Group executive accountability bill tabled

The bill Executive Vice President Matt Bogusz presented to increase group executive accountability has been tabled.

In order to bring it back up, a three-fourth Senate vote will be needed earliest by next week or a new bill can be submitted.

The Weinberg junior's bill would create an evaluation system on group executives, but many senators said the bill's details need to be worked out before it can be passed.

"You don't know who the executive vice president will be in five years," Bogusz said. "Frankly, it's the Senate's committee, not the executive vice president's committee."

The bill would create a quarterly evaluation by student groups using a form that many senators would like to see changed.

Weinberg freshman Jonathan Green who is part of Bogusz' executive committee motioned to table the bill because he said the form that would be used is not representative and would not be anonymous. The form was sent to student group presidents and treasurers. The group would be known to the group executive but not the individual members, Bogusz said.

Under current guidelines, the executive vice president cannot remove members under any condition other than the members missing two meetings.

"If I have the worst group executive in the whole wide world, and they show up to every meeting, nothing can be done," Bogusz said.

"There's a possibility a group executive might get a bad rating," he said. "That's not the intent of the legislation. This piece of legislation should be used as a tool by an incumbent to say, 'This is why you should elect me.' "

Weinberg junior Will Upton said that while he thinks the bill is a good idea, he thinks the bill's details need to be straighted out.

"I haven't a heard a single thing about this," the off-campus senator said. "I'd like to see more discussion of this outside of Senate. I'd like to have some more input by the executive committee."


—ALICE TRUONG