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Last night, the Finance Committee of Student Congress met and was presented with a request on behalf of the student Board of Elections for $1,500 to finance the up-coming Homecoming election which would also include elections for Student Congress vacancies.
However, the request was made without the knowledge of the Board of Elections because Student Body Treasurer Jennings Carpenter reported that the Board of Elections never contacted him about the elections, so this was actually initiated by CAA. He had unsuccessfully tried to contact the Board of Elections, yet they had never communicated back.
The committee had the general feeling that the Board of Elections needed to get its act together before we could appropriate them money to disburse to candidates. Carpenter countered that he could disburse the funds himself, but that raised questions of whether that was his prerogative, so Representative Alex Mills moved to report this request unfavorably to Student Congress.
As his motion passed, it would require a 2/3 vote of Student Congress to vote on the bill, so unless that obstacle is removed, the Board of Elections will not be receiving that money for the Homecoming Elections.
Um the BOE in general is up in the air. . .
yeah, blame it on the BOE, that's easy. the BOE has NEVER had anything to do with the funding for homecoming elections, except collecting the financial reports. student congress has always reimbursed the elections directly, not through the BOE. and when congress takes weeks to confirm the BOE members, it's a bit difficult to blame the BOE when there is no BOE.
Okay, what in the world do you mean "takes weeks"? That makes no sense as there has to be "weeks" involved seeing as how we meet every two weeks.
It is remarkably difficult to approve BoE applicants when said BoE doesn't choose to send any applicants for approval. It doesn't help when the BoE chair utterly fails to attend a meeting for both Finance and R&J for candidate approval, including the failure to tell -anyone- in Congress that he would not be able to attend.
The BoE as an institution makes sense. The BoE in practice, however, is just an exercise in incompetence.
The BOE does not need money. If you must know, that entire ordeal was a huge mistake on the part of Congress. Way to waste your time. Maybe if you had contacted the BOE Chair, this mess would have never taken place.
The BOE in its current form is ripe ground for corruption and power trips. It needs to be accountable to someone. As the laws are currently written, BOE is by and large accountable to NO ONE.