The Student Government Association (SGA) voted to pass a resolution that would remove a prior amendment to set a deadline for the creation of a new housing scholarship

Micayla McGowen, president of SGA and a senior marketing major from East End, Arkansas, said removing this amendment allows them to reach a solution beneficial to students, instead of rushing to meet a deadline. 

“This is obviously something that students want, something that SGA wants and so we need to be able to find a way to go about it proactively,” McGowen said. “Sometimes that just takes a little bit of time and that’s not a bad thing, but I just want to make sure that we can have all the time in the world to get this to happen.”

This resolution was passed unanimously by all senators present at the meeting.

Louis Gonzalez, a sophomore biology major from Kansas City, Missouri, is creating a new housing scholarship resolution titled SR 24/25-06. SGA read the resolution for grammar during the meeting.

Gonzalez said he hopes they can pass his resolution during the next meeting. 

“I wish myself in the future luck so that it can pass and so we can be done with this and I can move on to bigger things,” Gonzalez said. 

Jackson Galloway, a senior electrical engineering major from Little Rock, sponsored SR 23/24-06, which abolished the original housing scholarship. He said he is not involved in the creation of the new scholarship. 

“We are still technically obligated to make this scholarship, but that will fall into the scholarship committee’s hands rather than having a set deadline,” Galloway said. 

Galloway said there is no scholarship committee right now, but he thinks implementing one in the future would help streamline things and put in an order of operations for how the scholarship will run. 

In other business, McGowen gave an update on the Ticket to Table resolution, ER 24/25-02, which passed at the last SGA meeting. 

McGowen said Ticket to Table is a program which gives students the opportunity to have a $25 credit on their parking account and instead of having to pay that sum, students can donate food items to the food pantry on campus. 

“They’re giving back to their community, giving back to A-State’s campus and making sure that students that suffer from food insecurity are getting to have some food, but they’re also getting a benefit from it as well, and not having to pay some of a parking ticket,” McGowen said. 

McGowen said they are taking steps for it to be in effect at the start of the Spring semester, but can’t promise anything.

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