There's been enough discussion of this that I thought it would be worth putting the question to the group:
Should UMLUG amend its constitution to no longer require the officers to renew SGA membership? I ask because we have had a number of SGA-related events that are making life unnecessarily difficult for officers (particularly the Treasurer). 1. The SGA denied most of our 2008-2009 school year budget. 2. SGA money is hard to spend to begin with because we are required to purchase on 30 day net terms, and its hard to do that with no account history. 3. Because of a new department policy, as an SGA-recognized organization we can no longer make campus reservations without going through the SGA scheduling office. The SGA scheduling office: is hesitant to even attempt to schedule specific rooms; lost our paperwork last time we tried to schedule a room; and must be dealt with by physically going to Stamp, which is very inconvenient. By amending the constitution we will simply eliminate the requirement that officers renew SGA membership, but will not prevent officers from doing so if they deem it to be useful for the organization. Please post comments and responses, and if it seems that there's interest I will add this item to the elections ballot.
