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Agenda

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GSC Agenda: February 21th, 2007: 6:00-8:00 - FOOD @ 5:45!
Graduate Community Center - Nairobi Room
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Quorum for this meeting is eight voting members.

1. 5:45 FOOD (thanks Matt!)
2. 6: Welcome with Introductions
3. 6:05 Announcements (Paul)
i. Minutes from 02/14:
4. 6:10 Funding (Adam)
# Central Eastern European Club
# Russian Student Association
5. 6:20 Transportation (Aaron and Martin)
6. 6:45 LCO bill
7. 6:55 Sweat Free Stanford Bill
8. 7:05 Elections Promotion Ideas (Kaeche Liburd, the Assistant Elections Commission for Operations)
9. 7:15 Special Fees (Adam)
10. 7:35 Checklist (Jenny)
11. 7:40 New Business

Attendance

Kristina Keating *
Jenny Allen *
Paul Gurney*
Shireen Barday*
Niraj
Danny
Hershey
Matt Andrews*
Jeff Laretto*
Yana Hoy*
Cullen Buie*
Rebecca Kaplan*
Matt MacDonald
Alexandre Ene
Austin Brown
Martin Mueller

Minutes

Jenny – Are there any changes to the minutes from February 14th? (none) Are there any objections to passing the minutes from February 14th? (none) The minutes pass by consensus.

Legal counseling resolution.
Jenny - The next item on the agenda is the legal counseling resolution. There is concern that we have an ASSU legal counseling office but, in the event that a student needs to get advice about suing the university the legal counseling office doesn’t allow that. This would allow students to pursue legal action against the university.
Shireen – Does this mean you can get legal counseling with student ID but you can’t get help suing the university?
Jenny – My understanding is that, since the university collects the fees then the university says can’t you can’t use the legal office to sue university but the fees come from students.
Shireen – What was the policy for?
Danny – Since the university collects fees they could stop collecting fees.
Hershey – The history is, since the ASSU is part of Stanford the original justification was that it would be like someone from a company to sue their company. But since the money to fund the program all comes from student fees we feel is not the same.
Matt – Now what avenues are available to do this?
Jenny – There was two students this year who couldn’t sue someone associated with university. This is to prevent that from happening again. The ombuds might be able to help but if legal counseling might be able to help then they could ask.
Paul – Who is on the legal counseling board?
Hershey – The have one meeting every quarter, I’m on it, Mondaire often proxies for me. Jenny is also on it.
Jenny – The came up at a legal counseling meeting. They won’t make a stand either way but they seemed happy about it.
Shireen – What do they do?
Danny – They won’t go to court but will do anything that they can do in their office.
Jeff – Are there any cons? Any repercussions?
Hershey – When we brought it up Nanci (director of the offices of student activities, liaison between the ASSU and University) she asked why but didn’t say why the university would be frustrated with university.
Jeff – So the legal counseling office is worried by raising this issue.
Mondair – In speaking with Nanci she said the resolution should give priority to existing university protocol and services that are counseling related and not advocacy related. I do feel that before someone sues university they should use mechanisms in place but to turn away students even though they’ve paid for this is a disservice.
Jeff- Is this something that could be bad for the ASSU?
Hershey – I think they would say if the university would have a backlash. I haven’t heard anything.
Matt – Can you go to get advice about assu?
Mondair – Yes, technically.
Matt – The bill should have some sort of referral system; sending to students to the ombuds.
Mondair – This bill says that.
Jenny – The offices know what others do so they will send students to the appropriate office.
Hershey – Right now the office just rejects students completely I don’t even think they are allowed to say to go to the ombuds.
Maxim – We had ombuds last week. He doesn’t have so much power; he can do nothing.
Paul – Let’s rap it up and bring it to a vote.
Matt – The only objection I have is that there is nothing that forces them to go to ombuds. Right now it is just saying open the door and go straight through.
Paul – If we direct someone to ombuds and ombuds says check out legal counseling the office will just turn them away.
Paul – Are there any objections to passing a bill urging the ASSU legal counseling office to change their policy?
Paul – Let’s do a hand vote and see who’s in favor. Who’s in favor? against? abstaining? (12-0-0)

Funding (Adam)

Central Eastern European Club
On March 2nd we are having an event. We are a new student group this is our first event. We would like some food. We have some funds but they don’t give money for alcohol. We are planning to advertise to the graduate student body. The event will bring students closer together, bring from Czechoslovakia, Poland, everyone interested. We hope to increase student membership.
Adam – It’s a we exist party.
Jeff - How do we approximate the membership of a new group?
Cullen – What countries are considered central Europe?
Student rep - Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
Adam – There are asking about $300 for food, $350 total. Are there any questions?
Paul – Are there any objections to funding the central eastern European club for $350? (none) Seeing none that passes by consensus.

