[1464] in UA Senate
Re: 43UAS1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Meyer)
Sat Sep 24 22:15:18 2011
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:15:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rachel Meyer <remeyer@MIT.EDU>
To: ua-senate@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CAAQ+k786BcPcdiN6DiFW_C123RQDYZtjLk0eRO9HbW+MV8kZyw@mail.gmail.com>
Hey everyone,
Some comments/questions -
Weekend Boston Dayime:
Any more details on the possibility of getting other people to help
support this? General idea of how much support can be expected? Have
groups besides IFC been approached? (for reference last semester there
was a 2:1 split between IFC and the UA, with the UA giving $5k)
Particularly, has Parking & Transportation been asked about financing
(really, not charging for) part of it? Somewhat relatedly, is this
cheaper than working with a provider besides Parking & Transportation?
(I get that they make some things easier and it may be otherwise
enabling to use them, but I'd like to know if/how this affects the cost)
Do we have data on the project from last semester? 12k is a lot of money,
and 5k is a fair bit too, so it'd be good to know what we're getting for
it. I would be interested in overall ridership numbers as well as whether
there are any clear differences based on time (which could inform
start/end times and frequency).
Student group funding/pulling from reserve:
I think that more money needs to be going to student group funding and
we aren't otherwise pulling from reserve, so I think we should take 10 to
30k from reserve for this.
Why:
- Accounting for over-allocation percentage, the proposed number for this
semester (121k) is 52k and 37k less than the preceeding semesters
- Not accounting for over-allocation percentage, the proposed number
(86k) is less than at least the previous 7 semesters budgets
- Looking at allocations for this semester: 54k was given for the
July-September cycle and there is about $160k in requests for the
October-December cycle. (note: the amount finboard allocates for a cycle
is based on the amount in the previous semester's budget given timing
constraints, so this doesn't directly affect the Oct-Dec cyle)
How much:
My suggestion would be to take 30k, but even 10 or 20k would be very
useful. After consdering over-allocation, 30k from reserve would mean
163k would be available for allocations, which seems much more reasonable
compared to the past 2 semesters and current requests.
-Rachel
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Alexandria Hall wrote:
> Hello Senate,
> Attached is the newest form of the budget, will all line items filled in as accurately as possible (the only major change would be to the CSL budget. See the
> note on the "Budget Specifics" sheet). Please let me, and the rest of Senate, know your thoughts on this budget, as well as if I need to clarify anything.
>
> Best,
> Alex Hall
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, William Steadman <willst@mit.edu> wrote:
> Some of you asked me why are we meeting this week since we said Senate meetings were going to be every other week.
>
> We are meeting this week for Senate so that we can pass a budget in a timely manner. The passing of a budget is the only thing that needs to happen
> this week. I'm giving an introduction on how the rules of Senate works so that way people will feel more comfortable speaking up.
>
> If all the discussion happens on ua-senate then we can make it a very short meeting.
>
> Also, it will be occurring in W20-400 like our last meeting.
>
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> Alexandria Hall
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Class of 2012
> Course 21H--History
> ach_12@mit.edu
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