Student Government Association

The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday 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 Senate, Steve Gilmore (gilmore2@umbc.edu), in advance so you can be added to the agenda.

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October 29th, 2007
SGA Office
Present: everyone except Ben Kitterman
Meeting in order 5.34pm

Joint legislation
• Debt to be paid for the JSU ( $2557.00 )
• Event – several organizations money collected from to pay for this event

# of senators passing: 6
# of senators opposed: 0
Abstained: 1

Revenue enhancement dedicated to higher education
• Support increase funding for higher education by governor O’Malley
• Not support specific proposal or budget
• Rally in Annapolis on higher education on Wednesday
• 54 mil would be dedicated to higher education
• Corporate income tax not favored but support higher education
• These funding will be distributed throughout a lot of other offices
# of passing : 6
# of opposed: 0
Abstained: 1

Jake:
• Information on how athletic fee has been allocated throughout.
• Athletic fee advisory committee will be set up
o Keeping track on athletic fee
• These fees will be made publicly

Idea development tool
• Rate the SGA from a scale of 0-10 on it’s improvement (results are above average)
• Rate the SGA from a scale of 0-10 on individual (results are lower)
• This could be due to dealing to issue that were approached with rather than going out there
• Possible solutions to improving student’s attitudes towards SGA
o Go up to students instead of them coming to us
o Placing ballot boxes around campus
o Town-hall meetings
o Use the “Prove it” program as a resource
o Brainstorming with another sga senator by next meeting
 Thoroughly researched and contacting people related to these issues
 Coming up with possible solutions

Prove it
o Launched Monday Nov 5th 11am
o Information handed out on water bottles and pens
o Student regents, panel of students from different campuses competing for this position

Adjourned: 7.34pm

The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday 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 Senate, Steve Gilmore (gilmore2@umbc.edu), in advance so you can be added to the agenda.

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Meeting in order at 5.36 pm

All senators present except Michael

November 5th, 2007

Week update

* Atm need a safe location to place it.
o Suggestion: the courtyard
* Courses allowed to take only 3 times
* Suggestions report to the dvd rental place in the library or facebook group

“improve it”

* Website worked on
* 5000
o Sweatshirts
+ SGA members
+ Improve it members
o Hoodies
o Waterbottles and pens
+ Logo printed on pictures and added to water bottles
* 3000
o Banners
o Flyers
o Placemats
o Stress free zone
o Kick-off
o Advertisements
+ Going out to residence halls and advertising this program
* Will start next week

Senators passing: 6

Senators opposed: 0

Senators abstained: 1

Jake:

* T-shirts printed for advertisement
* Find another company for printing these shirts and shipping costs for less money
* In the future get enough proposals from other companies
o Work with a budget

First year ambassadors:

* Paired up senators
o Tasha and Jeff location on suggestions box
+ Need a safe location on where to place the atm
# (1st step) Need to contact reslife
* Contact RSA
* Ask them for suggestions on locations
# Check with other campuses for the # of atms
# Need to contact Chevy Chase
* Ask what the limit on the number of atms
+ Need suggestions on location
# Harbor Cafe
# Dining Hall
+
# Commons closed by midnight
# Atm money limited
# No atm in walker apartment
+ Expand the redcard program
# Encouraging students to use the redcard
+ Jen in charge of location placing the suggestion box
o Heather and Rahilla Town hall meeting
+ Meeting with RSA 2mrw
# RSA also setting up some kind of meeting
* 27th of November
o Harbor Hall
* SGA members should be present
o From different positions
o To what extend be involved in this
+ Work with RSA, cooperate
* Possible opportunity to advertise SGA programs
o Prove it program
o Stress-free zone
+ Supply food cost $800
* Provide information about SGA
o The goals
o Job positions
* Possible location for future
o Residence halls
o Apartments
* Advertise these meetings
o Flyers
o Work with RA’s
+ Have halls invite SGA for an info session
# Bring snacks along for the students
# Instead of telling them what we can do we can ask them what they want us to do for them
# Work with CAB
+ Depending on the town hall meetings being successful
# We can have it once every semester
* Different SGA members go to different halls for these meetings at different times
* Open to every students
* Each building
* Two dorms a night with three SGA members present
* Have a speaker for these meetings
o Micheal and Jen Music sharing
+
o Steve and Ben on the retriever weekly
+ What are they’re sources?
+ News pieces are opinions
+ What other departments do they work with?
+ Staff editorials analyzed
# No authors names present
# Negative comments
# Needs more accountability
# Lacks professionalism
+ This is a charter organization, student organization
+ Other students have the ability to set up another newspaper organization
+ Encourage the writers to write more positive things
# No journalism program for writers on how to approach an article
# Find facts
# Reliable sources
+ Have other student organizations work with the retriever weekly
# Contact other students to work with

Josh:

* 11 – 2 am
o Commons everyday
+ Help the students related to legislation
# Improvement of the education system

Executive review:

* Tailgate Friday November 9th
o 5.30 pm
o Commons terrace
o Women’s basketball team
* Wednesday Annapolis O’Malley’s legislation
o Corporate tax increase
o Josh testified

Meeting adjourned at 7.09 pm

The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday 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 Senate, Steve Gilmore (gilmore2@umbc.edu), in advance so you can be added to the agenda.

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Meeting in order at 5.36 pm

All senators present except Michael

November 5th, 2007

Week update

* Atm need a safe location to place it.
o Suggestion: the courtyard
* Courses allowed to take only 3 times
* Suggestions report to the dvd rental place in the library or facebook group

“improve it”

* Website worked on
* 5000
o Sweatshirts
+ SGA members
+ Improve it members
o Hoodies
o Waterbottles and pens
+ Logo printed on pictures and added to water bottles
* 3000
o Banners
o Flyers
o Placemats
o Stress free zone
o Kick-off
o Advertisements
+ Going out to residence halls and advertising this program
* Will start next week

Senators passing: 6

Senators opposed: 0

Senators abstained: 1

Jake:

* T-shirts printed for advertisement
* Find another company for printing these shirts and shipping costs for less money
* In the future get enough proposals from other companies
o Work with a budget

First year ambassadors:

* Paired up senators
o Tasha and Jeff location on suggestions box
+ Need a safe location on where to place the atm
# (1st step) Need to contact reslife
* Contact RSA
* Ask them for suggestions on locations
# Check with other campuses for the # of atms
# Need to contact Chevy Chase
* Ask what the limit on the number of atms
+ Need suggestions on location
# Harbor Cafe
# Dining Hall
+
# Commons closed by midnight
# Atm money limited
# No atm in walker apartment
+ Expand the redcard program
# Encouraging students to use the redcard
+ Jen in charge of location placing the suggestion box
o Heather and Rahilla Town hall meeting
+ Meeting with RSA 2mrw
# RSA also setting up some kind of meeting
* 27th of November
o Harbor Hall
* SGA members should be present
o From different positions
o To what extend be involved in this
+ Work with RSA, cooperate
* Possible opportunity to advertise SGA programs
o Prove it program
o Stress-free zone
+ Supply food cost $800
* Provide information about SGA
o The goals
o Job positions
* Possible location for future
o Residence halls
o Apartments
* Advertise these meetings
o Flyers
o Work with RA’s
+ Have halls invite SGA for an info session
# Bring snacks along for the students
# Instead of telling them what we can do we can ask them what they want us to do for them
# Work with CAB
+ Depending on the town hall meetings being successful
# We can have it once every semester
* Different SGA members go to different halls for these meetings at different times
* Open to every students
* Each building
* Two dorms a night with three SGA members present
* Have a speaker for these meetings
o Micheal and Jen Music sharing
+
o Steve and Ben on the retriever weekly
+ What are they’re sources?
+ News pieces are opinions
+ What other departments do they work with?
+ Staff editorials analyzed
# No authors names present
# Negative comments
# Needs more accountability
# Lacks professionalism
+ This is a charter organization, student organization
+ Other students have the ability to set up another newspaper organization
+ Encourage the writers to write more positive things
# No journalism program for writers on how to approach an article
# Find facts
# Reliable sources
+ Have other student organizations work with the retriever weekly
# Contact other students to work with

Josh:

* 11 – 2 am
o Commons everyday
+ Help the students related to legislation
# Improvement of the education system

Executive review:

* Tailgate Friday November 9th
o 5.30 pm
o Commons terrace
o Women’s basketball team
* Wednesday Annapolis O’Malley’s legislation
o Corporate tax increase
o Josh testified

Meeting adjourned at 7.09 pm

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5:40pm meeting called to order.

