Spring Budgeting: Cultural

Members Present: Peace, Vince, Josh, Hassan, Elijah
Time Start: 1:00pm
Time End: 5pm

African Students Association (ASA)
Josh: Proposal to fund general interest in full at 100.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Mid year looks pretty good.
Peace: Culture Fest. Proposal to fund at 200.
4/0/0.
Passes.
Peace: Colors of Rhythm.
Hassan: Do they have storage space?
Peace: Their treasurer met with me and said they had storage space in wilder where a lot of the cultural stuff is held.
Josh: Proposal to fund colors of rhythm in full at 120.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Speakers last year we gave 5k.
Peace: I don’t think they need that much money for speakers.
Josh: I would like to fund two but they’re so expensive.
Hassan: Because they’re flying in from Africa. I would fund the cheaper one.
Josh: You think they should get 2k less for speakers than they did last year?
Josh: Are we trying to fund two speakers or?
Peace: I would say total wise it’s okay to fund this at the same level as last year.
Josh: That’d be funding like a speaker and a half.
Hassan: I’d be down to fund the more expensive one.
Josh: I would cut the London flight to 1050 and the Ghana flight to 1000.
Peace: I wouldn’t be down for cutting the banquet because the costs are based on what we do every year and a large part of the banquet cost is because they cook in the A House dining hall which they have to rent and labor costs for the managers to be there.
Vince: Our cap is 1500.
Elijah: Didn’t we have a whole conversation last year about specialty food and giving them more money?
Josh: We funded the banquet in full last year at 2600.
Hassan: Their number one fee is for cooking in Lord, 1700. Scrap that and it’s within the cap.
Elijah: They spent all of their money is 2016.
Josh: Proposal to fund the speaker series as 3573, which is the footcost of the more expensive speaker, no speaker system because they didn’t put what room it was going to be held in.
Elijah: I propose for the speaker system, 3783.
Top Down
0/4/0
Does not pass
3573
3/1/0.
Josh: Proposal to fund concert in full at 3323.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Sco Night. Proposal to fund in full at 350.
4/0/0
Passes.
Vince: Okay, the banquet.
Josh: Proposal to fund banquet in full?
4/0/0
Passes.
Peace: So for speaker system and mics and stuff, I wouldn’t fund that because it’s held in A-house.
Josh: I’d fund one mic.
Elijah: We should do a small lecture system.
Vince: Proposal to fund at 290 and 230, a small lecture system with 2 mics or one mic.
Top Down
2/2/0
OST breaks tie. Passes.
Josh: Supplies and services. Proposal to fund in full. 163.75.
4/0/0
Passes.

South Asian Student Association (SASA)
Peace: For the supplies they have sharpies, construction paper, and scotch tape.
Josh: These are the same exact supplies as last year.
Vince: They’re not sourced also.
Peace: Proposal to fund in full at 21.99
3/1/0
Passes.
Vince: Retreat. 2620. Why do we have a banquet cap but not a retreat cap?
Peace: I understand the purpose of retreats but I don’t think it’s necessary to ball out. They could use vans instead of a bus.
Hassan: None of them have licenses.
Josh: I know that going off campus is preferable for retreats, but I’m just thinking-
Vince: You want to just fund them for food?
Peace: We need to make a policy about retreat.
Vince: Yeah we should have a policy meeting some time this week.
Hassan: I’m down for funding bus and meals, with no housing.
Josh: I feel like for retreats people should almost like pay like it was a tournament, so they pay in part.
Peace: I like that, like we can subsidize retreats but not pay for the whole retreat.
Josh: We should do the 25$.
Peace: That might encourage groups to ball out though.
Hassan: I propose the day trip thing Peace was talking about, so 600 for the bus and one day’s meals.
Peace: Proposal to fund for 705, which is pretty much a day trip.
3/1/0.
Passes.
Peace: The Color Fest is a lot larger than last year.
Vince: We also gave less than they asked for last year.
Josh: Proposal to fund Color Fest at 1551.07 everything in full except colors from 300 pounds to 200 pounds.
4/0/0
Passes
Josh: Proposal to fund culture fest at 200 as per cap.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Proposal to fund the Festival of Lights banquet at 3638.76
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Proposal to fund the Fearless Performer. It’s expensive.
0/4/0
Does not pass.
Josh: Proposal to fund Mint press news in full at 2798.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Proposal to fund independence day and South Asians in Africa in full.
0/4/0
Does not pass.
Josh: Proposal to fund ticketing (35) and printing (74) at 109.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Proposal to fund facilities and ground at 439.50.
4/0/0
Passes.

Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA)
Peace: They did a mid year and they met with us.
Vince: This year they had 10k.
Peace: Proposal to fund Destra Garcia in full at 28,753.
0/4/0
Does not pass.
Josh: This year they held SOCA Cooks, Mursi Layne came, they did their retreat in Miami, they did the Africana Cook-in and they’re planning on still doing their banquet.
Peace: Proposal to fund Carnival at 345.
4/0/0
Passes.
Vince: Wait we just paid for unitemized groceries.
Josh: We could give them money based on how much they spent.
Hassan: That’s more than they’re asking for.
Vince: It’s also a different event.
Peace: Actually lowkey I’m fine with it because it’s the same price quote from last year and they had the event so they know what they’re doing.
Peace: SOCA retreat, I would fund food.
Josh: I’m not flying people places for a retreat.

Members Present: Sulan, Vince, Josh, Monique, Austen, Peace
Time Start: 7:15pm
Time End: 9pm

SOCA (cont’d)
Peace: Proposal to fund SOCA retreat in full.
0/5/0
Does not pass.
Josh: Everything looks fine in the banquet items but the honorarium is really high and the per diem is wrong. They didn’t budget for a banquet last year but they budgeted for advertising for it so they knew they were going to do it. If we change the honorarium to 3500 the rest of the banquet cost is under our cap. It’d come out to 5600.
Vince: That’s a pretty significant decrease.
Peace: Yeah, I’d agree with that because of misuse of funds.
Vince: Misuse?
Peace: They budgeted to go to Haiti this year but went to Miami instead and didn’t do anything relating to their mission.
Vince: I think we should cut similar to the amount of whatever they budgeted for the trip.
Josh: Proposal to fund the SOCA banquet at 6594 and proposal to fund at 5094, the difference is a 5 grand honorarium or 3500 honorarium.
Peace: My thing is not necessarily the amount but the level of savagery. Like if we gave a group 500 to do something and they blew it on a party I would want to cut them more than 500.
Josh: Top down, 6594.
1/4/0
Does not pass.
5094
5/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Proposal to fund publicity and copying at 84.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: They have 750 in income.
Josh: What if we make the banquet free and cut income?
Monique: How about 3$ a ticket instead of $5? So income would be 450.
Josh: Top down proposal to deduct 750 income
1/4/0
Does not pass
Proposal to deduct 450 income
3/2/0
Passes.


Oberlin Korean Students Association (OKSA)
Peace: Proposal to fund Culture Fest at 200 as per cap.
5/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Connections Fair.
Vince: Just because it’s unitemized, I wouldn’t fund food.
Josh: Proposal to fund Connections Fair at 17.40, no snacks.
5/0/0.
Passes.
Peace: Proposal to fund meeting and welcome dinner at 100, our cap for general interest for food.
5/0/0
Passes.
Vince: Proposal to fund fall/spring K-pop night at $49.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Banquet. The banquet was part of the biennial conference last year.
Vince: We didn’t fund them for the Korean snacks, should we fund them for the Korean rice drinks?
Josh: Sometimes I feel like we’re more lenient when there are costs that may be unsourced that seem really important to the event.
Josh: They don’t tell us where the airfare is for and it’s above our cap. We either go to one of the caps or we cut it.
Monique: What’s our most expensive cap.
Peace: 400.
Josh: We could cut it to 400 or we could cut it all together.
Peace: If you subtract that and adjust the housing costs it’s 3500.44.
Josh: All in favor
5/0/0
Passes.


