The Student Association convened on Sunday night for its first meeting of the 40th year of SA meetings.

After this year’s SA senate elections that were held Sept. 23 and 24, 31 out of the 38 senators attended and only Treasurer Patrick Echols was not present among the executive officers.

The meeting began as the executive officers introduced themselves and swore in the senators with an oath of office.

One of the few issues addressed was a letter sent out by Treasurer Echols on Friday to funded student organizations stating that this year those organizations can not request to keep rollover funds from the past fiscal year and must be submitted to SA. These funds are leftover monies a student organization has not spent by the end of the fiscal year and were originally allocated to them by SA.

“We decided this probably would be the most fair and equitable way to evenly distribute the load across student organizations,” said SA President Brent Keller. “This is by no means a happy situation and I’m not particularly pleased to report this, but this is a question of need, fairness and equity rather than anything else.”

If a student organization requires additional funding, they can apply to SA to receive some of the $50 thousand it has kept aside for supplemental funding.

Apart from the denying of rollover funding to student organizations, the SA also approved the new President Pro Tempore Meagan Szydlowski and the new senate clerk, Melissa Roman.

Szydlowski, a former SA senator and the current president of College Republicans embraced her position.

“I love it; I love staying busy, I love senate and politics is where it’s at,” Szydlowski said.

The SA will be making appointments to committees next week and will also look to appoint a Supreme Court in the coming weeks since at present there is none.

For the SA in the coming year, Matthew Venaas, the speaker of the senate, is looking forward to it.

“I’m really looking forward to this year mainly because there’s a lot more of younger and newer members of the senate this year,” Venaas said. “We have the least number of open seats that we’ve had in quite some time.”