SGA Senate met at 5:22 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13. Following the approval of the minutes, Sophomore Class Representative Brendan Sar began with the rescinding of the 3-1-1 Resolution. The resolution would have removed the 3-1-1 information lines posted around school, which Sar and fellow SGA member Abigail Fesmire say are costly and often confused with emergency lines. The money saved from removing the lines would then be reallocated to an alternate method of student security on campus. However, the financial department of Tarleton State University could not guarantee that the money would be allocated to campus security, so Sar and Fesmire withdrew their support of the resolution.

“A few weeks ago [we] talked to the financial department, and our main goal with the resolution cannot be fulfilled, so we’re going to have to make a motion to rescind it,” Sar said.

The motion was made, seconded and approved, so the resolution has been removed from further debate and action.

Following this, College of Business Administration Representative Ty Doty detailed recent discussions of the Budget Advisory Committee.

“One of the first things we went over is fees. There is a list of fees they are keeping… and fees to be collapsed,” Doty said. “They’re not getting rid of them; it’s just that instead of having different names, they’re going to have one fee.”

Questions were raised about the combination of varying fees, the distribution of costs throughout the student body, and the potential for a lack of transparency for students’ college costs.

“Nothing had been done as of yet,” Doty said. “About half the people in the meeting wanted to have the change, the other half wanted to keep it the way it is now.”

The other item of discussion by the Budget Advisory Committee was extended tuition rates.

“We also went over tuition raises. Basically, what it is, is that as a freshman, when you come in, your tuition would not change until after five years,” Doty stated. “If you went over five years, it would go up to what the inflation rate tuition is.”

Questions were raised about whether this idea of implementing adjustable tuition rates has gone into effect, or will go into effect soon, but Doty clarified that at the moment, it is only being discussed, and nothing had been voted on.

Following this discussion, Student Body President Chance Cerda discussed the internet availability within the dormitories through Apogee. Questions, comments, and concerns about the current wireless Internet services were raised to be presented to the Apogee representative for Tarleton State University.

The final official point of order was the discussion of the Textbook Task Force. Bethany Kyle presented the Senate with questions compiled by the Textbook Task Force. These questions were aimed at gathering feedback so that this task force can work to do the most to reduce the costs of textbooks for students.