DECEMBER 3 2013<\/p>\n
7:00<\/p>\n
Attendance: Kilduff, Cicero, Sim, Rode, Weinreich, Zawatsky, Sit, Stuart, Solomon<\/p>\n
Rode<\/strong>: we have 65% in favor of arming campus police. 72% at least felt comfortable arming campus police. We had about an equal amount of on and off campus. You all have the bill. I\u2019m open to changes. I wrote this bill in favor of arming campus police but when we\u2019re voting this should be a factor but not the primary reason. I think the important part is the last resolved. We had 2330 respondents<\/p>\n Cicero:<\/strong> Everything is pretty straight forward on this<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> Let\u2019s talk on terms of position<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> From when I was working on the survey, everyone I talked to said they didn\u2019t know much about it and still stated their position. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the best decision and I\u2019ve looked at a lot of stuff and the cost association with it is not as high as it needs to be<\/p>\n Zawatsky:<\/strong> This isn\u2019t necessarily what we\u2019re voting on<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> The decision we vote on right now will most likely be the opinion of the senate<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> If we put a bill on the floor that says yes, people are most likely to say yes<\/p>\n Zawatsky:<\/strong> Well we have to do one or the other<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> I think this will be one of the very few issues in senate that people won\u2019t care what exec says<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> I would like to have the discussion now so we can minimize tomorrow<\/p>\n Zawatsky:<\/strong> I\u2019m for it but I\u2019m not happy about it<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> I think there will be uproar once a gun is pulled on a student<\/p>\n Kempler:<\/strong> I\u2019m very for this bill for the safety of our first responders<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> I think people are having so many thoughts about incidents when we really need to think about day to day things<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> The points that I pose are that having campus police armed is not to just protect students but also the police officers. The one interesting thing is that having the police be armed isn\u2019t something that is detrimental to the student body unless you don\u2019t have trust in your police officers. There was a lack of trust. Another issue is an allocation of resources. Apparently it\u2019s only 150,000 dollars the first time around and 25,000 yearly after that. If those are the two biggest issues, the benefits are that they can immediately respond to threats and they can protect themselves.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> I would say money isn\u2019t something we have to worry about. Efficient allocation of resources isn\u2019t the issue; the issue of arming was an issue before the Chaffee Incident. Even though we are in the middle nowhere, we have people traffic our campus all the time and can come on campus with weapons.<\/p>\n Cicero:<\/strong> We need to decide on how we\u2019re going to conduct the discussion tomorrow<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s really important that we get together tomorrow before the meeting to make sure exec is all on the same page so we\u2019re not arguing on the floor<\/p>\n Zawatsky:<\/strong> We need to stick to inductive reasoning or some sort of line or reasoning.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> Calling germanity on the floor is one of the biggest issues that we\u2019ll see tomorrow. In terms of moderation we need to stop redundancy. If something becomes redundant we need to stop them. People get angry when we\u2019re redundant. Practically the answer is going to be yes<\/em> or no<\/em> without any little details.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> The police officers all need to go through training again. It\u2019s not a URI official, but it\u2019s the state of Rhode Island. It includes safety hazards and so forth and psychological evaluation and diversity training. There are certain state laws that they have to pass without training.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> This would be us creating a real Kingston Police Department on campus<\/p>\n Cicero:<\/strong> We need to set the tone as to it being yes and no<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> We shouldn\u2019t promote abstaining<\/p>\n VOTING ON THE BILL FOR ARMING CAMPUS POLICE SS-13-14-XX <\/em><\/p>\n 7-3-0 <\/em><\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> We have a few immediate considerations tomorrow. We have SAWA applying for their hair show of 14,000. We have ski and snowboard team of 2750 as a housing deposit. Also, the budget for them is also going on the floor tomorrow. It will be immediate consideration as well. That bill is for about 21,000. That\u2019ll come out of general.