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Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pm

I. Call to Order and Attendance1. Meeting called to order at 6:05

II. Officer Reports

1. Tyler Childress, Chairpersona. Tyler Childress: We have finished up all of the hearings for all of the

boards. As you can see line item is number 9 on the agenda. I want to thank the Fee Committee for going to these hearings. I want to remind everyone that the next cycle is the last cycle. The last date for funding will be announces soon as well.

2. Mady Womack, Vice Chairpersona. Mady Womack: Hey everyone if your not getting the emails let me

know. Also there are some agendas up here3. Madeline Sniezek and Allyssa Castilleja, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer

a. Madeline Sniezek: Tonight we have $6,000 going through tonight. So $25,000 for the last cycle. The deadline is the Friday before spring break. The last day to spend your money will probably be April 9th.

b. Allyssa Castilleja: The last MEF will be this Friday so get that turned in. In MEF we funded two groups last time.

c. Omar Rana: Here is a quick announcement. There is a protest going on and a student has been banned from a building, which is a problem.

4. Dylan Jones, Finance Committee Associate Senatora. Dylan Jones: Last week in full senate we passed some bills that we

passed through finance. However, the student fees bill met some opposition and was condemned by the Vice President of Student Senate. I hope tonight we engage in meaningful discussion to address their concerns.

5. Johnny Wang, Multicultural Education Fund (MEF) Representativea. Excused Absence

III. Consent Agenda1. 2016–144: A Bill to Fund Amnesty International KU2. 2016–147: A Bill to Fund Gaming Community, KU3. 2016–148: A Bill to Fund Non–Traditionals in Law Association (NILA)4. 2016–153: A Bill to Fund Breathe Easy at KU (B.E.A.K.)5. 2016–157: A Bill to Fund the KU BSW Student Group

a. Madeline Sniezek: Motion to table bill 2016-152 due to not having forms turned in

1. Motion passes

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Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pmb. Taylor Zabel: Motion to call to question on the consent agenda

1. Consent agenda passesc. Nick Steiner: Motion to move bill 2016-150 to the top of the agendad. Omar Rana: Hey everyone this group is asking for %20 to fund a

keynote speaker for a women who speaks on mental illness. The VP of Active Minds was not able to make it tonight but I am able to talk about it as I helped write it

1. Allyssa Castilleja: Will you friendly the name of the speaker onto the bill

a. Omar Rana: Yese. Alex Dang: Motion to call to question on the bill

1. Bill passes

IV. Regular Agenda

1. 2016–130: A Bill to Fund Style on the Hill (postponed from Cycle 10)a. Hello we are asking for money to fund an event on campus. We are

hoping to bring the issue to print so this can expand and make our presence known

b. Taylor: When are you planning to have this printed1. April 11 or 12 to be sent to printing and printed during stop

weekc. Taylor: Have you sold the advertising amounts yet

1. Not yet but we will hopefully have it by the printingd. Brittney: How many are you printing and how to circulate them

1. 2000 copies and distribute them around campuse. Nitin Kanukolanu:

1. Yes but not when I was here.f. Madeline: Distributed during stop week or stop day

1. Stop weekg. Madeline: Are you concerned that this might be too late since its being

printed during the time people are leaving1. Well it can easily be printed on a different day and also we

have a lot of places to distribute ith. Brett Wagner: How did you get the number 2000

1. That was the number from previous yearsi. Mady Womack: Move to call to question on the billj. Tymon Wall: Motion to move 2016-145 to the top of the agenda

1. Motion passes2. 2016–143: A Bill to Fund the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle KU Student

Organization Quad–Copter Project3. 2016–145: A Bill to Fund SPICMACAY at KU’s Event, Parampara Concert


Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pma. Member: Hey the goal of this group is to advocate for the awareness of

international culture. We will be hosting an event on April 27th. A few other band members will accompany our performer. We are asking for an honorarium to fund the band and the event if free. The event is also supposed to be educational. This event will be here is Alderson in the afternoon

b. Alex Dang: So you guys will be applying for MEF funding?1. Tymon Wall: We were not able to file beforehand and that is

my fault but we will be laterc. Alex Dang: how much will you be getting from them

1. The rest of the honorariumd. Tyler Childress: What did you hear from Adam because it has to go

through during the same cyclee. Alex Dang: Motion to table this bill until the next cycle

