{"id":6325,"date":"2017-04-07T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2017-04-07T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:48:24","slug":"soarc-3-3-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/soarc-3-3-17\/","title":{"rendered":"SOARC 3-3-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEETING START TIME: 2:08 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTENDANCE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee: <\/strong>Sam King, Eric Wang, Austin Cordova, Michael Bachials, Zach Taylor<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent: <\/strong>, Jen Scotti, Dan Bertel, Romanuel Percy, Natasha Nemeth, Austin Faria, Dan Depetro, Stephanie St. Louis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-Committee<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stipend Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\"><strong>The Good 5 Cent Cigar<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Business Manager\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Current business manager is in the position for 4 semesters.\u00a0 Manage financial records, expenses, budgetary responsibilities.\u00a0 Prepares budget of the group to the Student Senate.\u00a0 Manages the stipends for the group.\u00a0 Sends out purchase requisitions.\u00a0 Deals with clients and customers through advertising clerks.\u00a0 Hire, train, and manages advertising clerks to reach out to local businesses to advertise in the paper.\u00a0 Reach out to potential clients and customers for the newspaper.\u00a0 Send out invoices and copies of the newspaper to the clients.\u00a0 Manages the payroll.\u00a0 About 10-12 hours in office weekly.\u00a0 Meet with editor in chief weekly.\u00a0 No more than 2 hours spent doing business outside of the office.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Advertisement process: reach out to businesses for advertising in the paper. Fill out forms, draft up example for what will be in the paper.\u00a0 Advertisements go to the design editor before it is printed in the paper.\u00a0 Manages a log of who the advertising clerks have reached out to.\u00a0 Advertisements are more focused toward businesses in the local are that students are likely to frequent.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The responsibilities of the position are broad and required a good understanding of finances.\u00a0 Such duties would be difficult to allocate to other members of the group.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Hired and trained the delivery driver for the newspaper.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Vote: (5-0-0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Production Manager (Two people in position)\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">There are two mediums for the newspaper: Website and paper.\u00a0 Design the layout of the website.\u00a0 Maintain and clean up website.\u00a0 Times the release of the website content to be released at a certain time.\u00a0 Two hours weekly in office.\u00a0 Spend about 18 hours weekly outside of the office doing duties.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The website takes hours to do; the print copy takes hours to do.\u00a0 The duties and responsibilities of the position would be too much for one person to do.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">The web design requires a good understanding of the software to manage. There was a significant learning curve what first entering the position.\u00a0 Creates and maintains the transition material for the position.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Part of the duties is to ensure that there is exclusive content for the website.\u00a0 There is more content on the website than on the physical paper including videos.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Required to write on story a week.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Vote (on whether the position should be stipended): (5-0-0)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Vote (on having stipends for two people for the position): (5-0-0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">News Editor (Two people in position)\n<ul>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Monday: check in with all writers for new, features, op-ed.\u00a0 Check in with writers to ensure that they can meet deadline.\u00a0 Give advice on how to maintain contact with source.\u00a0 Inform managing editor of goings on.\u00a0 Write one story weekly.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Tuesday: check in to ensure that writers can contact their sources.\u00a0 Edits stories.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Wednesday: Continue editing stories.\u00a0 Update managing editor and editor in chief.\u00a0 When layout is made, edits each page.\u00a0 Each page is edited three times.\u00a0 Remains in office until pages are printed.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Thursdays: update and add new story ideas to master story list.\u00a0 Pitch ideas for what was added.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Friday-Sunday: reach out to contacts for their own story.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Edits: Fact-checking and ensuring that formatting meets AP style.\u00a0 Ensure that the stories are in the best possible format.\u00a0 Edits almost everything (does not edit own work)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">No required office hours in bylaws.\u00a0 Does two office hours weekly.\u00a0 Spend 8 hours outside of office doing work.<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Vote (on whether the position should be stipended): (5-0-0)<\/li>\n<li class=\"minutes_text\">Vote (on having stipends for two people for the position): (4-1-0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: <\/strong>\u00a02:59<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING START TIME: 2:08 pm ATTENDANCE: Committee: Sam King, Eric Wang, Austin Cordova, Michael Bachials, Zach Taylor Absent: , Jen Scotti, Dan Bertel, Romanuel Percy, Natasha Nemeth, Austin Faria, Dan Depetro, Stephanie St. Louis Non-Committee: &nbsp; COMMITTEE DISCUSSION: \u00a0 Stipend Review \u00a0 The Good 5 Cent Cigar Business Manager Current business manager is in the [&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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soarc","category-soarc-2017"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","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=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}