SGA Senate Feb. 2, 2009
I. Call to Order- 5:36pm
II. Roll Call:
A. Present:
1. Speaker Gabe Rettaliata
2. Assistant Speaker Jen Kent
3. Brian Frazee
4. Sunaina Khandelwal
5. Amber Spry
6. Aditi Srivastav
7. Rahilla Tarfa
8. Whitney Torchia
9. FYA Toby Le
10. FYA Matt McNey
11. FYA Simmi Singh
B. Absent:
1. Chiddy Ukonne
III. Approval of Minutes:
A. Minutes haven’t been sent out yet. Will approve next week.
IV. Special Guests –Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross and Dr. Steve Robinson
A. Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: I’m assistant Provost for Enrollment Management, which means that I work directly with the areas of, undergrad admission and orientation, financial aid and scholarships, advising and the office of the registrar. I am an alumnus of UMBC and I bring that with me in all the work that I do here. We’ve had conversations over 6 to 8 months with Gabe and Whitney about our decision to charge transcript fee. I want to talk a bit about how we got to that place. One of the most important services we provide in enrollment management is the delivery of transcripts. UMBC is young, for the past 25 years, getting a transcript was the same up until 6 months ago. Now undergrad student population base has almost doubled, as has the alumni base. Technology has changed in terms of what student expect. We could no loner use the methods we had previously. The feedback I got from students, faculty and staff was that we were not doing well in transcript services. Turn around time was horrible -6 to 7 days. We had to research what other institutions were doing. Anything from completely free, to some free, some not, to a front in charge, where every student pays a fee upon matriculation, to a fee for service base program when only students who needed the transcript would pay the fee. Fee based services would be the best for our student population. We knew that this would not be a popular vote for everyone. I dint think that that charging a fee would go over well with the student population, though I did hear that from one student. We did not feel that trying the some free some not method would be sustainable. We talked to the SGA as well as the graduate student association. One thing that came out of that discussion was to drop the fee. It was originally to be 10 dollars, but we dropped it to 8. It was a little bit of back and forth negotiation with Jay. I’ll let Steve talk about what the new services are.
B. Dr. Steve Robinson: One of the things I look at is efficiency. As Yvette said, we were averaging 6 to 7 days to get transcripts out. Wanted to get 48 hours. We did not have the technology to do that by ourselves. Prior to July, we had a system where alumni could request a fee via email, fax or US mail. None of it was connected, was just sort of coming in from all over the place. We were averaging 4000 requests for a month. One address can have multiple addresses it could be sent to, so I don’t have good data on what those 4000 requests actually represent. Inundated in paper. Our system, as it stands today, does not talk to the Burser's office. Have no way of checking for a financial obligation such as an outstanding balance unless called the Burser's office. No technology available to us, and we looked to outsource. That’s where Credentials came in. Is a corp. that provides the interface. It’s an ordering system. They provide the front page where student or alumnus can request their transcript and interfacing directly with Burser. If there are no financial obligations, it will print out to a printer in my office. One of my staff will put it in an envelope and send it out. They are now going out at about 24 hours during non-peak processing times. When I started working here we would get calls all the time about blown deadlines. We had to bring in the o outside vendor to help us and regrettably that’s where the fee comes in.
C. Gabe: I now open the floor to questions and comments.
1. Amber: thanks for being here. Wondering what was used to fund the transcript before? I thought it was Built into budget of the registrars office. Why was that not sufficient to fund the outsourcing?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Remained unchanged for many years. A lot of costs have changed. Paper has increased dramatically. We need to use certain type of paper. Postage has gone up. That’s why it was insufficient to support any of the budget.
ii Dr. Steve Robinson: nothing in the registrar’s budget specifically for transcript. Not hiring
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Never has been a line item for transcripts in the budget.
iv Dr. Steve Robinson: same with diplomas. Nothing in registrar’s budget about that.
2. Amber: how was the $8 fee decided upon if you don’t have record of how things were paid for before?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Its not that we don’t have a record of what we paid, it’s just that it was not budgeted.
ii Dr. Steve Robinson: We looked at what peer institutions were doing. We looked at what we thought market would sustain here. Within the next calendar year we are looking to get into Secure PDF transcript. We could have never had that service if transcripts were to remain free. That is what is meant by Research and development. A bit slow because of implementation of Peoplesoft.
