Open Forum:
The city of Brookings wants to build a stronger relationship with the senate and the SDSU student body said Andrew Rasmussen and Brianna Doran. The city created a new position and Rasmussen, and Doran want to build bonds. The two will attend meetings once a month and bring topics from the city. This month, the city is working on the upcoming budget.
“Part of the budget that you might be most interested in is the student promotion fund,” said Rasmussen, “currently we’re budgeting about 45,000 into that fund.”
Another topic was vandalism downtown. The city said these were isolated incidents and conformed that downtown was still safe for SDSU students and the community. Another point was the closing of downtown during Hobo Day.
“We’re going to close main during the parade as usual but we’re going to keep Main Avenue between third and fifth street from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday,” said Doran.
Another topic brought up ordinance 24301, which is a reasonable accommodation request. With this ordinance, people can send a request to the city of Brookings in the case of disability for an accommodation request on a home. The final topic was the engage Brookings app, which anyone can download and share an issue directly to the city.
Senate members questioned the safety on Medary Avenue and if the city had plans to help the situation. Rasmussen replied that the city is waiting on grants from the department of transportation for renovations. Another question was the road construction around campus and that is expected to be completed on time.
Senators then heard from the Hobo Day Committee. Victoria Hansen, the Grand Poomba of the 2024 Hobo Day gave a timeline of events that start this week with Hobo gear prep night Thursday from 5-8 p.m. Next week will continue with Bum-a meal Monday, UPC’s Jacks Got Talent and Bum-Over Tuesday, Rally at the Rails Wednesday, Bum-Fire and the Mulligan Stew Cookoff. On Friday, the Hobo committee is not hosting an event but Saturday there will be the annual parade starting at 9:30 and the football game at 2 following the game is Hobo Night Live. Hobo Day committee members encouraged people to attend events and said that registration to volunteer for the parade is still open.
Next on the agenda was the Quarter Scale Tractor club who gave a brief overview of what their club did as well as how they use GAF spending.
Derek Peterson from parking services then came to discuss the new software for the motor pool that will go into effect on Oct. 1. The new system will make students and staff able to take and return vehicles to the motor pool at any time. Taking cars will include making a driver profile to authenticate yourself. Students themselves can no longer make a reservation to take vehicles out it has to be a club advisor or department head. Keys for vehicles will be held in a box that each driver must check out so students trying to get multiple vehicles will have to have drivers check them out individually.
Staff reports
President Peterson reported that there were 3618 responses to the GAF survey and said that free period products have been ordered for the wellness center. Vice president Bentz reported on the opening of First Bank and Trust Arena and discussed the Board of Regents coming to SDSU Thursday to speak with senators.
Other Business
Resolution 24-4-R passed unanimously and stated that SDSU Senate will encourage students to register to vote in the 2024 general election.
