7:12<\/p>\n
Attendance: Weinreich, Kilduff, Kempler, St. Jean, Zawatsky, Rode, Sim, Stuart, Sit<\/p>\n
DOC <\/strong><\/p>\n Kempler:<\/strong> I\u2019ll do the board soon outside the senate office<\/p>\n CIO <\/strong><\/p>\n St. Jean:<\/strong> No report<\/p>\n Academic <\/strong><\/p>\n Zawatsky:<\/strong> No report<\/p>\n Campus <\/strong><\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> Campus clean-up is happening, please come. I have a flyer that I\u2019m going to send out. There\u2019s trash on campus, but not a lot. I\u2019m worried we\u2019ll have too many people for the amount of trash. We\u2019ll break into different groups to clean different areas. We\u2019ll meet on the quad at 11 and end at 2. I don\u2019t think it\u2019ll take too long. A lot of people are interested in getting community service hours. Try to get people to come. I\u2019m talking to Paul and I\u2019ll send an email tonight about the survey for arming campus police.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> I think something that needs to be discussed is that regardless of police being armed, training needs to improve no matter what. CIO St. Jean, please find more information about arming campus police and racial profiling.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> It\u2019s important that we spread the survey, so I\u2019ll send that tonight. I\u2019ll bring it up on the floor tomorrow and a lot of it will be manual but it needs to get done even though it will be a lot of work. I\u2019m looking into installing sheltered bike racks on campus. Right now I\u2019m trying to find good locations for them because I\u2019m not too knowledgeable about it. I think it\u2019d be a good idea because more people would start to use their bikes.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> We could also get funding from the university, so we should maybe have an opinion bill about bike friendliness.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> I just need help with arming campus police<\/p>\n Cultural<\/p>\n Sim:<\/strong> Ace of cakes needs promoting and Chris is working on scholarships<\/p>\n Finance <\/strong><\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> I will email everyone about change logs for the handbooks and we\u2019ll review stipends for groups next week. This week we worked on the finance handbook. We also want the review of stipends to be at the beginning of the year to prevent overspending of the money. This way they have a limit and we have oversight. In the future I do want to move it so that the groups that require stipends can be in a different category that way it\u2019s more limited and we can have some control. I would like to try to restrict the amount that stipends are done. Also, ski and snowboard team is asking for a budget; they\u2019re asking for about 28000 dollars and we\u2019ll most likely fund half of that. We\u2019ll figure that out; it\u2019s preliminary. We usually fund budgets through general<\/p>\n contingency and that\u2019s overdrawn so I talked with committee and we\u2019ll review it and move some money around by the end of the year.<\/p>\n St. Jean:<\/strong> Brian Sit, you\u2019re fantastic.<\/p>\n SOARC Weinreich:<\/strong> There are groups trying to set up meetings with me. I set up meetings with BOND and PINK. They\u2019re interested in being affiliates. It\u2019s getting to the point where they\u2019re running out of time.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> It needs to be pushed a little more, but they seem to be looking at it as a choice, but to be honest it isn\u2019t. They need to do it or they don\u2019t exist. That needs to be pushed a little bit more.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> Another factor is that people don\u2019t understand affiliates can\u2019t talk to groups about it. Groups come and talk to me about getting bigger budgets through affiliate status, and that can\u2019t happen. I think part of it is people in senate don\u2019t understand it. I\u2019m also handling groups that were not re-recognized. I wouldn\u2019t mind having a probationary period in the future.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> One thing about moving re-rec to a time after October 31, such as November 15, it would make it so you have two President\u2019s Meetings before re-recognition.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> You should push it back to November, but then you are much stricter with it. I think groups should be held to a higher standard as far as this is concerned. That extra meeting would be nice. I know that\u2019s way down the road, but it\u2019s good for the future.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> You\u2019ll still have groups that don\u2019t go through re-recognition, regardless.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> Events advising and scheduling are being much stricter right now, so that\u2019s something to pay attention to.<\/p>\n Sim:<\/strong> Which groups should be affiliates and should contact you?<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> Bruce and I put a list together of about 15 groups but we haven\u2019t been in contact with them. A big thing that is going to be a factor is outside accounts. I want to know what you guys think about outside accounts.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> We discourage outside accounts and they really don\u2019t have much of a reason to have one when they become affiliates.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> They\u2019re super committed to keeping their outside accounts. I feel as though we should look for some middle ground. Their loss of outside accounts is something they\u2019re not willing to lose because it\u2019s too much of a loss. Outside accounts work in a way that says they have an account for the use of their finances. They needed that when they couldn\u2019t be recognized. It\u2019s not managed through our accounting system. When they become affiliates they need a student senate account through Cheryl which is where the senate money will flow through and all of their cashbox money will flow through. They need to go through the paperwork. Our money would never go into their outside account. There is a process they would have to go through with the money they get through outside ways in order to get it into their account that is an account that we control. It is easy to avoid the senate process, but if they\u2019re putting money into an outside account, the association holding that money is responsible. As an affiliate, we would also be responsible for what they spend that money. By having an outside account, they\u2019re collecting official money for the group and putting it into an account that we have no oversight of. The benefit is that they can make large processes last minute. We\u2019re doing a service for them, but we\u2019re also responsible for official things that they do.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> Liability is a big issue this year, and this falls under that category.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> It seems like a culture change so I understand apprehension<\/p>\n Kilduff: <\/strong>We just have a lot of risk and we need to make sure we\u2019re safe even if it inconveniences them. We can help explain it, and we can be nice about it, but this is really something we have to do.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> Nothing has been finalized yet, and there are things to work out.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> The university and us cannot be liable.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> Liability aside, they\u2019re worried about regulation and control.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> Maybe it\u2019s a better idea if we have Bruce go in and say it because it\u2019s a little bit more assuring to have a faculty member say that they need to be affiliates without outside accounts. They have access to contingency money but it\u2019s just under our guidance.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> Make sure there is stuff in there about respecting SOARC\u2019s recommendation in the finance handbook.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> Recommendation is helpful to us but a lot of things we already know but it would be useful to get a recommendation of SOARC to get a stipend at all.<\/p>\n President <\/strong><\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> We\u2019re doing a lot with rights and responsibilities and we\u2019ll see that coming in the future. Besides that, there\u2019s nothing too much. Officially on the committee is myself, Kyle Weinreich, Tyler Pavlik, and Joe Maynard<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> We need to work on goal setting as a committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 7:12 Attendance: Weinreich, Kilduff, Kempler, St. Jean, Zawatsky, Rode, Sim, Stuart, Sit DOC Kempler: I\u2019ll do the board soon outside the senate office CIO St. Jean: No report Academic Zawatsky: No report Campus Rode: Campus clean-up is happening, please come. I have a flyer that I\u2019m going to send out. 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