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Adam C. Weiss, Executive Vice PresidentAshley Carter, Secretary of the Senate

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Senate Meeting AgendaWednesday, September 9, 2015

9:10pm in LLC 006

I. Call to Order: 9:10pmII. Roll Call

a. Present: b. Absent/Excused: c. Non-Voting Officers Present:

III. Public & Previous Businessa. Community Comment

Noneb. Approval of Minutes

Motion to approveApproved

c. Elections Report & VerificationSandra Rubinchik:Brandeis 1L: Three-way runoff will occurCardozo 1L: Sean WinkerJackson 1L: Donald CrowellJay 1L: Sarah FriedmanMarshall 1L: Samantha BlockO’Connor: Nick GumasO’Connor 2L: Danniyal AhmedTransfer: Lexi WhiteLLM: Alice Sarvi

Motion to verify election resultsVerified

d. Swearing InNew Senators sworn in except Sarah Friedman

e. New Senate Meeting Time9:10 on Tuesdays – arrive at 9:05 – tentatively changed, needs to be confirmed by people who could not attend tonight

IV. Executive Reports

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a. President - George SoussouSpoke to Dean Monroe – in the opinion of legal counsel, SBA’s initiative last year allows specifically chartered student organizations to establish certain requirements for leadership if national bylaws or agreements suggest those requirementsIn final stages of planning Halloween partyNew CADE policy – no longer need RAMS, can now just have sober monitors, rather than having SBA provide RAMS

b. Vice President of Finance - Jeremy BudayNot present

c. Chief of Staff - Jesse Islemani. Executive Application

Applications are open, please push those applications to let everyone know that they should apply for positions and get involvedNext week, Thirsty Thursday will be an outreach TT for SBA Senators – if you can be there, please attend, and if not, spread the word. Exec would like people to meet their Senators and improve transparency.

V. Senate Businessa. Executive Vice President Report – Adam C. Weiss

i. Appointment of the President Pro TemporeMax Weiss appointed as President Pro Tempore

ii. Election of Sergeant at ArmsCaleb Raymond: elected as new Sergeant at Arms

iii. Budget Meeting Operating RulesAt every hour we’ll take a five minute break, make sure to take refreshmentDuring discussion of line-items, limit to three comments per Senator per line-itemWill not include requests for information as a commentRaise your hand unless you want to make an interrupting motion – then raise your placardIf President has a comment, his comment will move to front of the queueSenators on organization Exec Boards:Saniya Ahmed – SALSAAlice: SELSMike: Entrepreneurship Nick: LambdaMihir: Entrepreneurship

b. Committee Chair Reportsi. Rules and Constitution: Michael Omboni

Looking at filling any vacancies for Supreme CourtIf you’re looking to make changes to bylaws, please send at least a week in advance

ii. Facilities and Technology: Gil LandauShane: Lerner 3rd Floor water fountain bottle spoutMihir: No AC in classrooms (L301, L202)George: Dean Molinengo trying to fix AC problems

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Caleb: Don’t have housekeeping taking out trash or cleaning bathroomsJesse: Broken outlet in LLC006Adam: Lock on 1st and 2nd floor between Lisner and Stuart currently don’t require keycard accessAshley: Broken sink on 2nd floor of StocktonMike: Water fountains are almost impossible to draw water from due to water pressure issues – administration has Sean: Men’s room in soft lounge – sink on the right doesn’t work, 2nd floor of Burns, broken spigot for bottlesSarah: Lerner 401, socket falling off

iii. Student Organization and Charter: Sonia ShaikhTrying to implement tracking system for student orgs, looking to also make rules for becoming a new student organizations a little more stringentHave some issues coming up with people who aren’t part of the law school joining law school clubs – need to sort out membership

iv. Wellness and Programming: Shane MillerWorking on Health and Wellness Week coming up, working with Exec counterparts and Dean of Students – please email Shane with suggestions

v. Academic Policy: Katie Mello, Kevin WiatrakNo report

vi. Finance: Calvin LeeLots of budget hearings, committee has done a lot of work

vii. Audit: Max WeissAll students understand policy

c. Senate CommentOne of Katie’s constituents brought up issue with security guard at Thirsty Thursday – if anyone else feels that security guards are intimidating students at Thirsty Thursday, should be brought to attention of SenateDanniyal: Also started implementing the policy at other events, we just seem to have many more people in attendance Sonya: Several student orgs have been emailing to say that their organizations should receive precedent because some of their members are on SBA Exec or are Senators – make sure you don’t encourage orgs to feel this waySwearing in of Sarah

d. Introduction of New Legislationi. Bill 01 - 2015-2016 SBA Student Organization Annual Budgets Act

