[4] in UA Senate
Financial Policy Review Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Tue Jun 2 04:57:40 2009
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:57:21 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ua-fprc-chairs@MIT.EDU
To: ua-discuss@mit.edu, UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>, ua-all@mit.edu
CC: ua-fprc@mit.edu, finboard@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4A21A6B5.2000308@mit.edu>
This summer, as UA Treasurer I'll be chairing the ad-hoc Financial
Policy Review Committee. We'll be looking at basically everything
relating to the UA and money.
Likely topics include:
* Use of the UA Reserve
* Use of Senate Discretionary and Fresh Fund
* Procedurally
* Guidelines on what to fund
* Appropriate use of UA operating budget
* meeting food and other UA-centered funds
* Large committee initiatives/events (PLUS, Athletics Weekend,
Wellness Week, etc.)
* Finboard
* Guidelines on what to fund,
* particularly reconciling with what Senate will fund
* Membership --- selection process and qualifications
* Bylaws --- matching to current practice and to future needs
Our purview is quite broad: 40 UAS 12.1
(http://web.mit.edu/ua/senate/UAS40/passed/40%20UAS%2012.1%20Bill%20to%20Create%20the%20Financial%20Policy%20Review%20Committee.pdf)
states that the FPRC shall "consider [...] such [...] issues as may
arise relating to UA and student group finances."
If you'd like to participate, I encourage you to let me know at
ua-fprc-chairs@mit.edu. This can be anything from a topic suggestion, to
wanting to listen in to our discussions (add yourself to
ua-fprc-listeners with "blanche ua-fprc-listeners -a $USER" on Athena,
or with http://webmoira.mit.edu/), to wanting to take a more active role
as a committee member by attending the committee meetings and helping to
draft the report.
If you'd like to be a member of the committee, please let me
(ua-fprc-chairs@mit.edu) know by Monday, June 8th. In your email, please
explain in a few sentences what relevant experience you have (eg,
student government, particularly UA, or as a student group treasurer)
and why you are interested. Senators (from UAS40) should also let Paul
Baranay (ua-speaker@mit.edu) know if you'd like to participate.
We'll most likely start meeting the week of Monday, June 15th and run
until we complete our draft sometime before orientation starts. We may
have a brief meeting before presenting our report to Senate for approval
in late September or early October.
Thanks,
Alex
