ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

January 17, 2006

Ninth Senate

Call to order

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

Roll Call

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

Audience: Ernie Williams, Brandon Lytle, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

Approval of Minutes:

Motion to approve minutes of December 13, 2005. Mewes, second Senator Rawson. Correction Senator Hanson, second to last page in audience time “Senator Johnson stated”, need to be changed to “Senator Hanson stated” Secretary, Myndie VanHorn asked that the minutes be tabled as it appears a great deal of the minutes were cut out in translation from one computer to another. Motion to table the minutes Senator Bybee, second Senator Smith. Motion carried.

Student Government Advisor

■ Ernie Williams- Welcome back. Hope everyone is “ready to go.” Warrior Athletic Association event will be coming up on 2^nd of February. They invite all LCSC students to free pre-game hamburger / hot dog barbeque. Mezzanine level of the Activity Center. Each student will receive a ticket for the half-time events. Between the men’s and women’s games tickets will be drawn to give them a chance for a free-throw to win two Apple I-Pods. This is the Warrior Athletic Associations efforts to boost student attendance at the games. Will be getting the information to the media, will be in the Pathfinder.

Student Activities Coordinator

■ Brandon Lytle- Free Racquetball at Adcope, free bowling at Lancer Lanes, free swimming was supposed to kick-off yesterday but the Aquatic Center was out of passes. Roller-skating tomorrow at the Rollaway at 6:30. New activity this semester will be noon basketball open gym in the new Activity Center Annex Gym on Fridays. SPB will be showing the movie “Waiting” at 7pm in the WCC tomorrow night. Intramural and Recreational Sports is selling raffle tickets to win an Apple I-Pod. Purpose is to send Luis Carrillo to the NIRSA annual conference in Louisville Kentucky $2 each or 6 for $10.

LCSC Administration Communications

■ Ron Smith- Welcome Back. A lot of activities going on this semester. Will be down at Higher Ed Week next week talking to the legislature and trying to get their supports for a lot of line items. Will also be trying to get them to address the Resolution that is on the agenda tonight. Did have $258,000 to address the computers and technology as a line item that was submitted to the President of Financial Management, however, the Governor did not fund that in his recommendation. He did fund $153,000 on IT Equipment and replacement in the management of current operations. He stated that they hope that holds as it is a big thing and that will help address the Resolution that is coming on the floor tonight. Tomorrow they will be taking a draft of the campus master plan to the President’s Council for “peer review” after that it will be brought to the campus and to representatives of this body.

Executive Communications

■ President Racich- Hello and thank you to those who are wearing their name badges, it helps the new students recognize you. Coeur d’Alene had a book exchange last week, the report was that they pulled in 200 books for resale and sold 20% of those books. They are happy with the results. Advised the Senate about the tape machine issues and that we are checking into buying a new machine. Officially informed the Senate that there was $200 transferred from General to Senate. Need to get the budget committee going again as far as student fees, need to start looking at that. Advised the Senate that the DC Summit will be taking place March 10-12. The extra day for the Summit to lobby will be December 13^th. Leaving on March 9 and will return March 14.

President Racich put forth Criteria for those going to DC:

à Must be planning on being in student government next year, so what is learned can be utilized next year in the Student Government.

à Not attended any of the other leadership conferences, as there is only enough funding for 3-4 people.

Airfare will run approximately $450 round-trip, hotel will be over $100 a night plus per diem and transportation costs. Deadline to let President Racich know you are interested in going will be January 27.

President Racich advised the Senate that Associate Justice Schuster has resigned from the Judicial Branch. Read his resignation letter to the Senate. Request to Media Relations Director Rohde to put an advertisement in the Pathfinder. Also notified the Senate of Senator Ramirez’s resignation and read her resignation letter to the Senate. This leaves the Senate Pro Tem position open and an open Senate seat. Will be advertising for the Senate position as well.

■ Vice-President Ambriz- Welcome Back. Advised that he withdrew his acceptance of the nomination for the Global Young Leaders Conference because something has come up. He has been offered an internship along with a renewable scholarship for a Human Resource scholarship and internship. He already went through the first set of interviews and it isn’t certain yet but there is a good chance he will be accepted. He appreciates the Senate sponsorship but has returned the check for the Global Young Leaders Conference to Myndie.

■ Media Relations- Director Rohde asked the Senate to make a decision as to when they would like the applications due so that she can advertise it in the Warrior Spotlight. Discussion ensued. Decision made to have the applications due by 5pm February 1.

■ Director of Committees- Director Bloomsburg reminded everyone to get their policies and procedures done. Several have been ok’d through Judicial. Start thinking about the notes that you would like to leave in the notebooks to future committee members.

Judicial Communications

■ Chief Justice Allen- Chief Justice Allen asked that everyone try to stay focused and focus on the “meat and potatoes and not the peas and carrots.” The Judicial Branch will be taking a more proactive approach, will up the training regimen for the existing Justices. Felt that it was unfortunate that he was not informed of Associate Justice Schuster’s resignation until this meeting. Main sticking point of the election code was the dates, advised the Senate that they need to be aware of the time-line.

Committee Reports

Book Exchange: Has brought in roughly $3500 which means that the Senate broke even on what was spent on advertisements.