1. Bill tabledf. Taylor Zabel: Motion to move bill 2016-143 to above bill 2016-141

1. Motin passesg. Taylor Zabel: motion to move bill 2016-151 to the top of the agenda

1. Motion passes4. 2016–146: A Bill to Fund Persian Club Nowruz Presentation5. 2016–150: A Bill to Fund Active Minds KU

a. Already passed6. 2016–151: A Bill to Fund the Political Science Graduate Association

Honorariuma. Member: The PSGA is trying to become more active on campus through

social events and other events. There is a professor who we are trying to get to come speak here about job searches and other issues. He is very good at simplifying complex issues so that is one reason we want him to come. It will be on April 1st in Blake Hall

b. Alex Dang: How are you advertising for this event1. Member: Emailing and advertising in Blake Hall

c. Alex Dang: Who will it be sent to1. Member: We will send it to other departments as well.

d. Mady Womack: Motion to call to question on the bill1. Bill passes

e. Taylor Zabel: Move to table bills 2016-143 and 2016-1461. Bills tabled

7. 2016–152: A Bill to Fund Into the Streets Weeka. Tabled

8. 2016–141: A Bill to Implement the Campus Fee Review Subcommittee’s Recommendations for the 2017 Fiscal Year Required Campus Fees


Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pma. Tyler Childress: I spoke against this legislation in Senate. There is

disagreement over what actually transpired. Based on the question I posed would services cease to exist they said they would not but others disagree. This should be discussed I believe. Another fee that was brought up was the Student Senate Activity Fee. Some would like you to decrease fees since we have an opportunity to tonight. But anything can be brought up since we are discussing the whole bill

b. Allyssa Castilleja (negative speech): My speech is to bring down the UDK fee because they don’t need to spend so much on salaries and also on a advisor that is not necessary. I’m making an amendment to bring the funding down to a dollar

c. Tomas: Can you talk about the Fee Committee thought process?1. Allyssa Castilleja: Yes so they said it wasn’t necessary to fund

these people and that they would be just fined. Christina Ostmeyer: Elaborate on just fine

1. Yeah so they would still be able to function without thise. Cody Wood: So was the advisor a funded position

1. Allyssa: we did not fund this person it may have been a faculty member

f. Cody Wood: So will this money be used to pay this advisor1. Allyssa: Yes

g. UDK Presenters: We need a stronger foundation for the newspaper in the future. We need this because many of us are working multiple roles. Last year the fee was cut from $1 to $2. We had to eliminate 13 positions last year and they were significant positions. So we would like to hire 2 more reporters along with some other news gatherers. We have about 15 correspondents. We need people who are reliable for these positions. If Senate funds us we will use the amount to pay student workers and allow money left to hire another advisor. Im working 60 hours a week but we need someone else as well in order to maintain a high level of professionalism. We need to make sure we can maintain a strong foundation to make the Kansan more stable.

h. Taylor Zabel: You said you had to cut 13 positions last year. So I remember you were only allowed to increase student wages budget $3500.

1. I think the increase you were looking for was for advisors. This has been modified

i. Allyssa: Do you need this even though you only print twice a week1. Yes because we were losing money printing on those other

days and we wanted to look to maintaining the UDK for 112 more years. We need the people to keep reporting and we have people on the clock at all times and we are stretched thin.


Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pmj. Dylan Jones: What percent of revenue is from advertising

1. 95%k. Dylan Jones: What stops the Kansan from being fully funded by

advertising?1. It is a difficult environment. There is a trickle down effect when

budgets are cut. A majority of student papers are not fully funded by advertising

l. Tomas Green: I was curious about the 13 positions. So how many staffers do you have and to what extent are these people paid.

1. We did reduce our staff members. We have 28 who are paid. The highest paid salary is $10 an hour but some make $7.60. We cut these down last year and we decided we had to cut the 13 but don’t want to cut more

m. Brittney Oleniacz: Should you look to us for stability1. Yes we should you guys are very important and we look to you

to fund us. We have people working very hardn. Brittney Oleniacz: My concern is that this will happen every year. Have

you sought more stable funding from other bodies to create that stability?

