ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

October 10, 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.

Audience: Tony Fernandez, Ernie Williams, Brandon Lytle, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

 

Approval of Minutes:

Approval of the minutes for October 3, 2006. Motion for friendly amendment Senator Kent Johnson, second Senator Estes to read “October 3, 2006”. Unanimous. Senator Johnson motion to vote, second Senator Fragnella. 8 Yes, 0 no, 0 Abstentions.

 

Student Government Advisor

■          Ernie Williams- Co-Curricular will be getting ahold of people within the next few days to set up a meeting time. 

 

Student Activities Coordinator

■          Brandon Lytle- Badminton tournament tonight at 6:30. 3 on 3 Basketball deadline at 5 today. Spokane Chiefs is the 13th 7pm, leaving around 4 pm. Texas Hold ‘Em free 12th at 6pm. WEB comedy show tomorrow at 7 pm in Solarium, Michael Dean Ester. Andrew Becker hypnotist coming up on the 24th at 7pm in the WCC.

 

LCSC Administration Communication

■          Tony Fernandez- State Board of Ed will arrive in Lewiston Wednesday. Will be in executive session at the Red Lion that night. Will be discussing the plans for the education corridor (CDA) which LCSC will be a major player in. SBOE will start at 8 am in the WCC if the Executive Session is finished. There is an open forum section that begins almost immediately, if you wish to participate in the open forum you need to let them know that day. The SBOE will be comparing the engineering colleges in preparation at looking at all education programs. Will be talking about dual credit programs which LCSC does a lot of. Will be discussing allowances for institutions to grant extensions to tenure.   

 

Executive Communications

■          President Bloomsburg- Strongly encourages anyone who has not been at a SBOE meeting to show up. Business dress 100%. If you show up, dress respectfully. Radio club meeting. Eric Martin, Dan Fowler and Kathy Wilcox will be trying to form an advisory panel. Eric Martin has a great deal of experience with low-wave radio stations, Dan Fowler also has a lot of experience. Radio club is working on getting canned programs. Have to run from the 9th to the 20th (only have to be on air while school is in session). Will be on air even if they have to hook a CD player directly to the transmitter. Reported that he reallocated 2 computers to the Radio Club, will be reallocating a computer to speech and debate, and one to OELA. General consensus of the Senate was to give speech and debate a printer as well.

■          Vice-President Smith- Passed out the website URL for the SBOE agenda. Passed out the budget. Explained the budget to the Senate. The 16th from 3-5 is what Judy is looking at for the Co-Curricular meeting.

■          Media Relations Director Sherpa- Put some pictures in the kiosk and did the press releases. Thanked the Senate for their support for her trip to Vietnam. Met a lot of new people.  Will be doing a presentation sometime in November for the Social Science Division.

 

Judicial Communications

■          Chief Justice Vaughan- Nothing new.

 

Committee Reports

Ways & Means: Senator Allen reported that they have been meeting. Talking about stipend requirements, grievances, Bylaws, setting goals on how they are going to work on those issues. VP Smith stated he was able to track down a rough draft copy of the grievance policy so they won’t be starting from “Ground Zero.”

Election Code: Senator Kent Johnson stated that VP Smith, AJ Zipse, CJ Vaughan all met to discuss the election code and it will be coming out soon.

Contemporary Social Issues: Senator Estes reported that they are coming out of hibernation. Will be dealing with alcohol issues, smoking issues etc. on the campus. If you have concerns about those issues feel free to get ahold of him. Looking for student at large members. This committee is driven by students. Reid Hall Room 111, Doug Steele is in charge of that committee. If anyone has any ideas of who to ask to be student at large member call extension 2211. Senator Kent Johnson requested that media relations director get something out about this. Sherpa asked if someone would write it up.

Student Health Committee: Senator Kent Johnson stated that he heard a comment about Student Health Services today. Reported that there was a conversation that was overheard between a patient and a worker by someone in the lobby. Stated that they need to be more aware of privacy issues at Student Health Services as this was a very personal issue that was overheard. Ernie advised that he would bring it to the Student Health Services Coordinator.

 

Old Business

Resolution F001 remained tabled.

 

New Business

■          Senate Bill 06-F015: Student Relief Funding for House Fire.  Motion for friendly amendment to change line 5 to read “Senate Bill 06-F015” Senator Fragnella, second Senator Frei. Unanimous. Motion to table Senate Bill 06-F015 Senator Kent Johnson, second Senator Fragnella. Unanimous.  

■          Senate Bill 06-F016: Debate Team Funding. Motion for friendly amendment Senator Arnzen for line 5 to read “Senate Bill 06-F016” second Senator Kent Johnson. Unanimous. Senator Ojeda passed the gavel to Senator Allen. Senator Ojeda explained the bill and advised the money would be paid back as soon as they got the co-Curricular funding. Senator Kent Johnson asked if they are sure they will able to pay the money back.  Senator Ojeda stated that they would do fundraisers if they did not get co-curricular funding. Senator Estes added that they will be receiving some funding from the Science Department by doing debates about nuclear energy. VP Smith stated that this puts the Co-Curricular committee in a strange place as there are several members of that committee on the Senate and this is a conflict of interest.  Senator Kent Johnson asked if this was going to be precedent setting and they will be here every year. Senator Estes stated that in the past there had been someone there to take care of things. The Debate team has fallen into this and is coming here with a plea for help.  Institutional Development was supposed to get them through the first part of the year. VP Smith stated that they only received half of what they asked for and added that they received $6000 last year. Motion to vote, Senator Johnson, second Senator Arnzen. Roll call vote: 2 Yes, 3 No, 3 Abstentions. Bill failed.

