A. Lit Review Presentation
a. Durga: This is a campaign to get people to submit to the Lit Review with bringing back the annual “friends reading friends” event. The budget is to get some refreshments so we can get a bit more of a draw.
b. Hayleigh: I’m going to open up a call list
c. Kara: Why don’t you have to have it catered through Flik?
d. Durga: I don’t know, actually. But we’ve never catered from them before.
B. Swing Dance Club Presentation: Naomi Murphy
a. Naomi: We have a swing dance club and we want an instructor. He charges $100/lesson
b. Lindsey: Have you hired this instructor before? And what was the turnout
c. Naomi: Yes, he came last week. There were 15-20 people who came.
d. Kara: So this is a flat fee?
e. Naomi: Yes, there is no cap on the class
f. Kara: Have you considered talking to the gym about having this as a possible PE credit
g. Naomi: No
C. Environmental Studies Presentation: Ben O’Clair
a. Ben: We want to bring Dan Hoyle to perform a one-man show. He was a Fulbright scholar who went to Nigeria and the end result of spending a year there was his show. The proposal is last-minute but we only just found out he’s coming to the east coast.
b. Elizabeth: So you said the theater program is giving $500. So you’re asking us for $1000?
c. Ben: Well he agreed to come here for $1500 but we were hoping to cover his airfare
d. Maddie: So ballpark figure, how much would that be?
e. Ben: About $300
D. Science is Fun! Presentation
a. Jasmine: So this budget is for our first meeting. And our sponsor suggested the idea of making our own ice cream. So these are all the ingredients plus a few toppings.
b. Elizabeth: How many people do you had in your club?
c. Jasmine: We don’t have an actual list yet but we were going to make a facebook group.
d. Maddie: Would Scott Calvin be attending the meeting as a supervisor?
e. Jasmine: yes
2. Presentation Deliberations
A. Lit Review Deliberatino
a. Elizabeth: I think this is reasonable. I think we should fund in full
b. Lily: I motion to fund in full. Seconded. No Objections.
c. Hayleigh: Raise your hand if you are in favor of this motion
B. Swing Dance Club Deliberation
a. Pam: I think this is reasonable
b. Elizabeth: I agree, however I feel we’ve contradicted ourselves since we did not fund for the gospel choir and we did fund the sign language club. So I think we contradicted ourselves on some grounds.
c. Eliot: I think her estimate of 15-20 people is a little small. It was more like 20-30 people. With the gospel choir, though, he’d been doing it for free for a while. IF I remember correctly.
d. Naomi: he said his general rate for a group lesson is $100. He’s not requesting for transportation.
e. Maddie: I agree with Elizabeth that we’ve be inconsistent
f. Lily: I think it’s a good thing but we should be cautious about how many teachers we fund and for what amount of money. We can’t afford to fund every club a teacher. So I feel conflicted.
g. Durga: I motion to fund in full. Seconded. Objection.
h. Hayleigh: We’re going to continue the discussion
i. Lily: I understand what you’re saying but I feel like this could be a PE class or some student here could teach it.
j. Naomi: I asked the PE department and students who were dance thirds so I did some research.
k. Kara: I just want to remind everyone that we don’t pay students to teach and I doubt we could find anyone who would volunteer.
l. Elizabeth: I call the question
m. Maddie: The question has been called. If you want to end discussion, raise your hand <3 yes 1 no> I get to vote. I vote to discontinue
n. Hayleigh: All those who want to vote on voting, raise your hand <3 yes> those who want to discuss more < 4 no>
o. Eliot: We did not fund the Baby Burlesque troop because they wanted to go off campus but we said we’d encourage them to do it off campus.
Durga: There are 30 people who are interested and if we don’t have this class then people won’t be able to dance.
q. Lily: I want this to happen, I just think we need to look at it in a more broad spectrum
r. Elizabeth: If we funded this and the club was aware that SAS was spending $700 then there would be a diligent effort for people to attend
s. Durga: It’s a lot to ask a student to ask to do something pro-bono. And I think it’s weird that we’re talking about a particular student. I think it’s up to us to fund this.
t. Maddie: I think it’s a great opportunity. I think the inconsistency is problematic and something we need to continue to evaluate. I’m going to motion to fund $699. Seconded. No Objections.
u. Hayleigh: I’m going to take a vote. All those in favor raise your hand <5 yes 1 abstention>. Passes. So we are funding $699 to the Swing Club.
C. Environmental Studies Deliberation
a. Elizabeth: I think it’s shitty that the other school won’t pay for the airfare if he comes here
b. Kara: If there is anything in the Environmental Studies Budget I’m guessing we could scrape the bottom of the barrel for the $300.
c. Elizabeth: People can also have bake sales
d. Durga: Could we propose that Warren Green to raise money
e. Hayleigh: It’s not their responsibility
f. Maddie: It’s a really interesting proposal and it sounds like it would be really well-attended.
g. Josh: Recently, it’s come up about faculty bringing things to students to present for funding is a little shady and should be taken into consideration. It’s pretty easy to figure out if a student is or is not involved in the cause.
h. Lily: I agree. Also, it’s important to think about what Maddie said . It’s relevant and I think it would be a good idea to fund this event. Is there any money anywhere else?
i. Kara: Josh, do you know what budget departments have what money? Because we have no sense of what those budgets look like.
j. Maddie: if whoever is running the event wanted to ask Warren Green for their cooperation in fund raising, they would do it.
k. Elizabeth: I motion to fund $1000. Seconded. No objections
l. Hayleigh: All those in favor, raise your hand.
D. Science is Fun! Deliberation
a. Elizabeth: I think it’s great. I motion to fund in full. Seconded. No objections.
b. Hayleigh: So we’re going to take a roll-call vote
Adjourned. 6:30