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Senate General Body Meeting #5 — Minutes (09/22/26)

Minutes / Senate · minutes · 114th session · dated September 22, 2026 · updated September 24, 2026

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114th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association

Senate Meeting #5

September 22, 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)

  5. Reports (5 min)

    1. Cabinet Reports (4 min)
      1. Student Body President - Jason
      2. Student Body Vice President - Sumi
        1. Shreemann made Go-to motion handout
      3. Secretary - Honora
        1. Keep track of attendance
      4. Treasurer - Amy
        1. 300k spent for funding
      5. Chair of Programming - Grace
        1. LEED holding talent show on Oct. 17
      6. President of the Senate - Jazz
        1. Brought name tags for everyone
    2. Advisor Report (2 min)
      1. Exec finally picked a meeting time (4pm on Fridays)
    3. Senator reports
      1. Demarri
        1. Academic affairs: meeting scheduled to meet with undergraduate writing, including reintro in both fall and spring seminars
        2. Plans to meet with head of transfer student experience
        3. Keeping minutes for AA
        4. In contact with special collections to update the website: cataloged 30 years of SGA history
      2. Kevin
        1. CSO: prospective student fair, reaching out
      3. Omotola:
        1. Approving budget for finance committee
        2. Credit-overloading issue, presenting data
  6. Non-Legislative Business (30 min)

  7. First Reading (20 min)

    1. Tabling supplies funding bill - Student Services Chair Veda Kommineni
      1. Opportunity to collect feedback
        1. Passes to finance committee
    2. JHU SGA Freedom of Expression Directive (Resolution) - Vice President of the Senate Shreemann Patel
      1. Clarify roll on free speech
      2. Student government members may speak whenever they please to whomever in their own capacity
      3. Jackson motion for 5 minute Q&A
        1. Jackson–We need majority for resolution passed
        2. Jason question
          1. Shreemann: Senators always speaking in their own name unless they clearly indicate they are speaking on behalf of the SGA
        3. Sumi
          1. Sienna not on exec board in the document
          2. Disclaimer for people not speaking on behalf of senate/SGA
        4. Jackson
          1. Might not be able to enforce disclaimer
      4. Jackson moves to refer to CE committee
        1. Passes

  8. Second Reading (10 min)

    1. Phi Delta Theta Crab Fest Funding Bill 2026.docx - Senator Mamadou Thiam
      1. Finance committee passed with positive recommendation
      2. Concern about waste, fixed price, accounted for leftovers from last year
      3. Willing to put SGA’s name on the event, representation
      4. Motion to amend to correct the date
      5. RC: motion to pass, passes
        1. Demarri votes nay
    2. Pi Beta Phi 5k Fundraising, FINAL Event Recap/Overview - President of the Senate Jazzlyn Fernandez
      1. Rc: motion for 5 min Q & A
        1. Willing to put SGA on the tshirt? Are they using their own funds
          1. Yes on tshirt
          2. Using their own funding, want Hopkins support to lower the cost of registration
          3. Jackson: amend to show self funding
          4. Nora: will the SGA funding also lower the cost for the Greek life discount
          5. Veda: since the tickets are already live, will they do refunds to account for the changed price
        2. Veda: motion to amend to add RSO contribution value
        3. Motion to pass, passes
    3. Trick or Treat Funding Bill - Senator Sophia Baleeiro
      1. Positive recommendation from finance committee
      2. Added 500 dollars for
      3. Amy: motion for 2 min Q & A, 1 min speaking time
        1. SGA has to be represented on the merch
        2. RC: clarifying number of tickets for haunted house
      4. Jackson: move to extend Q & A 3 min, 1 min speaking time
        1. Jackson: Validate Amy’s point about the importance of SGA being represented on merch
      5. Tola
        1. Students will be in small groups (staggered process), volunteers will help people navigate route
      6. Cole
        1. What day is supposed to happen: October 30th
      7. Motion to pass
    4. Budget Reporting Act.docx - Finance Chair Peter Tarpley
      1. Passed with positive recommendation from IA

Prospective Legislation & Announcements (5 min)

  1. Jazz: Will be having guests soon
    1. Jason: show guests respect: no phones, no pajamas, no dinner
  2. Jazz: talk about call to action with LEED was production
  3. Motion to adjourn

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.