MEETING START TIME: 4:01pm

ATTENDANCE: Stewart, Weinreich, Sit, Nowinowski (Murphy was late 4:06pm)

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

 

Club Instruction Fees

 

• Stewart- Only 5 clubs are budgeted for instruction
• Senate wants a fair and equal precedent across the board
• Ballroom – $3000
• Only 12 people though
• Scuba Club – coming to request money for instruction (3750)
• Stewart – if it’s budgeted, don’t need to reapply to get the funds

o   Go through a purchase req. and payment order to get access to the money

• Email sent earlier – sent about half an hour ago

o   Stewart – email sent about a new

• $500 for instruction for entrance course = open water

o   Student members pay $250 = 50%

o   15 ppl in the current class

• 12 in the pool
• 3 in a separate class with the instructor (couldn’t make Tuesday nights) ~ express class

o   Most expensive of the courses

• There are advanced classes too but members have to pay full rates since it’s quite reasonable.

o   Advanced classes are cheaper than the entrance course

• Stewart – very glad they came got all the information we needed

o   Lorrie was worried since Scuba had an event coming up soon.

 

 

Inventory Tech

 

• Was in the office this week

 

 

Good 5 Cent Cigar

 

• Deficit of $24,000 dollars as of last year
• Last year, they only had $9,000 for stipend

o   Under Holzman, they now have $20,000 for stipends

• They have required positions

o   Business Manager

• They don’t collect debts for advertisers

o   Lorrie showed a big log of uncollected bills

o   Cigar has not been good with collecting debts

• Last year they had a good accountant but still down $24,000
• We give them $90,000 every year
• Business Plan

• Get the Newspaper to audit their accounts and see what they can collect

o   Weinreich – We should run it as a business not as a bailout happy bank

• Let’s hear from them before we make a decision.
• Stewart – Ideally they should have incentive to get a good business going

 

 

Handbook

 

• We don’t need to go over it since the bill already went out to the floor
• Weinreich – wondered if anyone came up to pose questions

o   Stewart – nope nothing

• Equipment for a presentation to Senate
• Need the cords to connect the computer to the projector

o   Weinreich, Sit, Murphy – We’ll bring laptops and HDMI cords.

o   It will happen – there’s enough tech knowledge here to get it done.

 

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 4:18 pm