ACS: Ryan Caden: Appeal is based on the fact that amount of money they thought was in R Fund might not be there and another event that was not funded, but would like to request funding forGeorge: Money carries over – no loss to your organization when the amount does come out

Ryan: Correct, but the money we reported in our R fund was not reported correctly during budget

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decisions, would request to make that upCalvin: We did consider R funds, but looked at total amount requested, didn’t factor in R fundMatt: What you’re describing is that it’s based off net C-Fund budget request – we just took into account the amount requested, R fund was not as significant as might be anticipated Mike: What amount are you asking for?Ryan: For convenience purposes, asking for $750

Caleb: What is the difference between C Fund and R Fund?George: R Fund is money that organization uses for whatever purpose they want, but rolls over – C Fund is money that must be used to benefit the entire student bodyAdam: Ad-Hoc Funds go into C Fund and rolls over, R Fund is budgeted moneyMihir: Do we vote on each org separately?Adam: Will present the entire budget at the end of the meeting and then Senators can adjust amounts as neededMatt: If opening budget doc, if looking at ACS, we allocated 1200 but the budget will say 950 – can fix it

BLSA: Holdyn Brand and Tatiana Cody:Appealing general body meeting fund: Already had a general body meeting, have already exhausted the amount given to general body meetings , particularly because BLSA had a much larger turnout than expected, really need an opportunity for students to come to more general body meetings and currently cannot hold any other general body meetings with funding receivedTold by finance committee that they would be given enough money to fund two GBM, one per semester, but were not given the amount requested during in their budget to fund those two meetings

Max: Granted 360 dollars more than last year in this budget – why do you need more funding?Holdyn: Issue is that we cannot have general body meetings without funding for them – these sessions are much more significant than most general body meetingsTatiana: Amount specifically allocated to general body meetings was 350 dollars, want to spend the money that was allocated for the reasons allocatedKatie: Expected attendance is much larger than most student organizations have – over 200 – do you have any anecdotal evidence that this many people will attend?Holdyn: Have already seen many more students interested in attending, particularly at the student org fair, want to open up eventsKatie: But why do you think so many more students will attend panels if your GBMs have between 65-80?Holdyn: Strategically developed programming in order to appeal to the most studentsSarah: If we’re not able to provide funding, how do you plan to make that money go farther? How can you make GBMs successful?Tatiana: Have actually talked about cancelling GBMs, if we cannot feed eighty to ninety people, we would not be able to have as many meetingsHoldyn: If we could at least have something that could practically be stretched, we can make it work

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Calvin: How much did you spend on first GBM?Sonia: Fundraising – if you have so many students coming in, why is your fundraising amount low?Holdyn: We can either put money and time and effort into strategic events, or into making more unique events with additional fundraising capabilities

Motion to extend – 2 minutesPassedMike: You know about the ad hoc process – many of these meetings will occur later – if you didn’t get your funding now, and you could bring back numbers for attendance to us later, would you be opposed to that process?Tatiana: It was my understanding that ad-hoc funding was for new events, and GBM are not these kind Danny: Do you have membership dues?Tatiana: Yes – pay for members-only events, such as academic sessions, tshirts, etc.Holdyn: Also, not every member pays their dues, don’t want money to serve as a bar membershipKatie: You want 7 meetings and 300 dollars for each?Holdyn: We believe that 1400 would be a better compromise, to stretch over 7Calvin: How much are dues?Holdyn: 20 dollars currently

Matt: To explain GBM, used standard that would fund one each semester, it’s in the financial policy – just a guidelineCalvin: So up to 150 dollars per meeting at 2 meetings a yearMatt: The 300 dollars per meeting, for 63 people, is about double what other clubs are spending for the GBM – so we used an average for what other student orgs are spending, which is how we came to 350 for two general body meetingsCaleb: Are most orgs dues in their budgets?Matt: Yes – most put revenue from dues in their request – we don’t have that information for themMike: What makes these meetings not ad hoc eligible?George: Nothing, they are eligibleSonia: Is this a longstanding guideline?Adam: When we created the policy last year, we used an already existing guideline – this is just guideline to treat everyone equally, but Senate can overrideCalvin: Budget process was similar last year as wellMihir: Did you do same amount for each GBM?Matt: NO – based the amount on amount of people expected – about $2.50 per person expected to attend GBM

Lambda:David Hart, Darby Rapun, Caroline Reeves, Nathan ?

