November 25, 2024

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Meeting Minutes

Special senate meeting Agenda

Old Business

Consent calendar passed with 9 votes via teams.

Consent calendar

SB- 08 Registration RSG- Dental school

SB- 09 Registration RSG - Law school

SB- 10 Registration RSG – Medical School

New Business

Regular voting structure

SB-13 Law school budget Request

Sen: Melnlove is presenting and asking for $9,000 for the collage of law for the ball and other events that are important to law students who have higher amounts of stress and depression and some background on what they are asking for. She passed off the Seth from the law school who is the president of the law school. 3 reasons to support the bill: first reason is the percentage of students 320 students and over 300 come both years. The second reason being bringing people together both lds and not lds and new fun not school backgrounds most would not come together for with lived experiences , and the third reason is president and what has been given in the past. Questions: Jack Vanderheyden: what other methods is the Student bar association ising to fund this. Seth: begging the law school. Highering and asking the school and studentsd and commitees and pulling for funding that is unsugcessful and law place sponsors and where told they can not ask for sponsors and finally ticket sales and the joy is to not price people out but can price things up to account for the coast. They are doing merchsales to hopefully increass funding but not sure and it is historically unprodicatable. Sen kathy full budeget breakdown. Matthew: spoke about historically the rates of mental health and law school and L1 Vs how many statistically graduate. Kate: is unsure but 5-6 people drop out a year or transfer in cohorts. but some schools have forced curve outs and the u of u is not one of those schools.

Debate: Jack says we would be giving 18,000 to two schools leaveing $15,000 for other schools and is that enough for the remaining collages. We could aprove some and see what other colleges needs and request funding and ask the school of law to come back. Kahty: giving schools 23% of the budget is something to want funding but agrees with Jacks suggestion and leaving us dry in spring and a ton are still getting registered I am not good to give 23% to one college. Scott: events that require this amount of money and planning and asking them to come back in january and febuary would out them to close to their event in funding makes things harder to plan, also a concern with waiting to aprove until spring, 3-4 months of schools left and signifigant events reqduire more plan. Jack: last year $8,000 was given to the law school partially fund it and see what happens $5,000 or $6,000 and partially fund and clarify what to do and reduce the amount today apply the same amount to law and mediciane. Anika: agrees and come back no one is garunteed ASUU funds. Sen Mattew: questions assembly last year you had to have a line item for everything and it got quite detailed has this changed. Jack: Refers to the finance guidelines. The regulations do say you need line items. Hes a graduate school student and feels for it they can ask in the spring can we break it down $4,000 for ball and some others for other events like ping pong but save for others. Sen menlove are her for a negotiation and. Not going to take it all and want to make some edits, that said to what scott was saying it is very difficult when things need to be paid and planned right now creates a challange. The venue is $6,500 for just the venue. The funding parically takes a lot of work and effort and plan events that can do over 300 people work and planning. Wonder if that unincentivized more planning. Food was around $10,000 and so so much more that leads to a huge expense and not all is exspected from the senate. SEn: scott: menlove and scott agree with rentals and planning and anti putting off particle funding allocate it today and maybe with a carrot. I want all bills to be heard before a decision do not make law and medicine the same without hearing that bill. Chair : johnson Lets look at the bills seprately lets cut them and be considerate of doing $5,000 each we have so we are going from 8 colleges asking for funding yearly to 13-15 colleges looking for funding and registration Jack: 6,750 each leaving half for the spring semester giving $20,000 and wait so new colleges can ask for more and it is only cutting $2,000 from each bill. Sen: Menlove cheaper vanue is on campus and it is as cheap as possable and expecting a negatiation and will amend to $6,750 and are happy to come back. 3/4ths majority vote. Anika and quorum present

Vote: Y:10 N:0 A: 2

Motion to move up school of Medicaine Bill

SB-12 SOM RSG budget request formal

Scott presents bill. The history of the senate is 10-15 thousand dollar and we are looking for $9,000 and a breakdown of what that would go towards advertising and the only event during the year where all four classes get together at the same time and this is hard with rotations and schedules of all the classes this is a great opportunity to have everyone know each other and graduate programs with high stress and high budgets. Of note we tried to reduce the coast by changing venues and the room is between 6-7 thousand dollars and still working of adjustments. SBO president left. But

Questions: Jack: you have ticket projects supose the motion to amend is made and to give you the same amount as law would that increass tickets by $3-$5 total per person. If they are a couple closer to $70 per couple.

