ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

January 24, 2006

Ninth Senate

Call to order

The meeting was called to order at 4:33 p.m.

Roll Call

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

Audience: Ernie Williams, Brandon Lytle, Luis Carrillo, Pam Laird, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

Absent: President Racich and Ron Smith at Higher Ed Week in Boise. Media Relations Director Rohde sick. Senator Smith excused absent.

Approval of Minutes:

Motion to approve the minutes for January 17, 2006, Senator Bybee, second Senator Rawson. Senate Information reports where it is talking about the “brick” would like changed to “bricks” motion for Friendly Amendment Senator Hanson second Senator Ojeda. Friendly approved unanimously. Minutes approved unanimously.

Student Government Advisor

■ Ernie Williams- Submitted information to the Pathfinder about the February 2 Warrior Athletic Association event. Hoping for a huge turnout at the game to support the athletes. Free dinner. “Save a board meal” that should be the battle cry. Commended whoever decided to take the bricks over to the “Business After Hours” in the gym. Stated that the Senate ought to look at every opportunity that comes up like that. Even if only five are sold at a time. Congratulations to whoever was responsible for doing that.

Student Activities Coordinator

■ Brandon Lytle- Tonight have basketball open gym in the Activity Center West. Last nights turnout was pretty good, about 65 people turned out to participate. Wednesday Ping Pong Tournament at noon in the SUB. Ski trip to Bluewood has been postponed due to low sign-up. Has been postponed for a week or two weeks will let the Senate know at the next meeting. Fridays will be “Noon Ball” from 12-1:15 in Activity Center West. As of today, Jayson Ulrich has officially moved to Activity Center West, office #114. Hopefully will be transitioning more of the Intramural sign-ups over that direction.

LCSC Administration Communications

■ Ron Smith- Absent, at Higher Ed Week.

Executive Communications

■ President Racich- Absent, at Higher Ed Week.

■ Vice-President Ambriz- Passed out Memorandum to the Senate written by President Racich regarding Resolution 06-S007. Read the letter to the Senate. Asked that the letter be attached to the Resolution in the Bill book.

■ Media Relations- Absent sick.

■ Director of Committees- Nothing.

Judicial Communications

■ Chief Justice Allen- “All Judicial stuff has been suspended.” Do not have a quorum and cannot make decisions without a quorum.

Committee Reports

Finance: Vice-President Ambriz reported that Finance met last Thursday. Went over the student fees for next year. Would like to meet again this week, will let the Senate know when that meeting will take place, will probably be on the Thursday.

Book Exchange: Senator Bybee reported that the Book Exchange netted roughly $500 which is about $700 less than last year. Broke even with the expenditure of gift certificates and advertisement. There will be some discrepancies in the accounting as some of the stickers from the insides of the books were not removed.

Legacy: Senator Rawson reported that there was an impromptu meeting last week. Went to the dedication of the new portion of the Activity Center. Had some interest and sold two bricks during the dedication. Price is $10 a brick.

Curriculum: Senator Johnson reported that he just came from the meeting. There were 18, first reading proposals and one, second reading on the agenda. The second reading was in regards to an SD307 transfer orientation class for Coeur d’Alene campus, mainly directed at the NIC transfer students. Most of the 18 proposals for first reading had to do with Practical Nursing. They have a few classes that were large credit classes that they broke out into different aspects of Practical Nursing. If anyone would like any details on any of this contact him, he has them available. The only concern there was, was in regards to removing the requirement for Developmental Psychology (PSYCH 205). There was also a first reading for some Business Division class changes, “most were relatively simple.” The only one that had some concern was dropping the English 203 because it was tied with the NIC classes, because the classes they taught at NIC could fill the ENGL 203 requirement (which is Business and Technical Writing). They added to their curriculum, Intro to Business and Intro to Computers and changed a couple of special topic classes that they have offered for three semesters into regular classes. Discussion about independent study courses and the credit availability for them. Apparently some classes have not been in sync with the catalog and how the catalog states. One of the people in the Registrars Office brought this to their attention so they are going to start looking into changing these issues to be ready for the 2007 academic year catalog. Most of the classes will not change, it will just be the maximum amount of credits that you can take the independent study for will change. Internships are available for 1-12 credits but the catalog states 1 or 2 credits, it may have just been a misprint in the catalog but it is something that needs to be addressed.

Diversity: Senator Sherpa asked if the Diversity meeting could be held at 6 pm rather than at 5:30. Decided that the meeting would be held at 6 pm.