Proposed budget was 1800, we originally requested 4800, now we’re requesting 3500 total now, based on removal of social events and some reimbursements

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Additional events asked to fund: 350 for marriage estates event, 300 for annual AIDS walk (required event that we must have based on Constitution), 225 for mentor-mentee barbecue based on specific community needs, 100 for meet and greet for LGBT orgs on campus, 200 for co-sponsorship events, 75 dollars to sponsor Bar Review, historically have received about 3000 dollars, last year hosted 26

Mike: How much additional from last year are you asking for?David: 1200Matt: Could have members outside of Lambda participate in walk?David: Yes – would encourage thatCaleb: Will the med school co-sponsor the meet and greetAlice: How many members?David: List-serv 400, 180 active members, for events last year 35 average attendees, GBM usually 80-90 peopleDavid: One reason we dropped money is we understand you’re only funding 1 GBM, so took that from the budget

Danny: Did we say dues calculations were on spreadsheets?Matt: They should be on spreadsheetCaleb: Lambda does not charge membership duesKatie: Shouldn’t be considering dues anyway, shouldn’t have impact on money we give them from budgets

National Security Law Association:Have asked for money for ABA breakfast once per month, we would ask for more money to fund panel discussions, we understand that our scholarship funds were cut, very broad audiences reached with panel discussions – we would request a full 900 dollars for 300 dollars per panel, anywhere from 75-90 people coming to events, want to provide food – if we can’t get three panels funded, would ask for reallocation for events given funding for, 300 per event for 2 eventsFor the scholarship fund – essay competition every month, ABA has a standing committee on national security law, could do a lot of outreach through this scholarship fundFor panels, may not have same history, did not request any money at all last year, but did have multiple events with 75 attendees, have a listserv of over 200 members over one year, and are really looking to assist students with networking for national security law, Patrick StewartThomas (Treasurer)

Caleb: To clarify, funds are just for food?Patrick: Yes – we already have members for one panel, not paying the speakers, just want to be able to provide foodMike: What is the number you’re requesting?Patrick: We’d request 340 dollarsMike: I would encourage ad-hoc funding

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Sarah: Have the scholarships historically gone to many students?Patrick: This is a new thing we’re doingSonia: You have 200 members on listserv, how many active members do you have?Patrick: We don’t have general body meetings, we’re a career focused organization, today we had an event with 50 students focused at 1Ls – our events target different audiences each time, rarely do we have events that target everyone Thomas: averaged 75-80 people at events last yearCaleb: Are these just for law school students?Patrick: These events are open to everyone that the ABA committee advertises to – we generally advertise in the law school, so generally law students, but everyone’s welcomeSonia: Are those events open to the public alcohol events?Patrick: No – no SBA money is used to pay for alcohol

PLS:Nick Bidwell:Allotted 1000 dollars for the year, feel it doesn’t reflect everything we’d like to accomplish, huge difference in programming over the last few years, going into election this year, definitely in a unique position to bring publicity and events to the school during this time, hoping for a supplement to the budgetOne concern was fundraising, so trying to come up with more innovative fundraising efforts to combine with other more interesting events

Sean: Did you say how much you were requesting?

Nick: At least an extra 500, would like initial capital investment to start a solid fundraising effort – did a poor job of fundraising last year, think what we received last year was a more fair amountCaleb: For some of these panels, you have 400 dollars asked for food for panels - why?Nick: Work with faculty committee, faculty ask us to only use catering for food events for speakers because they are very Caleb: Faculty will not help fund these events?Nick: NoKatie: Co-sponsorship possibilities?Nick: Would like to do co-sponsorship, have not had a chance to reach out yet to ask for those eventsSarah: Looking down the road, if you do increase membership this year, how will you keep that momentum?Nick: Would love to do more events that don’t require funding – would like to look into doing events that might encourage membership Danniyal: Expected attendance for events – are these projections based on your current membership or future membership?Nick: GBM is about accurate, have about 120 new signups this week, speaker panel projections are definitely based on projections for growthCaleb: Another organization wanted to go to the Supreme Court – ACLU wants to go

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Sarah: Are any other political law groups in DC?Nick: Yes – Georgetown does have one, looking to reach out to them

