The Government of the Student Body’s meeting Wednesday night, Oct. 16, was headlined by a reconsideration of a previously failed bill.

This time, the Triathlon Club was successful in receiving $2,240 for four club bikes. The bill passed after a vote of 24-3-7, after being voted down 15-16-1 back on Oct. 9.

Sen. Nick Terhall echoed comments he made last meeting, saying he would once again be voting no.

“It is of my opinion that GSB should not be funding capital items for sports clubs above and beyond what Sports Club Council does,” Terhall said.

Sen. Barry Snell explained why the bill was being reconsidered, as well as gave reasoning for passing the bill.

Snell said the ISU Triathlon Club is currently 20th out of 113 collegiate programs from across the country, as well as fourth in the conference.

“Considering the Olympic competition that they go against, we have a pretty good program here.” Snell said. “I know we don’t fund success. I know that, but at the same time we want to help perpetuate success, too.”

During the weekly program, Mike Giles, from Recreation Services, spoke about the growing use of the services offered, as well as the growing number of students making use of rec centers.

Giles said that over the month of September there were 111,335 card swipes at the centers. More than 16,000 individual students made use of the facilities, which is nearly 3,000 students higher than last year.

Giles said that currently there are no major projects being conducted by Recreation Services; however, a project is 75 percent completed that would make the Lied Recreation Athletic Center flood proof.

Giles said that in the past, flooding forced the power to be turned off in Lied, but the new project will allow the power to remain on during flooding.

“We’ll actually now be able to stay inside the facility and do shop vacs or whatever else we need to do if water begins to breach over or begins to find its way in,” Giles said.

Blake Miller, president of the LGBTA Alliance also spoke. Miller discussed the purpose of the Alliance and what they do on campus.

Miller said Alliance seeks to give members of the LGBT community a safe place to meet, as well as educate the campus on LGBT issues and play an activist role in advocating for the LGBT community.

In other business, three associate justices were confirmed to the Supreme Court of GSB. 

Dylan Camp, Tayler Carter and David Fountain were all approved by unanimous consent.

President Spencer Hughes said the confirmation of the three justices would bring the court to a full complement of nine members. He also said it was important to him to create continuity on the court.

“I mentioned that it was important to me to create some more continuity on the court moving forward, so I think you’ll be pleased with that as these three students introduce themselves,” Hughes said.

Jon Laudner, junior in management information systems, was confirmed by unanimous consent as a senator to represent Frederiksen Court.