[8] in UA Financial Policy Review Committee
Re: Committee Membership, Scheduling, and Topics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Sun Jun 14 05:24:32 2009
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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:24:04 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Paul Baranay <pbaranay@mit.edu>
CC: ua-fprc@mit.edu, ua-fprc-chairs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906140419280.4471@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
[ 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
>>