Street Law:Megan OsbourneJude Nwaokobia

Need transportation funds to get people to YSC in cars, significant costs associatedAlso need specialized teacher training for YSC teachers – 125 for teacher training, this evening had first GBM, over 100 people signed up on listserv, have a very active organization, not just doing meeting, working with the community and representing GWUsually use Street Law t-shirts to communicate during classes who we’re representing – asking for money for t-shirts at the beginning of the year, 400 dollars

Sonia: You said you use your own cars, budget requests say cabs/uber – what is the difference?Megan: Originally asked for them for moot court, but not asking anymore – just asking for 300 for gas for personal cars, which will probably not be enough George: Clarification – school won’t reimburse gas, possibly mileageJude: Traditionally we don’t ask for gas money, usually ask members to pay for gas, but this time around would like to pay them backCaleb: You have several moot court competitions – are these for GW students?Megan: One is for high school students, every year, do a competition that we run for their students, and this year we’re extending program at Francis Stevens, local middle school, to bring them to GW to do a full-scale moot court, and want to do two of those events – we need food funding for thoseMike: Wanted to bring up that Street Law didn’t stay until 6pm yesterday – for evening students, possibly want to reach out to evening students and make sure students get signed upSarah: Are you grading students on street law?Megan: Actually have now removed this from classroom, are not becoming an after-school programSarah: Have you looked into outside funding?Megan: We’re open to itJude: We’ve tried school funding, but the school does not have money to give us, tried to get reimbursements, but they were unable to give the funding

VBLSPatrick TierneyAppealing for funding for fall career panel – asked for 992 dollars, received 500 – it’s always been our most successful event, bring individuals from alcohol law and regulation law, internships have come out of these career panels, have had several different panelists and always been a very successful event

Sonia: You’re saying it’s successful – what is your general amount and expected amount?Patrick: Expect the same amount as usual, usually over 35 person limit, so we’ve never had to submit full

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list – estimate between 50 ad 60 people during event

Caleb: Is this a 492 increase for GWPD?Patrick: Need GWPD and bartender services to serve alcohol – need the extra money to pay for these

Motion to suspend rule 909 of the bylawsMotion to suspend the rules approvedMotion to add SALSA to agendaMotion approved

SALSA:Saniya AhmedSignificant breakdown in communication – did not originally submit a budgetHere to submit a budget – 3,200 dollars, tried to cut some events from budget, here to request 2000 dollars to fund the organization for the year, had about 50 people sign up at student org fair, do have membership of about 40 more members who are activeEvents are not limited to South Asian law students – put on cultural events which are always well attended by members and non-members of SALSA – have cut a mixer with other grad student orgs, suggested a cut to one career panel, and intend to fundraise to increase fundingMike: Comment – thank you for cutting your budget, given the situationCaleb: You mentioned you were thinking of a mixer – multicultural student center might fundSaniya: To close, just wanted to apologize – this is an unusual situation, would like to get some funding for organization since we do have a large membership

Finance Committee Recommendation: Current recommendation is 0 because of miscommunication- SBA did not give information regarding appeal, and as a result SALSA was able to appeal tonight

Finance Committee explanation of budget decision process:Matt: Simply impossible to fund the amounts that everyone asked for – generally tried to fund 2.50 per members attending per general body meeting, later can come back for ad hoc fundingSome groups put dues on their budgets, if they count that as their fundraiser, then we counted that money – other groups didn’t claim that, so we didn’t take it into consideration if they didn’t fundraise some other wayCarrie: Groups are required to have at least one profitable fundraiser per year – a lot of groups hold bake sales, usually make about 40 dollars, really try to encourage more innovative fundraising – many groups from tonight did not do a great deal of fundraisingMatt: We encourage people to try different fundraising, particularly for a significant portion of budgetR Fund: we took into account R funds that people had, some confusion with two groups but got that resolvedConferences: Some people asked for significant amounts for conferences, but asked people to use ad hoc funding for conferences, probably won’t fund the full amount Adam: We also say they can only send a certain number of people, ad hoc is easier to track

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Asked finance committee to try to treat organizations equally and asked that Senate keeps Caleb: To clarify, is the 1200 error on ACS the only error?Matt: YesAdam: Goal is 68,000

Ad hoc: Separate fund where organizations can ask for one-time funding, proposals brought to finance committee, reviewed on one-by-one basis and then approved by the SenateDanny: Organizations have to be active – do we have a threshold organization size?Sonia: No- we’re working on that. Also note that ad-hoc funding goes towards new organizations as wellMike: Did we have C Funds that were larger?George: 68,000 has been the number for the last two years

