During public comment, Sen. Sean McDonald expressed his disappointment that more senators didn’t discuss the pay rates for student senators and other officials more when the bill came before senate.

The senate adopted the bill regulating the pay for government officials with an amendment making their pay proportional to the amount of time served in office.
They had also decided to send the decision on how much to pay members of the elections commission back to committee.

The senate is debating how much to pay chair of the commission on association elections and the other members.

The senate is looking at a bill to fix the salaries of some government officials.
The total compensation will be for:
- Student president: a total of $8,800 a year, paid in $800 per semester and $600 a month.
- Vice president, speaker of the senate, director of programming, director of clubs and organizations: a total of $7,000 [...]

The senate voted to approve the bill regulating the time and manner of administering certain oaths. The bill includes the oaths all student government officials will take when they step into office and that current officials will take within two weeks of student president Sarah Ragsdale signs the oath bill into law.
Officials have two weeks [...]

Sen. Sean McDonald proposed an amendment to the oath bill allowing student government officials who can’t make the senate meeting where the oath is taken to take the oath from a notary. It passed unanimously.

The senate is looking at the new oath of office for the student government officials.
The senators are debating whether there should be a deadline for taking the oath. All governement officials — senators, executive officers and student justices — must take and sign the oath within a week of the oath passing. Otherwise they are [...]

Sen. Michael Cabrera said the campus community committee will start its “night walks” to make sure the campus is well-lit.
The committee meeting time was also moved to Friday’s at noon. Go to the Jot Travis Student Union information desk for the location.

Sen. Justin Shane, chairman of the academics committee, said the committee met for the first time this week. He said a major goal of the committee is to improve advising.
Sen. Sean McDonald, chair of budget and finance committee, said in the first committee meeting, members decided to start a systematic review of the past five [...]

University President Milton Glick and Dan Klaich, vice chancellor of all Nevada colleges, plan to increase student tuition by as much as 15 percent provided the money stays at the university, said Sen. Taylor Anderson, chair of the government operations committee.
“That’s a lot of extra money for the university which can go straight to students [...]