{"id":7015,"date":"2017-09-18T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/?p=7015"},"modified":"2017-09-18T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:24:56","slug":"external-4-27-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/external-4-27-17\/","title":{"rendered":"External 4-27-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call to Order<\/strong> 4:04pm<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Committee: Chairman Bertel, Senator Hazen, Senator Strassfield<\/p>\n

Non-committee: Senator Howard<\/p>\n

Absent: Senator Ashamu, Senator Hollingworth, Senator Quinn, Vice-Chair Bailey<\/p>\n

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Bertel: <\/strong>\u00a0Thanks for coming to the cleanup last weekend.\u00a0 It went very well.\u00a0 I talked to Al from the 2100 yesterday, and he mentioned that he might want a social media person.<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong>\u00a0 I might be interested in that.<\/p>\n

Bertel: <\/strong>\u00a0Darien mentioned she also might be interested.\u00a0 This would be paid part-time.\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to become more public.\u00a0 Al also mentioned the Ordinance stuff, the town\u2019s rebuttal and judge\u2019s decision will be out soon.\u00a0 There is speculation that it will go in favor of ACLU.\u00a0 Al is also looking for more communication and collaboration from External, such as other events or coming to each others\u2019 meetings.\u00a0 Anyone have any ideas?<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>:\u00a0 What else are they trying to do?<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> Student rights publicity, among other things, but trying to take a stance in favor of student renters without making it a war against the town.<\/p>\n

Strassfield:<\/strong> You mentioned in General about police posting things online.\u00a0 What was that again?<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> I have heard that they post online where they will be on a given day, and students don\u2019t know about this.\u00a0 The new chief of police is very aggressive with orange stickers and underage drinking and noise complaints.\u00a0 Also, the 2100 would like us to be very active in Narragansett.<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> 2100 is not the same as Property Management, right?<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> Correct.<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: will we be looking into the rumors that Property Management isn\u2019t very responsible?<\/p>\n

Bertel: <\/strong>We can talk to them, but I need something more concrete than rumors.\u00a0 I can look into maybe publicising that we are looking for information.<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> We can probably promote 2100 as student-oriented if we tried, and it would help them out.\u00a0 A lot of people only think of Property Management and Durkin when they think of renting.<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> One of my goals is to inform students of available resources and rights, because a lot of people don\u2019t know what they are and aren\u2019t allowed to do.\u00a0 There have been problems with building inspectors in the past.<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> What are we doing about that, and is it related to the 2100 social media position?<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> That is a piece of the strategy, but we have done other things in the past.\u00a0 We have magnets with little snippets of information on renters\u2019 rights that we give away.\u00a0 Does anyone else have any ideas about this?<\/p>\n

Hazen: <\/strong>URI communications emails seem like a pretty good idea, but not many people read those.<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> We do have a commuter affairs office, but they\u2019re not very efficient to work with.<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: Can you explain\u00a0 the student rights magnets a little more?<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> I\u2019ve heard that they weren\u2019t accurate, but I haven\u2019t found any problems.\u00a0 I\u2019m not planning on ordering more.\u00a0 They have some useful tidbits of information on them.\u00a0 I used to see them a lot in Durkin houses.\u00a0 We have about one of our original five boxes.\u00a0 We talked about commuter events to let people know that Senate doesn\u2019t only work with student organizations, we also think about off-campus people.\u00a0 We also talked about having a coffee day, but we don\u2019t have money.\u00a0 How would the money work.<\/p>\n

Howard:<\/strong> This would probably come out of Committee Expense, but if we can get a student organization to work with us it could also maybe be done with Cosponsorship.\u00a0 Committee Expense is gone this year, but there is more in it for next year\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: Maybe we should do it next school year so we\u2019re not interfering with exams.<\/p>\n

Howard:<\/strong> People also won\u2019t forget everything over the summer if we do it next school year.<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: Would right after First Night work?<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> If we were to do that it would also be more organised than something we pull together at the last second.<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: Should we have pasta?\u00a0 I can get is pasta.<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> If it\u2019s on the quad or somewhere similar then there can be pasta.<\/p>\n

Howard:<\/strong> Where would the pasta come from?<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: There are pasta boxes from Rhody Outpost that they toss because of sell by date.\u00a0 Same with sauce.\u00a0 The pasta isn\u2019t spoiled or anything, it\u2019s just policy.<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> We could help inform people at these events, just have the information available.<\/p>\n

Strassfield:<\/strong> We could have a social media promo there as well, maybe a QR or similar scannable code.\u00a0 Would the coffee be in a parking lot?\u00a0 That would help target the off-campus students.<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> The Library would also be good, because commuters go there a lot in between classes.<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> Could we do it at the bus circle for people who don\u2019t use cars?<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> There wouldn\u2019t be as many people, but there are people who do that.<\/p>\n

Strassfield:<\/strong> If it\u2019s at the library, we should do it around midterms or at the end of fall semester.<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> Moving on, this term has mostly been continuing old projects, Summer is for new things for next year.\u00a0 I will be researching how other external committees are run by myself, and I want you all to think of\/work on projects for next year.\u00a0 You all make events happen, I\u2019m just the chair.\u00a0 We\u2019ve done successful projects this way in the past.\u00a0 I can point you towards resources.\u00a0 Does anyone have any questions?<\/p>\n

*cricket*<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> There will be a Narragansett Town Council meeting on May 1st.\u00a0 It\u2019s their equivalent of a General Senate meeting, and they have loads of committees.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be long, but there\u2019s good information.\u00a0 ACLU info should come out in a municipal report, I\u2019ll ask Sam where that comes from.\u00a0 Final decision will be in the newspaper.\u00a0 I\u2019ll send it to you all when I get it.\u00a0 Any other ideas?<\/p>\n

Hazen:<\/strong> (to Senator Strassfield) Have you talked to Al about the website?<\/p>\n

Strassfield<\/strong>: Not yet.<\/p>\n

Bertel:<\/strong> I will talk to him later about both of you and throw in some good words.\u00a0 He might ask to meet with you guys.\u00a0 It\u2019d sort of be like their DOC.<\/p>\n

Adjournment 4:29pm<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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