Foreign I call this meeting to order at 6 32 pm section 2 swearing in if there’s any Senators who have not sworn in yet please rise place your hand over your heart and just say I do after this statement do you hereby swear that you will Faithfully serve the students of Wichita
State University ACT in accordance with the constitution of the student body and fulfill all duties and responsibilities required of a student government Senator and will to the best of your ability preserve protect and defend the constitution of the student body of Wichita State University okay you may be seated
Section 3 roll call clerk Frye with 28 members president 11 absent that make simple majority 15 and two-thirds majority 19. okay section 4 introductions and reports oh wait sorry I yield the floor to advisor Fonseca good evening everyone um first I want to take a moment to
Address the Senate and the public about a recent concern that has been going around in the spirit of transparency that I this Association and this Administration celebrates I want to take a moment to clarify this concern last week we were notified by a student through the Supreme Court that the
Student funding committee was not correctly formed under the SGA rules that were adopted an error was caught in the official rules of the SGA that we were unaware of until this was brought to Our intention to our attention the court under its Authority directed The redo of the funding process which
Was done earlier this week all errors roll up and as the association’s advisor and director of student government I can commit to you that we are going to move forward collectively to tighten up processes and efficiencies I feel terrible that this issue has impacted the great work of the 66
Session its leaders and the work that all of you are committed to do in pursuit to serve the student body and to do right by them thank you for your continued support and engagement thank you section 4 introductions and reports item one report from the executive branch vice president Martens good evening senators
Um so last weekend uh we had a few SGA representatives from all branches go to Kansas City to watch a Kansas City Chiefs game along with our alumni and Foundation it was a great time we are really happy that we got to make those connections um next Iris mentioned sorry president
Okiri mentioned this in our last meeting that she is looking for some people to sit on the compensation policy review group we still need three non-paid students to sit on this group this is to review the policy in our constitution of how everyone is paid this is a
Three-year cycle group and this is the third year so that is why this is happening so if you’re interested in that please reach out to presidentokiri at sga.president wichita.edu same thing with the next item the student fees review group we are still in need of six
Students to sit on this group this is to review the process of student fees again if you’re interested please contact president okuri next president akiri myself and our legislative affairs and policy director are headed to Manhattan this weekend to represent our Student Government we will be in a retreat
Alongside other student governments in Kansas from Kansas Public Schools so like K-State KU Pitt State Etc and then all of these student governments will be honored at the K-State football game on Saturday so we are very excited lastly SGA week is next week um Tuesday we are holding a student
Leaders lunch to learn more about the okiri Martins Administration Wednesday is coffee and donuts with the executive branch as well as the state of the student body of that night uh Thursday is ice cream with The Advocates and the justices and Friday is food trucks with the legislative branch
So if you have any questions about those feel free to contact anyone within the executive branch but more specifically our chief of staff at sga.cos wichita.edu and I’ll stand for any questions are there any questions for vice president Martens saying none thank you item two report from the speaker of the Senate
Um hi everyone I don’t really have much of a report but I will say we did just have a position open up the subcommittee chair for student affairs is now vacant so we will have applications rolling out tonight if anyone is interested in applying please reach out to me or Brandon
Item three report from Senate leadership chairperson Thompson good evening all most of my attention this past week has been devoted to the funding committee as well as the Appropriations bill that we’ll read tonight as it pertains to my committee I am needing a pro tem so to all of you
Assigned to my committee if you’re interested please reach out to me um other than that the Shockers vote Coalition is gearing up for our first meeting for anyone interested in that it is next Tuesday next Wednesday from noon to 1 pm in the seal office we’ll also have a voter
Registration Drive in shocker dining hall on Tuesday if you want any more information let me know will you be standing for questions are there any questions seeing none thank you it’s your person Haynes good even everybody um so over the past week what I’ve been doing is meeting with the diversity week
Committee planning is going swell on that part as well as talking to members of the executive branch on the international holiday recognition act that was possible last session oh yeah it’s time for any questions are there any questions seeing none thank you chairperson Owens is not here at the
Moment so we will move on to subcommittee chair Jones no report okay um subcommittee chair Owens no report okay subcommittee chair Atkinson hello I don’t have much of a report but if you’re going to be in my subcommittee I’ll be reaching out to y’all either tonight or tomorrow depending on
How long this meeting goes about introductions and looking for someone to fill the protest position thank you okay item four report from the advising staff advisor McLean good evening everyone so just a couple updates so a um you all did receive and eat a survey for me last week regarding the SGA
Retreat please make sure that you’re completing those as soon as you possibly can top of that I will continue to say this every week for those who are who are new please make sure you schedule 101s please make sure you schedule one-on-ones please make sure you schedule one-on-ones I had a couple
People some early bird style Nicole Matthews for being the first one up up the bat so you know shout out to you good it’s good sir so don’t be the last one because I will also shout you out um at the same time please make sure that as you are proceeding with any
Legislation that you have you need additional assistance please feel free to of course see any of your Senate leadership team but also feel free to reach out to me as well I have no problem bringing over some bills I’ve already seen a few uh interesting reads
I’m really excited to see you come to the floor with the near future so just please if you if you want a second eye or an eighth I for some of you all who have multiple co-sponsors feel free to hit me up with that some additional
Things just make sure as Su week is right around the corner if you’re available and able to attend some of these events please make sure that you’re doing so specifically the food trucks that’s a great opportunity for you all to be connecting with some students or marketing it that senators
Are going to be there so let’s make sure there is some Senators waiting for them if you have any conflict issues please let’s let speaker Howard now no need to necessarily fill out to send an excuse for him just if you can’t make something please communicate it that way we can
Know in advance and outside of that I don’t really have any other updates Are you standing for questions sure why not are there any questions seeing none thank you okay Section 5 public forum and presentations public forum provides a chance for individuals to have the privilege of speaking before the Senate
This is a time for the association to listen to what the community has to say and to that we offer our undivided respect and attention I would like to remind everyone that although we allow the speakers the privilege to use this platform the opinions of the speakers do
Not necessarily reflect the opinions of the association or the university item one the clerk will read right student advocates oh hi guys I’m Tatum Graham I’m the graduate student advocate hi I’m Ashlyn Clark I’m the undergraduate student advocate um so we’re just here to talk about food
For fines as the process has changed just a little bit uh so reminder the food for fines program is an initiative organized by Wichita State to support the Shocker support locker and provide individuals with an opportunity to pay off parking and traffic citations at a reduced cost the program operates during specific
Periods throughout the Academic Year fall and spring semesters and allows individuals with the current wsuid to participate our we have a few upcoming dates so the first food for fines is going to be next week September 5th through September 8th and then we’ll have one October 2nd
Through the 6th and November 6th through the 10th and then December 4th through the 8th um so we made some changes to the process um so starting with we’ve increased the donations for parking citations so for those zero through thirty dollars we will increase that from seven to ten
Items and then those citations from Thirty One to fifty dollars will increase from 14 to 15 items we will also be adding traffic citations here on campus to the food for fines process those tickets are forty five dollars or seventy five dollars those will include but are not limited
To failure to yield to a pedestrian failure to Signal turn driving on a sidewalk running a stop sign or improper U-turn the 45 dollar traffic tickets will be required to donate to hygiene items such as like laundry detergent or cleaning supplies packs of kleenexes Etc the 75
Tickets will be required to donate one hygiene or one hygiene household item such as baby formula or baby diapers wipes and then just to add to that some people might think that those items are expensive but so is a 75 ticket they’re cheaper than that um uh no YMCA citations will be accepted
For food for fines that citation has increased above the 50 limit um we are dropping the parking quiz um let’s see and that’s really all we have for you guys are we will stand for questions are there any questions for the student advocates chairperson Thompson uh what has come from the conversations
Regarding parking citations in the YMCA parking lots for people who haven’t been there for two hours sorry Senator can you say that one more time what has come from the conversations regarding parking citations for students who park there for less than two hours so the YMCA parking has always been
Complicated at least since the Y has opened um and this year from our conversations um the ticket price itself has gone up um so from my understanding and I’m happy to get some more clarification to make sure that my understanding is correct um the YMCA lot is not a parking lot that
The university has it is connected to the YMCA and right that’s why it’s a blue um I think it’s still blue but the blue um right it’s still blue yeah um so I’m let me go back and try and get some more clarification before I say something
That may not be correct in this moment to try and verify because I think we’ve had questions in our conversations of how are we ensuring that it’s the two hours or the not and what are they doing to confirm that and or verify that and or what system are they utilizing if
It’s the same one or they have to show that you’re using the YMCA or fill in the blank of what it might be so let us go back and and get that clarification for you and we’ll reach out to you by the end of the week and then share it with everyone
Um as well so we’ll we’ll get some clarification on that are there any other questions sorry Senator Ahrens So when you say that you’re dropping the parking quiz does that mean the parking quiz that will drop one of your citations is not going to be available as a way to pay a
Citation anymore um so from what I believe we’re just dropping the parking quiz for the donation process that will still be something with parking services we just wanted to make it an easy in and out for all the students who are just dropping all all the paperwork and all of that to
Make it easier for you guys any other questions okay seeing none thank you item two the clerk will read Vishnu Ava good evening Senators my name is Vishnu Alva and I’m here to discuss an article related to SGA that was released in sunflower today which opens the discussion on corruption happening
Behind the scenes during the application period for the executive branch I applied to be the legislative and policy director two days after the application’s opened a position that I was beyond qualified for having served it as an intern for Laura Kelly and Senator Petty and representative Shu unfortunately the president would never
Know who I am because I was not given an interview I’m not the only applicant who was denied an interview many other students experience similar discrimination let me remind you that in the bylaws it states that the president shall nominate the most qualified applicant for the position based on the
Applicant’s application and interview if the president did not interview all of the candidates who applied not only can they not be expected to appoint the most qualified person but they’re blatantly violating our constitution a theme that you will hear much of tonight a much more Grim picture is painted when
You realize that according to documents released by Chief of Staff Malone six members of the president’s cabinet treasure Wang director’s Glover Hawkins and panetto chairperson Russell and Advocate Graham did not even apply for their positions yet they were still nominated and the Senate would was misled to believing their appointments
To be legitimate furthermore another student revealed to me that he was promised a position of legislative and director legislative and policy director the same position I was not interviewed for immediately after the election and before applications opened I applied for the same position and did not hear back
Imagine my surprise when I saw someone else was appointed to the position without a mere application over sixty thousand dollars worth in wages of student fees money will be spent on corrupt appointments money that could be spent on our student organizations actual qualified applicants or given back to the students
But let’s not imagine an application automatically qualifies you for the position the application for the direct director of Health and Wellness was leaked so let’s explore his answers when asked why do you want this position they responded with it would look good on my med school application when asked what
Would you do with this position they responded with the 25 words that summed up to I will advertise more they were appointed by an executive order the Senate did not have an opportunity to criticize appointment at all it should not be acceptable for you to steal student money as long as you have
Friends or significant others in high places I’m not just I’m not attacking the people who receive these positions it is possible they were all they were the most qualified applicants but if positions were being offered in advance given to people who did not even apply and not every applicant was even
Interviewed the president would have no way of knowing who the best of the job would be so I’m here to ask the Senate to take action corruption in the student government Association must end I will be filing a court case that challenge the legality of these illegitimate appointments but the Senate would also
The Senate must also defend students by opening investigation into the president’s backroom dealings if it is true that paid positions were illegally handed out to friends and the student body was deprived of qualified employees who are actually care about the students well-being our leaders must be held accountable the President and Vice
President should resign thank you and I am open to questions are there any questions for Vishnu seeing none thank you item three the clerk will read Andrew poppet so a little bit of a different tone but uh given how contentious tonight’s gonna be and what’s at stake I wanted to take
Some time to highlight some of the good things that were happening around the college but earlier today we had the root beer kegger which had an amazing turnout there were hundreds of students in the time that I stopped by and it was amazing to see the interactions between
The student body and the employers I’d like to thank everybody who was responsible for organizing that event and everybody who turned out it was an excellent opportunity for students additionally I would like to congratulate the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for their victory at The
Clash of colleges it is an amazing you know for um everybody to be able to share in this experience and it’s good to see new winners every once in a while and the final event I would like to highlight is an event that should be concluding here
In a minute but the open house between shocker rowing and the community hundreds of students and community members came down to explore The Boathouse and participate in the s’mores Norris event so it was incredible to see entire families in Wichita State students coming down to take advantage
Of the resources provided by the college to that point the Shocker rowing team is still looking for new members the zero experience is required everybody is welcome to come down and try out to the process yeah and I will open for questions are there any questions for Andrew seeing none thank you okay
Section 6 approval of the consent agenda are there any objections okay seeing none the consent agenda will be approved as such section 7 consideration of new business item one the clerk will read act on request to approve sb-66-30 confirming Hannah Johnson as a freshman senator Hannah communicated with me over the
Summer a little bit and at the beginning of the school year I feel very confident in her ability to act as a freshman Senator and represent the Freshman population on campus she was very involved in high school and continues to be involved so I will yield the rest of my time to Hannah
Oh hello everyone my name is Hannah Johnson Dottie I am a first year freshman this year and I’m brand new to Wichita State I am from the Dallas Texas area so it’s about an eight hour drive from here um I’m majoring in medical laboratory science with the pre-med track and I’m
Minoring in Health Management and economics the reason that I chose to join SGA out of some few organizations was because of the leadership skills that I already have coming in from high school I was in student council student body I was in our debate team our Student Government committee and a few
Of our class opportunities so I think that I am well qualified for this position and I hope that I get to talk to all of you and I hope that we can make some great connections will you be standing for questions sure are there any questions for Hannah
Okay seeing none thank you we will open the floor for debates is there anyone who’d like to speak and debate okay I oh sorry Senator mallard I’ve only known Hannah for a little bit through student ambassadors society and for those of you who don’t know student
About Society is a group of people who talk to prospective students to try and get them to come here to be freshmen and like I said I’ve only seen her probably like two times and in those two times I’ve ever seen her she’s been just absolutely ecstatic and happy and just
Someone that I know freshmen would love to go and talk to in me and I do believe that she would be excellent for this is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate okay I’m going to move to approve by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes congratulations
We’re going to move into Section 8 the student government Association RSO Appropriations public forum and presentations item one the clerk will read Matthew fan good evening everyone I’m coming for you as a student not at the SGA Center or as a finance commissioner well today in the
Senate will decide to improve or deny the Appropriations bill um I know there are a lot of people that are unhappy with um what we came out but unfortunately we don’t have all the funds um and when Martin mentioned that um when you guys consider the Appropriations tonight and you consider
All the work the finance commission has done um considering the two times that we went through it I would also like to say that I think we definitely need to get all the funding done tonight um and me um respectful in our conversations and I would also just like to apologize for
Causing some panic in the email I sent out I know I didn’t intend for all this for all engineering columns to freak out or anything so I would like to apologize for any inconvenience and damn cause the executive branch or only worrying that might have cause for any engineering
Works well I wish everyone the best of luck as we go into Appropriations tonight I will stand for questions okay are there any questions for Senator fan seeing none thank you item two the clerk will read but Rodriguez with shocker racing baja SAE nice okay hello everyone hope you’re having a wonderful Wednesday
Um I’m up here to just say um thank you to the SGA the funding committee I know it was kind of a mess and uh you had to do it twice but I think in the end um you all do did the best you could um there’s a lot more organizations that
Need money this year um and you guys came together to be able to bring this bill forward and I think it’s turned out to be the best for everybody um with a regards to us the funding as far as the engineering colleges um we understand that some of the blame
Tends to be put on the engineering College itself and I understand that we should probably be funded by them in some way um but to have that come to us within two weeks of our school year and when we need the money and to knock us down almost twenty five thousand dollars
Of course we’ve got a little bit more now and we’re still going to be struggling with that but I think it’s doable and we can still survive this year um but uh coming together as SGA in the engineering college and as well as the engineering clubs
To come together this year and be able to find a solution for next year is important and so I encourage all of you to come together and try to find steps to move forward we want to help out all the clubs as much as we can I want
Everybody to have money and have the ability to do what they want throughout the year but respecting that also respecting the engineering clubs and giving us time to be able to find that extra money so I encourage you to pass the bill tonight and come together throughout the year thank you
Will you be standing for questions yes are there any questions um chairperson Thompson um so I know you guys have probably probably followed along with the email that I sent earlier today yes um and the dean responded just before um Senate started this evening so I just
Wanted to create a question from that um the likely response throughout the next like month or two will be um an effort to connect you guys with the foundation and alumni that might want to fund you guys in the future um are you prepared to provide detailed breakdowns of prospective future budgets
Giving alumni something to hold you all to in order to feel comfortable funding your organization uh yes we already have budgets set in place for this year and we can base those for next year and try to give them the best ability to understand what we need and kind of
Decide where money will come from this is going to be a long process especially with the amount of funding that we do need but we are prepared to give them everything that we can do to help them understand kind of our situation and provide them with the most information