1. We would like to talk to KU endowment and it would take probably at least three years to set up such an endowment

o. Christina Ostmeyer: What was the reasoning for cutting it down a dollar last year

1. I would say the main reasoning was the fact that we were going to be saving money for printing so we wouldn’t need the funding

p. Sophia Templin: What could be expected if the UDK is not funded for this dollar

1. A lot of talent we have would be gone. We don’t have a coach, which would be the full time advisor. We need that for stability. We also need more web impressions. We also need more reporters.

q. Brent Lee: How did the fee cut influence your coverage of Student Senate differently last year if it did

1. So I was here during the cut last year. We always have a Student Senate story in the paper. I don’t think the quality of our coverage has diminished.

r. Javier Lara: So going back to wages you guys said your pay from 7 to 10 dollars, how many hours do they work a week and how many weeks total



1. Editors work between 15 to 20 and everyone else 15 and under depending on the level of reporter and its 16 weeks a semester

s. Brittney Oleniacz: I remember from the readership presentation that there is an app being created and asked the UDK wanted to go in on this app. Why did you not pursue this app

1. So I spoke to the USA Today rep and he said that if our stories were on that site we wouldn’t get the ad revenue possibly which is problematic

t. Dylan Jones: Have studetns talked to you about coverage of certain issues

1. If people reach out we do sou. Christina Ostmeyer: How many hours do you spend in the news room

versus the 15 you are paid for1. Any time between 9:30 and 5:00 we are there but we also

spend more time with it than just time in that room. It’s definitely in excess of 70.

v. Nitin Kanukolanu: Who runs your web site. Who hosts your sight1. We have a digital web editor. We use Town News. We pay them

monthly.w. Nitin Kanukolnau (Jack Stevens): Is the extra hosting time comparable

to two extra days of printing1. No

x. Taylor Zabel: So I have a budget for the fee. Where are cuts in student positions coming from? I don’t see it on here

1. We have different numbers than you apparently on our sheety. Brittney Oleniacz: I understand the hard work it takes to do this but

please explain why you need to employ 28 students to run the paper1. We have a lot of thing that are required to get a paper released

on time. Getting content ready is a crazy process it takes everyone we have. We are there all the time

z. Nitin Kanukolanu: How many of your volunteers are published in the paper and how often

1. We have 15 to 20 that are and that could be multiple articles per week

aa. Sophia Templin: In the past has the UDK received a subsidy to do with it what you want?

1. It has gone to different areas whether that be salaries or printing or other things. It can be allocated to wherever you want

bb. Sophia Templin: Could the money be used for things other than the advisor



1. Yescc. Brittney Oleniacz: Do you survey your readers?

1. Yes we do quite often. We will ask students what content they want and how we can advertise this content. We are writing a survey to survey not only students but alumni as well. We talk to them about our content and how to best reach people.

dd. Chance Maginness: Motion to limit speech times to 5 minutes1. Motion passes

ee. Tomas Green: Hello so I enjoy the UDK and think the work done is very admirable. This has nothing to do with content. I am trying to understand the full budget and there are some things going on that I don’t understand. So when this is happening I think we should go with the recommendation of the fee committee since they had the time to deliberate. The UDK raises some strong points but there are some things that do not line up. We have to practice prudence

ff. Brent Lee: Is the fee committee representative of the student body1. They have a holistic view of at least senate

gg. Sophia Templin: So they broke down their budget and so I’m wondering what you are unclear on

1. So since we are 5% and 13 jobs I’m just unclear on that and I was not of fee committee. How printing affects them.

hh. Tyler Childress: IS the Student Senate representative of the student body

1. In a way since senate is not then fee committee is not eitherii. Cody Wood: So why should we not try to be certain of the decision we

are making1. We are getting close to a vote and I need more time to review

the budget.jj. Cody Wood: So you say you want more time but you want to vote on

this so how does that follow1. I accept the opinion of the fee committee so I would default to

fee committeekk. Sophia Templin: So if you were given more time would you be able to

formulate an opinion1. Yes I would

ll. Brent Lee: What are your thoughts on abstaining1. My opinion is to default to the fee committee since they had the

full time to deliberate


Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pmmm. Sophia Templin (negative speech): I think the UDK should stay at $2.

The argument we should not fund the advisor is flawed because we have before. These people have come to us and said that they need these funds in order to have good content. We are students and we should understand where they are coming from. I think you are undervaluing the UDK. Ill differ the time of my speech to address Tomas’s questions. When I submitted the budget I kind of messed up and the budget is now different. Some money would go to staff positions allowing us to increase funding.

nn. Allyssa Castilleja: I was wondering if you’ve talked about having the UDK cut salaries to pay for the advisor like a lot of organizations on campus

1. We need the advisor more than we can explain. As far as students go they need an advisor. So we need an advisor when it comes to stories such as the story about the student who committed suicide last year because we do not know how to write those stories. My reporters are crucial and I need all of them. When they are al volunteers the coverage isn’t the same. Competition is a very big factor so people are less likely to take an unpaid position at the UDK versus other positions in the area. It isn’t possible for me to have another position due to the hours I put in.

