Student Assembly Finance Commission
April 12, 2010
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

Anna Connors, Emlyn Diakow, Charlie Feng, Danielle Fernandes, Jacob Frank, Dan Gusz, George Kang, Charles Kim, Rahul Kishore, Lawrence Kogos, Chris Lee, Jason Marder, Justin Min, Yuliya Neverova, Joseph Nocciolino, Vivien Pillet, Robin Shapiro, David Wong

III. Business of the Day

Clarification of SA proposals/ Interviews/ Nominations for co-chair

D. Gusz discussed the new proposals concerning publication funding for new groups, as well as allowing groups who did not receive any funding to apply for special projects.

C. Feng expressed concern that the conditions of special projects were not clear to the commissioners in last week’s meeting. He said that there will be a voteto make sure that the changes had the commissioner’s support.

J. Frank said that he did not agree with the change. He felt that this added leniency would give poor incentives for people to read the guidelines and fill out the application correctly, especially if groups did not require much funding, or only needed funding for one category. He added that this penalizes groups who put a lot of effort into their applications.

B. Schreff agreed. He thought that this rule would penalize groups who put a lot of effort into their application and are serious about the budget process.

E. Diakow said that the special projects funding application will not be easier any for groups.

J. Min disagreed. He said that this rule would help groups that have new treasurers or presidents that do not know how the budget system works, and thus fill out the application incorrectly or miss the deadline. He did not think this was fair for the entire group to risk becoming non-existent due because of these types of errors.

R. Desai asked how this change in special projects will effect caps.

D. Gusz said that under 10% of total funds is used for special projects. He added that increasing the percentage to about 15% would not lower the caps too much.

The commission voted, and an overwhelming majority passed the proposal.

After briefly discussing the submitted applications and the interviews next weekend, C. Feng asked if there were any nominations for co-chair.

E. Diakow, J. Min, and L. Rosenblum were all nominated for co-chair.

IV. Meeting was adjourned at 5:20 pm.

Respectfully Submitted,
Valerie Pocus
SAFC Clerk, Office of the Assemblies