Russian Student Association
Maxim – We have four events. One in winter quarter for this we are asking the gsc to increase the funding because our members more than doubled and almost tripled from fall. This is mother’s day (it’s actually something else in Russian) people make presents for their wifes and girlfriends. The next is a day the end of the second world war we will have some food that was served in those times. The next event is in June and we will say goodbye to people graduating and say goodbye to each other for summer. The last event will feature Ukraine food. We have lots of members from former USSR, the Ukrainians asked us to organize something that features Ukrainian food.
Adam – Are there questions? They are asking for $1200 total.
Rebecca – How did their members triple?
Adam – The people showing up to their events tripled.
Cullen – What do they number?
Maxim – There are more than 150 people. I’ve include people from the former USSR.
Paul – Are there any objections to funding for the Russian Student Association for $1200? (none) Seeing none that passes by consensus.

Adam – Is anyone from ISSU here? (none)

Parking and Transportation Board (Aaron and Martin)

Martin – Thanks for allowing us to come and present our updates. We just wanted to let you know what was going on and what our plans for next year are and get feed back from you about where we are going. I have an updated count of the number of people who are picking up the go pass, the current number is 415. The number is ok but not great. The total eligible population is 3000. Just coming over here I had an idea for a marketing promotion for cal train. You know how every year there is a bike to work week. We should investigate having another event similar but a not drive to work week. If anyone has suggestions I’d love to hear them.
Austin – There are also spare the air days when the Caltrain is free.
Martin - We hope before that time the we can increase the number of go pass users currently coming to campus.
Aaron – Since we last talked about funding in this forum we took funding suggestions from the gsc. The funding from the sale of the go pass totals up to not as much as needed to get started. When we looked at the total number of clean air cash users it turned out to be only 30 per of those eligible actually sign up for it so not as much money is coming from that as expected. This means that the extent to which provost’s office underwriting this is very larger. From Parking and Transportation, they are very comfortable with where they are at with GUP numbers so they are not interested in putting money into caltrain so right now pretty much getting as much money as we can from. We are still trying to get money from the provost’s office to put line item in the budget. After going to the Deans and getting unanimous support for the go pass hopefully that will pull weight and help us out there.
Martin – That covers the university administration side. We are still looking into the option of having a measure on the April ASSU ballot that would provide things beside go-pass on ballot. The idea came up to split the fee. As far as I understand there are no issues with having voted on by entire grad student body but only charging the fee to off campus students. The justification for everyone voting on it is that students living on campus might move off in later years. The advantage is focusing only on off campus students. The disadvantages are we are cutting down on the amount of money that will come from the fee that will come from the student body. We are looking at how much other programs included in this would cost. One issue came up for people living relatively close. They might be interested in some bike benefits so we are looking into tune ups and supplies. I’m looking into additional marguerite options for people living in mountain view and Menlo park. The university might also be interested in this. We are also looking at getting discounts from airport shuttlers we are looking at what all these things will cost us. We haven’t looked at similar benefits for the bus system but that might be something we have to look in to with P&T. One thing we have to look into is zipcar or carsharing which might help those living close to campus.
Jenny – The idea to propose fee to everyone that will be levied from off campus students. The fee will be reduced by a line item and they hope to provide things other than the go-pass. At this point would the fee be $99.50 per student?
Martin – My idea is ask to ask some something around 60-70 dollars. And then ask for something else from people who pick up the go-pass. We have to consider that there might be a large number of off campus students who would request a refund.
Jenny – Thanks for your effort so far.
Cullen – At the retreat we talked about looking into coalitions with other universities have you looked into this?
Aaron – We’ve been talking about it but haven’t made the leap to talk to other universities yet. Apparently Caltrain doesn’t want to negotiate with just Stanford but maybe if we could present a unified front they would be more interested.
Shireen – Do have the break down by school? The law school administration asked before they supported the program. Why is the number low this year?
Aaron – We don’t have numbers by department. We know from number people who emailed with issues that there doesn’t seem to be an huge bias. The drop is from 880 to 410. The go pass has essentially tripled in price. In any future offering of the go pass would be a third of the price.
Martin – The surveys that we asked students to fill out before they picked up their pass asked so we will have the information.
Adam – Even with all the publicity the numbers are low.
Aaron – The cost would be substantially reduced next year.
Rebecca – In terms of getting more people to sign up do you need help with marketing. As a council maybe we could do something to promote it more. If I buy the go pass does it look like me?
Jenny – It’s a sticker on your student id.
Fen – What happens if a student moves off campus in the year?
Kristina – The are charged when they move off campus.
Maxim – What if they moved off campus in the middle of the quarter.
Aaron – It doesn’t cost anything more for the go-pass program for someone to pick up another pass.
Maria – In terms of caltrain: Caltrain caps the amount at $100. If you are charging fee and charging for pass does that make the contract invalid?
Martin – We have to talk to parking and transportation about that. We can argue that fee is for a bigger service. We are aware of that.
Dirk – How much do you expect fee to be?
Aaron – It depends on the money from the provost’s office. From the initial meeting with VP Kalfayan it seemed like some money would be available but not sure how much.
Matt – If a little over 10% of the people are eligible are currently using it do we expect 90% to vote for it?
Adam – I would expect the refund rate to go up. When issue was raised in daily 40% asked for a refund.
Aaron – I would argue that most people who are eligible for clean air cash don’t pick up their clean air cash.
Matt – What is the predominant method for going forward? Refunds versus something else.
Martin – We would be most happy if university paid every year.
Matt – Can you send another email re clean air cash/and the go-pass?
Paul – What are we doing in terms of advertising? We should apply peer pressure in terms of how this will help the environment.
Alex – So everyone votes but only off campus are charged. What if the off campus students vote against but those on campus vote for?
Martin – This is a valid concern. We are hoping to offer benefits that will help all living off campus.
Jeff – Is the provosts office charging the same amount for the pass for the whole year? That seems like it might be a bad move on their part.
Martin – One comment is overall revenue is much smaller.
Jeff – That will influence students as to how many buy into.
Martin - The pick up cost important.
Aaron – But decreasing the cost will add extra in.
Jenny – What is your timetable?
Martin – Can we say two weeks from now we’ll present a budget?
Jenny – That’d be fantastic.
Jenny – If gsc members in this room that have questions/suggestions contact Aaron or Martin.

