I would generally be in favor of untying the hands of the officers, but somehow I find it hard to believe that SGA recognition is something that an organization would be better off without. I don't see how #1 and #2 are reasons not to join the SGA; if SGA money isn't useful, UMLUG could just submit a $0 budget. As for #3, what special status of a non-SGA-recognized UMLUG would allow it to make campus reservations for free, or can anyone do that?
Matt On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:00 -0400, Ed Kohlwey wrote: > 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.
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