ASCSU has more than $1.85 million yearly in expenses, nearly all from student fees. Students should, however, know where this money goes. We plan to work with the Collegian advertising department to publish ASCSU expenditures in an easy-to-read format in the Collegian once a month. Transparency is important, and should extend to finances.

Students often communicate to ASCSU that transparency and  communication on ASCSU business needs to increase. While ASCSU Legislative business may be confusing and difficult to understand to the average student, we intend to create a section of our website that would allow students to follow each piece of legislation that goes through the ASCSU Senate from start to finish, including easy-to-understand descriptions and visuals. This will increase accountability and outreach for student's representatives across all colleges.

Parking permit prices on campus have been increasing every year, and will increase as we move into the future. Students no longer need a personal vehicle, but there are certain reasons an individual may need transportation on a short term basis. We have been working with the Vice President for Operations Office and Parking Services on campus to implement a car share program at CSU. The car share program is a short-term rental car program in which you reserve a short period of time online, pay online, and simply go up to the car at a designated parking place on campus, unlock the car electronically, use it, and return it. There is no need to pay for parking, no need to buy gas or insurance; it is all included in the hourly price. Family and friends can even reserve and pay for your short-term rental online.

The University Facility Fee Advisory Board (UFFAB) plans for "small cash projects," nearly $400,000 a year, to pay for incidental repairs and classroom items. We intend to request funding from UFFAB to place a clock in each classroom, as those facilities that are being renovated or newly built are not equipped with clocks. We wil also work with UFFAB to identify ways of providing a flag in every classroom.

Student Organizations that want to advertise their event or program in the Collegian can do so at a discounted, yet still very expensive rate. ASCSU used to offer a program in the past in which student organizations can send their event details in to our Marketing Department, and we will compile it into a section of the paper called 'Club Clips.' We want to bring this program back, and hopefully increase awareness of programs on campus, as well as re-create a one-stop-shop for individuals to get programming and events schedules on campus.

In collaboration with the SLiCE Office, we have been involved and will continue to formulate a Student Organization Task Force, in which members of various areas across campus including Intermural Sports, SLiCE, Residence Life, and ASCSU to analyze the process by which student organizations register with, re-registration process, and to ensure the process each department across campus requires is in-line with the others. There is no need to require Intermural Sports to do a dozen more forms after having done a whole process at the Rec Center. We will continue to work with the SLiCE Office to ensure the process that student organizations currently are required to follow is applicable to our changing campus.

Traditions on college campuses are extremely important for feeling pride for your University, and Colorado State is no different. Our Administration plans to create a council of individuals within the Student Services department to help coordinate Traditions activities within student affairs, collaborate with Athletics, and work with Orientation and Transition Programs to ensure all incoming students are aware of Traditions on campus.

We plan on creating an exhilarating tradition at CSU that will impact your experience on campus, including events such as a large scale concert at Hughes Stadium, the return of Rail Jam, a colossal concert on the West Lawn, a concert at Moby, and multiple shows in the LSC. While we recognize it is not Student Government's place to program on campus, it is our duty to highlight organizations that do program well, and we intend to work with them to ensure effective student representation. The most exciting event of CSU Days, a large concert at Hughes Stadium, will be a momentous event that is already in the works. After a few concerts in 1975 such as the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones, Hughes Stadium has not legally been allowed to be used as a concert venue. Recently, the University has filed for an appeal to that injunction, and we are now able to hold 2 test concerts in the stadium to come up with a long-term plan for using that space for live shows. Our ticket has already been working with the Office of External Relations and the President's Office since last Fall on what we want to see in concerts at Hughes Stadium, what type of talents, solicit student input and feedback, and the process by which we want to move forward with the idea. We are determined to continue the working relationship with the Office of External Relations to ensure Hughes Stadium Concerts will be something that students want to attend, keep prices reasonable, and ensure that no student fees or tuition dollars will be used in putting on this concert. By completely leasing the stadium to a concert promoter, CSU will have the unique opportunity to host a large arena concert, while placing the financial risk on an outside company. For the concert at Moby, we intend to assist ASAP in funding their annual concert, and assisting in volunteering. The Concert on the West Lawn will be a re-invention of the Common show that took place in 2007, allowing for a diverse concert venue for students to enjoy. To highlight the center of student life, we also plan on assisting a few student organizations in producing smaller concerts in the LSC through the Student Funding Board process.

When we lose a fellow student on campus, it not only affects the family, but also the campus community including friends, roommates, classmates, and co-workers of that person on campus. We wish to create a place of celebration to remember those individuals who spent their time here at CSU, but are no longer with us. We have been working closely with the Executive Director of the Lory Student Center in identifying a location around the LSC within the Master Plan renovations, the funds to create the garden itself, to ensure that we are paying tribute to them.

