March 28, 2006
Ninth Senate
Call to order
The meeting was called to
order at 4:30 p.m.
Roll Call
Present: Senators Bautista, Bybee,
Mewes, O’Harra, Rawson, Riggers, Smith. President Racich, Vice-President Ambriz,
Media Relations Director Rohde, Committees Director Bloomsburg, Associate Justice Wittman, Associate Justice
Vaughan, Associate Justice Astle.
Excused Late: Senator Hanson
at Curriculum meeting.
Excused Absent: Senators
Ojeda and Sherpa.
Audience: Ernie Williams, Ron
Smith, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.
Motion to amend the agenda: Senator Bautista motioned to amend the agenda to add
the approval of the minutes for March 7 and 14 and add Senate Bill 06-S052.
Second Senator Smith. Unanimous.
Approval of Minutes:
Approval of the minutes for
March 7, 2006. Motion Senator Riggers, second Senator Bautista. Unanimous.
Approval of the minutes for
March 14, 2006. Motion Senator O’Harra second Senator Rawson. Motion for
friendly amendment for the top of page 2 to change “ASLSC” to “ASLCSC” Senator
Rawson, second Senator Bautista. Friendly amendment unanimous. Minutes as
friendly amended approved unanimously.
Student Government Advisor
■ Ernie
Williams- Welcome back. Informed the Senate that the Student Health Insurance
group is meeting twice tomorrow. Once as a committee and later with the
representative from Renaissance regarding efforts at improving the current
student health insurance. Informed the Senate that
Student Activities Coordinator
■ Brandon Lytle- absent.
■ Myndie-
reported that the “Clumsy Lovers” will be at the Elks on Wednesday and there
will be four “Punk-Rock” bands in the WCC on Friday.
LCSC Administration Communications
■ Ron
Smith- Welcome back. Close to sending out the Campus Master Plan one more time.
Will have a meeting in the next week or so.
Executive Communications
■ President
Racich- Was contacted by the SBOE, they have requested more information
regarding the student fee increases and she will be addressing the SBOE in the
next day. Reminder about Cesar Chavez celebration in the SUB tomorrow.
■ Vice-President
Ambriz- Nothing.
■ Director
of Committees- Asked if Legacy had scheduled a meeting yet. Requesting that
they meet to discuss the Doc Sears Legacy Project and the brick situation.
■ Media
Relations- Nothing.
Judicial Communications
■ Associate Justice Astle- Barbeque on
April 12 will be for the first 400 people. Informed the Senate that they are
having trouble with the training for the League of Women Voters and with
getting scanners for the election. Senator Bybee referred them to Julie Crea
for the scanners. Senator O’Harra asked how the ballots were going to be
counted and asked about whether the election had been online last time.
Discussion ensued regarding the use of laptops during the last election.
Informed the Judicial Branch that there was a database used to avoid duplicate
voting between the two polling locations. Judicial advised to contact the webmaster
and possibly Ben Schuster.
Committee Reports
Diversity: Senator
Smith informed the Senate that their last meeting was during Native American
Awareness Week. Was personally asked by President Thomas to thank everyone for
attending the Friendship Banquet. Was
mentioned that this year had more Student Government involvement from previous
years. Next meeting tomorrow at 6.
Ways & Means: Senator Bybee reported that last week when the Senate was in Coeur d’
Alene they asked the Senate to check into changing the credits for their
executive Committee to six credits rather than eight. Senator Smith added that
the thought behind this is that it may open up the Executive Committee up for
more involvement as many people are dually enrolled in NIC and LCSC. President
Racich added that this will be a Constitutional change. Discussion about
keeping the credits at eight for the Chairperson while changing the other
Committee members to six credits. President Racich stated that this may not
work as the Committee votes on whom they want as their Chairperson and the
person that holds eight credits may not be the person that wants the
position.
Graduation Banquet Committee: VP Ambriz asked that the Committee stay for a short
meeting after this meeting.
Curriculum Committee: Senator Hanson reported that they just met. Dr.
Fernandez wanted him to bring some issues to the Senate. Finals “butting up”
against Christmas is an issue he wanted some feedback on. Also would like some
feedback on Spring Break for two years down the road. VP Ambriz stated that he
thought getting out of school so close to Christmas is a hardship for students
who leave town for the Holidays. President Racich brought up the issue of dead
week and the fact that dead week is never “dead”. Senator Smith stated that the
weekend in-between dead week and finals is a good time for students to get
their studying done before finals. Myndie stated in regards to the Spring Break
issue that there is a very large population of non-traditional students on
campus and it would be a good idea to get the LCSC Spring Break set at the same
time that the local schools take Spring Break. Having Spring Breaks at
different times is a hardship on parents that have children in school and
either have to pay extra daycare or have to bring their children to school.
Ernie stated that most of the complaints that he hears in relation to Spring
Break are that the dates are different from the area schools. Senator Bautista
stated that it is also an inconvenience that the colleges in the state don’t
have the same Spring Breaks. Media Relations Director Rohde stated that it is a
problem when students take classes from U of I and LCSC, they never get a
Spring Break. Committees Director Bloomsburg stated that he thought it would
affect more people if Spring Break was coordinated with the local schools.
Old Business
None.
New Business
■ Senate Bill 06-S052: Funding for Octavio
Ambriz to attend NIRSA Conference. VP
Ambriz informed the Senate that he will be working for Jayson Ulrich and
Brandon Lytle and was asked by them to attend this conference. Discussed
starting up an Intramurals Advisory Board. Also explained all of the expenses
that this entails and what experience he would like to obtain while at the
conference. Motion to vote Senator Smith, second Senator Hanson. Discussion
ensued regarding the Intramurals Advisory Board. Senator Mewes asked if this
was the same conference that the Senate had given Luis Carrillo $300 to attend.
He was answered “yes”. Mewes said “we had already voted to spend $300 to send
representatives to this conference…if we wanted to spend $600 we could have spent
$600 at that time.” Roll call vote: 4 Yes (Bautista, Hanson, Riggers, Smith), 1
No (Mewes), 3 Abstentions (Bybee, O’Harra, Rawson) (Senators Ojeda and Sherpa
excused absent). Bill failed.
Senate Information Reports
■ Senator
Bybee asked the Senate if they were ok with the Senate paying half of the meal
bill for the meeting that was held in
■ President
Racich advised the Judicial Branch that she had talked to former Chief Justice
Allen regarding online voting and advising him to contact Chet Herbst and Bert
Sahlberg. He never contacted those people and nothing was done in regards to
online voting. President Racich stated that she knows they are very busy with
the elections now, but after the elections they should contact those people to
get things in gear for next years election.
■ Senator
Smith reminded the Senate of the debates on Thursday.
Audience Time
■ Senator
Hanson advised that he has a copy of the Involuntary Administrative Withdrawal
Policy if anyone wants to look at it.
■ Senator
Smith advised that Senator Bybee will be leaving for
Adjournment
Motion to adjourn Senator
Hanson, second Senator Riggers. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:07 pm.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Myndie VanHorn
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Roll Call Vote |
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N |
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Bautista |
X |
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Bybee |
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X |
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Hanson |
X |
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Mewes |
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X |
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O’Harra |
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X |
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Ojeda |
EA |
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Rawson |
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X |
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Riggers |
X |
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Sherpa |
EA |
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Smith |
X |
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ES= Excused Sick
EA= Excused Absent
EL= Excused Late