112th Johns Hopkins Student Government AssociationSenate Meeting #18February 4, 2025 / 07:15 PM / Hackerman B17AGENDA
- Call to Order and Attendance (1 min)
a. Excused Absentees: Jacquelyn Slade, Ryan Alezz, Zachary
Bahar, Zaynab Mirzab. Unexcused Absentees: Jordyn Craig-Schwartz, Ethan Edelstein,
Adithyan Neelamana, Amy Xu
- Convening Business (40 min)
- Amendment and Approval of the Agenda (1 min)
- Public Input (3 min)
- Reports (5 min)
a. Cabinet Reports (4 min)
b. Advisor Report (2 min)
- Non-Legislative Business (15 min)
a. Upcoming Guests/ Decorum- President Nasreen Naqvi
b. The Board of Committee Chairs Initiative- Senator DaarianRouhani
- First Reading
a. Club Columbia Funding Bill- Senator Cynthia Sanchez Hidalgo
b. ABSA Funding Bill- Nasreen Naqvi
- Second Reading
a. Speed Dating Bill- Chair Tim Huangi. Presentationii. Date: Feb 22nd
iii. Evening 7pm Great Hall
- Prospective Legislation & Announcements (5 min)
- Adjournment (Estimated 9:00 PM)
Time-length and adjournment estimates are provided for the benefit ofguests at Senate meetings. However, SGA meetings are always slated toextend until 9:00 PM and SGA members are expected to remain in theSenate chamber until official adjournment by motion, whether before orafter the adjournment estimate.112th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association
Senate Meeting #18February 4, 2025 / 07:15 PM / Hackerman B17MINUTES
- Call to Order and Attendance (1 min)
a. Excused Absentees: Jacquelyn Slade, Ryan Alezz, Zachary
Bahar, Zaynab Mirzab. Unexcused Absentees: Jordyn Craig-Schwartz, Ethan Edelstein,
Adithyan Neelamana, Amy Xu
- Convening Business (40 min)
- Amendment and Approval of the Agenda (1 min)
a. Agenda was approved.
- Public Input (3 min)
- Reports (5 min)
a. Cabinet Reports (4 min)i. Executive President Stone Meng thanked everyone who
attended the Student Government Summit as theyrepresented the JHU SGA successfully.ii. Executive Vice President Amy Li informed the SGA that
the Executive Branch met with Brittani Brown and JohnsHopkins Facilities & Real Estate. The meeting wasfollowed by a conversation with Brown about upcomingupdates in study places.iii. President of the Senate Nasreen Naqvi said that LeeHawthorne will visit the SGA meeting soon.iv. Chair of Programming Tim Huang informed that theformal dates have been confirmed:
- Sophomore Formal - March 1st
- Junior Formal - March 28th
- Freshman Formal - April 12th
v. Since Treasurer Brandon Benjamin was not in themeeting at this point, Finance Committee ChairOluwakemi Abiodun informed that they are mostly donewith allocations.
b. Advisor Report (2 min)
- Non-Legislative Business (15 min)
c. Upcoming Guests/ Decorum- President Nasreen Naqvii. Naqvi heard back from every admin they reached out to.As the dates get ascertained, they will visit the GBM toanswer questions and conduct presentations.
Undergraduate Admissions, Off-Campus Housing andmany more will come to the GBM. Naqvi said that SGAmembers are not expected to dress up for most of these,but Naqvi asked the members to still look presentable andavoid eating in front of them. She will inform everyoneabout who will be visiting that day through an email, soshe asked everybody to think about what they want to askabout before the meeting. There will be strict speakerslists. Naqvi asked people to not repeat things and avoidturning these into a rant session.ii. Amy: Be mindful of what you ask and what you comment.Admin etiquette is important.iii. Nasreen: IT will come in about Wi-Fi, there will be Diningupdates. Next week, Off-Campus Housing will be here.
d. The Board of Committee Chairs Initiative- Senator DaarianRouhanii. Daar: Part of a panel in the breakout session, talked aboutour SGA structure and learned about other SGAs’structures. We have a cabinet, which is the executivebranch, but he had the idea of creating one for committeechairs where they can meet once every 2 weeks. He didn’teven know Tarini was working on the Remsen chairs untilshe said it. No one checks the initiatives tracksheet, sowhy not have a committee chairs board?ii. Motion for a 5 minute Q&Aiii. Yashas: Good idea, but not every committee needs tomeet. Like Finance.iv. Daar: Disagreed. We feel this way because we don’t knowwhat they are busy doing. If we knew, we could providehelp if necessary.v. Srigouri: Likes the idea, would be good for HSS, whichoverlaps with Civic Engagement and Student Services.Remembers confusion from last year with thearrangement of transportation for an event, so this wouldbe good to not have those situations again.vi. Omotara: Doesn’t think communication is an issue. SGAis already a time commitment. As opposed to having fullfledged meetings because we may not have enough todiscuss we could have another way to increasecommunication.vii. Daar: People should be checking excel sheet more. Ihadn’t envisioned a formal meeting, just a check in to seeif it would be fruitful to hold a meeting. It’s also easier todo on Zoom. No point in meeting if there’s nothing todiscuss.viii. Tarini: Likes it but all committee chairs could put incomments onto a google doc after every meeting forpeople to read and they can reach out if they need help.People have busy schedules and meetings would be a painor we could do a quick meeting afterwards.ix. Stone: agree with Srigouri, but it is up to the committeechairs. Committee chairs could stay off GBM for 5-10minutes to update, saving time. Like the idea of having achannel to update on meetings every week. From thesummit, learnt that another group holds a regular councilcalled WTF (what to fix), we could hold this with thestudents to ask them what they would like to fix likechairs in Remsenx. Kemi: Good idea, a doc isn’t interactive. Increasestransparency , even if it’s finance other committee issuescan come up. Could help for committees too, not just thechairs. 30 minutes is doable. Seconds the motion.xi. Daar: have a quick in and out meeting, as chair he doesthe least amount of work and can contribute.xii. Nasreen: good opportunity to keep me updated withcommittees. Would like to be kept in the loop. Can do itonce a month to start off, could be right after the GBM.xiii. Daar: takes responsibility of keeping Nasreen and Stonein the loop. We don’t have to do it if it’s too much of atime commitment.
