{"id":6247,"date":"2017-02-22T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2017-02-22T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T19:52:25","slug":"soarc-1-23-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/soarc-1-23-17\/","title":{"rendered":"SOARC 1-23-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: 3:30 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee: <\/strong>Sam King, Eric Wang, Austin Cordova, Romanuel Percy, Austin Faria, Dan Depetro, Michael Bachials, Jen Scotti, Natasha Nemeth<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent:<\/strong> Dan Bertel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee<\/strong>: Riley Temple<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bylaws Amendment<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>During the general senate meeting a few weeks ago, there was a heavy debate on what constitutes as a funded organization or an unfunded organization.<\/li>\n<li>5 Senator bill brought to SOARC by Riley Temple to clarify what constitutes an academic group:\n<ul>\n<li>Groups that receive funding from any university department or office.\n<ul>\n<li>One time donations do not count as regular funding from university departments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Groups whose purpose is to supplement the mission\/goals of a university department.\n<ul>\n<li>Favoring students of a specific academic program or receiving regular instruction from a professor, lecturer, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Categorization of organizations will be up to the digression of SOARC and the general senate body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The bill will be brought to the Academic Committee on Wednesday for their opinions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stipend Review<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory requirements as of 1\/23\/2017\n<ul>\n<li>Group is a funded non-affiliate<\/li>\n<li>Office hours or equivalent time spent performing duties of position<\/li>\n<li>Organization has been recognized by senate for 2 calendar years<\/li>\n<li>Position has been documented for 3 semesters under senate<\/li>\n<li>Elections are conducted according to Student Senate Standards<\/li>\n<li>Free or unique service of Group<\/li>\n<li>Free or unique Service of Position within group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Goal is to complete stipend review before budgeting is completed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extra<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>No president\u2019s meeting tonight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: <\/strong>\u00a04:39pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 3:30 pm ATTENDANCE: Committee: Sam King, Eric Wang, Austin Cordova, Romanuel Percy, Austin Faria, Dan Depetro, Michael Bachials, Jen Scotti, Natasha Nemeth Absent: Dan Bertel Non-Committee: Riley Temple COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: Bylaws Amendment During the general senate meeting a few weeks ago, there was a heavy debate on what constitutes as a funded [&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":[5,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes","category-soarc","category-soarc-2017"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247","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=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}