27 September 2017

ASCIT Board of Directors Budget Meeting

Minutes for 27 September 2017. Taken by Dana He.

Officers Present: Sakthi Vetrivel, Kavya Sreedhar, Rachael Morton, Sarah Crucilla, Alice Zhai, Dana He

Guests:

Call to Order: 12:13 pm

President’s Report (Sakthi):

• Would like to bring back freshman dinners.

• ASCIT will have table at Club Fair with food. Possibly have social team bake cookies.

Officer’s Reports:

V.P. of Academic Affairs (Kavya):

• Course capture fully funded by Vice Provost so no need for ASCIT funding.

• Would like to increase ARC budget to cover general costs (seminars, etc.) and make take professor to lunch twice per term.

V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Rachael):

• Will allow Bechtel focus groups to use some of IHC budget to encourage attendance.

• Could get rid of multi-house event funding and instead have houses apply for funding in slush fund. Will consult with IHC.

• Fleming Feptathalon and Page Trivia Night canceled.

Director of Operations (Sara):

• Not in attendance.

Treasurer (Sarah):

• Budget needs to be done by September 30th, but amount allotted to each specific club can be done later.

• $14,700 budgeted for clubs last year, but only $4,000 has been used.

• In favor of having Little t sign up as a club to receive funding.

• Increasing budget for ASCIT Teaching Awards from $2,500 to $3,500, as they have historically gone over budget.

• BoC has not used any of their budget, will talk to BoC Chair.

• Will send out email reminding houses about interhouse budget.

Social Director (Alice):

• Would like to increase budget for ASCIT formal from $5,000 to $15,000. Also gets funding from MHF.

• Would like to do something along the lines of renting out Six Flags, will try to get MHF funding for it.

Secretary (Dana):

• Nothing to report.

If anyone has any questions or concerns about a section of the minutes please email the appropriate officer. We are happy to answer any questions.

Meeting Adjourned: 12:56 pm