Meeting Minutes - 6/8/06
12pm 56-754
- Coordinators
- Congrats to the first years finishing their qualifying exams
- BE Board elections in August
- Mid-August elections, start thinking about planning your campaign.
- Consider recruiting additional people to join the Board
- Secretary
- T-shirt competition
- Insufficient designs – maybe?
- Offer free shirts to the two people who submitted designs
- Push for additional designs from specific individuals by June 15th
- Open voting June 15th and alter other deadlines accordingly
- Newsletter
- Draft for next week
- Paper distribution via elevator stacks
- If you have dates or things to add to the newsletter, email it to Amy
- First year representative
- Not in attendance. No issues known.
- Community service chair
- Charles River Cleanup
- Next event in the near future
- Want to give out an award for outstanding community service
- Treasurer
- Proposed budget and revisions
- Stayed on Budget this year
- Keep budget roughly the same
- Add New events funds
- 10% fund fee included explicitly
- Diversity funding is going to increase by $100
- Athletics – request additional funds for equipment or just shifted off of shirts and keep net funds the same
- New event fund still has significant funds - what are we going to do with it?
- Suggestion for videotaping BATS and Thursday seminar, acquisition of a video camera
- Next step is to talk to the department
- A little more work to make it certificate protected
- Stellar site might be the best way to go about it because they would take hosting responsibilities
- Additional suggestions – BE Olympics revival
- Try to get it handed off to departmental staff
- Potential cost constraint if there is overhead involved
- Email revised edition out and see if there are any necessary changes
- Academic representatives
- Have speakers for the summer
- Next seminar – next Thursday afternoon
- Addiitional speakers for July, Aug, Sept
- Continue the BE526 following the ISS seminars for the summer
- Pay for 526 with academic and social funds from the board
- May attempt to get the 1st years to organize one, following in the footsteps of the
- Social chairs
- June camping trip
- Camping trip details have been given to participants
- Summer sports BBQ
- Leftovers from canceled sailing BBQ
- Intend to make purchases in June to put it in this fiscal year
- Probably scheduled for mid-July
- Suggest rescheduling sailing TGIF/event
- Look into midnight sailing
- Diversity representative
- Division wide meeting next week
- Most of the future planning will occur next week
- Hold elections in August along with the BE Board
- Seminar scheduled for October
- Athletic chairs
- UG curriculum representative
- GSC representative
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