Roll call: Christine, Igor, David, Joy

Budget Allocations:

Total Allocations: $43684.98.

3 errors:

1. Increase $30 to the Go Club as we originally approved $30 for supplies for an oversized board for them but it was left out of the total. They were given $450 when they should have been given $480.

2. Decrease Alpha Nu Omega by $100.

3. Increase MSL by $50.

Voting:

For: 3

Against:0

Passes

Mock Trial:

Voting for $1225 for Mock Trial:

For: 3

Against:0

Passes

JSU Hannukah Party:

For: 3

Opposed:0

Passes

Hindu Students Council Issue:

Nayana: Apparantly the finance board had paid for the sticks and food for the Garba but you still charged for it anyway. Can you explain that?

Well we are always going to charge for food and water. That was our idea from the beginning. I thought id made that clear.

Nayana: But wasn’t the food fully funded?

I think so but im not exactly sure. Atleast for the sticks we charged because what happened last year was we charged $1 for renting and refunded them if they returned them. Bascially we wanted to avoid that this year. So this year it was $3 and if they returned them they got $2 back.

Igor: Didn’t the money we allocated cover the sticks?

No they ended up costing more and you didnt give us enough for them.

Igor: Our goal is to keep admission costs as low as possible. We allowed you to charge so people wouldn’t get free tickets and we subtracted what we expected the profit to be so you would break even so by charging $3 admission wouldn’t you come even with the money you lost on the sticks?

No because when we applied for money we didn’t expect money for security and housekeeping to go up. These expenses went up about $1200 to $1500.

Nayana: So did you gain money for your carryover account?

NO we haven’t done the calculations yet. We know housekeeping didn’t show up. So we can cut $400 from expenses but we hav to figure that out. Security came up an hour and a half late.

Joy: How much profit did you make?

I don’t know. A couple people still have to apply for reimbursement so I havnt actually totaled everything up.

Igor: How much did you gross.

Gross was $1823 subtract whatever expenses we had.

Fouad: Do you expect that if security and housekeeping take their money then will you come up less?

We’ll probably break even. I want to say there were a significant number of off campus students.

Joy: We just want to make sure people aren’t trying to abuse our system and work around it.

Well yes I understand. But at the end we just gave the food and water away. We really weren’t trying to make a profit of this. We just wanted to make sure people don’t steal our stuff.

Joy: Also in the future if you do have other expenses come up then you can just come to us for them.

Igor: I guess now that the event is over, it’s a good time for your organization to analyze what you did well and the problems you encountered.

Yes once I get the final figures done then I’ll be more sure of the exact situation financially.

Organization Contacts:

David: Basically we’ve been getting a lot of emails from organizations complaining about why they havnt got money. I was thinking that each of you could take a few organizations and basically be responsible to tell them why they didn’t get money and an explanation. Itll just make the situation more personal and make sure they don’t get too angry.

BSU:

Joy: Can you tell us about your budget.

We have all the money we need for this semester and Ozell said that for next semester we could come back and talk to you about them. We are having a fashion show which will be free for UMBC students. The money that we have already will have to go to clothes but we might need SGA’s help for the venue costs, sound, Dj, etc. The total is about $210 for eight hours. We’re going to have about 400-450 people. We’re going to have a picture table with photos. We’re going to have a few tables for the DJ and other things. The DJ is $400 for 8 hours but we don’t mind discussing that with you and possibly changing that. The total cost is $1701. We already have $800 ourselves. We’re going to market it by going to Common Vision and getting a banner. There are going to be a lot of Deltas from other schools so we’ll be charging for outside people.

David: Ok , we’ll let you know by tomorrow afternoon or Thursday morning.

Thank You

Elani- MHEC-SAC

This legislation is for the MHEC-SAC. It meets every month and we have a strong membership at UMBC. Unfortunately earlier this week a university would host this weekend but that fell through. Josh and I decided we could hold it here and the total cost is $350 but we’re asking for $400 just to be safe. We’re expecting about 40-50 people. We’re making this an general ledger expenditure because even though im an executive member this isn’t an executive event.

David: So this event is on Saturday?

Yes

David: Is it open to any UMBC students?

I don’t think its been declared closed. I remember times when members have brought guests.

