Card upgrade delayed until summer 2008
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University of North Florida students will be able to pay for tuition, parking passes, meals from on-campus eateries and other costs using their Osprey ID card beginning summer 2008.
The card changes will put the university in league with the University of Florida and the University of Miami, which already use updated student IDs. The new cards will replace the decade-old card technology at UNF.
"The initial plan was to issue [the] new card and system by fall 2007," said Tully Burnett, associate director of Auxiliary Services. "The [new] target goal for installing the new system is May 2008 and [to] have it fully active by fall 2008. First to come under the new system: manage meal plans, facility access, bookstore."
The current card allows students to access school facilities, buy tickets at the box office, and use meal plans.
Students can add funds to their Flex Dollars account through cash-to-card
machines.
Similar to University of Florida IDs, the Osprey Card will eventually act as a debit card at campus stores.
Unlike universities such as Florida and Miami, UNF will not have a banking backer for the debit function.
Students will be able to go onto the UNF Web site to access, view and make deposits to their account. Money can also be deposited through the Cashier's Office, Burnett said.
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Student fee meetings open to all
Students at the University of North Florida will now have the opportunity to know when and where Student Government and university officials will be deciding fees for next year.
Beginning this week, the student fee assessment committee, which is responsible for making recommendations to President John Delaney about student fee increases, will begin publicly
noticing dates and times. Meeting information has not been
previously noticed.
"We're going to advise members of the committee to go ahead and notice it as a Sunshine [Law] meeting," said Marc Snow,
associate
general counsel for
the university.
Snow said because the group is not a fact-finding committee, but an advisory committee, his advice is to hold the meetings with public notice and to "err on the side
of caution."
However, Snow said his review of Florida statutes has not indicated that the meetings must be held with public notice. Only the University of South Florida currently treats SFAC meetings as sunshine meetings.
Florida law requires many governmental meetings be held in the public view. Florida statue 286.011 requires "all meeting of any board or commission of any state agency ... at which official acts are to be taken are declared to be public meetings open to the public at all times ... The board or commission must provide reasonable notice of all such meetings."
The first SFAC meeting was scheduled for Oct. 12 but was cancelled and rescheduled for Oct. 19. Another meeting scheduled for Oct. 26 was cancelled as well.
Notice of these meetings, their cancellations and the schedule for the remaining meetings were sent via e-mail to committee members and SG officials, but not to students outside of SG.
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Unofficial SG Election Results
| Mary Elizabeth Hines | 617 | Michael Saathoff | 628 | Chris Arsenault | 660 |
| Redner Salonga | 678 | Matt Pagan | 682 | Cherie Michaud | 724 |
| Tony Miles | 748 | Amanda Brunson | 748 | Chris Hovel | 763 |
| Greg Curry | 766 | Jason Trent | 777 | Anthony Mack | 780 |
| Yvette Kibiwika | 799 | Angela Green | 814 | Jimmy Mansfield | 839 |
| Tom Blanchard | 846 | Danielle Barringer | 858 | Nina Guerriero | 892 |
| Ashley Adams | 949 | Jessica Sexton | 953 |
These results are subject to change and will not be validated until the next Senate meeting Nov. 4.