Sweat Free Stanford Bill
Jenny – Is any one from the sweat free bill here? (none)

Special Fees (Adam)
Adam – Jenny has print outs for voting members.
Jenny – To give background, every year we have an election. We will vote for candidates, There is also a series of special fees who would otherwise come to us but need more money then we can offer. Over the three day weekend they met with a sub committee this was 4.5 hours for the gsc and much longer for ASSU. The subcommittee made a recommendation. The students themselves will vote whether or not we will have it on the ballot.
Hershey – Yesterday we had a problem the details were good but the bills were wrong are these correct?
Jenny – I made a handful of printouts. This took over an hour to print out so only for GSC voting members.
Adam – This makes threshold for new groups to be lower. If we disapprove they can petition. Start with club sports, there are ~20 club sports. because sports with few undergrads and most with no undergrads we split into an undergrad fee and a joint fee. The goal of that is to get 31% from grad students and the rest from undergrads thus you will see undergraduate and a joint special fee. The joint fee that we will have to approve is $190 625.00.
Matt – How many in grads in club sports?
Adam – I have it right here. 275 grads. Other questions?
Cullen – Quick question our voting is an approval? What does that mean?
Adam – It means that we think they should be on the ballot. We are basically saying that we think that should be voted on by the student population.
Paul – We think that they’d be able to get more people to sign up.
Adam – The main thing is we think that it should be on the ballot.
Rebecca – Do we have to do this every year?
Adam – Yes, if there are significant changes they need to petition. If it’s a new fee they need to petition.
Jenny – Are there any objections to allowing the club sports special fee to be on the ballot? (none) passes
Adam – Comedy club is asking for $8900. This is their first ever graduate fee.
Alix – Do you have an amount of fee per student?
Adam - This is about 95 cents per student.
Jenny – objections (none) passes by consensus.
Adam – Daily. We’ve recommended the Daily as a no; it is not serving graduate students. The business side of the daily has turned around.
Jenny – It should be noted that they didn’t attend the meeting.
Danny – You shouldn’t vote on this unless someone puts forward a motion to vote on it. Paul – I think that we shouldn’t.
Modaire – It needs the undergraduate support too. It didn’t pass in the undergraduate senate.
Rebecca – I don’t care what they did in the past. I don’t even think that they should be part of this. They should be completely independent from Stanford. That’s really how I feel. They should be independent because they are a private business for Stanford daily to maintain as many first amendment rights as possible. It’s awkward for me to say this.
Jenny – seeing no motion on the floor I guess we move onto a new thing.
Adam – Flicks. The do the movies they are looking to get $69857.00
Alix - I am not happy with the service.
Maxim - Last year there was management problems.
Jenny – Last year they were an SSE business, they are not anymore,
Maxim – Are they doing a grad night?
Jenny - yes
Fen – Were the officer salaries the same last year?
Dirk – How much per person per viewing? $5, $10?
Paul – Why is the budget and requested amount so different?
Adam – The budget is over the year, requested is different.
Matt M– I think it’s just wrong.
Adam – I think in this case is wrong too.
Jenny – We need to postpone because we have a guest speaker.
Maxim – I didn’t quite get it about their budget?
Adam – The budget column is just wrong.
Jenny – Are there any objections to approving the flicks special fees to be on the ballot? (yes)
Jenny – We need a role call vote. All those in favor? against? abstaining? (8-0-4) It passes.