Christine: So you and Josh are representing UMBC.

Yes. We’re also asking for food for breakfast for the people. It’s a quote from Sodexho for the skylight room which is where its being held.

Fouad: Is there any policy about funding an event like this?

David: Its general ledger so theres no rules about funding it.

Thank You

Voting on $1701 for BSU’s Fashion Show:

For:3

Opposed:0

Passes

Voting for MHEC-SAC:

For:0

Opposed:0

Passes

Roll Call: Same as earlier.

Meeting adjourned at 6:39pm

The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday 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 Senate, Steve Gilmore (gilmore2@umbc.edu), in advance so you can be added to the agenda.

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Date: Monday November 12, 2007
Room:
Meeting in order: 5.35pm
Everyone is present except for Jen

Vice President for Student Affairs:
• Neketa: Night openings for food venues
o Survey conducted on students
o Recommendations process with other student organizations
o Staff went through job re-training
• Sameera: Food prices
o Unreasonable prices for certain food items
o Due to survey resulting in 20-30 % only have a concern about the prices of food
o Students are more concerned about the food quality
• James: Directory available in the commons providing new students with information about the building
o The need for new students to explore with the goal of making new friends
• Whitney: How did UMBC change?
o “As UMBC gets bigger how do we keep it small?”
 More activity should be available for first year students
 Immediate community
 Talent shows
 Need to come up with how to make small communities in a big community
 Never changed: students are polite
• Success:
o “What others think is success for you”
 Passion is students
o VP of student affairs
 Helping students to graduate in peace
o Cooperation with all student organizations
 Include all students in all activities
o Representing students concerns
 The administration should be able to present the student’s past experiences and also present students
 Residential plan
• Recommendations for improving apartments and residence halls
• Also providing recreation areas for students
• Housing outside the loop, ask students their opinions on this.
o If it is too far outside the loop
• Collaborating
o Keep important things alive
• Athletic dept
o Share same goals
 Engaging students in sports
o Share same problems
 Funding
o Student affairs and athletic dept
 Future funding will not be available to these dept.
• Placing more atm machines
o Security concerns

Week-reviews
• House and the senate
o Dedicated funding source
o Slots
 Increase funding for higher education
o Spending cut side
• UMBC representatives
• Federal legislation
o Restricting federal legislation on file sharing
• SGA blog
o Working out pretty well
• Great contributions from the first year ambassadors
• Black gold commission
o Number of attendance expected not present due to the rain
• Student organizations dinner
o Unveiling the events
o Successful for the students who did attend this dinner
• Prove it
o Advertising has started
o Students excited about it
o Encourage students to join facebook
o Quarter sheets provides all the info about this program
• Red card program
o Advertisement comes out this week
o Take advantage of the discount this card offers
o Banner up in the commons

Joint legislation:
General Ledger JL 02-0708
• Higher education policies
o Expenditure of $400
 Executive representative of the students
 Fund the November’s MHEC-SAC

Number of senators passing: 5
Opposed: 0
Abstained: 1
Cellular solutions:
• Charge your cell-phone
o No payments
o Of use for advertisements
o Security concerns
o Policy to use it to test for effectiveness
o Ask other companies that have it

Natasha and Jeff
• ATM machines
o Placed at one spot at most schools
o Not urgent

Rahilla and Heather:
Town hall meetings
• RSA meeting
o Inform RSA on their suggestions
 SGA members being present at these town hall meeting
 Send out e-mail to CABs
• Contact these groups asking for invitations
• Present SGA to the students at these meetings
• Interact with students
o Start these meetings next semester
 Send out e-mails no later than this week
o Goal of these meetings
 Make SGA visible
 Make connections between students and SGA members
• About a specific issue

Michael:
File sharing
• Contacting legislators and policy makers
o Ambiguity in the copy-rights
o Building relationships with legislators and policy makers for future preferences
 Legislators are able to take away certain privileges such as grants and scholarships
 Unable to bring up the issue of file sharing in situations like this
o Signing contracts with companies and schools on this issue
o Send out a letter to student affair
 Discussing this issue preventing the school from law suits
Steve and Ben:
• Approach the retriever weekly
o Ask questions on where the articles are going
o How can SGA be of any help
• Students can attend the Wednesday meeting with Steve

Executive reports:
• Int. TA’s
o Jesse and Elise
 Meeting
• Sports clubs
• Prove it
• CAACURH
• Leader shape

Meeting adjourned: 7.15pm

Meeting Start: 5:36pm

Role Call

Christine Ozell, David, Joy

Absent: Ashley, Igor

Interfraternity Council:

They originally requested $4000. Program during Greek week, UC ballroom, April 16th, program by campusspeak.com. Speaks about domestic violence month; used to highlight that fraternity men are not as depicted (violent).

