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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Call to Order
8:22
Roll Call
Ozell
Liz
Approval of Minutes
New Business
A. HL106-0607 - Additional Allocation For SEA Camp Retreat in Maine.
Joy: SEA is asking for money, open of everyone, we decided to give the 300 for food and 100 for campground
Carrie: Can they do this event with 400 dollars? Because Maine is far away.
Nayana: We have funded SEA a lot of money in the past. We considered not giving them any money but this way they can do this event in Maryland..
Joy: Lot of the cost is rental vans and driving.
Ross: They can go anywhere here or Pennsylvania or West Virginia. And we have given them a lot of money.
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
B. HL107-0607 - Additional Allocation For MHC First Meeting
Joy: New club; open to everyone; so we funded them for food drinks and flyers. Ask money for second meeting but we didn’t fund it
Mike: This is there first meeting
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
C. HL108-0607 - Additional Allocation For Risk Management Seminar
Joy: Expecting 120 people; educating people about hazing there alcohol. Open to everyone. 6 to 8 pm at the UC. They are having a speaker appear.
David: This is targeted to the Greek communities. About alcohol hazing.
Nayana: So will it be greeks and alcohol hazing?
Christine: Yes you are right it is mostly to the Greeks. But anybody can come.
Mike: Is the event of helping all students.
Ross: Basically you do skits and stuff.
Joy: Does anyone know if all Greeks have to attend this.
Nayana: Don’t know. table?
TABLED For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
D. HL109-0607 - Additional Allocation For Casa Fest
Joy: april 26; expecting 250 people; 5 dollar in advance and 7 at door; last year it was successful and excepting a good turn out.
Mike: What is the difference between audio and sound?
Nayana: Sound for the DJ and audio for the performance
Ross: This event won event of the year
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
E. HL110-0607 - Additional Allocation For Genesis Toastmasters
Nayana: This a speech group, it is for 3 people that
Joy: The first one: is for the district “18 spring conference”. The second one (HL111-0607) is for the yearly membership cost, there are 14 members but they are asking for 10 member.
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
F. HL111-0607 - Additional Allocation For Genesis Toastmaster
Ross: These are the only thing they ask for.
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
G. JL16-0607 – Funding for Honors College Council for “Honors College Mirror Ball”
Ross: This is last week’s legislation, it passed the senate.
Carrie: How did this come to being
Ross: The sga is not co-sponsor it but we can fund it, they said if we wont charge for the event so the event is free.
Carrie: Is there a reason why we used the GL and not the project and intetives. It is never spent.
Mike: I am concerned we are giving money to a no recognized organization, and not getting anything.
Joy: The purpose it to make.
Mike: This kind of goes back to the image of the sga.
Christine: I don’t understand about the image .
Ross: I don’t think they will not be grateful. The leaders of this event were grateful because there was hope last Monday.
Carrie: I am not opposed to the idea. But we should.
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstaining: 1
Old Business
A. HL63-0607
Ross: I move to remove the table. Basically doing right now, to determine if we should allocate the money. They say that they removed the
Randy: so it wont go to next year.
Ross: they would need Phil to reallocate it to spend it so I think we should take it back.
Christine: what are we voting on?
Ross: if we give them money. We brought back to reconsider it.
Carrie: pretend we never seen this and voted on it
For: 0 Opposed: 6 Abstaining: 2
Committee Reports
Ross: we talked about what David is trying to get thru.
Nayana: may 3 and 10 is Organizations can come asking for money again.
Joy: that money can’t be used next year?
Ross: it rolls back into the GL.
Ex-Officio Reports
David: I want to mention to you some discussions that are going on in the Office of Student life, about student organizations management and process. We Identified 23 processes Student life. Tomorrow there will be a meeting of a little group to see if there needs to be any changes. So tomorrow I want to propose instead of having process relating to the condition of student organizations, punishment of bad behavior, enforcement of the five member rule, where the process goes student life hears something, everything is put into a file then goes to me, I look through it, review their constitution then pass that off to the chair of student life committee, and he shared it with the rest of the committee, it goes to the house, takes a vote, which is a recommendation to assistant VP of student affairs. 13 steps in all. The problem with this is if a hand off that was not made the right way the only person to know that is the last person to have that. So I want to suggest doing away with this and making a committee of sga member and Office of student life staff members. to do the entire review process.
Ross: will this committee deal with bad behavior?
David: The committee will do this to because that is step-by-step process too. The downside for sga to this is the students would not get much of a voice, they get a vote but it is not the same.
Carrie: we are working on dietary needs please email.
Tabassum: may 11 at 7pm in the library in the 7th floor, your term does not end until
Tabassum: we are planning the stress free zone, with a beach theme. We are looking for volunteer.
Randy: what are volunteers doing?
Tab: staffing the study place, during exams, don’t sign up if you have exams
Announcement
Joy: make sure you buy the tickets. Sign up to volunteer for being monitors
Christine: april is sexual assault avernce month
Ross: april is also national poetry month. We need to start pumping the student fee increase.
Carrie: we will not be asking a fee questions.
Stan: anyone going to be at jumbo night.
Roll Call
Ozell
Liz
Adjournment
9:24