Student Government senators laid out their plans to expand free printing and support UF’s Disability Resource Center at a Student Senate meeting Tuesday night.
Senate President Danielle Grosse (Impact, District A) and Senate President Pro Tempore Michael Murphy (Impact, District A) announced they’d be working on expanding free printing across campus, which is currently only available in the Reitz Union.
Grosse said she’ll be meeting with UF’s administration soon.
“It’s important to us and to a lot of people,” she said. “We want this in as many locations as possible, but even one more could be a great start.”
After The Alligator reported on the center’s lack of funding, Senators Ben Lima (Inspire, District D) and Zachariah Chou (Inspire, Murphree) said they want to draft a resolution to increase funding.
“We need a concerted effort as representatives of this Student Body to make a statement, loud and clear that this top-10 public institution must be able to serve 100 percent of their Student Body,” Lima said.
During the meeting, Senate also unanimously passed two bills and approved extra funding for a student organization.
Senators approved the Live Stream for Accountability and Transparency Act, which requires SG to publicize its events. The Supervisor of Elections will live stream the SG debate and make it available to the public within 48 hours. This act also ensures that Action SG, an agency that promotes SG’s activities, will live stream the State of Campus address. The Information and Communications Committee will live stream Senate meetings.
Senators also passed the Chairperson Act — a bill that changed the word “Chairman” to “Chairperson” in a code to be more inclusive. The code refers to the transfer of UF Supreme Court decisions to the Student Body president, Student Body treasurer, Senate president and now Chairperson of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee.
Funding for the Interfaith Ambassadors, $509, was approved. Senate also approved a line item transfer for student organization Gators for ASHA of $180.
Correction: In a previous version, the article said that Action SG would live stream the State of Campus Address and Senate meetings. This has been corrected to reflect that Action SG will only live stream the State of Campus Address and the Information and Communications Committee would be in charge of live streaming the Senate meetings. This change in the act was amended earlier in the meeting.
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