Are there any other questions sorry Senator Bobbitt could you just uh briefly is this the um amount that you were allocated would this amount be sufficient to at least get you guys started I know you had said um that so it would be a good starting
Point but is this your bottom like your minimum that you can uh um successfully uh or I guess be successful with this year um yes it’s below the bottom um we’re still going to have to try very hard to raise as much money as we can and find it from different places
Um but this gives us a stronger ability to be able to survive throughout the year um but moving forward the talks with the SGA and everything can decide that bottom line that we kind of need right now I can’t give you an exact number but this is still going to be something that
We’re going to have to work on throughout the whole year to raise money um but it’s definitely better than what we had for sure other questions seeing none thank you thank you item three the clerk will read Ashley Collette with shock racing oh uh hello everybody uh my name is Ashley
Collette and I’m the captain of the Shocker racing baja SAE team um I wanted to come tonight to ensure you all had the information you need to finalize the budget for this semester as well as express my and my team’s immense gratitude for reconsidering the original allocation
The handouts in front of you uh have some information about our upcoming open house as well as a breakdown of our original budget request and then on the back is the updated bare minimum amount um we want to express that we value and understand the importance of all of the
Other clubs requesting funding as well but we only receive funding from the Appropriations budget we do not currently receive funding elsewhere such as through the engineering department and unfortunately we do not really anticipate that changing anytime soon keeping this in mind we have cut as many
Items and expenses off of our budget as possible which you’ll see on the new bare minimum budget the number we are currently being considered for will cover the entirety of this new budget and allow us to continue to function this year and for that we are forever grateful we
Appreciate the time and consideration each and every one of you have put into understanding and evaluating the team an organization as a whole and we sincerely hope that each of you has the opportunity to come to our shop and meet our team this year thank you again and I
Look forward to being able to update you all on the success of our team as we work through this year and I will stand for questions are there any questions for Ashley chairperson Thompson same question as for formula are you prepared to provide detailed breakdowns of prospective future budgets giving
Alumni something to hold you all to in order to feel comfortable funding your organization yes we are and same as with the handouts that’s basically broken on budget anyways we do that every year so we are totally open to making that public are there any other questions
Seeing none thank you thank you item four the clerk will read Clarence Albury hi it’s a very thick atmosphere tonight for good reason um I kind of struggled on whether I should make this presentation but since I’m here and there are people I’m obligated to I will fellow members guests viewing public
I stand here not as a senator but as a student and as a concerned Steward of the written word yesterday I met a gentleman in a fiction Workshop he’s in his 70s and he shared with me that one of his earliest pieces of writing he published in the micro Cosmos
Literary journal in 1976. 1976. for more than 50 years micro has provided a space for budding and established writers on this campus both faculty and students to share their stories this publication which predates many of us in fact most of us in this chamber has survived this long
Mostly because of the passion and dedication of a few who refuse to let language die who refused to allow the voices of the Unseen and the voiceless to be erased in this age of literature book bands this institution and by extension we in this room have a decision we must make
And that is whether we are going to be an accomplice to the complete annihilation of language the humanities the Arts or are we going to be that brave impassioned community that takes a stand I know this is a lot to lay at your feet but I can think of no other place to
Submit this charge than in the student Senate because there is power here there is fight here microcosmos and the first Appropriations process was awarded 1500 out of the 14 14 4 000 sorry let’s get that straight requested to keep it afloat we accepted that decision because we know that there
Were countless others in dire need of funding to stay alive others that do not have access to Big endowments and Investments and who are not The Shining beacon on the hill among their counterparts we get it small pot many miles in the second round this week that initial amount was reduced to nine
Hundred and seventy dollars barely enough to cover this year’s 70th issue publication now I am not here to beg that is not one of my Arts I am simply here to suggest that taking from Peter the pay Paul cannot be the Precedence we set for these deliberations not when Peter
Is already living of scraps my liberal arts colleagues some in the room in the back and myself ask of you one thing do not let the Arts the humanities the voices that we all took an oath to represent die I leave you with a final thought
From James Baldwin I’m sure you all know who that is writers are extremely important people in a country whether or not the country knows it the multiple truths about a people are revealed by The People’s artists that is what the artists the writers The Poets are for
I said I wasn’t going to but I stand for questions are there any questions for Clarence Senator Stanger you said to do not let the Arts die yes what action would Senate provide to support you in that initiative you know how much time do I have I don’t
Think we have a lot of time to talk about the bureaucracy the red tape and all that goes on in these institutions right but I think I’m very clear in saying that if we want to balance the book we cannot continue to sacrifice the Arts the humanities and those programs
That are geared toward uh helping our students to be holistic individuals yes technical skills and all of that stuff are important if you can’t read if you can’t debate what’s the point are there any other questions Senator Carter could you just briefly share what the microcosmos magazine is because I’ve
Never heard of it okay so the micro Cosmos magazine is the University’s official MFA program uh Journal right and this journal accepts submissions from students undergrads graduate students and faculty every year for our annual publication students are not charged they’re only asked to give a
Donation for a copy of this book I have six of them the last not sorry I have the last nine issues here on my desk if anyone wants to see them if they’ve never seen it before but it is a a publication that allows students to become published authors at no charge to
Them are there any other questions I’m chairperson Owens hi I hate to limit value to an amount but as per Appropriations what amount are you looking for today uh we were fine with the with the original 1500 the original 1500 would have allowed us to get through this year’s publication
Um in one piece right the 970 is a bit is a bit of a stretch and again I know today we’re going to have countless organizations talk about those reductions um but you know I have an obligation to my community and I couldn’t sit in that seat knowing that they were not pleased
With the process are there any other questions seeing none thank you item five the clerk will read Kelly Rowlett foreign my name is Kelly Rowlett the president of the criminal justice Student Association tonight I am here to request an amendment for our funding this year we
Did request 3 800 due to increase of employers asking to be involved with our students we were first awarded twenty three hundred dollars and we appealed which we are now allocated 1970 dollars we would strongly appreciate the assistance of at least the original twenty three hundred dollars
I do ask this because we focus on quality services and valuable education experience with career Readiness Career Development and internship career placement which we have had several students placed in internships and careers through our organization and Partnerships for example our last year president Sienna Cheney Carter accepted
An internship with ATF and through that internship she has now a career with them through these employers interactive meetings and our career fair it has landed several of our students opportunities with law firms Sedgwick County Corrections and the Wichita Police Department and WSU PD if I had not had this opportunity myself
To be here at WSU and my involvement in the criminal justice Student Association for three years as a member and this fall and spring semester as the president I would have been another statistic as a high school dropout an uneducational I’m sorry an educated Tribal member of the Cherokee Nations
This organization and the professors in criminal justice have provided the information given me the confidence and encouraged me to pursue with the internship opportunities which now have led me to my career at Sedgwick County Community Corrections and graduating with my masters this spring we this year are providing um recruiting
I’m sorry excuse me we’re trying to provide recruiting items to entice new memberships providing snacks drinks and prizes during meetings for students cost of a van rental for two off-campus facility tours a thank you bag for a 12 panelists for this fall and at least 12 for the spring and the
Annual career fair and last year it cost us twenty eight hundred dollars we are searching we have searched and we are reaching out for different opportunities for fundraising but we would greatly appreciate least being put back to the 2300 to allow us the opportunities to help other criminal justice students and
That doesn’t it includes different areas forensic science the CJ then um I’m sorry um pre-law pre-law forensic science criminal justice and the ROTC program so there’s four people four other organizations that come and sit in on our panels sit in and come into our mock interviews resume building and participate in our
Career fair each of them are willing to come and help us do fundraisers which is bake sales we are participating in the fuzzies fundraising opportunity but again we plead that you at least put us back to the 2300 instead of setting us back the bit that we were given
And I am here for questions are there any questions seeing none thank you thank you item six the clerk will read over there for those of you here who will be here last week myself and many others that are part of the model United Nations program on campus told you how vital we
Think ourselves to be as many other rsos did and I’m not here to express that to you again I think I’ve done a sufficient enough job that can be understood what I’d rather like to highlight tonight is the University’s history or history of underfunding multi-united Nations
In 2004 Dr Carolyn Shaw who is now the undergraduate advisor for the Department of political science also if you ever need to take a political science class she is literally amazing she was The Faculty advisor in 2004 the student governments Association which was the 47th session which is crazy to think about
We were given zero dollars that was also the first year that the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences stepped in and gave us money that acted as essentially a safety net for us because we received no money in 2020 we experienced one of the largest budget cuts from SGA during that session
And this year originally we were given fifteen thousand dollars okay then there’s some over allocation of funds we understand things happen we are even just grateful that people were willing to look at this again however we got cut ten thousand dollars and that is heartbreaking there is there
Is no other word other than heartbreaking five thousand dollars is heart shattering to see and was not enjoyable for us to find out then when the allocations of funds happened again on Monday night we were extremely thankful for two of the Commissioners who advocated for us like Senator Thompson and Senator fan who
Advocated for us to get 12 Grand I cannot express how grateful we were that you two were able to do that and for everybody else who’s in support of us getting more money now we understand it went over again things happen I’m really bad at math so I personally understand it very well
Um and there was a comment made that we could debate our way into getting more money and it felt very out of touch when we were once given zero dollars and expected to find a way to do whatever we could we can’t do much with that though just
Like all the other rsos that have come forward and advocated for themselves for two weeks now we aren’t going down without a fight I said it last week and I’ll continue to say it again until everybody in this room understands that because no matter how much money you
Give us we will still come out on top and we will still do everything we can within our power within the limited funds that we are given to show up and show out and I stand for questions are there any questions it’s your person Thompson
When and why did the Las safety net end it hasn’t we still get eight thousand dollars from Las and have for almost 20 years now because in 2004 SGA gave us zero dollars and refused to give us any money and so we get that money every year from
Las as a fallback if we’re failed again are there any other questions Senator and Carter uh could you elaborate on the uh you mentioned a comment saying that you could debate your way into more money could you elaborate on that yes so Monday night during the Appropriations meeting
Um this was after I left so it is my understanding of what was said it’s not a direct quote um an individual within the finance Commission argued that the model United Nations program on campus could debate our way into getting more money when our deputy secretary General Andrew Bobbitt who’s
Also a senator here had expressed that we had gotten an abnormal amount of money last year but it was completely from donor funds and it’s it’s not something we can just do again we can’t just ask for thirty one thousand dollars it was completely abnormal um but the person who made that comment
Did not understand that and thought that we could debate for more money essentially are there any other questions seeing none thank you thank you item seven the clerk will read sorry Clark McLean’s back I had to get in um up next Andrew Bobbitt so um before I get into my school I’d
Like to clarify some things um what we did not get uh 31 Grand last year in donor funds we had about a decade of savings from the annual conference that we host as well as significant contributions from our student body and that it puts the members under significant financial pressure
Um the uh we also did use the last of a one-time donation that we had received a couple years ago that we had at we had been asked to essentially we had been asked to use the money um and so that uh um Foundation could further additional funding campaigns then um
As for the eight thousand dollars that we received from Las for the past 20 years we have disclosed that information and it was a part of our initial funding request that eight thousand dollars was on top of the money that we had already asked the commission for it was
Is not part of what we had received going into my spuel um hello everybody I come to you as the leader of an organization that is under threat when we were first given our budget we were very alarmed about how we would continue going and this is a significant Divergence from
The historic trend of SGA funding and investing in our organization this uh is something that caught us completely off guard and did not allow us time to adequately prepare a backup plan I know the Alva had talked about the Lis providing us a safety net that safety
Net has not been increased in the 20 plus years and as a result the amount of money that we are allocated uh does not come close to what we would need in order to be successful today um in an effort to stress the importance of model un we did conduct a letter
Writing campaign with our alumni and we got tremendous responses from everybody who what really showed the value model un can provide they show the the practical application and how they had used their skills to go out into the world and come back to the university better and stronger than before
Um then we uh we were very touched that over six uh decades worth of students were able to respond to us and tell us just how impactful model un had been when the court decided to send the budgets back for review We rejoiced it is not often
That you get a chance to come and advocate for yourself again and I am extremely appreciative that the commission heard our pleas and I saw what we were doing and adjusted our allocation to help us share the burden a little bit more we understand all organizations are going to face
Incredible challenge this this year and we are not alone and that you guys are not alone in that as an organization this is something that’s uh we will have to get through together I would ask that um SGA respect the decisions of the finance commission this was a fair and Equitable
Process the I sat in on the almost the entire meeting and this is a level of transparency that had not been afforded to organizations in the uh first meeting we saw the process and we saw the hard decisions that the Commissioners had to make every organization that received
Funding received funding for a reason and there was a lot of tough choices made and it would be incredibly difficult to go back through and explain why certain organizations received what they did the allocations and everything that went into it so is something that will have to be uh it will be continuous
Struggle for all of us and we cannot rely on the colleges picking up the tab this is something that so everybody who has asked has experienced but the budgets are finite across the board and if SGA does not continue the pattern of supporting organizations it is a very
Likely that organizations will not be able to receive funding elsewhere I would ask that we stand with all of our organizations that are suffering this year and provide them what we had led them to believe that they would yet we have a sense organizations not one
But two we’ll know this is this year telling them the amount of money that they would receive I think it would be incredibly um disingenuous of us to go back and further cut organizations or go back through and completely re-change allocations I ask for your support in
Passing the budget as it is let’s organizations be assured that what was provided is what they will get um thank you I do stand open for questions there any questions chairperson Thompson is Raising student fees to better appropriate funds more of a support for student orgs like yours or a burden to
Student pockets in your opinion the answer is a little bit of both no matter what decision we make as a body of raising student fees deeply impacts every student on this campus it is not something that we should ever do lightly and needs a past fees that went up have
Already started to impact students there was an article in the sunflower about the impact that’s being felt I have talked to students who now have to come up with extra money to cover their tuition there are students who have already felt the impact of going to college and the financial decisions that
Are associated with it but at the same time we can’t leave our student organizations out to dry this is an incredibly diverse group of organizations and every single one of them provides tremendous value to our campus we must do everything we can to ensure that these organizations are provided
All of the resources they need whether that means we look within our own budget and the see where SGA could potentially cut costs to save students money and pass what has been allocated along to students if we are going to ask every organization across campus to tighten
Their own belts I think it’s time we do some self-reflection are there any other questions seeing none thank you item 8 the clerk will read Olivia Gallegos Turning Point USA good evening everyone my name is Olivia Gallegos and I serve as the president of Turning Point USA at WSU
I stand before you tonight sharing the same sentiment and frustration that most rsos are currently feeling I requested the minutes of the Monday night Appropriations Hearing in an effort to understand and respond to why the amount initially given to tpusa was cut from fifteen hundred dollars to one thousand seventy dollars after we
Request requested five thousand dollars in hopes of being able to host larger speakers and events than we have in years past after receiving the initial allocation our executive team began planning and working to find speakers that we could reasonably fundraise for as the suggestion we were given in the initial
Appropriations hearing to just host a bake sale only goes so far however with the additional funding cut we have been set further back than before hosting large events has been our biggest form of member Recruitment and Retention but without any significant funding from SGA we are severely limited
In the programming we can do I understand we may not receive more funding through Appropriations this year but I want the SGA to be aware that the lack of support and funding is why so many organizations consistently seem to die out on this campus prior to the hearing I was explicitly
Told by the SGA Treasurer in an email to quote please be rest assured that not attending public forum will not and should not hurt your chances of funding but without any minutes or any explanation of the funding cut I can only assume our executive team’s inability to attend the hearing with
Less than eight hours notice played a contributing role as of this moment I have still not received the minutes of the hearing so if there were any questions for us I have no knowledge of them and no one from our group has been able to address them I also noticed this
Year that we have been consistently given the same funding as WSU College Democrats while it is great to receive some funding I want to be clear about one distinct difference between these two groups that often goes unnoticed College Democrats can receive funds from the local Democratic party as a
Non-profit Turning Point USA cannot accept funding from any political party at all I understand the SGA has a limited fund to allocate from but the current Administration ran on the idea of leveling up the student government so here’s my suggestion to level up I strongly urge the heads of branches to
Use their discretionary funds to help fund student organizations instead of following past administrations and taking members of your branches out to fancy dinners and buying them end-of-year gifts the student government says students come first well here’s an opportunity to put your money where your mouth is finally the bylaws include two different
Pathways one through the Senate and one through the student body president in addition to the email I will be sending the speaker and student body president tonight I would like to make this request public to all members of the association so it is on the record this is my reformal request to the
Student government Association that Turning Point USA at Wichita State University become an association agency we would love to work with the SGA to promote Civic engagement advocacy and develops service and Leadership potential through increased programming I look forward to working with the SGA to make tpusa at WSU an agency I will