ABUSUA
Josh: They did submit a mid year. They gave some money to Dance Diaspora for a show, they were part of the Africana Cook-In, and they still plan on doing the Spring Formal.
Peace: I’d do 105 for Karaoke. I’m cool with skating also.
Peace: Proposal to fund smaller events at 285 total, 105 for Karoake, skating in full, no snacks because it was unitemized.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Proposal to fund spring formal in full at 2151.
5/0/0
Passes.
Monique: I don’t see why the Black Student Organizations Fair can’t be in A House.
Austen: Probably to reach out to the students that aren’t always in A house.
Monique: Where would it be?
Austen: I don’t know somewhere around here maybe (Wilder).
Josh: It’s not very well explained, I only know about it from talking to the treasurer. It’d be for ABUSUA, Soy, the Brotherhood, etc so that new Black first years know there are Black groups that exist to support them.
Peace: Proposal to fund publicity at $10.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Black Student Senior Appreciation Party.
Peace: Well we can scrap those gifts and cards off right off the bat.
Josh: Proposal to fund at 1458.78, everything in full minus the gifts.
5/0/0
Passes.
Josh: The new student orientation looks pretty good.
Sulan: The total is wrong. The hamburgers should be 350.
Vince: Proposal to fund at 515.
5/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Does anyone know if the Brotherhood is actually active?
Peace: I would fund everything but the snacks and the Give Back, and funding one breakfast for SOY.
Peace: Proposal to fund at 220.
Vince: I propose to fund 120.
Top Down
220
0/5/0
Does not pass.
120
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Why is SOY on this budget, didn’t they get chartered?
Austen: I think when they submitted their budget they didn’t know if they’d get chartered or not.
Peace: Proposal to fund SOY’s part on ABUSUA in full.
0/5/0
Does not pass.
Peace: Community Building methods.
Monique: I wish they explain what was in this.
Josh: The treasurer told me this is something ABUSUA did way back in the day and it would be a guide for Black students. I don’t know why they’re asking for both semesters though, unless there’s transfer students or something.
Josh: Proposal to fund Black student handbook at 85, funded at 100 per year, not 100 per semester.
Peace: Kwanzaa.
Vince: They don’t itemize anything.
Peace: I propose to fund just the candles, they should still have them. $21.
Josh: I propose $111, with the table coverings.
Top Down
1/4/0
Does not pass
$21
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: I feel like this is one of those situations where we can’t cut anything in this retreat without fundamentally changing its purpose.
Vince: I want to give them something for this retreat. We could cut it to a day.
Austen: I’d rather fund this than the alumni panel.
Monique: I actually think the self care retreat is really dope.
Vince: If we did it for one night it’d be around 1k.
Vince: Proposal to fund two nights at the lodge, 3 days of food and posters, at 2799.82.
4/1/0
Passes.
Austen: So panels and performances.
Josh: I’m okay with maybe not funding them and just funding the cook-in.
Monique: I’m down to fund the Van’ Go performance and the Cook-In.
Peace: I would cut everything down to 1 day.
Vince: Proposal to fund Van’ Go performance at 624.
3/2/0
Passes.
Josh: All in favor of alumni panel in full.
0/5/0
Passes.
Vince: Proposal to fund Cook-In in full at 187.13.
4/1/0
Passes

Members Present: Austen, Vince, Sulan, Monique, Peace, Natalia
Time Start: 6:20pm
Time End: 8pm

Asian American Alliance
Monique: In the mid year they said all they did was a retreat.
Vince: They said they’re hosting a speaker which I think they just brought and they’re reviving their zine, As I Am.
Peace: Are y’all cool with supplies? I would fund minus the post it things.
Monique: I’d be down to cut it to one. Also why do you need 3 boxes of sharpies.
Peace: Proposal to fund at 49.74, without the stickies.
Monique: Proposal to fund at 103.98, with one pack of the stickies.
Top Down
3/2/0
Passes at 103.98.
Peace: We can skip publicity for now.
Peace: Under media, the zine’s not itemized at all.
Austen: They did this as an ad hoc.
Vince: But in this format there’s no indication what they’re money’s going to be spent on.
Peace: Proposal to fund media at $7, enough for 200 flyers.
5/0/0
Passes.
Monique: We should fund Towkio.
Peace: Last year they got 3200 for speakers.
Monique: Plus Towkio could like do a workshop.
Peace: Proposal to fund programming at 5501, for Towkio with an adjustment for housing, and for Eric Tang.
5/0/0
Passes
Vince: General interest, they want 50 for advertising. I would say 20 for general interest. Proposal to fund.
5/0/0
Passes
Vince: Proposal to fund APID heritage month at 35.
5/0/0
Passes

