Minutes for BC Meeting 4/18/16

In Attendance:

Aditi Krishnamurthy (treasurer)

Pierre-Alexander Low

Manny Morales

George Ward

Aditi Krishnamurthy

Keshav Pant

Mohamed Ramy

Jacob Silverman

Vivian Yee (minutetaker)

1. South East Asian Student Association

  • Publicity for their movie night
  • Motion to fund – 4,0,0

2. SOS Branch

  • Motion to zero tropical lights – 5,0,0

3. KDSAP

  • Dunk tank advertisement?
  • Have not funded this type of advertisement for other groups before
  • Aditi – only fund 50 for intro food and 15 for publicity for intro meetings
  • Pierre – said that this is going to be publicity for his group
  • Keshav – if this is separate from the kidney screening, then makes no sense to fund. Would make more sense if were together
  • Motion to zero – 5,0,0

4. Resurrect

  • Can’t move event to the 6th, so has to be zeroed
  • Motion to zero – 5,0,0

5. 301 Branch

  • George – should make the group pick 2 of the 3 items they are going to sue the money to make
  • Pierre – can prioritize what they will buy w the money allocated
  • Motion to zero water guns – 5,0,0

6. Will (music)

  • Pierre brought in 2 students interested in music studio equip/w some knowledge about recording and production
  • They think that some items are overpriced
  • Jacob – think that we need this caliber type equipment
  • Do not need THIS good quality, but do need better equipment
  • Diminishing return for these equipment
  • Manny – can provide studio w an upgrade for a lower cost?
  • 2 people are on board of newly created Amherst Band association
  • Say that they have a diff proposal w some overlap
  • Could be spending less money for same amount of equipment or could be spending same amount for money to benefit both recording and live aspect of recording
  • Many items on the list from before unnecessarily high cost
  • Keshav – based on what they know, do they think there will be a demand for this type of quality?
  • No
  • Jacob – did say that they quality is very high so will last for years and cost will amortize over the years
  • Pierre – how many people would you estimate would use this?
  • Would say there are no more than 20-30 people who are qualified to use the recording room and probably less than 10 people who use the room regularly
  • They’re pushing for something that is similar to the D-Vault room
  • Not allowed people to remove materials from D-Vault room, so no equipment for Amherst students to use for performances unless associated to music dept possibly
  • Would like to have a regulated system w equipment available to be borrowed by students
  • Keshav – would be good to help improve the music production/recording room, but should not fund this this sem. Should not be a conversation for this sem only. Could do a straw poll on campus, etc.
  • Manny – should invest in the interest of the students to get this type of equipment, especially considering the amount of money we give to Art Steele for rentals
  • Motion to zero – 5,0,0