Appx. 200 people attending

$4000 speakers, $200 sound system

Open to all students, free. Evening event with a positive response from other campuses; very gender tame. Reflects a positive image of Greek life

Sound system price quote from ops. $4000 charge set by program.

Backup – less known speaker appx. $700 cost

Happ COM:

End of year celebration, congratulations for graduating seniors. Names announced by professors. Tradition event.

$430 cost

Free for students. Appx. 30 students and 5 professors

***Ashley arrived / Revised Absent list: Igor

Board: $430 reasonable range for food, need more information on why organization is in deficit in carryover. N/A because their SGA account is not in deficit.

ASC:

Eliot Chang, well known comedian, played in several colleges. Dec 6th in UC Ballroom. Free admission.300 ppl limit. 200 allocated to students, welcome to buy more tickets for outside people. Ranked 2nd biggest event in ASC. This is the total cost needed for the event ($2378.75). Plan to advertise thru flyers facebook, word of mouth

Musical Theatre Club:

Spring musical, the show will be “Company”. Cost (3450). Held in Ballroom, need sound, lights and sets. Hoping to expand marketing thru common vision. Licensing to Int’l music theatre as royalties for 3 shows and books for actors, very essential. Free to students on campus and charge for off campus. Trying to schedule a slot at recital hall, having difficulty to obtain though at (april 3-5). Possibly a dinner theatre on one of the show dates. If recital hall obtained then fees will significantly decrease.

Recital Hall: Difficult as many people use for rehearsal and symphony and it and many sound distractions.

----Happ COM: $430 graduation celebration

For : 4 reps/Opp: 0/Abst: 0

----ASC: Comedy event

For: 4/ Opp: 0/Abs: 0

----Musical Theatre:

We will give them Licensing, Sets and Props, Costumes, and Marketing totaling at (2325); The rest of the items will be given when place of event will be decided. They need to double check if they need security with scheduling.

For: 4/Opp: 0/Abs: 0

Tea Empire:

Emphasizes Women spirituality and relaxation. Part of bigger Pagan SU raffle event. Asked for certain type of teas to make ur own blend of tea. Ranked in importance of organization events (Lower), but interesting. Commons mainstreet, held for 3 days; appx. 300ppl attendance.

Sikh SA:

Event already occurred and charged for housekeeping because it is obligatory.

----Tea Empire:

For: 4/Opp: 0/Abs: 0

In regards to Sikh SA; we will see what the reason is for Housekeeping not being asked for/ no knowledge about cost. Possibility: we can reallocate 165 from their account and then give them the difference ($11).

In regards to BSU; they must talk to Drema and get a cost breakdown in order to figure out the difference between what was given to them and revised cost.

Role Call: Ozell, Ashley, David, Joy, Christine

End Meeting: 6:45pm

UMBC Bicycle Rack Policy
*Bicycles must be parked in bicycle pods or bicycle racks. Bicycles chained
to trees, buildings, poles, etc. will be removed immediately.

*Bicycle racks are for temporary day use only.

*Any bicycle left in a rack beyond a two-week period will be considered
abandoned and subject to padlock and bicycle removal by Facilities
Management.

*Any bicycle removed by Facilities Management will be held in storage and
posted on the UMBC Police Lost & Found Web page until August 1 of each year.
All bikes not reclaimed by this time will be donated to charity.

*Removed bicycles may be reclaimed by contacting UMBC Police. Proof of ID, a
description of the bike (manufacture & color), and the location of where the
bike was removed from will be required by Campus Police for all reclaims.

The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday 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 Senate, Steve Gilmore (gilmore2@umbc.edu), in advance so you can be added to the agenda.

