AHEC Meeting Minutes
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 8:00 pm @ Crafts Lounge
Attendees: Madeleine, Alex, Mohit, Aniket, Adam, Peng Qian
Minutes: Sandro
- [Swag]
- Down to a few mugs.
- Lots of keychains still.
- 82 squared + 10 round coasters.
- Shirts: plenty of small and medium ones. No XXL.
- Hoodies: running low on medium.
- If planning on giving swag during transition, may need to order more. Plan to get precise order when needed instead of ordering ahead of time (i.e., poll of t-shirt sizes when hiring officers).
- Adam: might as well get more hoodies since they're so popular.
- Madeleine: new AHEC will be recommended to poll new officers for shirt sizes + decide on new swag and Ashdown tagline.
- [House tax]
- Need 20 people to have signed.
- Will plan a forum to allow people to ask questions, give feedback etc. before vote.
- Do voting next week instead of weekend.
- Little pieces of paper in mailboxes + ballot at front desk.
- AHEC members will sign it on Sunday night.
- Adam: double check against the constitution.
- Voting tentatively Friday-Sunday.
- Going to coffee hour on the 20th to announce the vote.
- [New Community Chair]
- Richard is good to do it during this semester, but this is his last semester. Must think of new person before his time runs out.
- [AHEC Election Check-in]
- Catering to be settled by the weekend.
- CH chairs to announce speech night.
- Aniket to make speech night poster.
- [GSC Funding]
- Events committee not applying for it.
- Events should discuss with former Events since it is a significant amount of money ($1800).
- Have until March to come up with event ideas.
- Recommend Events to "be creative" and try to find a use for this budget.
- [New Rents]
- Family housing going up 4% at Westgate, ~15% for people moving from Eastgate to the new tower.
- What is important for grad students? Is it important to have communities? Should students need to choose between communities and affordability?
- Discussion to start from affordability (housing needs to be affordable), and then point out that communities also matter.
Meeting adjourned at 9:16 pm