One resolution appointed two members to open congressional positions.
The resolution was amended during the meeting to appoint only the members who presented themselves at the assembly with the intention to vote to appoint the other people once they present themselves to the assembly.
The other resolution passed was legislation drafted last year about parking ticket notification. The bill asks the Office of Parking Operations to send an email, text message or voice mail when a ticket is issued. Currently, a physical ticket is the only notification given. If the offender is a student, the ticket is billed directly to their bursar after 10 days without payment, according to the Office of Parking Operations website.
Maggie Oates, congresswomen for the School of Informatics and Computing and speaker of the house, said she wrote the resolution after she received billing for three tickets on her bursar for parking violations of which she was unaware. The tickets were issued to her because a car parked illegally had a fake permit with a number that matched her permit.
“I wanted to prevent that from happening to others in the future, because, for me, it was like $150 I didn’t have suddenly appeared on my bursar bill,” Oates said. “I want to make sure, especially for students that might not necessarily have that kind of cash on hand, that they can have a way to prevent this from happening.”
The resolution now goes to the executive branch of IUSA. Oates said the branches will work together to carry out the resolution, as the executive branch has representatives on campus committees, including the parking operations committee. Their role will be to set up meetings with parking operations administrators to assess the resolution’s feasibility. It is possible the resolution’s requests will necessitate changes for the Office of Parking Operations in software or permissions to view some student records.
Last week, IUSA congressional committees met to begin work on other resolutions for the upcoming year. The education committee discussed making peer tutoring services available to students beyond the courses currently served, such as finite mathematics, and the student life committee mentioned a resolution from last year that would ask for staplers by every major printer on campus.
Services for disabled students was a topic of concern for both the student relations committee and the oversight and reform committee.
Heads of the environmental affairs committee discussed creating a resolution to find a use for food that is thrown out on campus.
Oates mentioned near the meeting’s conclusion a new procedure wherein committee heads will now meet with IUSA executives weekly.
