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Open forum
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Presidential communications
ASUI President Jon Gaffney encouraged senators to strongly consider the new bills on the agenda. He said he strongly supports the bills and hopes the Senate will immediately consider each one. S08-30 increases the salary of Kelsey LaRoche, ASUI Vandal Entertainment Promotions Coordinator. Gaffney said LaRoche deserves the $5 pay increase because she has done a phenomenal job in her position and it would show the Senate thinks she’s doing a great job. He also said he hopes the increase would encourage her to apply again next year.
He also voiced support for S08-31, which would transfer $10,000 from the general reserve to the ASUI activities board. Gaffney said ASUI currently has more than $160,000 in reserve and are only required to have $100,000. With over $60,000 left over, Gaffney said it would be beneficial to give the money to a group that could use it to benefit the rest of the university.
Gaffney said S08-29, a bill that will establish the operating budget for the ASUI in the 2008-09 school year is important for senators to consider. He encouraged senators to look over the budget changes.
He then thanked the three potential senators who came to sit in on a Senate meeting to gain perspective.
Finally, Gaffney vetoed the bill S08-25, a bill that would have added a partition called the “Great Wall of Gaffney” to the ASUI office, splitting the executive branch from the legislative branch. Sen. Zach Arama said the bill was written in fun. Gaffney said that although the idea of a “Great Wall of Gaffney” was tempting, he believed it would not be in the best interested of the office cohesiveness.
Unfinished business
Bills
S08-24, an act amending the ASUI Senate’s official meeting agenda to allow senators the opportunity to officially report their living group and committee status to the rest of the Senate. The amended bill asked senators to report their status every week. Senator Cook requested the bill be further amended from an oral report to a written report. Sen. Arama said a written report wouldn’t hold senators fully accountable to the rest of the Senate. The bill was finally amended so that senators are obligated to give an oral report bi-weekly instead of weekly and passed.
S08-28, an act appointing Aaron Short to the position of ASUI Director of Community Relations, was immediately considered and unanimously passed.
New business
Bills
S08-29, an act setting the FY2009 general operating budget for the ASUI, was sent to the Finance Committee for further examination before discussion next week.
S08-30, an act changing ASUI executive position salaries in accordance with ASUI Rules and Regulations section 3100, was immediately considered and unanimously passed.
S08-31, an act transferring $10,000 from the general reserve to the ASUI activities board, was sent to the Finance Committee for further examination before discussion next week.
— Liz Virtue
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