The SGA Senate has discussed issues ranging from parking to 606 funding policies to how to improve game day on ETSU’s campus in meetings over the past two weeks.
In their meeting on Nov. 23, the SGA Senate discussed ETSU’s parking policy. The chairperson of the Parking and Traffic Committee, Doug Taylor, also spoke to the senate.
Senators asked about why students who parked in faculty parking were ticketed every hour, citing that students would be ticketed twice during Tuesday and Thursday classes.
Taylor first responded by saying that if students didn’t park in faculty parking in the first place, they wouldn’t be ticketed.
He also said that in the past, students were only given one ticket for the entire day. “People were ticketed with a five-dollar or ten-dollar ticket, and stayed there all day,” Taylor said.
Hourly ticketing was then instituted as an added incentive not to park in faculty parking.
Other senators wondered why backing into spots or pulling through spots was also illegal. “I can answer that in one word: safety,” Taylor said.
He indicated that when students back into or pull through parking spaces, they will either be backing into, or pulling out into oncoming traffic. He also said that officers are unable to see the parking permit on the vehicle if they have backed into or pulled through a space.
Last Tuesday, the SGA talked about procedures for 606 funding and the atmosphere on campus on game day.
Kevin Bostian, the coordinator of marketing and promotion for the athletic department, talked to the SGA Senate. Bostian and the Senate talked about the fact that nothing special really happened on basketball game days.
“There is nothing different between game day and any other day,” said SGA President Ethan Flynn. “The atmosphere doesn’t change at all.”
The Senate discussed ways to spice up game day. Some suggestions included promoting the wearing of Buc Wild shirts on game day and putting up signs around campus. There were also discussions about how to make the student section better during games.
The SGA passed a bill allowing the 606 committee to officially recommend 606 fund allocations above $2,250. The committee was only able to officially recommend $2,250.
The SGA Senate must still approve any allocation of funds in excess of $2,250 by a two-thirds vote. Twenty senators voted in favor of the bill while one senator abstained.

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