The following are meeting minutes from the House of Organizations meeting. The House meets every Tuesday at 5:30 PM in Room 318 on the third floor of The Commons. These meetings are open to all students to listen to discussion. If you would like to present an issue, please contact the Speaker of the House, Nayana Davis, in advance so you can be added to the agenda.
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I. Call to Order
5:31
II. Roll Call
Christina, Yvonne
III. Approval of Minutes
Approved
Cabinet Reports
Phil- 5 House members at Reports. First set of legislatioins went through. Big one for Model UN. Today, 2 interviews for candidates for accounting clerk in business services.
Carrie- Athletic department wants to bring in speaker for domestic violence. They want people to help for the event. SGA cannot directly fund the events but Student Orgs can help. Will house members help contact organization leaders to get involvement? Looking for around $1500. So 5 or 6 student orgs.
IV. New Business
A. HL10-0607- Additional Allocation for Jack o Lantern Carving Co- Sponsored Event
-Phil- between AEP, ASA open pumkin carving at the commons terrace, in the Middle of October.
-VOTE For 5 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
B. HL 11-0607- Additional Allocation for Cry for Help
-Ariane- Dinner to give back to our people in Africa, speaker, food, performers and hopefully they will make donantions. This year dressed formally and try to make it free.
VOTE For 5 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
C. HL 12-0607- Additional Allocation for Game Night
-Nayana- Freedom Alliance renting the game room and serving pizza.
-VOTE For 5 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
D. HL 13-0607- Additional Allocation for Thanksgiving Dinner
-Nayana- Freedom Alliance- 3 huge boxes of food for $150 and providing dinner for 100 people. There will be pie.
VOTE For 5 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
E. HL 14-0607- Additional Allocation for Ajooba
Nayana- They originally asked for double the amount.
Ozel- What is concert sound?
Ross- the normal sound that you would get, pretty basic for the ballroom. They have a lot of money in their carry over. They are charging $10 a ticket and they would make $6000 for us paying for the event. We want to support it but we don’t want to pay for it using student fees if students have to pay.
VOTE For 5 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
F. HL 15-0607- Recognition of Student Organizations
-Nayana- I am friendly amending it.
-Ross- Retired Gymnastist association.
- Ben- Why not funded?
-Ross- they are not funded by SGA they are funded by athletics. The student activity fee is not large enough to fund all the sports club. They are looking to have practice times. MD votes are off the list, Darfur- Funded Political Social Activation, CCI-Politically funded, Fishing- non-funded special interest group- promoting the interest of those who enjoy fishing, Korean Campus Ministry- Spiritual Religious,
Ross- There is one KCM does their service in Korean, one is a bible study, one is done in English.
Carrie- The fundamental issue, Hoffman did legal research and you must recognize them all or none. There are serious implications!
Ross- This year has been active in the past. If there is an organization that I really have a problem with, like the KKK, I won’t vote for them.
Ross- Billiards Club- Sports Club- their purpose is to encourage tournament participation. Musical Theatre Club- Funded Special Interest Public Health Alliance- Funded, Virgin Pride- Special Interest
Ozel- for a new sports club, they would have to wait for money.
Ross- They could raise money through fundraising.
VOTE For 5 Opposed 0 Abstaining 1
G. HL 132 - 0506. Reports
A. Executive reports
B. Ex- officio Reports
C. Officer Reports
XI. General Discussion
A. In House Elections
Nayana- If we want to do this, we have to make plans for today,
Ross- I would like to do them. Anybody else want to do them? Yes, okay we need to inform the entire student body.
Ben- How many and what seats are open?
Ross- We should figure that out.
Carrie- We have four for the year. You may want to be mindful, if you elect first year ambassadors then you will lose 2 body member. 1st year members will be here in 3 weeks. If you lose members then you can’t hold another election.
Nayana- Can we amend the Constitution?
Carrie- You can do it for future house.
Nayana- When do you want to do this?
Ross- I want to see something in the Retreiver, and word of mouth.
Nayana- Flyers or pool of organizations.
