{"id":3557,"date":"2014-11-25T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:38:54","slug":"finance-1-28-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/finance-1-28-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance 1-28-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>TART <\/strong><strong>T<\/strong><strong>IME<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>3:02 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>TTENDANCE<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Boiteau, Nowinowski, Sit, Stewart, Studley, Mendez, Lanoie,<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>BSENSE<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Unexcused: Weinreich, Excused: Murphy<\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong><strong>OMMITTEE <\/strong><strong>D<\/strong><strong>ISCUSSION<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>College Republicans: CPAC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC over March 14th &#8211; 16th<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>attended for the last 7 years<\/li>\n<li>big names in the world of Conservative politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 $40\/student (4 confirmed students)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>may be lowered if 50+ students from RI attend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Train tickets &#8211; $65 each way<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Already looked at Buses and will look at the cost via Air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Accommodations at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 room for 3 nights<\/li>\n<li>5 nights : March 13th &#8211; 16th<\/li>\n<li>The convention is held at the Gaylord National Resort<\/li>\n<li>Prices for other nearby\/comparable hotels is about the same<\/li>\n<li>All female URI group attending<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Benefits to campus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gain contacts\/networking<\/li>\n<li>reaffirming principles of the group<\/li>\n<li>bring back ideas to campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 We can approve as finance committee since it&#8217;s less than $1000<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we do not have that amount in the travel contingency right now so we&#8217;ll have to do a category transfer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Passed: 7-0-1<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Lanoie abstaining because of prior involvement in College Republicans<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slam poetry: Professional Slam Poet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:Kevin_gemmell@my.uri.edu\">Kevin_gemmell@my.uri.edu<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Contact SEA to get help with Event planning&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 1.5-2 hour show<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 End of March to beginning of April<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Contacted 3 poets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rudy Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Shadow Boxer Anonymous<\/li>\n<li>Writer&#8217;s Block<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Look for local artists from Providence&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Costs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SEC could cosponsor\/fund the event<\/li>\n<li>Asking for $75 for advertising\/printing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 as a new organization, they don&#8217;t have a budget yet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asking for $1850 for the poets<\/li>\n<li>Asking for $75 for setting up in Swan Hall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Since the event isn&#8217;t yet fully planned, we will need to get hard numbers before we can approve the contingency<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Musicians Guild &#8211; Gaming Convention Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Collaboration between Gaming and Musicians\u2019 Guild<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Artist: FreezePop<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 2 local bands<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Talked before about how Musician&#8217;s Guild should be getting local bands<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston is still local enough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Gaming Club moved the convention to February 15th<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday night in the Ballroom starts between 6 &#8211; 7pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Concert is the headliner event for the convention<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Asking for $1,500<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>only ~$500 left in Alcohol Free Contingency<\/li>\n<li>we can move from Alcohol Contingency to Programming Contingency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Open to people not just those in the convention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Union is booked the entire weekend for the Gamer Con<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Passed: 8-0-0 $1500 to book FreezePop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAWA &#8211; Hair Show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 7th year for the Hair Show<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Asking for $12,273.95<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$3,373.95 for the Host &#8211; a popular and famous person in the African Community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s coming from London<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 T-Boy &#8211; Nigerian Comedian &#8220;Don&#8217;t Jealous me&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hair Products etc, need to be new every year (cannot use the old stuff)<\/li>\n<li>Prices went up for hair products<\/li>\n<li>Tickets are General $10 URI $7 VIP $20<\/li>\n<li>Last year, SAWA made $2,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Changing to the Rams den because the Ballroom did not fit everyone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holds twice as much as the ballroom<\/li>\n<li>Raising more money because it can fit more people in the room<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Extra funds goes to St. Judes by asking for donations<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Theme: Danger zone<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year, new outfits &#8211; more expensive theme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 $700 Allows for creativity and artistry for the designers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Props &#8211; Casket, Straight Jackets, Male Models as animals, stretcher, hair foams, pipes cleaners<\/li>\n<li>Flier design: $200 for the Coming Soon flier, the &amp; the and the photoshoot<\/li>\n<li>If the host doesn&#8217;t generate his cost, then the act may not be worth it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 SAWA: confident we can earn back the cost<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 DJ will be playing for the Show and the After Party 6-9 10-2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 Hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 All the artists are volunteer<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Money goes to the Material<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Toni &amp; Guy Hair School may be bringing volunteers<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Last year, $100 dollars for the fabric<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Makeup artist is now licensed so she costs more now<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 6-7 of work hours<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passed: 7-0-0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asian Student Association [ASA] will come next week to get money for travel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have 5 grand in Programming and $500 in travel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 We need to do a Category Transfer<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 The current contingency budgeting leaves 40,000 less than last year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motion to move 40,000 from Tax to Programming contingency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 In Spring 2011, all together, we spent $45,550<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 In Spring 2012, all together we spent $38,430<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motion to move 6,000 from Tax to Travel Contingency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Travel contingency money will be immediately considered<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the weekend will be the budgeting stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Monday we will first go over requests then the budgeting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We may need to meet double sessions or meet earlier and do a longer session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Get ready for budgets. It&#8217;ll be fun&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong><strong>EETING <\/strong><strong>A<\/strong><strong>DJOURNMENT <\/strong><strong>T<\/strong><strong>IME<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>4:10 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>START TIME:\u00a0\u00a0 3:02 pm ATTENDANCE: Boiteau, Nowinowski, Sit, Stewart, Studley, Mendez, Lanoie, ABSENSE:\u00a0\u00a0 Unexcused: Weinreich, Excused: Murphy COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: \u00a0 College Republicans: CPAC \u00a0 o\u00a0\u00a0 Annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC over March 14th &#8211; 16th attended for the last 7 years big names in the world of Conservative politics o\u00a0\u00a0 $40\/student (4 [&hellip;]<\/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":[57,59,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance-minutes","category-finance-minutes-2013","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","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=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}