La Alianza Latinx
Vince: They got 15.8k last year. They did a lot of programming and a lot of transferring.
Peace: They’re asking for 27k. Last year I think we ended up doing this as a lump sum based on around the same level as the year before.
Natalia: Proposal to fund in full for the retreat at 3049.76.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: 3rd annual student and employee outing.
Vince: What are they doing?
Natalia: They’re like bonding with faculty.
Monique: This sounds like another retreat.
Natalia: I propose to fund this in full at 219.
3/2/0
Passes.
Vince: Proposal to fund posters at 35.
5/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: So the banquet includes a speaker and all those associated costs.
Monique: We can cut posters down.
Peace: This is cheaper than last year actually.
Peace: Proposal to fund at 4332.67 in full, cutting posters down.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: For the 3rd annual Latinx Sco Night.
Monique: For the sco night I’d be down to do it with one DJ.
Vince: We gave them zero last year.
Natalia: You know what we should do. We should go through and look to fund things that are absolutely necessary and low cost and then go back and fill in the blanks.
Natalia: I would like to fund the Cafe con Leche event in full 389.96.
5/0/0
Passes.
Vince: Proposal to fund the Latinx new and returning student event at 573, in full adjusted for posters.
5/0/0
Passes
Natalia: Proposal to fund the Block Party in full.
5/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Proposal to fund the 4th annual end of year community bbq in full.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: The sco night costs 3.8k about and the event after that is a symposium. If we fund both of that we’d be adding 6.6k. Proposal to fund in full for the sco night.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Proposal to fund symposium in full at 2765.50
5/0/0
Passes.

Members Present: Sulan, Peace, Vince, Hassan, Monique, Elijah, Natalia
Time Start: 12:11pm
Time End: 5pm

La Alianza Latinx (cont’d)
Peace: Proposal to fund the rest of the events in full.
0/5/0
Does not pass.

International Students Organization (ISO)
Peace: They’re checked off as having met with us and they do have a midyear. It says they’ve done Culture Fest, a dinner party, election discussion, Crocker Park trip and study break.
Hassan: The first half of the budget is just the cost from last years events.
Peace: So the real budget starts on page 6. Total request is 7k.
Vince: It’s not a huge increase compared to this year’s with the ad hoc.
Peace: I think we can fund the events that they’ve done so far this year to start. But they don’t itemize.
Vince: I’d be okay funding it in full.
Peace: Proposal to fund pre orientation bus trip to Walmart in full at 208.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Could you leave a note telling them to source and itemize the event next time or it won’t be funded.
Hassan: Proposal to fund Culture Fest at 200.
5/0/0
Passes.
Vince: I would say no reason for food for the Myths and Mysteries event.
Hassan: It might be food from the countries that people are presenting from.
Monique: They also don’t say what it’s for.
Sulan: We funded this at one event last year with food.
Peace: Dang I don’t know why we funded it last year when it was unitemized.
Peace: I think based on how we did this last year we should fund one event. But I’m not feeling to strongly either way; they said the event is getting popular.
Vince: Proposal to fund in full 627.70, both Myths and Mysteries event.
5/0/0
Passes
Vince: Proposal to fund the first year welcome party at 500.
Peace: Dang this is so much food.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Last year for the shopping trip it was the cost of bus with driver and then times two so I think they only did one trip last year and that cost 200. I don’t get why they need two trips though.
Hassan: If the first bus fills up they would need a second bus.
Vince: Proposal to fund in full at 520.
5/0/0
Passes.
Peace: 60 Minutes around the Globe. I think we cut that down to two last year. Proposal to fund at 494.84 which is half of what they’re asking for.
Monique: They’re going to drop 27$ on strawberries from DeCafe?
Elijah: Where are they getting all these estimates?
Hassan: Yeah that’s another thing.
Peace: Wait $5 for some bananas?
Elijah: Why don’t they just get everything from Walmart.
5/0/0
Passes.
Monique: It doesn’t make sense for us to fund the social because they said they’re trying to target first years but we already funded a first year event.
Peace: Proposal to fund it in full.
0/5/0
Does not pass.
Monique: Wait how’d they get this per diem for the banquet?
Vince: That’s two days of food.
Peace: Do we have ground transport in our pricing guide?
Vince: We’ve always done 50.
Peace: They didn’t ask for a banquet last year.
Monique: This seems really expensive.
Peace: I think to compromise I would fund the food and cut the speakers to one.
Vince: I think it would take away a lot to have one versus two speakers. If anything I’d cut the food.
Elijah: You could also cut the per diem for food for the speakers since the banquet is happening, and cut the lodging down.
Vince: I just see more value in the speakers than the banquet.
Vince: I propose to fund at 1833, no food.
Elijah: I got a proposal for to fund at 2870.35, one day of food for two speakers, ground transport, posters, sound and equipment for a small system, lodging cut to 129, airfare for two speakers and then food.
Top Down
4/1/0
Passes.
Vince: I like the Cleveland Day Trip, I would propose in full.
5/0/0
Passes.


