The National Association Conference of Residence Halls 2003 bid team gave a brief presentation at the Inter-Residence Hall Association meeting Thursday.

Natasha Krentz, junior in pre-business, spoke on behalf of the bid team and informed members the team will know in five weeks if the bid has been accepted.

The 19 ISU students attending NACURH will be funded in part by IRHA. A bill asking for funding was passed by a vote of 19-0-1.

Election commissioners will be paid a $50 stipend, instead of the $100 the commissioner received when the election was not done electronically.

The changes were suggested by Heather Minish, senior in industrial engineering, who served as this year’s election commissioner, said Jennie Erwin, Union Drive Association president and sophomore in computer engineering.

A bill calling for IRHA to pay for elections also passed 19-0-1. The elections are done online and would have to be paid for by IRHA anyway, Minish said.

IRHA will also be purchasing a second computer processor with the passing of a bill that gives the Director of Information Technology Brad Holcomb the responsibility of purchasing it.

Many organizations are hosted on the server, and they would like to speed up the connection, said Brandon Judas, Union Drive Association at-large representative and sophomore in computer engineering.

A yearlong parking problem could be resolved with the passage of a bill next week.

The bill requests the Department of Public Safety to tow cars parked in the lots without proper stickers.

People park in Richardson Court and Union Drive Association lots before football and basketball games, said Clinton Middaugh, Birch-Welch-Roberts president and junior in computer engineering.

Last fall before football games, half of the reserved spots for student government were taken, he said.

Several houses are keeping their money hidden instead of keeping it in accounts to prohibit the use of dues money to pay fines, Middaugh said. They are hiding the money so house activities can be paid for, he said.

“Dues for floors are sometimes seen as a joke because they know the money will go toward fines,” Middaugh said.

He also said house fines are not going through the proper channels, and many houses have approached him with confusion on fines. Nowhere is it stated how much fines and nonroutine services are, he said.

A possible breach in IRHA funding rules was discussed by members at the meeting.

The “Got Ignorance?” campaign received funding from IRHA.

According to bylaws, it is required by organizations to acknowledge IRHA funding.

Erwin said she thought the group should not be fined because she said it could send a bad message to groups seeking funding.

Justin Rasmussen, current Richardson Court Association president and IRHA vice president elect, said he believes the group should be fined.

By fining the group, the message that IRHA’s funding rules shouldn’t be ignored would be given, said Rasmussen, junior in computer engineering.