[482] in UA Senate
41UAS12.1 Athena Paper Notebooks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Mon Mar 29 04:52:07 2010
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:52:02 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>
Hi Senate,
One of the bills you'll be looking tomorrow at is "Bill to Allocate
Funding for Recycled Athena Paper Notebooks"
(http://web.mit.edu/ua/senate/UAS41/12/1/.pdf). The bill allocates $40
from Senate Discretionary. If the request had been made in the spring
budget as $100 in "project funding", I think it would have sailed
through without anyone on the Special Budgetary Committee or Senate
giving it a second thought (though obviously I can't speak for more than
myself). Given that, and given the size of the request, I'd say it
should be approved (or possibly rejected) with little to no debate. If
we spend more than about 5 minutes discussing this in person, I think
we're wasting our time.
If anybody doesn't think we should approve it, I urge you to speak up
soon on the mailing list. Otherwise, I won't feel too bad trying
to be first on the queue to immediately move to close discussion.
~~Alex