Student Organizations on campus have the ability to pay the I-Box in the LSC to do a 'poster run,' which places their event advertisement on many cork boards across campus. We want to better help these event posters be seen by larger numbers of students, so we will continue to work with the LSC Governing Board to identify high traffic areas within the Lory Student Center for advertising locations. This display case will be for student organizations to hang posters/event advertisements. It will ultimately get more students to see event advertisements, and hopefully help student organizations in marketing their programs/events/advertisements.

With lingering concerns of the removal of the TestFile, we have identified this is a predominant need for student's ability to study for courses. We plan to expand the TestFile service into the ASCSU Office, and providing online access to the service for students.

Too often, students spend ten or more minutes in a class waiting on their professor to figure out how to turn the projector on, the doc cam, or how to use a microphone. We intend to work with Facilities and UTFAB to offer regular training sessions leading in to the start of the new semesters for faculty to attend to learn how to use the new technology that is being rolled out across campus so they can ensure smooth usage of the classroom facilities all semester long.

All course-related copying and printing from faculty comes out of student's tuition dollars, and we intend to work with Faculty Council and the Council of Deans to ensure that all faculty understand the financial and environmental implications to their copy and print usage. The goal being that we work together to utilize printing effectively, ultimately saving student's money and helping us become a 'greener' campus.

Biking and Snow Sports are extremely popular in Fort Collins and at CSU, and we want to make sure students have their equipment functioning correctly. We will work with local businesses and student organizations across campus to provide free tuneups for their outdoor equipment during designated times each month at no charge to students.

Students that are required to provide a blue book for examinations in class should not have to purchase them. They already pay tuition costs, supplemential course costs, upper division fees, and student fees. Blue Books will be given away for free in the ASCSU Office to any student that needs one, and will be utilized as a marketing tool for the CSU Bookstore, ASCSU, and any other office on campus interested in utilizing the prime real estate for marketing.

Completing your State and Federal Tax Returns each year can be a daunting task, especially for this students who don't have parent's or guardians to walk them through the process their first time away from home. We intend to work closely with the Accounting Department in the College of Business to identify student groups or professional staff members that can provide assistance for helping students through filing their taxes in the Spring Semester.

College Councils effectively act as the representative body for each individual college. While College Councils are their own independent entity, they act as an extension of ASCSU when representing students across campus. A frustration that we have heard from College Councils is that they are interested in obtaining funding from ASCSU to put on programs, events, and to pay for outreach and marketing. Well, we are listening. We will be providing money to each College Council to use for marketing, events and outreach.

Currently, all Graduate Students at CSU are required to have health insurance; either through CSU's insurance provider, or by requesting an exception by comparing their coverage to CSU's plan coverage. Unfortunately, CSU's plan is very expensive and provides less coverage than the average plan. We have been working with the Graduate Student Council to identify plan options through the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) that are comperable and less expensive than CSU's plans, allowing Graduate Students to opt-in to these plans and save money.

Graduate Students work in many positions across campus, ensuring the day to day operation of the University. Unfortunately, graduate students are still deemed as students, and thus are required to pay student rates when eating at a dining hall on campus. We intend to work with Housing and Dining Services to allow Graduate Students and the RamCard Office to utilize the faculty/staff rate for meals in the Dining Halls. After all, they are staff members on campus.

Graduate Students are an extremely vital part of the operation of Colorado State University and it's success as a leading research institution. Unfortunately, Graduate Students have historically not been represented equally amongst Undergraduate students within ASCSU. To better represent the more than 3,800 Graduate Students, we have created a position within Cabinet that will focus entirely on Graduate Student Affairs.

Greek Life represents more than 6% of passionate and dedicated students that are comitted to community service, academic integrity and campus involvement. These individuals, however, have historically been under represented in student government. To help rectify this and build a relationship between ASCSU and Greek Life, we have created a position within Cabinet that will focus entirely on representing Greek Life students in ASCSU.

Currently, RamRide runs their operations with four student staff members, where comparable University safe ride programs have 12-20. Increasing the amount of student staff members in RamRide will allow for better distribution of tasks which will ultimately decrease stress and increase productivity within the department. The increase in staff members will result in increased services, increased programming, increased awareness events, increased fundraising, and increased volunteers due to additional marketing services that will be able to be provided.

Registered Student Organizations on campus can currently request funding from SFB for events they want to hold on campus, however the supply is limited and the demand is high. We will provide additional funding to SFB from areas in the ASCSU Executive Budget that are currently over-funded and under utilized. This will allow Registered Student Organizations on campus to hold more events and have easier access to the funds available to them.