Book Exchange: Senator Bybee announced that the Book Exchange Committee will be meeting Thursday after Roundtable.

Ways and Means: Senator Bybee asked if the Committee could meet today briefly after this meeting.

Clubs and Orgs: Senator Johnson read a note from Senator Smith that there will be a meeting on February 3, at 12:15 in the Silverthorne Theatre.

Old Business

Senate Meeting Minutes December 13, 2005. Tabled last week. Motion to bring Minutes off the table Senator Hanson, second Senator Rawson. Myndie explained what had been missing from the minutes at the last meeting. Friendly amendment that before the second bullet when the Senate moved back to Audience Time (after the attempt at Adjournment) Senator Hanson left and wanted that noted in the minutes. Motion for friendly Senator Hanson, second Senator Sherpa. Unanimous. Motion to vote Senator Rawson, second Senator Mewes. Unanimous.

New Business

■ Senate Bill 06-S038: Funding for Luis Carrillo to attend NIRSA Conference. Luis Carrillo presented a PowerPoint presentation regarding the NIRSA Conference to be held in Louisville Kentucky. Reminded the Senate that he is selling I-Pod raffle tickets until February 14, drawing will be held February 14. Friendly amendment to line 5, change F to S, Senator Mewes, second Senator Rawson. Unanimous. Senator Bybee asked why the bill is written for the money to come out of the Senate account. Hanson made a motion for friendly amendment to change account from Senate to Leadership Development. Senator Bybee made a recommendation that the funds be taken from the General account to avoid problems. Senator Hanson proposed a friendly amendment change the account from Senate to General, second Senator Bybee. Unanimous. Motion to vote Senator Hanson, second Senator Sherpa. Roll call vote: 9 Yes, 0 No, 1 Abstentions (Smith, voted yes by Proxy Vote, bill friendly amended so vote did not count). Bill passed.

■ Senate Bill 06-S039: Payment to Pathfinder “Warrior Spotlight” Motion to vote, Senator Riggers, second Senator Rawson. Roll call vote: 10 Yes (Senator Smith Proxy Vote Yes), 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Bill passed.

■ Senate Bill 06-S041: Legacy Committee Policies and Procedures. Motion to vote Hanson, second Senator Bybee. Roll call vote: 10 Yes (Senator Smith Proxy Vote Yes), 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Bill passed.

Senate Information Reports

■ Senator Hanson advised that in regards to the Senate Resolution S-007 he spoke to Kathy Grussing about the usage of the IIE lab. Advised that she is open to discuss it, but wants to talk to Karen Burton and people in the Professional Technical Division about the situation before making any decisions. Would like to make sure that it really is a problem. She would be open to discussion regarding the use of the room but she is leery. She wants to make sure she doesn’t lose the room.

Audience Time

■ Ernie Williams advised that Luis asked him to thank the Senate on his behalf. He had to leave the meeting. Wanted to clarify for the record that Dr. Smith is in Boise for Higher Ed Week.

■ Brandon Lytle also wanted to thank the Senate on behalf of Luis. “He is a great asset to the Intramural program…and we do look forward to seeing him there as long as he is a student at Lewis-Clark State College.”

■ Senator Sherpa informed the Senate that the Social Science Club will be meeting at noon in the Solarium. Will be discussing the events for Black History Month.

■ Senator Rawson stated that he supported President Racich’s memorandum in regards to Resolution S-007.

Senate Majority Leader Johnson passed the gavel to Senate Pro Tem Bybee.

■ Senator Johnson said, “in regards to the minutes that were passed for December 13, 2005” Chief Justice Allen stated he would be drafting a letter in regards to the complaint filed by Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson stated that he has yet to receive a letter and “would like to. As fast as possible…I would like the official, as official, ruling on that as possible.” Chief Justice Allen replied that “the minutes in itself should be more than ample of documentation” but agreed to drafting a letter in regards to the complaint.

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator Johnson, second Senator Hanson. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:25 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn

06-S038 Roll Call Vote				06-S039 Roll Call Vote
	Y	N	A		Y	N	A
Bybee	X			Bybee	X
Hanson	X			Hanson	X
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				Smith	PV
06-S041 Roll Call Vote
	Y	N	A
Bybee	X
Hanson	X
Johnson	X
Mewes	X
Ojeda	X
Rawson	X
Riggers	X
Sherpa	X
Smith	PV

ES= Excused Sick

EA= Excused Absent

PV= Proxy Vote