Filipinx American Students Association (FASA)
Peace: This year they brought a speaker and did their banquet. This year they’re asking for 8k which is less than they got this year.
Monique: That’s reasonable.
Peace: We gave them two speakers last year but the honorarium for the one they brought was higher so the money for the two went to one. We also gave them money for a conference but it doesn’t look like they’re doing it this year.
Monique: Proposal to fund supplies in full.
5/0/0
Passes.
Monique: They’re asking for their equipment for the banquet and then the CDs and recording for the speakers they’re going to bring. I’d be down to do the live digital track recordings and not the CDs. Like I’m not sure where they’re going to go.
Vince: I’m okay with doing the two track and the concert sound.
Peace: There’s a hundred pack for cheap at Walmart.
Monique: Proposal to fund equipment at 260, just concert sound.
Sulan: Why did we fund this event in full last year?
Vince: Because we make bad decisions.
Vince: Proposal to fund in full.
Vince: CDs are actually on our pricing guide, they have the right cost on their budget.
Monique: I take my proposal down.
Vince: Proposal to fund in full
5/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Decorations are not itemized.
Vince: We gave it to them last year. Proposal to fund in full.
6/0/0
Passes.
Hassan: Why are they asking for money for Asian Night Market, isn’t that through Ad hoc?
Peace: So there’s this new org called Pan Asian Committee and they have Asian Night Market on their budget but FASA’s not on their budget.
Vince: Proposal to fund Asian Night Market in full
6/0/0
Passes.
Peace: I would fund both speakers and not the conference because they didn’t do the conference this year.
Peace: Proposal to fund the speakers in full at 5198.
6/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Proposal to fund conference in full
1/5/0
Does not passes.
Vince: Proposal to fund publicity at 113
6/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: I’m going to propose to let them keep their income.
Hassan: Yeah, we want to give them a slight increase.
Peace: Proposal to deduct $300 of income.
0/5/0
Does not pass.