Currently, Registered Student Organizations on campus are unable to maximize how they are able to fund a lot of travel expenses. The Travel Grant is the sole grant process on campus that Registered Student Organizations can turn to obtain funding that will allow them to cover travel related expenses for organization related purposes. Recently, funding in the Travel Grant has decreased significantly with campus-wide budget cuts. We are proposing an increase in funding for the Travel Grant, which has been historically matched by the Vice President for Student Affair's office and SLiCE, allowing for student organizations to have greater access to travel opportunities.

A couple of years ago, CSU went single stream with recycling, meaning you can place any recyclable object in the same container as everything else that is recyclable; no need to separate your plastics and paper anymore. This, however, didn't translate to all of the actual recycle bins across campus. Currently, there are still bins in buildings that say "Plastic," "Newspaper," and "Aluminum." We can drastically reduce your stress and confusion, as well as decreasing the amount of bins that custodial staff has to empty across campus, by labeling recycle bins with 'Single Stream' stickers. We will work with the Student Sustainability Center and Facilities to get the stickers across all bins on campus, and ensure the marketing for single stream is effective.

Each year, Registered Student Organizations on campus need to find ways to obtain funding for programming and events. While there are many grants on campus for RSO's to take advantage of. We intend to co-locate all this information on our website and in our office, for student organization presidents and treasurers to have one area to obtain information on exactly how to apply for grants on campus.

Students are increasingly wanting to see more and more services from the current student fee areas they pay for, and one way to help Student Media would be to provide more content for the same student fee allocation. ProvidingThe Onion as a weekly insert into the Collegian will increase Collegian readership, as well as improve advertisement revenue for the Rocky Mountain Student Media Corporation (RMSMC). The additional revenue from increased advertising opportunities will allow The Onion addition to pay for itself, increasing student designer jobs, student advertisement sales positions, and increase revenue for the RMSMC.

Every year around March and April, some of the University's most passionate and involved students on campus run for ASCSU student body President and Vice President, and they come up with some of the best ideas to improve CSU's campus. However, when the tickets who do not win find out who won, they lose passion, ability and executive authority to implement these ideas. There is no reason for these ideas to go by the wayside, as they would be extremely beneficial to increasing student life on campus. We will gather all the tickets who ran in the election at the beginning of the summer, and we will work on a plan to implement their platforms and initiatives throughout our administration. We have dedicated funding in our budget that will allow for any fiscally-positioned items to have the ability to be implemented. Working together is the only way to get things done, and we intend to do just that.

Party Registration is a groundbreaking program that allows students to register their parties with the Off Campus Life Office, and if someone calls the police to complain about noise at your party, you will receive a warning phone call instead of a noise violation which you may have received otherwise. The system currently is only available during the first two months of the fall semester (Sep/Oct) and the last two months of the spring semester (April/May). We plan to work with Off Campus Life and Fort Collins Police Department to increase the program to year-round, allowing students to safely rely on warning calls for their parties instead of receiving a noise violation.

Currently, the Positive Impact service is only known at home football games. The program provides a vital service to the students of CSU, but it has never been marketed or advertised so that students know to take advantage of it. By branding Positive Impact as an extension of the RamRide program, students will be better acclimated to knowing what the service is, and what it's mission is. We also hope to make Positive Impact a more fluid operation by increasing advertisements to Student Organizations to volunteer, increase signage and visibility at home football games.

RamRide is one of the most visible organizations on campus, and affects tens of thousands of individuals each academic year. The current program needs to expand to meet the increasing demands required by CSU students each year. To do this, we propose providing RamRide additional funding to increase the amount of vehicles in operation each evening. With that, however, we will need additional staffing from volunteers across CSU's student body. To do this, we are recommending an overhaul of how Registered Student Organizations get paid for volunteering through a tiered payment structure, as well as how we solicit to individuals seeking authorized community service hours. The tiered payment structure will incentivize RSOs for volunteering a second, third and fourth times each semester, providing additional volunteers that are necessary for expansion.

Recently, RamRide has returned to an ineffective system to organize and manage the massive amount of contact information and pickup/dropoff location that they obtain on a nightly basis for those individuals wishing to utilize the free safe ride home. The system used currently does not offer any sort of efficiency tracking, or utilize any tools that decrease mileage use on the vehicles, ultimately causing wait times to increase and costs to rise. We will search for a professional and legitimate, yet cost effective, electronic dispatch system, that utilizes GPS tracking to decrease path of travel between pickup and drop offs, merges rides together that are leaving the same location to decrease return trips to the same pickup location, and increase efficiency through decreasing un-necessary and duplicate trips

Old Town Square is by far the busiest pickup location for a night of RamRide operations each weekend. Unfortunately, any student who calls RamRide to be picked up in Old Town has to wait as long as anyone else in the city, despite the 'rush' of calls right around last call each operating evening. To better increase RamRide efficiency, we have devised an operational plan in which specific vehicles will 'loop' between Old Town Square and student's homes. These dedicated Old Town Square vehicles will be used for other rides throughout the course of the night until close to last call, in which they will start circling between Old Town Square and taking student's home, ultimately decreasing wait times and increasing operational efficiency.

