Committee Minutes, Sunday, February 19th 2006

Chairman Zach Adams submitted the following report to the Student Senate on Monday, February 27th 2006, on behalf of the Committee on the Budget, and pursuant to its Sunday, February 19th 2006 recommendations:

Attendance:

There were five (5) members (Adams, Fabricius, Griggs, Kelly, Saunders) present.

There were two (2) members (Collins, Sawrey) absent. There was also one (1) non-voting member (Toms) absent.

The following officials were also present: Compton, Walton.

A quorum was present.

Meeting Overview:

I. Consideration of the Wolf Aides allocation.
Guest speaker Betsy Godwin (blgodwin@ncsu.edu)

II. Consideration of Leader of the Pack Scholarship and Leadershape Conference allocations in the budget.
Guest speakers Nancy Zagbayou (nrzagbay@unity.ncsu.edu), Mark Clapp (maclapp@unity.ncsu.edu), Deepti Vanguri (drvangur@ncsu.edu), Brigid Belko (bbelko@ncsu.edu), Jessica Horton (jmhorton@unity.ncsu.edu), and Mike Giancola (michael_giancola@ncsu.edu)

III. Update on the status of the budget proposal and discussion of line items.

IV. Scheduling of future interviews.

Meeting Minutes:

Committee on the Budget Agenda for Sunday, February 19th, 9:00 PM
Presiding Officer, Sen. Zach Adams

9:20 pm – 11:25 pm

Present: Adams, Fabricius, Griggs, Kelly, Saunders
Absent: Collins, Sawrey, Toms
SG Guests: Compton, Walton
Other Guests: Nancy Zagbayou, Mark Clapp, Deepti Vanguri, Brigid Belko, Jessica Horton
I. Consideration of Leader of the Pack Scholarship and Leadershape Conference allocations in the budget.
Guest speakers Nancy Zagbayou (nrzagbay@unity.ncsu.edu), Mark Clapp (maclapp@unity.ncsu.edu), Deepti Vanguri (drvangur@ncsu.edu), Brigid Belko (bbelko@ncsu.edu), Jessica Horton (jmhorton@unity.ncsu.edu), and Mike Giancola (michael_giancola@ncsu.edu)

Leader of the Pack Scholarship
Nancy Zagbayou: prestigious scholarship, not based on popularity
Mark Clapp: great honor, recognizes Leadership, Service, and Scholarship

• Authority: leaders a good place to start, CSLEPS final say?
• Why scholarship? : Tradition, incentive, makes more prestigious, shows appreciation from NCSU toward student
• Popularity? : inconsistencies? Students get percentage of votes for that part of the program – student still represents the student body population
• SG supports something that goes against SGs belief in direct student involvement? : low vote not representative

Leadershape Conference
• Question of allocated positions for student body officers – will not happen
• Fees from students to go back to student body’s leadership – Jess mentioned that this is why there should not be allocated spots and that people should be encouraged to go anyhow
Possibly move the line from section 10 to section 8 due to the different nature of the expense. Student government to student body.

Effort to get corporate funding, want everyone to be able to attend for free.

II. Update on the status of the budget proposal and discussion of line items.
Options:
1. send top officers on retreat
2. send officer to national conference

I. Consideration of the Wolf Aides allocation.
$1500 - $2000

III. Scheduling of future interviews.

Invite Executive branch (tentative) next Sunday meeting

Invite Judicial branch for this Friday afternoon (4pm) meeting (pending)