Chinese Students Association (CSA)
Elijah: They’ve spent 2700 so far and 2600 of it was on food, and the rest was for printing services.
Vince: For Culture Fest what they’re asking for it below our cap.
Monique: You guys want to start with funding what they did this year and then go back to speakers and workshops?
Hassan: Proposal to fund Culture Fest in full.
6/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Proposal to fund Lunar New Year banquet in full 2265.58.
6/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Proposal to fund 52.50 for advertisement/banquet info, 7 cents per ticket and 35$ for posters.
6/0/0
Passes.
Vince: I’m not crazy about the prize. Don’t we not do raffles?
Peace: For decorations and prizes I would fund decorations but not the prizes, 289.75.
6/0/0
Passes.
Vince: Utensils and supplies.
Natalia: We should ban foam plates.
Elijah: Yeah we should have them buy paper plates.
Natalia: Yeah or compostable ones. Foam plates are so bad for the environment.
Hassan: All in favor of funding utensils and supplies in full at 56.39.
6/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Proposal to deduct 361.03 of income.
6/0/0
Passes.
Monique: Proposal to fund Afternoon of Chinese Music and Tea in full at 292.23.
6/0/0
Passes.
Vince: What are the utensils for?
Monique: It says to be used in culture fest and the banquet, but we already give them supplies.
Vince: But they were below cap for culture fest.
Monique: But this is more than the remaining with the cap.
Vince: Then we could just fund it to the cap, 55.51.
Vince: Proposal to fund at 995.47 in full with utensils adjusted to 55.51.
6/0/0
Passes.
Elijah: The total so far is 3.3k.
Monique: Last year they got 3.6k.
Peace: The lantern making workshop is 265.22 when you adjust advertising.
Vince: I’m okay with in full with the adjustment.
Natalia: I think we should talk about things more holistically since they’re asking for a lot of things.
Elijah: Something I noticed is that they’ve been stacking up income from the past couple of years and this year they’ve had a rollover of 1200.
Peace: Oh wait it says they’re planning on buying two hot pots this year.
Vince: You sure they’re not talking about next semester and not this one.
Peace: Well we say spring semester in the mid year form.
Vince: They might have been confused.
Natalia: Proposal to reopen equipment allocation.
6/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Proposal to fund 799.98, just the costumes.
Vince: Proposal to fund at 855.49, with the costumes and utensils.
Top Down
4/2/0
Passes at 855.49.
Natalia: I would be okay giving them the speaker and nothing else.
Hassan: Wait did we figure out why they’re so underfunded compared to other orgs.
Natalia: I think they just underspend.
Hassan: They’ve been spending well this year and doing their programming.
Natalia: One year is not enough for me to give a large increase.
Elijah: I think you guys should fund the social events and give them two workshops and let the 1300 rollover they have be the supplement they have.
Elijah: Proposal to fund social events in full at 316.51
6/0/0
Passes.
Hassan: Proposal to fund two workshops in full with adjusted advertising costs. 518.02.
6/0/0
Passes.
Hassan: Proposal to fund the rest in full
0/6/0
Passes.

Japanese Students Association (JSA)
Peace: It says so far they’ve done two socials, screened a documentary, culture fest and they plan on doing their banquet this semester.
Natalia: This year they’re asking for a lot more money. Last year they got around 1700 and this year they’re asking for over 8k.
Peace: Culture fest is below our cap. Proposal to fund at 94.70.
5/0/0
Passes.
Monique: Why are they renting a car for the Day of Remembrance?
Peace: To pick up the food.
Natalia: We could subsidize food at 5$ a person if we were feeling generous.
Peace: I’m cool with that.
Natalia: Proposal to fund Day of Remembrance at 716.30, which includes a speaker, economy car, adjusted food.
5/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: If we were to fund the whole budget besides the speakers they would get 2500 which I think is very high since they haven’t spent any of their money yet.
Peace: But also most of their money goes to the banquet which they haven’t done yet.
Monique: Proposal to fund Girls Day in full 53.26.
5/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: I feel like if it’s in conjunction with the Japanese department they should be paying for some of it.
Peace: They probably put only their portion on the budget.
Natalia: True.
Natalia: Proposal to fund in full.
5/0/0.
Natalia: I’m not in favor of the retreat because we funded the earlier event.
Monique: Lunch after the ceremony is different from a retreat.
Sulan: The cost for the car is wrong.
Natalia: Proposal to fund retreat at 153.90, correct math for economy car and subsidized meal at $5.
6/0/0
Passes
Hassan: I’m down to fund social at general interest level.
Peace: I don’t think it’s the same as a general interest because they said it’s for people to bond informally.
Natalia: Then how is that different from the retreat.
Peace: Proposal to fund social in full.
Monique: Proposal to fund at general interest level.
Top down
3/2/0
Passes in full.
Natalia: The cost for the speakers is just way too high for a group that hasn’t taken this large programming on before.
Natalia: Proposal to fund in full.
0/5/0
Does not pass.
Peace: Proposal to fund the Annual Spring Banquet at 1704.43 in full plus adjusted publicity.
5/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Proposal to subtract income at 520.
5/0/0
Passes.