Not stand for any questions thank you item nine the clerk will read Anthony vu okay hello my name is Anthony Vu I’m the vice president of society cosplayers I’m here today to talk about our organization’s budget and how dissatisfied we are during the summer we had a meeting with
SGA to request uh funding for sock our organization we have requested the amount of 6200 for 2023 2024 Academic Year those funds were requested to help organizations with creating workshops entering competitions tabling events inside and outside of the university and help newer cost periods with making their first cosplay on August 8th we
Were told that the final allocation for our organization was two thousand dollars uh two thousand dollars is a bit less than a third of what we requested and we were okay with that uh concerning the fact that last year even though we went through the same process as submitting interviewing and requesting
Fundings we have received nothing last year um we were told that that was an issue on their end and our our end and we were hoping that this year would be better but here I am today um an email was sent out on August 28th that this student funding committee
Would have a meeting about the budget that would be provided to each organizations for the academic year uh you said in the email that not attending the meeting will not hurt our chances for funding the next day on August 29th our budget was reduced to a thousand four hundred
And seventy that is a 530 dollar reduction of the final allocation and pretty much a 24 of our original request I’m here today to address the issue with our funding would like to have our initial funding of 2000 uh at the bare minimal if Society cosplayers is still
Unsatisfied we will write a Yelp review um thank you I’m here for questions are there any questions Senator stinger do you think that being primarily A Fine Arts based organization limits your access to funding because Fine Arts is such a small College um I think that cosplay is a
Multi-disciplinary art rather than just a fine arts one there’s so many things in there that um helps it be that multi-disciplinary for example let’s say marketing right some people have to do marketing for cosplaying to get like bigger number bigger numbers on their social media Pages um they have to have
Practical skills in which let’s say 3D printing is involved CNC Machines of those skills that Engineers or someone within that field would have um so I wouldn’t say that we are just a fine arts group I think due to our nature we are a multi-disciplinary group are there any other questions
Seeing none thank you item 10 the clerk will read honesty Swan National panel in a council hello everybody so I’m actually here on behalf of Zeta Phi Beta sorority Incorporated so my name is honesty Swann and I’m the president of the menu chapter of Zeta Phi Beta sorority
Incorporated we were we are an international organization what chapters in Africa in several around the United States including one right here in Kansas our principles include scholarship service Sisterhood and finer Womanhood we are truly a community conscious action-oriented organization with one of our national initiatives being Z hope which stands for Zetas
Helping other people Excel and so underneath that National initiative there are several programs set in place that help people in different capacities such as mentally emotionally physically spiritually and even financially so with that without the funds that SGA will provide us are that will impact our Recruitment and impact our ability to
Have an impact at this campus and the communities that we serve and I feel that it is wrong to limit me financially and then expect me to be able to recruit in the same capacity as other organizations with having more funding and the impression that this gives me is that
If you’re a small chapter you’re going to be The impression that this is giving me is that if you’re a small chapter you’re not going to get the same opportunity financially and like I said that limits the ability for me to make an impact in my community and this saddens me because my organization is really about what we
Say which is a community action an action-oriented organization so I’m open for questions Senator Bobbitt just to give us an idea how many students are in your organization currently I am a chapter one but I will say with that the history of this organization runs deep and just because I’m a chapter of
One currently does not take away from the impact that I can have in this community and that we have had these several years that we’ve been since 1987 to be exact are there any other questions Senator Mayu what would the funds be used from SGA that wouldn’t be used from Goldman Sachs
Or St Jude’s research hospitals to reiterate the question please yeah yeah so I see on the website that the Partnerships and everything you’re sponsored by Goldman Sachs March of Dimes what would you be using the money from the students for SGA so as opposed to these sponsors Okay so programs here in the
End which something we did last year we partnered up with positive directions and we put an event for students to come out and learn about like sexual health and um just be informed so we do programs like that we don’t we hosted a group home drive for teenage girls last year
So just programs to be put on in the WSU Community is what the money would be used for are there any other questions Senator stinger uh as the sponsors that I forget your name sorry as a sponsors that he mentioned what do those provide for your organization answers so on a national level
Um financially financial support to help us continue to put on our film entropies but in general like St Jude’s hospital that’s one of our largest organizations that we donate to so our members we pay dues and we feed into that pool for them so it’s more of us
Giving them money than them giving us money are there any other questions Senator Carter assuming you were fully funded to your request an amount what would recruitment look like for you uh you had mentioned recruitment so I would say that recruitment will look pretty good because if given this
Money we could fund buy things to help us market and promote our organization and just get our name out there so yeah due to the sake of time I’m going to cut you off but thank you thank you item 11 the clerk will read Janae McKelvey Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Incorporated
Good evening Senators my name is Janae McKelvey and I was initiated spring 23 into the Epsilon Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Incorporated the first and the finest black Greek letter sorority in the United States I will be speaking on behalf of the Epsilon Alpha chapter here at Wichita State University
I joined this chapter specifically because I wanted to be a part of an organization that I am proud of and to call my home an organization that builds our economic wealth empowers our families advocates for social justice enhance our environment uplift our local communities and most importantly strengthens our Sisterhood
The Epsilon Alpha chapter has made its their mission to uphold these Six National programs in the previous years we’ve done this by hosting multiple programs on the campus such as ski week collaborating with other rsos and community service a lot of these efforts require funding that we we are responsible for obtaining
We have requested funds for Regional Conference which would cost us one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars we are being awarded enough to only attend this out of our entire budget membership experience training which is eight hundred dollars and our programming which is six hundred dollars this funding is imperative to preserve
The longevity of Epsilon Alpha here at Wichita State University thank you for your time and consideration will you be standing for questions yes okay are there any questions seeing none thank you thank you item 12 the clerk will read AJ Haynes Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated so good evening everybody
Um I’m coming to you not as chairperson hands today I’m coming as AJ Haynes the vice president of the Dallas mu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated here at Wichita State so many of y’all probably have a question what is Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated is the first is
The first historically African-American Collegiate fraternity um founded on Tuesday December 4th 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca New York specifically the Delta Mu chapter of alpha alpha Fraternity Incorporated was chartered on Saturday March 25th 1950 on this campus making us the first ever fraternity to be on this campus right
Off of valve for Fraternity Incorporated develops leaders from most Brotherhood and academic Excellence while providing service and advocacy for our communities what does it mean for WSU to have a healthy Alpha chapter right firstly we’re an integral part of Campus culture being the first fraternity period to be on this campus means that
Our nine charter members had to break down those barriers for everybody else and losing us means losing a huge chunk of History um and it would be a very sad day seeing that every chapter was to unfortunately go under because of the amount of people that each other has impacted not only
On campus but into which documentary as a whole we have four National programs where we encourage people to vote we go Mentor children in high school middle school elementary we do a lot of community service right all that well still staying on top of our books and they think that’s
Something that tends to be overlooked on this campus right um mainly the Delta Mu chapter here how does it impact WSU we impact the likes the students on this campus through our connections and our service we don’t have the big fancy recruitment or anything like that we don’t have the
The nice fancy houses over there on Omega Court or nothing like that um that money that would go to would traditionally go to that from other fraternities we put it into our programs mainly our scholarship pageants miss blockman all goal dot program alone has changed the lives of so many women
On this campus former Miss Kansas have competed I wanted this pageant former student body vice presidents have competed I want this pageant this pageant and other projects like this one have changed the lives of the students on this campus contributed to the campus culture on this campus so now but those is funding
It becomes very difficult to hold these things to change these lives right regarding sir regarding service we continuously engage with our Campus Community a lot of us are very involved in different spheres on this campus whether it’s in student government whether it is involved with official diversity inclusion whether it is
Involved with other rsos on this campus from Community Service Board all the way down to nesby um alpha alpha has been a president’s husband a voice husband a source of leadership for not only underserved students but students as a whole on this campus a thriving Alpha chapter on this campus
Means a better campus experience for students on the preservation of wsa History so now that I finished my Spiel um I’ll talk about what we’re here for the financials the chapter has requested a total of ten thousand dollars for the appropriation process the first go-around we were awarded five thousand that five thousand
Would have covered two of our four now three conventions I’ll be planning on attending this year and maybe a program one of our um one of our programs now with twenty two hundred and fifty dollars that funds maybe one and it’s through those conventions we get a lot of professional experience we
Get a lot of networking opportunities that we can then bring back here and change the campus culture here uh So yeah thank you very much I understand for any questions are there any questions Senator Bobbitt could you go into some details about other sources of funding that you guys have looked into
Okay so other sorts of funding that we have looked into and we do have large we do have um plans for larger um pro light fundraising events one of the main ones that we do is start like an alpha where we invite the women of this campus to
Come we teach them about the history of strolling and then at the end of that period they come up on a show for the campus and that raises a good chunk of funding other ones with other fundraising events would happen through Partnerships with other organizationals on this campus with their philanthropy events
Fundraising events such as show competitions like stroll for tomorrow held by Kaiser Motel National Fraternity Incorporated and then other things will happen during our Alpha weeks so before we’ve done a lot of food selling most recently we did a big software didn’t go through well but we
Um we’re definitely looking and we have plans on raising funds are there any other questions seeing none thank you all right thank you for your time item 13 the clerk will read up next is Jay Scarborough pre-medical Student Association Jay Scarborough pre-medical Student Association so we’re going to skip over that one and
Go to item 14. the clerk will read up next is Rakesh Ariba rukesh Ariba item 15 the clerk will read Diego Vargas Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers hello okay um Diego Vargas um I’m a senior here at Wichita State study mechanical engineering I’m serving as the president
I just want to make it short and simple I want to talk about how like my couple years here have been a part of the story so we started with like 10 members then after this past year with our executive team we’re going up to currently 56
Members and this third well tomorrow at third General May we’re expecting to go over 60 if not 70 members so um I just want to say thank you for all being here uh just going straight to the financials we know that we might be capped off this
Year but we do want to give the gratitude for what you have given us already um yeah I will stand for questions are there any questions seeing none thank you item 16 the clerk will read I’m next is Melissa Alfonso okay item 17 the clerk will read up next is Olivia Robb Wichita
Linux User Group she’s not here item 18 the clerk will read Hugo Alvarez good evening everybody we are the board members of the American choral Directors Association chapter my name is Hugo Alvarez I am the vice president of the group my name is Max and I am the treasurer of this organization
The main reason we are here today is to voice our opinion and to advocate for our organization as we feel unvalued and unappreciated with our funds being cut from four thousand dollars to 2470 dollars the two main goals of our organization is to help students succeed and to give back to the community
Our organization focuses on professional development we strive to connect students with Professional Resources and with their future employer as well as bringing in conversation training and education about diversity equity and inclusion which is something the school of music is lacking right now our organization is dedicated to music
Education students who are being trained to be students in the area of Wichita a hundred percent of our music education students are guaranteed with jobs after graduating and we are trained we the only institution in the area to provide um college level education for music education students so our the work that
Our organization is doing is it’s really exclusive um without the funding it makes it significantly harder and merely impossible to accomplish this task um we are also paired up with the Juniper Arts Academy which is a local Academy for students in foster care it shows throughout the music of what we do and
The foster care individuals and connects the music and the Art of today’s century our acda board members are here today not only to represent our organization but also other Fine Arts organization such as American student um American String Teachers Association and National Association of music education Esther Wells as their funds are also
Being cut down and they have really similar um stand with us who are not able to be here today the budget cut oh only put a strain on future Educators Fine Arts and the quality of Education we feel as if our dedication and vision for the students
As well as the community are not being seen heard or facilitated on that note we request that the SGA review our funding for our organization and thank you for our time Senator Mayu could you go into further detail on what you meant by there are no other choral organizations around the area
Yes so um what amends what that the college level we do have um Butler Community College and they do have in a chapter for ACD over there um and we are going to cooperate with um the organization from Butler for some um conducting classes but um what I meant
Was that the college career and our organization is the only choral organization in the School of Music at Wichita State are there any seeing none thank you item 19 the clerk will read Donovan cheeks Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated hello everyone if you don’t know me
Already my name is Oliver cheeks I’m the past poll Mark slash president and current keeper of X tracker Treasurer Capital Incorporated to give everyone the background of Kappa Alpha’s afternoon Incorporated um we are a fraternity founded um during 5th 1911 at Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana we found on the
Model of achievement in every field of human endeavor and we have um five objectives that we go by and those are to unite college men and culture patriotism honor and honor and Obama fraternity to encourage honorable achieving every field of human endeavor to promote the spiritual social intellectual moral welfare of its
Members to assist the aims and purposes of college universities and to inspire the service in the public interest and now um now this chapter here at WSU we’re known as other as the Delta Upland chapter we’ll try to hear September 6 1958 on the campus of Wichita State University and then um
Now that I’m done with my little Spiel by cap Alpha Psi what I’m here today is to discuss the um the cut of our Appropriations uh well we originally requested ten thousand dollars but we weren’t um well we knew that we weren’t going to get the full ten thousand dollars the twenty
Twenty five hundred dollars two thousand five hundred dollars was fine but uh we got cut 1100 1100 to 1475 and um um I came here today to say um that that money will um go towards maybe one maybe one of our conferences and probably a couple of our programs
And then uh what we plan to do with the with the money is go to um conferences we have two annually we have one in November which is called our C Roger Wilson leadership leadership conference which teaches um all the members of capital office side to be leaders within their
Respective communities and and how to operate in the fraternity and we have one in Spring called our um province which is where all the states in our Providence Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Missouri and Colorado and part of Arkansas come together to have one business meeting in
In the year 2024 that’s going to be held here in which in Wichita Kansas and with that with that 1475 that simply can’t happen because um yeah that same thing can happen with the yeah so I’m doing my Lewisville and I’m running late to something so unfortunately I cannot hold the
Questions thank you item 20 the clerk will read snia Tommy good evening senatos uh I’m coming to you as a student representative for internet Indian Student Association not as a graduate Senator and myself stand as a journal secretary for the association and I’m prupa I’m the president of the Indian Student Association
So our main goal of this organization is to connect with the Indian students as well as be a platform for for the Indian students and feel them at home and and we are one of the biggest Indian student uh student organization more than 700 students so far and we have
Lots of networking events and we also provide um help for the new students to settle down airport pickups and some kind of development and orientations and the main reason that we are standing today is about the budget for this year is about 28 grants and we were we were allotted 10 grants and
Right now we are six thousand s yeah so we are looking forward for uh some kind of uh um budget rate but budget race so that uh we can foster the good being of all the students in WSU I mentioned that unlike a lot of other organizations we do not have an alumni
Community that can provide us with sponsorships or emergency funds if required a lot of our a lot of our events that we did last year a lot of money was spent out of pocket because when it comes to sponsorships we do not get a lot of money in sponsorships we’re
Not a well-known organization unlike some of the fraternities or sororities so a lot of the money just comes out from our own funding or that we that has been saved up which we are running out of this year um to be honest we do not have enough
Funding to conduct both of our main events that we do per semester are each event costs around thirteen thousand dollars we do one every semester and the event is all about entertainment it just gives us a feeling of home where all the Indian students here we’re 14 000 miles away from home
The Indian student organization is not just an organization on campus it is family for us thank you and we are open are there any questions um Senator mallard may have heard you wrong but I believe you said you had 700 members yes that’s true and how many of those members are currently
Active as well or are any of those members you know students alumni or like just in the chat don’t actually partake in the organization 500 active members about 200 graduated this spring semester so as of now we have 500 plus about 150 from this fall semester
And the member so the com the initial Committees of 10 people the others are just members that are welcome to participate in all the events that we hold so they don’t hold positions within the organization itself are there any other questions chairperson Owens with such a large people like amount of
People being involved have you thought about um reaching out or wanting to um be included in agency status I’m sorry I didn’t hear you have you thought about um becoming an agency no that’s not something that we’ve thought about are there any other questions Senator Patterson with so many members have you guys
Considered potentially having like a small do for membership like whether that’s five to ten dollars to raise funds we did try that but I want to reiterate where International students were already paying ten thousand dollars per semester to study here on top of other fees I know like ten dollars doesn’t seem a
Lot but we can’t work here we don’t we rely on our families completely we have loans so for us even the small amount is a lot are there any other questions Senator Mayu I’m seeing on your presentation that orientation costs about a thousand dollars could you break that down sure
A lot of it goes into fed around 150 s for the spring semester and around 200 students for the fall semester during orientation and I want to say almost 80 of the budget goes into providing food for the students and it’s Indian food food that
Makes us feel like we’re back home so it costs a lot per plate to be able to provide for each student are there any other questions seeing none thank you thank you before we move into the actual Appropriations I move to take a five minute recess are there any objections okay saying
None the motion passes Senators please go and take your seats we’re about to get started again Senators please take your seats we’re about to get started foreign once again Senators please take your seats we’re about to get started Aiden can you close the door thank you we got about two more minutes
