[373] in UA Senate
Re: Finboard flying club allocation at tonight's Senate meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keone Hon)
Mon Dec 7 18:49:38 2009
In-Reply-To: <EF39F71E-76EA-4169-9258-63139875F613@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 18:49:28 -0500
From: Keone Hon <keone@MIT.EDU>
To: Sammi Wyman <swyman@mit.edu>
Cc: UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>, finboard <finboard@mit.edu>
I emailed to ask what they'd spent and this is what I got.
Keone
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonathan Lovegren <lovegren@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: MIT Flying Club Allocations
To: Keone Hon <keone@mit.edu>
Cc: Kevin Cedrone <kevin.cedrone@gmail.com>
We've spent about $480... the rough breakdown is
$210 on a movie
$140 on food for our first General Body Meeting
$90 for a ZipCar for transportation to the airports for one of our
"Fly-outs" where we take MIT students flying
$40 for snacks and drinks for our last GBM/movie night
We plan on spending whatever we have left at our last event of the
semester, which is this week. We have a department-wide guest speaker
who is funding himself to come travel and give a talk at MIT. We are
just spending money for food and refreshments for that meeting.
Hope this helps.
Jonathan
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Sammi Wyman <swyman@mit.edu> wrote:
> Has the money for the recruitment barbeque already been spent?
>
> -Sammi
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:07 AM, Keone Hon (ASA Treasurer) wrote:
>
>> Hello Senators,
>>
>> My name is Keone Hon and I serve as ASA Treasurer. =A0I was a senator
>> for the past two years, representing Next House and then Fraternities.
>>
>> I am writing to brief you on a small item that will be coming through
>> tomorrow, with the hopes of clarifying some issues and expediting your
>> discussion. =A0Danielle Wang, chair of Finboard, will be presenting the
>> issue tomorrow along with the rest of the Finboard allocations which
>> were made today.
>>
>> The issue is an allocation for this past fall semester for the MIT
>> Flying Club. =A0Finboard zeroed the group out in the original
>> application cycle in May due to a clerical mistake (we thought they
>> were ineligible for funding), and then lost track of their subsequent
>> appeal during the appeals process due to a mistake on my part. =A0We
>> discussed their application in October along with another appeal (MIT
>> Toons) and voted to allocate $470 (a breakdown is below), but when
>> Danielle presented the Toons adjustment she forgot about the flying
>> club one. =A0I requested to have the issue entertained over email three
>> weeks ago, or during your Special Budgetary Meeting last week, but the
>> principal officers declined the request on the basis that this would
>> require a suspension of the bylaws and a call for a separate meeting
>> immediately following adjournment. =A0The item is on the agenda for
>> tonight.
>>
>> Overall, the group's request ($1200) is modest, Finboard's allocation
>> was even more modest ($470), and they have been jerked around all term
>> due to various acts of misfortune. =A0I strongly support this allocation
>> and urge you to use your power to solve this problem and cut through
>> the red tape that student government is often accused of constructing.
>>
>> Their original request is attached. =A0Our allocation, which I thought
>> was pretty conservative, in October was:
>>
>> operations 200 [recruitment barbecue in september]
>> capital 120 [library materials]
>> p&p 50 [poster printing]
>> events 200 [movie nights]
>> total: 470
>>
>> If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Keone
>> <[Flying] - UA Finance Board Budget.pdf>
>
>