Guest Speaker Housing and Dining:
Shirley Everet from housing and dining. Thank you for coming tonight can you tell us about your office.

Shirley - My role as associate vice provost is to make sure that Stanford students are happy specifically in regard to housing. I am responsible for housing and dining for graduate and undergraduate students. Campus vending, catering, vending. I am also responsible for conference programs. Conference programs help to increase revenue to keep rent lower. Present to the vice provost, Tim Warner. I work closely with him and with the provost to provide affordable rate for undergraduate and graduate students. I also over see the off campus lease program. Roger Whitney reports to me. The ones that you are directly supported by are housing and housing assignments I would like to make sure the we are responsive and listening to the students. Our vision is to be the best in the business. Any of the staff that we hire we take them through a business orientation. Our mantra is that students are never an interruption in our day. We want to support academic mission and support you so that you can be great students. I’m responsible for about a third of the campus that means we must be sustainable and preserve assets. In a way that supports you and all your wishes. This particular building we provide support for. Chris Griffiths and I have a great partnership. One example is goalie. We provide box lunch or food for that event. We provide for new student center and all funding for Chris’s office. Funding is for not only graduate life but for undergraduates. We work with Greg Boardman and the Vice Provost for undergrad education. We are working and striving for excellence. I think we’ve made some improvements and it’s been a great partner ship.
Jenny - Thanks for the overview?
Adam – The new café in Clark doesn’t waive the sales tax? will that be fixed?
Shirley – I have no oversight over that.
Maxim - I know that couldn’t get access to contract for the pub. Would it be possible to get oversight to see pub contract.
Shirley – Is the challenge finding out what Maritzio can do?
Maxim – The operations committee didn’t manage to get that last year.
Shirley – I’ll follow up with Chris Griffith.
Maxim – I don’t know if it is an issue anymore.
Austin – I’m curious what you use as a reference for when setting price point for housing on campus. Do you mirror the area or try to break even.
Shirley – We are trying to make sure that we break even and also trying to stay low compared to the area to make it attractive for people to live on campus. Sometimes we don’t cover it. We use things to cover the costs. Stanford guest house, conferences, retail services. We are also trying to look at it from a holistic point of view. We look at tuition.
Dirk – we’ve heard in previous meetings that one of the drivers is increasing utility costs I would like to know what you are doing.
Shirley - looking way to be more sustainable. The cost is not in our control, the use is in our control. Whenever we have renovation we put more sustainable upgrades in so that we can mitigate the costs.
Dirk – Are you going to put meters on everyplace?
Shirley – Some of our power is from PG&E and the other is from another source so where it is possible we do.
Dirk – In, say Oklahoma, why are utilities so much more here than it costs there?
Shirley – Everything is more, utilities, salaries.
Paul – I’m curious about the dining side of things. Would you prefer to have it all campus or prefer private?
Shirley – I think we have enough options that we can do both. We need a good balance. we have to make sure that everything follows strict guidelines and provides competition. I think that the standards can be very high if managed by the university and I think some of the mom and pop operations do very well. If you look at the row houses those are all student managed. It’s a great opportunity for students to manage and gain that experience and gives them autonomy.
Jenny – Shirley thanks for coming out tonight.
Kristina – What’s your email address?
Shirley – My email address is This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sweat free Stanford Bill
Jenny – We heard about the proposal. They are here to give an update on the meeting with president.