I have two minutes I call this meeting back to order an 8 19 p.m just a quick PSA before we get started if you guys aren’t going to take these sheets home or any other handouts please either leave them on the table so that they can be recycled or recycle
Them yourselves thank you moving into section 9 the student government Association RSO Appropriations item one the clerk will read Acton requests are approved Senate Bill 66-041 Appropriations Act of 2024. is the author here and would like to speak floor is yours hi good evening Senators I am presenting
This bill on the behalf of the finance commission obviously as you can see this bill was not easy the finance commission has worked a total of 40 hours in presentations and deliberations this is a finance commission’s recommendation for the rsos that applied we had 74 rsos requesting a total amount of about 722
Thousand dollars this government inherited a budget of 105 thousand dollars to fund Appropriations the yokiri Martins Administration moved funding around from its internal budgets to provide 45 000 additional dollars however after seeing the sheer number of organizations and the amounts that they were requesting president okiri and I met and
Decided to add another 15 000 to the budget more than any student government has done since the beginning of the Appropriations fund this is a total of a hundred eighty thousand dollars we did this because this Administration made this fund a priority to put it in perspective last year we only had about
41 organizations with a budget of a hundred fourteen thousand dollars we base our amounts on the presentation that the organizations organize for us and on the information that we had at the time I will stand for any questions are there any questions for treasurer Wang Senator Bobbitt
Is there any additional money in the budget that could be allocated for this process no we used um all of our funding we exhausted all of our funding to try and support all these organizations throughout the campus are there any other questions chairperson Thompson in addition to maybe explaining a little
Bit of the difference between Appropriations requesting and organizational funds requesting do you see any of the organizations that requested in this process as also being applicable to the organizational funding process yeah so from my ex pass in the budget and finance committee we’ve allowed organizations who received Appropriations funding to
Go ahead and apply to organizational funding organizational funding is a pool of money throughout the year that organizations obviously can go ahead and uh apply for it’s up to three thousand dollars it’s still this Finance commission that will be approving these dollars and I have seen organizations in
The past such as model un um as well as some of the smaller other organizations such as Society of cosplayers come and ask for organizational funding last year Senator Bobbitt could you clarify how much money these organizations receive on the back side of it I know you said they can receive
Up to 3 000 but you know what the average allocation is so our organizational funding has just started this semester our first meeting is actually tomorrow we’ve had no organizations um apply so far so I would not have a complete number to give you I was not head of budget and
Finance committee last year so I don’t have those specific numbers Senator hatch where do those where does the funding for that uh follow-up application come from is that also from student fees uh bylaws say that it comes directly from the organization funding pool so it
Is a part of the the student visa the student government gets to find the organization program um so yes through the same pool that all the other student organizations who if they didn’t apply for this then they’re going through that process to apply for it does that answer your question
Are there any other questions Senator mallard how much money do we have in reserves so I want to be I’m going to specify some thoughts to the reserves but then I’ll tell you the number um I want to be very clear that reserves are designed for rainy days or when
Enrollment does not meet our projection there is a specific policy around the two reserves in which the student government has one that it’s the student government’s reserves of unspent dollars that happen within Student Government if people don’t apply for the funding things like that the other one that I think is often
Misconstrued out there is the student fees Reserve that fund has about 755 000 in it um I want to be clear to share in 2020 during coveted pandemic we took three hundred thousand dollars from it to find student fees initiatives or student fees departments so that they didn’t have to
Cut Staffing Personnel things like that so it had been depleted and it has and we each year allocate dollars to that fund from unspense unit fee dollars as well the student governments Reserve fund is it sits at seventy five thousand dollars again according to student fees policy
Every student fee entity is required to maintain at least 10 percent of their overall budget for the fact that if enrollment doesn’t meet departments are the ones including the student government and other student fee funded areas departments are the ones that take the hit not the student fees budget so
All that to say there’s 75 000 in there additionally I’m just going to put this out there until it’s there as well every time you take from that fund the next student government has to make up for it and every year since I’ve been here SGA has
Spent has used some of its Reserves rightfully so right there every you didn’t get to ask for the money for Student Government the previous administration did that but every time you spend it you owe the next Administration or the next student government has to make up for the
Shortfall if there is one so it’s not always the best case scenario to dip into that fund are there any other questions it’s your personal ones this is just a clarifying question but you stated you added fifteen thousand dollars on top of that um was that also from reserves as well
Yes that was from the reserve funding and only because we saw a double almost a double of organizations asking for funding and seeing the 722 000 request we knew that organizations were all struggling but they were also all growing and we wanted to support as many initiatives as we can throughout
The campus so pulling fifteen thousand dollars from reserves as me and president okiri talked about would not put student government in so much debt for the next year that it would not have been able to be made up but also be enough to help support some of these initiatives
Are there any other questions Senator Webb forgive me for asking this if I’m wrong and asking this but I know that we’re on a three-year cycle so how do you anticipate handling this for the next two years Senator Webb what a great question um so the three-year cycle to student
Fees is also contingent on enrollment so if enrollment goes up then budgets go up um last year was a pretty good year for enrollment um projections look good for this year but because of how SGA three years ago set the student fees policy if it goes
Up great if it goes down you have to make it up not the student fees budget in the previous years Student Government always took the hit for a decrease of enrollment or not meeting enrollment numbers my first year here was roughly about a quarter of a million dollars
That we took the student government took the hit for to make up the the budget then we shifted that to say departments have to make that up not the student government anymore because it just was no longer a financial financially feasible reality is it is hard to project the number of
Organizations that are going to go through this process keep in mind the Appropriations process is three years old this is its third year it’s first year we had 30 something organizations last year what was the number you mentioned 41 41 this year 71 no 74 oh my God sorry however
Um had everyone’s application been approved through the process in which the policy required that would have been 122 organizations that would have gone through this process um right now budgetarily this is an unrealistic program moving forward if Student Government doesn’t continue to fund it and or fund it at the level that
It needs to be every year the Senate has been posed with the question of how are you going to fund this program long term and the reality is we have just this year because of the moving of money met our statutory requirement to provide 6.75 cents per student to fund this
Program that only provides 165 000 into the fund based off of current student fee numbers um so this is a great year and a great example to recognize we cannot afford this program yet we also cannot afford to not provide dollars to suit an organization because constitutionally we are required
To fund activities that are hosted by the organizations in which um or provide the finder have the dollars to do so um right through the approval process and everything so this is going to be a really good year for the student government specifically the funding committee the oversight committee to
Talk about how this is going to work moving forward because right now there are no caps to student organizations there’s no differentiating um and I’m not going to pick on organization but organizations that have five members to organizations that have 700 members there’s no cap number of what organizations can ask for so
And it was done for a reason because three years ago the student government was testing a theory is this something that would one organizations would want to do to that we could afford and three that would work well three of those three have been answered to be yes and now we’ve got to
Go back and figure out how are we going to do this more long term and financially fund do I believe it is unrealistic to provide seven hundred thousand dollars in funding yes because that means student fees will have to fund that um and 700 000 in the student fees
Budget is roughly four percent of fees to just fund that so that is not for much more than that could every feed about so it’s seven to eight percent just to pay for that um that was a long answer to explain we have some work to do this year are there any other
Questions could you walk me through the process that the finance committee went through to kind of determine the amounts that we’re going to be giving these organizations and everything and actually that’s the first question we’ll ask um so when we first met all the way and August we had 74 organizations come in
And give us presentations they were given an allocated time of I think about they were given 10 minutes to present and answer questions um after that we we all took notes while they were presenting we also kept copies of their presentations to refer back to when needed so that we could make an
Informed decision based off of the information that they gave us at the time after that that was about two and a half days of watching them from 8 A.M to 8 P.M so 12 hour days and then the last day we we set aside about five hours to go line item by line
Item in alphabetical order to look at the costs that they wanted to fund and break down those costs and then fund them based off of that so our process was basically based off of the presentations and the information that they gave us at the time when we asked questions um senator erstanger
What are the requirements to be included in the appropriate positions process so we went from 120 to 74 what eliminated that number so most of them just did not were not able to follow through with approval so um for Appropriations you need approval from the organization Treasurer president advisor
And I think one more okay no that was just it and a lot of those organizations um just couldn’t just didn’t get the approval from either their organization president their Treasurer their advisor um what not um Senator Bobby you’ve reached your question limit is there anyone else who
Has a question Senator or excuse me chairperson Owens okay question but um so you talked about how Appropriations is about three years old um did like funding organizations happen primarily through like only student fees before that or what did that look like so um organization funding is the
Original program and that is the reimbursement program that currently exists out of the student government years ago we used to have a lot more significant dollars mainly because that was the only program that existed to provide funding at student organizations um and there were very specific rules of
How much you can approve ask for for food or for this or for that there’s very specific list of things that existed there um three years ago the student Senate at that point started thinking about what if there was a different way to do this and right now I’m going to take you
Down memory lane um and the idea was it was unrealistic to expect students and student organizations to cover the cost of things up front which is what the organization funding process does you pay for it then we reimburse you up to an improved amount and so they said they
Thought about well what if we took away that part and just said we’ll provide you a budget up front and you pay for things out of that so that you don’t have to use your personal money and then wait for the approval process because or the reimbursement process because it can
Take two to three plus weeks to just get your reimbursement because it’s funded and processes to the to the state um so all of it existed through that original process before this one was was created really for the basis of saying the student government can’t expect student organization to pay for some of
These things up front and then wait for the groups to get reimbursed for that funding when they started that conversation they spent a lot of time with student organizations saying what would make this process easier and the big thing came from it’d be easier if we
Didn’t have to pay for these things up front and so they had that conversation and then this program was born out of out of that feedback primarily from our even at that point when the student organization Council was created then that is also when we had some of those conversations with
That group to be able to provide that that’s that information to the student government to make that decision does that answer your full question okay are there any other questions Senator Summa uh so what’s the process like uh because some students who say they’ll offered a large sum of money and then
When they appeal they were given a lesser amount of money like what is that process like okay so what they’re talking about is the first draft of the bill if you will um that is now voided by the Supreme Court the Supreme Court ruled that we
Will be that we had to go back into deliberations which the second time around I did not require presentations because the Supreme Court told this uh to us on Friday and because of how delayed the funding was already and how many organizations I’ve had reach out to
Me concerned that they were not going to have funding I decided to put the finance commission together as soon as possible which would have been Monday which is why we met on Monday we met at 6 pm and went until 11 pm the RSC employees literally had to kick us out
Um I feel bad for them I’m so sorry um and so people could come into public forum and we held a public Gallery so that they could see what the process was like um sorry could you ask your question again I’ve kind of lost my train of thought
I was asking like so some students were saying they were given uh like initial the amount of money was large and when they appealed for a large amount they’re giving a less amount than the original amount that they were given back onto I know them again and the finance commission decided to um
Take some of those funds and fund other organizations um instead so that’s why there were large Cuts because they wanted to fund other organizations that had larger requests are there any other questions Senator Bobbitt you have reached can we do that in the questioning period what is your motion
I moved to suspend the rules and allow five questions per Senator given the intense nature of this topic and our vested interest in actually providing for the students and these organizations I believe it would prove be proven to allow Senators more opportunities do we have a second for that motion one second so
There the rule is the speaker’s role so you would be just overriding the speaker’s ruling of only limiting to two questions so that’s a different there’s not a rule of the number of questions you can ask the speaker is the one who decides that process and so if you want
To proceed with that role then you would be your motion would be to have to like overrule the chair and go through that process to get to what you’re asking for I think can I amend my motion to do that do we have a second okay 40 or two-thirds
Simple okay so we’re going to open the voting period it’s simple majority AA to turn on your clickers and sign in as yes B is no C is abstain voting is now open waiting on a few more can everyone just click again one more time for me foreign
In favor 15 against and four abstentions of motion fails so we’re going to move back into the questioning period are there any other questions seeing none we’re going to close the questioning period sorry we want the record to be cleared it’s a two-thirds majority to do so so the vote still
Failed but I just want to clear the record that it’s a two-thirds to do so I apologize thank you Senator Wang or treasure Wing excuse me sorry so we’re going to move into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in debate chairperson Haynes
Yeah I moved to divide the question in its entirety do we have a second okay the simple majority it is this is a simple majority okay I apologize so we’re going to reopen the voting point of order yeah sorry yeah I was gonna say maybe you want to explain what that is for
Senators who don’t know good point so dividing the question in the current state this is one bill and when we divide the question we will divide it into 74 bills so we will go line item by line item to approve funding for each individual organization as if it was its own bill
So the voting period is now open I just gave the Spiel so I will not give it again final clarification um is there not at this time sorry one more thing it’s Heavenly it is debatable so you have to open the debate for the division of question sorry and
This isn’t it’s been a while since we’ve had something like this so it’s give some Grace in it but technically the motion is debatable so you have to provide the opportunity for a debate to happen okay sorry I’m new at this so we’re going to go into the debate
Period for the motion to divide the question is there anyone who’d like to speak and debate chairperson Haynes what yeah so just explain the reason for the motion um the reason would be due to potential conflict of interest issues if anybody here would be affiliated with an organization that has received funding
You cannot vote since that would be a conflict of interest so dividing the question in its entirety allows a better picture of the Senate vote where instead of upstanding altogether you would only have stayed with the organization that you’re affiliated with is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate what
Oh sorry Senator Bobbitt I would strongly recommend everybody uh vote no to this division of the questions though it’s not intended to allow people to abstain on certain line items it is uh specifically going to be used to Target organizations funding and reappropriate funds away from deserving organizations okay chairperson Owens
Hi I just think um I don’t want to misconstrue the original intent of this motion which is to clarify that the vast majority of us are associated with a lot of these organizations as people here love to be involved that means you can’t vote on the entire bill
At all because it’s a conflict of interest to divide the question is primarily for this reason not to Target organizations and I want to stray away from that because I think that’s divisive and say primarily that the reason we’re doing this is so that half of us don’t have to abstain
To vote for the entire Bill and said like let’s say we go line item by line item group a whatever if we have two people a part of that um the abstain and the rest of us can vote for that and so we get a better picture of it um this isn’t an
From my assumption it’s not intended to be divisive rather it’s to get a better view of you know our what we want for this um it actually I think is intended to do the opposite and I think to say it’s targeting is um not true is there anyone else who’d like to speak
And debate chairperson Haynes um I’d simply like to clarify that this me posing this motion enables us to do our jobs better it’s not a simple matter of um targeting organizations because that’s not what we’re here to do that’s not our jobs so if how let’s say more than half of
The Senate is affiliated with at least one organization in this spreadsheet and more than half of the Senate has to abstain then the Senate we’re we’re not exercising our power as Senators we’re not doing our jobs by keeping the question as a whole half of us might as well leave this room and
Never come back and I have to sit at home and wonder well um my vocal mattered here but it didn’t because we got the question as a whole so that’s all I have to say to think that or to insinuate that it was um and it is an attempt to
Attack student organizations is frankly ridiculous in my opinion is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate Senator Menzies um I kind of just wanted to speak on this topic as well in favor um just like me and Senator Matthews are two different people each one of these
Student organizations could not be more opposite and different and so I believe that we should respect them in their own regard and vote on them in their own regard as well Senator Carter I just want to say even if the intention was to allow the Senate to change change funding for specific
Organizations that’s still within the Senate’s right to do so and so that reason for me is not valid is there anyone else who’d like to speak in debate seeing none we’re going to open the floor for voting voting is now open waiting on a few more foreign favor five against and two abstentions
So motion passes okay so we will now divide the question in its entirety so we’re going to go line item by line item starting with item one 3D printed Prosthetics they requested nine thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and in this bill they were approved 2940. is there a motion on the floor
To approve or deny Senator fan I moved to um allow the two thousand nine hundred forty dollars in its entirety do we have a second okay okay so now we’re going to open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak and debate Senator fan
The reason why I said two thousand nine hundred forty dollars in its entirety is just because I think that’s enough to cover their meeting costs some of their materials for some of the projects they do I know it’s not the full amount they wanted but I think that’s what we have right now
Um and yeah now it’s voting it’s been a long week and it’s gonna be a long night so thank you guys for sticking through is there anyone else you’d like to speak and debate to your person Owens I have a point of clarification if that’s all right or
Point of order you you tell me um could could we elaborate a little bit on what it means for someone to have a conflict of interest whether or not they were in the financial commission whether or not they are part of the organization what it means for debating what it means for
Voting because I don’t think we got like a full Nashville yeah of course um membership to the student funding committee is not a conflict of interest um so it’ll be very clear there so if you served on the the uh the committee and you’re a senator that is not a
