BSG elects announced
Amendola, Keating, Geyer to take office in fall

By Amanda Seef
NEWS EDITOR

As voting ended, the Election Commission of Brockport Student Government announced the decision for elected positions for the 2008-09 academic year.

Kyle Amendola and Bill Keating were chosen by 401 of the 463 voters in this year’s election. The president and vice president elects received an overwhelming 86 percent of the votes. Finance club Vice President Lindsay Geyer was elected as BSG Treasurer. She received 63 percent of the total votes over Randall Franklin, the current BSG vice president.

The three elects all have big plans for their year in office, but are continuing to focus on their current positions within BSG. Amendola is the current treasurer, while Keating and Geyer are both off-campus representatives.
Amendola and Keating hope to represent innovation, tradition and change during their time in office.

“This is your government, this is your money and you control it,” Keating said.

The president and vice president elects plan to incorporate student involvement through a variety of means.
“Our main goal is to increase student input, so we can put on programs and offer services students really want,” they said. “We plan to create a programming board that will allow students from various organizations around campus to offer input and make decisions on programs that we put on.”

Geyer hopes to maintain constant communication with clubs and organizations to ensure that funds are allocated properly.

“I intend to regulate and update budgets both internally within BSG and with clubs to ensure bigger, better and more programs,” Geyer said in a previous statement.

Board representatives for on and off campus were chosen, as well. Clayton Santic and Paul Giglio were both chosen for on-campus representative positions with more than 85 percent of their jurisdiction voting for them. Jeff Scanzuso, Nate Casillo and Rich Jebo were all elected for the off-campus representative positions, also with more than 85 percent of voters choosing them. All five representatives plan to listen to students’ opinions and bring student concerns to the board.

Voter turnout was low this year, with only 6 percent of students showing to cast their ballot. The total amount of voters, 463, is a 48 percent decrease from the voting turnout last year.

Issues on the ballot over the disqualification of Darnell Pierce and Michelle Ford early in open campaigning made an impact, as many students chose to not vote at all. Students were able to turn in write-in ballots or choose to not vote for the ticket while they cast votes for other races.

“I believe that voter turnout was low due to the fact that there was only one set of candidates for the presidential race,” Ryan McPherson said. McPherson is the Service Council representative and a board member. “I can sympathize with the students concerns that they should have been allowed to write someone in for the President and Vice President.

“I had been working to try to allow write-ins for the past two years on the Board of Directors with little support. I felt that write ins should be allowed and still do, however I feel that it would have been unfair to allow them at this point when the candidates who were still in the race followed all the rules and ran a good, fair campaign.”

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