3. Amber: Why $8 dollars?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: internal calculation we made. Cover to fixed cost for paper and postage and getting things out. That may mean hiring extra student workers and staff. Haven’t done much of that because of hiring freeze.
4. Michel: How much does outsourcing vendor charge per transcript?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: $2 dollars Credentials as the lowest cost we could find.
5. Aditi: concerned about the research and development aspect. I would hope that the money would go to student services. I am concerned that it may be going to something I don’t have a direct role in. Only $2 for process?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: $2 is just for the vendor. Still paper postage and other things much be paid. The phrase research and development was meant as further enhancements for system
6. Aditi: There’s a chance that once you figure out what is more efficient, fee will drop?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: it’s a matter of shifting priorities. We have to maintain the system. New and better ways to do things. We were constantly causing to blow deadline for grad school. Transcript did not get there in time.
7. Matt M: Which peer institutions were used?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: all of them. Looking over this you have. I know that there are a couple schools here that charge matriculation fees. Some of the ones here may be incorrect.
8. Josh: That’s why school has budget. If we are paying transcript fee it should be only for: vender, postage, paper, and labor.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: That is what it’s funding.
ii Josh: No way paper postage totals $8. The research and development money should be coming from school budget.
9. Student: you all actually go to admin and ask for a line item in budget?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: yes.
ii Student: A lot of people here not from riches families. May need to reduce places they apply for because of fee.
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: That was taken into account.
10. Michel C: Before you said the delivery of transcripts was your most important goal, but later you said there were no budgeted line items for transcripts. I find it odd that your primary function is not funded by your budget. Not a problem should not be given to students. UMBC students are already charged fees at graduation.
i Dr. Steve Robinson: catalogs are not budgeted for. Catalog year coming up. Go on spending freeze for entire year.
ii Jennifer: With the catalog there is the option of not paying for the paper. This option is not available for transcripts. I would not pay $8. I am applying to 10 to 12 law schools. That’s a separate application fee right there. Should have the options of first few free. I was wondering why that option wasn’t viable.
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Very difficult to maintain.
11. Michael: How long is contract with Credentials?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: Not sure may be three years.
12. Student B: Not sensing a lot of transparency. With research and development. Don’t want people to contemplate applying to job or school because of 8 transcripts. I don’t think $6 of every transcript fee will go to research and development; want to know where it is going
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: research and development not the best term we could have used. Think enhanced services
ii Dr. Steve Robinson: We want to start a chat function in registrar office when a student has a question or problem.
13. Yasmin: for a student who works minimum wage, what option to do I have for financial aid?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: we haven’t explored that
ii Yasmin: Is the research and development going to that?
iii Dr. Steve Robinson: I don’t know
iv Yasmin: It takes me 2 hours of work to make up that $8.
14. Brian: part of the money going to staffing, how many more do you have now?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: Haven’t been able to put on more staff. Student workers so far.
15. Brian: you mention a lot of deliberation about where fee would be. Did you include students in this?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Yes, we met with students. Jay shared his opinions
16. Brian: a lot of students don’t feel like they would use the chat function, or would be willing to drop the chat for a lower transcript fee.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: We did meet with students and decided to drop the fee back
ii Dr. Steve Robinson: Maybe alumni will use chat function
17. Student: how much money is made off of transcripts total?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: Don’t know
ii Student: Could have used that to make an informed decision
iii Dr. Steve Robinson: Don’t have it yet. For July for November cant remember
18. Student: How many sent out last year?
i Dr Robinson: 4000 originally to 1500 a months. Some of them were stopped because of financial obligations. Get a lot of false positives.
ii Student: Have some experience with transcripts. Want to thank you for realizing transcripts are important. Just applied to 4 schools. Decided not to apply to some school. $6 goes to something that was free before
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: No there was a cost.
19. Amber: It’s that $6 that I'm confused about. Academics are very important. The transcript is the sum total of this.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: There was a cost. Delayed delivery. You were paying in terms of not being as competitive. With an admissions slot. Not a cost that you can put a dollar sign to.
20. Student: I’m hearing a lot of things you're saying can cost more money. Could be free. Meebo. For PDF. This $2 students. These news ways would cost less
i Dr. Steve Robinson: We can’t use a chat that is not secure. As for the PDF, we have to make sure it can’t be altered. Not typical PDF.
ii Student: Secure PDF option is built in to adobe PDF software
iii Dr. Steve Robinson: It could also be broken. To make sure that no one can go in and change it.
21. Catherine: how much exactly does it cost?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: Don’t have it broken down
ii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: A lot also goes to maintenance. Upgrade to maintain the system
22. Josh: I think that our point was that this was being paid for 40 years. Only thing being added is $2 and the new expenses. Maybe less because we don’t have as much labor. No way can you make that total of $8 – even if the materials are expensive.
i Dr. Steve Robinson: We were doing it haphazardly last year. Service was not working. Blew deadlines.
ii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: We didn’t do it very well for the past 40 years.
23. Amber: A lot of Redundancy going on here. We do understand the outsourcing needed to happen and we appreciate that. But I want to take the student hat off. I want to be looked at as a consumer. As a consumer I have a right to know what my money is being put towards. That seems to be the main concern. This question has been answered unsatisfactorily. What is the breakdown? How much does it cost to hire labor?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: That’s an interesting notion that any business could give you an exact breakdown. We can’t provide that level of detail. Encompasses a lot of thing.
ii Amber: You must have some idea or you wouldn’t know to charge $8.
24. Toby: Does that mean credentials can work out a deal with us? I would go for a bargain system rather than just pay $8. But would you be willing to be willing to compromise with us? For example first 3 might be free. Does that company have the capability to make that happen?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: That’s something we can look into. But it was not an option that we thought would be able to sustain us over time.
25. Paula: Glad the system change. You are actually saving money for labor. No extra money is being spent on staff. I think that the registrar office had budget constrained and the $8 is being used to offset this.
i Paula then reads letter on behalf of student who is a single mother that suggests that an over all fee might be better than paying on an individual basis.
26. Paula: In general students would be happier with that. Could be over and done with. Flat base 100 fee would go over better
i Dr. Steve Robinson: My concern about that is equity. What about the student who only needs 2 transcripts? I see your point. But I’m not sure if Financial Aid can cover it.
27. Gabe: I object to that equity argument. Is it fair that we pay for a small subset? For example the chat that only a small amount of students will use.
i Dr. Steve Robinson: Saving labor and time. Hard to do a one for one.
28. Brian: we could sit here and talk all night with different argument. We are desperate. I would like to know from your perspective what can we do to fix this? What are our options?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: I will look into posting to your bill so you can have more time to pay it. And to see for receiving need based aid. Probably will not.
29. Steve: Thanks for coming. We all want to come to a compromise to support the university. Hearing a lot about tuition freeze. New fees popping out of nowhere. We need to make sure we are looking out for students. Working with us this year will be a lot different then previous SGA.
30. Jennifer: So there is no way to lower the fee? I’m ok with paper and credentials, but the chat functions will be something only a few students use. It might even take more time to express self on line. Instead of charging us for transcripts, why not charge for chats? We are the consumers and we are not happy.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Do you have any concerns with the services?
31. Amber. User friendly. Hard because I don’t have a credit card. Other then the $2 fee, $8 still feels arbitrary. As a consumer I would just like to know. Would like to talk about different options. Maybe 8 dollars is the right fee, but I have no way of knowing that
32. James: My question was with regards to money. Ross said about $2 that went to speeding up services. I noticed Burser's lists $100 matriculations fee.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Partially to support graduations and retentions.
ii James: you don’t get any of that?
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: No
33. Michel C.: Over the past few years UMBC has been having budgetary issues. Tuition and student fees at Towson are less then ours. $100 is unreasonable amount. Fees like that this need to be audited by a third party department instead of being charged arbitrary amount.