Conflict of interest the ethics policy that was created there’s particularly two lines that I think applied to this scenario um and as he pulled him up I’ll I know them uh one of them is that a senator very clear in one of the sections that a senator should not vote on a resolution
A bill an appropriation et cetera et cetera so any of the acts of of the student government so in this case you see on screen three one that no Senator shall cast a vote in any Bill resolution or appropriation that would place the center in a position where
They may have a conflict of interest between a private interest and the interest of the student body um what I would advise in that scenario is conflict of interest could mean you’re a member of you are a member of leadership of or you are somehow connected to your role as Senator right
And responsible of all student organizations would not apply to this scenario but your individual membership to an organization receiving a benefit from this process would in and that is just right my own opinion I will put a caveat in a second number two specify that in an official we Define official
As Senators justices executive cabinet members committee members things like that it serves in a student organization leadership role they must abstain from voting in any relating anything relating to their student organization and the receipt of money Awards or other beneficial services from the association of said organization if I was the
President of the I love Gabriel club and I was the senator which don’t know why that’s not a thing Noah let’s start it um if I were the president of the I love Gabriel club and a senator in this base this would apply to the fact that as a
Member of leadership of that organization I should not cast a vote now here is the caveat with the ethics policy as a senator you make the decision yourself how does a policy applies to you you also have to defend that decision if someone brings you up on ethic policy violations currently the
Current process for that is the membership review board who determines if in fact if in this case I did cast that vote and uh Sophie wanted to send me to the Senate review board because I violated the ethics policy I will have to defend that in the senate in the membership review board
Um so that is how this plays out the reality with the ethics policy it was designed for every individual member to interpret it and apply it their own selves and to be prepared to defend themselves if someone files ethics violations against them this applies specifically as you look at one Senators
Because only senators make votes and two officials and we consider again officials everyone in that space I know it is complicated and I know In This Moment particularly um there’s a lot to it this space this chamber is not the environment in which you say no Gabriel can’t vote on that
Because he is the president of his club or no so if you can’t vote on that because she’s the secretary of that club that is for the membership review board process to address for itself the consequences of being found in violation can be removal from Office can be a
Suspension can be a probation can be fill in the blank a variety of things that you could lose or see in the senate for doing so but this is not the space in which we stop someone from casting that vote that is for them to decide and defend against
Them or to defend themselves in front of the review board for that proceeding does that answer your question and before we move on are there any questions or clarifications folks have Senator Carter I have one for you but not necessarily about conflict of interest okay is that okay okay so I
Know you had mentioned right when Senate started that there was like mix up with the bylaws and everything on the finance commission funding committee it still is the co-sponsor as the finance Commission in this bill is that a problem we’ll fix it okay yeah cool but thank you for pointing that out
Chairperson Owens um so we had this discussion in Ledger Affairs about how um if someone wants to pull funding from let’s say aorg but it’s already been approved and they want to push it to C org and it’s just about to be approved um just the clarification of you can
Still take money from aorg and put it into seaorg even if it’s aorg has been you can probably explain it much better than I can but you know what I’m saying yeah no great question so yes this is Brandon can you pull up the spreadsheet
So I want to make an example so yes you could technically um the way that this spreadsheet is is built in is set up for the maximum you can spend at the 180 000 you technically can say and this is just a hypothetical you could say I want to pull a thousand
Dollars from the 3D Prosthetics and you go in order by the group in which we’re in so you can’t say I want to pull it from this group Who’s down there that we haven’t talked about yet so in this would be the case if Senator fan said I
Want to put he’s not saying it for reference an example if Senator fan said I want to pull 1100 on 3D printed Prosthetics and give it to the artist exploration Association you would have to do it with the organization in which you want to pull it from to give to the
Other one and that would be the one vote that means that if it passes 3D Prosthetics would lose eleven hundred dollars and automatically artist exploration will get eleven hundred dollars theoretically you could also say I want to pull eleven hundred dollars and not give it to anyone that would
Just then sit in the pool until we get to the end and if you want to spend it great or if you want to keep it in that fund you keep it in that fund does that answer your question perfect are there any other questions for advisor Fonseca okay seeing none thank you
So now we’re still in debate okay is there anyone else who’d like to speak in debate seeing none we’re going to open the voting period voting is now open waiting on one more okay with with 27 in favor 0 against in two abstentions the motion passes line item two Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
Incorporated they requested five thousand dollars and they were approved 1940. is there a motion on the floor okay I will move to approved by unanimous consent can I do that okay are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item three Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated they requested ten thousand
Dollars and they were approved two thousand two two hundred and twenty five is there emotion on the floor chairperson Thompson I moved to approve 4500 polling 2225 from shocker racing baja SAE can you repeat that one more time I move to approve four thousand five hundred dollars moving
225 from shocker racing baja SAE two two five do we have a second okay okay so now we’re in the debating period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator fan I would like to speak indication of this um I do not think we should take any
More from Baja considering what the original amount link gave us in the in the sheets that they gave us the minimum they said they needed Was Eighteen thousand around that number and we gave them that amount I don’t think we should take any more from them and we haven’t
Even gotten to them yet but that’s what um that’s why I’m seeing an indication is there anyone else who’d like to speak chairperson Thompson um I would like to be transparent on um my reasoning for removing more money from Baja SAE um so the logic that I will be working with
These this evening with regards to the two racing organizations is the total amount that would be required to compete for Baja SAE that number would be thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars rounded and for Formula SAE that would be thirteen thousand four hundred dollars rounded is there anyone else who’d like to speak
And debate chairperson Owens um the reason I second this is simply because of the fact and I didn’t know this either and y’all probably maybe I hope new but is the application for organizational funding is open to both organizations um I would hope that both organizations apply for this and
Are eligible for this um but having this organization apply for ten thousand dollars and get two thousand uh I don’t know I just I just thought that in order to run um this amount this three thousand dollar organizational funding could bring them back up to the amount that they
Need to run and then also bring up the fraternity up to an amount that would be applicable for them both to run so I just think it would be something where we can do it together is there anyone else who’d like to speak Senator fan I disagree with um
The reasoning that just let me give them half the amount from competition they have other costs including meetings materials and events that they may also do I think we need to keep him in the same amount that it is right now Senator Bobbitt would like to agree with this point this
Organization has already gone through an extensive process looking within to see how they could minimize the cost to the student body and SGA they came to us in very plainly said this is the minimum amount that we need in order to continue as an organization on campus by disregarding their
Their expertise on the subject and by coming back and saying hey we know you said this is what you need but we’re going to give you less because we can it just doesn’t hold true for me is there anyone else was Senator Fawn and Senator Bobbitt has said
Yes this is what they need to remain a club but this is not enough to put them in a competition this is more than just building cars and Racing for these guys this is basically a home for these guys as most of us feel an SGA Senator Mayu
I’ll have to raise the point to that that’s similar to Baja racing is that Alpha Phi Alpha is a buffalo sorry not philosophical a philanthropic fraternity that actually gives back to the community with what they can I’m not saying that shocker racing doesn’t give back to the immediate shocker Community
But I feel like we would be able to allocate the funds from potentially a different organization is there anyone else who’d like to speak in this Danger I’ll be speaking in affirmation uh a lot of the votes that I’ll be doing tonight will be in uh what impact do they have
For the students and to be frank uh from my perspective the engineering College can foot the bill for this entire organization and that those conversations need to start happening and I think that student government should be there to help it facilitate those conversations with the emphasis that the student government thinks that
This is something that should happen and looking at the community surface that Alpha Phi Alpha does that is where I’m coming from Senator mallard I will be speaking in negation removing the money uh for several reasons they have come to us because of course if the engineering department can’t really fund
Them who else are they going to go go to other than us and that is our purpose to fund them and they provide an opportunity for students to physically build an item like the car and get jobs as well as just saying that they can get that thirteen thousand dollars to go to
Competition that doesn’t mean anything if they can’t even make the car to go to the competition at that point that just means that they can’t go and then what what happens then if they can’t go go to competition they can’t prove through sponsorships afterwards and now they have to
Basically just disband because they physically can’t do anything if they don’t have the money Senator Sanders um I’d just like to say it it’s really baffling to me that we’re sitting here and we’re talking about one specific group getting more money than the other last time I checked we are
Supposed to help all of these student organizations not just one so why don’t we actually try and you know help some of them out Senator Carter so the issue I have with the logic that the colleges should be funding specific groups is not that it’s not true that
Very well made by that very well might be true the problem is we’re not debating what should happen today we’re debating what could happen and what is happening and the point stands at these colleges do not fund these groups um and so while that might be something
That we should hope for in future conversations right now these colleges don’t fund these groups and without funding from us the call the groups will not exist and so we can hope that the colleges fund them in the future but right now if they are not funded they
Will not exist and if we’re going to extend that logic then almost none of these groups on this list should be funded by SGA because almost all of them relate specifically to certain colleges and while some of them might While most of them might cater to multiple colleges
A lot of these cater to specific ones and even further than that some of these groups only exist because the university does no work in certain areas for instance a green group we do not have an environmental area on Camp Environmental head with Wichita State and so if we’re
Going to say that colleges should be funding certain groups so we shouldn’t give them funding we should also be saying the university should be funding certain groups so we shouldn’t give them funding so I find that line of reasoning very dangerous and it’s a point of uh it
Should be a point for future conversations but right now it should not be something that we’re discussing Senator Webb such a student Amendment I’d like to make a substitute Amendment and remove the 2225 that we’re taking from baffa and only take a thousand and take 500 from line give me a moment
Can you scroll down Brandon on the spreadsheet up there it’s not listed on numbers okay pause sorry that was hot and take 500 from 55. so cancel the 2200 take a thousand instead just a thousand and then take 500 from line item 55 as well instead of all from one
Do we have a second on that motion okay so now we’re opening debate for that okay so now we’re going to go into the debate period for the substitute Amendment so just to be clear we are debating to instead of doing the 22.50 order yes I believe I receive an
Opportunity to call that a friendly Amendment do I not I would count that as a friendly Amendment okay okay so now we’re going to debate to approve one thousand dollars from Baja SAE and an additional 500 from formula to allocate towards Alpha Phi Alpha Senator fan I was speaking I will still speak
Indication of this um amendment I do not think commission take money from both in the racing groups because I feel like this is a path that we will continue to do if this amendment will get approved when we talk about funding from colleges we are in talks to
Get funding from colleges for a large chunk of the engineering groups but we are still winning um from the college to respond but I do not think it’s a good idea to take money out of the racing groups or any of the engineering groups consistently Senator Mallard minor tweaker before we
Move forward I want to be clear that the new number so the motion wasn’t clear enough to specify that the request was 4500 this only brings it to 3725 is that the new number you’re making or you’re still anticipating on finding the rest so 4 500. so the new number is now 37.25
Okay again I will be speaking in negation and my next reasoning as well is because the appropriation committee had gone through a massive process and listened and had presentations and asked questions to all these orgs and we only had what like and you can correct me from like 20 orgs
Or something like that come forward for public forum so we have not listened to all 74 or how many it was and I don’t feel like we can truly pull money from every single org and put it elsewhere without us as Senate having read and looked at every single PowerPoint having
Talked to every single member and listened to every single speech and I understand what everyone will say and I understand all the Amendments and I understand why you’re doing it but again until you have like truly fully listened to every single org and know exactly
What they mean need what they can do how many members they have and what they commit I still do not agree with this Senator Menzies um am I allowed to like ask a question really quickly like okay why um this is like not me speaking uh for
Or against either but why are we wanting to fund Alpha Phi Alpha more than like so for say like one of the other fraternities on this list like why is our specific concern getting more funding to them currently just like out of curiosity because we do have a ton of
Fraternities on this list and all of them are funded relatively the same is there someone who’s more educated on the subject that would like to answer that question sure who Senator Webb I’d want to be maybe jump in I would not assume that um in my assumption I think
We’re just on this one specific line item um and so I think as you go through it it might be tricky as we get through all of them that I wouldn’t advise that folks consider pulling from one to find the other I think it’s just that one
Specific line item that we’re on I could totally be wrong um so I will leave that up to maybe Thompson and Webb to figure out but I assume that just because that’s the line item they’re on that’s what they made but I one of you should probably clarify that
It’s your person Thompson that would be correct it’s because that’s the line item we are on that number is not final we can revisit it with any other motion later on in this process chairperson or Senator Bobbitt once again speaking indication um the idea behind sending these groups
Off to the engineering College to ask for money doesn’t hold true we can’t strip these uh organizations of money and then send them at a disadvantage to the engineering department but there’s a huge difference between bringing in money this year and being like hey can we talk about this in the future versus
Hey if you don’t say yes we’re done and at the same point these groups explicitly said if they had give been given advanced notice of this cut to their funding they could have worked around it they could have had these conversations but the abrupt decision to what cut funding to these organization
Will have Ripple down effects and could fundamentally change their standing in the University Senator Webb I just kind of wanted to elaborate on why I changed it um I’m not speaking necessarily in or against favor of anything I changed it because obviously I know 20 2200 is a
Lot to take from something a thousand is a little less of a burden still a burden but it’s a little less but we are not going to hit one single line item tonight that people are all going to agree on that is just a matter of fact
And although they cannot go to the College of Engineering right now and it is going to be a horrible year for a lot of these rsos that’s a matter of fact they can in the future and they can start working on it and everyone’s going to have probably a bad year with
These numbers they look really rough but we have to split the burden and this is just how that’s going to go for the sake of time we are going to close the floor for debate and open the voting period voting Windows now open uh hi can we remind people what they’re voting
On please I think because we had discussions for a little bit yes so we are voting on the amendment correct so we are voting to amend it to take it down to one thousand no so the amendment’s done so because it was accepted friendly your current motion is to fund
3725 dollars to Alpha Phi Alpha by taking a thousand dollars from Baja and 500 from formula my mistake and we’re waiting on a few more votes Senator Mayu where’s the extra 225 dollars coming from you said that we’re doing 1000 from Baja and then 500 from formula that leaves us with 225 dollars
Unaccounted no so the current um the approved allocation from the funding committee was 2225 by taking a thousand so adding 1500 that brings it to 3725. okay so the vote is eight in favor 14 against in five abstentions but that the motion fails okay I’m going to get this out of the
Way now and I am so sorry for this but this bill has to pass tonight so I’m going to move to extend the meeting time by 30 minutes do I have a second okay now we’re going to open the floor for voting that simple majority two-thirds simple majority
Senator Peng can you remind people what they’re voting for once again please yes so this is voting to extend the meeting time by 30 minutes and then we will go back into making a motion about Alpha Phi Alpha anyone else not open I’m so sorry it is
Actually a two-thirds vote to do that okay voting Windows still open waiting on a few more foreign with 22 in favor four against and zero abstentions the motion passes do you care sorry one last thing I just I wanted to also I recognize this it’s probably gonna be a long night
Here is the reality this bill needs to get done at some point tonight we have 74 organizations who are waiting for the student government to make a decision there is not a senate meeting next week so that would mean we would call a special session in order to finish it if
It does not get done tonight so as we continue to go through this the meeting’s been extended to 10 to 10 o’clock which is good but I would continue to remind folks that as until this bill is done we will if we the next time the meeting the German comes up or
The next vote to extend doesn’t pass then we will have to call a special session to continue this discussion to finish this bill because there’s not a senate meeting next week so now we are going back into debates on Alpha Phi Alpha they requested ten thousand we are approving
2225 do I have a motion on the floor um Senator fan I moved to Allen Kate the original amount so are you moving to I’m into approve the 2225 by unanimous consent or just approve just approve okay do I have a second so now we’re going to go into debate on
That is there anyone who’d like to speak an affirmation or negation of approving the original amount Senator fan uh I said this amount because that’s what us as the finest commission decided but also that should cover some of their meetings and events I know it’s not the
Ideal number but I think that’s what we have to go on right now is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate CNN we’re going to open the voting period voting Windows now open winning on a few more with 18 in favor five against three abstentions the motion passes
Okay moving on to line item four the ambassadors for diversity and inclusion they requested four thousand dollars and the finance commission approved nine hundred and seventy dollars do I have a motion on the floor Senator Brown um I motion to keep the 970 dollars is there anyone who’d like to well first
Give me a second for that okay is there a second okay is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of this sing none we’re going to move into the voting period IC window style open waiting on a few more with 22 in favor zero against and three
Abstentions of motion passes choral Directors Association they requested 13 850 and they were allocated 2470. do I have a motion on the floor Senator Bobbitt I moved to approve a 2470 dollars is there a second Okay so is there anyone who’d like to speak and debate on this issue um chairperson Owens
I think it’s really sad how we underfund Fine Arts programs that’s all I have to say Cinder Brown um I just feel like that we should reconsider um and give them more money um because like they said up there and talked about that you know this is a music program um
For you know Educators and things like that and they are the Next Generation so we need to like be fair um about it um and I would just say you know reconsider it because these people are building true leaders they are building the Next Generation so we need to reconsider
Um that so yeah is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate on this issue seeing none we’re going to open the voting period wait the vulner windows now open ing a couple more winning on one more foreign favor 11 against and two absentions the motion passes
