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By RAEGAN NEUFELD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger Media Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senators and executive staff members spent part of the Student Government Association meeting Thursday night learning about the importance of local elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Madison Albers, presenting on behalf of the advocacy group Loud Light, spoke about the upcoming Hays USD 489 Board of Education and Hays City Commission elections and how they as college students are affected by the results.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf any of you aren\u2019t registered to vote here, I would highly recommend it,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is where you\u2019re spending a lot of your tax dollars. Ellis County just had a sales tax raise, so you do have a reason to vote here. A lot of the things that affect you are the result of local elections, so it\u2019s important to get out and vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Albers, the last day for voter registration before the Nov. 7 elections is Oct. 17. Fort Hays students can re-register to be able to vote in Ellis County, or request a mail-in ballot for elections happening in their hometown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are races going on in all of the counties about all sorts of different things, like Wichita has a huge mayoral race coming up,\u201d Albers said. \u201cSo definitely look at your county if you\u2019re not registered here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting information and resources can be found on the Loud Light website<\/a> and ksvotes.org<\/a>. SGA and the Fort Hays chapter of the American Democracy Project will also be hosting voter registration events on campus in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other topics of discussion at the meeting included providing free hygiene products in the academic buildings and increasing security measures on campus. President Ella Burrows addressed both in her report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providing free hygiene products in the bathrooms of academic buildings is an idea Burrows began working on last year and has focused more on this year. She reported she received an estimate of $18,000 to install dispensers and provide products in 60 bathrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019m hoping we can do is receive several grants to get the cost down to about $10,000 for the first year and the implementation process,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter that initial year, it would be just $2,000 to cover the cost of those products.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the security cameras, Burrows said the University Police Department is getting a quote to determine the cost of security cameras to put in parking lots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe biggest issue is the cost of footage storage and the bandwidth of it right now, so they\u2019re hoping to get a cost breakdown and then go from there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next SGA meeting will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 in the Black and Gold Room of the Memorial Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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