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> I get really concerned when we\u2019re giving brand new organization tens and thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> There are more people now and they used to get a lot more money. They were previously funded by CSIK and now they\u2019re not funded at all so they need to be recognized by us for a year. The next thing is we\u2019re changing the policies for retreats and we\u2019ll fund any small retreats, and anything overnight or bigger, SOLC will fund half of it and the other half will have to be funded by the people going. This was something that SAWA already did. SEC, though, was told by SOLC, so when SEC had an event, only exec members went. Since it was so early in the year and it was a changed policy that wasn\u2019t expected, SOLC will fund almost all of it and will require ten dollars each by the people who went. Another thing is we talked to CSIK about the helmets, and the president of CSKIC seemed fine with ski and snowboard using the helmets. We\u2019re talking about some changes in punishment policies. For accounting purposes, we see every line on CSIK as a different organization. This brought up an interesting situation so we\u2019re thinking of making this a bit more reasonable, and making every group be recognized.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> My concern is that they don\u2019t have to have elected officers on a team.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> Captains get voted<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> We ran into this with crew<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> all they need is two signatures and need to sign signatures. This is to get paperwork going more smoothly. Also the hair show will cost about 2000 more than last year because it will be bigger than last year. A few groups are in some trouble with finance paperwork. One of our biggest problems is with FMS and they never signed anything and they had a service done by ATR Treehouse and our options are to pay it or not.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> We can pay it and punish them somehow or we punish them by not paying it.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> ATR Treehouse is not in a position to negotiate<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> It\u2019s a very confusing situation and it\u2019s in the world of legal jargon.<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> This removes any responsibility and we need to hold them legally responsible.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> This is a situation of people misusing our money. It\u2019s $3000.<\/p>\n Cicero:<\/strong> Let\u2019s let finance look at it.<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> We didn\u2019t do anything so there\u2019s nothing to actually discuss<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> We talked about donations that won\u2019t go out to be paid to anyone without an EIN or SSN. Right now we have a few checks in limbo because of that but that\u2019ll be a reason for them to become affiliates.<\/p>\n Sim:<\/strong> We have two bills on the floor tomorrow that are vote next meeting but we need to work on our bylaws because we don\u2019t have an at-large date for voting.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> Also for finance, there are groups that are fundraising money online using kickstart or go fund me. Since the senate doesn\u2019t do much for that, right now groups are doing that on their own and we don\u2019t really like it. There\u2019s difficulty moving it to a pay pal account. This is something I want to ask if it\u2019s something we want to help with or should we not deal with it? Every transaction needs to be reconciled. Should we provide an avenue like pay pal?<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> I want to support all of our groups in fundraising. We need access to credit cards.<\/p>\n Sit:<\/strong> Also we need to talk about getting a Restaurant Depot card, which I think is fine<\/p>\n Kilduff:<\/strong> Yes, if you want to<\/p>\n Solomon:<\/strong> Tomorrow is the last day for spirit of giving. Ace of cakes yesterday was a success. We need to work on making it bigger and better. We also raised $142 dollars for Rhody Outpost and we have gifts left over that were donated. They\u2019re going to be left untouched so if people need gift cards then let me know.<\/p>\n Rode:<\/strong> Campus clean up went well. We collected a lot of trash.<\/p>\n Kempler:<\/strong> I\u2019m doing the letter on Friday so if anyone has anything for me please email it to me. Kathleen had a good idea to spotlight student orgs. Chris and I also had a meeting today about formal which will hopefully be the 28th of February. We\u2019ll probably have an on campus or off campus bus. Tomorrow during the meeting I\u2019ll send around lists.<\/p>\n Cicero:<\/strong> I\u2019ll start collecting money when we get back from break<\/p>\n Weinreich:<\/strong> BOND and PINK both are moving forward to becoming affiliates by voting to approve it. I\u2019m planning on meeting with PINK\u2019s exec to go forward with that.<\/p>\n 8:20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DECEMBER 3 2013 7:00 Attendance: Kilduff, Cicero, Sim, Rode, Weinreich, Zawatsky, Sit, Stuart, Solomon Rode: we have 65% in favor of arming campus police. 72% at least felt comfortable arming campus police. We had about an equal amount of on and off campus. You all have the bill. I\u2019m open to changes. 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