Campus Activities Board members still feel optimistic about the Student Association Art Collection despite an SA committee adviser’s suggestion to hire a new manager.

SA Community Affairs Adviser Brian Subatich recommended Sunday in his senate report that the University Police set security standards for the storage room.

Subatich also suggested University Programming and Activities hire a manager or permanent curator for the collection.

“History has proven that neither student organization, CAB or the SA, has effectively managed the collection,” Subatich’s report states.

However, UP&A Graduate Assistant Lisa Petersen said the collection should stay in student hands. “Better communication (between the SA and CAB) is a better solution,” she said.

Instead of hiring a permanent curator, CAB Visual Arts Coordinator Erik Eide suggests an agreement between CAB and the Swen Parson Gallery.

He said a professional is necessary, but CAB could work with the professionals in the gallery rather than bringing in an outsider.

Eide also said CAB has met Subatich’s initial recommendations, including looking into security, finding missing art, taking inventory and looking into obtaining an appraisal.

The senate approved a supplemental funding request to take photographs of the collection Sunday. Eide and SA Art Curator Marie Castro are responsible for taking the photographs before June 4 as Subatich requested.

The SA and CAB spent too much time bickering this year, so actions will result next year, Eide said. “Next year, we can get the art where it should be—in the student’s eyes.”

CAB members will begin next semester with “open minds” and the desire to present the art safely, Eide said.

SA Sen. Todd Allen, community affairs committee member, said the committee needed better communication because members were not informed by Subatich or involved in the decisions, he said.