Items enacted at this meeting:

• Resolution 17-015 passed, approving the formation of an ad hoc committee.

• Resolution 17-014 passed, allowing the formation of jam club.

• Resolution 17-016 passed, fixing the quorum requirements for ASFLC

• Resolution 17-017, which would have allowed for RSO II’s and III’s to to be put on probation at the FAB director’s discretion, was voted down.

• Resolution 17-018 passed, enforcing the RSO binding agreements.

The Associated Students of Fort Lewis College met on Wednesday to discuss the criteria that the Financial Allocation Board uses to issue travel and event grants to Registered Student Organizations.

Dustin Fink, senator, presented this discussion topic.

“A common question that we ask RSOs that are presenting is ‘are you doing any fundraising,’” Fink said.

On the forms to ask for grants there are questions that ask what the event or trip will bring back to FLC, he said.

There is not a place in the FAB bylaws that states a criteria that an event or trip has to benefit FLC, Fink said.

RSOs do not travel to bring something back to FLC, they travel for the gain of the RSO, FAB director Lauren Smith said.

“I don’t think we need to ask that or take that into consideration for travel,” Smith said. “However, I think events are something very different and I think that we should absolutely take that into consideration.”

FAB as of now cannot deny a grant if the RSO does not benefit FLC with their trip or event, Smith said.

FAB also as of now does not consider how much an RSO fundraises, she said.

How an RSO benefits FLC is subjective and difficult to regulate, Cafferty said.

What the ASFLC can consider is if an RSO has fundraised and if they have allocated their budget, he said.

The ASFLC should consider a percentage of the money that the RSO is asking for should be fundraised, Zane Perkins, senator said.

Members of the RSOs paying out of pocket for an event or trip would be considered fundraising, Mason Shea, vice president of the ASFLC said.

Putting a percentage number on allowing for RSOs to apply for grants could lead to exclusion to the RSOs that do not have the time or money to either fundraise or offer their own money out of pocket, Fink said.

“Setting any sort of direct monetary benchmark, I think, is exclusionary,” he said.

The ASFLC should implement ambiguous language that would make it subjective for FAB and the ASFLC to issue a grant, he said.

There are other options besides fundraising and personal contributions, Cafferty said.

“There are grants to an institution, there are private donors and there are third party grants,” he said.

Subjectivity does not have a place in procedures or policies that need to be outlined and executed, he said.

Later in the meeting, speaker of the senate Meryl Ramsey stated that the ASFLC is out of funds to grant to RSOs for the remainder of this academic year.

The resolutions that pertain to FAB are meant to ensure that funding is sustained and prioritized for groups who are meeting all of the RSO requirements, Connor Cafferty, president of the ASFLC said.

The ASFLC ran out of funds around the fourth week of the semester, Cafferty said.