The Assembly, which was running on a surplus of just under $20,000 before this week, also allocated about $7,850 of its funds on Tuesday night for two student-faculty events, an Assembly banquet, a "Community Action Network" publicity campaign and a Profiles in Excellence dinner.
The Assembly formed the nine-member task force, which released its report to campus on Tuesday afternoon, in response to this winter's reform efforts led by Adam Shpeen '07. The group was charged with conducting an overall review of student government at Dartmouth -- including reform to the Assembly itself.
At Tuesday's meeting, the task force called for the elimination of some Assembly positions, including organizational representatives, which some say were exploited by Shpeen in his efforts to bring in new student members discredit Assembly President Tim Andreadis '07.
"[With organizational representatives] it's fairly easy to bring in a lot of people to support one opinion," task force member Natalya Shulga '07 said.
The group's report also calls for the using student body referenda on issues of large consequence, and required attendance at several Assembly meetings for those seeking the student body presidency.
In addition, the task force is recommending the Assembly revamp its committee structure, including the institution of a two-chair system for each committee -- one of which would by appointed by the president, and the other by the student body.
"[The change will allow for] better legislation that is better representative of campus," task force chair Kapil Kale '07 said.
The task force focused much of its effort on finance, attempting to rectify current inefficiencies in the allocation of student funds.
On Friday, the task force discussed potential financial reforms with representatives from each of the College's student governance bodies.
The three financial plans presented to the groups -- including one which called for a centralized body that would control funding -- were met with "mixed reception" by the representatives, and consequently were not included in the task force's report, Kale said.
Instead, the task force advocates the creation of a governance council comprised of representatives from the five major funding bodies: Student Assembly, the Greek Leadership Council, the Council on Student Organizations, Collis Governing Board and Programming Board.
Kale said he hoped the governing council would review the other funding proposals at the end of the year.
Members of the task force also met with the Undergraduate Finance Committee on Monday. The details of that meeting will remain confidential until the decisions are finalized by Dean of Student Life Holly Sateia, UFC chair Jacqueline Loeb '08 said.
Andreadis, who previously cited funding reform as an important area in the review, said he was pleased with the group's efforts.
"Hopefully we can find the way to implement some of these [recommendations], even if they don't get implemented in the exact way the task force said," Andreadis said.
Student Body President-elect Travis Green '08, who said throughout his campaign that he would wait to hear the recommendations of the task force before presenting concrete plans for Assembly reform, was similarly positive about the report.
"I plan on implementing the vast majority of the recommendations," Green said. "Parts of it don't go far enough and parts of it are a little sketchy, in my opinion. I just want to flesh it out some more."
Green said he has been talking with the task force about the potential to form a mid-level set of positions within the Assembly. He also addressed the task force's recommendation to push for an Assembly ambassador on the Board of Trustees -- an issue he termed a "tough, tough cookie."
