Undergraduate Student Government’s College Council (CC) spent the bulk of its meeting on Monday reviewing the minutes from the previous week’s Student Government Funding Committee (SGFC) session. Class of 2029 Representative Gavin Wynn voiced concerns about gaps in the SGFC minutes’ record of deliberations on specific funding requests, but the Council ultimately approved most of the SGFC allocations with no changes.
CC also approved several changes to SGFC’s cost guide: recommending against funding food for RSOs’ general body meetings; allowing funding for private transportation like Uber and Lyft between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. even when public transportation is available, in response to safety concerns; instituting general limits on funding for student travel, covering up to 50 percent of competition and conference travel and 20 percent of other travel; updating standard printing costs to reflect what the University charges; and adding funding guidelines for event advertising based on expected attendance.
CC heard two appeals from RSOs whose funding requests were denied by SGFC last week. The council rejected an appeal from the business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi, declining to fund travel to a conference in Cincinnati. The council also gave the Asian Policy Forum—whose original $5,500 request had been denied—$2,000 for a Lunar New Year celebration but directed the RSO to reapply for funding for a second event that had been included in their initial ask.
The council also appointed second-year Jacob Dominguez as vice chair of the Community Service Fund (CSF). Fourth-year CC Chair Ben Fica said Dominguez would serve as acting CSF chair in the immediate term due to a vacancy.
The meeting ended before the council could address several outstanding agenda items, including member projects and the introduction of multiple resolutions.
College Council holds weekly public meetings in Stuart Hall 104 on Mondays at 7 p.m.
