GPSA Finance Commission

10/05/2010
6:30PM to 8:30PM
141 Sage Hall

Commission Attendance:
Kyle Albert
Christopher Clarke
John Connelly
Robert Hartshorn
David Ho
Joanna Sikora
Ven Su
Absent:
Hadi Fathallah (notified commission in advance they would not be in Ithaca during the date/time of the meeting)

Graduate and Professional Student Attendance:

• 1. Three representatives of the OCP (Organization of Cornell Planners)
  • a. Present to answer any questions regarding two special project requests
• 2. Representative of SAGES (Student Association of the Geneva Experiment Station)
  • a. Present to petition on behalf of funding appeal

General Committee Notes and Comments:

• 1. Kyle Albert had conflict and had to depart earlier (7:30PM).
• 2. Commission agreed to review requests for attending student groups first to accommodate attendees schedules.
• 3. Late annual budgets reviewed next. Commission divided into teams of two to review and comment on assigned budgets. Chairperson reviewed and approved comments and allocations for release.
• 4. Meeting concluded at 8:30PM deadline with 12 requests outstanding. Work to complete the final requests fell to chairperson. Due to schedule conflicts final updates not completed until following week, October 12.
  • a. Groups impacted include:
    • i. ISA
    • ii. Philomela
    • iii. History of Arts & Visual Studies
    • iv. EGSO
    • v. Environmental Law Society
    • vi. Electron Devices Society
    • vii. Gender & Sexuality Reading Group
    • viii. National Lawyers Guild
    • ix. Planning Students for Diversity
    • x. BEE