One of the largest reasons that students don't take RamRide is due to the question of what to do with their car. We are suggesting that RamRide offer a 'RamRide Return' service, which would provide transportation back to your vehicle the morning after you utilize the service. This program would run for a block of time the morning after RamRide operates throughout the entire year. Operations would run the same as they would the night before, allowing an additional safe ride option for CSU students.

Representing all students at Colorado State is a priority of our Administration. In the past, this has been "masked" by only one Director of Diversity and Outreach, however we want to provide seven SDPS Liaisons in addition to a department Director to coordinate advocacy communications between the SDPS Offices, ASCSU, and the entire student body.

Room reservations in the LSC are vital for student organizations and departments on campus, however the current process by which you reserve rooms is slow and sometimes frustrating. We have been working with the Lory Student Center Master Plan Committee to implement short-term, non reservable spaces, as well as online reservations into the LSC renovations. This increase in technological offerings for students to reserve spaces with will drastically increase room access, efficiency and space utilization in the Lory Student Center.

Being so close, yet still a distance, away from Denver, it makes things difficult for out-of-state students who need to get to DIA to head home for semester breaks without a car. We will be providing a shuttle service that will go from campus to Union Station in Denver, as well as to DIA at the start and end of Fall Break, Winter Break, Spring Break and Summer Break. The scheduling of this service will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis for students, and will ensure accurate and timely pickups and dropoffs for those participating in the program.

At the end of each semester, students have the opportunity to fill out a course/faculty evaluation form, in which you can rate your professor and the course itself. These feedback forms get scanned and compiled, however they currently are not accessible to the general student body in a friendly way. We will work with TILT, who newly administers the Course Surveys, and Faculty Council to create an easy online system that students can log in to online from any computer, and see the 'grades' of a certain professor, a certain course, etc. This system will be similar to RamRatings, however it will solely be the compiled data that students provide on the Course Survey bubble sheets at the end of each semester.

Student Fees at CSU are unique, in that our process by which student fees come about is entirely decided upon by students, not by administrators. It is beneficial that each year we get Directors of fee areas across campus to relay what they are doing with our student fees, how they could better utilize our money, and request funding for the next academic year. However, what we don't ever offer is a physical report of every student fee area, with details of where the money went. We intend to work with each fee area director, mandate it in the Bylaws of Student Fee Review Board (SFRB), and compile all expenses for each student fee area into an easy to read document, called the 'Student Fee Accountability Report,' that will be e-mailed directly to students. This will ultimately increase accountability and transparency of where student's money goes each year, and will allow students to better ask questions regarding their fees.

When picking classes, students often think about which professors to choose rather than which courses to choose, purely because of the information that is available to research about professors through sites like RamRatings.com. However, types of courses are extremely important when choosing a graduation plan, especially with AUCC courses. During our Administration, we plan to implement a syllabi sharing website, which allows students to upload/share course syllabi from previous semesters, to allow current students to determine which courses will fit best with their learning styles, amount of material covered and course policies.

Athletics receives a student fee in order to enable students to go to home games for free. We want to make sure you are getting the most out of your student fees. As Ram Pride continues to grow across this campus, we want to facilitate fun activities and programs such as Tailgating before large home games. Our Administration will work with Athletics, Local Businesses across Fort Collins, and Student Organizations to create a tradition of student support for Rams Athletics.

Currently, Faculty have specific deadlines for submitting their textbook requirements for their courses the following semester. Consistently, a good portion of the faculty do not get their orders in by this date, and thus the CSU Bookstore is unable to order the required textbooks for the following semester. It also directly affects how many textbooks the CSU Bookstore 'buys back' during textbook buy back. The earlier the textbooks can be ordered, the lower the prices from the publishers because the Bookstore can purchase used textbooks, keeping costs low for students. We intend to work with Faculty Council and the CSU Bookstore to create a task force to identify ways in which faculty members can better submit their textbook orders on time, increasing buyback opportunities, and keeping prices low for students.

Textbooks are expensive enough as it is, there is no reason why students should have to pay sales tax on educational-related materials. Many states are currently working on proposals to make educational textbook purchases sales-tax free, and a few states have already done so. We will work with our local, county, and state representatives to discuss the possibility of waiving sales tax on educational textbook purchases made in the campus bookstore.

Transparency for ASCSU is something that has historically been lacking. We want to address this issue, and are already planning topics for our Twice-Monthly President's Office Roundtables, which will be held in a convenient location for all students to attend to discuss and hear about issues affecting students. These roundtable meetings will be advertised far in advance through various media outlets, and will happen twice a month starting in September.