October 18,
2005
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, Ramirez, Rawson, Riggers, Sherpa, Smith. President
Racich, Vice-President Ambriz, Chief Justice Allen, Associate Justice Schuster,
Director of Committees Brott.
Excused
Late: Media Relations Director Rohde.
Absent: Ernie Williams.
Audience: Brandon Lytle, Ron
Smith, Pam Laird, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.
Approval of Minutes:
Motion to
approve minutes of October 11, 2005, Senator Ramirez, second Senator Ojeda. Unanimous.
Student Government Advisor
■ Ernie Williams- Sick.
Student Activities Coordinator
■ Brandon
Lytle- Rollaway on Wednesday 6:30 p.m. October 20
LCSC Administration Communications
■ Ron Smith- Nothing.
Executive Communications
■ President
Racich- Will be having a telephone conference with the State Board of Education
this week. Will be gathering information for the Health
Insurance fees for different colleges within the state. Will be putting
together projections for where the rates will be in two years, five years and ten
years. Health insurance goes up an average of 18% a year across the country,
adding to that the student fees increase of about 10% a year makes it quite an
increase for the students. She will be putting together a PowerPoint
presentation to present what the future college student will be paying for an
education. It should be rather shocking and hopefully when it is done it will
give a good punch. Myndie will be helping with the research during the next
couple of weeks and Media Relations Director Rohde will be putting together the
presentation. Rohde will be going with President Racich to the Dec 1 State
Board of Education to present so she can run the presentation.
■ Vice-President
Ambriz- There will be a Finance Committee meeting next Tuesday after the Senate
meeting. Hope everyone had a chance to go to the State Board of Education
yesterday.
■ Media
Relations Rohde- Late, excused.
■ Director
of Committees Brott- Reminder that the committees that don’t have the Policies
and Procedures done need to get those done. If you need a guideline, use the
Book Exchange Policies and Procedures.
Judicial Communications
■ Chief Justice Allen- Have been working
on training the Justices. Also, Justice Schuster and CJ Allen have been talking
about updating the Election Policies and Procedures to make them more
efficient. One thing they have talked about is giving more time for Outreach
Centers to get the vote out.
Committee Reports
Ways & Means- Meeting tonight. Meetings were cancelled last week.
Diversity- Meeting
Oct 19 at 5:30.
Legacy- Meeting
Oct 20 at 3:00 in SUB 225.
Student Affairs- Met and talked about the Mid-term grade Resolution. The members have no
problem with the premise of the mid-term grades just concerned about the
implementation of the mid-term grades and want them to be meaningful. Concerned
about what kind of a picture mid-term grades give the students. Explained that
this is a weighting issue, and sometimes the mid-terms will give a student a
good or a bad picture of where their grades are depending on the weighting of
the class (depending on whether most of the grading is before or after the
mid-term grades come out). Also discussed the situation with Warrior Zone and
the seating issue, members informed Hanson that if there was a Resolution
written they will be happy to work with the Senate on the situation. They did
not think it was fair what was happening with the seating.
Co-Curricular- President
Racich reported that they received several requests for grants. Four were
funded fully, they were: Collision Repair, Diesel Power, Web Development and
Kinesiology. Partially funded BPA (Business Professionals of
America) because they received some other alternate funding. There was a
problem with Mock Trial, the Mock Trial Club did not get their paperwork in and
were not a recognized club at the time of the decisions and did not receive
funding. There has been a letter of concern from Gene Straughn, saying that he
sent the proper paperwork through campus mail. Straughn was informed by
telephone message at the beginning of Oct telling him that he was not
recognized. The Mock Trial club is not recognized at this time.
Old Business
None.
New Business
■ Resolution 05-F003: Non-Curricular Grant
Funding. Presented by author Senator
Smith, discussion ensued. Senator Hanson voiced concern that this could be used
by varsity teams who wanted to start their own club. Senate was informed by
Brandon Lytle that NIRSA (National Intramurals and Recreational Sports
Association) rules state that varsity athletes cannot compete or participate in
anything that relates to their perspective sport. NAIA code also prohibits
athletes from participating in clubs related to their sport. Motion
to vote Senator Bybee, second Senator Rawson. Roll call vote: 8 Yes, 1
No (Ojeda), 1 Abstention (Sherpa). Resolution passed.
■ Senate Bill 05-F022: Allocate $200 for
Clubs and Orgs website. Presented by author Senator Smith, discussion
ensued. Motion to
vote, Senator Hanson, second Senator Sherpa. Roll call vote: 10 Yes, 0 No,
0 Abstentions. Bill passed.
Senate Information Reports
■
State Board of Education- President Racich reported that the State Board
of Education will be introducing three pieces of legislation. The third piece
is to put tighter reins on approval of higher education institutions in
Audience Time
■ Chief
Justice Allen- He informed the Senate that he has been nominated for the United
Nations High Chancellor position to the Human Rights Fellowship Program. Will be stationed in
■ Brandon Lytle- Update on Outdoor Rec.
the hard-shell kayaks are in. Rafts and inflatable
kayaks are on order and should be in soon. The building is almost secure and
there are additional steps being taken to make it more secure. Clubs &
Orgs- been working with Trudy to get the defunct clubs off of the books and
trying to figure out where the left-over funds should go.
■ Senator Ojeda- Reminder of tomorrows debate.
■ President Racich- Informing the Senate of new developments
in the “ongoing saga” over in Talkington Hall. There is a floor in THall that has been informed that
if the garbage doesn’t go out by noon the whole floor will be fined. Discussion
ensued.
■ Myndie-
Informed the Senate that it will cost $72 to get six of the desks in the Senate
office re-keyed so that all the desks will have different keys. Informed the Senate that the bricks need to be moved onto a shelf
in the storage area. Also informed the Senate that the Elks Lodge is not
closing and maybe we should discuss changing the graduation banquet venue. Tate
Smith is on the Board of Trustees will be coming to the Senate for Roundtable
on Thursday so we will be able to discuss this with him then. Myndie will check
into whether the commencement flyer can still be changed or not.
Adjournment
Motion to
adjourn Senator Riggers, second Senator Ramirez. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:10 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Myndie VanHorn
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Resolution 05-F003 Roll Call Vote |
Bill 05-F022 Roll Call Vote |
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Bybee |
X |
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Bybee |
X |
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Hanson |
X |
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Hanson |
X |
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Johnson |
X |
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Johnson |
X |
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Mewes |
X |
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Mewes |
X |
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Ojeda |
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X |
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Ojeda |
X |
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Ramirez |
X |
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Ramirez |
X |
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Rawson |
X |
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Rawson |
X |
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Riggers |
X |
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Riggers |
X |
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Sherpa |
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X |
Sherpa |
X |
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Smith |
X |
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Smith |
X |
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ES= Excused Sick