SGA Senate Meeting - March 14th

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:46:13 -0400

SGA Senate Meeting- March 14th

This week’s senate meeting was very productive! With much debate and discussion, various topics were brought to the attention of the Senate this week. The first topic that was discussed was the upcoming budgets for SGA, SEB, and The Retriever Weekly. After finishing a run-through of the budget, President Yasmin Karimian introduced the alterations that are to be made for the upcoming year. The next senate meeting will involve all three organizations coming together to discuss and approve the revised budgets.

Moving onto the next topic, the Senate then discussed and revised legislation for the Retriever Learning Center. For those of you who may not know, the RLC will be a new 24/7 study area in the library for UMBC students to utilize throughout the year. With SGA supporting the RLC, student feedback will be considered while making the decision as to how the RLC will be furnished once it is up and running for some time. The Senate will be voting on exactly how SGA will be supporting the RLC monetarily by the next senate meeting.

Before the meeting came to a close, the senators discussed some of their current initiatives. The UMBC application was discussed, due to one of the senator’s initiative to alter the Common Application’s supplement. Another announcement was that the Senate is currently working to keep some of the Commons dining facilities open for more hours during the week, as well as specific places holding hours during the weekend. As for last week’s outreach hour discussion, there was a significant amount of positive responses. The proposed issues with registration seem to be dwindling and opinions on advising seem to be more positive. This week’s outreach hour discussion will be questions about Stress Free Zone. For one, do you know what Stress Free Zone is? If so, what plans would you like to see in action during Stress Free Zone? Come out and speak to the senators about your recommendations for this SGA event!