Alex- We should ask specific organizations.
Carrie- We don’t have specific seats that need to be filled, it is open. Personal recruiting is the best. You may need to make a new application.
Nayana- We are going to do this 3 weeks from now. We will look in organizations. How do we do interviews?
Carrie- You can do like the speaker elections? We used a score sheet, for interviews, essays, etc. Anyway is fine, just make sure there si an application and an interview.
Phil- Think about when you want to do this, that is also about the same time as budget hearings.
Nayana- What do you think?
Phil- I think you should push budgeting back so more people are there for the hearings.
Nayana- how far back do you want to push the budget hearings?
Joy- I think it is set for the week of homecoming.
Nayana- How about 2 weeks after in house? October 17 for in House Elections.
Ross- Contact all organizations this week. i will send an email to the listproc. I have one from several years ago. Reach out to as many people as you can. Say we want active people.
Alex- They don’t have to run for a specific house.
Ross- We need to figure out what kind of process we are going to make them go through.
Nayana- So we have to plan an application.
Ross- We should have them here a meeting before, it will be a requirement.
Joy- The day we vote, they will speak to us.
Nayana- October 30 for budget hearings.
Carrie- October 30 is you guys wanted to have a joint meeting to avoid conflict for Halloween.
Nayana- I talked to Senate and they thought about meeting for a free hour.
Ross- That week would be a good week to have an informal meeting.
Nayana- The casual meetings would be nice without the gavel. I don’t remember a date being set.
SOUNDS GOOD!
B. Other Discussions
1. Budget Hearings
Nayana- are we going into the weekends?
Ross- I made an open schedule, I will leave it in the SGA offices and fill your names in where you are available.
2. Failing and Suceeding
Ross- We have never been extremely successful. We have so much potential. What if we created something to bring together organizations? What does your organization need that isn’t money or to be recognized?
Ariane- This bus trip was fun. Relaxing, mixing mingle event. They like having field trips, where people interact with each other. Game room.
Ross- What could we do to help your organization grow?
Ariane- Sometime it is hard to approach other groups we don’t know.
Liz- Isn’t there an organization to bring groups together?
Joy- even though UMBC is diverse, it is still segregated. Could board make the event?
Ariane- lets say every month the presidents of the clubs mingle and create a large event.
Ozel- There was a leadershape alliance. One of my Frat brothers, there are a lot of organization representatives come together. We should promote a lot of people.
Ben- IT WAS GREAT!
Carrie- There is a maximum capacity for leadershape. We foot most of the bill. We fund about $15000. Hopefully we can develop on campus leadership training. It won’t happen this year, but maybe next year, to achieve the same goal.
Steve- Readship program- Dr. USA todays Baltimore Sun, etc, they would like us to fund most of it next semester. He came to the Senate 2 weeks ago. i need someone from the House to work with a member of the Senate, Danielle.
Alex- I guess I will volunteer.
Ross- You know how we get the library media center. They can’t spend their money until we decide what DVDs to buy.
Steve- We set up committees to make a list. Terrence is in charge of it.
Ozel- I never new you could rent DVDs from the library. Is there a promotion?
Ross- They have all these display cases.
Ben- $1 a day if they are late, SGA recommended.
Ozel- why don’t we hand out a survey to the students? Compile the list. See whats similar?
Carrie- Is someone volunteering to do that?
Ben- Can’t they go to the committee?
Yes
Ross- People who are interested should be involved.
Carrie- Women should go.
Ross- I am a guy but I agree with you Carrie.
Steve [other committees] Food services committees, Academic services, I will send a list to the listproc.
XII. Announcements
Communiversity- Nobody has signed up. You have to sign up.
Ross- How do we sign up?
Nayana- Email bhoke1@umbc.edu to sign up. YOU MUST SIGN UP!!!
Joy- Homecoming talent show, get people to sign up.
Carrie- Is anyone willing to help look for organizations helping fund the Sexual abuse thing by the Athletic department. It would be a few days of activities.
XIII. Roll Call
Yvonne, Christina
XIV. Adjournment
6:25