Executive Board Meeting #6 — Minutes (10/18/26)

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114th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association

Executive Meeting #6

Sunday October 18th, 2026 / 4:30 PM / BSC Boardroom

Attendance
1. Absent Excused:
2. Present: Jason, Amy, Grace, Sienna, Nora,
3. Faculty: Charles, Tekeya
Initiatives
1. Amy: improving longevity of RSO funding and education
  1. Work on improving stream of revenue (with Tiara Pitta), possibly through alumni giving
  2. Wants to make sure that SGA and other RSOs are able to continue for long period of time
  3. Including fundraising and financial resources outside of SGA, guidelines should show what students can do (not just what they can’t) → website with resources
2. Grace:
  1. Ronny D goal: taking feedback we collect to create event, consistent townhalls
    1. Sumi: deans dinner exists for all students
    2. Sienna: dinner might be too intimidating to be conducive for collecting feedback
    3. Nora: member of public requested town hall
  2. LEED wants to move programming council out of SGA
    1. Figure out what that will look like with elections, guidelines and what the role of the chair should be
    2. Would like for the bridge to be sustained between senators and programmers
3. Nora:
  1. Public safety transparency
  2. Indigenous faculty
  3. LGBTQ+ caucus representative
4. Jazz: having one bigger vision, yearly mission
  1. A big event with a “why”
  2. Grace: talk about theme at retreat
  3. Find a better way to engage with students, find out what they want
  4. Individual goal: work with senators to help them achieve their own goals
    1. Understanding and sharing contacts that will be responsive
  5. Amy: can you just go and visit points of contact in person
  6. Jazz:
5. Hazing
  1. Sumi: make announcement/post on how to protect yourself
  2. Sienna: reaching out to FSL on making hazing prevention mandatory
6. Slogan
  1. Sumi: having a yearly slogan
    1. Common theme: communication, transparency, safety
    2. Amy: saw transparency as making things accessible and open
    3. Sumi: focus on specific things such as construction
7. Jason
  1. Work on construction more
  2. Programming stuff: school spirit and stronger traditions, how programming will work with SGA when it eventually diverges
  3. More student facing: interactive sessions with Sumi
  4. Construction: seeing if we can allow students to have a piece of input (such as the library beam)
  5. Increasing meal options in dining halls
  6. Exec can have 1 broader vision or several smaller goals
    1. School spirit, student facing
8. Amy: people have school spirit, but having a single homogeneous identity might be counterintuitive
9. Sumi: secret society idea from Ronny D last year
  1. Specifically aimed towards the senior class
  2. Jason: can bridge SGA and programming through this
10. Amy: making things shorter so people can enjoy their times more
  1. Sumi: last year’s scavenger hunt was really good
  2. Jazz: related artist for Hoptober fest artist (trivia maybe)
11. Sienna: reach out to brands for free collaborations
12. Jazz: what does exec want to prioritize
  1. Sumi: wants specific initiative
  2. Jazz: would include getting city involved, adding a crossword in front of the tennis courts and doubletree hotel
  3. Amy: more crosswalks in general
  4. Grace: more shuttle stops
  5. Sienna: shuttle times increase if more routes cannot be added
  6. Jason: agree with shuttles, making it easier for people to rent hop vans
  7. Amy: Increase shuttle reliability, including signage
  8. Sumi: right now RSOs don’t have consistent funding
    1. Amy: now RSOs have semesterly funding
      1. Some clubs have larger participation and engagement, and LEED office is more familiar with them
      2. Not guaranteed year by year, due to changing leadership
  9. Sumi: 3 initiatives
    1. Sustainable budget
      1. Amy
      2. Sumi
    2. Secret society
      1. Grace
      2. Sienna
    3. Shuttle hours and routes
      1. Jazz