Attendance: Brommell, Boutmy, Cicero, Frennette, Hetland, Kilduff, Rode, Sim, Sit, Solomon, Uy, Weinreich, Yip, Zawatsky
\n5:00<\/p>\n
Vice President Report
\n\u2022 Barbeque
\no $40 raised for senate barbeque
\no Date: May 30th
\n\u2022 Committees for next year
\no All set for new senator but certain people have requested new senators. Let Hetland know now if you want someone
\n\u2022 Can new board do Tuesday meetings?
\no Better outcomes that way
\n\u2022 Welcome Day Orientation:
\no New requirement to set up the day before from 4-5
\nPresident\u2019s Report (read by Hetland)
\n\u2022 Working on forming Elections and Stipends Committee
\no The process of stipending needs to be clarified
\n\u2022 Next exec meeting have tangible goals you want to achieve for next year
\n\u2022 3 bills going on floor next week<\/p>\n
SOARC Report
\n\u2022 Had meeting with MCC, Bruce, etc and they discussed problems groups have about the way Senate has been operating
\no Concerns about recognition, funding, and dealing with student groups
\no Ideas:
\n1 page update about how to fund groups\uf020
\nExpand SOARC website\uf020
\n\u2022 Should a detail rubric be created for how to recognize and fund groups? Groups want tangible standards\/rubric
\no Maybe a By-laws change
\nExamination of missions and actions and put them into a tangible form\uf020
\no Create two rubrics
\nExternal one: explanation of funding, etc\uf020
\nInternal one: \u201cguidelines\u201d for the future\uf020
\n\u2022 MUSIC recognition is coming up and they are looking for funding
\no Would be recognized as Affiliate because of selectivity-must be a multicultural group or \u201csocial change\u201d group
\no MUSIC-leaders of various multicultural organizations that are working together to help better the growth\/functioning of their organizations
\nPromote events\uf020
\n4 Committees: Events and Programming, CPR-Communication and Public Relations, Assessing Student Organizational Needs, and Finance-sole purpose of helping organizations find funding for their events; have a $5000 grant from CED\uf020
\nFinance chair could hurt or help-can help clarify recognition process…\uf020
\no Contingently approve for stipends?
\no Would need to change mission statement and focus if they want stipends
\nLeave to stipend committee\uf020
\n\u2022 Someone from Finance and SOARC should be on committee
\no Want policies on financing
\n\u2022 Next week is last chance to submit any request for recognition (informally the 14th)
\nExternal
\n\u2022 Need members for committee!!
\n\u2022 New time will be made
\n\u2022 Going to talk to committee about plans for the upcoming year
\no Magnet
\no Try something more beneficial to community than Carnival-better for Campus\/Cultural<\/p>\n
DOC:
\n\u2022 Want to reorganize the website\/change structure; not clear enough
\n\u2022 Exam rights:
\no Tweet them out maybe every other day talking about rights,etc
\n\u2022 Looking at old newsletters and want to go back to old way or try new way
\no Copy Brown and do \u201cMorning Mail\u201d
\nCIO Report
\n\u2022 Want to reorganize the website\/change structure; not clear enough
\n\u2022 Idea of making CIO someone who has full IT responsibilities-full access to website and ability to handle all issues
\n\u2022 Create a visual in the office that introduces the main faculty of Senate\/Union
\n\u2022 Create a masterlist of liaisons so people know what positions exist and how to contact these people-basically solidify liaisons positions to make transitioning easier
\n\u2022 Create a By-Laws\/Robert\u2019s Rules quiz
\no Have 2 tries
\no Open notes
\no More of making sure they understand it rather than have it memorized
\no 20 questions
\nAcademic:
\n\u2022 Liaisons all have new emails
\n\u2022 Working on a new template for liaison reports
\n\u2022 Final Exam Rights: working with DOM to laminate and really publicize the key points
\no Academic will handle distribution
\n\u2022 Academic Complaint
\no Heard back from professor, but vaguely, so still working on it
\nCultural Report
\n\u2022 Ted Talks in the work
\n\u2022 Hasbro Event-Danceathon
\no Food, dancing,
\n\u2022 Fall Freshman event-
\no Teaming with Campus to do a food (taste of RI-Dels, Piggy\u2019s, etc), laser tag
\n\u2022 More programming for weekends\/weeknights
\nTreasurer Report
\n\u2022 SOLC has an issue with not having the same numbers as the Accounting Office
\no Paperwork is probably incorrect\/has not been updated
\nDOM
\n\u2022 Incoming freshman information folder was received
\no Need to work on it
\n\u2022 Will work on Exam Rights
\n\u2022 Block Party
\no April 23rd, 11-3
\no Rain Date 24th
\no Sign ups: 11-3 so need 3 people per slot
\nCampus Report
\n\u2022 Work with Finance and offer a \u201ccourse\u201d to the multicultural groups on how financing works
\n\u2022 Dorm Tour-online tour that allows you to view the different dorms
\no Helps with packing and knowing what dorms to pick in the future
\n\u2022 Dorm rights-put into folder
\n\u2022 Many groups want to cosponsor 5k\u2019s
\no Senate 5k?
\nFinance Report
\n\u2022 Groups come to me asking SOARC type questions
\no Trying to redirect this power to SOARC-give SOARC more recognition
\n\u2022 Need to work on stipending w\/ SOARC
\n\u2022 Hempfest coming up
\n\u2022 IFC\/Panel
\no Two positions were cut: Service and Involvement and Executive VP
\no Everything that passed through SOARC passed through us so there\u2019s no problems
\n\u2022 Handbook:
\no Something will be on the floor in the next couple of weeks
\no Will contain all of our policies on what can be enforced and contains pertinent information for groups
\no Work on stipending for groups like Cigar
\nMoney has to be raised by them to provide stipends\uf020
\no Each position will be talked about on the floor
\n\u2022 Review of Budgeting Report
\no Don\u2019t itemize everything for the sake of time
\nStick to the difficult ones\uf020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Attendance: Brommell, Boutmy, Cicero, Frennette, Hetland, Kilduff, Rode, Sim, Sit, Solomon, Uy, Weinreich, Yip, Zawatsky 5:00 Vice President Report \u2022 Barbeque o $40 raised for senate barbeque o Date: May 30th \u2022 Committees for next year o All set for new senator but certain people have requested new senators. Let Hetland know now if you […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","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=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}