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.
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Meeting Adjourned: 12:56 pm