Jewish Student Union (JSU)
Peace: Last year they got 2800.
Hassan: They’re asking for 5k.
Elijah: They’ve spent 1k so far.
Peace: They say this year they’ve spent money on a speaker and they’re trying to bring another speaker.
Sulan: The math is wrong on supplies.
Natalia: Proposal to fund supplies in full at 26.34, the corrected cost.
6/0/0
Passes.
Elijah: They haven’t paid for any food this year. All they’ve paid for is honorariums and printing.
Vince: Proposal to fund Purim Party in full
0/6/0
Does not pass.
Peace: Think Again training.
Natalia: I’d be fine to fund this in full.
Vince: Is this on campus?
Monique: I assume so.
Elijah: I’d say cut the food and coffee. They’ve not shown that they can spend money well.
Peace: I’d give them food because it says it’s a two hour training.
Monique: Proposal to fund in full 451.
6/0/0
Passes.
Monique: I wish they broke down the costs for the two musicians because since they mixed them together there’s no way we can just fund one.
Natalia: Even if they spent all their money they were allocated this year, I still wouldn’t give them the speakers and performance.
Monique: Is the two thousand booking cost for both of them? Because they said the second on is a group but they’re only asking for one room? Like how many of them are in the group.
Vince: I guess one.
Natalia: I think they’re saying whether they bring speaker A or speaker B, the event of that magnitude would be this one price. The cost is the same for both.
Hassan: I think we should give them only event A.
Peace: I was going to suggest cutting the honorarium in half.
Natalia: what if we cut the honorarium to like 1500 and get rid of one flight.
Monique: Proposal to fund the whole budget at 2774, one 1k honorarium, 1 flight, 350 for concert sound and 119 for the inn and Mark in full, defunding the previous event.
Vince: I think we should fund the budget at 2753.83, 1500 for honorarium, 300 flight, 350 concert sound, 119 for housing, plus the 451 we already funded and the supplies we already funded.
Vince: Proposal to fund speakers and performance at 2269.
Monique: Proposal to fund speakers and performance at 2688.
Top Down
4/2/0
Passes at 2688.
Vince: Proposal to reopen Think Again training.
6/0/0
Passes.
Vince: All in favor of funding again in full.
0/6/0
Does not pass.
Vince: Okay, so posters now.
Hassan: We’re still funding Purim party posters right?
Monique: Yeah, because they didn’t use any money for the event but they still put on the event.
Monique: Proposal to fund print costs at 42.
6/0/0
Passes.
Elijah: The final total is 2756.34.