oo. Brittney Oleniacz (positive speech): I am a member of the fee committee. A lot of tough calls had to be made. We need to bear in mind that increasing the fee package by 60 cents is not right. Any increase in the entire package is not setting a good image. I enjoy the UDK. However, I am cautious to increase to $2 and would like to maintain the fee recommendation. We cannot make our decision based on what we shake at the KU games. I have a lot of responsibility as a graduate student but I am still here in senate. Only the executive staff is getting paid and there are many others who are involved that are not getting paid.

pp. Brent Lee: Are there any other fees that you would consider cutting as well

1. Yes we need to look at ourselves the Senate Activity Fee.qq. Sophia Templin: How many hours do you dedicate to senate

1. I attend committees and write bills you can look at my recordrr. Sophia Templin: Do you spend 70 hours a week doing it

1. I don’t think so but it takes away from other activitiesss. Julisa: The previous speaker said that this was needed to be competitive

so I didn’t hear an answer to this1. Whether they’re paid or not its still a great experience


Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pmtt. Julisa: Do you work the UDK or volunteer

1. I’ve written an article for themuu. Cody Wood: Why do you think that this is work that does not merit

compensation1. I think that if we pay these students we should evaluate their

employment. If we paid every member of every organization then it would be impossible.

vv. Christina Ostmeyer (negative speech): I will say that I am a roommate of Emma. So I watch Emma come home at 2 and 3 am. She was working 50 hours a week and 70 hours a week with other jobs as well. She has so much passion for reporting. We try to be as bias as we can be but when we continually cut the paper it loses quality. We have one of the top 5 journalism schools in the country and we need this paper to make students want to come here. The UDK is here to serve as a platform for students wanting to perfect their craft. These students need the Kansan and we need it as well. Students need an advisor. All the editors are solely students. It was mentioned to me earlier today that KJHK has advisors and we raise their fee. Restore it and make sure that the Journalism school maintains its level of quality

ww. Madeline Sniezek: Do you know what the rate is compared to KJHK1. No but I can differ! Our average student stipend is around

$250. Our average student is making about 3 dollars an hour for 50 hours

xx. Brittney Oleniacz: You talked about the School of Journalism and how it would deter people from coming here. Do you think there should be more collaboration with the school

1. Yes so we do have a lot of collaboration with the UDK. However it is nothing compared to the real thing

yy. Brittney Oleniacz: You talk about the advisor and the stability it brings so should senate have an advisor?

1. Sorry I’m not really qualified to answer thatzz. Alex Dang: Motion to call to question on the amendment

1. The amendment passes 8-5-1aaa. Tomas Green: This is to raise the fee of Renewable energy and

Sustainability $0.25 to $0.75. Although I said we should maintain what fee says I disagree with them on this. We can do a lot to empower the student body. This group can see tangible results.

bbb. Alex Dang: What will be the loss if we do not raise this fee1. When it comes to our funding’s it wont necessarily be affected.

ccc. Nitin Kanukolanu: What resources do students have to reach out to you



1. So people all across campus are involved. We have been reaching out to students and professors as well

ddd. Nitin Kanukolanu: Any specific things1. This fee went to fund the water bottle filling stations

eee. Javier Lara: Is there any money in the reserve account1. Yes but it is dwindling

fff. Cody Wood: How much did all of these projects cost last year will that indicate the cots going forward

1. Last year there were not many proposals because not many knew about us. I can’t necessarily say dollar amounts

ggg. Alex Dang (Negative speech): I used to be on this board. Sitting on this board we did try to do great things but we were largely unsuccessful. When I was on the board no one came through. We never met. How it was in the past it seemed like a fund that just sat there.

hhh. Taylor Zabel: Move to call to question on the amendment1. Amendment passes 8-6-1

iii. Tyler Childress (negative speech): If Jameelah and everyone would like to come up. I will be making an amendment to add under the OMA fee a multicultural government fee of $2.00.

