[10] in UA Financial Policy Review Committee
Re: Committee Membership, Scheduling, and Topics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Tue Jun 16 00:46:24 2009
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:46:08 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu>
CC: Paul Baranay <pbaranay@mit.edu>, ua-fprc@mit.edu, ua-fprc-chairs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4A34C1B4.30302@mit.edu>
Right.
Time: Sunday, June 21 @ 8PM
Where: UA Office
Agenda:
1. Introductions
2. Committee Structure & objective
3. General structure of money and funding at MIT
4. Senate Discretionary and Fresh Funds
* Procedural requirements
* Guidelines on types of expenses / groups / etc.
* Amounts
* Other stuff?
I'll have:
* Guiding questions
* Some starting proposals, probably
* Amount allocated this year, and previous years if I can find it easily
* Requests this year, and results from each request
* The original legislation establishing the funds
Rachel has agreed to do a brief overview of money and funding at MIT, to
answer Catherine's questions.
Hopefully I'll see you all (well, except Vrajesh and maybe Riley) on Sunday.
~~Alex
Alex Dehnert wrote:
> [ First: try to get your availability in by 8PM Eastern on Monday night.
> I'm hoping to figure out the time and topic on Monday night. (Also,
> check your email on Tuesday or Wednesday.) ]
>
> Yup, I'll try to have more specifics (questions, proposals, data, etc.)
> for each meeting. I'll start pulling those together once we figure out
> the first meeting topic.
>
> With the Senate funds, at least, that probably means:
> * Guiding questions
> * Some starting proposals, probably
> * Amount allocated this year, and previous years if I can find it easily
> * Requests this year, and results from each request
> * The original legislation establishing the funds
>
> If you want anything else, let me know. Everyone is also welcome, of
> course, to bring their own questions, proposals, data, etc. to the
> meeting. (If you do, it might be vaguely useful to send them to me (or
> this list) in advance so I can put together some form of packets or page
> of links for the meetings.)
>
> Also: anyone want to be committee secretary / take minutes at the first
> meeting?
>
> Paul Baranay wrote:
>> When considering the topics listed below, I think it'd be helpful to
>> have a set of specific questions to address, if only as a framing
>> mechanism to start the initial discussion. If possible, though,
>> providing some relevant documentation (and/or a historical
>> perspective?) would also be handy.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Alex Dehnert wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Membership
>>> 2. Scheduling
>>> 3. Topics
>>>
>>> == Membership ==
>>>
>>> The membership of the Financial Policy Review Committee has been
>>> determined, and is listed below along with usernames and what I saw
>>> as (some) relevant titles.
>>>
>>> General members
>>> Alex Dehnert adehnert (chair) UA Treasurer and LGC Senator
>>> Liz Denys lizdenys UA Secretary
>>> Riley Brandt rbrandt Former UA Treasurer
>>> Rachel Meyer remeyer ASA President and History Committee Chair
>>> Rebecca Krentz-Wee rkw Interested member of the UA
>>> Michael Bennie mbennie UA President
>>>
>>> Representing the UA Senate
>>> Paul Baranay pbaranay UA Speaker and IFC Senator
>>> Catherine Olsson catherio Random Hall Senator
>>> Vrajesh Modi vrajesh East Campus Senator
>>>
>>> == Scheduling ==
>>>
>>> I think I'd like to try having our first meeting sometime next week.
>>> Please go to
>>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rinzrbq6IH1_ZeGy8QlHAOQ&t=6717161777657229150
>>> and fill in your availability --- Y for available; D for available,
>>> but only with difficulty, N for not available; and M for possibly
>>> available.
>>>
>>> I'd also like to know if anyone will be away from Boston for more
>>> than, say, three days at a time or so for the rest of the summer so I
>>> can figure out if we're going to need to take a break at some point.
>>>
>>> Folks on ua-fprc-listeners: I can see the scheduling emails being
>>> pretty pointless to most of you. On the other hand, in the interests
>>> of transparency I lean towards making just about everything public.
>>> If anyone has a preference about me sending emails containing just
>>> scheduling to ua-fprc versus ua-fprc-members, let me know... If I
>>> don't hear anything, I'll probably stick with ua-fprc.
>>>
>>> == Topics ==
>>>
>>> The list of current likely major topics for discussion is as follows:
>>> * UA reserve
>>> * Senate Discretionary & Fresh Fund
>>> * Finboard
>>> * UA Operating
>>> * Annual vs. semesterly
>>> * Appropriate use of UA operating budget
>>> * Guidelines on acceptable actions in return for outside funding
>>> * Apportionment of Student Life Fee
>>> * process for handling summer expenditures
>>> * Exec financial accountability, including Class Councils
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a topic that they'd really like to start with? Maybe
>>> the Senate funds?
>>>
>>> Is anyone particularly interested or uninterested in any of those
>>> topics? I'll do what I can to ensure everyone who indicates
>>> particular interest in a topic can make all the meetings on that
>>> topic (and I'll try less hard than usual if you aren't interested).
>>>
>>> ~~Alex
>>>
>
