Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Liveblog SC 5-5-10

6:30pm - People are filtering in, let's get this shit started.

6:35pm - Webb is speaking out in favor of Beemsterboer. Everyone likes Beemsterboer. Sweet.

6:35 - Ajit is speaking, gotta pay attention to future constituents. He likes Ziebell for SACGB chair, so do I, awesome.

6:36 - Time to get into the nitty gritty of appointments.

6:38 - Carl is trying to lure us into Academic Affairs with promises of exciting things. I don't believe him.

6:41 - Diversity committee, Uraga is trying to get me to join.

6:45 - Leg Affairs is lobbying for your Housing and Booze. I approve of these guys.

6:45 - Nominations board talking about hiring. High attendance, respectful behavior.

6:46 - Kyle VL is taking apps for Shared Gov.

6:48 - Chair Williams is going to create a series of goals and metersticks for us based upon the conversations he had with us before the election so we can compare our concrete accomplishments to our goals as we go along. Pretty good idea.

6:54 - New Legislation, SSFC and FC Appointments
There were a lot of applications, they were sorted into yes no and maybe piles for resumes. Then they interviewed 7 or 8 who ended up as yes. Decisions were made by consensus.

Chair Nichols is pretty excited about the diversity of viewpoints (some people with science backgrounds, the SUFAC from Milwaukee will bring in new ideas, Smathers worked for the badger herald - his experience critiquing the SSFC from the outside will be helpful).

Finance - a lot of strong interviews, some history with the committee.

6:59 - Question called for approving SSFC members. Unanimous
6:59 - Question called for approving Finance members. Unanimous.

7:08 - Apparently my girlfriend has memorized my PIN number, terrifying.

7:13 - Committee memberships under old bizness. We're starting with diversity (where's Ace! we have to appoint Ace!)

7:15 - Chair Williams said that Ace intended to apply for diversity. Whew.

7:20 - not a lot of contention on leg affairs/diversity. Diversity is about 100% mpower and leg affairs looks like a lot of the people who made it tick last year.

7:24 - Proposals of fall campaigns by VC Johnson:
1. Student Housing Committee as a subunit of the current City Housing Committee. That way Students would have an outlet for creating law (although there would be a bunch of checks on the process).

Sounds good but there aren't any concrete
VC Johnson wants this committed to Leg Affairs and Shared gov. Sounds good to me. We'll get a concrete proposal in a little while. Sounds good.

Proposal by Rep. Zinn:
Vote 2010 Campaign as a special campaign

Sounds good, GOTV!

7:33 Proposal by Chair Fergus:
Safety campaign as a separate campaign.
Sounds good, lets do this.

7:44 Highschool outreach campaign? Gonna be honest, I'm kinda iffy on this. SOOO many ways it can go wrong.

7:49 Affordable textbook campaign referred to academic affairs. Sweet.

7:51 Chair Fergus wants academic affairs, Johnson wants leg affairs to do it on the state level.

7:57 Update: everything is a campaign. Maybe we should have a 'annexation of U Milwaukee campaign' I think we can take them.

8:08 Love is gonna write up a proposal on ethical investing. I'm pretty excited for this.

8:23 Beemsterboer ran unopposed for chair of Finance. No drama, awesome.

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