[7] in UA Financial Policy Review Committee
Re: Committee Membership, Scheduling, and Topics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Baranay)
Sun Jun 14 04:21:40 2009
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:21:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Baranay <pbaranay@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu>
cc: ua-fprc@mit.edu, ua-fprc-chairs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4A34B18E.20607@mit.edu>
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
>
