The undergraduate Student Association Senate voted to pass five reforms that addressed the misspending and misconduct allegations that led to former 2026-27 SA President Jack Koscinski’s resignation during its first meeting on Sept. 2. The vote was unanimous: 14 ayes to zero nays.
SA Treasurer Laron Fomby and acting SA President Na’Dia Carter spearheaded all five resolutions during the Senate meeting; nearly all tackling an allegation attributed to either Koscinski or then-SA 2025-26 President Aisha Adam.
“Regardless of intent, t is necessary that SA officials conduct themselves honestly and with integrity,” Fomby told the Senate. “Mistakes can happen to anyone, as we all know. We are all human after all. However, maintaining our integrity and reputation for honesty is critical for this organization.”
Koscinski resigned early July, two hours after his e-board members accused him of mismanagement of funds, misconduct and attempted fraud in a no-confidence letter.
In an email to The Spectrum at the time, Koscinski denied all allegations with the exception of the jokes on firing staff — to which he had said he had stopped and apologized for them early on in his term as SA ‘25-26 treasurer.
Koscinski did not respond to The Spectrum’s request for comment on the resolutions.
The university, which said they were reviewing the allegations over the summer, said they could not comment on “the existence or result of any such investigation.”
“Such investigations are by nature confidential and often protected by state and federal privacy laws. UB is confident in the internal controls established and maintained by professional staff within the Student Association and will continue to exercise oversight as appropriate in accordance with SUNY policies,” the emailed statement read. “We continue to encourage students to report incidents when there is concern, as members of the Student Association did in this matter.”
At the time, SA Treasurer Laron Fomby had told The Spectrum that he believed both Koscinski and Adam “acted in self-interest” for some expenses during his own review of last year’s budget. He cited a $1,383 purchase on seven round-trip Amtrak tickets for the SUNY SA spring conference on April 11-12 — where Adam and Koscinski both rode in business class — and three SUNY SA “joint-initiative dinner meetings” that cost $1,647.58.
Adam told The Spectrum then that SA passed its audit last year: the two had upgraded seats due to health reasons and that the university approved the dinners prior to them being held.
Two of Fomby and Carter’s resolutions focused on the Amtrak tickets and business dinners. E-board members are now restricted to using economy for all plane and train travel, with upgrades restricted to accommodations per the Americans with Disabilities Act or by other law. Additionally, SA funds can no longer fund per-diem payments — money allotted to e-board officers to spend on travel and food upon their discretion— and cannot be used to buy meals for e-board officers or non-UB students outside of certain SA events and contracts.
“We were deeply concerned that this was not the best use of SA funds,” Fomby said to the Senate. “Nor was it consistent with what we believed most undergraduates would want their student activity fees to be spent on.”
Adam told The Spectrum that the travel resolution is a formalization of existing SA and UB procedures, reiterating that the tickets booked for Koscinski and her last year were for accessibility and substantiated health concerns.
Koscinski’s 6 '6 height prevented him from fitting in the seats and Adam had documented autoimmune and respiratory concerns.
“I’ll say again that no bookings beyond coach class were ever made last year, unless explicitly for accessibility and/or substantiated health concerns,” Adam wrote in a text message to The Spectrum. “Under this new resolution, the tickets that have been referenced would still have been booked.”
Two resolutions introduced new allegations not originally included in the e-board’s no-confidence letter.
One switched room access responsibilities to the SA administrative and operations directors, with Fomby alleging that there was “mismanagement” of who had access to what room to where an e-board member was “locked out” of the office during a dispute with Adam and Koscinski.
Another added additional strongholds to the process of suspending or terminating a SA professional staff member — to where they must be approved by the SA president and treasurer along with either all three vice presidents, the Senate or the SA operations director — per Fomby’s allegation that Koscinski “inappropriately” terminated a professional staff member who then threatened legal action. The staff member was reinstated, Fomby said.
Fomby had not commented further on the alleged incidents, citing advice from SA’s legal team to keep employment matters confidential.
Adam said that a vice president was caught and had admitted to stealing student funded merchandise after hours, resulting in the revocation of his ability to swipe into the office outside of office hours. The decision was consulted with SA professional staff prior.
The vice president’s access otherwise was not obstructed according to Adam.
“I took this same decision with other staff members who had abused student trust with respect to office access,” Adam said. “Never did a ‘dispute’ affect e-board access to SA’s main office.”
Mylien Lai contributed to the reporting of this article.
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