jjj. Kat Rainey: Hey everyone so there are questions as to whether or not student senate is representative of the student body. This is why we need this fee. We have had senators say they are supportive of the multicultural student government. This is a service that senate is not providing. Our opinions are not being vocalized. Retention is not being discussed and there are many other issues as well. Our focus is unrepresented students. Here is our budget. So the first portion of the $2.00 would go to paying the executive staff. There will be 8 positions. It will be a stipend and this would allow students to have an hourly job. It is $6000 a year per position. Next will go to speakers and events. Next is a multicultural student orientation. 80 students that went to an orientation like this had higher GPAs than those who didn’t. The next thing is office supplies and we were told we could go though Jayhawk Ink. We would also need clickers and other general supplies. And then we need advertising. And the final thing is miscellaneous. We are looking for housing. We are talking to the OMA currently. Possibly empty offices. The last part is allocated funds. We would want control of things centered around multiculturalism. Think of it as us taking it off of your hands. That would be our central focus. We would make sure groups know that MEF exists. So why is this important. There were a lot of questions about how this is segregation. This is about centering students that are generally not centered in organizations such as this. Studies have shown that these student do not do as well as traditional



students. We once asked for a diversity director and that was met with opposition. We hope you understand we need this

kkk. Chance Maginness: Does this organization already exist1. So we are registered as an organization. The OMA has been

very supportivelll. Chance Maginness: How do you intend to integrate this into the current

governance structure and how do you intend to roll over the other funding into this body

1. Not sure about the word integrate since they will be two separate bodies. We could work together on many senate issues. When you have seats on boards we would like seats as well

mmm. Alex Dang: So I was in another country last year and I’m wondering what this will look like if I am a student organization trying to function here.

1. It would depend on the organization. We are not touching your money. Multicultural groups would come to us

nnn. Alex Dang: How does your current definition of multiculturalism encompass the entire student body

1. The question is not what makes someone multicultural or what makes a group multicultural but rather around a government that centers around marginalized groups. We are talking about a government that focuses on these groups. Most governments are built on a majority rules and so many are left out. If you create a group that centers on this that is what the point of the government is.

ooo. Adam Moon: Why was this not seen in fee review1. Tyler: I was not aware of this until too late

ppp. Adam Moon: So knowing that with any fee there needs to be a purpose and has a trustee what about the fact that this legislation doesn’t change the internal rules of SSRR.

1. The trustee is the OMA and they have been vetted and that’s why we are putting them there. One thing I want to add is that this is not here to destroy senate. This group believes that at least at this time they need to be able to address their concerns.

qqq. Tomas Green: So how will elections be structured1. It will be very different. The idea is that we stop relying on a

popular vote. This is why groups like senate look the way they look. There would be 4 categories. 30% is popular vote 30% is



a speech 10% is an event and 30% would be an interview. This is how we need our government to work

rrr. Tomas Green: Is this open to everyone or are you targeting certain identities

1. We do think about those things and we have been very careful to make this as inclusive as possible. Multiple identities have been consulted

sss. Brittney Oleniacz: Our current system is that you apply for MEF and Student Senate funding in the same cycle. How will this work if you control MEF

1. MEF often has an overflow so ideally it would not be necessary for a group to go to both MSG and Student Senate but we want to work with Senate so if we do need to work in tandem we will. I think the most important thing is for us to get established and then figure out how to best coincide with senate

ttt. Zach George: Do you have a constitution and written rules1. Yes but I don’t feel comfortable – (out of order). There were

supposed to be talks about this government that never happened. You and Jessie have my number but you haven’t talked to us. We should not have to come to you every time we need something

uuu. Adam Moon: Do you have a version of your constitution and by laws that I can see

1. Yes but you cant see itvvv. Javier Lara: Who can join

1. Anyone can joinwww. Zach George: Do you have a constitution and bylaws for finance

to see before you are allocated over $100,0001. You are allocating this to the OMA.

xxx. Zach George: where is the money going to after it gets to the OMA1. Shift the language

yyy. Alex Dang: What are the positions that will be created1. A president, a VP, Chief of Staff, Community coordinator,

Communications director, a treasurer, (missed last 2)zzz. Tyler Childress: I cannot recall Senate asking for a constitution of any

group in the past so keep that in mindaaaa.Nitin Kanukolanu: You said there are 60 positions so what would they

be1. Senators


Finance CommitteeAlderson Auditorium, Kansas UnionMarch 2, 2016; 6:00pmbbbb. Chance Maginness: Under student senate rules you need a

trustee. So in the future you will have to come back to senate next year to ask for money so can you address that

1. We would like to be 50% of the fee committee. I don’t know if there is ever a way for us to not be under your purview. In addition we have been in conversations about when we are established working under the OMA

cccc. Adam Moon: When would the first executive board take office1. WE already have officers but we want them next year

dddd. Gabby Douglas: When you have your members that make up your body would it be though schools

