Student Council introduced two resolutions at its meeting last night which would create the annual Rules and Ethics Board as well as change the reimbursement policy for Council.
According to Executive Vice President Nicholas Jordan, Council creates a Rules and Ethics Board each year.
"Basically, it's a way to hold us accountable ... every year a Rules and Ethics Board is established," he said.
The Rules and Ethics Board consists of students from the University who are not members of Council, Jordan said, explaining that nine total representatives will be on the board, with three schools having two representatives. Additionally, elected officials of the Honor Committee or UJC cannot serve on the board.
Fourth-year Commerce Rep. Matt Bradley described the role of the Rules and Ethics Board as a way to "ensure compliance of all rules and ethics of Student Council."
Jordan offered some hypothetical situations in which the board would take action, including a bill passing without quorum.
In that case, "the bill would be nullified" by the Rules and Ethics Board, Jordan said.
He also explained that the board will not meet unless an issue in Council arises.
The second bill introduced by Council limits the amount of time available to make a reimbursement request to Council.
This resolution applies mainly to Council committees submitting applications for reimbursement for their activities, Jordan said.
However, Council is also responsible for issuing reimbursement checks for "Student Council Operations" and "concessions payments to student groups," according to the resolution.
The resolution changes the time available to place reimbursement requests to Council from 60 days to 50 days.
"We're making sure we have 10 days to get the receipt in to the business office," Council President Darius Nabors said.
According to Nabors, there is a 60-day limit to turn in receipts to the business office. If the receipts are not turned in within that amount of time, Council itself has to cover the costs, he said.
Additionally, if a committee turns in a receipt to Council close to the deadline, Council has only a very short period of time to reimburse the group, Nabors said.
"You can't give this to us at the 11th hour and ask us to go through all these hoops," School of Continuing Professional Studies Rep. Michael Winn said. "We need time to process this."
Both these resolutions will be voted on at next week's meeting.
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