SAFC Meeting Minutes
Monday, September 11th, 2006
5:00 p.m. � 6:00 p.m.
163 Day Hall

I. Call to Order

The Meeting was called to order at 5:00 p.m.

II. Roll Call

Present: Samuel Bendix, Adam Castle, Jeffrey Catalano, Luke Chernosky, Jeffrey Cohan, Mary DePalma, Adam Dix, Jeffrey Douglas, Maddie Ehrlich, Erica Fischer, Varun Gehani, Lisa Gilbertson, Jennifer Hsu, Brittni Levinson, Kim Lewis, Michael McCormack, Scottie McQuilkin, Samuel Miller-Little, Adrian Nunez, Nadia Ormsby, Spencer Pepper, Alex Saltman, Eric Schulman, Joey Zielinski

Absent: Jillian Dorans, Colin Heath, Ashin Phadnis, Jonathan Raymond

III. Business of the Day

Budget Hearings

S. Pepper started out by passing around Oaths of Office and Group Affiliation Disclosure sheets. He said that every commission needs to do this.

S. McQuilkin passed around an Office Hours Signup sheet. She asked that each commissioner sign up for one session (they run from 3pm to 4pm, Tuesday through Thursday). She said that the Tuesday session will be in 114 Day Hall, but the rest will be in Willard Straight Hall � International Lounge.

J. Zielinski announced that the SAFC had to add additional time slots for budget hearings on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, but each slot is not three hours long. The slots are Thursday and Friday from 4pm to 7pm and 7pm to 10pm, and Saturday and Sunday 9:30am to 12:30pm, 12:30pm to 3:30pm, and 3:30pm to 6:30pm. He asked that each commissioner sign up for five time slots. He also passed around a Wegmans Lunch signup sheet so that commissioners could sign up for what kind of lunches they would receive at the budget hearings.

M. DePalma asked if a commissioner knew a group very well, but was not involved in it, did they have to put it down on the Group Affiliation Disclosure sheet?

S. McQuilkin responded that only if the person was in the group they needed to put it on the Group Affiliation Disclosure sheet. She also asked that commissioners be on-time and seated by 4:30pm on Thursday and Friday. Lastly, she thanked all of the commissioners for doing such a great job on help sessions and for the perfect attendance at the sessions.

E. Fischer asked that if any commissioners had not signed their Ethical Statement, they needed to get it to her as soon as possible. She also wanted any commissioners who had not completed their President and Treasurer�s Test yet to email her the finished results by tomorrow at 4pm.

E. Schulman said that the liaison program was going well, but apologized for any problems that have occurred. He also said that the old way of doing the liaison program was having each individual commissioner look up the President and Treasurer of their groups and email them personally, which was very slot. He said that new way he used automatically emailed every President and Treasurer in each group, saving commissioners a lot of time.

S. McQuilkin said that if any liaison groups had questions that their liaisons could not answer, they should forward them on to SAFC@cornell.edu

J. Zielinski announced five resignations: Evan Walker, Rajivan Maniam, Brandon Kerns, Dana Sckolnick, and Anastasiya Sidorova. He also announced that all alternates are now full commissioners, bringing the total number of commissioners to 29.

S. McQuilkin asked that all commissioners wear their SAFC t-shirts, and passed around a copy of the �Quick Reference Guide� that would be at each budget hearing table. She reminded all commissioners to not use this guide as their only reference. She also mentioned that a few commissioners have approached her with ambitions of being an E-Board member, and she said that she loved the enthusiasm.

J. Zielinski added that all commissioners need to be on time to the budget hearings.

S. McQuilkin reminded all of the commissioners to wear their new red SAFC t-shirts, not the old ones. She added that if any commissioner needs to come late or leave early to write it down on the sign up sheets. Lastly, she asked everyone to give Ms. Fischer their oath of office and sign up for office hours.

IV. Adjournment

Meeting ended at 5:15 pm.

Respectfully Submitted,
Daniel Kantor
SAFC Clerk, Office of the Assemblies