Debate: Jack V: just like the law school this should be aprived but we should follow a similar logic and ask senetor king to amend it to the $6,750 amount and give them something over nothing it is in regulations and presidence is valuable but not wether or not to fund it but fund how much. Jack V: makes a freindly amendment of 6,750 dollars to amend the bill or sugstion takes the sugestion.

Vote: Y: 9 N: 0 A:3

JR 01- Rep. Bond, Sen. VanDerHeyden, Resolution in Support of Active Transportation

Rep: Bond and sen VanderHeyden present why this is so m aking all transpertation easier on campus. Less green house gas more electricity and better methods of energy and more this will help SLC and the U become more green.

Questions

Scott: what you are asking for is suport for funding for reserch to update the plan.

Rep bond: we are advocating for student suport for the students this

Sen: Jack: Campus Drive is being renovated and this design would include protected bike lanes and help the university make more movement in a clean and safe bike master plan goals. Very wide reach and has great detail.

Debate: Jack thinks this is great and is his bill and thinks communter services and sustanablity have done a lot to make the university more green and suport our envirmonet and cheaper transpertation on camous and make things simple easier and for some people give them more ablity to get around campus with new bike lanes protected and as a whole of the university and salt lake city infrastructure.

Vote: Y:8 N:0 A: 2

JB 09 - Rep. Burnett, Sen. Johnson, Rep. Hepworth, Legislation to Allocate Funding to Brave Conversations

Sen. Johnson presents this legislation. She reads the bill. Brave Conversations is asking for $235.45 coming from the presidential operations budget, not the Senate budget.

Questions:

Jack: Is a Senate/Assembly vote required to pull these funds?
- Mercedes: No, but I reached out to others for clarification on this bill. I think the bill was rewritten when it used to pull from a different fund. Doesn’t believe that it needs a vote. It was written to, as a group, understand that it’s a very controversial topic. She reached out to others, but didn’t get responses.
Jack: If a vote is not required to pull from the presidential operations, should this be a resolution not a bill?
Annika: Yes, I’ve gotten those funds and not had to do this
Mercedes: Yeah, I think this is an event and not an operation, so it is requiring a bill. But, she is not sure because there hasn’t been much communication about it
King (Scott): The language sounds like the event was before this election – is this a refund?
- M: Not sure, she reached out but hasn’t gotten many answers. One event did happen before but one is coming after and since ASUU is within reimbursements, this may be it. The Presidential funds may be different.
Jack: 2 Brave Conversations events – 1 already happened and 1 coming. Confused of what event this is funding, whether it is happening, whether it needs to be a bill.
Scott: Similar concerns, can we motion to table this until we have more information?
Mercedes: Yeah we can move to debate and motion to do that. Let me see if we have any messages from these people.

Debate:

Jack: It seems like we don’t need a bill for this. Would be happy to vote yes -
Mercedes: Wait. Let’s table this and I will talk to Chirstina and Paige again and get more info. She thinks it needs to go through in the fall semester, so if that is the case can everyone be near their phones and we can do an asynchronous vote?
Jack: My concerns are just that the bill doesn’t specify where the funds come from, what it’s funding, etc. I think it would be best to table this until next cycle or an asynchronous vote if really necessary. We aren’t funding an RSG so the Fall/Spring wouldn’t apply. I think we should table until we know more about what the legislation is and what it’s trying to do. We don’t know any of these things or have any other sponsors here.
Scott: I don’t think we should vote on it bc no one can confirm it even happened.

Jack motions to table, Scott seconds. No vote needed to table (Ethan advised that only big arguments with a lot of disagreements require a vote). Annika confirms it is okay to table wihtout a vote.

SB- 11 Registration RSG –Fine Arts Sen .Johnson

Sen. Johnson motions to hear this before Brave Conversations bill, Sen. Van der Heyden seconds. Registration is set up and well written, sponsor is changing to Sen. Johnson. Sen. VdH will turn the PDF into a Word doc, motions to move Brave Conversations back up while he does that. Sen. Johnson seconds. Jack updated the document to have Sen. Johnson’s name on it.

Questions:

Jack: Could you read the bill?
- Mercedes reads the bill. She did not write this but inherited it this morning. It does comply with all of the rules.
- One line regarding what the Student Council does should have been stricken based on Mercedes’ conversations with the administration.
Jack: So there is a letter of support from Dean’s Office?
- M: Yes, it’s in the OG Cycle 3 folder, it wasn’t moved over to make everything easier today. She has a copy from Liz as well.

Debate:

Jack: Thinks that we should register the CFA RSG so that the next senator can put forward legislation to fund wihtout jumping through hoops. We should vote yes

Vote:

Y: 8, N: 0, A:1