Vietnamese Students Association (VSA)
Peace: Last year they got 3.4k.
Elijah: They’ve spent 400 so far. Last time they submitted a form was in October.
Monique: Maybe it’s for the banquet.
Hassan: They said they’ve lost a lot of membership and right now they only have 3 or 4 members.
Vince: I definitely don’t think they should receive an increase. We gave them 2.9k to spent on the banquet for this year.
Elijah: They’ve been underspending since 2014.
Vince: And we’ve just been increasing them?
Elijah: Yeah.
Hassan: We should cut them.
Vince: I think a marginal increase would be fine.
Peace: Last year we funded the fish sauce and sriracha and decorations at $20 and we didn’t fund anything else.
Peace: They said they haven’t purchased cooking items in the past because they weren’t allocated enough funds.
Vince: That’s wrong, they’ve been spending every year.
Natalia: I don’t want to fund a banquet for three or four people.
Monique: If we do the banquet I only want to fund food catering, publicity, equipment rental and CDS. And then the Vietnamese coffee night, Culture Fest, and general interest. And if we want we can add the VSA hotpot.
Monique: My proposal for the banquet is 1768.44.
Natalia: What I disagree with is that they’re having membership issues and I’d be open to funding the smaller events and not the banquet.
Hassan: How does that relate to membership?
Natalia: Because the smaller events are focused on community building and the banquet’s kind of just a showy event.
Hassan: Aren’t the membership issues because there’s not enough Vietnamese students on campus or?
Natalia: Yeah so then should we be giving such a small group a 3k budget?
Elijah: I don’t think you should cut the banquet because this is a small group and we should be allowing underrepresented groups to have the exposure that they need and want and having a big event like a banquet is to attract people to the group. Also you guys tell people at treasurer training to do more big events and include more of the campus; and they’ve done it before so we shouldn’t cut it until they haven’t done it.
Vince: Also a lot of students go abroad so we don’t know - they could be coming back and if we cut their budget it’s just going to make it worse being a Vietnamese student on campus if they have no money.
Hassan: They’ve also always prioritized the banquet over everything else so it wouldn’t be our place to tell them to do all these small events instead of their banquet. Banquets are allow you to get  a broader exposure to campus.
Monique: Proposal to fund Banquet at 1768.44, everything in full, no speaker.
6/0/0
Passes.
Monique: Proposal to fund general interest at 119.15.
6/0/0
Passes.
Monique: Proposal to fund Culture Fest at 200 per our pricing guide.
6/0/0
Passes.
Monique: Proposal to fund VSA hotpot in full at 164.45.
6/0/0
Passes.
Hassan: Proposal to fund Vietnamese coffee night in full at 72.40.
6//0/0
Passes.
Vince: Can you tell them to write the name of the Asian Market they’re getting this from.
Hassan: How do you want to fund the supplies because they’re asking for cooking equipment?
Natalia: But they’re not cooking why do they need them?
Hassan: They have the hotpot so they’re probably trying to use it for that.
Natalia: I’m going to propose to just fund masking tape for posters.
Hassan: I’d propose supplies in full.
Vince: We don’t know what they’re doing with the supplies, if they have storage for them, who’s going to have access to them - and that’s pretty important for durable goods.
Natalia: Proposal to fund general supplies at $2.
Vince: Proposal to fund the same as last year 56.
Sulan: I like Vince’s proposal but we should cut decorations.
Elijah: Proposal to fund at 36 for fish sauce, sriracha and masking tape, cutting decorations, flour, and the three durable items they don’t have storage for.
Top Down
5/1/0
Passes at 56.

Members Present: Josh, Peace, Natalia, Monique
Time Start: 1pm
Time End: 5pm

Muslim Students Association (MSA)
Peace: They said their main things were supplies and their retreat and a party in Lewis House. They said they didn’t have enough money to pay for honorarium, transportation and a hotel for the speaker so they put that money towards starting things they wanted to happen in MSA every year and they said they were going to perform in a play during InterFaith week and organize an end of the year celebration.
Peace: Last year they got 5409$.
Monique: Is the first event itemized enough?
Peace: It’s like general interest.
Monique: True.
Peace: Proposal to fund ice cream social in full.
4/0/0
Passes.
Natalia: Can we make a note to advertise.
Josh: Proposal to fund the MSA members retreat  at $199.96, 2 vans, at 49.98 gas at 30 miles each way, $30 total for 3 vans, plus adjusted math for food at $70.
4/0/0
Passes.
Peace: Proposal to fund items seven and item eight in full.
0/4/0
Does not pass.
Peace: Proposal to fund lines items 3 and 4 in full.
0/4/0
Does not pass.
Monique: I don’t think they need to go to Cleveland to get the food for their celebration.
Josh: The three people they’re trying to bring, that’s like 11 grand right there.
Peace: They had money to do a speaker last year, they just didn’t do it.
Monique: We could just fund the second speaker in full.
Josh: Proposal to fund celebration at $1,190.30.
4/0/0
Passes.
Josh: Proposal to fund Rohina milk at $3,615.30.
4/0/0
Passes.