ASCWU Office of Legislative Affairs Base

Funding Proposal Brianne Wood, Vice President of Legislative Affairs

Purpose

• The ASCWU Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) is established tooversee the distribution of legislative information to students, parents,and legislators at the local, state and federal levels.

What OLA Does

• The voice in Olympia, and Washington, DC for CWU students

• Create political programs that increase political awareness on campus.

• Facilitate voter registration drives

• Empower students to become more civically minded.

2014-2017 Base Funding Request

Annual Base Funding Request Summary

FY 14-17 Total Annual Base Funding Requested:

26,067

Civil Service Payroll: 0

Student Payroll: 13,075

Employee Benefits: 392

Goods &Services: 6,100

Travel: 6,500

An Annual Increase of $1,067!

Recent Accomplishments

CWU Lobby Day 2012

• Central took a record of 50 students to Olympia to lobby our local legislators to maintain higher education funding.

Washington DC Trip

• In 2011-2012 year, OLA took twelve students to Washington, DC to lobby on rising Stafford Student Loan rates

Permanent Ballot Box

• CWU became the first university in the state to have a permanent ballot box on campus. This box was paid by students for students.

CWU VOTE Program• This program is a

partnership between OLA and the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement.

• Register Educate Vote Theme

• Because of this program, we were able to register 642 CWU students. Roughly 10% of the college population.

Election Assistance Center

• OLA and CLCE sponsored an Election Assistance Center in SURC 137 A&B on November 5th and 6th of Election Day.

• This gave students an option to print and fill out their ballots so that they could vote on Election Day.

• This center was open in conjunction with our ballot box outside.

• CWU had a record of 1717 ballots dropped off in both areas. That is 20% of the college population.

Election Assistance Center

Election Night Bash

• A OLA and CLCE sponsored event on the night of elections.

• This was an event for students to celebrate the wins or feel bad for the losses of the night.

Upcoming Projects and Events

CWU Lobby Day 2013

• Lobby Day will be on President's Day, Monday, February 18th.

• OLA's goal is take 100 students to Olympia to rally and lobby on the issues that matter to students.

• Some important issues this year are possible repeal of GET program, differential tuition, veteran's issues, voter access, and taxes on textbooks.

College Civics Week 2013

• A program that is in its 8th year, sponsored by the Secretary of State's Office.

• Will collaborate with the Center for Leadership and Community Engagement to put on various programs that showcase students' work in civic engagement activities.

• Also plan to invite local legislators to come and talk with students on the issues that matter to them.

• Other ideas are an outdoor concert, trivia night, and voter registration drives.

Institutionalizing Voter Registration on CWU

• Goal is provide access during Wildcat Welcome Weekend and Discover Orientations for freshman and transfer students to register to vote or change their address

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