Drake Pooley, business senator, and Meredith Smith, liberal arts senator, proposed a senate expansion at SGA’s weekly meeting on October 19.
Pooley and Smith want to have a senate seat for every 550 students at Auburn.
The SGA senate currently has 34 seats and as our student body population stands now, this amendment would mean there would be 50 seats in senate.
Smith said she doesn’t think there are currently enough seats in senate.
“Thirty-four seats does not seem like enough for a 25,000 person student body,” Smith said.
To be able to petition this amendment, it must have approval from 28 senators or 10 percent of the Auburn student body must sign a petition to be presented to the SGA president.
If this process in completed there will be a student body vote held and there must be a 25 percent turnout.
Assuming the vote has the appropriate turnout and the student body approves the amendment, it will then be passed on to the SGA president and Auburn’s president for approval.
Following Pooley and Smith’s presentation, senators discussed concerns regarding the proposition.
Hunter Gibson, senator-at-large, spoke about his concerns.
“Is this something that the student body wants or is this something just the senate wants?,” Gibson said.
Daniel Hess, senator at-large, also made a comment about the proposition.
“If he wakes up one day with a great idea for the nursing students, he doesn’t have to be in the nursing school to propose it because he has that right” Hess said. “We need to remember we are serving the student body.”
Trey fields, liberal arts senator, and India Way, business senator, presented their proposal for the allocation of $10,000 to go toward the Green Dot bystander intervention program last week.
The senate passed the allocation at this weeks meeting.
During executive announcements, Walker Byrd, SGA president, encouraged senators to keep their grades up for the remaining two months of school.
“We have 6 weeks of school left and that’s scary for some people,” Byrd said.
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