Student Assembly Finance Commission
November 5th, 2007
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

Ali Baig, Samuel Bendix, Adam Castle , John Castle, Luke Chernosky, Adam Dix, Kelsey Donahue, Maddie Ehrlich, Elyse Feldman, Danielle Fernandes, Jennifer Hsu, Michael McCormack, Yuliya Neverova, Jonathan Raymond, Scott Rog, Alex Saltman, Benjamin Schreff, Eric Schulman, Arthi Sridhana, Stephanie Wickham, Huiling Yu, Taylor Mulherin, David Chu, Celeste Chung, Lauren Nicola, Cesar Rufo, Chris Hilbert

III. Business of the Day

Executive Board elections/Attendance Issue

L. Chernosky started out the meeting by announcing that today is the E-board Election Day. Before the elections began, Mr. Chernosky announced that the Cornell Philipino Association club is giving two tickets to the SAFC for their November 11th cultural Fiesta show. Mr. Chernosky then moved on to elections.

M. Ehrlich briefly went over the process of the elections. She said that the SAFC would go through each of the positions in order (Co-Chair, VP of Internal Relations, VP of External Relations, and VP of Public Relations). She added that first there would be a call for nominations, and then the person nominated could accept or reject the nominations. After all of the nominations, she said that each person would get five minutes to give a speech, followed by a quick question and answer session, followed by the next candidate. At the end of all of the candidates, she added, there would be a discussion of all of the candidates, followed lastly by voting.

L. Chernosky asked if everyone was clear and the rules and they were.

Co-Chair

Jack Castle
Taylor Mulherin

-Jack Castle started by giving a brief speech, followed by a very quick question and answer period. He then stepped out into the hall.

-Taylor Mulherin then started out by also giving a brief speech, followed by a very quick question and answer period. He, also, stepped out into the hall.

-discussion ensued, followed by voting.

VOTES: Jack Castle — 26; Taylor Mulherin — 26 � Both become the new Co-Chairs

VP of Internal Relations

Jonathan Raymond

-Jonathan Raymond started by giving a brief speech, followed by a very quick question and answer period. He then stepped out into the hall.

-discussion ensued, followed by voting.

VOTES: Jonathan Raymond — 27 � Jonathan Raymond is the new VP of Internal Relations

VP of External Relations

Danielle Fernandes

-Danielle Fernandes started by giving a brief speech, followed by a very quick question and answer period. She then stepped out into the hall.

-discussion ensued, followed by voting.

VOTES: Danielle Fernandes — 27 � Danielle Fernandes is the new VP of External Relations

VP of Public Relations

Elyse Feldman
David Chu

-David Chu started by giving a brief speech, followed by a very quick question and answer period. He then stepped out into the hall.

-Elyse Feldman then started out by also giving a brief speech, followed by a very quick question and answer period. She, also, stepped out into the hall.

-discussion ensued, followed by voting.

VOTES: Elyse Feldman — 24; David Chu — 3 � Elyse Feldman is the new VP of Public Relations

L. Chernosky thanked everyone for the very quick process and said that there was one more matter of business to attend to. He said that another commissioner has violated the attendance policy (Alex Saltman) and must be brought up for discussion and voting.

A. Saltman said that she had missed a couple of budget hearings for religious reasons. She said that she is the President of two other groups, which is why she has been so busy. She added that she has discussed her absences with the E-board already. She also added that she has been on the commission since sophomore year and that all of her other activities are beginning to wind down so she will be attending meeting more frequently. Lastly, she added that she is a senior and asked if anyone had any questions for her.

-Ms. Saltman then stepped out into the hall during the very brief discussion.

VOTES: Yes to stay on — 27; No to remove — 0; � Alex Saltman will stay on the commission.

L. Chernosky thanked everyone for being at the meeting, congratulated the new E-board, and asked the new E-board to stay after the meeting.

IV. Meeting ended at 5:45 pm.

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