{"id":3214,"date":"2014-11-21T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:22:19","slug":"executive-4-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/executive-4-17-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive 4-17-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEETING START TIME: <\/strong>5:06<\/p>\n

Attendance: Boutmy, Cicero, Garcia, Hetland, Kilduff, Maynard, Patterson, Rode, Sit, Solomon, Weinreich, Uy, Yip, Zawatsky<\/p>\n

Special Guest: Bruce Hamilton<\/p>\n

Bruce<\/p>\n

\u2022 Voted on tax portions<\/p>\n

\u2022 One is complete: climbing wall facility<\/p>\n

\u2022 Issue with company called Project Venture:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Background:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Contract signed back in February 2014 for the Union<\/p>\n

\u2022 Money set aside for the climbing wall<\/p>\n

\u2022 $175,000 was set aside and $172,000 was used<\/p>\n

\u2022 When their workers are interacting with the state search company, issue of prevailing wage came up<\/p>\n

\u2022 Prevailing wage: if you don\u2019t use union labor you are required to pay an hourly wage<\/p>\n

\u2022 The guys working for Project Venture found out the state workers were getting paid prevailing wage and contacted Bruce<\/p>\n

\u2022 State of RI requires prevailing wage<\/p>\n

\u2022 Project Venture knows Student Senate funds were used for the wall<\/p>\n

\u2022 They want to send out a change order to us (basically an extra charge).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bruce promised to present this to us and is allowing us to make a formal decision.<\/p>\n

\u2022Need to make a decision<\/p>\n

\u2022 In the contract we aren\u2019t required to agree to this<\/p>\n

\u2022 Are we at fault? No because of the source of the funds<\/p>\n

\u2022 Incentive to give extra money? None<\/p>\n

\u2022 State workers admitted that they\u2019ve done work that has not been paid through prevailing wage, but our state requires it<\/p>\n

\u2022 Executive Decision:<\/p>\n

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Maynard<\/strong>: Motion: Should we pay Project Venture the\u00a0\u00a0 $17,000 change order?<\/p>\n

No: <\/strong>0-11-0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Be prepared to deal with Project Venture regarding our decision<\/p>\n

\u2022 Important to look into long-term plan: different company? One that\u2019s more expensive but won\u2019t cause these issues<\/p>\n

\u2022 Second tax portion is for lighting the Tibbetts field (intramural fields)<\/p>\n

\u2022 $25,000 to upgrade to power so when we bought the system we used four poles to bring the power in.<\/p>\n

\u2022Campus had a different design in mind but Bruce and Dougan were able to go with their idea.<\/p>\n

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\u2022Bill is still out there to put a lighting system on this field<\/p>\n

\u2022Numbers probably won\u2019t change<\/p>\n

\u2022 Additionally:<\/p>\n

\u2022Fake turf for field: plan is to raise money to do this for the varsity football field and then intramural\u2019s can use the other field<\/p>\n

\u2022However, there are drainage problems for the football field that need to be addressed before fake turf can happen<\/p>\n

\u2022 On the 5 year plan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Informal proposition to consider sharing the practice fields and sharing them: football team would use them for their 3 hour practices.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Written agreement to share the field with the intramural for the remainder of the time<\/p>\n

\u2022 So we\u2019ll pay to update the lights, it will be an all purpose field that will get used frequently<\/p>\n

\u2022 Importantly: our intramural program uses the fields later in the day, which is why the issues of lights were brought up<\/p>\n

\u2022If lights were set up, more students would sign up for Intramural\u2019s. Many students cancel their games due to lighting issue<\/p>\n

\u2022 Work to get something in writing saying that the turf field will be open for Intramural’s except for the daily 3 hour block (about 4 x a week) for varsity football.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chunk of time will be needed for this but will benefit athletics greatly<\/p>\n

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President\u2019s Report<\/p>\n