- First Reading
c. Club Columbia Funding Bill- Senator Cynthia Sanchez Hidalgoi. Sarah Marquez and Catalina Hernandez Valencia.ii. Catalina: Looking to get the support of SGA.iii. Saturday, April 26th. Homewood Training Fields.Students represent one of the eight countries, which arelisted in the bill.iv. Open to the entire Hopkins Community.v. Sarah: Started three years ago, has grown since then.More than 100 attendees but expecting much more thisyear. Raised more than 250 usd for charity last year.Unites all latinos.vi. You can play or just come for the food, music, full-dayevent.vii. Supplies needed are linked, includes food to keep playershydrated, funds are around 1400 usd.viii. Cynthia: Not sure how much Club Colombia will be ableto contribute to funds but the numbers will be updatedsoon. Everything will be from Amazon. Will definitely beupdated by next week.ix. Sarah: We have stuff that we can reuse next yearx. Tarini: Do we have picnic blankets? Are we able to getcanopies from Hopkins without having to buy it andsaving 200 usd.xi. Cynthia: You still have to pay for the rental (Nasreen alsosupported)xii. Moses: Asked this question to other clubs. Are there feesor other sources of income?xiii. Catalina: Players pay a fee but we donate the profits.xiv. Yashas: Since this will come out of SGA’s discretionarybudget, why can’t this be an event budget.xv. Cynthia and Catalina: For SGA to co-host and this is a bigevent.xvi. Stone: We sponsored this last year, so we can sponsor itthis year, too. Since this is a recurring event, maybe buythe canopies instead of renting or buying it everytime.Can reach out to outdoor pursuits to rent canopies.xvii. Jaden: Motion to move to Finance Committee.
d. ABSA Funding Bill- Nasreen Naqvii. Nasreen: Sister organization to JHMA (ABSA) want to doa collaboration between other schools, they have alreadyagreed. Hosting ice skating at Hopkins, need to buypizzas, drinks, associated supplies. Cost is 230 usd.
- Second Reading
b. Speed Dating Bill- Chair Tim Huangi. Presentationii. Date: Feb 22nd
iii. Evening 7pm - 9pm Great Halliv. Format: People come in, whistle, 4 minutes, choose aquestion and answer it in 4 minutes, change.v. Srigouri: What if people want to stay with the person theylike?vi. Tim: Everyone has to rotate, but you can always find thatperson later. Won’t force everyone to rotate. After 4minutes, 1 minute grace period. At the end, you can evenwrite postcards and give it to them.vii. Motion for 5 minute moderated caucus
- Cynthia: Remembers watching a matchmaking
show and there they don’t make people share theircontact information. Rather people say yes, noabout everyone. If people say yes to each other, wesend contact information.
- Buse: make it a google form, combine it with a
feedback form.
- Tim: Just need to figure out the logistics and phone
numbers. Also we will probably need volunteers,like Daar asked.
- Omotara: How many people are allowed to
volunteer for this event? Suggested paper forcontact info again. Could we do “Pop the Balloon” ifthis event goes well?
- Tim: No more than 6 volunteers. But SGA members
can join. We can see about paper or form. If thisevent goes well. What is Pop the Balloon?
- Omotara: Explained the procedure. Someone walks
in, if the others don’t like it, they pop the balloon.
- Nasreen: We should decide on the supplies first.
- Cynthia: Add 5 more USD in case you need more
printing.
- Danial: To make it more inclusive, reach out to CDI.
Mary Rose or Isaac …
- Amy: Can there be an SGA sponsored dinner date
for the matches?
- Tim: We can’t afford to pay for too many dates.
12.Jazz: Will people sign up? How are we going toknow if people will show up for sure. Do advertising,like a video.
- Tim: We could make a video, I have video editing
experience if people are willing.14.Buse: to ensure we don’t have empty seats, say thatwe will be accepting people from the waitlist if theyshow up. We could also have SGA members hangingaround.
- Tim: No waitlist, but people can walk in. Get people
to sign up, advertise it. We have 40 people here, justmake sure you bring 1 or 2 people to the event.16.Nasreen: Questions about the bill?
- Kevin: Motion to vote on the bill?
- Passed.
- Prospective Legislation & Announcements (5 min)
- Adjournment (Estimated 9:00 PM)
Time-length and adjournment estimates are provided for the benefit ofguests at Senate meetings. However, SGA meetings are always slated toextend until 9:00 PM and SGA members are expected to remain in theSenate chamber until official adjournment by motion, whether before orafter the adjournment estimate.