1. Any schooleeee.Chance Maginness: When do you intend to do the election process

1. At the end of the semester probably but we haven’t decided yet for sure if it would overlap with the senate elections. It is important to note that we are not scheduling ourselves based on you

ffff.Zach George: Would you be funding student groups with student dollars1. MEF

gggg.Dylan Jones (positive speech): In my sophomore year we based elections based on percentages and it worked great. I came here tonight to ask for funding to be lowered so I hope that we can lower the senate activity fee to make the fee equal

hhhh. Brittney Oleniacz (positive speech): I wanted to speak in favor of this group in October. This body needs representation. We do not go through the pain that they experience. We are not here to question the constitution. We are not here to question the nitty gritty. We will have a line of communication with this body.

iiii. Sarah Elliot (positive speech): This only gives us a better way of reaching the student body.

jjjj. Tymon Wall: Do you think that given the MEF has a huge surplus that this group would be better able to implement those funds

1. Yeskkkk. Nitin Kanukolanu (positive speech): Going after what has

already been said we are here to represent the entire student body and this is perfect. We can show to all students that every student should be represented

llll. Taylor Zabel (positive speech): One thing that hasn’t been brought up is that we voted to support a multicultural student government in Senate. Senate to this point has not funded groups that need this body. This has not gotten the emphasis that it deserves.



mmmm. Zach George: Does MEF have funding methods1. Yes but they are not given the focus they deserve. We can do it

betternnnn. Zach George: So you think we should use $100,000 to fund a

group that already exists1. How do you think you know where this money should go and

what did you mean when you said that you wanted to double fund the OMA

2. Zach George: Why is it the OMA that has to do everything? We did give more funding to the OMA

3. Kat: Why would we create $100,000 for a structure that already exists and the point is that this structure doesn’t exist. The way that we handle EMF and MEF would be different that is why we are here.

4. Zach George: You believe the best way to create a better structure is creating a new senate structure

5. Yes. It feels disingenuous that you are questioning our ability to allocate this money when you have not been allocating it effectively. As Taylor was saying you promised to allocate this money and create this body.

oooo. Mady Womack: Feel uncomfortable that we’re trying to tell community experts that we’re better stewards of the funds than they could be. It is disheartening and detrimental in our relations with the community. The idea that we need to support our student body means that we must be open to the idea for change; we should be able to challenge the status quo, change our institution, and be more open to the ideas that are presented to our committee. This should be able to go through committee and to Senate

pppp. Moved to Call to question on the amendment (Britney O):1. Passes, Amendment Passes (voice vote)

qqqq. Madeline Sniezek (negative speech): It has been brought up decreasing the student senate activity fee. Groups need to spend down their unallocated amounts. It would be decreasing it by $1.85 to make the whole fee the same that it last year. A couple years ago we had a $200,000 project to replace some concrete which was controversial

rrrr. Zach George: Reducing it to $1.85 would that make us dip into the reserve account

1. Madeline: Yesssss. Zach George: Mathematically how would that effect next year



1. Madeline: There would still be over $100,000 in

reserve I believe.tttt. Jack Stevens: Would unallocated stay the same

1. Madeline: It would be at $85,000 and I think it is too highuuuu. Taylor Zabel: Motion to call to question on the bill

1. Amendment passesvvvv.Angela Murphy (negative speech): Hello everyone I am making an

amendment to the bill to reduce the supportive services fee down $0.30 cents. I am on fee committee. The representatives said in fee committee said that they did not need the $0.30 except for advertisement. The representatives did not say anything that made me think they needed that money.

wwww. Tomas Green: When I worked at willow I never got any calls and we do not have very good outreach so why do you think we don’t need the outreach

1. I think they need a planxxxx. Tomas Green: Did they not present a plan

1. Noyyyy.Tyler Childress: Who was presenting

1. It was Brent Leezzzz. Brent Lee (negative speech): I think you all know my position on this.

Do you have any questions for the three representatives hereaaaaa. Tomas Green: How would you plan to spend this money

1. This is complicated. So we learned our fee was decreased while we thought it was the same. So we have different things to say. The 5% increase was not required. If we got the 5% it would be for outreach. However, the group approved last semester more than they could approve. This decision is whether or not to raise fees for next year. The Student Safety board has not met for us to talk to them. We want to present to this board.

bbbbb. Brittney Oleniacz: I want to know why hasn’t the Student Safety Board met yet to hear these presentations

1. Brent: I am here to represent the entire student body. The chair at the start of the semester resigned and so that caught us off-guard until Jessie selected a new chair and that was Richie Hernandez and we were just very behind. The budgets of this year have been presented. We are working to fund next year. The meeting has not been historically how it works

2. Richie Hernandez: We have met this year. I have not told the board yet but the members do not show up to this board. I do



not know where my members are. People are not

showing up. My last board had 4 people show up and only 3 were voters. I’ve been trying to work on this since September. On account of raising this fee I was just told we allocated to much to the Willow yesterday.

3. Brent Lee: I want to add that if you have questions for the group please ask them now

ccccc. Taylor Zabel: You said you presented a budget in the fall to the board that had specific requests can we see that

1. I unfortunately did not bring that with me. I think there is a focus on outreach money and this money is not going only to outreach. This is affecting direct services for students. The outreach was the 5% increase question but

ddddd. Allyssa: How did you come to the 30% increase1. Brent: I raised it because it is what the board asked for and I

wanted to keep their wordeeeee. Allyssa: You are aware that we do not fully fund groups

1. Brent: Yes but this would not be funding the entire group Senate only funds 7%. The 30% is so that we are funded without going into the reserve

2. Brent: During the two years I have been a member of this community we have looked into different projects such as the Safe Bar Alliance. However, we did not feel that this would be a useful use of student dollars. We do not fund anything

fffff. Tomas Green: Could you give us a qualitative picture of what this money would fund

1. The 24-hour hotline is one big issue and knowing the number to call is very important. The money we are requesting is for the 24-hour line and overhead costs. In terms of outreach we want an intern to work on the outreach. Senate has funded us for a long time. We have changed our name and doubled our staff recently and so we are 24 7 and we go to the hospital and we do many other things. Funds our rent costs and our audit too.

ggggg. Tyler Childress (positive (sort of) speech): This process has never worked well. We need to change how the group interacts with the board. I did not realize the 3 groups were under the impression that the fee recommended by the group was not the fee they got and now I do.



There was miscommunication on the amount. I would

recommend that we keep the $0.30 now.hhhhh. Brittney Oleniacz: Motion to call to question on the amendment

1. Amendment failsiiiii. Dylan Jones: Motion to call to question on the bill as amended

1. Bill passes9. 2016–158: A Bill to Fund the Fiscal Year 2017 Fiscal Year Line–Item

Allocations

a. Tyler Childress: We met over three days for this I’m not going to go line by line. If someone did not get funded through line they can come back in the fall and get the money.

b. Alex Dang (negative speech): Differ to Will Admussenc. Will Admussen: Hello everyone I represent KU Mock Trial which is a

group of about 35 people. We travel to many tournaments and I know you hate the word travel but we have a travel exemption. I came here last year and asked for more money as well. Recently we qualified three teams to nationals for mock trial. We do participate in many fundraising events so that senate does not fund our entire group. We are asking specifically asking for our travel money that was cut. The total would be changed to $8000 total. We understand that senate is under a lot of pressure but we work really hard to keeps costs as low as possible and we really need this money

d. Alex Dang: This group does a lot though fundraising, which we ask of groups and this funding is necessary.

e. Allyssa Castilleja: How does this differ from the hotel and registration1. Alex and Will: This is travel and gas not the hotel

f. Allyssa: Do you get reimbursement for miles on your own cars1. No

g. Dylan Jones: Each tournament would have a different amount1. Yes

h. Tyler Childress: Which tournaments would you be increasing travel and where would you be going

1. Will: The first tournament either KSU or Peoria. The second either Iowa City or Omaha or St. Louis and the third would be another of those and the fourth would be in Iowa. The amount would be $485

i. Tyler Childress: Does that comply with half over $10001. Not really



j. Madeline Sniezek: Do you get a per mile reimbursement rather than

reimbursing gas1. This year we did it out of our pocket compared to what we had

in the accountk. Tyler Childress: When we looked at the tournaments they always ask

for the travel. The problem we have is the reimbursement for the miles so you get more than what you paid for gas. We wanted to fund the hotel but I don’t think we can fund this because it does not meet the half over $1000 rule. Its not that I don’t want to fund them but I cant

l. Alex Dang: Why is it that they have not been able to receive reimbursement from the state.

