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SGA Finance Committee Meeting Minutes
Date: Tuesday, October 6th, 2026, 5:45-6:45pm
Location: Shriver Board Room
| Present | Absent |
|---|---|
| Amy XuKai MartinPeter TarpleyLuke HolmesOluwanifemi AjayiMamadou ThiamAndrew GaoOmotola AlaofinAarshi LamichhaneSrika Popuri | ExcusedUnexcused |
Agenda Items
- (Are donuts ordered?)
- Barnstormers budget reevaluate/approve (full approved funds spent last year, more than $4,500, supplies budget used) (email Jackson Robien updates)
- Tabling Supplies (fast-forward finance) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxaYyqDal0SdsOSXyfJp-zXRFpy8EtawxKHM6u7XFwg/edit?tab=t.0
- Sexual Assault Awareness Tabling (fast-forward finance) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OhBTh0254vm7wawYwoFL9vFW1IwKyJH-PFRXMLBFELU/edit?tab=t.0
- HSS nutrition tabling (fast-forward finance) https://docs.google.com/document/d/16L97V0XISbqNDCoG5OYxdgAYhdrBXg-jrREGmZN5jTU/edit?tab=t.0
- SGA Black Jays 90s Photoshoot (fast-forward finance) https://docs.google.com/document/d/11JlXGQTaIzQGOXZ1S8y7jTlbH3qv1gJ8FAJkQA6DvcE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ri79ypnnr3uz
- Review event requests (Nifemi’s before 6:20)
- Questions for public safety, student affairs, office institutional equity, and student health wellbeing about Cornell news
Meeting Notes:
- Unanimous vote to pass Survey Tabling Bill with negative recommendation; concerns over survey quality; shouldn’t be full catering for tabling; recommended to deny Fast Forward Finance passage to 2nd reading
- Sexual Assault Awareness Tabling passed with positive recommendation.
- HSS Nutrition Tabling passed with positive recommendation; concerns over handling food not applicable
- SGA Black Jays 90s Photoshoot passed with positive recommendation
- All items except taxes approved from Inter-Asian Council
- Terrarium talk live plants denied; all else approved
- Olé approved
- Japanese American Student Association approved
- JHUMA events approved
- Photography Club given full budget but unjustified printing budget removed from annual allocations to compensate
- BSU expected membership of 150 for Hot Wings and Hot Topics questioned; past events are 50-80 ppl; regardless, stays under caps; approved
- All approved funding passed to be allocated
- Discussion opened for guests at GBM
- Heterodox Academy (conservative perspective organization, lack of viewpoints concern):
- Holding on-campus debates about sexual violence
- Speakers not aligned with boiler-plate university stuff
- Bring in speakers with diverse perspectives
- Disappointed in what university doing for victims on campus
- University only cares about their own fault, don’t actually help that much (not first priority at least)
- Parallel in taxes: international students must file taxes without parental support, university just offers webinars, no professional/legal support for general legal action and taxes
- University should provide connections to contractors for tangible/personalized supports to sexual assault victims
- University paying for it ideal but unlikely
- University must defend both sides of the issue, not just one
- Heterodox Academy (conservative perspective organization, lack of viewpoints concern):