Sara Quick absent. $100 per group for food. $25 per speaker. $25 for food, $25 for honorarium. o UNC Law Professor compensation for speaking: $10 honorarium (same $25 for food). o To approve food/honorarium for speaker: need to know who speaker is. Approximate date suffices. Printing and publicity funding limit: discretionary by event. (Case by case) Generally do not pay/compensate for travel expenses. Will NOT compensate or pay for parking. But paying to reserve law school parking lot is okay. Journals: not funding food for journal events. But willing to approve materials (printing, orientation supplies, etc.) Time Group Name Notes 9:00 AM Sports and Entertainment Law Event: Duke-UNC basketball tournament. Requesting: 50/ professional fees. 100/food supplies. 150/ building rental. Motion to strike building rental ($150). Passed, 10-for. 1-against. Motion to approve $150. Passed, unanimous. RYAN abstains. Promote Guardian Ad Litem program. Event: get area GAL law students together. Requesting: $60/food. Event: policy discussion. Requesting: $30/ 2 speakers. Motion to strike speaker request ($30) until the speaker is known. Passed, 10- for, 2-against. Motion to approve $60: Passed, unanimous. 9:10 AM Child Action 9:20 AM Carolina Health Law Organization Motion to approve $100 for food. Approved, unanimous. 9:30 AM Jewish Law Requesting 180 for food. Motion to approve $100. Approved (unanimous) Event: Student-Faculty fall dinner. 4-5 year precedent. Catered. Honorarium for faculty participants. Hopefully 10 faculty members. On campus. November (tentative date). Requesting: $130/food. $50/honoraria. $15/nametags, etc. Motion to strike 130/food to 100. Automatic. Motion to strike the whole thing. In favor: 5. Against 7. Motion to strike $50 honoraria (professional fees). In favor: 8. Against, 4. Passes. ($50 struck) 9:40 AM Women in Law Motion to approve $115 (adjusted after strikes). Passed. 1 opposed.
9:50 AM Education Law and Policy Society 10:00 AM Peer Partnership Organization 10:10 AM Student Animal Legal Defense Fund 10:20 AM Native American Law Students In conjunction with career services. 5 confirmed speakers. Requesting: 300/honoraria. 5 speakers. 1 law professor. 2 from Raleigh. 2 from UNC campus. 100/food. 20/advertising. 420 total Motion to strike 20 to 10 for advertising. 1-for. 9-against. Motion to approve entire budget. Consent (passed). $420. Group is $25 in the red because of SAFO fees!!! Four events. 1) Vegetarian Thanksgiving ($100/food, $14.50/supplies for food). Automatically reduced to $100 2) Pet photo contest ($7/construction paper-type supplies) Discussion, this could be seed money. Approved. 3) Pet Halloween event: Scary Station for Pets, charging entrance fee. ($191 for the event). Hope to make it an annual event, so would keep supplies for future years. Will be advertised by Orange County Animal Shelter. New event, so hard to estimate how many people will come. Discussion, this could be seed money too. Could let this go to Student Congress. Motion to strike entire event. 6-for. 5-against. 1-abstention. Passes. Event 3 struck. 4) T-shirt seed money. $350 (50 units/$7 per shirt). Will partner with DVAP for 5k in the spring, to include dogs in the 5k. Approved. Approved. $350 seed, $107 out-of-pocket. Event: lunch and learn. Potential speaker has been identified (Patrick Lambert from Cherokee) Requesting $50 for food. Motion to approve $50. Passed, unanimous. Do not cover any transportation, for speakers or students. Motion to strike $35 for travel. Struck. But can get that from student congress. Event: Casino night gaming night (fundraiser) $75. Passed. Event: pro bono trip to the reservation in the spring (will writing project). Open to all students. Can t pay for travel for students. $120 auto-struck. Can ask student congress for travel expenses though.