Okay line item six the American Institute of Aeronautics and astronautics they requested 715 dollars and they approved 700 is there a motion on the floor um some committee chairperson Owens motion to approve 700 with by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item seven the American Society of
Mechanical engineers they requested eight thousand dollars and they were allocated 2470 is there emotion on the floor Senator Bobbitt a move to pass by unanimous consent these um two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars is there any objections seeing none the motion passes Line item 8 the Arab Student Association requested ten thousand dollars and they were allocated 3970 is their emotion on the floor Senator Orange I moved to approve the 3970 with Union and Mis consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item nine artist exploration Association they asked for eighteen
Hundred dollars and they were given thirteen seventy um is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens which amount um the 1 370 a month are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 10 the association of Hindu students in America requested six thousand two hundred and sixty five
Dollars and they were allocated 2470 is their emotion on the floor I moved to allocate two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars by unanimous consent is there any objection seen on the motion passes line item 11 Kai Sigma Tau National Fraternity Incorporated requested seven thousand five hundred dollars and were allocated
2470 is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens mission to approve approved is there an objection or any objections okay I’m saying now the motion passes line item 12 Christian challenge requested at 4 500 and they were allocated 2570 is their emotion on the floor Senator fan
I moved to improve 17 570 my unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 13 Club Nova they requested three thousand dollars and they were allocated 1220 is their emotion on the floor I moved to approve 1220 by unanimous consent is there any objections
Seeing none the motion passes line item 14 the criminal justice Student Association requested three thousand eight hundred dollars and they were allocated one thousand nine hundred and seventy are there any emotions on the floor I moved to approve 1970 by unanimous consent do I have any objections seeing none the motion passes
Line item 15 cultural Greek Council requested ten thousand dollars and were allocated nine hundred and seventy dollars is there a motion on the floor uh oh Senator fan I moved to improve the 970 dollars my unanimous consent I object to that I’m going to move to approve
1970 and take it away from Formula SAE do I have any objections okay is there a second to your person Thompson allocate 1970 to cultural Greek Council and take it away from Formula SAE so now we’re in debate on that okay is there anyone who’d like to speak and debate I will
Um honestly this is going to be a long night for all of us so again I apologize my reasoning behind this is because I think that while we need to do as much as we can to fund shocker racing model un and all these bigger organizations I
Think that cultural Greek Council has a broader effect on students and touches a broader group so I also just think that allocating ten thousand ER them requesting ten thousand dollars and being allocated not even one thousand is a joke so is there anyone else who’d like to speak in debates Senator Mayu
Would we be able to split it up between Baja and formula 500 500 or an equivalent amount that’s percentage-wise friendly comparable you’ll have to make the secondary amendment to do that and so you would just say you have a secondary amendment to do and then you will have to
Determine where you want to split it from and if the speaker who made the original motion is cool with it then that will change if not then someone will have to second it will have to vote on that and then go back to the main one
So yes but you would have to just actually say from where okay give me a minute point of clarification is at 1970. yep sorry also Madam speaker I could also I just want to re-emphasize again from the original thing from earlier and I should have jumped in earlier so I’m sorry
Unanimous consent still does apply to ethics things so be cautious if you have a violation a a thing that you still like I’m just putting that out there your choice to make whatever you want just making sure that you understand all the information okay can I have my friendly Amendment
Now yes okay cool so could I actually do 550 from uh ba oh wait no formula excuse me and then 450 from Baja can you repeat that one more time for us yeah so it would be 550 from Formula racing and then 450 to equivalate or to make the equivalent of
The one thousand dollars foreign we can amend that so just to clarify now we are still in debate on approving one thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars for cultural Greek council is Senator fan I am speaking indication of taking the money from the racing groups once again
I do not think we should take them from the missing the money from the missing groups um the reason why we did the original allocation of 970 originally is because uh what we saw was the same people they have around eight thousand five hundred dollars in safe keeping I don’t think
It’s justifiable to take money from um formula and Maja Senator Orange just to expand on Senator Fan’s Point um a large factor that went into these decisions was each organization’s safe keeping and how that played into their budget for the year of course that’s never an optimal solution but given the resources
That the finance Council had to deal with that’s just one of those things that was taken into consideration is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate Senator Bobbitt I’d like to speak in negation as well um we would be applying a double standard to this organization we’ve asked just
About every other organization on the list to go out and see how they can fundraise how they can contribute yet so the cultural Greek council is made up of I believe it’s six so different organizations if we are going to put the burden on everyone else to go out and
Seek seed funding I would argue it should be those six organizations that fund the council Senator mallard again I will be speaking in negation we already had an extensively long process to approve all of these bills and or um allocations and then we had it again on
Monday and it was gone through and through and at the same time again they do have eight thousand dollars which if I’m not they have eight thousand six hundred twenty point four seven dollars in safe keeping and that is actually the largest amount out of any other organization and I
Understand that that is not a deciding factor at all but that is still a lot of money and I do not agree with this chairperson Owens so I just want to say that I think it’s a dangerous thing to dissuade our responsibility in that this
Is our job to do this and while the financial Council has done amazing work and should be the primary place where we ask questions and clarify um I think it’s a dangerous thing to only push it um push our responsibility away from that um moreover I just want to clarify that
The two organizations so sorry they’re going to be the biggest Target and I don’t say that in a negative way or a positive way I say that in a factual way when we’re looking at other organizations to fund because they have such a large number um and that’s not like broken up when
You like just initially look at it they’re going to be the biggest Target because it looks like a huge amount I do want to say that um I think we’re putting ourselves in a hole where we’re pitting one organization against each other while I think you know you can debate all day
The value and the you know the um the value can associate with a dollar amount I think it’s not the best idea to associate you know the value of each organization singularly in a competitive sense I think that diminishes the value of these organizations and it puts us in a weird
Spot where we’re like pointing fingers at each other and saying well this one does more than this one so we should give more money to them I just think that we should think of it in a hey how do we all come together make these decisions and then get everyone the
Funding that they need um it’s not a personal it’s not a personal attack and I think this is a I don’t know just everybody take a deep breath this is so tense and I feel like everybody’s a little super stressed and I know it’s late I just I
Just want to say that when you’re thinking of these decisions think that this is our job to do this you are in this position to do this job and to represent the people on your placard for me it’s Liberal Arts and Sciences um are you doing that job or are you
Doing it from a personal place that’s all um Senator Peng going off that I am not speaking affirmation nor negation we are we did sign up for this job yes some senators are going to complain about being here till 10 pm but we are here to represent
Our students we are here making sure everyone gets their fair share yes formula and Baja will be the biggest targets because of it but we also got to remind ourselves with this budget of formula they might not even exist within this year nor may not even have enough
But also we also have to look at these other organizations that do not even have enough to have their first meeting this semester so please keep in mind that we’re not only here for one organization we’re here for all students Senator Carter so I’m going to be
Speaking of negation and purely for the reason that uh if we’re going to move money from the racing groups to fund this Council there are multiple councils on here who obviously receive less than they requested and so if we’re going to move money from them to this one Council then
There’s no justification not to move it to the other councils and I think that’s that’s a dangerous precedent moving forward of taking money from the racing groups to fund the councils chairperson Haynes yeah hi good evening so um either speaking affirmation notification simply a point of clarification um or rather Illuminating what’s
What’s happening so um cultural grid Council originally allotted 970 dollars right 970 dollars would be used to essentially support not only Council events but events of the five actual organizations that are part of that Council that is less than 10 percent of the money they had originally asked for
And less than half than what was allotted the first time I encourage us to critically think about what is happening when we look at the complete um the complete spreadsheet right because when you look at other organizations a part of this Council and the money that they have
They run on the money quickly similar beta has five hundred dollars currently on the docket right now I’m just encouraging critical thinking and increased perspective it’s nothing that um what it seems to be is that people want to take money from shocker racing because it’s yada yada
We’re trying to create a net positive here that’s that’s all I’m gonna say so think multi-layered when it comes to these consoles these Council support organizations that’s just that’s just what I have to say serving our time I’m going to close the floor for debate the floor for voting voting Windows now open
As a reminder you’re voting on the motion at hand the current motion is to find Greek cultural Greek council at 1970 with 550 coming from formula and 450 coming from Baja foreign in favor 14 against him one Obsession the motion fails do we have another motion on the floor Senator Bobbitt
I motion to uh or I move to allocate the 970 dollars is there a second so now we’re going to move into debate on that is there anyone who’d like to speak and mature person hands 970 is simply not enough simply not enough that that think that 900 and 70 dollars
Would fit to support not only the council itself but five other different organizations is completely insane what are we doing so I would I’m voting the negation this foreign is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate chairperson Thompson uh not necessarily a speech for or
Against uh I want to add to more of my transparency from earlier in this meeting um speaking as an aerospace engineering major an at-large Senator and the most recent person in this room to talk to Dean Muscat I don’t think it’s unreasonable to pull money from shocker racing baja
SAE and Formula SAE their numbers in this bill as stands are unreasonable and I apologize to them I support them I want to work with them to get the money from the foundation or the College of Engineering but this fund cannot be balanced in whatever definition of the word you want to call
It as it stands if every single motion tonight that mentions their funding is voted down you need to answer for all the organizations who got significantly less than an equitable amount even if that is 15 of their requests is there um Senator Sanders I don’t think it’s truly fair that we’re
Sitting here and we’re pitting one group against another I just my question really is is like why are we taking from one organization and giving significantly to the other one just because they simply need it don’t all of them need it like last time I checked aren’t we supposed to be supporting all
Of them Sandra Brown um I would just like to say um I agree with Senator AJ Haynes I feel like 970 dollars is not enough um I feel like also we have to look into account of okay so we okay we pride um diversity equity and inclusion within our University
Um not only that we talk about caring about students and caring about different organizations but if we think that we that the culture Greek Council can survive off of 970 dollars um I feel like that’s insane um and we need to reconsider that and I feel like
That is not fair to all of those people that is within you know that because they’re not going to survive off of that so us that’s the student Senate we need to reconsider that and let’s be fair and let’s honestly be here for the students like we’re supposed to be doing so
Is there anyone else you’d like to speak and debate chairperson Owens howdy um I just not speaking in affirmation or negation just making statements um the first is I’m sorry speaker Howard but I’m going to cut in here this is a debating period you have to speak in
Affirmation or negation okay speaking it speaking for giving money to the cultural Greek Council and um AKA this is simply not enough also I think it’s important to state that while they may have money in their safe keepings account whenever they’re looking into your finances to see how much money they’re requesting
They usually take in account how much money is in their safe keepings account so that ten thousand dollars is probably separate from that eight thousand dollars in their safe keepings account meaning they need far more than what they’re requesting and also whether or not we’re pitting organizations against each other the
Truth of the matter is some organizations need more and were given far less than was required of them and to have a lot of them request AKA ten thousand dollars and get 970 is simply ridiculous and so us putting money other places is just us going about trying to find a proper
Solution so everyone can get an adequate amount amount of money to survive on so I would say we just need to take it like what Victor said we need to take a deep breath because looking and allocating in whatever it’s it’s just literally trying to make sure that everyone can survive that’s all
For the purpose of conserving our time I’m going to close the floor for debate and open the floor for voting just to clarify we’re voting on allocating 970 dollars to cultural Greek Council the voting period is now open winning on a couple more with Aid in favor 16 against two abstentions emotion fails
Do I have a new motion on the floor chairperson Thompson I would like to repeat a previous motion and I move to allocate 1970 dollars pulling 550 dollars from Formula SAE and 450 from Baja SAE is there a second okay the debating period is now open hold on
One second sorry can you say that one more time sorry repeating a previous motion 550 from formula 450 from Baja allocating 1970 to cultural Greek Council Senator Carter something I wanted to point out so one of the reasons given for moving this money was because uh the cultural grid Council or sorry uh
Yeah cultural green Council would be receiving less than 10 percent of the funding that they requested and they need those funds to survive for moving by this logic green group received around five percent of the funding they requested and so I expect that when we get to that position someone makes a
Motion to move two thousand additional dollars to Green group If the percentage of 10 is what we’re working with Senator Owens I guess this is kind of a point of clarification are all of these clubs eligible for the student fees money that we were discussing earlier that
Application for that money that will be decided later on are you talking about the organization funding yeah yeah so um that pop that section of the bylaw so allowed even Appropriations groups they are not allowed to ask for the full amount of the 3000 but there is a
Reduced amount there’s a cap for appropriation funded organizations that received money that they can apply for that to yes so this is not like the very end of the line for funding okay thank you chairpersonal ones I’m back I think the logic previously given by Senator Carter is great
Um if we were on green group but we’re not and I’d love for someone to do that when we get to that line but we’re not there yet um we’re here at cultural Greek Council and if we can use that logic all day if we wanted to
Um but then we wouldn’t get home until like midnight so let’s not do that to the RS RC workers um or ourselves um I just think it’s a great idea for us to continue to fund cultural Council and I think once again um like echoing um uh chairperson Thompson’s um previous statement I’m
I just hesitate for us to like pit value of an organization to each other the way that we are um but it’s also our job to make sure that people are being represented and then we have money allocated in certain places so these organizations can survive and I
Reiterate the fact that I would love to see both of these racing organizations apply for organizational funding that’d be so cool um and if culture Greek Council does the same they still wouldn’t meet even close to their goal so I just think we need to do this Senator Bobbitt
I’d like to challenge a little bit of the logic that was used earlier um it was stated that this money is insufficient because the it can’t support the council and all of the organizations that make up the council this line item is not for the organizations that make up the council
It is for the council itself and to weigh the success of every organization in the council based off this allocation would be a misstep every organization is suffering this year everybody will have to what makes serious changes to how they operate in order to get this done
It is not unreasonable to ask the five organizations and the cultural Greek Council to donate 200 a piece to get uh that extra thousand dollars for the purpose of conserving time I’m going to cut the debating time short to be pointed I have a question um so there’s been logic used about
Cultural Greek Council that I just want clarified because I don’t know and I’m assuming if I don’t know there’s like like maybe one other person that also doesn’t know um it was stated that cultural Greek Council has five organizations that they allocate funding to and I’m not sure how
That works so are they also on these lines of having funding as well um are they okay are they like I’m just confused someone help me out so I don’t think it would be fair to answer that question um because then I would have to answer a question about any student organization
Um that comes up and so um I think unfortunately I don’t think it would be fair for me to answer that I’m sorry I would say however it is fair for you to review the Powerpoints so their PowerPoint May answer that question for you okay so we are going to move into the
Voting period just to clarify you are voting to allocate 1970 to cultural Greek Council building windows now open with 15 in favor 11 against in one abstention the motion passes line item 16 Delta gamma fraternity they requested five thousand dollars and they were allocated zero a clarifying question um
Whoever could someone tell me why an organization who requested money might have gotten nothing yeah what a phenomenal question for me to yield the floor to the treasurer to answer that for you so Treasurer Yang I yield the Floyd to you hello guys I know it’s been a long night so
During the process we’re also allowed to ask questions for these organizations and for some organizations we ask the question do you have outside bank accounts and so some of these organizations said yes this is how much we have in outside bank accounts and so um I remember one organization they had
About twenty thousand dollars in outside bank account but they still requested uh money from SGA and we determined that those outside bank accounts were enough to support them this year we also asked about fundraising another group I remember they made four thousand to six thousand dollars in profit from their
Fundraising sales they did not include that in their request they requested one thousand dollars so ultimately we also gave that group zero dollars those are just some examples to explain the process and reasoning of why we gave some organization zero dollars thank you is there a motion on the floor Senator fan
I moved to Allen um allocate zero dollars is there a second okay we will go into the debate period I’m going to move to approve that by unanimous consent do we have any or objections excuse me seeing none the motion passes speaker hour I’m so sorry please don’t
Hate me all night so technically you can’t do that since Senator fan made the motion he would have to be the one to do it by unanimous consent um I am so sorry please don’t hate me it’s okay it’s okay Senator fan uh I um amend my original proposition
And I move to improve with medium is consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes should I make that motion now Brandon should I make that now you guys are really gonna hate me for this one but I’m going to move to extend the meeting time by an hour
By unanimous consent do I have any objections or wait you’re doing do I have a second okay well the voting period is now going to open is that two-thirds two-thirds winning on a few more foreign with 22 in favor five against zero abstentions the motion passes
I remember that we take a five minute recess to allow a bathroom break you can just you can just do it on your own that’s okay we can do that please be back at 10 o’clock if you guys will go ahead and take your seats thank you Senators let’s please take our seats
We’re good to go David Nick good all right I call this meeting back to order at 1003 pm I would like to make a stipulation before we begin for the sake of conserving time in debate we are going to be accepting two speeches and affirmation and two speeches in negation only
Where were we were at Delta Sigma Theta okay item 17 Delta Sigma Theta they requested seven thousand dollars and they were allocated 1470 do I have a motion on the floor I move to approve one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars with unanimous consent are there any objections okay seeing none that is
Approved what oh sorry Okay is there so now I would okay is there a second okay we’re going to go into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator Haynes chairperson Haynes excuse me purely a conflict of interesting is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate
Okay we’re gonna open the voting period I’m sorry voting widow’s now open waiting on about three more with 19 in favor two against four abstentions the motion passes line item 18 Engineers Without Borders they requested ten thousand dollars and they were allocated five thousand dollars five thousand sixty five dollars
Is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to l k five thousand and sixty five dollars my new name is consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 19 the English graduate student Association requested three thousand five hundred dollars and they were allocated 1470
Is there a motion on the floor Senator Brown uh I’m motion to approve the 1470 for the English graduate student Association is there a second okay so we’ll now open the floor for debates is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of this
Seeing none we’re going to move into the voting period funding Windows now open waiting on a few more with 26 in favor zero against one abstention the motion passes line item 20 the Fairmount college student advisory Council they requested three thousand five hundred dollars and they were allocated 800 do I have a
Motion on the floor chairperson Owens motion to approve using unanimous consent are there any objections there is one objection so now we’re going to Second do I have a second on this motion okay so we’re going to move into the bait period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation
Of allocating eight hundred dollars seeing none we’re going to move into the voting period funny when it’s not open peer gaff my apologies now it’s open I didn’t say it I didn’t do it okay waiting on a few more hey everyone please giggle one more time I’m missing about six
With 23 in favor two against two abstentions and motion passes forensic science Society they requested 1 100 and were allocated 800. is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I’m moved to approve 800 with my name is consent are there any objections there is one objection so I need a
Second okay we’re gonna move into the debate the debate period excuse me is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to move into the voting period about anyone else open with 24 in favor one against two obsessions the motion passes line item 22 Future Health Care
Professionals they requested three thousand three hundred dollars and were allocated 1 600 is there a motion on the floor I moved to approve sixteen hundred dollars by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes 23 the geology Club requested seven hundred and fifty dollars and were allocated 450 is
There a motion on the floor chairperson Owens uh a motion to approve using unit 450 yes okay are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item 24 green group requested 35 000 and they were allocated 1970 is their emotion on the floor chairperson Thompson I moved to approve 1970 by unanimous
Consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes I’m 25 health education advocates for a leadership teamwork and Humanity they requested three thousand five hundred dollars and they were allocated nine hundred and seventy dollars is their emotion on the floor I moved to approve 970 dollars by unanimous consent are there any
Objections okay so I need a second on that motion okay we’re going to move into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none the voting period will open it is now open with 24 in favor one against two abstentions the motion passes
Line item 26 the Indian Student Association requested twenty eight thousand dollars and they were allocated six thousand four hundred and seventy dollars is there a motion on the floor chairperson or chairperson Atkinson excuse me um I moved to get that up to seven thousand by taking 260 from rocket club
Is there a second so now we’re going to debate on amending that to give that money to could you repeat the um dollar amounts you said 200 260. that does not equal seven thousand chairperson Atkinson are you gonna make another motion foreign ERS let’s remember we’re
I motion to get to 69 6900 by taking 430 from Rock Club is there a second let’s see oh okay so we’re going to open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator Bobbitt on the Monday night Appropriations
Meeting rocket club came in to give a speech saying that the five thousand dollars that they were approved for in the initial round of funding was sufficient they had received an additional fifteen thousand dollars in funding and would be happy to stay at five the commission voted to up them to six thousand
Um seen as the organization themselves said that they would have been fine with five if I think we can spare the expense on this one is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation saying none we’re going to open the voting period it is now open
With 23 in favor two against two abstentions of motion passes seven in Trinity Council or a thousand dollars and they were allocated zero dollars is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to allocate them zero numbers is there a second okay we’re gonna move into the debate
Period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to move into the voting period it is now open with 26 in favor zero against one Obsession the motion passes 28 the intersectional Student leftist Association requested one thousand dollars and was allocated 230 dollars is
There a motion on the floor I moved to approve 230 dollars by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 29 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity requested ten thousand dollars and was allocated 1470 is there a motion on the floor okay I’m going to move to prove 1470 dollars
Do I have a second we’re going to open the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of giving them 1470. um Senator Mayu I’m going to object because the speaker that presented to us today even said that the I guess the event that he’s going to be
Going to will be held here in Wichita so I feel like that’s going to be too much money at this point see are you okay Senator Owens or chairperson Owens um maybe I misunderstood this as well but it was under my assumption that they were running the event held here or that
They needed money to attend said event even if it’s here I don’t know if that’s I know it can’t be clarified because we can’t ask um but I I think that point is misconstrued um and maybe if someone else has better information and more accurate information I’d love for you to speak next
Chairperson Thompson can I request a question of the treasurer technically you have to send that this way and then I will yield it to her then she doesn’t have speaking rights why did we allocate 1470 dollars chair Thompson what a wonderful question that the treasurer could answer for you
So I will yield my time to the treasurer Treasurer yang hello I’m back again okay so um just for our justification for this fraternity is that they had zero dollars in their safekeeping so they just have absolutely no money this organization has to propose two fundraising initiatives and has previously stated
That they collected collectively spent about a thousand five hundred um wait sorry can we clarify which organization this is okay sorry um the 1470 um you guys can look in your presentations as well as as they break down the cost um but this allocated amount gives the organization the opportunity to host
Their conference um and be able to perform their other initiatives that they would like so um I believe that they are hosting the conference in Wichita and they would need the funding to be able to do so even though it is in Wichita they still
Need the money to be able to fund their supplies is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator Brown I would like to speak um in affirmation I just think that it’s excuse me this is just not enough money um I think that this fraternity deserves more than this
Um and also for them to just put on the event in Wichita um because they’re going to need more money um and I just think that you know we need to just reconsider that and it’s not fair to their fraternity um and you know we heard Donovan come up here and speak today
Um that that they need more money um and his fraternity does a lot um so yeah to close the floor for debate and open the floor for voting just to clarify we are voting to allocate 1470 dollars it is now open with 19 in favor for against for extensions of motion passes
Line item 30 Kappa Delta Chi they requested seven thousand dollars and they were allocated 1970 is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I’m in town came 1970 dollars is there a second okay we’re gonna move into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to
Speak in affirmation or negation of this seeing none we’re going to move into the voting period it is now open with 25 in favor one against two abstentions the motion passes 31 diversity they requested three thousand two hundred dollars and they were allocated 970 is their emotion on the floor Senator Bobbitt
I moved to allocate the 970 dollars by unanimous consent is there any objection seeing none the motion passes line item 32 Lambda Chi Alpha they requested seven thousand and ninety dollars and they were allocated 500. is there a motion on the floor I moved to approve 500 do I have a second
Okay we’re going to open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of this Senator or chairperson Haynes I was thinking about it I was thinking about looking at it 500 is again for um a great organization 500 is is way too low
Not operational and the slightest for frankly anything is there Senator fan um the reason I think 500 is I think it is kind of low but the reason why we allocated that much originally is because we thought they were kind of vague with their presentation um they weren’t they didn’t Focus they
Didn’t really give us that much specifics on it but yeah is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to open the voting period you’re good to go waiting on two more who with 22 in favor four against one abstention the motion passes
Line item 33 Lambda pie Upsilon sorority requested thirteen thousand and fifty dollars and was allocated 3670 is their emotion on the floor I moved to allocate three thousand six hundred and seventy dollars do I have a second we’re going to open the voting period is there anyone who’d like to speak in
Affirmation or negation what oh did I say voting I’m sorry it’s I’m tired is there anyone who’d like to speak an affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to open the voting period voting’s now open with 27 favor zero against one Obsession the motion passes line item 34 the Linguistics Club
Requested one thousand dollars and was allocated 600 is their emotion on the floor chairperson Thompson I moved to approve the 600 amount by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 35 microcosmos requested four thousand dollars and was allocated when or excuse me was allocated nine hundred and
Seventy dollars is their emotion on the floor chairperson Atkinson did the math probably at his time uh I motioned to get them back up to 1500 by taking 530 from rocket club is there a second okay so we are going to move into the debate period on approving an extra 530
Dollars is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator fan I’m women’s indication and taking money from rocking Club um we already took money from them previously I believe I believe and I don’t think we should take any more um out of all the other organizations chairperson Atkinson
Rocket club was fine with their five thousand we gave we gave him 970 more this is just getting them back down to about their five thousand that’s all that’s happening here chairperson Owens we are going to take money for a rocket club to spread the wealth separate it
100 for you 100 for you 100 for you um so just think about it is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to open the floor for voting it is now open ing on two more with 18 in favor seven against two
Abstentions the motion passes line item 36 Model United Nations at Wichita State asked for forty two thousand dollars and was allocated nine thousand nine hundred and seventy is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to Allen King 9970 dollars is there a second okay we’re gonna open the floor for
Debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation chairperson Thompson um stated the same thing during our committee meeting on Monday but the five thousand dollar number was was low um but just recognizing everything else that’s going on in the bill we did come to
Terms with the fact that 10 000 is an appropriate and respectful number and of course we can revisit that with any of these other line items is there anyone else who’d like to speak an affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to open the floor for voting it is now open
With toy in favor who won against in six abstentions the motion passes line item 37 Mortar Board requested one thousand dollars and was allocated zero dollars is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens motion to approve the zero dollars at the unanimous consent are there
So I need a second on that motion now okay we’re gonna open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator fan I would say zero dollars is fair for mortarboard when they came to speak with us during Appropriations they only they
Were very vague with how they would actually use their money um they also said they couldn’t rely on when you fundraise six to seven thousand dollars in selling flowers at graduation so I think this is pretty fair is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate
Seeing none we’re going to open the floor for voting it is now open with 25 in favor one against two abstentions the motion passes he ate the Muslim Students Association requested six thousand five hundred dollars and was allocated 1970 is there a motion on the floor I moved to approve
1970 by unanimous consent do I have any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 39 National Association for music education Collegiate requested two thousand dollars and they were allocated one thousand and seventy dollars is their emotion on the floor I moved to approve one thousand and seventy dollars by unanimous consent do
I have any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 40 National panhellenic Council requested twelve thousand two hundred and fifty two dollars and was allocated six thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to allocate six thousand nine hundred seventy dollars
Is there a second okay we’re gonna open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to open the voting period it is now open I’m getting the hang of this with 22 in favor one against four abstentions the motion passes
Point of information just for you advisor McLean uh I know you said you were just doing you’re just getting the hang of it but I think the rocket club number didn’t reflect the previous vote that mentioned them line item 41 National Society of black Engineers requested thirty thousand dollars and was allocated
6970 is there emotion on the floor Senator fan I moved to allocate 6970 dollars is there a second okay we’re gonna open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation chairperson Thompson yeah we’ve once again settled that this was a fair number based on the plans
That they provided the commission um the first presentation round um as well as coming back and talking to us again the second round um I just want to also reiterate that we are talking to the dean um this is another organization that we will be keeping in touch with and trying
To find more sources of funding specific number is fair line item 42 osim at Wichita State University wait oh again it’s been a long night we’re still in debate I apologize is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate saying none we’re gonna open the floor for voting it is now open
Waiting on a few who have 25 in favor zero against one abstention the motion passes I was stem at Wichita State University requested one thousand two hundred and forty dollars and was allocated 400. chairperson Thompson I moved to fund ostim at 750 allocating ten dollars from rocket club to balance
At that request number um and then for the remaining 340 uh 200 from formula and 140 from Baja you restate it one more time for us what did I say 200 from formula 140 from Baja and 10 from rocket club to make ostens total 750. is there a second
Seeing none the motion fails is there another motion on the floor Senator Bobbitt I moved to find that 400 is there a second okay we’re gonna open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak an affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to open the floor for voting
The window’s not open with 17 in favor seven against three exceptions the motion passes line item 43 panhellenic Council I yield the chair to vice president Martin’s okay so just blanket statement I’m gonna respect Tower’s procedures of like two um speeches 4 and 2 against so with that we
Will move into light item 43 panhellenic council do I have a motion Senator Bobbitt I move to allocate zero dollars by unanimous consent are there any objections line item 44 paraguayan Student Association requested two thousand five hundred dollars and they were allocated 1270 is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens
Motion to adopt the 1270 using unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 45 Phi Alpha Honor Society requested one thousand five hundred dollars and was allocated zero dollars is there emotion on the floor chairperson Owens can I ask a question um why zero dollars what a phenomenal
Question and I will yield the floor to Treasurer yang treasure again you’re weighing sorry weighing my bad sorry sorry sorry oh my bad sorry sorry I’m not even used I’m tired I can’t even see um so the safekeeping that they had at the time of deliberations was at 2013.63 covering their requested amount
Between extraneous funding initiatives membership fees and the council see keeping them out this organization could easily pay for their proposed initiation event without the assistance of SGA funds is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens motion to adopt the zero dollars using unanimous consent are there any objections
Seeing none the motion passes line item 46 pre-dental Student Association requested seven thousand five hundred dollars and was allocated 1470 is there a motion on the floor chairperson Thompson I moved to approve 1 470 using unanimous consent are there any objections seeing on the motion passes line item 47 pre-law Student Association
Requested four thousand dollars and received nine hundred and seventy dollars is there a motion on the floor I move to approve 970 dollars by unanimous consent is there any objection seeing none the motion passes line item 48 pre-medical Student Association requested four thousand dollars and received 1970 is their emotion on the floor
Senator Peng I moved to allocate 1970 by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes 49 psychology Club requested two thousand dollars and received nine hundred and seventy dollars is their emotion on the floor chairperson Thompson I moved to approve 970 by unanimous consent are there any objections
Seeing none the motion passes line item 50 the psychology graduate student organization requested five thousand dollars and they received 1970 is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to allocate 1970 from unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 51 rocket club requested fifty
Thousand dollars and received five thousand nine hundred and seventy is that updated which is now amended to 5010 okay um Senator Carter I moved to amend the motion and approve them for 5000 give the remaining 10 degree group is there a second okay so now we’re going to open the floor for debate
Um Senator Carter seniors green grouper received around five percent of their funding and Rocket Club said they were fine with five thousand I think it’s reasonable to give that extra tender green group are there any other people who want to speak and debate seeing none we’re going to open the
Floor for voting it is now open well 18 in favor five against four abstentions the motion passes two shakopella requested two thousand dollars and received 970 is their emotion on the floor chairperson Owens motion to adopt the 970 using unit objections seeing the motion passes line item 53 shocker racing baja SAE
Requested 42 343.60 and they were originally allocated 18 470 what is the updated number and it is now at eighteen thousand twenty dollars okay Senator fan I moved to Alan I moved to allocate 18 000 and 20 dollars is there a second okay we’re gonna move into the debate period is there anyone
Who’d like to speak in affirmation Senator or tripperson Owens we put this group through a lot I think we can just keep it at that plus I also learned that apparently like the majority of it is used for travel I didn’t know that um and then they don’t have much left
Over after that to like actually do what they want to do so I’d love to give this to them is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate seeing none we’re going to open the floor for voting it is now open with 21 in favor three against two abstentions and emotion passes
In item 54 shocker racing Formula SAE requested seventy five thousand dollars and was granted twenty thousand and sixty dollars is there emotion on the floor Senator Bobbitt for just a quick record it is now amended to 19 510 dollars I moved to appropriate nineteen thousand five hundred and ten dollars
Is there a second we’re going to open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak an affirmation or negation Senator Mayu all right I’d like to speak in negation to deduct 250 dollars from formula and give it to Baja if I could do that so you’re making the
Secondary amendment to that yes okay so that would need that second yeah sorry because Bob it made it okay so that’s a note so then that will need a second now do we have a second on that motion seconded by chairperson Thompson and before we continue can you say it one more time
Yes I was going to deduct 250 from Formula SAE and to give to Baja yes thank you so for reference if this motion passes that becomes a new motion on the floor so you can now go into debate is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of doing this
Seeing none we’re going to vote to amend this okay but what else now open with 13 in favor 13 against and zero abstentions the motion fails so that is the Tie so you said 13th or 13. so Madam vice president so the motion is to take 250 dollars
From Formula SAE and give it to Baja SAE and for reference and just for the record constitutionally the Vice President in her capacity as president of the Senate is to break any tie that exists within the Senate Madam vice president a point of order point of order oh there you are
Could you reread that vote like it was 13 0 13. 13 13-0 okay I abstained okay thirteen thirteen one let’s sell it okay yeah I just want to make sure yep you’re good I vote in favor of this motion so that is now the new motion
So now we are going to reopen the floor for debate so the new allocation I will get it updated in a second but the new one is taking the 250 giving it to Baja that is a new motion is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation chairperson Thompson
I will speak in favor of passing this motion but I just want to reiterate that that does not mean that this number is final is there anyone else who’d like to speak to herbs excuse me Senator Mayu all right I just wanted to speak in obviously affirmation but solidify my
Point because Formula SAE requested twenty five hundred dollars for food and Baja only requested fifteen hundred dollars if we’re only going to deduct money from their food budgets we are now down to one thousand fifty dollars for Baja and 1950 for formula and by deducting I’m just giving them up to thirteen hundred
