Student Government Association will be conducting elections for the positions of President, Vice President, and Senators from 5/2/12 to 5/4/12 for the 2012 to 2013 school year. Candidate information and nomination papers are due 4/20/12 at 5pm to the Student Government Office (CC 359) or the Student Government mailbox located next to the Student Life Office.
Candidate Guidelines
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Senator Nomination Form
Executive Nomination Form
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Budget Overview
Fellow Senators, It is with great pleasure that we present to you the budget of the Milwaukee School of Engineering Student Government Association for academic year 2011-2012. The senate’s 2011-2012 budget grand total stands at eight thousand seven hundred twenty-five. This budget is a good faith representation of the funding required for the dutiful operation of the senate over the coming academic year. Over the past three weeks the Funding Committee has met with thirteen student organizations. We were pleased at the thoughtfulness and ambition that went into each organizations budget proposal.
Operating under a new constitution the Funding Committee has faithfully executed its constitutional duties. The past three weeks were spent in meetings with the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s student organizations. In each meeting, funding recommendations were made based upon the degree of alignment between each organization’s prospective budget, and the stated goals in the mission statement of the Student Government Association Funding Committee.
The funding committee’s mission is based upon the senate of 2011-2012 goal of increasing the involvement of student organizations on campus. In this budget no student organization received a cutback in the first quarter. This is good news because, due to the funding committee’s twenty five percent rule, each organization that received cutbacks in the second and third quarter has the ability to recover most of their cutbacks by the dutiful execution of their first semester’s budget. – For greater detail on the twenty five percent rule please see line item fourteen on page seven of this document. – This budget also provides each new organization the funding they require to start, with the controls to cut funding in the future, if their budgeted money was spent irresponsibly.
This budget is in firm alignment with the Funding Committee’s mission statement to, “Incentivize an Exceptional MSOE Experience.” The Student Government Association Funding Committee firmly believes that the budget outlined below will incentivize a higher quality in Milwaukee School of Engineering campus life by incentivizing student body involvement. In so doing, this budget will be a key instrument in supporting the goals set forth by the senate of 2011-2012.
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On Behalf of the Funding Committee,
Dylan Heun | Chairman
Jared Hoffmann, Chad Bohl, and Kenny Albrecht
2011-2012 FY Budget of the Student Government Association
Line Items:
Line 1 | Tau Alpha Pi
- Quarter Three:
- Line G: Seventy five dollars — on hold pending evidence of organization promotion on campus.
Line 2 | Ducks Unlimited
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for the first meeting of the year.
- Line B: One hundred dollars for volunteer raffle.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Forty dollars for member meeting incentive.
- Line B: Seventy dollars for member incentive.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: One hundred forty dollars for prizes at banquet.
Line 3 | Tau Beta Pi
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for puck toss. Provided fifty dollars in proceeds go to a banner for the organization’s publicity.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for engineering futures.
- Line B: Seventy-five dollars for bridge building competition.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: Forty dollars for engineering futures.
- Line B: Forty-five dollars for tower building competition.
Line 4| Alpha Eta Mu Beta
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Fifty dollars initiation ceremony.
- Line B: Fifty dollars informational session.
- Line C: Fifty dollars for hockey game chuck-a-puck with at least fifty dollars from the proceeds must go to a banner for publicity at events.
- Line D: Twenty-five dollars for breast cancer awareness event.
- Line E: Twenty-five dollars for drug awareness event.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Seventy-five dollars — on hold pending the successful execution of previous quarter promises and ability to provide detail on the MSOE event expense.
- Quarter Three:
- Line B: Thirty-five dollars — on hold pending the successful execution of previous quarter promises and ability to provide detail on the MSOE event expense.
Line 5 | First Robotics
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Two hundred fifty dollars required aid in robot construction.
- Line B: Fifty dollars for robot demonstrations at MSOE events.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Seventy-five dollars — on hold for national robotics week pending quantifiable data confirming a membership increase because of SGA sponsored events.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: One hundred ten dollars — on hold for national robotics week pending quantifiable data confirming a membership increase because of SGA sponsored events.
Line 6 | College Democrats
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for beginning of the year recruitment.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Seventy-five dollars SAGA event.
- Line B: Seventy dollars for debate event.
Line 7 | Cigar and Pipe Social Club
- Quarter One:
- Line A: One hundred ten dollars for coffee tasting event.
- Line B: Twenty-five dollars for pastries at coffee tasting event.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Eighty dollars for coffee tasting event.
