Student Association votes to increase Student Legal Services oversight
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Student Association Comptroller Cierra Britton reviews the organization's expected finances for the next academic year during SA's regular Monday night meeting.
The Student Association assembly on Monday voted to require the Judicial Review Board chair to meet with Student Legal Services every month and change the process for electing the parliamentarian.
The bill passed Monday in regard to JRB aims to make sure SA is keeping track of SLS actions.
The second assembly bill passed will change the way the organization’s parliamentarian is elected. Currently, any member of the assembly can run to be parliamentarian without a previous interview.
Now, candidates must fill out an application and be interviewed separately by the president, vice president, board of elections and membership chair and the current parliamentarian. The candidates will then go to the assembly for election.
A third proposed bill, which was eventually tabled Monday night, would have allowed SA to use rollover money before the academic year is completed. Rollover money is funds that weren’t allocated to a student organization and left over at the end of the year.
If the bill were passed, student organizations could use that leftover money, needed. To decide where to delegate rollover money, SA must have a two-thirds vote.
SA also went into executive session for an hour. President James Franco and Vice President Angie Pati declined to comment on what was discussed during executive session, but said that the information will be public in a few weeks.
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John Jankovic, an SA presidential candidate and the organization’s current historian, proposed SA create a time capsule to commemorate the year. The time capsule would include all the initiatives from 2017-18 and would be opened in 20 years.
Alexandra Dimitri, the organization’s public relations chair, proposed making an eBook because it would be environmentally friendly. Others felt that adding initiatives from other student organizations would be beneficial in the time capsule.
SA will be sending out a survey to the whole student body in coming weeks to get feedback on next year’s focus areas. Students who participate in the survey will receive a $5 Uber credit.
Published on April 10, 2018 at 1:56 am
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