I will work with the Student Union and the administration to establish a voting process for using unspent club money from the SAF.
Every semester, clubs leave allocated funds unspent. There are important projects students care to fund, but we lack the process to realize them. The one time we had such a vote in recent history, it was a huge success. Students of all kinds developed proposals and reached out to their peers to convince others.
Right now every meeting the president has with his executive board is secretive the opposite of transparent. Now, some element of discretion is needed - if the Administration tells us something in confidence, we can't discuss that publicly. Still, to the extent that our meetings can be open, public, and transparent, they will be.
In the last union election we passed Amendment 9, changing some minor constitutional language that opened the door to giving more undergraduate students access to the Board of Trustees. Members of the Constitutional Review Committee can attest to the fact that this was a Sahar Massachi original. Together we passed the amendment, but that was only the first step. We opened the door but I want to see it through until we ACTUALLY get more reps. It could be a big fight, and it might not be come to fruition in the next academic year, but the fight starts now.
Meetings are open to the community; have you ever been to one? If you have, then you've seen the time wasted on bureaucratic semantics:
The current senate meeting style isn't working as best it could, so it's worth trying something new. While a formal style can sometimes be useful, it is more often than not used in an unfortunately unproductive fashion. Maybe more can get done to get further OUR goals if we experiment with a less formal approach to senate meetings.