Elections
- Each candidate presented a statement of up to 90 seconds in length
- Voting was conducted by secret ballot
Elected
- President: Sarah James
- Vice President: Burcin Cakir
- Secretary: Katya Hyvarinen
- Social Chair: Emilce Santana
- Webmaster: Julia Wittes
- Garden Coordinator: Sam Richter
- GSG Rep: Xiaoyu Tang
Chris Warkala from Housing and Real Estate Services
- New move-out policy
- Currently, if one resident of a multi-room apartment moves out, their room is not repainted and cleaned before a new resident moves in.
- Problem: The last resident to leave a multi-room apartment gets caught with all of the charges for any damage to the apartment by any resident.
- Starting next semester, if one resident leaves, there will be an inspection and cleaning before the new resident arrives. Also, any resident moving in to a unit will get a room condition form.
- Question: sometimes the new resident needs to move in on a particular date and can’t be flexible (ie. previous lease ending at the same time as the new one begins.) Can you work with those students so they won’t have a gap in their housing due to the inspection / cleaning process?
- A: Yes
- Water quality testing at Lawrence
- All tests were okay, with any contaminants below the regulatory levels set by the EPA.
- The test results in full will be posted to the EHS website by the end of the year.
- Installation of lights along Alexander Road
- 16 lights are being installed by the University along Alexander Road between Lawrence Drive and Faculty Road. They should be installed by the end of January.
- Raining golf balls in Lawrence from Springdale golf course
- Chris advises that the committee compose a letter to the golf course about the problem and he can pass it along.
- Renewable energy sources
- A Lawrence resident reports that he was able to switch from PSE&G power to a Green energy provider.
- Currently, if one resident of a multi-room apartment moves out, their room is not repainted and cleaned before a new resident moves in.