1. We are paying an extensive amount of the requested money2. Alex Dang: Seeing how they have not received a

reimbursement from the state should they get this3. That is because they do not get travel money from us. I just

think we cannot fund themm. Will Admussen: Would you be willing to creating an event to fund the

travel1. No I don’t want to create a Pandora’s box

n. Madeline: Is it true that Mock Trial could go through unallocated when they know exactly how much it will cost

1. Yes they could do thiso. Will Admussen: Are you aware that you spoke against us last year

1. Yesp. Will Admussen: Does it necessitate us cutting all of our funding for

travel to meet the rule1. With these figures yes

q. Tyler Childress: Motion to call to question on the amendment1. The amendment fails

r. Logan Albers: I am here for Alt Breaks and they are asking for their stipends back.

s. Member: We understand that a lot of groups are getting stipends cut but we are asking for $500, which is half of what we originally asked for. This group can affect every student on campus. We have to turn away about 30% of our applicants every year. Our coordinators are doing at least 15 hours a week during their season. Without their planning no one can go on their trips. The big thing we always get back from you guys is that why don’t you threaten the CLAS for the 4 credit hour class to get funding. We tried that this year and it didn’t work. We do fundraising but that money is necessary and we don’t want to use



other money to pay these stipends. With CCO we believe that they have more

coordinators than us and they can split up their work much more than we can. We have a very good reputation around Lawrence.

t. Madeline Sniezek: What makes your organization more important considering we pay the CCOs coordinators and no other organizations

1. We are trying to help social justice issues. We have to have coordinators to plan these. This allows them to not have to do something else. We are trying to actively help our community. Our coordinators are required to improve alternative breaks also.

u. Tyler Childress: Do you pay fees to attend sites across the country1. Yes we do. It’s been increasing over time as well. We try to

eliminate that but we can’t always do it.

v. Thomas Green: To what extent do these stipends motivate coordinators1. I would say the larger the stipend the more the coordinator is

accountable and feels like they should do work.2. Logan: I would not be able to dedicate the time I do without

this stipendw. Tyler Childress and Madeline Sniezek (negative speech): I would urge

everyone to vote against this. A lot of the arguments that they made are arguments that could be made by many student groups. Also before they had the stipends they were very successful without them. I don’t think that we can justify these stipends if we cant for any other group. Going onto the class component I do have a problem when the coordinators that teach the class are not getting any money that is a problem.

x. Madeline Sniezek: I don’t think its fair that students are paying for the class and the stipends.

y. Member: So I TA this class but it is separate from the Alternative Break1. Even though they are different they are still connected. One of

the co-directors has the job of teaching the class so student money would be going to the class

z. Logan Albers: Your talking about the TA thing which is different from the amendment

1. We are funding Alternative Breaks as a group so I think that you could get a lot of money from the school to fund the organization. We are giving you $15,000.

aa. Member: We are getting compared to CCO but only when it works in one person’s favor. Why are we not looking at the fact that CCO has 5 people who are paid



1. CCO is a part of student senate but Alternative Breaks

decided they did not want to be a part of senate so they left. Have them come back next year and become a part of senate again. Students are paying to go on these programs versus it being free for the CCO.

bb. Member: So it seems that you want us to threaten our class but this class is important

1. The class is secondary to the volunteering and we should not pay for that. I like Alt Breaks but I don’t like the way that we are funding some of these things.

cc. Alex Dang: Do you think they would get better treatment if they were attached to senate.

1. I don’t think we should fund any of them. The CCO seems to be the only shining star of senate at this time at least in the eye of the public

dd. Chance Maginness: Motion to call to question on the amendment1. The amendment fails

ee. Model UN: We are here for Model UN. There was an email sent out for the date of the line item and I wrote it down but I missed the date because of some personal reasons. So I forgot about the hearing.

ff. Sarah Elliot: The ability of this group to survive is up to Student Senate. Without this pillar to fund us we would go from 2 tournaments a year to 1 every two years. This is a big reason why we are members of the organization. We do mock sessions on weekends. In the past we were awarded $6000 and $8000. Our request this year was $13,685. I am willing to entertain a lower number though. The events are in March and January. I was told that we could get this money in the fall but we have to pay for one of these conferences in October

gg. Brett Wagner: Can you summarize what these costs will go to1. There are three main costs. Airfare, we have an exception on

travel, registration fees, and lodging fees. Anything else comes out of our pocket for the most part

hh. Tyler Childress: They have requested $6,935 and $6,500 so that is the amendment

ii. Allyssa Castilleja: We just told Mock Trial they can go through unallocated so we should tell this group the same

jj. Tyler Childress: We should fund the lodging and the registration for these events so I make an amendment to the amendment to make the funding this amount

kk. Dylan Jones: In the past have we funded travel



1. I think we should stay away from it as much as possible

ll. Javier Lara: Motion to call to question on the amendment to the amendment

1. Amendment to the amendment passesmm. Javier Lara: Motion to call to question on the amendment as amended

1. Amendment passesnn. Tyler Childress: Motion to call to question on the bill

1. Bill passes

V. Adjournmenta. Mady Womack: Motion to adjourn at 10:45

1. Motion passes


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