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
828
Roll Call (absent)
liz
Approval of Minutes
New Business
A. HL132-0607 – Additional Allocation for 1st meeting in Fall 2007
Nayana: is for a recruitment event for TSA
Mike: is this organization aware that w
For: 8 Opposed:0 Abstain: 1
B. HL133-0607 – Additional Allocation for Social Events
Mike: what is a outing gathering event?
Nayana: a recruitment event.
Carrie: what kind of things are they doing?
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For: Opposed: Abstain:
C. HL134-0607 – Additional Allocation for 1st meeting in Fall 2007
Nayana: for recruitment event American Institute of chemical engineers.
For: 8 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
D. HL135-0607 – Additional Allocation for Networking Forum Dinner.
Nayana: networking forum dinner by the American Institute of Chemical Enginneer.
For: 8 Opposed:0 Abstain: 1
E. HL136-0607 – Additional Allocation for Annual GES Dept. BBQ
Nayana:
Carrie: is there a reason why it is called a DEPT. bbq? I think we should ask that the organization should remove dept from there name.
David:
Ross: consider that there was not a GES
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F. HL137-0607 – Additional Allocation for Sustainable Future Dinner
Nayana: Additional Allocation for Sustainable Future Dinner by Campus Climate Initiative
Ross: how is sodexho going to fund a future dinner?
Carrie: how do we know if not an invite is only?
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G. HL138-0607 – Additional Allocation for Involvement Fest
Nayana: Additional Allocation for the Korean Campus Ministry.
For: 8 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
H. HL139-0607 – Additional Allocation For chess club
Nayana: AA for the Chess club for a tournament.
For: 8 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
I. HL140-0607 – Additional Allocation for Administration
Nayana: IEEE (instate) asking for paper marker and solder iron.
David: is it an event or administrative cost?
Nayana: administrative cost.
For: 7 Opposed:0 Abstain:1
J. HL141-0607 – Additional Allocation for IGVC Robot
Nayana: building a new robots because they need a new one
Ozell:
Ross: I don’t know what it will take to get a resource like that.
Layma: we except the organization
Carrie: I think it is a good point to get other organization to fundraise
Mike: that is one of the smaller projects I want to do
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
K. HL142-0607 – Additional Allocation for Social
Nayana: on September 18, a recruitment event.
For :7 Opposed: 0 Abstain:1
L. HL143-0607 – Additional Allocation for 1st meeting in Fall 2007
Nayana: Additional Allocation for biocom recruitment activity.
Mike:
For: 6 Opposed: 1 Abstain: 1
M. HL144-0607 – Additional Allocation for Involvement Fest Fall 2007
Nayana: Additional Allocation for BioCom involment fest
Ross: what are they extracting?
Nayana: Strawberries
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
N. HL145-0607 – Additional Allocation for US Go Congress
Nayana: giving money to registration and campsite housing for 8 people.
James: what is something important to show they try.
Mike: how far?
Nayana: Pennsylvania
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
O. HL146-0607 – Additional Allocation for Go
Nayana: they want new boards and stones
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
P. HL147-0607- Additional Allocation for welcome back Pizza Party
Nayana: by the Migrane Help Club.
Ross: is it a month long event?
Nayana: no
Mike: how has there current recruitment
Stan: I went to first meeting and had 20 people
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
Q. HL148-0607 – Additional Allocation for Welcome BBQ
Ross: where are they renting the BBQ from?
Nayana: University
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
R. HL149-0607 – Additional Allocation for Ajooba
Ross: what are the road signs?
Mike: are there tickets for on campus and off campus?
Nayana: the same
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain:1
S. HL150-0607 – Additional allocation for Quizbowl Team;s September Tournament
Mike: how many are going?
James: I thought it was 12 and if they wanted more they would split the cost.
Mike: what is quiz bowl?
Ross: it is academic.
For: 7 Opposed:0 Abstain: 1
T. HL151-0607- Additional Allocation for Kinetic Sculture Club’s Team Building Workshop
Ross: basically they would
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
U. HL152-0607 – Kinetic Sculpture Club’s recruitment
Nayana: recruitment
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain:1
V. HL153-0607 – Kinetic Sculpture Club’s Fundraiser
Mike: has the race happened?
Ross: Saturday
Nayana: what is charcoal for?
Ross:
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
W. HL154-0607 – Additional allocation for Perfected Praise Liturgical Dance Ministry’s praise Garments
Mike: didn’t they ask for it before?
Nayana: yeah we didn’t give them. These are praise garments for the new members.
Mike: what is a praise garment?
Christine: it is like a shirt and pants.
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
X. HL155-0607 –Additional Allocation for Yoga and Meditation Society
Rep: basically it is have a food distribution of vegetarian food distribution. Next semester. The main thing we are trying to achieve is that good food can be obtained with out the harm of animals. We also want to have guest speakers, the cost of the speakers is the travel cost.
Joy: when it is taking place?
Rep: September 9 thru
Phil: how is this representing the mission statement of the Yoga and Meditation Society.
