ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

October 3, 2006

Tenth Senate

	Present	Absent	Late
Allen	X
Arnzen	X
Estes	X
Fragnella	X
Frei	X
Karen Johnson	X
Kent Johnson	X
Ojeda	X

Call to order

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

Roll Call

Present: Senators Allen, Arnzen, Estes, Fragnella, Frei, Karen Johnson, Kent Johnson, Ojeda. President Bloomsburg, Vice President Smith, Media Relations Director Sherpa, Chief Justice Vaughan, Associate Justice Zipse, Associate Justice Ramirez.

Audience: Tony Fernandez, Ernie Williams, Brandon Lytle, Jimmie O’Harra, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

Approval of Minutes:

Approval of the minutes for September 26, 2006. Motion Senator Kent Johnson, second Senator Estes. 8 Yes, 0 no, 0 Abstention.

Student Government Advisor

■ Ernie Williams- Nothing.

Student Activities Coordinator

■ Brandon Lytle- Events for the week. Rollerskating Wednesday. Lancer Lanes Bowling 8pm-midnight unlimited bowling. Staff will be going over to hand out prizes. Oct 11 Comedian.

LCSC Administration Communication

■ Tony Fernandez- No report.

Executive Communications

■ President Bloomsburg- CDA will be here Thursday at 11:30 in the office. Brought up the bill for Molly Karp. Brought up the fact that there is another student that had a fire this summer and this may snowball. Senator Karen Johnson was the one to bring it to light. Senator Allen stated that this body was not working during the summer and therefore would not have been approached by this student. Response from Senator Karen Johnson was that the student was not aware that there was an opportunity for help until Senator Karen Johnson brought it to her attention. VP Smith stated that this body is elected here during the summer. There is a summer session and even though it is hard to get a quorum there is the possibility of getting people together to meet. President Bloomsburg stated that he is in a conundrum about it. Senator Estes stated that he and Molly Karp have talked and she does not wish to cause problems within the Senate. Stated that the main thing Molly is missing is a computer. Ernie Williams stated that it may be a good idea to start an emergency fund in case this kind of thing happens in the future. Provost Fernandez stated that the Faculty Senate has a fund for these kinds of things. Come up with some guidelines to follow in these cases. Senator Kent Johnson stated he liked the comments from Ernie and the Provost. Stated that he did not agree with providing a computer for a student, there are plenty of places on campus that she can use. President Bloomsburg stated he needs someone to represent for Administrative Procedures. Senator Estes will represent.

■ Vice-President Smith- VP Smith stated that he got an email from the NWSLC. Stated that he attended the conference last year and it is a good conference to go to. Closest conference to Lewiston. He made up a binder of the Student Survey questions for the Senators to go through. Senator Kent Johnson stated that the Administrative Procedures representative has to be the same as the Faculty Senate.

■ Media Relations Director Sherpa- in Vietnam.

Judicial Communications

■ Chief Justice Vaughan- Reported that they are going to try to have an election code meeting tomorrow. Don’t have a time yet. Will discuss it tomorrow when it fits into everyone’s schedule.

Committee Reports

Brandon Lytle asked if the co-curricular and curricular committee members are set. Judy Dingman would like everyone to get their passwords and start going over the proposals. Have to be awarded by the 17^th. Ernie added Judy’s x2211.

Old Business:

Resolution F001- Left tabled.

New Business

Motion to amend agenda to include Senate Bill 06-F014 Senator Johnson, second Senator Arnzen.

■ Senate Bill 06-F014: Funding for LCSCClubs.com website. Motion for friendly amendment to line 19 to remove the period before the comma, second Senator Kent Johnson. Unanimous. Senator Kent Johnson brought up that there needs to be dates added to the agreement or to the bill. Senator Karen Johnson asked for an itemization of the costs. Jimmie O’Harra stated that this cost is about half the cost of what it would cost in the real world. Senator Kent Johnson motioned for a friendly amendment to add a period at the end of line 20 and add “This contract will be from October 2006 to October 2007.” To line 21. Second Senator Frei. Unanimous. Motion to vote Senator Kent Johnson, second Senator Fragnella. Roll call vote: 8 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Bill passed.

Bill 06-F014 Roll Call Vote
	Y	N	A
Allen	X
Arnzen	X
Estes	X
Fragnella	X
Frei	X
Karen Johnson	X
Kent Johnson	X
Ojeda	X

Senate Information Reports

■ CJ Vaughan stated that the budget needs to be presented on the first Tuesday of the month. VP Smith stated it will be presented next week.

■ Senator Estes stated that if anyone has any questions comments or concerns about Student Health please talk to him. Senator Kent Johnson stated that he will have a letter sometime this week.

■ Myndie reported that she went to the Windows Live @ edu meeting today. Advised what the program is and advised that she will be able to get the slides that were presented today and will do so and put them on a computer in the office. If there are any questions ask Myndie.

■ Ernie stated that he is the person to contact about Student Health. Senator Kent Johnson advised Ernie of what the situation was.

■ VP Smith advised that the student he has had contact with is on Medicaid and was advised that the Medicaid would not work for the student after this semester. Ernie advised that Medicaid is not considered comparable insurance to others as many doctors do not accept Medicaid. It was not caught until the start of the semester and will be continued this semester. Senator Kent Johnson stated that this is what the state sees as adequate insurance.

Audience Time

■ Nothing.

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator Fragnella, second Senator Arnzen. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:10 pm.

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn