SGA senators, representing different campus groups, presented carryover fund requests to the senate to be voted on at next week's meeting.
India Way, budget and finance committee chair, introduced the bills requesting thousands of dollars toward these groups.
“We have the carryover bills that are going to come in as future orders tonight, so those will be voted on a week from today,” Way said.
Lucy Anne Link, senator at-large, represented leadership and student services and requested carryover funds worth $12,124 for their activity portfolio for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
Ashley Archer, engineering senator, represented programming student activity. Archer requested $81,812.56 for their activity portfolio to go toward university programming.
Student media was represented by Brock Hendon, business senator. Hendon requested $28,352.97 in carryover for their activity portfolio.
Daniel Hess, senator at-large, represented student organizations. He asked for $51,128.08 for their carryover funds.
Following the presentation of carryover bills, the senate discussed more election related bills.
Hunter Gibson, senator at-large, detailed the changes to the senate.
“This is just the third bill in the process of auditing the election law,” Gibson said. “We obviously have a lot of changes as far as numbering goes and clearing up some confusion where parts were in paragraph form originally, so we broke it down so it’s a lot easier to read.”
For this particular bill, Gibson said many changes were made to the wording.
“It’s a lot of wording changes and kind of cleaning up the language and formatting of it,” Gibson said.
Trey Fields, Student Affairs committee chair, cleared up misconceptions surrounding SGA elections and said you do not need to be slated to run for senate.
“I was talking to someone today, the president of an organization on campus, and there was kind of some misconceptions about running for senate,” Fields said. “There was some disconnect with knowing how to run for senate so please encourage people to know.”
Olivia Tofani, SGA chief-of-staff, also touched on elections and the declarations to be posted on AU involve.
“Elections are about to happen and declarations of intent are actually out tonight,” Tofani said.
Following executive announcements, Drake Pooley, diversity and multicultural affairs committee chair, talked to senate about the issues the University of Missouri are facing.
“Referencing diversity overall, those issues, while they are in the news at Missouri, are prevalent at all of our institutions including Auburn,” Pooley said. “So, just make sure whenever you’re talking with your constituents and other students that you’re always keeping those concerns in mind and representing Auburn well.”
To conclude the meeting, Brad Smith, SGA adviser, announced Aubie’s team win in the video portion of the national championship for mascots, which is worth 50 percent of the overall score.
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