The University Park Undergraduate Association has a packed agenda for tonight's town hall meeting.
The assembly is set to debate two new resolutions, including one focusing on the governance of the $50 per semester facilities fee first implemented this year.
The facilities fee legislation to be discussed tonight is the result of negotiations between University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) President Gavin Keirans, Graduate Student Association (GSA) President Alfonso Mendoza, Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims and Vice President for Business and Finance Al Horvath.
While Ralph Crivello, chairman of the student assembly, said there might need to be a few minor revisions of the document, those would be "mostly technical things."
"The resolution presents what was finally agreed between what UPUA wanted, what GSA wanted and what the administration wanted," Crivello said. "It outlines the principles of how the money should be spent, and the administration and students were fairly in line as far as that."
Crivello did not offer specifics of the resolution.
The assembly also plans to debate a resolution regarding the general citizen service initiative ServiceNation.
According to its Web site, ServiceNation is an initiative that proposes service opportunities for every age and socioeconomic group to spread community service across the nation.
"That is a major political move to bring home the idea of service within the country, especially with it being an election year," Keirans said. "That has been spearheaded by our Governmental Affairs Chair[woman] Samantha Miller, and basically the idea is that we would sign on to the ideas of that pledge, and hopefully the university would follow suit, since other major universities have signed on."
Additionally, Ben Novak, a former Penn State University trustee, is planning to speak to all of the assembled representatives. Keirans said he expects Novak to speak about his time spent on the Penn State Board of Trustees and Novak's concepts of how the student governments fit into the wider university system and how they can be successful.
