{"id":3223,"date":"2014-11-21T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:53:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:53:22","slug":"executive-9-10-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/executive-9-10-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive 9-10-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

7:00<\/p>\n

ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kilduff, Kempler, Cicero, St. Jean, Rode, Solomon, Sim, Zawatsky, Weinreich, Sit<\/strong><\/p>\n

-FINANCE CHAIR:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>Slam poetry came by and wanted money for a poet for the diversity club and MCC and we said no because $2500 is a lot of money. Their poet wasn\u2019t a big enough name so they\u2019re going to re-write a contingency for a lot less for Writer\u2019s Block or another one. They\u2019ll be back to us. CBSA is having a dance and they want 200 for a DJ and SAWA wants money for security. I think it\u2019d be fine as long as they have all the paperwork filled out<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>CBSA has been looking for you a few times this week. They\u2019ve come by asking for you<\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>Because our meeting is Tuesday and their dance is Thursday they should have it all figured out. Also we talked about the Cigar and dressage who is asking for money for a competition but no one was there representing their group. That\u2019s in the books, but I need to meet with whoever is in charge of them. The Cigar had their first paper out and they\u2019re having meetings and I\u2019ll stop by. Their budget is more than all the contingency grant available. Their secretary gets paid more than Kim. Their budget is reduced from last year but we want to make sure they\u2019re on the right track. At some point we might look into getting someone from Brown\u2019s paper to act as a consultant.<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>Give them a couple weeks to do their own thing and then we can figure it out.<\/p>\n

Sit: They\u2019ve been over-printing in the past.<\/p>\n

Kempler: <\/strong>The editor-in-chief is working really hard.<\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>The new people in charge have a lot of drive and are ready to change things. They don\u2019t really have a lot of writers, and their writers do get stipends<\/p>\n

-STUDENT ORGANIZATION ADVISORY AND REVIEW COMMITTEE (SOARC) CHAIR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>The Presidents meeting was kind of a mess. I will be emailing everyone who went to see what they thought went well and what they thought did not. I have 30 minutes for you to all go over a bylaws bill. I\u2019ll give you an overview of the changes and then I\u2019ll give you time for changes. SOARC categories are a mess so with that in mind we\u2019re trying to simplify it while keeping the integrity. There will be two categories: funded and unfunded. Under funded they will be able to make a recommendation to finance for funding. SOARC will look at what they need and decide from there. They\u2019ll get a recommending for funding and contingency. They are very clear and when SOARC recognizes they will be funded on a programming or contingency basis. It all still falls under article 9\u2014student orgs. If orgs aren\u2019t happy about it, they can go back to SOARC and then they can go to exec if need be. I added a section under criteria which is the health, safety, and welfare section to cover us more as far as liability. I want to put this floor tomorrow and I want it passed before re-rec papers go out. Read this over, there is probably errors, help me find them<\/p>\n

Lanoie: <\/strong>I feel as if this is too broad to say that finance will tell you how much you have in a budget<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>SOARC recommends what they get and then they have to go to finance to actually get it. You\u2019re eligible for things, but if they don\u2019t go to budgeting they won\u2019t get a budget line.<\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>You won\u2019t give them an exact number will you?<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>No. What SOARC is going to tell them is what they need based off of programming and events and their mission statement. SOARC is in a good position to understand their needs. The exact numbers goes to Brian<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>I went to the presidents meeting yesterday and I threw out this idea to groups and I got responses. There wasn\u2019t one person that didn\u2019t like it because they didn\u2019t understand being an M at one point and then they become an R. They found the standard as strange.<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>The actual way that S was written actually makes no sense. It goes beyond the tangible value and it\u2019s silly. And I put that now as an individual line. This makes it a little bit more personalized which makes it awesome<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>the number one complaint last year was that groups felt like they were being judged by their category, not their group.<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>This means the finance handbook will need to be heavily redone. Also, after this I\u2019ll be rewriting the student orgs handbook as well. I didn\u2019t want to make this clear to orgs until it was looked over by exec and general senate. I\u2019m trying not to overwhelm people because I\u2019ll be talking for literally be talking for 45 minutes tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Rode: <\/strong>I would also say that it\u2019s important that we show the general senate that we support this.<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>this year SOARC is all about being more accessible and working better with groups.<\/p>\n

Lanoie: <\/strong>I feel like it can be really easy to go into a deficit and have a huge surplus<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>we\u2019re still taking it line by line. <\/strong>This doesn\u2019t change the way the finance policies change but the flows are going to become a lot more simple.<\/p>\n

Kilduff<\/strong>: People like the idea that people are being treated as individuals<\/p>\n

Weinreich<\/strong>: I\u2019ll give you re-rec dates: The paperwork will be online the 23 of December. I want a recommendation on the floor tomorrow after you\u2019ve had time to read it.<\/p>\n

-ACADEMIC AFFAIRS CHAIR<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Jean: <\/strong>I work with a woman whose daughter just graduated from URI and she didn\u2019t get her diploma yet. The internship credits never ended up getting transferred until 3 months ago.<\/p>\n

Zawatsky: <\/strong>Can you get me her contact information?<\/p>\n

St. Jean: <\/strong>Yes<\/p>\n

Zawatsky: <\/strong>I\u2019m still working on contracts. I could use some opinions on stuff. The contract says that the providence Sunday journal gets delivered to hope on Sundays but not any other day of the week. We may want to increase that.<\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>there is a demand and it doesn\u2019t cost much more for us<\/p>\n

Zawatsky: <\/strong>it\u2019d be 35 copies a day<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>Why don\u2019t we do it on weekdays?<\/p>\n

Zawatsky: <\/strong>We\u2019re trying to work out getting deliveries to the union but we\u2019re going need a rack for the newspapers and we\u2019ll need to put it in a place where only students will access it.<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>let\u2019s put it in the union<\/p>\n

Zawatsky: <\/strong>I\u2019m thinking outside the mailroom. And I\u2019m doing other stuff but we\u2019ll talk about that later.<\/p>\n

-EXTERNAL AFFAIRS CHAIR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lanoie<\/strong>: The great news is that the committee loves my carnival ideas and we have the expensive and not so expensive option that we\u2019ll give to finance next week. We have aproblem. The promotional items that we wanted to have at the event (coasters, etc) need to be ordered this week and next week. IT talks a long time for this stuff to be shipped out so what I had a plan for is that we have about 3500 advertising line in our budget.<\/p>\n

Kilduff: We can use it for that<\/p>\n

Lanoie<\/strong>: Perfect and it will be advertising. I think that will be a good idea<\/p>\n

Kilduff<\/strong>: Do it<\/p>\n

Lanoie<\/strong>: I think it will be a good idea to have promotional items. If you\u2019d like to see my carnival ideas, it\u2019s on Google docs and I have some printed out copies of it. I\u2019ll talk about it more tomorrow and see how much commuter housing is willing to throw at us<\/p>\n

-CULTURAL AFFAIRS CHAIR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solomon: <\/strong>there is a cultural fair tomorrow for anyone who wants to check it out. I think exec should do Safe-Zone<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>We will and we\u2019ll talk about that later on. We\u2019ll open it up to the general senate<\/p>\n

Solomon: <\/strong>Do you want me to talk to Annie<\/p>\n

Cicero: <\/strong>We\u2019ll figure it out later on.<\/p>\n

Kilduff<\/strong>: If people are going to go, they\u2019re gonna go no matter what.<\/p>\n

Cicero: <\/strong>We can always strongly encourage it this year and see how it goes because I think this is something that I think is very important<\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>It could be part of the retreat<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>That is such a good idea<\/p>\n

Solomon: <\/strong>This makes people aware that we are a safe-zone environment<\/p>\n

Cicero: <\/strong>it just means that we\u2019ll be extending the retreat<\/p>\n

Rode: <\/strong>We just have to factor in time for food.<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>we\u2019ll talk about that more later<\/p>\n

Solomon:<\/strong> I have a room set for ace of cakes which is December 2 and I need a liaison for MCC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>your choice<\/p>\n

Cicero: <\/strong>and when we talk to Melvin we\u2019ll get a list of events<\/p>\n

-CAMPUS AFFAIRS CHAIR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rode: <\/strong>I\u2019ve been working with Sheri a lot and the GPS is up however has a 10 minutes day so it is either 10 minutes behind or ahead. They\u2019re still working on it. Also I\u2019ve been talking to Sheri about a 5k mapped out on campus because a lot of people would benefit from it. I\u2019ve been working on that and the idea is similar to the Boston freedom trail where it would be mapped out. We would need to hire a 5k specialist. It shouldn\u2019t be that expensive and a lot of people seem interested. We\u2019re going to get an estimate from Sheri.<\/p>\n

Weinreich: <\/strong>Have you thought of getting student volunteers to do it?<\/p>\n

Rode<\/strong>: I don\u2019t know because sometimes there are big trucks that lay them down. I think Sheri has more of an idea of how this happens. We might be asking for money for that soon.<\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>Any luck with Major Baker for that committee?<\/p>\n

Rode: <\/strong>I\u2019m going to talk to my committee about that<\/p>\n

Sim: <\/strong>Are you familiar with those locks? Basically housing has a uniform lock system so basically to have wi-fi locks.<\/p>\n

Rode: <\/strong>I am and I\u2019ve been looking into that<\/p>\n

-EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a. Chief Information Officer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Jean: <\/strong>I heard what Jenna said. If you want to have people go to meetings and report I can add a folder on Google drives. I will try to keep everything organized. That\u2019s about it<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 b. Director of Communications<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kempler: <\/strong>we\u2019re going to do the boards and we need pictures of all of you. We\u2019ll be doing that on Friday. We\u2019ll use the bios from the website or have a question that you guys will answer. If anyone wants to help with that we\u2019ll be here on Friday.<\/p>\n

Cicero: <\/strong>When is the first newsletter coming out?<\/p>\n

Kempler: <\/strong>At the end of the month<\/p>\n

Cicero<\/strong>: I have to do scholarship committee mid-October, so I want to advertise that<\/p>\n

c. Director of Marketing & Recruitment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

—–<\/strong><\/p>\n

d. Secretary<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stuart: <\/strong>No report<\/p>\n

e. Treasurer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pitu: <\/em><\/strong>I\u2019m not sure if Matt needs to take the finance quiz<\/p>\n

Sit: <\/strong>it\u2019d be better if he did<\/p>\n

f. Vice President<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cicero: <\/strong>Great job at the retreat and the next one is October 6. It\u2019s a Sunday at 9 AM. I\u2019ll figure out stuff as far as the safe-zone training is concerned. Office hours start this week so make sure you\u2019re doing that. Make sure vice chairs are sending me your minutes. A few new things we\u2019ll be doing is a mentor program and we\u2019ll open up anyone that might be interested on the floor. If you have any ideas, let me know.<\/p>\n

g. President<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kilduff: <\/strong>Zawatsky, can you tell the colleges that we have liaison spots open. That\u2019s it for me\u2014Pharmacy, Arts and sciences, etc.<\/p>\n

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: <\/strong>8:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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