Minutes for BC Meeting 4/20/15

In Attendance:

Paul Gramieri (treasurer)

Karen Blake (absent)

Tierney Werner

Will Jackson

Fawzi Itani

Manny Morales

Marie Lambert

Richard Park (absent)

RJ Kermes

Joe Hussen

Vivian Yee (minutetaker)

1. Hip Hop Club

  • Cypher 15 publicity for event
  • Want portable set of speakers for hip hop club
  • In addition to having the cypher, also have dances that they hold regularly, so need to be able to move speakers around
  • Would be good addition to dj tractor boards
  • Price would be 499 – Mackey speaker (3 year warrantee would be another 80)
  • RJ – have never covered warrantee in the past
  • How will the speakers be signed in and taken care of?
  • Manny – id does swipe in and swipe out
  • RJ – cant force student group to be assuming that role
  • Asked WAMH already, but said that they don’t have
  • RJ – are these high end speakers? How have events been run
  • Yes, pretty powerful and portable
  • Have been used built in room speakers in theaters
  • For freestyle sessions have borrowed a students
  • For ciphers, have been doing them inside, but now using the tv in MRC and not loud
  • Would be stored in MRC and only members of the board would have access to speaker and would have to email leader before renting
  • RJ – would it make sense for AAS to own and rent out a couple of speakers
  • Tierney – could be done and could have student activities help with it
  • Hoping to have these for events for the rest of this semester
  • Hip hop group could be locus group for students to rent out
  • RJ – tried w WAMH and students broke those speakers
  • Motion to fund publicity – 7,0,0

2. Outdoor Movie Night through Briana Wiggins

  • On May 3rd on memorial hill
  • Company coming in that’s bringing in a flat screen, showing flubber and big hero six
  • Need screening rights, advertising, a tarp to cover the floor with, blankets for people to sit with
  • Tarp is purchased but could be given to campus center
  • Tierney – could rent tarp through facility possibly? Should ask first?
  • RJ – are blankets giveaways?
  • Will – people could ring their own and it’ll be may
  • Motion to fund screening rights, publicity, table tarp – 7,0,0

3. Brigham Snow

  • Proposed on Thursday this idea
  • Have been working through IT dept for own film project for lacross team here
  • Cameras cant really allow for slow motion editing, so this software would allow for slow motion simulation
  • Could go on it computers, and the school as a whole could use
  • Tierney – is this a one time fee or a yearly subscription?
  • One time
  • Paul – could request software through IT? Should be first stop
  • Manny – who did you talk to in IT?
  • Spoke to Pete mostly
  • Motion to zero – 7,0,0
  • Will speak to IT first and come back if doesn’t work

4. WAMH

  • Want money for hotel rooms for last concert of the semester
  • First live band debut for st. pepsi
  • Will be on may 1st
  • Need 3 rooms for 6 beds
  • Tierney – will the items on Thursday need to be emergency funded?
  • No
  • Motion to fund – 7,0,0

5. Friends of Book and Plow Farm

  • May 2nd farm fest
  • Doing the same thing as past few years – get around 1000 people for end of the year bbq party
  • Will have pigs this year along w live local music (5 bands for 500 each)
  • 1 alumni band, 3 local bands, 1 student band
  • RJ – cant fund student band
  • Need same sound and stage set up as last year
  • Facilities don’t quite have the capabilities to set up for on the hill
  • Also need publicity
  • Motion to fund – 7,0,0

6. Drew House

  • Working on black cinema through the years project for house project
  • On the last week will have a combined discussion after weeks of film screenings
  • Want publicity for the event and discussion food
  • Motion to fund – 7,0,0

7. Sam

  • Disorientation
  • Have happened at other peer organizations
  • Want a disorientation guide to be printed as a guide of what administration will do for students for orientation
  • Would be given out during orientation meeting
  • Would be used next sem, so cant fund till next sem, so would this be able to be done in club budget?
  • Fawzi – similar to a senate project?
  • Similar to what SHE’s do every fall
  • Talk about race relations, mandatory reporting, etc
  • Will be becoming a club soon, but cant get club budget yet
  • Manny – but if we fund this sem, then we would be using money from this sem funds to fund a project for next sem
  • Tierney – will this be taking away for other students projects?
  • Motion to table – 7,0,0