Karanovich looking forward to future changes when he takes office

On May 15, SGA President-elect, Evan Karanovich, will take over the reigns from current SGA President, Zach Mullins.

“When the president is elected…it becomes a responsibility of the current executive board to help transfer their power to the new staff,” Mullins said.

Over the next few months, Karanovich will be learning the ropes from Mullins while trying to prepare for next year. Due to his prior experience Karanovich feels better suited to take over than previous candidates.

“I’ve sat in (Student Activities Budget Committee) already so I kind of know that,” Karanovich said. SABC will be one of the first things Karanovich will be helping with as SGA President-elect. Mullins will remain chair of the SABC board for the Spring allocations, as is the custom, to help keep some consistency on the board.

According to Karanovich, he’ll be working on figuring out how his administration will work so he can hit the ground running.

“A lot of the things I’m doing now is looking at the rest of the year and how I want it to go (next year),” he said. “There’s a lot of work between May and the beginning of the semester. This is the first transition in two years so there’s a lot of housekeeping things we’ll need to do.”

While Karanovich won’t have a formal ceremony until the Fall semester’s SGA Senators are sworn in, he will be working over the summer to help next year start right.

“There’s a lot of work between May and the beginning of the semester. I’m going to be working with students and staff to do what I call 11 for 11,” Karanovich said. “It’ll be a list to see what we do in terms of continuing projects from Zach and new things.”

Currently on Karanovich’s list is an application for Georgia College that could be used on smartphones. He’s also looking into ensuring students’ opinions get heard in the end-of-course evaluations.

Karanovich also plans to carry on some projects from the current SGA session that may not be finished in time. Among those projects, the bell tower and student email are both possibilities for carrying over to next semester. He also plans to be more aggressive with his projects since he will only be in office one year.

“I’m going to be a one-and-done president…that’s a little time for the carry over,” Karanovich said. “It gives me a challenge to do everything as quickly and efficiently as possible.”

Karanovich feels that he brings a new perspective to SGA compared to his predecessor.

“It’s not so much a business mindset and I’m not say that’s bad, I don’t see that being a bad thing,” Karanovich said. “I just have a different mindset.”

Mullins has already started giving Karanovich advice. The main advice Mullins gives is to not take criticism and critiques personally. Mullins will be graduating after having been SGA President for two years.

“Hopefully what I’ve done has left a mark and it’ll benefit Georgia College in the long run,” Mullins said.

Karanovich feels he will follow in Mullin’s footsteps.

“Both Zach and I are Eagle Scouts and in Scouts they teach you to always leave something better than you find it and hopefully I’ll do that,” Karanovich said.

Posted by Matt Chambers on Feb 28 2011. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.