Word: ficom
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Flores said that since 2007 the UC has been aware that FiCom routinely spent “exorbitant amounts” of money funding independent shows that were not using their equipment efficiently...
...Vice President Kia J. McLeod ’10 proposed an amendment that would require one member of the UC Finance Committee to sit in on Board meetings as a non-voting member in order to give FiCom a glimpse of the “bigger picture” of student groups...
This recent amendment passed on the heels of an unsuccessful one proposed by Mallika Khandelwal ’11, chair of the Student Initiatives Committee, that would have replaced one SRC member on the Board with a voting member of the FiCom...
...amend its constitution in order for the changes to be implemented. The report recommended that the UC’s Finance Committee have a rotating membership, but that idea received some resistance from Council members. “I think that everyone’s in agreement about FiCom in that there needs to be institutional memory,” said Sundeep S. Iyer ’11, FiCom chair, referring to the concern that a rotating membership would detract from the committee’s ability to make consistent decisions. UC representatives also discussed the reports recommendation that...
...Finance Committee were also proposed, including a reduction in the committee’s size and a rotating membership drawn from the three proposed advocacy committees.“I don’t see any real drawback to have a smaller committee,” said FiCom chair Sundeep S. Iyer ’11.However, several UC members pointed to the benefits of institutional memory, which would be lost if the membership constantly changed. “FiCom operates on a specific set of policies and requires a knowledge of our precedents,” Iyer said...