Finance Committee Meeting — Minutes (02/04/26)

SGA Finance Committee Meeting Minutes Date: Wednesday, February 4th, 7:00p-8:00p Location: Krieger Laverty Notetaker: Imad Ahmed Present Absent Imad Ahmed Zoe Gaillard Ryan Garza Juan Hidrowoh Veda Kommineni Kai Martin Anisha Rasamsetty Mamadou Thiam Paul Woo Rebecca Wu Kevin Xu Isaac Zhang Amy Xu Agenda Items [Bills, discussions, etc. Non-budgetary activities!] Bill looks good is the general consensus Bill stipulates that the treasurer be there Bill passed Budgets Shakti – represented by Amy Xu, presented by Imad Ahmed Total requested: $10865 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $2050 Agreed to break travel funding cap Jewelry allocation cut down to make up funding for travel Committee voted to pass Maryland Student Legislature– represented by Veda Kommineni Total requested: $6349.20 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $2560 Universities Allied for Essential Medicine– represented by Kai Martin Total requested: $3146.97 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $0 Did not fund the fundraiser because we cannot under our guidelines Issue with their travel funding request; asking for $1600 Trying to go to UCLA, but that doesn’t seem reasonable given the amount they’re asking for. Asking funding for 27 people and wat $59 per person. Going to reach out and ask how they are funding the total costs of the trip Asked for food for GBMs, but we cannot approve that as per our guidelines. Rejected full budget and Kai will email them asking for more details about their trip JHU Debate Council– represented by Kevin X. Total requested: $18670.40 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $3250.4 Funding their prize items as they fall within our caps Asking for 1550 for food and beverages, which Kevin suggested we fund. For travel, asking for 5130 for hopvans and bus, and 2000 for lodging. Kevin recommends allocating $400 For league fees, they’re requesting another $200, which falls under the annual cap, and they already hit it, but Kevin recommended we vote to make an exception. This is a very large conference and they are asking for $1700 over the budget Eclectics Dance Group– represented by Honora Muratori Total requested: $1675 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $1475 Passed TedXJHU– represented by Honora Muratori Total requested: $1030 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $730 Everything was good within the budget, no comments from the senators Passed CardioLink– represented by Rebecca Total requested: $864.92 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $704.70 Passed Wing Chun– represented by Rebecca Total requested: $1675 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $1475 American Lung Cancer Sudanese Student Association– represented by Zoe Total requested: $820 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $620 No comments from committee Passed Catholic Community at Hopkins– represented by Kevin X. Total requested: $3440 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $640 Issues with their transportation funding request, can’t do a reimbursement. Asking about the mishap with their food request, decided to fully fund food. Stand up Comedy Cliub at Hopkins– represented by Kai Martin Total requested: $603 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $198 Issues with their transportation funding request, asking for uber money but they did not specify if it was local or not. Can use Hopvans Want funding for promotional flyers Want food funding for pizza for their workshop Rejecting travel cost and let them know to submit an event grant Hopkins Students Science Fiction and Fantasy– represented by Juan Hidrowoh Total requested: $444.91 Itemized budget items here, add reasoning if provided and necessary Proposed allocation: $444.91 Issues with storing all the board games They already have a lot of these board games according to Anisha However, they are asking for expansions, which are accessories to add to the board games. Also requested for posters Approved