After a six-and-a-half-hour marathon meeting, the Government of the Student Body adjourned for the semester.

The night consisted of a joint meeting with the Ames City Council; Michael Giles, director of Recreation Services, annoucing the official opening of the State Gym will be Jan. 9; and debates over the bills “Funding the Green Roof” and “Funding Helmets for the ISU Recreational Hockey Club.”

The “Funding the Green Roof” bill was organized by the Landscape Club, which was seeking funding of $33,958. The bill proposed that the north side of the Memorial Union be used for the project.

During the Landscape Club’s presentation, members stated that the Green Roof would double the roof membrane’s life span, help with energy conservation, minimize air and noise pollution, and also help manage storm water.

The group also broke down the costs for the project during its presentation. It would cost $500 to remove the old membrane on the roof and cost $10,200 to re-roof the roof. Presenters also provided projected bids for the Green Roof from two different companiesm, Live Roof and Hydrotech.

The Live Roof company projected bid is $23,258, plus $10,700 for the re-roofing component. The Hydrotech projected bid was $28,560, which included the re-roofing costs.

When the question was raised whether or not the club had approached the university or the Memorial Union inquiring funding, the club responded by saying that it did but funding was unavailable.

“The Memorial Union is not putting forth any funding for the Green Roof, but we are supporting it,” said Gail Ferlazzo, GSB adviser and associate director of the Memorial Union.

She also went on to say that the university also supports this idea of the Green Roof, even though it will not be putting forth any funding.

As mixed feeling swirled about the funding for this project, Vice Speaker Spencer Hughes began speaking about how this would make Iowa State the first school in the Big 12 to have a project of this magnitude solely funded by the students.

“The funding of the Green Roof will be seen as an accomplishment of our initiative to better our surroundings to go green,” Hughes said. “We have the money; we need to put our money where our mouth is.”

Going along with what Hughes said about the initiative of the students to see Iowa State become more green, Senator Neal Wiebers said in accordance to Hughes, “This shows that GSB and the students want to go green now, not later down the line.”

After a long debate, the bill was passed 24-13.

At the last GSB meeting, the bill “Funding Helmets for ISU Recreational Hockey Club” was passed. However, on Tuesday, GSB President Dakota Hoben issued an executive veto of the bill.

President Hoben’s reason for vetoing the bill was the fact that GSB does not fund first year capital items and by funding the Hockey Club for helmets they were breaking GSB rules pertaining to capital items.

“At some time we need to be consistent with groups,” Hoben said. “We need to be consistent across the board.”

The bill was being used as a point by many GSB members that the senate had to follow closer to the rules and guidelines and not sidetrack from its true meanings.

“We cannot run around the rules to fund one new club when we didn’t fund the hundreds of other clubs,” said Senator Sean Morrissey.

Following up with Morrissey’s comment, Senator Daniel Rediske said, “What gives legitimacy to rules? Following them.”

After more than an hour of heated debated, a vote was taken by the senate to override the veto. To override the veto, there had to be a 2/3 majority vote in favor of override the veto. The override failed 19-17.