The Government of the Student Body did a bit of spring cleaning at its Wednesday meeting, taking care of the regular allocations bills that have not yet been addressed.

A bill ratifying the agreement between GSB and the International Student Council airport shuttle was passed unanimously.

After the agreement was resolved, the regular allocations bill was passed by a vote of 21-0-0.

Finance Director Ryan Myers, graduate student in accounting, said the only reason the bill was sent back to the Finance Committee was to finish ratifying the agreement for the shuttle.

“We were just holding this for a contract,” he said.

The regular allocations bill for student group Latinoamericanos was passed by a vote of 20-0-1. The bill gives the organization $901.58 from the regular allocations fund for the 2009 fiscal year.

GSB also passed regular allocations for ISU Model United Nations by a vote of 20-0-1. The bill was sent back to the Finance Committee last week in order to replace a competitive trip to New York with a competitive trip to Chicago.

The regular allocations bill for Sankalp, a nonprofit pro-India student organization, was referred back to the Finance Committee because the group did not provide a budget for the picnic event line item it had requested.

GSB Senator Tom Danielson, senior in civil engineering, said the Finance Committee had already approved the motion to fund $300 rather than the $320 that was requested for the picnic.

“The reason I did this is because Finance Committee had pre-approved this motion. If this gets sent back to Finance, it’s already proved,” he said. “They can fund $20 out of their own pocket. I feel like this is fair.”

Myers subsequently referred the bill back to the Senate with the changes. The bill then passed 21-0-0.

The GSB regular allocations bill and the account allocations bill, or “big picture bill,” were moved to the end of general business to pass other legislation first.

A bill to allocate $4,799 from the capital projects account to the ISU Weight Club to purchase exercise equipment passed by a vote of 20-0-1. The equipment that will be purchased includes a leg press, monolift, chains, reverse hyper and bands.

A bill to ratify an agreement between GSB and Student Disability Resources passed unanimously. The agreement outlines what GSB will purchase for students with disabilities in order to help them participate in student organizations.

A bill changing some of the Senate’s bylaws concerning adding legislation to the agenda was also resolved. The bill went under several of amendments in order to clarify its meaning.

The main motion of the bill gave senators the ability to amend the agenda at any time during a Senate meeting. The bill passed by a vote of 19-2-0.

Senator Mitchell Hayek, graduate student in political science, said he was in favor of the bill because it would clarify the issue of suspending Senate rules.

“What would happen is that, in the past, somebody’s gotten up to move to suspend the rules and they thought it suspended all the rules,” he said.

“This would just make it so that we can add a bill to new business without having to suspend the rules.”

Senator Jonathan Turk, sophomore in political science, said he did not believe the complicated wording of the original bill was necessary.

“We don’t need to sit here and say ‘amend the agenda here and here,'” he said.

GSB also voted 20-0-0 to transfer $3,724.66 from the accommodation fund to the capital projects account, so that funding will start at zero for better tracking of funds in the next fiscal year.

An in-house bill that failed by a vote of 5-13-1 involved requiring senators to accurately title all legislation in the Senate.

Senator Charles Wakefield said the bill would help clear up confusion about what bills entail – some bill titles do not describe the legislation’s purpose.

“In the past, Rules Committee has fixed this by putting an extra description in brackets. This way, it adds it to the responsibility,” he said.

“When future Senates are looking through the senate binders, they have a rough idea of what the Legislature is for.”

Myers said the bill was not necessary.

“Preambles need not be relevant, titles need not be relevant,” he said.

“If this group wants it to be, that’s your prerogative. It’s not Rules Committee’s job. It’s not anybody’s job.”