Word: melendez
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...largest chunk of the council's operating budget goes towards running a three-room office in Canaday Hall. Curiously, the better part of that chunk goes toward former founding council member and two-term chairman Brian R. Melendez...
...Melendez graduated last year but has stayed on at Harvard as the council's "executive secretary," meaning basically that Melendez does the student government's typing and answers its telephone. Melendez, according to figures from the University's personnel office, draws a salary of about $9.00 per hour, 20 hours per week...
Actually, undergraduates would be saved quite a bit more. Since Melendez, who plans to attend the Law School next year, is not currently a Harvard Student, the council pays the University a $164 per month fee to allow its former chairman use of libraries, access to Harvard's health insurance plan, and other fringe benefits available to Harvard staffers. That expense wouldn't be necessary if a student were employed...
...ALTHOUGH MELENDEZ'S 20 hour work week in Canaday will siphon off close to a third of the council's budget this year, he evidently is not adequate to the task of keeping a three-room office filled with typed documents. So the council employs a second office staffer, Tara Deal '87, a work-study student. Deal's job, Chairman Eisert says, is to make sure the council meets deadlines with the IRS, Holyoke Center, and banks. And he says she doesn't cost undergraduates any money...
...Melendez says that of the votes for Offutt, a portion of these came from members who were fed up with both Offutt and Lane and so opted for the status...