34. Gabe: UMBC has highest tuition in state. Towson is 3rd highest tuition and get s $3000 less in state support
35. Michael: You guys have to do the budgeted catalogue and you’re not budgeted for that. What are you budgeted for?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Staff
ii Michel: Which you eliminate by getting third party to do work
36. Rahilla: so far you have mentioned research and development. What are you using that money for now, or is it just sitting? So far the money are using for this, what is it being used for now?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: We have not received that much as of yet. Can’t recall any of those numbers. Still going to general operations.
ii Rahilla: What are general operations?
iii Dr. Steve Robinson: Paper, postage.
iv Rahilla: You also have money in the budget for that?
v Dr. Robinson: Never been budged for that. Had to make sure had the proper type of paper
37. Naina: Are you willing to work for us to develop internal software? How about asking OIT for help?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: They are currently overwhelmed for help.
ii Naina: Maybe we can work with Peoplesoft.
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: They will not be ready to do anything like that in 2 months or even 2 years.
38. Naina: Are you willing to create a line-by-line budget into everything: postage, printing etc. Help students understand why this fee is needed. Or is that not possible?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: At this point I can’t tell you. I will look into it.
39. Josh: everyone needs money; I think that should be coming from university budget. We should be lobbying president. An upfront fee would be better. Has the benefit of quality of use, equal access and would be covered by financial aid. No surprise cost.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Surprised that you all want up front fee. Would have same discussion. I know SGA has taken stance about wanting to increase student fees.
40. Student: What are these peer groups you used?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: There is a sheet. Current peers and aspirational peers that we used
ii Brian: Only one of them has a transcript fee that is over $8
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Registration fee is often called something else. To cover transcript.
41. Matt: Do you personally know what the determining factor for a peer university is?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Every university has that defined list. University has that list.
42. Jennifer: matriculation fee that goes to graduation fees and retentions. Who came up with the fee?
43. Mike. Comment. I see that maybe there’s some middle ground because you can’t charge flat out rate. You could have a threshold for transcript fee. Where you can charge it say the first three times and then it would be free. After so ad so number can be free.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Three for free? So you pay first.
ii Amber: like putting a cap on it
iii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: I'm not sure how that would work. If you order 25 transcripts what would you accomplish? Would have students just hording.
44. Matt : I understand you have only one staff that you have to pay for. How is staff expanding?
i Dr. Steve Robinson: More streamlined. Not less staff, just more efficient.
ii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: that person can be a little more efficient. We don’t eliminate her all together.
iii Dr. Steve Robinson: We’ve retasked her as best we can
iv Matt: why is the work expanding? There are only two people working during peak times?
v Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: yes.
vi Matt: Why does this cost extra?
vii Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: I started out earlier trying to provide context. We are only 43, are experiencing growing pains. We can’t keep going now that we have more than 8000 students. We had to find a new way of doing things. You all were suffering because of it. I’m very shocked that you all want mandatory fees. Admins said to stay away form that.
45. Paula: who said that?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Lynn said in general to stay away from any increased mandatory fees. We have tried to honor that.
46. Michael: Students here who can afford that. We hope you take that to her. Mandatory fee as a possible choice. I hope that’s what you are getting form us. Those people who can afford it. Which is why that mandatory fee will work.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Most scholarships do not cover everything.
47. Toby: I did some research yesterday. For a lot of institutions there is no change for transcript request. Have you talked to these institutions? Had you received any fee back form them or discussed what you can do to reach that level?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: No. Not always apples to apples. These peer institutions may be generating money for services other ways. One example: If a peer institution contacted us and asked about a diploma fee, I would say no, but part of our matriculation fee goes to a diploma. I can’t tell you how all the schools are sustaining transcripts at less. Not as clear-cut as it seems.
48. Toby: How can we work to a compromise with you?
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Help me help students understand how we are helping them by adding these fees.
49. Brian: you’ve gotten the student perspective. This is like a final plea. We are begging you for a compromise. We have been working for months. We have done a ton of research. You come here to explain to us why fee was initiated. And we are asking you questions that you can’t answer. If all else fails and you are against any compromise, you could at least break that down for us. We will work until something is done.
i Mrs. Yvette Mozie-Ross: Seem to be differentiating you self from previous SGA. I don’t separate you all from Jay. I feel like I have done the right thing. You are feeling like we have not negotiated, but we have.
50. Gabe: Thank you both for coming.
i Dr. Robinson and Mrs. Mozie-Ross exit the meeting
51. Gabe: Very upset with what just happened. I cannot believe they came in here saying no compromise.
52. Amber: I think that I can echo Gabe; we probably envisioned this meeting to be more productive. We can improve upon this. Maybe we should try making fewer demands and taking a more negotiative stance. In some places was necessary to have firm stance but it may have put them on the defensive.