Senator Johnson motion to amend agenda to include Senate Bill 06-F017, second Senator Fragnella. Unanimous.   

■          Senate Bill 06-F017: YWCA TWIST Conference Funding. Motion for friendly to change line numbers to add line 17, and remove the second 26 and 27 from the bill. Also remove “of” Senator Kent Johnson, second Senator Estes. Senator Karen Johnson nay, Friendly amendments did not pass. Senator Ojeda asked why Senator Karen Johnson why she was against the friendly amendments. Senator Karen Johnson advised that she thought it would shift the three sentences down and would leave a big space in the bill. Advised that she thought it should be broke down. Motion for friendly amendment to change what is line 18 to line 17…up to line 27 to line 26. Removing “of” specifically stating that the friendly would leave the content of the bill intact, just moving the numbers down. Myndie handed the roll call sheet to Senator Ojeda and stated that she had to go. Second Senator Estes for the friendly amendments. Unanimous. Senator Ojeda took the gavel back.  Senator Estes read the information about the conference. Discussion ensued. Motion to vote Senator Estes, second Senator Allen. Roll call vote: 7 Yes, 0 No, 2 Abstentions. Bill passed. 

■          Senate Resolution 06-F003: Health Insurance. Senator Johnson explained that this resolution states that the ASLCSC supports the college accepting Medicaid at Student Health Services. Provost Fernandez asked why this Resolution was on the table. Advised that the Administration decided to recognize Medicaid months ago. “We made a conscious decision as an institution to designate them [Medicaid] as comparable, although there have been discussions as to whether they are comparable or not.” VP Smith stated that the reason this was brought to the table was that a student brought this issue to him. Stated that he spoke to Ernie and was informed that the acceptance of Medicaid may be changing. Ernie stated that “it was my understanding at one time that it was being looked into, but if the policy is the policy now and administration has set that policy then that’s the way it is.” Motion to vote, Senator Estes, second Senator Kent Johnson. Roll call vote: 8 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Resolution passed. 

 

Bill 06-F015 Roll Call Vote

Bill 06-F016 Roll Call Vote

 

Y 

N

A

 

Y 

N

A

Allen

TABLED

 

 

Allen

 

X

 

Arnzen

 

 

Arnzen

 

X

 

Estes

 

 

Estes

 

 

X 

Fragnella

 

 

Fragnella

 

 

 X

Frei

 

 

Frei

 

X

 

Karen Johnson

 

 

Karen Johnson

X

 

 

Kent Johnson

 

 

Kent Johnson

X

 

 

Ojeda

 

 

Ojeda

 

 

 X

Bill 06-F017 Roll Call Vote

Resolution 06-F003  Roll Call Vote

 

Y 

N

A

 

Y 

N

A

Allen

X

 

 

Allen

X

 

 

Arnzen

X

 

 

Arnzen

X

 

 

Estes

X

 

 

Estes

X

 

 

Fragnella

X

 

 

Fragnella

X

 

 

Frei

X

 

 

Frei

X

 

 

Karen Johnson

X

 

 

Karen Johnson

X

 

 

Kent Johnson

X

 

 

Kent Johnson

X

 

 

Ojeda

 

 

X 

Ojeda

 X

 

 

 

 

Senate Information Reports

■          VP Smith advised the Senate that the Northwest Student Leadership Conference is coming up soon. Told the Senate what kind of workshops there are at the Conference. The Conference is scheduled for Nov 17-19. This is the closest Conference for the Senate. Encouraged the Senate to get a bill on the table so the registration can be taken care of. 

 

Audience Time

■          Senator Karen Johnson advised she has been trying to access the Student Handbook. Stated that she is wondering if there should be a dress code. Stated that she thought this should be treated like a job. Senator Kent Johnson stated that he did not think this should be treated like a job. Senator Ojeda passed the gavel and said “this is the real world” and that people do what they wish and wear what they wish, “we can’t tell people what to wear, this isn’t high school anymore.” Senator Fragnella agreed with Senator Ojeda. “We’re not being paid to be here, we’re paying to be here.”

■          CJ Vaughan reminded the Senate that the bills should be proofread before they are brought to the table so that we don’t have that many friendly amendments. Senator Kent Johnson reiterated what CJ Vaughan said.

■          Senator Johnson asked if there has been any headway regarding the Doc Sears Resolution. Senator Estes stated that he has a meeting this week regarding an alternate material. The other committee members have been trying to reach the bronze foundry in Oregon. Senator Estes stated that it is being worked on. VP Smith stated that he has had a hard time getting ahold of Parks Bronze. Asked if the Legacy Committee could meet this Friday. Decided to meet at 3pm on Friday.

■          Senator Allen asked if Myndie had to leave for personal issues. He was advised by Brandon that she has to leave by 5:30 to pick up her child or she gets charged $5 a minute. “If the Senate wants to pay that I imagine she would probably be willing to stay the extra time.” Senator Allen’s response was “Have her send a bill.” President Bloomsburg stated that she had advised him of the situation at the beginning of the year and he had told her it was ok.

 

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator, second Senator. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 6:08pm.

 

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn