Senate General Body Meeting #6 — Minutes (09/29/26)

114th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association

Senate Meeting #6

September 29, 2026 / 07:00 PM / BSC 404

MINUTES

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)

4. Public Input (3 min)

   1. Sean would like help with initiative to get students syllabi sooner

5. Reports (5 min)

   1. Cabinet Reports (4 min)
      1. Student Body President - Jason
         1. Bring meetings with different departments to GBM
      2. Student Body Vice President - Sumi
         1. Meeting with public safety and OIS
      3. Secretary - Honora
         1. Meeting with public safety and OIS
      4. Treasurer - Amy
      5. Chair of Programming - Grace
         1. October 3rd, 2-4PM on practice field: flag football battle of classes (pink out)
         2. October 17th talent show hosted by leed
            1. Auditions due at October 4th
      6. Director of communications - Sienna
         1. Request any SGA sanctioned events
      7. President of the Senate - Jazz
         1. Meeting with public safety and OIS
   2. Advisor Report (2 min)
   3. Senator reports
      1. Luke
         1. Working with Jackson and Natalie from CARE to apply to dialogue grant, working on budgeting details (due October 6th), seeking more help
      2. Srika
         1. HSS tabling event to focus on nutrition, similar to fresh fruit tabling last year
      3. Aishani:
         1. Working with office of climate and sustainability to talk about DSAI
         2. Planning invasive species poll
6. Non-Legislative Business (30 min)
   1. Jazz: proposes closed session to talk about departmental information
      1. Jackson: moves for closed session due to sensitivity
      2. Closed session notes for benefit of senate

7. First Reading (20 min)

8. Second Reading (10 min)

   1. Tabling supplies funding bill - Student Services Chair Veda Kommineni
      1. Passed finance with positive recommendation
      2. Amy: Why 10 t-shirts?
      3. Veda: shirts accessible for anyone who is tabling for SGa, solely for the event
      4. Jazz: chair of programming washes them
      5. Aishani: motion to pass
         1. passed
   2. JHU SGA Freedom of Expression Directive (Resolution) - Vice President of the Senate Shreemann Patel
      1. Class of 2010 graduate and former vice president of SGA expressed their strong support for the bill
      2. Main changes: assumption is that individuals of SGA are speaking for themselves, and not SGA
      3. Demarri: how do I add name
      4. Jackson: 3 minute recess
         1. All of executive members want to add their names
      5. Jackson: motion to vote to vote
         1. Passed
      6. Jackson: Motion to pass
         1. Passes
   3. RSO Outreach Call to Action Funding Bill - Finance Chair Peter Tarpley
      1. Meant to incentivize RSO members to fill out the
      2. Jackson: Motion to strike current section 3-b, replace with “to incentivize students to fully incentivize students to fill out survey”, specify that we are incentivizing student responses to the SGA survey
         1. Passes
      3. Jason: list does not seem to be inclusive of all cultural/political groups
      4. Jackson: responses due on October 9th, answers need to be recorded ASAP
      5. Demarri: motion to pass
         1. Passes

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.