ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

February 21, 2006

Ninth Senate

 

Call to order

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 p.m.

 

Roll Call

Present: Senators Bybee, Hanson, Mewes, Ojeda, Rawson, Riggers, Sherpa, Smith, Bautista. President Racich, Vice-President Ambriz, Media Relations Director Rohde, Committees Director Bloomsburg, Chief Justice Allen, Associate Justice Wittman, Associate Justice Vaughan.

Audience: Ernie Williams, Ron Smith, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

 

Approval of Minutes:

Motion to approve the minutes of February 14, 2006: Senator Hanson second Senator Smith. Motion for friendly amendment Senator Ojeda second Senator Smith to change “Rose Bautista” under roll call to “Rosa Bautista.” Friendly unanimous. To approve the minutes: 8 Yes, 0 No, 1 Abstention (Senator Smith)

 

Student Government Advisor

■          Ernie Williams- The co-curricular committee met Friday to look at the requests, had $15,000 to disburse. Covered all five requests, the money has been allocated. Advised that Brandon Lytle is out ill today. 

 

Student Activities Coordinator

■          Brandon Lytle- out ill.

 

LCSC Administration Communications

■          Ron Smith- Advised that he is working on the proposal for student fees, would have it ready by Thursday but will be at State Board of Education meetings. Administration will probably be recommending 7%. Will have some additional information next week.

 

Executive Communications

■          President Racich- Advised that she will be gone to the SBOE this Thursday, if you have anything for the agenda give it to Vice President Ambriz.

■          Vice-President Ambriz- Finance will be meeting to go over the club proposals for funding. Graduation banquet meeting will be after Roundtable Thursday.

■          Media Relations- Nothing.

■          Director of Committees- Mishap with the agenda. Added a couple of committees to go over during the Committee reports. Wanted to add Legacy, Graduation Banquet and Alumni Board.

 

Judicial Communications

■          Chief Justice Allen- Reported that the mandatory meeting for candidates has been set. Elections are going along as planned.

 

Committee Reports

Legacy: Senator Smith reported that they met last week and have been discussing helping the Student Programming Board with buying some equipment like lighting etcetera.  Will be consulting with Brandon to get an idea of what they need and want.

Graduation Banquet: Will have a short meeting Thursday after Roundtable. Committee members come with ideas.

Alumni: Senator Hanson reported that he was unable to make it to the meeting. Will be meeting with Renee Olson to go over the agenda and what happened at the meeting.

 

Old Business

None.

 

New Business

■          Senate Bill 06-S040: Appointment of Brock Astle as Associate Justice.  Motion to vote Senator Rawson, second Senator Ojeda. Roll call vote: 9 Yes, 0 No,  0 Abstentions. Bill passed.

            Brock Astle sworn in as Associate Justice.  

 

Senate Information Reports

■          Senator Bybee informed the Senate that Kent Johnson resigned from office. Accepted nominations for Senate Pro-Tempore as Senator Bybee will be taking over the Senate Majority Leader position which leaves the Senate Pro-Tem position open.

            Senator Ojeda nominated Senator Mewes.

            Senator Riggers nominated Senator Smith.

            Senator Smith nominated Senator Sherpa.

            Roll call vote: 4 votes Smith, 2 votes Mewes, 1 vote Sherpa, 2 Abstentions (Mewes and Bautista) Senator Smith named Senate Pro-Tem.

■          Committees Director Bloomsburg informed the Senate that there is now a big gap in the committees. Asked that the new Senate Majority Leader replace former Senator Johnson in the committees. Finance is ok. Ethics has a gap and needs a Senate vote to be filled. Senator Smith will be taking over the Senate Pro-Tem positions.

■          Senator Ojeda asked about clarification on abstentions.

■          President Racich went back to the committees and advised that she would be appointing Cody Bloomsburg and Brock Astle to Institutional Development. Senator Bautista and AJ Wittman will be serving on Graduation Banquet. AJ Vaughan will be serving on Legacy.

■          Senator Sherpa reported that the Library Board met for the first time in four years. The only things that were dealt with were in relation to faculty and staff.

■          President Racich reported that she met with Jerry Hindberg and Dr. Smith. The campus card system is “absolutely awesome.” Got to see a report today on the lab in the SUB and it shows how many people go into the labs at what times. Tells when those labs are significantly busy. Talk is to increase the number of readers on the campus and the Student Technology Fee Committee will be addressing this. Informed the Senate that Friday, Saturday and Sunday are the busiest days. Giving proof that there may be a need for the math labs to be open more hours on the weekends.

 

Audience Time

■          Senator Sherpa, informed the Senate that tomorrow is the last event for Black History Month. In SUB 143 at noon there will be presentations by students on Ghana, Sudan and Uganda.

■          Senator Smith reminded everyone of the Clubs and Orgs meeting on March 3 at 12:15 in the Silverthorne.

 

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator Hanson, second Senator Mewes. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:55 pm.  

 

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn

 

06-S040 Roll Call Vote

Roll Call Vote

 

Y 

N

A

 

Mewes

Smith

Sherpa

Bautista

X

 

 

Bautista

Abstained

 

 

Bybee

X

 

 

Bybee

 

X

 

Hanson

X

 

 

Hanson

 

X

 

Mewes

X

 

 

Mewes

Abstained

 

 

Ojeda

X

 

 

Ojeda

X

 

 

Rawson

X

 

 

Rawson

X

 

 

Riggers

X

 

 

Riggers

 

X

 

Sherpa

X

 

 

Sherpa

 

X

 

Smith

X

 

 

Smith

 

 

X