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Date: Monday November 26, 2007
Room: Commons 318
Meeting in order: 5:38pm
Everyone present except: Jeff and Tasha

Week in Review
• Jake
Athletics/Recreation Policy Committee Meetings
Talked at length about Duke Lacrosse scandal and that they’re trying to prevent an incident like that happening here
Athletics/Recreation received $1,000,000 to redo Walker Ave. and Driving Range fields
Talked about club sports and how successful our club sport program is compared to others in our division
1 out of 7 UMBC students are involved in varsity or club sports
MRCA epidemic (MRSA is commonly known as an antibiotic-resistant staph infection)
UMBC’s lacrosse team is on the cover of US Lacrosse Monthly!
NCAA will be visiting our school and making sure that our facilities are up to par
How is student representation on the Accreditation Committee? There is a possibility that students will be on this committee, but there is no guarantee (because it’s an NCAA specific committee).
• Heather
RSA Town Hall Meeting - Tomorrow (Tuesday November 27th) at 8pm in Harbor Multipurpose Room; wear your SGA shirt and come with questions! Jay and other SGA members will be there

New Business
Legislation for funding of Stress-Free Zone (Heather)
Senate Legislation
Asking for an allocation of $2000 from the Senate Additional Allocations Fund for the purchase of items not otherwise purchased in the Stress-Free Zone budget and by OSL
Somewhere from $750-$1500 coming from OSL (co-sponsorship)
There is a total of $5000 in the Senate Additional Allocations Fund at the beginning of the year; this is the first time this semester that we are taking money out of this fund
Number of Senators Passing: 5
Opposed: 0
Abstained: 1
Number of Senators Not Present: 2

Continuing Discussions
Heather and Rahilla (Town Hall Meetings)
• Sent out emails to each CAB; got only one response from the Harbor CAB; hopefully will get a response from the rest of the CABs by the end of this week
• Feel free to e-mail Heather or Rahilla if you have questions
• Will be sending out an email asking SGA members from each residence hall to attend their respective CAB meeting with them
• How will we get SGA members involved in the RSA Town Hall meeting? E-mail sent out last week… About 5 or 6 SGA members have said that they will definitely be there

Natasha and Jeff (ATMs)
• Not here

Jen (Suggestion Boxes)
• Writing the proposal and will give it in this week; Eric will look at it; they should be around next semester
• Who will collect the information? How often will it be collected? – We should make a position for someone who can do this

Ben and Steve (Retriever Weekly)
• Will be rescheduling that meeting very soon (weren’t able to attend)
• There will be one more issue of The Retriever this semester
• There was an article on the Red Card program last week and a couple mentioning Prove It!
• Joe R(?) – will set up a meeting with him to talk about the master plan of the University; will probably occur in January; will be the first time they will able to get a good look at the campus master plan; good opportunity to ask what will be done with the space in the UC where the Bursar’s office was and the space where Hillcrest was

Michael (file sharing)
• No response from Jack Suess
• Posters to be put up around campus; Nancy Young

Announcements
• Michael:
35 days left to submit the application for Prove It!
2nd wave of advertising will begin; placemats in the dining hall; pick up buttons and a sweatshirt if you haven’t already
• Sameera:
Men’s basketball game on Thursday Nov 29 at 7:30 pm in the RAC against Morgan State; come show your support!
• David Hoffman:
Ultimate question that you should ask: What do you want to accomplish? The SGA has a lot left to do
• Jen:
Sign up to volunteer for Stress-Free Zone in the SGA office!
• Steve:
Applications for Student Council and Election Chair are available!

Executive Reports
• Red Card program
• Elani:
February 2 = Another SGA retreat! Bond with other SGA members, get focused and excited for 2nd semester. Will occur in the Study Place from 10am-2pm that Saturday; food
• Gabe:
e-mail from the GSA President…

Meeting adjourned: 6:36pm

5:33pm meeting called to order
Present: Ashley, Joy, David, Christine, Igor, Ozell

BSu Fashion Show:
Joy: Can you tell us about the Contract Revision Costs?
We had a meeting with the safe committee and everybody who we had to meet. We came
up with a total of about $1700, but
when the committee revised it they came up with a figure of about $2200. The
increase was due to house keeping(+$420),
and about a $100 more for setup for audio visual. Shawny told us that the total
increase would be over $700 because she
forgot the amount for the tickets and fliers. So the total increase would be $776,
(+$420 housekeeping, $192 a/v
, $164 for fliers).

