.First Reading: 9-25-12
Second Reading: 10-2-12
Pass: Yes
Fail:
Other:
Bill 03-12-F. Funding for a Pilot Program for Identification Vouchers
PURPOSE:
For the Student Government Association of Western Kentucky University to
allocate $800.00 for the creation of a pilot program for identification vouchers.
WHEREAS: The money will come from the senate discretionary budget, and
WHEREAS: The Student Government Association will pay for $10.00 of a normally priced
identification card, and
WHEREAS: The identification voucher pilot program will partially cover the cost of 80
(eighty) student identification cards, and
WHEREAS: Identification cards are a necessary item that all students of Western Kentucky
University need to possess to take advantage of requirements from professors,
meal plans, and to enter residence halls, and
WHEREAS: The identification voucher will only be available to students of Western Kentucky
University, and that have identification cards that normally cost $20.00 through
the ID Center, and
WHEREAS: The identification voucher will only be available to students who have never lost
their identification card before, and
WHEREAS: The identification voucher will not be available to students that have lost their
identification card more than one time and/or need to replace their identification
card, and
WHEREAS: Students will have to come to the Student Government Association office to
receive the identification voucher, and
WHEREAS: After receiving the voucher from the Student Government Association office the
student will have to go to the ID Center to redeem the voucher, and
WHEREAS:
The ID Center will check their system to ensure that the student redeeming the
identification voucher has never lost their identification card, and
WHEREAS: The ID Center in correlation with the Student Government Association office will
keep records of the students who have redeemed the identification voucher, not
including those who have lost their identification card more than one time, and
WHEREAS: By December 14, 2012 the Student Government Association of Western
Kentucky University will forward the amount of money that is owed to the ID
Center, based off the amount of identification vouchers redeemed.
THEREFORE:
Be it resolved that the Student Government Association of Western
Kentucky University will allocate $800.00 to fund the pilot program for
identification vouchers.
AUTHORS:
Cain Alvey
SPONSOR:
Student Affairs
CONTACTS: Gary Meszaros
Sherry Blanton
Cory Dodds
Keyana Boka
Kendrick Bryan