Is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate seeing none we’re going to vote to pass the motion to allocate 250 so the new number is 19 260 thank you it is now open with 20 in favors six against and one abstention the motion passes line item 55 Shep leading Hispanics in
Stem requested seventy thousand dollars and were allocated eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy um is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens I have a question um so what happened in the decision of doing 11970 when their initial was seventy thousand chair Owen what a phenomenal question
That I will yield the floor to Treasurer Wing to answer for you Treasurer wing hi again I love being able to talk so um Chef as it’s more commonly known uh wanted 70 000 uh for conferences for about to take about 30-ish people okay 30-ish people um and realistically with our budget we
Would not be able to cover those conference costs but we wanted to cover us um many dollars as we could to this organization um this allocated amount would enable this organization to continue to Advocate and support um the increasing Hispanic demographic on campus especially because we want to be a Hispanic leading Institute
Do we make a motion or was that just a question they’re emotion on the floor chairperson Owens I motion to approve the 11 970 using unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 56 Sigma gamma rho sorority requested thirteen thousand dollars and was allocated
1470 is there a motion on the floor chairperson Thompson I move to allocate 1470 by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes point of information uh no no no you’re good um I wanted to ask uh someone who knew if we are
Allowed to go past 11 pm or if that is a hard deadline for this evening we are allowed to continue but you will have to extend time but we are allowed to continue we have gotten permission from the building then I move to extend the time of adjournment to 11 30 P.M
Is there a second okay so that would require two-thirds so the voting period is now open it is open with 23 in favor through against your exemptions the motion passes line item 57 Sigma Lambda beta International Fraternity Incorporated requested four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and was allocated 500. Senator Bobbitt
I moved to allocate 500 through unanimous consent are there any objections okay that’s two we would need a second on that motion is there a second we’re going to open the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation chairperson hands
Um I’d like to speak in negation of this allocation as Wichita State moves to becoming a Hispanic serving institution seeing that um Sigma Lambda beta and natural Fraternity Incorporated is the only um technically Hispanic interest fraternity on the campus and 500 is not operable especially compared to the amount that they requested
To give them 500 is simply a slap in the face it’s completely ridiculous um so yeah um chairperson Jones with how much the betas do for this campus you will always see one of them out here in letters so to give them five hundred dollars it’s like Senator oh
Chairperson Haynes said it’s literally a slap in the face and considering the things that they do for the greater Wichita Community especially with the youth yeah is there anyone else um chairperson Owens I have a question what went into the y’all didn’t receive that what went into the 500 allocation
What a phenomenal question that I will also once again yield to floor to treasure Wang to answer treasure wing we’re just great with the questions okay so when we were looking at Sigma Lambda beta um we saw that their safe hold safe keeping Holdings at that time were 4 826.25
Um in addition to this the organization um makes an additional estimated amount of 2 800 in fundraising every year the commission sought to ensure that the organization’s major events dream run was adequately funded so that they can still keep this event going on campus as we know that this is a very important
Event that they run and the difference could come out of safe keeping or profit accrue from fundraising thank you is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation seeing none we will open oh sorry Senator Brown um I was just going to say I agree with
Um both of the Senators AJ’s um I just think giving them 500 is not enough but I just think giving them 500 is not enough money um I will be honest you will always see this like for turning it all across campus they are always doing
Stuff um you’ll see them in RSC 24 7. um and they’re just constantly doing things for the Youth and for other people so I just think 500 is not enough for them chairperson hands can I would this be the period for me to make um an amendment to the lineup okay
Um I move to allocates 1100 um by taking 350 from Formula SAE and 250 from Baja is a yeah oh um I’m moved to allocate 1100 by taking 350 from Formula SAE and 250 from Baja SAE is there a second okay we will now move into the debate period on that is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation
Of this amendment Senator fan I would speak indication of it you guys already know how I feel about taking money from some of the engineering groups I won’t prolong the debate anymore is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of the amendment
Senator Mayu I will also be speaking in negation is there anyone else Senator Bobbitt add me to the list the negation please is there anyone else okay so we will now open the voting period you are voting to amend the bill to allocate eleven hundred dollars from
Formula and Baja SAE to Sigma Lambda beta Devon and period now open click and I’m waiting on a few with nine in favor 15 against into abstentions the motion fails so we are back at the original motion which was to allocate five hundred dollars is there anyone who’d like to speak in
Affirmation or negation seeing none we will move into the voting period it’s now open with 16 in favor eight against two abstentions the motion passes eight Sigma size Zeta requested seventeen thousand dollars and was allocated 1970 is there a motion on the floor Senator Peng I moved to allocate the
1970 by unimus consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes line item 59 Sigma Tau Delta Alpha Theta Omicron requested three thousand dollars and was allocated seven hundred dollars is there a motion on the floor Senator Bobbitt I moved to allocate 700 by unanimous consent are there any objections
Seeing none the motion passes line item 60 Society of cosplayers requested six thousand and fifty three dollars and ninety nine cents and they were allocated 1470 dollars do I have a motion on the floor chairperson Owens motion to approve the one thousand four hundred seventy dollars it’s like on the line chill out
Um are there any objections seeing none the motion passes 61 Student Association for Supply Chain management requested ten thousand dollars and was allocated 1970 is their emotion on the floor Senator fan I moved to LK one thousand nine hundred seventy dollars and he named his consent are there any objections
Seeing none the motion passes item 62 Student Association of business analytics requested one thousand three hundred dollars and was allocated 550 is their emotion on the floor seeing none I moved to approve 550 dollars by unanimous consent is there any objection seeing none of the motion passes item 63 student organization of Social
Work requested three thousand five hundred dollars and was allocated 900 is their emotion on the floor see none I moved to approve nine hundred dollars by unanimous consent are there any objections the motion passes item 64 Tau beta Pi requested two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and forty four cents and was
Allocated eight hundred dollars is there a motion on the floor seeing none I move to approve eight hundred dollars by unanimous consent do I have any objections okay the motion passes item 65 Tai Lao and Cambodian Association requested two thousand five hundred dollars and was allocated 800.
Do I have a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to LK 800 of unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item 66 oh I am so sorry so we’d need a second on that motion is there a second we’re going to open the floor for debate
Is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of giving them 800. chairperson hands yeah um since I can make a motion I guess I moved to well I moved to amend the line item to a thousand dollars and 200 well uh let’s see 200 comes from sorry
100 from each uh Baja essay in Formula SAE is there a second on that motion see oh okay there is so now we will move into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of this motion Senator Mayu first could you
Remember is that you wanted to reduce the formula cars by from each each of the hundred from Baja and 100 from formula all right thank you Mr chairperson Haynes okay um I’d like to speak on the amendment that I made um I chose to do the 200 to give them
And even that was in um because this group does a lot of um programming throughout the year for Taylor and Cambodian students on this campus um and I don’t think it’s fair that they got the 800 it’s simply something not okay um yeah that’s all chairperson Owens foreign what a phenomenal question
I’m assuming you’re asking how did this happen I’m happy to yield the four to Treasurer Wang to answer that question for you Treasurer Wang so let me go back um the safekeeping Holdings at the time were 1706.77 however they were aware of this amount before they requested the 2500
You can see it in their presentation that they were aware of this Mount at the time of deliberations this allocation would cover their General meetings programming events um just to get them started but they were aware of the 1706 77 cents before they requested the 2500. Senator mallard
I will be speaking in negation I understand the want to increase that up to a thousand but also taking a hundred from Baja and formula it might seem like a small amount but you are still taking funding from these other orgs that we’ve also already approved and I understand
That we can still do this but they still need that money because again it’s thirteen thousand dollars roughly for them to even just go to the event but if they don’t even have the possibility to do anything that’s building a car they physically can’t go to these events
Because again also they can’t reuse cars because that’s against the rules chairperson hands um I’d just like to say that all these organizations are here because they need money so using the logic that they need money um doesn’t shift the needle in the slightest and also uh a hundred dollars per group looks
Very different a hundred dollars for some of these things doesn’t even cover a car part but two hundred dollars for Taylor and Cambodian association means that maybe they can put some more into one of their programs maybe they can put some more into you know an event right big events for
The for their um the students that they serve so just think about what these different amounts of money can do for these organizations Senator hatch I understand uh speaking in negation I understand that all of these organizations are here to get money from us but certain organizations have higher floors for operation
And if these if this organization really needs that much more like only 200 more dollars can they not get it from the uh additional organization application that can give up to three thousand dollars sorry Senator Mayu all right can I make a friendly Amendment yeah okay going to I’m going to amend
That we reduce Baja by two hundred dollars hold on one second sorry there’s already a secondary motion on it you can’t add a third of dairy motion on it so okay not a third area uh it’s apparently something different I know right thank you so technically you can’t sorry
So this amendment would have to fail or be retracted for you to be able to make a different one Senator Mayu okay otherwise I will clarify my point on why I was wanting to do that So currently the way it sits if we were going to reduce
Just say Baja by 200 like I was suggesting they’d be down to eleven hundred dollars for their food budget which would be 55 dollars per person for both of their trips which they plan to take 10 people on whereas Formula SAE is planning to take 19 people for I assume
Two trips which will equal 38 people and that’s going to be roughly 45 dollars per person so we’re aware is there anyone else who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of the adding two hundred dollars to their budget seeing none we are going to open the floor for voting
It is now open uh Madam speaker can I share something really fast while The vote’s Happening yes uh the treasurer wants me to remind you all that as a reminder organization funding only has ten thousand dollars in it so do not assume that it had lots of money that there’s just ten thousand
Dollars for the whole year I’m weighing on a few with 10 in favor 14 against one abstention the motion fails so we are back on the floor debating if we want to approve 800 is there anyone who’d like to make a motion Senator Mayu I motion to accept the 800 as it stands
Is there okay so there’s so fan made the motion for 800 so that’s already sitting there so is there a second so sorry you’re just going to now to the vote or back to debate on the 800 unless someone has another secondary motion to make is there anyone who’d like to speak in
Affirmation or negation seeing none we’re going to move into the voting period it is now open with 23 in favor one against two abstentions the motion passes foreign 66 the mission requested sixty eight hundred dollars and was allocated two thousand four hundred and seventy is their emotion on the floor centered fan
I’m in town 18 470 my unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item 67 Turning Point USA at Wichita State University requested five thousand dollars and was allocated 1070 is there a motion on the floor Senator fan I moved to allocate one thousand seventy dollars my universe consent
Are there any or you said unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item 68 the Vietnamese Student Association requested three thousand dollars and was allocated 500 is their emotion on the floor Senator Peng I have a lovely question for my favorite treasurer of all why the 500. what a
Great question Treasurer Wang hello okay so the safekeeping Holdings at the time were 2543 and three cents at the time of deliberations for this organization this organization also has a growing active membership base and that allocated amount reflected a growing desire to continue to support this organization with a financial constraints preventing additional
Funding for this group is there anyone else who’d like to speak and debate my mind just like completely shut off for a second we’re gonna move into the voting period it is now open you have to make a motion never mind got ahead of yourself Senator arms
I moved to adopt the 500 with Union on Wisconsin are there any objections Senator fan so you need a second on the motion are there any seconds okay so now we’re going to move into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation of five hundred dollars
Seeing then we’ll open the floor for voting now now put 25 in favor zero against two abstentions the motion passes item 69 Wichita Linux users group requested eight thousand four hundred and thirty two dollars and was allocated 3470 as their emotion on the floor Senator fan I moved to allocate three thousand four
Hundred seventy dollars with unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes items item 70 Wichita State counseling Student Association requested 7997.90 and was allocated 1470 is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens a motion to approve um the 1470 with unanimous consent are there any objections
Saying none the motion passes item 71 Wichita State University Asta requested five thousand two hundred and thirty five dollars and was allocated nine hundred and seventy dollars is there a motion on the floor chairperson Owens I have a question um so why the 970 dollars phenomenal question I will yield the
Floor to Treasurer Wang okay so the finance commission approved the 970 dollars uh mainly because at this point there is no funding left um and also the we but we still wanted to support them as much as possible so this would help coverage some of their major convention plans that they had as
Well as potential uh expenses for t-shirts and other organizational expenses I am still looking for emotion Senator Bobbitt I moved to allocate 970 dollars by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item 72 Wichita State College Democrats requested four thousand dollars and was
Allocated 1070 as their emotion on the floor Senator fan I moved to LK 1070 to find your name is consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes 73 Wichita State physician assistant student Society requested four thousand dollars and was allocated 1470 is their emotion on the floor Senator Sanders
A move to approve the 1470 by unanimous consent are there any objections seeing none the motion passes item 74 Zeta 5 beta requested three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars and was allocated 800. Senator Bobbitt I move to allocate zero dollars with uh 700 going to formula and 100 going to
Baja there’s only one individual in this organization and the money could be better spent elsewhere is there a second okay we’re going to go into the debate period is there anyone who’d like to speak in affirmation or negation Senator Brown I would like to speak in negation is that correct okay
Um I just feel like that is very unfair um to give um that sorority um zero dollars even though I feel like we should not be looking at the fact that it’s only one member um because that organization is going to grow and that organization has
Done a lot for the community aspect so just giving them zero dollars is just like saying like we don’t like I want to say like a bad word but I can’t it’s just saying like we do not care about them at all and it is like I think it is like
So disgusting for somebody to say like let’s give this organization zero dollars because they have one person and I yeah so thank you I’m Senator Menzies um I’m I don’t want to take a spot but just to give context I was informed that this uh is it a sorority or fraternity
I’m so sorry sorority does the recruitment in the spring semester which and they just had a bunch of members graduate out which might be the reason why they are currently having one member but depleting their budget completely would pretty much ruin their chances of getting any new members in the spring semester
Senator fan I would actually agree with Sarah Brown that we should not allocate zero dollars to them even though formula and Mahal got less money from other things I don’t think we should deprive this organization of receiving um funding in its entirely entirely Senator Webb I would like to make a substitute
Amendment to allocate them the full 800. thank you is there a second okay so now we will open the floor for debate is there anyone who’d like to speak an affirmation or negation of that motion or chairperson Thompson yeah I think it’s fair to give this organization 800 to work with for the
School year um with the motion before the amendment I I think it’s offensive in and of itself that it was an offered to give back to ba and formula given the debate throughout the night Senator Albury yeah we’re at the end uh I think I just
Want to say as we wrap up this debate that um I think we have a lot of food for thought and a lot of things to think about in this chamber nothing about this entire budget was fair nothing about it was Equitable and I think all of us as senators in this body
Um not tonight don’t go back tonight and think about this budget probably please don’t even dream about this budget I want you all to get a good night’s sleep but I think after tonight tomorrow at some point this week I think we really need to think about what transpired over
These last couple of weeks we really need to seriously do that right because um as and I will Echo the sentiments of uh Fonseca that this process is not sustainable it just can’t it just doesn’t work right taking from Peter to pay Paul I will continue to say that
When Paul is already eating bones um when Peter is already eating bones off the table it’s just not a sustainable way to do this budget right so I want you all to please after tonight go back and really think about what we did here and uh get to
Know some of these student organizations right we are making decisions on student groups that we know nothing about which is also to me completely ludicrous right I just needed to say that as we wrap up this debate is there anyone else who’d like to speak in debate
We’re going to open the voting period just to clarify we’re voting on the amendment to add eight hundred dollars following period is now open yeah sorry that was confusing the original motion was to add zero dollars so we’re going to add the 800 back to the budget so just voting for the amendment
Sorry I forgot the button um so with 24 in favor two against and two abstentions the motion passes no no we’re about to do it again so now we are going to move into sir I just cut you off we’re going to move into debate for the appropriation of eight hundred
Dollars so vote again or Sorry God sorry is there anyone who’d like to speak and debate seeing none we’re gonna move into the voting period it is now open you all got in and quick on that one it’s crazy with 23 in favor two against three abstentions to motion passes
You guys are absolute Superstars I joined this meeting sorry can you repeat that 20 23-3 I have something to say really fast so um before we are done which I know we’re almost we’re all there yet or there now um I think a couple things one uh just
Because this part is done now the student body president gets to take over and decide um moving these forward so as you as a remember as a reminder you have 74 different acts now and so it will take us a second to make 74 different bills and then present those uh to the
President to review um when that process is done I mean this is primarily for organizations that I’ve tried to make uh they’re if they’re paying attention but we will also share messaging out just for all of you to be aware it does take a second for the money to transfer into the organizations
But we will work on some internal things to kind of still allow those processes to continue um additionally I do want to thank uh our Treasurer um and the finance commission for all of your work and say thank you all of you I know with a long night but great work and now
Hopefully we will move forward and address some of these things that we have that we have talked about and to be able to go from there and I see you David and then last thing let’s give our RSC friends a round of applause for their time here
All right looks like David has something to share so I will give some time to him and then we will proceed cool thank you I actually get a talk here without saying test test so um the building is closed so I have taken responsibility for all of you you’re welcome
Um I may regret that later I have a very special request after you leave here please do not take off and wander the building um please exit through either the east or south because I have to rewalk the entire building after you’re gone to make sure that you’re gone
So if you can help me out and at least limit traffic to that direction so I don’t have to cover this direction that would be great okay you can hang out outside all you want it is 71 degrees we have a super moon go enjoy it okay
Adjourn I adjourn this meeting at 11 24 pm the senate senate leadership can y’all help out with the placards please I’ll be a godsend thank you so much for your service have it come inside in words yes in words
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