Student Assembly Finance Commission
February 6th, 2006
5:00 p.m. — 6:00 p.m.
163 Day Hall

I. Call to Order

The Meeting was called to order at 5:00 p.m.

II. Roll Call

Commissioners

Samuel Bendix, Adam Castle, Jeffrey Cohan, Liz Falcone, Erica Fischer, Sorby Grant, Jennifer Hsu, Brittni Levinson, Kim Lewis, Scottie McQuilkin, Kate Miller, Samuel Miller-Little, Nadia Ormsby, Spencer Pepper, Eric Schulman, Evan Walker, Marissa Wilson, Soyeon-Yu, Joey Zielinski, Luke Chernosky, Mary DePalma, Alex Saltman

III. Business of the Day

Brief Updates

S. Pepper said that the commission would be playing a game to try and get to know each other better. The game involved saying your name, then something about you, then whatever the person before you said about themselves.

-Game goes around entire commission

J. Zielinski said that the help sessions were very useful for the groups and he thanked the commissioners for going. He then passed around a sign-up sheet for the budget hearings and said that that Friday night the hearings would end early. He also passed around a Wegmans box lunch sign up sheet.

E. Fischer wanted to go over some of the small things that the SAFC does not fund. She said yes the SAFC funds shipping on handling, no on tax, the SAFC will still fund a group even if they do not have a Willard Straight Mail Box, the SAFC will only fund for the mileage for speakers and not the cars they used to come up to Cornell, the SAFC will fund the number of players club sport teams needs at competitions, and the SAFC will not fund for events planned over Spring Break unless the date of the events are out of that groups control.

M. Wilson said that it was not a problem if any commissioners asked dumb questions at the hearing as it will be much easier in the end if they ask instead of just go ahead.

J. Zielinski reiterated that commissioners should ask questions and added that commissioners should excuse themselves if they ever have a conflict of interest with groups that come in.

E. Schulman asked that all the commissioners who have not sent him an email about their liaison group, do so.

S. Pepper briefly explained the attendance policy. He said that commissioners are allowed three unexcused, or five excused and then they are brought in front of the commission.

S. McQuilkin said that any attendance issues will be brought up after budget hearings. She also added that for Resolution 7 (duplicate groups) there will be an online reporting form that people can use. She said that anyone on campus can go on the website and use that form. Those groups, she said, will be brought in front of the SA, not the SAFC. Lastly, she said that online submissions had passed so if any groups had problems/questions they should email the SAFC directly.

IV. Meeting ended at 5:30 pm.

Respectfully Submitted,
Daniel Kantor
SAFC Clerk, Office of the Assemblies