{"id":3585,"date":"2014-11-25T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:06:34","slug":"finance-10-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/finance-10-1-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance 10-1-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong><strong>EETING <\/strong><strong>S<\/strong><strong>TART <\/strong><strong>T<\/strong><strong>IME<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>4:05 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>TTENDANCE<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Nowinowski, Murphy, Sit, Stewart, Weinreich<\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong><strong>OMMITTEE <\/strong><strong>D<\/strong><strong>ISCUSSION<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gay Straight Alliance <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 National Coming Out Day is October 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Halloween Dance Party is October 26th<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space and Time is already booked<\/li>\n<li>ii.Working with Uhuru SASA and LASA<\/li>\n<li>iii.Less expensive than the Break the Silence Dance since payment will mostly be for the DJ and fewer decorations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Organizations Leadership Consultants <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 No longer a student senate recognized group<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not a budget but they still get money through us with an administration budget line item<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Budgeted $1200 per year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They also get money for the Leadership Center<\/li>\n<li>W: treated as a campus service like Readership Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 No formal agreement on payment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ii.Petty Cash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 They wanted reimbursement for some snacks that provide at retreats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stewart: do they get some money from the groups, nope.<\/li>\n<li>Senate didn\u2019t get money for their retreat<\/li>\n<li>iii.Should we only fund them for retreats with Student Senate recognized groups?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 W: the retreats are quite inexpensive, for example the senate one cost no money<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Incentives to being a senate recognized groups is getting free retreats<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 The IEP house and International House should be contributing money into the funds for the retreat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iv.Questions to SOLC:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 How many retreats have been done with non-senate recognized groups?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>W: If not too many, then give them the $15 dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 Cent Cigar <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Questions:<\/li>\n<li>What are the plans for the year?<\/li>\n<li>Debt Collection plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 M: If you have that contract, you are owed that money.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Stewart: Do you think they will collect $25k?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are your goals?<\/li>\n<li>How are the Staff paid?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Paid staff needs to do 2 stories a week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If they do less than 2 a week, they will get cut.<\/li>\n<li>Writers are $75\/month for 2\/week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Editors get paid $25 a night<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Production managers are $25 a night<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Susan gets paid $46k for compositing the paper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Difficult since she\u2019s got a contract<\/li>\n<li>How are the Staff evaluated?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Copy editors check the articles, if there are no quotes or anything, then it will not be published.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 The quality &amp; quantity will not be rewarded<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will you enhance readership and remain relevant?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 With fewer publishing days, the quality can improve<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How will you improve the newspaper quality?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Keep the quality the same or better even though moving to 3 days<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What will be done to streamline the business?<\/li>\n<li>Trial to reduce the run dates to 3 days instead of 4 days a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 T-W-Th<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 W: when the production for less days, the revenue will be less<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S: it won\u2019t really change the revenue much since advertisers are still buying at a budget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Evaluate by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Checking the number of copies taken<\/li>\n<li>Ad revenue<\/li>\n<li>Cut Costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Count the number of unread papers<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Work with the publisher to print less copies<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Budget<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provided 22,000 for stipends and $4,000 in production<\/li>\n<li>iBeing in the red $25 thousand by the end of last fiscal year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 We want to see you improve and be a good group.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 If we completely wipe out the debt, then there\u2019s no incentive to improve<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Boytow two years back reduced the stipend money in hopes that the ad revenue would replace the stipends<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Staff weren\u2019t involved in the last year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No idea what happened to the budget and the business.<\/li>\n<li>iPeople were calling and asking about unpaid stipends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Schedule a meeting for the end of the semester to evaluate.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Committee Agrees to roll over debt to this year. 4-1-0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting for the week of Columbus Day? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Stewart: I have like no time.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re completely fine with moving to another time in the week.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday at 5:30pm<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bills that pass will need to be additions to the agenda since it\u2019s after the agenda deadline.<\/li>\n<li>ii.If no groups show up by noon on Wednesday, the meeting will be cancelled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>High Fives for Habitat for Humanity <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Trying to break the world record for high fives to a mascot<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Fundraiser is completely separate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The high fives from mascot is for raising awareness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Most of the money was raised to sponsor Guinness to come by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More work and verification<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Need the money for run off tags to verify the number of people going through the line<\/p>\n<p>About $0.48 per tag<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 ATR Treehouse<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeney Gym \u2013 let use by the basketball coach<\/li>\n<li>Filming the event and gaining recognition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 We need to get quotes for prices \u2013 Bring it in before tonight\u2019s presidents\u2019 meeting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Committee of 3 will vote at the president\u2019s meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Originally going to get money through Habitat to get co-sponsorship money from senate but was denied<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0 Committee feels good about it 4-0-1<\/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>5:00 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 4:05 pm ATTENDANCE:\u00a0\u00a0 Nowinowski, Murphy, Sit, Stewart, Weinreich COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: &nbsp; 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