[479] in UA Senate
Re: Proposed New Business
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Mon Mar 29 02:00:01 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:59:58 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Sammi Wyman <swyman@mit.edu>
CC: UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <60BC2F39-208D-4573-8167-0C8EF10BB9D4@mit.edu>
While considering this bill, I encourage the Senate to consider:
== Discussion of a similar bill last year ==
The discussion we had of a similar bill by the same group last year
(pages 7--8 of http://web.mit.edu/ua/minutes/UAS40/2009-03-16.pdf). Some
particularly relevant comments, in my mind, include:
* Keone Hon: Because you got it last year, it’s an indication you likely
won’t this year because coming to the UA for funding isn’t supposed to
be recurring.
* The discussion of alternate funding sources. I will note that MIT-EMS
applied to LEF and Finboard for this allocation cycle.
* The request from Senate is identical in amount to the request from
LEF (though I don't recall what we decided, and I can't seem to find
records anywhere).
* The Finboard application didn't really talk about MassCPR much,
though it was mentioned. All expected expenses should be included in
Finboard applications. The relevant line item in the Spring allocations
was "CPR classes $500".
== FPRC report ==
The Financial Policy Review Committee's report, which Senate approved
just last meeting
(http://web.mit.edu/ua/committee/fprc/report/latest/report.pdf,
especially chapter 3, "Senate-managed funds" --- pages 17--19)
* "As a result, Senate’s discussions of discretionary usage are often
undirected. Over the past few semesters, many discussions rehashed the
same sort of philosophical points. Further, the lack of clarity in what
Senate Discretionary aimed to fund prompted concerns that those coming
to and receiving money from Senate Discretionary were those who knew
Senators, rather than those with the best ideas. Clarifying the purpose
and intended uses should both allow discussions to be shorter
and less repetitive, and give those uninvolved in the UA greater
confidence as to when the Senate Discretionary Fund is a good source of
funding."
* "In light of the above, the FPRC recommends that Senate Discretionary
Fund focus on funding the following:
* Unique requests from students or student groups that do not meet
Finboard regulations but either:
1. Benefit a large portion of the entire undergraduate student body
[...]
* Unforeseeable events or initiatives run by student groups (Note:
This does not include any events which the group could have handled
during a regular Finboard cycle, if the group had been better prepared.)"
== Budget for the event ==
Unfortunately, this seems to be missing from your email. Do you have one
that you could forward.
I'd encourage you to discuss the bill via email.
I'll be at Senate for any in-person discussion of this proposed bill.
Should you choose to consider it (which I believe requires 2/3 vote due
to the late notice), I'd be happy to provide any historical or financial
perspective I can, especially if you provide an indication of what you'd
like in advance so I can do any relevant research.
Thanks,
Alex Dehnert
UA Treasurer
Interim Chair, UA History Committee
On 03/29/2010 01:18 AM, Sammi Wyman wrote:
> Sorry this is late, guys, but I just got the funding request and the
> event is on April 4th, so I plan to bring up this bill as new business
> tomorrow.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
