o The IEP house and International House should be contributing money into the funds for the retreat
- iv.Questions to SOLC:
o How many retreats have been done with non-senate recognized groups?
- W: If not too many, then give them the $15 dollars.
5 Cent Cigar
- Questions:
- What are the plans for the year?
- Debt Collection plans
o M: If you have that contract, you are owed that money.
o Stewart: Do you think they will collect $25k?
- What are your goals?
- How are the Staff paid?
o Paid staff needs to do 2 stories a week.
- If they do less than 2 a week, they will get cut.
- Writers are $75/month for 2/week
o Editors get paid $25 a night
o Production managers are $25 a night
o Susan gets paid $46k for compositing the paper
- Difficult since she’s got a contract
- How are the Staff evaluated?
o Copy editors check the articles, if there are no quotes or anything, then it will not be published.
o The quality & quantity will not be rewarded
- How will you enhance readership and remain relevant?
o With fewer publishing days, the quality can improve
- How will you improve the newspaper quality?
o Keep the quality the same or better even though moving to 3 days
- What will be done to streamline the business?
- Trial to reduce the run dates to 3 days instead of 4 days a week.
o T-W-Th
o W: when the production for less days, the revenue will be less
- S: it won’t really change the revenue much since advertisers are still buying at a budget
o Evaluate by
- Checking the number of copies taken
- Ad revenue
- Cut Costs
o Count the number of unread papers
o Work with the publisher to print less copies
o Budget
- Provided 22,000 for stipends and $4,000 in production
- iBeing in the red $25 thousand by the end of last fiscal year
o We want to see you improve and be a good group.
o If we completely wipe out the debt, then there’s no incentive to improve
o Steve Boytow two years back reduced the stipend money in hopes that the ad revenue would replace the stipends
o Staff weren’t involved in the last year
- No idea what happened to the budget and the business.
- iPeople were calling and asking about unpaid stipends
o Schedule a meeting for the end of the semester to evaluate.
o Committee Agrees to roll over debt to this year. 4-1-0
Meeting for the week of Columbus Day?
o Stewart: I have like no time.
o We’re completely fine with moving to another time in the week.
o Wednesday at 5:30pm
- Bills that pass will need to be additions to the agenda since it’s after the agenda deadline.
- ii.If no groups show up by noon on Wednesday, the meeting will be cancelled
High Fives for Habitat for Humanity
o Trying to break the world record for high fives to a mascot
o Fundraiser is completely separate
- The high fives from mascot is for raising awareness
o Most of the money was raised to sponsor Guinness to come by
- More work and verification
o Need the money for run off tags to verify the number of people going through the line
About $0.48 per tag
o ATR Treehouse
- Keeney Gym – let use by the basketball coach
- Filming the event and gaining recognition.
o We need to get quotes for prices – Bring it in before tonight’s presidents’ meeting
- Committee of 3 will vote at the president’s meeting
o Originally going to get money through Habitat to get co-sponsorship money from senate but was denied
o Committee feels good about it 4-0-1
MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 5:00 pm