Motion to restore rule 909Seconded Reinstated

Motion: Move into Closed SessionMotion to vote on Closed Session by roll call voteMotion to vote by roll-call does not pass13-7, motion to move into closed session does not pass

Calvin: Motion to friendly amend ACS line-item to include Fredrickson - any objection?No objection – bill is amendedCaleb: Point of information – SIPLA requested 3015, got extra moneyMatt: Error – actually requested more than 4000 dollars, did not get extra money

Matt: Motion to amend Lambda to amend 300 dollars for AIDS walk because it’s an event open to whole student bodySecondedMike: Is this the only addition or will there be more?Matt: I just think that’s the most pressing need so far, if you want to amend in the order they came I’m open to thatMike: Motion to amend the amendment for the full 1250 they requestedKatie: I think we should go through individually and see if anyone in your opinion got too much money, to add to slush fundAmendment to amend the amendment has been tabledAmendment has been tabled

Matt: Motion to reallocate the oops budget and add to the discretionary fundSecondedApproved

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Katie: Discussion of Gulf Recovery Network, point of information on their allocationMatt: They received 3000 last year through ad-hoc funding, for some groups wanted to reserve conferences for ad-hoc but some groups had a budget that was almost entirely conferences, GRN was one, thought it would be easier to get that money into their budget to give more room for ad-hoc requests, did the same thing for Law Revue and Softball

Jesse: Softball – funds were cut, why?Matt: Because they indicated to us that they need less moneyJesse: Why does Law Revue garner 25% of the total budget?Carrie: Basically, Law Revue asked for ad hoc funding at the end of the year for a large portion of the budgetJesse: Law Revue is not always careful with the way they spend their budget – could potentially embolden them to waste money and then come back asking for ad hoc fundingKatie: GRN – I don’t believe they send 30 people, and they go during Mardi GrasMatt: Dates expressed to us were December 15-22, so not there for New Year’s or Mardi Gras – as for number for students, they have a wait list, have to cap at 30 people, are asking for outside funding Nick: Why does Law Revue need so much money in their budget this year?Carrie: Basically, last year we funded their entire venue through ad-hoc, saw this as a way to limit budget and give them a limit for what they spendMihir: Basically Law Revue knows that we have to fund them because they’re such a huge event; we cut a lot of funding from other groups in order to fund Law RevueCaleb: Just want to clarify that Lisner is the venue, and we have to pay for it because Lisner is a separate venue and charges separately. Isn’t audit committee here to make sure that money is spent in the way we say?Adam: Audit committee is here to ensure that money used for what it is given forMike: Finance committee had informed these organizations that these are recommendationsAdam: Did we fund everything that finance committee requested last year?Mihir: YesMatt: Law Revue did get 17,000 last year, felt like it opened ad hoc funding up if we just give them the money now

Nick: Motion to reduce Law Revue budget by 3500 dollars and add to slush fundMotion retractedMotion to suspend for 15 minutesRetracted Motion to recessSecondedMotion approved

12:52 Into SessionCaleb: If we were to move into closed session, what would happen with the minutes?Mike: Minutes would be taken, but would not be published unless we voted to publish them

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Ashley: Motions were not taken during recess – not a closed sessionCalvin: ACS request should be 250Asking for 1400 for GBM – already far above the guidelines we established for all groupsLambda: Fine with the requestNSLA: Think it’s better to come back for ad-hoc once they confirm these events, PLS: Last year, not a consistent number of people – one guideline was how groups did last year, they have great potential but we can’t just give them money because of that, and once they figure things out they can come back for ad-hocSALSA: If we have money, fine, just before we consider them, we should first consider the groups that followed procedures correctly – misunderstanding was that the treasurer did not show up to the budget hearing

Adam: Did not show up for budget hearing, finance committee may recommend zero dollars – but they did not receive the notice that they could appeal, so the exception made here was to allow them to appeal

Kevin: Smarter to figure out what we want to give them, then decide where to cut

Nick: Greater value in specific minority groups and interest groups having more frequent general body meetings, because of the special needs of those communitiesMax: Might be a good idea to reduce or accept appeals one by one, then decide on money, also BLSA might have kind of mis-labeled their events – if they have speakers, etc, might be better classified as something elseMax – motion to discuss ACSSeconded