Diversity: Meeting at 5:30 on January 25. Awarded Diversity awards at the MLK celebration downstairs today.

Old Business

None.

New Business

■ Resolution 06-S007: Learning Resource Center Funding: Passed around handout that came from Karen Burton from the LRC. According to Senator Johnson the LRC has to turn away Professional Technical students because there are large amounts of academic students using the facilities. Because the LRC is funded by Professional Technical grant monies it is an issue that Pro Tech Students are turned away because of academic student usage of the LRC. Karen Burton had a meeting with Dean Pharr last semester to try to get funding she also had a meeting Sheri Becker with International Programs to try to get additional funding to help support this lab. The funding that she was looking for was denied at the time. Karen Burton requested that Senator Johnson get something in to Student Government to push the issue a bit further. President Racich confirmed what Dr. Smith had talked about earlier. There was a strategic planning committee meeting last week, the issue of labs is “way up on the list” it is a main topic of discussion during the planning meeting. This planning committee has been working on this issue. Senator Hanson informed the Senate that the Language Lab in SGC B130 is only used 4 hours a week, “that’s 16 computers that are just sitting there.” Would like permission to speak to Kathy Grussing in International Programs. Maybe we can get some volunteers in there to help tutor and watch the lab while it isn’t in use for the IIE. Senator Smith asked if there is a plan to improve the LRC or if they are going to do another academic equivalent lab. Senator Johnson advised the “end result is not known. Space constraints almost dictates that another lab has to be opened somewhere. We are pretty well filled to capacity with computers. If we actually got more computers in there they would have to wire in more internet connections. It would be a process to just get more computers in there; it would probably be more feasible to get another lab somewhere else.” Senator Bybee advised that there are several labs on campus that are underutilized. Advised that the lab in the SUB and MLH 310 are not ever full. Maybe part of the solution to this problem would be to advertise where the underutilized labs are. Senator Sherpa stated that the LRC is one of the favorite labs for the International students because of the environment. The fact that there are tutors there and that it is a homier feel draw the International students into the lab. Senator Hanson proposed a friendly amendment to change line 43 to line 33, second Senator Smith. Passed. Senator Rawson proposed a friendly amendment to change line 22 to read “should be fixed by Lewis-Clark State College,” second Senator Smith. Passed. Senator Bybee proposed a friendly amendment to line 33 to add a period, line 26 to remove “to” after Lewis-Clark State College, change line 13 “full” to “filled.” Second Senator Hanson. Passed.

Motion to vote Senator Hanson, second Senator Riggers. 7 Yes, 2 No (Bybee, Rawson) Resolution passed.

Motion to amend agenda to elect Senate Pro-Tem, Senator Hanson, second Senator Riggers. Unanimous.

Nominations for Pro Tem:

Senator Ojeda nominated Senator Mewes, Mewes declined the nomination.

Senator Hanson nominated himself.

Senator Rawson nominated Senator Bybee.

Senator Sherpa nominated Senator Smith.

Discussion ensued on how to do the voting process. Decision made to do roll call vote. 0 votes Hanson, 5 votes Bybee (Johnson, Mewes, Ojeda, Rawson, Riggers), 1 vote Smith (Sherpa), 3 Abstentions (Hanson, Bybee, Smith)

Senate Information Reports

■ Senator Johnson advised that he has had a change of schedule and will not be able to make the Directors Council meetings. Needs someone to take over going to the meetings once a month. Meeting times are Tuesdays at 10am. Senator Smith advised he would be interested in being the ASLCSC representative for these meetings. Media Relations Director Rohde advised she would be interested as well. Roll Call Vote to determine who should be the ASLCSC representative. 5 votes Smith (Bybee, Hanson, Johnson, Riggers, Sherpa), 3 votes Rohde (Mewes, Ojeda, Rawson), 1 Abstention (Smith). Senator Smith will be attending those meetings.

■ Senator Hanson advised that it may be wise to sell the bricks during the dedication for the new addition to the Activity Center. If that is of interest the committee needs to contact Polly Blasko. The times for the dedication are 5-7 pm.

■ Myndie advised that she has still not received class schedules and office hour schedules for student government members. Read off who has not given her the information with the promise that she will continue to read off names until she gets the necessary information.

Audience Time

■ Senator Sherpa advised the group that tonight and Thursday night will be movie nights at 6 pm in MLH 100 for the MLK celebration. The movies that will be shown are “Beyond Borders” and “Smoke Signals.”

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator Hanson, second Senator Sherpa. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:26 pm.

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn

Resolution 06-S007 Roll Call Vote						Senate Pro-Tem Roll Call Vote
		Y	N		A		Hanson	Bybee	Smith
Bybee			X			Bybee	ABSTAINED
Hanson		X				Hanson	ABSTAINED
Johnson		X				Johnson		X
Mewes		X				Mewes		X
Ojeda		X				Ojeda		X
Rawson			X			Rawson		X
Riggers		X				Riggers		X
Sherpa		X				Sherpa			X
Smith		X				Smith	ABSTAINED
Directors Council Roll Call Vote
	Smith			Rohde
Bybee	X
Hanson	X
Johnson	X
Mewes				X
Ojeda				X
Rawson				X
Riggers	X
Sherpa	X
Smith	ABSTAINED

ES= Excused Sick