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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Dear Representatives, </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">As a reminder, COGS has an extra $41,332 that was not originally accounted for in the Budget Committee. Therefore, members are strongly encouraged to consider and propose
amendments to the budget. Members interested in proposing amendments are requested to email
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="mailto:SGA-COGS-Communications@fsu.edu" id="OWAc41c879d-521f-fcd1-19b3-3237b6e8bbc7" class="OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:SGA-COGS-Communications@fsu.edu" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">SGA-COGS-Communications@fsu.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> and
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="mailto:SGA-COGSSpeaker@fsu.edu" id="OWA8a7a3e5e-b28e-e54e-be74-c2c15d67eb85" class="OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:SGA-COGSSpeaker@fsu.edu" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">SGA-COGSSpeaker@fsu.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> with
their proposed amendment(s) by <b>noon, Thursday March 24<sup>th</sup></b>, in order to get priority consideration on the floor. Members may still have some priority if they submit their amendment(s)
<b>prior to the start of the COGS meeting</b>. <b>Members may still raise amendments on the floor</b>, but these amendments will have the lowest priority. Amendments should be emailed in one of the following forms:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> “I will move to amend [Name of the line item] to change the funding in the [X] Category to $[AMOUNT].”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> “I will move to amend to create a line item named [NAME], with funding in [X] Category in the amount of $[AMOUNT].”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> “I will move to amend to add/change/delete proviso language for [NAME of LINE ITEM] (to read: [PROVISO TEXT]).”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> “I will move to amend to remove the [NAME] line item.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Members seeking to propose amendments related to university entities are
<b>strongly encouraged</b> to reach out to the entity prior to proposing the amendment to determine the effects of the amendment.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Sincerely, </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Noah Baez</b></span></p>
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Deputy Speaker of Communications </div>
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Congress of Graduate Students</div>
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