Finance Committee Meeting — Minutes (02/11/26)

SGA Finance Committee Meeting Minutes Date: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026, 7-8pm Location: Kriger Laverty Lounge Notetaker: Paul Woo Present Absent Zoe Gaillard (virtual) Ryan Garza Juan Hidrowoh (virtual) Veda Kommineni Kai Martin Anisha Rasamsetty Mamadou Thiam Paul Woo Amy Xu Isaac Zhang Peter Tarpley Srigouri! Imad Ahmed Rebecca Wu Srika Popuri Honora Muratori Peter Jackson Kevin Xu (Unexcused) Agenda Items Fast with JHUMA — Senator Mamadou Event happening on the 26th; Ryan brings up issue of speaker gifts; Amy responds bills are somewhat exempt from hard guideline rules JHUMA asked to work with Tarini to re-use materials from the SGA supply closet Mamadou asked by committee to ensure SGA branding around event Bill passed unanimously Jay Fila SGA Exec Tabling Veda suggests converting some of the sandwich funding into Mac n Cheese, or not getting Mac n Cheese at all; buy cookies or brownies instead 100 cookies will cost $170; Mac n Cheese will cost $74 to serve 20 people Veda suggests convert 100 sandwiches worth of money to the vegetarian option Amy proposes to buy 350 sandwiches and 100 cookies for $169 for a new grand total of $2,226.50; committee unanimously agrees Finish final budget presentations, vote on budgets Kai presents CSA’s lunar new year’s events; Kai’s suggestion of $389.95 passed without opposition Veda presents Arepa Club’s request; agreed without opposition Isaac presents Epidemic Proportions’ budget; requesting $5k in total. AV expenses for launch party questioned; Isaac’s proposal agreed without opposition Isaac presents Temps d’Afrique’s budget; Isaac’s suggestion agreed upon without opposition Veda presents Mexican Students’ Association, brings up $100 for a DJ’s services without a quote; Amy suggests denying due to incongruity of hiring a DJ for 9 hours for just $100. Paul asks about permissibility of approving $160 in food for WPHLS’s Spring Conference without a fixed RSVP list; group suggests it's not unreasonable to think enough people would attend to be under the caps. Group approves ALL budget allocations of $90k unanimously RSO Finance workshop (bill here) Amy proposes a survey to gather data on the student body's knowledge of the budget approval process. Committee members brainstorm ideas in the below document Survey questions brainstorming See this old survey! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1noWr-c4wcmj0Uil6tBq6Lo8jIwvCvW73ZuKcYZNPT3Y/edit?tab=t.0 Chinese Student Association– represented by Kai Martin Total requested: $818.77 Materials for Lunar New Year Proposed allocation: $389.95 Note: May require a reimbursement due to date proximity