Daniel – I’m Daniel, I’m a sophomore here. We are talking about passing a resolution to make Stanford clothing sweatshop free. We did pass a resolution to the undergraduate senate last week and we met with the president last Wednesday. The meeting with him went really well. We established some common ground, we agree Stanford should not affiliate with sweatshops and we are not doing enough monitoring. The question on the table is whether we should join fair labor or the workers rights coalition. We’ve done a lot of research and are hoping to pass the bill. We thought we were affiliated with fair labor but it turned out that was just a joke.
Mondair – We have to amend language
Daniel – Yes. The APIR (advisory panel on investment responsibility and licensing). We need to amend that.
Mondair – Ones that speak to flaws of fair labor can remain.
Cullen - if we go to WRC will prices go up?
Daniel – The president said if the price is raised by 25 cents it might create a vicious reaction where it would drive the cost up to $5. We are looking into it and we think that companies can either adsorb costs or students can adsorb costs.
Jeff – It might be a premiums.
Student – 25 cent cost in increase of search.
Rebecca – Do you have data from other universities partnered with WRC?
Daniel – 166 schools are a part, Harvard, MIT, Duke, and Columbia. Their shirts, to our knowledge, aren’t extremely expensive compared to ours.
Mondaire – Then there is the obvious moral issue at stake. $5/shirt compared to someone not being able to eat.
Daniel – There is an important issue at hand.
Paul – How will sse react?
Matt M - At this point I don’t know but we probably are not up to par. It there is a very significant price between American apparel and ones that use sweatshops.
Mondaire – Does assu have power to say that we can use.
Hershey – If we pass resolution it would have to be a chain reaction like if you didn’t do it we fire you.
Matt – I think it’s very interesting. I was waiting for the university reaction to it. I think that it’s different when you come down to price. I think it will make a difference.
Paul – I feel bad strongly urging body to do something that we as a body could be doing something about. I think we can look into it and decide what we want to do and set an example.
Matt – I think that it can be a great marketing thing for us. We have ton of inventory now I wouldn’t want to say that we throw that away.
Hershey – These discussions have happened with faculty. With the athletic department and Nike. The director said Nike gave him a tour and he said that they were really great, (compared to sweatshops). I know there are faculty and other university adims who are looking into this.
Daniel – Fair labor announces coming with inspectors, WRC just shows up. fair labor interviews at workplace. WRC finds a place outside of the factory
Mondaire - University said they are interested
Daniel – If our clothes made at the same place as cal we will be sweat free by association we should to something ourselves and not just free ride.
Matt M – I’m curious how serious they are about that. I’m not saying that he’s not serious, I’d just be surprised.
Daniel – I think they are excited about fair labor but there is the possibility that we can join both. The pres said that was a possibility.
Shireen – I was at Columbia when senate at Columbia. If you call the senate office they can pull it out of the office for you.
Jenny – Does someone have a motion to put this bill up? There are definitely sections need to be modified.
Adam – Can you write with the corrections and come next week.
Matt A – More than a change in acronym?
Adam – I’m talking out fair labor.
Daniel – Basically think that we are not part of fair labor but thinking about it. If we join the fair labor we also need to join the WRC.
Mondaire – With those changes next week does anyone need Daniel to come back next week? (none)
Jenny – If you have questions email him. He doesn’t need to come back next week.

Elections Promotion Ideas (Kaeche Liburd, the Assistant Elections Commission for Operations)

Jenny – Thank you for coming. Kaeche is here to discuss ideas for promotions. Emails back and forth about doing the chap sticks. The elections commission initially thought they would have funding for the chap sticks but now, if we want to do it the gsc will need to fund it. Candidates have to have statements in by first week of march they also promoted elections in the first week of march. To start need how much for grads.