53. Jennifer: they couldn’t tell us where the $8 came from. It seems like an arbitrary amount. We can’t argue against the fee because we don’t know where the money was going. Don’t know a lot of information about it. I think we should get parents involved.
54. Brian: big slap in the face. Ignored our first attempt at a compromise. They came in to tell us about the fee and not compromise.
55. David: Was disappointed but not surprised.
56. Michel: Not surprised about budget questing. Somewhat obvious she knew the answers about budget.
57. Matt M. Frustration about expanding their staff, spend more than it would cost to fund one person
58. Josh: They came to this meeting completely unprepared. No interest in listening to us. May be able to get budget info via the MD freedom of information act. Would be more insightful then what they told us. Had it but didn’t feel like sharing it with us.
59. Steve: Dr. Hrabowski is probably even more adamant about it then them. Observing from meeting. Amber did good job with questions, we found out a lot of information. If everyone had known about it last year, this would not have happened.
60. Gabe: Jay said that there was going to be a $2 or $3 fee.
61. David: you all should be pretty pleased with the way you held this meeting. There was no way they were going to bargain. Could only hope they had learned something about what we wanted. There is a way people in the university talk to them. They may not have been at liberty to discuss. You can figure out the rest of the story. Yvette and Steve may even be helpful in that.
62. Paula: they are lying about the staffing increases. There have not been increases. They have lost workers they can’t hire back.
63. David: This is an external solution to an internal budget project. They are not authorized to tell us this now.
64. Josh: more logical approach. They could be our best assets in this. She said something about how budget hasn’t increased din 25 years. If they haven’t increased the budget. That’s not their fault.
65. Gabe: We’ll have a meeting on Friday to discuss this more. I’ll send out an e-mail to everyone here to invite you.
V. Open Discussion
A. Review from past week
1. Brian: Discussion of Towson legislation lobby. Learned about politics and lobbying.
2. Whitney: I’m meeting with Kim Leisey. She wants to talk about anything that we have concerns about.
3. Gabe: I recommend everyone going to a finance board meeting. Interesting to see need for fee increase.
i Toby: finance board still supports free admission at events?
ii David: Yes
B. Legislative Committee Update
1. Brian: good meeting. Main issue was the governor budget. He was very generous about funding higher education. We discussed the Textbook bill. We have to be careful - Sounds good on paper. Will eliminate a lot of cost but a few provisions will cost students more money. Revue will be lost for bookstore. Money must be made up somehow. Next year hope to have legislation agenda for UMBC. Will be providing updates at legislative meetings and finance board and senate meetings.
C. Update on new Constitutional Amendments
1. Gabe: Circuitous discussion last week about them. Steve set up a meeting on Friday. We will be cutting student orgs advocates from the Constitution. VP for student orgs to appoint as many staff as possible. We are going to meet again. Friday at 3. Mostly we are just working on the wording.
D. Review of spring retreat
1. Gabe: Spring retreat was a ton of fun. Has a chance to reflect on the fall. All branches shared what they did. Made plans for the spring. Projects: 1) Improved communication with student. 2) Increased student activity fee. 3) Sustainability fee 4) defining the roles in the SGA. New set of ground rules from fall retreat was also agreed upon to fix issues from last semester.
VI. Project Updates
A. Increased Library Hours
1. Blog post will be up on Zwybak. Surveys to come as well.
B. Black and Gold Campus Signage
1. Toby: first year counsel met. We made progress. 2 projects: Rent box onto campus and black and gold day. Side project regarding campus card. Trying to change red card to black and gold card.
C. Transcript Fee
VII. New Business
A. SL16-0809- Confirmation of Kathryn (Kat) Waters as Senate Secretary
1. Brian: move to approve SL16-0809
i Jennifer seconds.
ii VOTE: For: 6, Opposed: 0, Abstaining: 1, Absent: 2
B. SR05-0809- Resolution to Support the Expansion of Residential Life’s Gender-Neutral Housing Pilot into UMBC’s Apartment-Style Housing
1. Brian: summery of this. Gender-neutral housing is the option for males and females to live in same apartment. SGA supports this and its expansion. Have talked to Paula about this. I know it’s worked well for a lot of students.
