Minutes for BC Meeting 12/5/15

In Attendance:

Paul Gramieri (treasurer)

Pierre-Alexander Lowe

Manny Morales

Tess Frenzel

George Ward

Aditi Krishnamurthy

Keshav Pant

Mohamed Ramy

Jacob Silverman

Silvia Sotolongo

Vivian Yee (minutetaker)

1. Mountain Biking Club

·  Bike repair quote gotten now

·  Motion to fund – 7,0,0

2. SASA

·  Mental awareness event

·  Want discussion food for the event

·  Have never gotten any request before

·  Will be on dec 15

·  Motion to fund – 7,0,0

·  Motion to add publicity – 7,0,0

3. ACF

·  Spotlight speaker series

o  Every sem invite local pastors to speak, but don’t know who exactly

o  Get in contact with them during the sem

o  George – zero until have concrete info

o  Usually fund this through budgets

o  BC – should come back through discretionary

·  Heartbeat

o  Usually have a speaker come in – someone who runs a coffee shop at UMASS where money goes to fighting against sex trafficking – comes in to speak and caters the event also

o  Manny – is food integral to the event?

o  Keshav – is the food paying for the coffee he brings?

§  Also get small foods to go along w the event

§  Could use discussion food instead

o  Silvia – would be best to try to get funding from another source and save discussion food for another event

o  Materials are for people to make things

·  Easter Sunday

o  1500 is for lewis sebrings dinner – can’t really get anything w 500

o  Paul – could get catering from another source

o  LS provides venue

o  Aditi – can get Friedman room or another location

·  Motion to fund – 7,0,0