FiCom Semester Additional Funding Requests November 2008

= Monday 10th =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision: sent email 11/10/08 MJ holding/budget reached it's limit
 * Date of Decision:

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: EPEC
 * Account No: 628
 * Contact Name: Maya Gounard
 * Email: epec@hampshire.edu

Equipment Information
For Trebuchet/Catapult-Rebar For Hot Air Balloon- 12' x 400' x .0035 Painters Plastic Hovercrafts-Plywood, 4 Used Leaf Blowers
 * Name: Building Equipment
 * Description: For Structures-Straws 9" Assorted Colors 500, Tape Brothers 2" x 60 yard
 * Purpose: For an EPEC class which will roughly follow the format of the old TV show Junkyard Wars where groups of students will build the following things out of limited materials.   Structures, Trebuchet/Catapult, Hot air balloon, Hovercraft
 * Storage Location: Lemelson Center

Equipment Expenses
Structures-Straws 9" Assorted Colors 500 @ $6.50 x 4 + $10.52 shipping  $36.52 Tape Brothers 2" x 60 yard @ $3.95 x 8 + $14.40 shipping 46.00 Trebuchet/Catapult-Rebar @ $.65 per foot 400 feet $260 Hot Air Balloon-12' x 400' x .0035 Painters Plastic @ $18.99 x 2 + $9.45 shipping + tax $1.90       $49.33 Hovercrafts-Plywood @ $18.99 x 4 $79.96    4 Used Leaf Blowers                                              $200
 * TOTAL: $ $671.81

= Monday 4th =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision: emailed sent 11/04/08 holding MJ
 * Date of Decision:

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: Building Awareness Across Bars
 * Account No: 774
 * Contact Name: Ada Smith
 * Email: ajs06@hampshire.edu

Other Expenses

 * Description: HALA! was denied group recognition this semester. When group members met with Stephen Pereira earlier this year, Stephen told us we could still receive funding through another "sympathetic" group, such as BAAB. We are requesting this money to pay for public documents requested under two separate requests under the Massachusetts Open Records Act. Specifically, 116 8x11 pages of daily care sheets and six (6) animal use protocols which according to Paul Kostecki, the Vice Provost for Research at the University of Massachusetts, will cost "in excess of $500 per protocol". I would like to point out that FiCom has a history of paying for HALA!'s public records requests. Last Spring I was personally reimbursed for parts of these same requests. It is of vital importance that these public documents, (that is, documents taxpayers are funding) be received in order to ensure the success of our group.
 * TOTAL: $ 3500.00

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  please see FiCom Meetings, Fall 2008 Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision:

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: Magic Draft Club
 * Account No: 697
 * Contact Name: Ananda Valenzuela
 * Email: agv07@hampshire.edu

Other Expenses

 * Description: Magic Draft has been more popular than expected, probably in part because we have about thirty people that want email reminders for each meeting, and approximately 12-20 people have been showing up to each meeting. We have already used up all of our food funding, and are in fact presently $40 over the budget, based on receipts that have not yet been submitted.

So at approximately 16 people per meeting, and a projected four more meetings this semester, and $4 per person, that's $64 per meeting, and a total of $256 needed. Adding the $40 that we are already over, we need an additional $296 this semester. Based on the present numbers ($697 for equipment, $403 for food) we still have $400 to keep us within a second-semester club budget, so $296 will not be overdrawing the overall limit. Please grant us this additional funding. Drafts tend to go from 7 PM to 11 PM, so having food is greatly appreciated.


 * TOTAL: $ 296.00