Joy: This event is free for all UMBC students?
Yes, we have two shows. The first one will be free for UMBC students and $10 for
outside students. Everyone will have
to pay for the second show. WE have to have another safe meeting for the second
show. Its going to be $5 for UMBC
students for the second show and $10 for outsiders again for the second show.

Fouad: Is there a difference between the first and second show?
No theres no difference but in the past mainly parents come to the first show as its
a Saturday and other ppl come to
the later show.

Ashley: So you're saying that for the first show more parents come?
No, Students tend to go to both shows but parents generally like to come to the
first show because it used to be on a
saturday. But we'll have a larger crowd at the second show since its late on a
Sunday this year.

David: Initially they charged you $1600?
No they charged us $1200 which we put in their account. There was also no traffic
and the second bus was slower than the s
second so they asked the first to go slower. That could hav affected the time. And
they also didnt feel we could fill
2 buses so they had to call the second bus after we filled up the first. This also
added to the time. Also we had no
bus driver's phone numbers so it took us time to find them.

David: Ill set up a meeting with you and the company and I'll be there as well.

Thank You

Voting on $768 for BSU Fashion Show:
Ahsley: I think theres going to be more students wanting to go to the Second show
whicch is going to be charged.

David: Well the issue was that they wanted to do bothh shows free initially but they
were worried that the same ppl
who went to the first show would come back for the second.

Joy: So we should contact them to let them know that we dont want them charging UMBC
students more than $2 for the second
show.

Ozell: So we're rying to pass legislation saying that for the second show UMBC
students are only to be charged $2?

David: Yea, and non UMBC students can be charged whatever.

Calling BSU:Ozell: We want to know if you guys are willing to charge no more than $2
for UMBC students for the second show.
Yes thats fine, can we still charge anything for non UMBC students?
Ozell: Yes thats fine.

Voting:
For: 5
Opposed:0
Passes

Sikh Student Union:
David: Well its just housekeeping costs I guess we can give it to them

Ozell: But hasnt this event already happened? I dont think we can do that.

SGA Advisor: Didnt we already discuss this last week. SIkh student association
already has enough SGA funds to come within
$12 of the $176 they want for housekeeping.

Memo on Fudning policy for Student Organization Event Admission:
Ozell: If the costs go up after the event then should they be requested to come back
within a 2 week period?

David: Yeah, we could put that in.

Ashley: We're not allowed to reiumburse groups are we?

David: No, once the event is over we cant reimburse.

Joy; so hidden costs should all be dealt with at the safe committee meeting.

SGA Advisor: If SGA is making a contribution to an event, then whether or not the
group is charging money, they have to come
back if costs go up. They cant make a decision themselves. If they want more money
or if they want to charge higher admission
then they have to come back to you.

Fouad: But what if the costs go up like 3 days before the event and the finance
board meeting has already passed then is
that organization just going to hav to be pay out of their own pockets?

Sga Advisor: I think that is good incentive for organizations to pin down the costs
14 days before events.ALso you might want
to add that in no event can the organization raise the admission cost without the
finance board's approval. You have to also
figure out all the ways an organization can play you for money.

Joy: I feel that groups do want to make money but theyre not going to go so far as
to have their event only to make money from
non-UMBC students.

David: Also do we want to set a timeline for organizations to return for a second
request.

SGA Advisor: You might want to include the 14 day rule in this legislation.

NAACP Potluck:
Joy: Tell us about the event.
Its going to be a big potluck for UMBC students where they can just come out and
relax and eat. The money will mainly be
going towards food items. The food will be prepared by members of NAACP exec board
as well as other people. Theres a $100
charge for DJ and music since the event is going to be in the commons cabaret.

Joy: How many people are you expecting?
WE're expecting about 25-30 ppl at a time. But people will be going in and out. We
only have the bottom half of the cabaret
and the max capacity is 40. But the food is free and its geared toward only UMBC
students. People will be dropping in and
out.

Thank You

Voting on NAACP:
For: 4
Opposed:0
Abstaining:2
Passes

Joy: Everyone has emailed their allotted organizations.

Roll Call: Christine, Ashley, Joy, Igor, David, Ozell

Meeting adjourned at 6:37pm

Just before finals, students in all classes are given beige scantron and
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