Covered bus stops still hang in the J Hudson-Dani Borel agenda as the pair worked this summer to shrink its list of unfinished Student Government initiatives.
The current SG administration has completed four of its 33 initiatives, and 14 remain untouched.
Donations to the library and student programs, changes to the bus route and enhancements to SG committees are some of the items SG officials worked on during the summer months.
Students received a progress report on SG initiatives in a broadcast email Aug. 17. Fifteen items on the agenda are still in progress.
Covered bus stops are the most expensive of the initiatives, Hudson said.  
“Those things are being looked at by Auxiliary Services to maybe have advertisements,” he said. 
Hudson said the advertisements will help cover the initial cost and eventually bring in money to the University. 
Clicker batteries, tripods and surge protector outlets were supplied this summer to the library because of complaints about too few electrical outlets, Hudson said. 
Two SG funds paid for the $620 in supplies. SG Vice President Dani Borel’s contingency budget supplied $184.95 of the donation and $434.35 came from the programming budget, Borel said. 
Hudson’s contingency budget provided a $4,000 donation to Communication across the Curriculum for software, Borel said, before the funds would have rolled over into a surplus July 1. 
“CXC is actually a program that is all over campus. It works on helping students be a good communicator regardless of their major,” Borel said. 
Borel said she and Hudson are working to revise the W policy put in place by former SG President Colorado Robertson, but their revision would take about two years to take effect.Robertson’s policy, which will take effect this semester, would allow three W’s for the first 60 hours carried, three for the next 60 hours and one for hours carried after that. 
“I like the new policy. I think it gives students more flexibility so that they can better allow the W’s to work for them rather than them trying to work with the W’s,” Borel said. “Our new policy is that we are trying to get the amount of days a student has to drop a class extended by two days.” 
SG is also in the process of working with administrators to revamp the application process and create a joint committee to oversee the Programming, Support and Initiatives Fund and the Organization Relief Fund.  
Organizations can only receive money from one of the two funds, Borel said.”We are trying to streamline that process by seeing if we can establish one application and one committee that designates funds out of both accounts,” she said. 
The election committee will have more members for more manpower in SG elections.”We want to make sure that instead of just making sure the candidates are following the rules, that also they work on getting students involved,” Borel said. 
SG has created a branding committee to focus on SG’s image and to help connect with students. 
“We want them to see our new logo, which we are still currently designing, and associate what we do with who we are. And I don’t think that connection is made very well right now,” Borel said. 
But some initiatives could be hindered by budget cuts. 
“We have sat at the table and brainstormed smart ways to do the same initiatives in a different way that may not cost the University a single cent,” Hudson said. 
One of SG’s initiatives is to add Redbox movie rental kiosks on campus.Hudson said while supplying the kiosks could be expensive, the University will be paid to house them.
University Auxiliary Services is working to establish three on-campus locations for the kiosks.____
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