SGA governors release master plan

The West Virginia University Student Government Association released its master plan report at Wednesday's meeting.

The plan, developed during the summer, outlines phases and goals each governor hopes to achieve.

"Here it is, 40 pages of pretty substantial stuff," SGA Vice President Ron Cheng said holding the master plan for the audience to see.

"You can open it up and know what the governors are working on and immediately know what their goals are."

The plan includes a playbook on different topics and contains a chart of SGA's hierarchy, he said.

During governor reports, members of the Board of Governors stood and introduced themselves to the audience. They discussed their specific platforms and their perspective plans.

Gov. Joe Harmon said his accomplishments thus far included changing the Mountainline Blue & Gold Connector to arrive every 10 minutes instead of 20 minutes at Towers.

Harmon also said he was responsible for getting the PRT master plan released to the students.

Former-Gov. Taylor Richmond, said during open student forum, he did not think Harmon was giving enough credit to other people who worked on his platform in the past.

Richmond said the PRT master plan was scheduled to be released and Harmon had nothing to do with its release.

Richmond said he was just checking in on the new administration by attending the meeting.

"For myself and a lot of SGA's alumni, SGA has played a role in a lot of our hearts. SGA has defined us," Richmond said.

"So for those of us who can, we at least say involved and come back and see what is going on and how the new SGA is progressing and taking itself one step further."

SGA Chief-of-Staff Daniel Brummage said the Transportation Board had equal involvement in the bus policy change.

Harmon said after the meeting that he did forget to give credit to Richmond and apologized.

More than 60 students attended the meeting. Half of those in attendance were freshmen, SGA President Chris Lewallen said.

A meet and greet with the those in attendance was organized by Student Connections to get more people involved in SGA.

Evan Dove, a freshman political science major, voiced his opinion on the need for all dorms to have adequate air conditioning.

"I was walking downtown, and I saw about five people stuffed in a MINI Cooper with the air on blast just to get cool," Dove said.

Gov. Ryan Campione said he was really excited about Dove's concern and has been looking into the issue.

Another student approached Cheng after the meeting to say she was interested in viewing the SGA Master Plan.

"I really liked your authority and your humor," said Isabel Sheppherd, a freshman business major.