ACS:Shane: Amount should be 250 dollars for speakerKatie: Didn’t they ask for more money? Didn’t they ask for 750? Caleb: Motion to read the minutes from ACS appealSecondedMinutes read

Matt: ACS wants 750, 500 to reconcile an R Fund that should not be refundedAdam: This is not money that was reallocated at the end of the yearMihir: R Fund – the problem is that they were expecting a certain amount, based on their R Fund – and we should take that into account Calvin: We did take into account their R Fund, but we didn’t deplete the R FundMike: What did you deplete it to? BallparkCalvin: They have 1100 in their R Fund including the reimbursement

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Katie: Motion to give 250 to ACS for general fundsSecondedMike: I don’t think that’s fairSean: Why don’t we give them the line item?Katie: They grouped all their events togetherCaleb: Called to questionSecondAmendment is passed

Matt: Motion to amend the Lambda budget – amend to add 1250 per their requestSecondedSonia: Lambda – they only fundraised 81 dollarsCaleb: move to previous questionSeconded Amendment is passed

Motion to limit discussion to BLSASecondedKatie: Motion to give BLSA 500 additional dollars into general body meetings fundSecondedSean: Motion to amend amendment to 600SecondedMatt: There are other orgs that requested money for GBMs that didn’t get it and didn’t appeal – if we give them this money, we have to open to othersKevin: 600 is fair, we should give it to them in general funds – motionSecondedPassesAmendment is now to increase BLSA funds by 600 dollars into general fundsSarah: We shouldn’t base this on orgs who didn’t appeal – BLSA did appeal, also made events very friendly to Amendment to amend amount to 700 SecondedCarrie: 700 is exorbitant – 600 is enoughMike: I feel 600 is low, but I’d like to see their attendance and have them come back for adhoc fundingDanniyal: They might use this money thinking it’s what they have for the whole yearGeorge: Letter will be sent with budget that adhoc money is always availableMotion to previous question to vote on 700Amendment passesAmendment is now 700 on the general fundCaleb: motion to call to questionSecondPasses – BLSA receives 700 dollars

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Sonia: As we’re going on, people don’t want discussion to continueDanniyal: We’re picking arbitrary numbers at the moment, these are not measured suggestionsKatie: We’re not executives of these boards, if we give them more money, they pick it – it’s only my job to give more money

Nick: Motion to give 60% of these requests into general fundsNot seconded

Shane: Motion to remove 3000 from Law Revue’s budget, place 3000 into slush fundSecondedCalled to questionMotion passes

George: Street Law – generally tshirts come from R Fund because those don’t benefit the entire communitySarah: T-shirts are being worn on community business, representing the university as a wholeMatt: I think shirts should come from adhoc money, not from budget – motion to amend amount to 300 for mileage, 125 for teacher trainingSecondedMove to previous questionAmendment passes

Donald: Amend SALSA to 1872Shane: This amount really already reflects a penalty – originally they requested 3200Lexi: This is hasty – Alice: This is one of the only organizations that LLMs are also involved in – it would be nice to have LLM students have an organization to be part of with a healthy budgetMike: Motion to amend amount to 2000 as requestedSecondedNo discussion – move to vote

Motion to amend amount for PLS to 372 for general fundsSecondedNo discussionMoved to previous questionAmendment passes

Max: Motion to vote as a block to approve remaining appealsMoved to questionSeconded

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Bill 01 is on the table Mike: Motion to vote on Bill 01SecondedMotion Passes – Bill 01

ii. Bill 03 - Wellness Wednesday ActShane: Transfers responsibility to the Executive Committee for execution of Wellness Wednesdays – Wiliam Burke, Morale ChairMike: The bill meets the bylaws and Constitution – now at least two Wellness Wednesdays for every monthMoved to voteSecondedMotion approved

iii. Bill 02 - 2015-2016 SBA Executive Budget Approval ActAdam: Budget amounts recommended by vice presidentsDanniyal: Motion to vote by acclamationSecondedNo opposition

e. Legislation on the Floori. Bill 01 - 2015-2016 SBA Student Organization Annual Budgets Act

1. ACS – American Constitution Society2. BLSA - Black Law Students3. Lambda Law4. NSLA – National Security Law Assoc.5. PLS – Political Law Society6. Street Law7. VBLS - Vinters and Brewers8. SALSA – South Asian Law Student Assoc.

ii. Bill 03 - Wellness Wednesday Actiii. Bill 02 - 2015-2016 SBA Executive Budget Approval Act

VI. AdjournmentCaleb: Motion to adjourn