The Student Government Organization passed a resignation policy for absent senate members at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 7.

The motion for an automatic resignation policy was passed. This policy requires senate members to resign if they fail to respond to inquiries and have three unexcused absences from general senate meetings.  

Logan Palardy, the treasurer of SGA, voted to pass the motion and said that the repeated absence of senate members results in SGA being less effective.  

“There are a few senators who have not gone to anything that the Senate has done this year,” Palardy said. “It affects our quorum because we need a certain percentage of our members to do things like pass by-law changes. It messes up our numbers on important votes and makes it so stuff can’t get passed. It’s something that the SGA used to do years ago, and we’re just trying to reimplement it.” 

The motion to increase SGA stipends failed. This motion was introduced at the last SGA meeting for Senators to earn $800, Vice-Chairs to earn $900, and Chairs to earn $1,000.

The Student Government Association meets every Wednesday at 3:05 p.m. in the Bellin room of the Student Center, with the next meeting taking place on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The meetings are open to all Central Connecticut State University students and faculty.