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SGA to spend $3K on new manual

By Matt Quane
mquane@mscd.edu

Metro's Student Government Assembly will pay $3,000 for outside help with its new policy manual.

Former Metro Student Trustees Harris Singer and Stephen Hay, as well as Metro student and Laptop Lease Coordinator Robert Haight, were hired to write the document, which will outline the objectives, policies, ethics, responsibilities and procedures of this year's SGA.

The SGA has set aside $3,000 of their budget to pay the three for their efforts.

The SGA plans to pay each of them $10 per hour, not to exceed 100 hours for their work, although the senate has unofficially acknowledged that Singer has done the majority of the work, logging more than 200 hours of work.

The document, which is more than 90 pages long, is divided into three sections, each to be reviewed and revised by three senators.

"There's a fair amount of intellectual effort put into it," said SGA Speaker of the Senate Jesse Samora.

Because the current student senate is comprised of a majority of appointed senators, the bylaws will not be passed until after the special election Oct. 24-30. This will allow the current cadre of elected senate members to work with the newly-elected senators in finalizing the inner workings of Metro's student government

"It's not fair to the students to have people who aren't elected to make decisions on what the student government should look like," Samora said.

Four of the five appointed senators will be running to hold their current position in the special election.

Like the U.S. Constitution, the SGA policy manual is a living document and is changed regularly to fit current events.

"We are still altering these; we're still working on it," Samora said.