Kaeche – I first need to disclose that last year’s budget was different. They cut the budget by 11%. We made changes to what money was allocated for what. We are thinking of appealing for changes in line items. We find that focus on grad community is very important. Having the opportunity to be invited to this meeting is very encouraging and you can give us input on how to involve grads in election process and having grad students take over. What is happening this year is we have a certain amount of funds limited and trying to have investments that will bring most people. Got info out on chap sticks but not a significant impact on voter turn out. looking for a 50/50 approach. We really want this is something that has been requested by the gsc.
Jenny - We didn’t have an increase in candidates but did have a larger voter turnout. chap sticks not just for grad runners but for voter turn out. how much money do you have for graduate students?
Kaeche - I won’t go into detail about line items. I haven’t had anything specific for grads or undergrads. We are focusing on both bodies. This is a basket of funding available for both undergrad and grads. I can’t give you a number of what’s allocated for ugrads and grads. I think that the student body percentage isn’t something that is being considered.
Paul – How much do you have for both groups?
Adam – We raised their marketing budget from $1000 to 2600 specifically so that thy would do promotion for grads.
Mondaire – I know that elections commission is trying to do things with website.
Kaeche - I think last year was mostly online this year mostly online. We are petitioning to have website available. The petitioning website wasn’t available. The funding is definitely being used and more so than in years past.
Paul – Marketing money is being used on website?
Kaeche – Part of the website. If you consider marketing go to elections website. Computer assistance fees however, this year it has even been we are already beyond those fees and working so that fiascos such as yesterday can be avoided.
Jenny – I am concerned that there are three weeks to elections. What are you doing to get students out?
Kaeche – We want you to reach out to grad students. Finding out about time commitment and what it entails. in addition ideas are food related elections in a grad area like rains. Do you have further ideas?
Jenny – I think that we discussed this with Bernard- can look up the minutes on that discussion.
Jenny – I am concern that your budget was increased from $1000 to $2600 for your yearly budget. I think we will have to continue this discussion off line. Are there any other questions.
Cullen – When we set the budget when was the information transferred?
Paul – Let’s talk about this off line. Thanks for coming.

Back to special fees –
KZSU
Adam – There were major change is salary increase this is because now paying a living wage to radio engineer. The total is $72135. Are there any questions? (none)
Jenny – Are there any objections to putting the KZSU special fee on the ballot? (none) Seeing none passes this passes.
Adam – Legal counseling they are asking for $115095. Are there any questions?
Jenny – Are there any objections to putting the Legal counseling special fee on the ballot? (none) Seeing none that passes by consensus.
Adam – News readership program: they put the NYT and the Mercury news out. The total $59860.
Jeff – What is this?
Jenny – They deliver the NYT.
Rebecca – The people that are submitting this special fee are the students who are negotiating with the NYT. They aren’t getting paid.
Jeff – What’s the purpose of the equipment line?
Adam – It’s a wrong line item.
Rebecca – The special fees shouldn’t be paying for the newspapers themselves
Jenny – Any objections? (yes)
Rebecca – The NYT should not be using this to increase readership. At my undergraduate institution we had the same thing but the students didn’t pay.
Fen – Did NYT pay?
Rebecca – The president gave money but I don’t like that using student government to get paper out to students and it’s just wrong.
Cullen – Stanford doesn’t make line items out of things that other universities do. Stanford just, for some reason or another doesn’t pay.
R – But if nyt wanted to increase readership they wouldn’t go through congress.
Jeff - Marketing of $200 maybe that’s why I never here about it. You can’t advertise this for $200.
Maxim – I agree.
Niraj – Every undergrad knows. They are in all undergrad dorms
Shireen – They are downstairs.
Jeff – I have a problem if the distribution is predominantly for undergrad venues.
Cullen – It’s also in rains.
Shireen – Also in the high rises.
Kristina – Also in the law building.
Paul – Can we bring this to a vote?
jenny – Are there any objections to putting the special fee for the News Readership Group? (yes – 2) all those in favor? opposed? abstaining? 7-4-0
Paul – It needs 2/3rds and so doesn’t pass. (**Secretary’s note – this will be discussed again next week**)
Adam – They have to petition.
Matt – Do we want to table? Since people gone home.
Kristina – Only one person has left, We started with 12 and now have 11.
Adam – Pacific free clinic This is the merging of two clinics. They are busting out into a joint fee. They are a medical group that goes to san Jose and does medical care. Are there any questions? none
Jenny – Are there any objections to putting the Pacific free clinic special fee on the ballot? (none) passes by consensus
Adam – SOCA, student org committee for the arts. They run soca fair, the art affair, soca on display moon tunes
Mondaire – They got student group of the year
Adam – They are asking for $48220.
Cullen – Why did the committee slash them $10 000.
Jenny – They were going to put on an event in an undergraduate and we didn’t think that would best serve the grad students.
Adam – Are there any questions?
Jenny – Are there any objections to placing the SOCA special fee on the ballot? (none) that passes by consensus.
Adam – Speakers Bureaus. They bring in Nader, the guy whose wife was outed by dick Cheney, the NRA guy and the family guy. They are asking for $139170.00.
Jenny – Are there any objections to putting the speaker’s bureau special fee on the ballot? (none) Passes by consensus.