SECTION 1.1 – POWERS AND VOTING
A simple majority of the Committee’s full membership is required to make funding and any other official decisions, except as provided for elsewhere in these bylaws. Apart from their normal function as a part of this Committee, a member has no individual authority.
SECTION 1.2 – DUTIES OF GRANT MAKING COMMITTEE
TGIF’s Committee is the decision-making body for The Green Initiative Fund. The committee chooses which projects receive funding, approves changes to grant awards, and provides guidance for TGIF.
It shall be the duty of the voting Committee members to:
- Attend committee meetings
- Review grant applications and determine the allocation of funds
- Vote on issues which require committee approval, such as project adjustments
- Provide feedback to and help support all grantees and grant applicants
It shall be the duty of the non-voting Committee members to:
- Attend committee meetings
- Provide advice and background information to the Committee during grant review
- Provide feedback to the Committee on issues that require Committee approval, such as project adjustments
- Provide feedback to and help support all grantees and grant applicants
SECTION 1.3 – MEMBER NUMBER & REPRESENTATION
TGIF’s Committee shall consist of four students and three non-students, as follows:
Voting
- One graduate student appointed by the President, Campus Affairs Vice President (CAVP), or Vice President of Finance (VPF) of the Graduate Assembly (GA)
- One undergraduate student appointed by the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)
- One student with a background in environmental justice, selected by TGIF’s Committee after the other five members have been selected. This position is open to all undergraduate and graduate students via a student at-large application
- One undergraduate student, selected by TGIF’s Committee after the other five members have been selected. This position is open to all undergraduate students via a student at-large application
- One faculty member approved by the Academic Senate
- One staff member from Administration, selected by the Vice Chancellor of Administration
- One staff member from Capital Strategies, selected by the Director of Capital Strategies
Non-voting
The campus Director of Sustainability, the Director of Capital Planning, a member of the Committee on Student Fees, and the Director of the Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC), shall attend Committee meetings as non-voting Members, and the Committee shall invite experts/guests to provide information and expertise as needed.
SECTION 1.4 – OFFICERS
TGIF’s Committee shall have two co-chairs. The co-chairs shall preside at all meetings of TGIF’s Committee, acting as facilitators and holding meetings to the agenda in a timely fashion. The co-chairs shall also coordinate and approve meeting agendas with TGIF’s Manager (described in Article 2). One of the co-chairs must be a student member of TGIF’s Committee. The co-chairs will assist the Manager with their duties. At the beginning of each term of office, TGIF’s Committee will take nominations and volunteers for co-chairs. Candidates for co-chair will be selected first by majority vote of the Committee. Candidates for both positions are eligible to vote in these elections.
The co-chairs shall hold office for one year, though with Committee approval a chair can serve another term.
SECTION 1.5 – TERMS OF OFFICE
Each member of TGIF’s Committee shall be appointed for one year, fall-spring semesters. TGIF’s Committee must meet at the beginning of the fall semester to select the Student at-Large Representatives from a pool of applicants. Committee members may serve no more than two consecutive terms but the total number of terms they may serve is not limited. TGIF’s Manager will contact the appointing representative bodies for Committee member nominations in the prior summer (June-August).
SECTION 1.6 – MEMBER QUALIFICATIONS
All Student members of TGIF’s Committee must be registered (full or part-time) UC Berkeley students during their term of office. The Student at-Large applicants may only be undergraduate students, while the Environmental Justice Student at-Large Representative applicants may be either undergraduate or graduate students. Students graduating at the end of the spring semester or a subsequent summer session are still eligible for committee membership, even though their student status may technically expire before the end of summer. Staff members of TGIF’s Committee must be currently employed by UC Berkeley; faculty may be currently employed or emeritus.
SECTION 1.7 – MEMBER REPLACEMENT
A Committee member may be removed by unanimous vote of the other Committee members for unjustifiable absence, conflict of interest, or other appropriate reasons. In the event that a Committee member is removed or resigns, the original appointing body will select a replacement. The new Committee member will serve the remainder of the original member’s term.
SECTION 1.8 – CONFLICT OF INTEREST
TGIF’s Committee shall conduct itself in such a way that conflicts of interest are minimized and all potential conflicts of interest are made public.
For example, each Committee member must make public all campus groups and organizations of which they are a member. Where appropriate, Committee members should recuse themselves from voting on grant allocations for projects proposed by such groups. For such votes, the “full Committee membership” as defined for voting majority purposes shall be decreased to account for the Committee member's recusal.