10:30 AM Domestic Violence Action Project 10:40 AM Law Students for Reproductive Justice 10:50 AM NC Law Review 11:00 AM NC Journal of Int. Law and Comm. Regulation 11:10 AM Black Law Students 11:20 AM American Civil Liberties Union Total approved: $125. Event: Domestic Violence Awareness Week. + 5k (October 29) Motion to strike costs for lamination, but can come back to weekly SBA meeting. Discussion: gift cards. Motion to have gift card money issued as seed funding. Unanimously Struck. Currently have $30, $80 went to SAFO. EVENT: Panel Discussion: $100 for food EVENT: Southern Regional Conference: hosting 14 other chapters of LSRJ. Open to all students, 6 speakers lined up (non-unc speakers), expecting 12. Not requesting food. DISCUSSION: name tags Should SBA supply name tags? Mtn to supply name tags via community office supplies, strike LSRJ rqst for name tag money: Struck 9-1. Mtn to fund, except for name tags: Approved 9-1 EVENT: Annual Symposium on Social Media and Law: 6 UNC prof, 6 outside profs, 1 outside keynote speaker 15 in total. $300 for travel expenses for panelists last year? $10-15K in past for this symposium no funding from school this year. 1/3 covered thus far, still needing ~$10K. Travel expenses struck. MTN to strike entire request (come back for emergency fund rqst): Unanimously struck. EVENT: Symposium (joined with JOLT this year). DISCUSSION: Food cut to $100, 41.77 for office supplies looks good. this is only open to the entire law school (orientation, lunch for the staff) Mtn to Strike $100 for food (exclusive event): 9-0-1: Struck. Mtn to approve $100 for spring symposium: Unanimously approved. *Contingent upon attendance at Make-up President s Council Mtg. Event 1: Speaker event, open to everyone. 1 speaker. Motion to approve 50 (speaker food and honorarium). Approved. Mtn to approve 100/food. Approved. Event 2: exam prep with speaker. Open to everyone. Don t know who speakers are. So Struck. Requesting 100/food for past event. Motion to approve $100. Consent. Passed. (Jackie abstaining)
11:30 AM Immigration Law Society 11:40 AM American Constitution Society 11:50 AM Carolina Intellectual Property 12:00 PM National Lawyers Guild 12:10 PM JOLT 12:20 PM Disability Law Organization 12:30 PM Parents Active as Law Students 12:40 PM First Amendment Law Review Event: interest meeting (past). 80/food. Event: Know your rights training (future). 75/Pamphlets for immigrants Motion to approve $155. Approved, unanimous. Event: Book talk with Kent Greenfield. Requesting 100/food. 19/supplies. Event: DC trip. Got funding from Student Activities Fee. Need extra 100/hotel. 15 students, open to anyone to go. Travel ($100) struck. Automatic Motion to approve 100 for food. Approved, unanimous. Event: patent panel. Bring in 3-4 patent attorneys. Event: panel with one or two professors (known). Request 100/food for either one or both of these events. Motion to approve $100. Consent. Passed. (Charlie abstained) Event: progressive legal careers panel. Was funded last year by SBA. Know specifically who the speakers will be. Open to everyone. 80/food. 45/honoraria for 3 speakers. Motion to approve all, $125. Approved. Unanimous. Requests: $230/Staff orientation costs (150/orientation materials, 80/food). $20/End of year social. $500/Printing request. Motion to change 80/food to orientation materials. So $230/orientation materials. Approved. Note, last year approved $400 (they d only requested $400) Motion to strike 20 food for social because it s JOLT only. 10 for, 1 against. Struck. Motion to reduce 500/printing to 400. 7-for, 4-against. Reduced. Motion to approve $630. Approved. Event: guest speaker. 50/food, 25/honorarium. Event: plan to invite speakers in disability law. 50/food, 100/honorarium (4 speakers) Motion to strike 100 because the speakers are unidentified. Struck. Motion to approve $125. Approved. Events: planning meeting 30/food. PALS social: 60/food. Motion to approve $90. Approved. Requesting: advertising, $185 (retroactive): in Lawyers Monthly magazine. Cheapest available. Event: Reading Night (but First Amendment-exclusive) Motion to reduce $100 to $50. Approved (Charlie and Jackie abstaining) Motion to reduce $185 to $150. Approved (Charlie and Jackie abstaining)
12:50 PM Death Penalty Project 1:00 PM Lambda Law Students 1:10 PM Christian Legal Society 1:20 PM Innocence Project Motion to approve $200. 10-for. Charlie and Jackie abstaining. Approved. Event: General Interest Meeting (past). Requesting $50 for two honoraria (off-campus speakers. Event: no date yet, but definitely in the fall (November). And specific speaker (Bryan Stevenson. Equal Justice Initiative). Requesting: $100 food for this event. Requesting food (25) and honorarium (25) for speaker. Total requesting $200. Motion to approve $200. 11-for, 1-abstention (Rachel). Approved. Event: Clinic! Requesting 100/food. 50/attorney food (25 per atty). 29.25/75 color fliers. 50/honoraria. 40/reserve law school parking lot. Motion to approve. Approved, Rachel abstaining ($254.25) Requesting $75/honoraria (3 speakers identified speakers). 100/food. 30/publicity and printing (15/advertising for two events) Motion to approve $205. Approved. (Rachel abstains) From last year, ran over budget. Outstanding: $63/food. [Currently have only $40 in their account Requesting $25 to cover last year over-spending. (Reimbursing member)] Requesting $115 for food total. Auto-reduced to $100. Motion to increase request to $5 for publicity. Approved, request. Motion to strike $100 to 90, so that the group is not reimbursed for last year s overbudgeting. 9-for, 2-against, 1-abstained. Reduced to 90. Motion to approve $95 total. Approved. FINAL: Allocating $4,788.02. After allocations, $2,542.98 remaining. CCLS and ICLO will be presenting to us at our Tuesday morning. MOTION to approve budget as is. Approved. Unanimous.