Student Organizations Committee Meeting — Minutes (09/09/26)

Present: Kevin, Andrei, Shiran, Rocio, Mahima

Excused: Arjun, Paul

Unexcused: Aarshi, Rosanne

Agenda:

1. Name tags
2. Prospective Student Organization Fair funding bill
   1. t-shirts, mugs, plushies for the first people to show up
   2. Ekiben catering? Chick-fil-a? Consensus: Ice cream from food truck
      1. The Cow, Taharka, etc.
   3. Anything else?
3. Committee work delegation
   1. Initiatives from now on (big or small) will be delegated to one or two members of the committee.
   2. Propose your own initiatives (if you’re already working on smth you will not be assigned additional work ofc)
4. Collab with Finance
   1. Peter/finance would like to collab. They’ll provide funding for food. Finance/CSO committee members and RSO senators will visit select student organizations to get to know them, answer / relay questions, and gather feedback.
5. Communication platform between SGA and student orgs
   1. Consensus: Groupme
      1. Discussion: Just between our committee and orgs or between SGA at large and the orgs
   2. RSO senators should reach out to orgs in their category
   3. Hold office hours where student orgs can ask questions and promote SGA GBM time and SGA CSO and Finance meeting time. Also, an opportunity for clubs to connect and collaborate with other orgs (e.g. photography).
6. Vice chair
   1. Kevin nominates Andrei to be the CSO vice chair
   2. Andrei emphasizes his involvements in all the CSO initiatives so far and urges the committee to vote for him
   3. Kevin, Andrei, Shiran, Rocio, and Mahima vote to confirm Andrei as the vice chair. None vote to deny the nomination.
   4. 5/5 (100%) > 2/3 (~66.67%), as such, Andrei is confirmed as the CSO vice chair

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