Rep:
Randy:
Rep: it is basically a discussion going on thru the speaker.
David: the purpose of giving out the food, what else will be given
Rep:
Joy: how many books?
Rep: it will be enough.
Mike: I was confused how it was related to yoga.
James: I think it would be a better reason is yoga is lifestyle.
Carrie: it is hard for us to dictate what a
James: honorarium was fitting because it is what its organizations do.
Ross: 6800 dollars. Let give them one day and the guest speaker like James was saying.
Mike:
Nayana: it is there way of promoting their group.
David: SGA
James: I have to disagree with ross about the book because they are handing out promotional material.
Carrie: books are great but expensive. They could get hundreds of fliers.
James: I cant know this for
Ross: I have been against the book thing because of the give away books.
Mike: I think it is more effective to get people to join the organization.
Nayana: anyone for me friendly amend this
For: 7 Opposed: 0 Abstain: 1
Y: JL20-0607 – Changes to the Budgetary Policy
Phil: so with the new structure of the sga, with the new format of the budget procedure, it was necessary to revise the budget policy to fit the new sga.
Joy: has this gone thru the senate
Nayana: yes
Ozell: what about issues dealing with student life.
Phil: it is covered with the
Mike: this document doesn’t have it the major changes like sports clubs
Phil: that is covered in the stautes and it is more like
7/0/2
Committee Reports
Nayana: committee
Ex-Officio Reports
Carrie: if you graduating , stress free zone we need people
Nayana: do we know what food we are going for inauguration.
James: this week was the fee forum, it was successful and
Steve: a couple days ago I had a meeting about the SGAs role in Orientation. The other, I will also be bring up legislation to changing the by-laws
David: survey
General Discussions
A. New York Times
Mike: is it true having the New York Time as our newspaper is benefits.
Nayana: we need to
Mike: the benfits I was told was the access code to the archive.
David: so it would like
Ozell:
Mike: so if the people th
Nayana: I remember talking to Dr Fay, that if I
Carrie: the VP of Student Affair can not tell us what to do with the SGA money.
Nayana: I think the attent is that we don’t go behind his back.
James: I hear
Ross: will there be workshops on how to make better newspaper.
Mike: if NYT will work with other organization.
Ross: how exactly does that happen?
Mike:
David: _problaby helped
Lamya: if you what to know the purpose
David: the experience that the SGA as a whole is more and more organization to
Mike: it is also a good thing to bring to Dr. Fay.
Nayana: what I meant was we have to be respectively to him
B. TRW
Nayana: a few sga members went to talk with Patty. The facebook group,
James: there was a facebook group about the SEB president.
Ross: I haven’t been informed since the last meeting.
Nayana: basically what we did was we did divide between
Mike: I will do, one of the way it was describe it is not a bloged.
Nayana: the reason we are gathering all this is we will give it to the Patty who will give it to the TRW advisor
James: they frequently say they don’t get enough money and staff.
Ross: you know we have been having these discussions for a long time. A chartered organization is different from the newspaper by students. Am I say I want to write up legislation to get them uncharted then yes but it
Nyana; Patty said that you wont listen to what
James: I think I have a little trouble about the good and bad articles, but the facts being wrong is easy
Mike: the good and bad articles is to get a balance.
James: something I think is good to do is, contact other campus and see what they do.
Ross: my thing as a charter organization, they never want to change the music they play. And we come in and tell them what to do. they would be no, but they would accommodate with the SGA.
Nayana: they choose what to do and what articles they cover.
Mike: there are a lot of events
Ross: if you read the facebook comments they say nothing goes on in UMBC but stuff does happen.
James:
Nayana: there was something else that was that they never get their fact right.
Carrie: they don’t seem like they don’t seem to have any standards
James: the “we don’t have enough writers” because the articles
Mike: they would be better off
Carries: Boston College has three newspapers and they are not that long
Nayana:
David: they probably sell there ads
James: we cut off seven thousand dollars in seven minutes.
Carries: they get more money in the salary then the SGA and SEB.
Nayana: I think the salaries are under our budgets
Carrie: yeah there
David: there are big things that could be do__.if we want a better newspaper, then the solution is either getting a new newspaper
Nayana: we are putting the ball in their court
Carrie: david is right, we should start another newspaper. Watching how the another newspaper.
Nayana: I was talking to Tabassum about compiling the weekly reports
Carries: things like who knows about, who knows better about stuff then the SGA, there is a lot of things that we could do to put that info out there.
C.
David: first of all the changes in the student life committee, like the five member rule and enforcing it. So I took a shot at rewriting the SGA policy shared it with other and just to see the mistakes and I want to send that out to you. So you can approve it.
Announcement
Ozell: hope you got your tickets to the dance
Christine: the hazing thing went well.
Ross: the Honors college council finally changed there constitutions, really what they want is to have them overlapping like a Venn diagram
Nayana: how does that work?
Ross: the department
Christine: there will be a stress relief
Roll Call (absent)
Liz
Joy
Adjournment
1044
Pass the Gavel