[1467] in UA Senate
Re: 43UAS1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Wang)
Sat Sep 24 22:27:10 2011
From: Jonathan Wang <jwang7@MIT.EDU>
To: Rachel E Meyer <remeyer@mit.edu>
CC: "ua-senate@mit.edu" <ua-senate@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:27:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1109242106470.15129@dr-wily.mit.edu>
Can you unsubscribe me from this list? I'm no longer in the senate.=20
Jonathan
On Sep 24, 2011, at 10:15 PM, "Rachel Meyer" <remeyer@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
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> Some comments/questions -
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> Weekend Boston Dayime:
> Any more details on the possibility of getting other people to help=20
> support this? General idea of how much support can be expected? Have=20
> groups besides IFC been approached? (for reference last semester there=20
> was a 2:1 split between IFC and the UA, with the UA giving $5k)
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> Particularly, has Parking & Transportation been asked about financing=20
> (really, not charging for) part of it? Somewhat relatedly, is this=20
> cheaper than working with a provider besides Parking & Transportation?=20
> (I get that they make some things easier and it may be otherwise=20
> enabling to use them, but I'd like to know if/how this affects the cost)
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> Do we have data on the project from last semester? 12k is a lot of money=
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> and 5k is a fair bit too, so it'd be good to know what we're getting for=
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> it. I would be interested in overall ridership numbers as well as whethe=
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> there are any clear differences based on time (which could inform=20
> start/end times and frequency).
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> Student group funding/pulling from reserve:
> I think that more money needs to be going to student group funding and=20
> we aren't otherwise pulling from reserve, so I think we should take 10 to=
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> 30k from reserve for this.
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> Why:
> - Accounting for over-allocation percentage, the proposed number for this=
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> semester (121k) is 52k and 37k less than the preceeding semesters
> - Not accounting for over-allocation percentage, the proposed number=20
> (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=20
> October-December cycle. (note: the amount finboard allocates for a cycle=
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> is based on the amount in the previous semester's budget given timing=20
> constraints, so this doesn't directly affect the Oct-Dec cyle)
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> How much:
> My suggestion would be to take 30k, but even 10 or 20k would be very=20
> useful. After consdering over-allocation, 30k from reserve would mean=20
> 163k would be available for allocations, which seems much more reasonable=
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> compared to the past 2 semesters and current requests.
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> -Rachel
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> On Sat, 24 Sep 2011, Alexandria Hall wrote:
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>> 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 budge=
t. See the
>> note on the "Budget Specifics" sheet). Please let me, and the rest of Se=
nate, know your thoughts on this budget, as well as if I need to clarify an=
ything.
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>> Best,
>> Alex Hall
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>> 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 Sen=
ate meetings were going to be every other week.
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>> 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 h=
appen
>> this week. I'm giving an introduction on how the rules of Senate wo=
rks so that way people will feel more comfortable speaking up.
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>> If all the discussion happens on ua-senate then we can make it a ve=
ry short meeting.
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>> 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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