BE Board:Meeting minutes/6/08/2006

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Meeting Minutes - 6/8/06
12pm 56-754
 * 1) Coordinators
 * 2) *Congrats to the first years finishing their qualifying exams
 * 3) *BE Board elections in August
 * 4) ** Mid-August elections, start thinking about planning your campaign.
 * 5) ** Consider recruiting additional people to join the Board
 * 6) Secretary
 * 7) *T-shirt competition
 * 8) **Insufficient designs – maybe?
 * 9) **Offer free shirts to the two people who submitted designs
 * 10) **Push for additional designs from specific individuals by June 15th
 * 11) **Open voting June 15th and alter other deadlines accordingly
 * 12) *Newsletter
 * 13) **Draft for next week
 * 14) **Paper distribution via elevator stacks
 * 15) **If you have dates or things to add to the newsletter, email it to Amy
 * 16)  First year representative
 * 17) *Not in attendance. No issues known.
 * 18) Community service chair
 * 19) *Charles River Cleanup
 * 20) *Next event in the near future
 * 21) *Want to give out an award for outstanding community service
 * 22) Treasurer
 * 23) *Proposed budget and revisions
 * 24) **Stayed on Budget this year
 * 25) **Keep budget roughly the same
 * 26) **Add New events funds
 * 27) **10% fund fee included explicitly
 * 28) **Diversity funding is going to increase by $100
 * 29) **Athletics – request additional funds for equipment or just shifted off of shirts and keep net funds the same
 * 30) **New event fund still has significant funds - what are we going to do with it?
 * 31) ***Suggestion for videotaping BATS and Thursday seminar, acquisition of a video camera
 * 32) ***Next step is to talk to the department
 * 33) ***A little more work to make it certificate protected
 * 34) ***Stellar site might be the best way to go about it because they would take hosting responsibilities
 * 35) ***Additional suggestions – BE Olympics revival
 * 36) ***Try to get it handed off to departmental staff
 * 37) ***Potential cost constraint if there is overhead involved
 * 38) **Email revised edition out and see if there are any necessary changes
 * 39) Academic representatives
 * 40) *Have speakers for the summer
 * 41) *Next seminar – next Thursday afternoon
 * 42) *Addiitional speakers for July, Aug, Sept
 * 43) *Continue the BE526 following the ISS seminars for the summer
 * 44) **Pay for 526 with academic and social funds from the board
 * 45) **May attempt to get the 1st years to organize one, following in the footsteps of the
 * 46) Social chairs
 * 47) *June camping trip
 * 48) **Camping trip details have been given to participants
 * 49) *Summer sports BBQ
 * 50) **Leftovers from canceled sailing BBQ
 * 51) **Intend to make purchases in June to put it in this fiscal year
 * 52) **Probably scheduled for mid-July
 * 53) *Suggest rescheduling sailing TGIF/event
 * 54) **Look into midnight sailing
 * 55) Diversity representative
 * 56) *Division wide meeting next week
 * 57) **Most of the future planning will occur next week
 * 58) **Hold elections in August along with the BE Board
 * 59) *Seminar scheduled for October
 * 60) Athletic chairs
 * 61) *Not present
 * 62) UG curriculum representative
 * 63) *Not present
 * 64) GSC representative
 * 65) *Not present
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