Nine members of the Student Association assembly attended a 12-minute meeting Wednesday night in Kittredge Auditorium to discuss possible changes to SA’s constitution.

The assembly did not meet on Monday due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Evan Ronen, the recently elected speaker of the assembly, sent an email Tuesday stating that SA had to meet this week and discuss a referendum so that members could vote on it for SA’s next meeting on Monday. President Boris Gresely, Vice President Daniela Lopez and the majority of SA members did not attend the meeting. Parliamentarian Stephen Thomas led the meeting.

The nine members who were at the meeting discussed a possible constitutional amendment, but they could not vote on anything because there were too few members present.

The first aspect of the amendment would be to create a new budget committee to draft the annual budget before being submitted to the Finance Board. Currently, the SA president holds the power to draft the budget, Thomas said. But there needs to be a section on what the budget committee would handle and what the cabinet would handle, he said.

Another part of the amendment is to rebrand and realign responsibilities in the committees. One proposed change is to combine the current Student Life and Academic Affairs committees into a Student Affairs committee, Thomas said. The Student Engagement committee would be rebranded into a group that primarily deals with registered student organizations. The committee would bring up outstanding issues with those organizations to the assembly, he said.

When more members of the assembly are in attendance next week, Thomas said he expects the bill to spark more debate.

Other parts of the amendment include changing the titles of cabinet’s positions from “director” to “chair.” For example, Lyle Weston’s title as director of public relations would be changed to chair of public relations, Thomas said