Student Government Board President Charlie Shull will be unveiling a significant change in the allocations procedure at tonight’s SGB meeting. Designed to increase transparency, the allocations decision-making process will now take place during the public meetings on Tuesday nights rather than in the closed-door meetings of the allocations committee, Shull said.

Shull said that this is a new process for the Board and that it can’t expect to be executed perfectly on the first night it’s implemented but, even if there are a few hiccoughs at tonight’s meeting, this represents a significant step forward in the allocations process.

Meetings of the Allocations Committee will still take place behind closed doors but Shull does plan to make minutes of these meetings available on the web. Shull said that he has not yet discussed making the minutes available online with Allocations Chair Matthew Grau and thus the plan for the minutes will take longer to implement.

Read more about these and other SGB developments in my Wednesday column published in The Pitt News and on this blog.

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