- Line B: Forty dollars for a banner.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: Eighty dollars for coffee tasting event.
Line 8 | Engineers Without Boarders
- Quarter One:
- Line A: One hundred fifty dollars for conference registration costs only.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Two hundred dollars for CPR training.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for promotional poster.
Line 9 | Eta Kappa Nu
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for initiation ceremony.
- Line B: Fifty dollars for hockey game give away prize.
- Line C: Fifty dollars for informational session.
- Line D: Fifty dollars for conference registration fees only.
- Quarter Two:
- Line B: Thirty-five dollars for clean your computer day.
- Quarter Three:
- Line C: Thirty-five dollars for HKN cookout open to the campus.
Line 10 | Symphony Orchestra
- Quarter One:
- Line A: One hundred seventy-five symphony orchestra music.
- Line B: Seventy-five dollars for men’s choir music.
- Line C: One hundred dollars for jazz ensemble music.
- Line D: Fifty dollars for string ensemble music.
- Line E: Seventy-five dollars for campus wide social event.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: One hundred fifty dollars for symphony orchestra music.
- Line B: Thirty-five dollars for men’s choir music.
- Line C: Thirty-five dollars for jazz ensemble music.
- Line D: Fifty dollars for a campus wide social event.
- Quarter Three:
- Line C: Fifty dollars for campus wide social event.
Line 11 | Amateur Radio Club
- Quarter One:
- Line A: One hundred dollars for postage of 400 post cards.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: One hundred dollars for low power transmitter — on hold pending two open campus events. One in quarter two and plans for one in quarter three which expose the campus to the ARC office for the purpose of growing membership. The event must have written evidence of ten new visitors beyond current ARC membership.
Line 12 | Fishing Team
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Three hundred twenty-five dollars for Wisconsin Shootout.
- Line B: Three hundred fifty dollars for club tournament up north.
- Line C: Three hundred twenty-five dollars for local Wisconsin tournament.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Four hundred dollars for MSOE ice fishing tournament.
- Line B: One hundred seventy dollars for overnight trip.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: Three hundred dollars FLW Tournament Lake Ouchita.
- Line B: One hundred seventy-five dollars FLW Tournament at Lake of Ozarks, Missouri.
- Line C: One hundred seventy-five FLW tournament at Kentucky Lake, Kentucky.
- Line D: Three hundred sixty dollars MSOE Hosted, Public, Musky Tournament.
Line 13 | MSOE Investment Club
- Quarter One:
- Line A: Fifty dollars for attendee’s lunch.
- Line B: Eighty-five dollars for school wide theater event.
- Quarter Two:
- Line A: Twenty-five dollars for attendee’s lunch.
- Line B: Ninety-five for Grohmann presentation.
- Quarter Three:
- Line A: Twenty-five dollar lunch for attendees.
- Line B: Sixty-five dollars for school wide event.
Line 14 | Funding Contract Provisions
Under the new rules, the Student Government Association funding committee must set aside twenty five percent of the total Student Organization Budget for the funding contract provisions. Under the funding contract student organizations will be incentivized to spend their money wisely, as promised in their budget proposals to receive a twenty five percent increase. However, a twenty five percent decrease is also possible if funds have not been spent as promised.
This rule will incentivize every organization to carry through on their budgetary promises. This year’s budget necessitated nine hundred twenty-six dollars be set-aside for this purpose.
Line 15 | Supplemental Organization Funding
According to the bylaws of the Milwaukee School of Engineering Student Government Association, five percent of the total academic budget for student organizations must be set aside for supplemental organization funding. This means organization which form during the course of the year will have access to upstart funding for their organization. This year’s budget required three hundred twenty-four dollars be set aside for the use of supplemental organization funding.
Line 16 | SGA Operating Budget
The President of the Student Government Association has requested that five hundred dollars be set aside for events, which the SGA either sponsors, or co-sponsors throughout the year.
Line 17 | Presidential Discretionary Funding
The president of the Student Government Association has requested that five hundred dollars be set aside for the constitutionally required presidential discretionary fund. These funds will be spent for the purposes of SGA promotion and improvement on campus.
MSOE Student Government Association will be organizing a cleanup of the storage room during the first two Saturdays of the second quarter (December 3rd, 10th). If your organization currently has materials in CC-348, we request that you take the time to clean out and organize your area.
There will be a sign-up sheet posted on the SGA office door within the coming week so you may reserve a suitable time to have it verified by a member of the Org Review Committee. Failure to clean your area and have it verified with Org Review can result in loss of storage privileges
Thank you for your cooperation!