October 9, 2014<\/p>\n
Attendance: Boutmy, Brommell, Cicero, Hetland, Maynard, Rode, Sit, Solomon, Uy, Yip, Zawatsky<\/p>\n
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6:04<\/p>\n
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SOARC:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Re-rec is tonight<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 13 groups didn\u2019t do it<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Sankofa<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Surf Club<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 We isolated their keys since they will be de-recognized<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Yearbook will not be recognized as a group but a decision on them will be made in a month<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 They are working on recruitment<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Anthropology and Classics will be forming a new club together<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Will merge their funds<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Have to give groups two weeks to repeal their funding status<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Groups will find out their status tomorrow<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Some groups will not be on the bill if they are repealing<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Bill will be on floor next week<\/p>\n
–\u00a0 Vote for re-rec will be on 22nd<\/sup><\/p>\n –\u00a0 Also want to put out an Opinion Bill acknowledging that Bruce can recognize Academic groups on campus and we support it<\/p>\n –\u00a0 All groups must be recognized for liability reasons<\/p>\n –\u00a0 These groups can choose to become Student Senate recognized if they want to<\/p>\n –\u00a0 SAA is unhappy…<\/p>\n –\u00a0 … because they now have to start registering events through SEA instead of the Alumni Center<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Powerlifting<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Needs an instructor for lifting<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Administration wants someone certified to be at their meetings<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Waiting on Safety and Risk<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Will table bill for uniforms until we hear back from Safety and Risk<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n External<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Talked to Econ professor today<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Would like to have one of the professors (pay him) to do a head count of the Narragansett economy<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Would pay $400-$1000 pending who we get<\/p>\n –\u00a0 We want him to study how we impact the economy and what the effect of us boycotting the town would be<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Student Life cannot help directly<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Head of town council is running for State Governor<\/p>\n –\u00a0 District 35 (SK and Narragansett)<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Ran unopposed in Primary as Democrat<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Idea to back the Republican candidate<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Want to show that we have power because they see us as irrelevant<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Still waiting on video from Forum<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Sam wants to sue the town<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Boycott:<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Need to figure out how to make it happen<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Need to make it as easy as possible for students<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Split up and appeal to student orgs<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Want to get consensus from students after doing the research<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Want to make deals with Wakefield businesses to make this easier<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Want to do enough of a boycott to create a noticeable profit decrease<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Work with MUSIC and have them reach out to students<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Arrests have gone down<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Police need 30 arrests\/week to pay for police they have<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DOM:<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Working on scholarship poster<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Yip has designs for it already<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n VP<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Working on Mentor\/Mentees this week<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Academic<\/p>\n –\u00a0 No report<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President:<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Him and Sit are now members of the Equity Council<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Will attend Board of Directors Meetings for rest of year<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Working with SAA to promote Vote Yes on Question 4<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Michelle Ferrara for By-Laws (Approved)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Treasurer:<\/p>\n – No report<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Campus:<\/p>\n -Met with Facilities<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Thinking about making a group of Baker, Campus Committee, Dining, etc to discuss issues on campus<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Looking into getting bike racks<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Noise issue still a problem<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finance:<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Bill on the Floor to choose the new Finance Chance will be on the 22nd<\/sup><\/p>\n –\u00a0 Nominations would start the 29th<\/sup><\/p>\n –\u00a0 Voting will take place on November 5th<\/sup><\/p>\n –\u00a0 Then Brian will resign<\/p>\n –\u00a0 MSA needs money for food event (post Ramadan feast)<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Event is on 24th<\/sup><\/p>\n –\u00a0 Need immediate consideration<\/p>\n –\u00a0 A lot of people go; not necessarily a lot of students<\/p>\n –\u00a0 If we were to fund them half, they would need a loan from us<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Will most likely ask for $1000-2000<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Same problem occurred last year<\/p>\n –\u00a0 If we fund them through Contingency and they charge people, they will owe us that money to pay off the grant<\/p>\n –\u00a0 If we deny them the grant, they will have two days to procur funds<\/p>\n –\u00a0 The Cigar computer grant<\/p>\n –\u00a0 The sheets were filled as two separate grants; now combined into one.<\/p>\n –\u00a0 There\u2019s a $20 difference between the amount in the bill and what was requested so that will be fixed<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Last year they said they weren\u2019t using Media Mate (a national advertising group)<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Now they want to do it, but they aren\u2019t budgeted for it so they will be asking for money<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Sign Language<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Will be approaching Finance for an event<\/p>\n –\u00a0 $300-$400<\/p>\n –\u00a0 Turns out they are doing this for WOWW<\/p>\n –\u00a0 This is actually WOWW\u2019s event so they are getting more money through Sign Language<\/p>\n –\u00a0 They were denied full amount by Dan Graney<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DOC:<\/p>\n – No report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 9, 2014 Attendance: Boutmy, Brommell, Cicero, Hetland, Maynard, Rode, Sit, Solomon, Uy, Yip, Zawatsky 6:04 SOARC: –\u00a0 Re-rec is tonight –\u00a0 13 groups didn\u2019t do it –\u00a0 Sankofa –\u00a0 Surf Club –\u00a0 We isolated their keys since they will be de-recognized –\u00a0 Yearbook will not be recognized as a group but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-affairs-minutes","category-executive-2014","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}