2. Amber: I know there are 2 apartments.
3. Paula: We were going to do 2, but due to high student demand, we expanded that to be 4 apartments with 16 students. Over 50 universities have it. So does collage park.
4. Paula: transgender students experience different challenges. Some of them included coming out to a roommate. Placed with a roommate that is not of a gender you identify with. Affects about 1% of student pop. This is not just for LGBT students. Hasn’t caused major problems at the school.
5. Rahilla: If a student requests for it. What about students that will be randomly placed?
i Paula: Students are never randomly assigned.
ii Rahilla: would this be applied with apartment style housing?
iii Paula: Yes
6. Brian: used to have completely male and female buildings and floors. I see this as the next step in the evolution.
7. Matt M: do you have future plans for this?
i Paula: 4 phase program, Phase1: walker easy to implement. Everything locks. No major conflicts. Phase 2: UMBC apartments. Would allow having that option more affordable. Phase 3 would be to move into the suite style dorms, 4 would be other dorms
8. Amber: will you know about the sexual orientation of your roommate?
i Paula: no, you don’t have to disclose it now. The only parameter now is that your guardian has to know that you are living in gender-neutral housing.
9. Jennifer: Some parents aren’t for coed floors. I think there should be a floor or two for people who aren’t ok with it.
i Paula: The students whose parents whose parents are complaining aren’t going to want to go here. I think this should be an issue for the RA to deal with.
ii Jennifer: preserving a floor with no gender neutral okay?
iii Amber: it’s not about discrimination
iv Jennifer: It’s about parents freaking out. Needs to be place for parents.
v Brian: reslife has talked about it. It’s not going to get to this point any time soon.
vi Josh: I don’t think that religion would be a good excuse. If parents were to actively resist. Reslife should not give in to discriminatory demands.
vii Brian we need to be careful about the way we talked about this. We are blowing this out of proportions. I want to make sure people understand what this program is. This program is not for students of gender neutral.
viii Paula: reslife will be even more conservative about this. Schools have gone before us.
10. Amber: I want to point out that is really well written legislation. Not discriminatory, accommodation for students who want to live this way. Will not be a sudden thing. People with religious affiliation. That’s not something that is easy to disagree with
11. Rahilla: most people are thinking we might all have to migrate to gender neutral. Will probably still be optional.
12. Paula: will handle this in stride.
13. Amber: we want to encourage reslife to be careful
14. Jennifer: I think they'll do that anyway.
15. Naina: Move to approve SRo5-0809.
i Second by Amber
ii VOTE: For: 6, Opposed: 0, Abstaining: 1, Absent: 2
VIII. Executive/ Ex-officio Reports
A. David: N/A
B. Michael: RSA: Dogapalooza just before Quadmaina. Had a social last week that was quite successful. Only had time to preview Master plan. UMBC’s plan for the next ten years. Do have spring retreat for the cab. Two weekends from now.
C. James: A meeting to talk about fee tomorrow. Starts at noon. Also about admin and reaching out to students. Will have legislation in three weeks about Erickson field. Will try and be in SGA office tomorrow.
1. Jennifer: we may have difficulty trying to deal with both fees if we want to get them done. We don’t want to look hypocritical.
2. James: legit concern. I will bring it up.
IX. Announcements
A. Jennifer: committee lists are a bit late. I will have them out tomorrow. Everyone should rank them by tomorrow. At 8 pm.
B. Michael: Friday afternoon will be doing late night Dave letterman type show. Fireside lounge. Just showing up. Wouldn’t be an issue. Was going to be a test shoot. Wants to do an interview with someone about the transcript fee.
1. Josh: Should be someone in not in SGA.
X. Roll Call:
A. Present:
1. Speaker Gabe Rettaliata
2. Assistant Speaker Jen Kent
3. Brian Frazee
4. Sunaina Khandelwal
5. Amber Spry
6. Rahilla Tarfa
7. Whitney Torchia
8. FYA Toby LE
9. FYA Matt McNey
10. FYA Simmi Singh
B. Absent:
1. Aditi Srivastav
2. Chiddy Ukonne
XI. Adjournment- 8:24pm
XII. Pass the Gavel