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Senate General Body Meeting #22 — Minutes (03/03/26)

Minutes / Senate · minutes · 113th session · dated March 3, 2026 · updated March 7, 2026

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113th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association

Senate Meeting #22

March 3rd, 2026 / 07:00 PM / BSC 404

AGENDA

  1. Call to Order and Attendance (1 min)

    1. Absentees:
      1. Excused:
      2. Unexcused:
    2. Present

  2. Convening Business (30 min)

  3. Amendment and Approval of the Agenda (1 min)

A motion to add a constitution update to first reading was passed.

  1. Public Input (3 min)

  2. Reports (5 min)

    1. Cabinet Reports (4 min)
      1. Student Body President - Vishnu Dontu Former SGA senator Zaynab and Vishnu talked with Harri Han about potentially establishing a student advisory board. He announced that student advisory board will start in fall and students will be able to apply.
      2. Student Body Vice President - Omotara Tiamiyu
      3. Secretary - Sumire Sumi
      4. Treasurer - Imad Ahmed Amy reported the committee approved all the bills and that they created a survey and they are receiving the result soon.
      5. Chair of Programming - Tyler Turner Tyler reported that Jay-Fil-A was successful and received feedback. Sean reported that over a 100 responses were collected during the event. The most common concerns were construction and meal quality. There were comments that the Student center should be a less social space and opposing comments that they should be more social.
      6. President of the Senate - Srigouri Oruganty CSO met with some cultural organizations on Sunday. They discussed possible partnership and some concerns were raised for transportation on Sundays and food option availability during religious celebration time. Srigouri reported that she had time to discuss with Dr. Brown about giving wellness pass to students. She asked for any senators interested in continuing her initiative to reach out to her.
    2. Advisor Report (2 min)
  3. Non-Legislative Business (30 min)
    1. Confirmation of CSE members
  4. Felix presented reconfirmation of returning CSE member. He announced that concerns raised last week was discussed and reflected during the CSE meeting. Emily Hong was reconfirmed.
  5. Confirmation of Grace ‘29 and Alyssa ‘28 were voted and passed. Nay: Jaden and Sid. Abstein: Sean and Jason.
  6. Sophia, Student Athlete Caucus Chair was inaugurated.

  7. First Reading (20 min)

    1. Alumni Meet and Greet Funding Bill - Senator Isaac and President Veda
  8. Veda presented that freshman class raised concerns that they were unable to establish long term mentor relationship for their career. In collaboration with Life Design Lab, they confirmed that there are 30 total alumni mentors available. They shared an idea to provide $5 coupons for Any Day Now Cafe to support small businesses. Veda is discussing with the owner of the cafe for potentially sponsoring for the coffee.
  9. 5 minutes moderated caucus was passed.
  10. Jason asked if all 30 alumnus will be available.
  11. Veda responded the ratio is 1:4 and currently they are being contacted.
  12. Sean asked if the LDL could sponsor the event.
  13. Isaac and Veda responded that LDL is covering the travel fee for the alumni.
  14. Veda added that BSC 210 A & B are booked.
  15. Anisha asked if they are looking to potentially collaborate with the Alumni Student Association.
  16. Veda responded she will reach out to LDL and the organization.
  17. Srigouri suggested asking LDL for cutleries.
  18. Rebecca asked if they are considering different drinks instead of coffee since the event runs during 6-8pm.
  19. Jason asked if freshmen are considering using the freshman class council budget.
  20. A motion to refer this bill to the finance committee was passed.
    1. JHU National Sleep Day Funding Bill Spring 2026 - Chair Jason
  21. Jason presented his bill.
  22. Sean asked for a pillow giving away unnecessary use of the budget. He also addressed that tabling events is not necessary to collect surveys.
  23. Jason responded that tabling is to help the health and wellness promote their nap classes and their department. Ali added that instead of giving out food, giving out travel pillows are more permanent, and there was a demand for travel pillows.
  24. Tola suggested promoting nap class first instead of giving away pillow.
  25. A motion to refer this to the finance committee was passed.
    1. JHU Period Product Funding Bill Spring 2026 - Chair Jason
  26. Tola explained that this is a tabling event to give away a care pack and menstrual products. Caraline has explained that the demands for pads are very high thus this event will be focusing on giving away pads.
  27. Rebecca responded her clubs have a lot of pads, tampons, and reusable period products sitting and she can provide them.
  28. Veda offered 100 makeup bags for this event.
  29. Jazzlyn raised a concern that this event can be misogynistic during the women’s history month.
  30. Tola responded they will consider rephrasing the event.
    1. SGA Elected Positions 2026 - Chair Jazzlyn and Senator Shreemann
  31. Shreemann and Jazzlyn suggested removing the Director of Research position for the next semester.
  32. Another amendment entails that Director of Communication will no longer be an appointed position but the director will be elected.
  33. Motion for 5 minutes moderated caucus was passed. Nay: Veda.
  34. Paul asked for clarification on CSE amendments and the reason behind making DoC an elected position.
  35. Jazzlyn responded that making DoC an elected position would make the responsibilities of the position clear.
  36. A motion to pass this amendment was passed.

e. SGA Constitution Update - Chair Jaden

  1. Jaden suggested referring the bill to IA for more clarification.
  2. A motion to refer to IA was passed.

  3. Second Reading (10 min)

    1. Course Transparency Funding Bill Grade Transparency Act Presentation.pptx- Senator Seán
  4. Sean presented the course transparency act. He noted he will be meeting with IT. This bill was passed by the finance committee.
  5. A motion to pass the bill
    1. 12-12 tie, madam President acted as tie breaker, voted no.
    2. JHU Student Services Funding Bill Spring 2026 - Chair Jason
      1. Motion to pass bill, passed.
    3. JHU Umbrella Tabling Funding Bill Spring 2026 - Chair Jason
      1. Information for future events
        1. Asian snack event
        2. Umbrella
        3. Both tabling bills should be done by march
      2. Motion for 5 min moderated caucus, iClicker vote called. motion failed.
      3. Motion to pass, bill passed.

Prospective Legislation & Announcements (5 min)

Adjournment (Estimated 9:00 PM)

Time-length and adjournment estimates are provided for the benefit of guests at Senate meetings. However, SGA meetings are always slated to extend until 9:00 PM and SGA members are expected to remain in the Senate chamber until official adjournment by motion, whether before or after the adjournment estimate.