[15] in UA Financial Policy Review Committee
Re: Meeting 1 (Senate funds) results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Baranay)
Mon Jun 22 02:02:09 2009
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Baranay <pbaranay@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu>
cc: ua-fprc@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4A3F199E.5050407@mit.edu>
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Alex Dehnert wrote:
> We essentially concluded, I think, that:
> * UA Fresh Fund will be chiefly administered by the ASA, with Senate
> approving allocations (a la Finboard)
> * Senate Discretionary will focus on
> * Committee initiatives & changes in budgetary needs
> * Funding for unforeseeable (not just unforseen / un-prepared-for) events
> by student groups (eg, an event in response to the Iran elections)
> * Student group requests that don't quite meet Finboard regulations, but
> are sufficiently awesome Senate thinks they should be funded, generally
> because they benefit a huge portion of the student body, or promote MIT's
> image in the broader world
I'd amend "Finboard regulations" to "Finboard and LEF/ARCADE regulations,"
personally. I feel that LEF/ARCADE could be better advertised (but see
below, as well).
> Somebody needs to write a draft section for our report. Would anyone be
> willing or particularly interested in this section?
*raises hand*
> Also: How can we better publicize these (and other) funding sources?
* emails to asa-official@mit.edu
* (potentially) emails to undergrads@mit.edu
* updating / streamlining / cross-referencing the UA, ASA, and Finboard
webpages
* working with SAFO to ensure that Fresh Fund is mentioned during
treasurer training (for that matter, I'm not even sure if LEF/ARCADE is
typically mentioned - I don't quite recall from the time I attended
treasurer training. In any event, I think it should be). This is a piece
of advocacy that would be best achieved by the UA Treasurer, IMHO.
Is there some way of reaching all incoming freshmen, consistently? Perhaps
ASA could hand out a pamhplet about student group funding at the Fall
Activities Midway.
I can also work on getting some of this information into How To Get Around
MIT. At the moment, Finboard is mentioned briefly in the "Student
Activities" section, under the "Student Goverment" heading; the ASA and UA
are also mentioned, but nothing about LEF/ARCADE. I imagine I can
convince the current editor-in-chief to drop a few pages about student
group funding at the end of the Student Activities section.
- Paul
