November 15, 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, Smith. President
Racich, Vice-President Ambriz, Chief Justice Allen, Committees Director Bloomsburg,
Media Relations Director Rohde.
Audience: Ernie Williams,
Brandon Lytle, Jimmie O’Harra, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.
Approval of Minutes:
Motion to approve minutes of
November 8, 2005 Senator Ramirez, second Senator Ojeda. 9 Yes, 0 No, 1
Abstention Senator Bybee.
Student Government Advisor
■ Ernie
Williams- Nothing to report.
Student Activities Coordinator
■ Brandon Lytle- Roller-skating at
Rollaway tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.
LCSC Administration Communications
■ Ron Smith- Absent.
Executive Communications
■ President
Racich- Passed to Vice-President Ambriz.
■ Vice-President
Ambriz- Informed the Senate that there will be an ASLCSC Christmas Party
December 9 at 5:45 p.m. at Tomato Brothers. Welcome to bring a significant
other with you, have to pay for the guest. Will be having a “White Elephant”
gift exchange, bring a wrapped present to not exceed $15. Nice dress is
preferred. Will be getting an invitation. Christmas Craft Fair short meeting
directly after Senate. Stipends need to be recommended soon, finance committee
may have to meet Thursday. Need to have Senate Majority Leader and Chief
Justice at the Finance Committee meeting. Need the stipend numbers recommended
for Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches.
■ Media
Relations- Nothing to report.
■ Committees
Director- Bloomsburg reported that he is pleased that the meeting reminders are
being used. Also thought the new white board for committee meetings is being
used well, keep it up. Policies and procedure manuals seem to be coming along well;
Diversity got theirs in first.
Judicial Communications
■ Chief Justice Allen- Reported that he
received a number of policies and procedures manuals and the Judicial Branch is
going over them and will be getting back to the Senate on them. President
Racich asked how the election code is coming along and CJ Allen reported that
he has not yet met with AJ Schuster on that as Schuster was the primary author
of that document. Will be conferring with Schuster to get the election code
ironed out.
Committee Reports
Diversity Committee: Senator Sherpa reported. Meeting tomorrow at 5:30 in
225. Will be discussing “Human Rights Day.”
Ways & Means: Senator Ramirez reported. Met last week and finished with the grievance
section of the Bylaws and worked on the “watered down” ethics section. Senator
Johnson is looking at the grievance section to make sure the numbering is
correct.
Santa’s Helpers: Senator Johnson reported. The Committee met this morning and worked on
the Policies and Procedures. Will be bringing a bill to the Senate for a
donation. Collection tins will be placed around campus after Thanksgiving.
Myndie will be sending out the letters requesting donations to area businesses
tomorrow.
Legacy Committee: Senator Smith reported. Legacy met last Thursday and discussed Policies
and Procedures and will be making the appropriate changes. Also discussed the 2003-2004
Legacy Project that is still unfinished and the group decided unanimously that
they would like to see the Legacy project finished with the money that has
already been raised for it. The Legacy Committee is still discussing ideas for
this year’s project, they thought they had some good ideas at first but it
seems that there are doors closing on a lot of the ideas. Welcome anyone to
submit ideas for the Legacy Project, either by telling a Committee member or by
dropping a note in Senator Smith’s box. Another meeting scheduled for Thursday
at 3 p.m.
Math Lab: Rohde
reported that they met last week and all those involved will be going to
investigate the labs by themselves and will be meeting this week.
Directors Council: Senator Johnson reported. Met this morning and spoke about the
registration policy as well as transcripts and the possibility of ordering and
paying for those online. Scholarship applications will be coming out December
1. Another issue that was discussed was looking at redoing some of the signage
in Reid Centennial Hall, nothing that is going to be expensive but will update
the signage in the building. Johnson suggested that the Legacy Committee may
want to look into above-door signage and the possibility of putting those in
the main door entrances in the main buildings on campus.
Administrative Procedures: Senator Johnson reminded the Senate to get their
comments in to him regarding the “Involuntary Administrative Student Withdrawal
proposal.” Next meeting will be mid-December and he is looking for Senate input
on this issue. Put comments in his box.
Book Exchange: Senator
Bybee reported. Met briefly and passed the updated Policies and Procedures
which will be submitted to Judicial shortly.
Old Business
None.
New Business
■ Senate Bill 05-F029: Travel funds for the
Senate Information Reports
■ Senator
Hanson reported that Jimmie O’Harra and himself met this afternoon with Renee
Olson with Alumni Services. Discussed several different ideas of setting up a
solid Alumni base. Olson requested that she meet with the students and President
Racich to share some ideas.
■ President
Racich asked if anyone had anything to report on the Northwest Student
Leadership Conference in
à Senator
Johnson: “I personally did not but I was going to bring it up and remind
everybody that we need to start [putting together some] quick run downs of the
conferences that we attended. It would have been nice to have at least one or
two, but personally I know that there was no way I had time to even get one put
together. I didn’t finish any of them while over there. But we do need to have
quick run downs of what we learned, how it will benefit the student government
and possibly clubs and orgs and any other entities on campus.”
à Vice
President Ambriz: “It is hard to get something put together in a day that is
going to be good quality.” (Unable to get more of a direct quote as I could not
hear him well.)
à Senator
Smith: “I do want to report that it was a good conference and I got a lot out
of it. I think it was worth the money that we spent. I know there were several
of us that were basically at every session we could be at. And we were able to
get some good things. I know myself, every session I wished there was two of me
because there was at least two that I wanted to be at at every time. It’s a good
conference and I would do it again if I got the opportunity.”
à Senator
Hanson: “Ditto Senator Smith. I went to a couple of good ones…one on lobbying,
and basically how to go about doing it. Also ‘crafting your message for media’
a lot of interesting things I learned especially about broadcast media (can’t
understand him here). Also some things with the United States Student
Association which is a National organization of not only state student
associations but also individual schools themselves. I think it is certainly
something we should look into if we can’t do the Idaho Student Association at
least do something for ourselves. (unintelligible) Overall I think that
conference was a success, it was great not only in the conference content, it
was great to spend time with my fellow student government and get to know them,
it was worth it just for that.”
■ Senator
Johnson stated that the Ethics Committee will have to meet in the immediate
future in regards to the stipend allocations. Will also discuss senators
attendance and recommendations about the stipend amounts. It was decided that
the Ethics Committee would meet directly after the Senate meeting.
■ Brandon
Lytle advised the Senate that he and Jayson Ulrich moved the canoe from the
boathouse. Advised the Senate that the sign was still out at the boathouse in
case the Senate wanted to do something with it.
■ Senator
Johnson reported that he had heard that flex and board dollars will carry over
semester to semester. Wanted to recommend that the Senate get Dale Askew to a
meeting to discuss this.
Audience Time
■ Ernie
Williams: Advised that he will re-contact the people who do chair adjustment to
get them in to adjust and lubricate the chairs.
■ Senator
Sherpa reported that there will be International Movie Nights at 6:30 p.m. all
this week in MLH 100.
Adjournment
Motion to adjourn Senator
Ramirez, second Senator Ojeda. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:05 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Myndie VanHorn
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Bybee |
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Hanson |
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Johnson |
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Mewes |
X |
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Ojeda |
X |
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Ramirez |
X |
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Rawson |
X |
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Riggers |
X |
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Sherpa |
X |
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Smith |
X |
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ES= Excused Sick