ASWSU met Wednesday to approve administration positions for the new school year, including adding an assistant position.
All the new nominees for the positions of the judicial branch and the executive branch were confirmed.
For the judicial branch, the nominees were Abby Baur, Maria Tubbs, Annika Galario and Brayden Keenan.
For the executive branch, the nominees were Kelsi Thoren as director of community affairs and Kade Barry and Reed Scott as deputy directors of legislative affairs.
Thoren served as her sorority’s director of service and philanthropy last year and has a history of community service dating back to high school. During her time to speak, Thoren mentioned a desire to engage in a student-led farmers market, where students with small businesses could sell some of their goods.
“This year, I really look forward to making connections with both students and council members and just kind of bridging that gap,” Thoren said. “But most importantly, I’m really excited for giving back and finding ways to make Pullman a better community than it already is.”
Changes made to improve quality of life in Pullman were also touched on. While WSU has blue-light safety systems installed, some are not operational and need to be fixed. Barry had an interest in updating the blue light safety systems around campus, stating that once he was confirmed, he would get started on that process.
With a background of political campaigns in California, both on a local and state level, Scott focused on college grants and how to improve the financial and academic situations of not only WSU students, but all Washington students.
“Washington State is under a lot of pressure with significant budget shortfalls, and this means us students are impacted negatively,” Scott said. “[I’m] hoping to really do some outreach and dive deeper into what us as a legislative team can do to protect us students at WSU.”
Each new delegate was confirmed after little to no discussion, with every nominee walking away with an ASWSU position. Most of those selected said they wanted ASWSU to have greater outreach to Pullman, giving ideas such as expanding into clubs or supporting more events.
Positions have also opened this year. The position of executive assistant, which was cut two years due to budget constraints, has been added to the roster of the executive committee. This has been made possible because the Graduate and Professional Student Association will begin helping ASWSU pay for Student Legal Services. The position of executive assistant will pay $2,000 per semester.
ASWSU is currently searching for an administrative assistant.
ASWSU President, Isaac Velazquez, said tuition may endure an additional raise.
“I haven’t received too much details about that, but that’s probably going to come later,” Velazquez said.
