Remaining $131 up for grabs at SGA meeting

This past Wednesday afternoon the Student Government Association quickly held a Senate meeting resulting in three tabled items, two of which request part of the remaining $131 from a $6,000 bill allocations fund.

“All SGA Senators and executive members were able to attend the rock-paper-scissors competition before our meeting today,” SGA President Zach Mullins said. “This was a great way for us to have some fun before sitting down to conduct business.”

Limited by the intense games of rock-paper-scissors, and classes beginning at 2 p.m. the meeting started at the unusual time of 1:15 p.m. and lasted approximately 35 minutes. SGA was able to give officer reports, look over two new bills and one resolution.

The first bill proposed by Senator Liz Stamm was to help fund Zeta Tau Alpha’s “Pack the House in Pink,” an event benefitting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Zeta Tau Alpha requests $120 to purchase an iPod which will be awarded to the winner of a yogurt-eating contest during halftime of a women’s basketball game.

The GCSU fishing team submitted the second bill which Senator Josh Futch presented to the Senate. The team would like to participate in the Auburn Fall Classic, a prestigious tournament in the collegiate fishing world, being held Nov. 19-21 in Alabama. The $125 petitioned would go toward the competition expenses.

SGA begins each se-mester with $6,000 specifically for bill allocations. Only $131 is left, meaning competition for the remaining funds is fierce.

The final business of the meeting was the sponsorship policy resolution presented by Senator Paul Danaj.

According to the proposed resolution, outside individuals, companies, institutions or organizations would be allowed to sponsor or donate to a specific GCSU division, department, unit or Registered Student Organization. Sponsors would also have the ability to advertise within the specific group they support.

All three pieces of legislation were tabled, or deferred to the next meeting.

As per constitutional procedures the bills were sent to the appropriations committee.

“Every time a bill is brought to Senate it is sent to this committee where they meet with a representative from the group asking for money and discuss the bill,” SGA Press Secretary Jamie Knox said. “They then vote and come up with a recommendation for the Senate. Their vote does not mean the bill gets passed; it is simply a recommendation to the Senate. The Senate will then vote and that will be the final decision on the bill.”

The resolution was tabled mostly due to the lack of time to discuss it thoroughly.

“I believe that this week’s meeting was very productive,” Mullins said. “Next week (I) hope (we) have (a) healthy discussion about the sponsorship policy resolution so the Senators can vote and send their recommendation to University Senate.”

SGA Senate is scheduled to meet again Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. in the Dogwood Conference room.

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