ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

September 18, 2007

Eleventh Senate

 

Roll Call

 

Present

Absent

Late

Binkley

X

 

 

Bozzuto

X

 

 

Filler

X

 

 

Fragnella

 

 

Frei

X

 

 

McKee

X

 

 

Teats

X

 

 

Astle

X

 

 

Curd

X

 

 

O’Harra

X

 

 

Smith

X

 

 

Gray

 

X

 

Ramirez

 

X

 

Rice

X

 

 

 

 

Call to order

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

 

Roll Call

Present: Senators Binkley, Bozzuto, Filler, Frei, McKee, Teats. President Smith, Vice President Astle, Associate Justice Rice, Committees Director Curd, Media Relations Director O’Harra.

Absent: Senator Fragnella, Associate Justice Gray, Associate Justice Ramirez, Brandon Lytle, Tony Fernandez.

Audience: Ernie Williams, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

 

Approval of Minutes:

Motion to bring minutes back from September 4, 2007. Senator McKee, second Senator Teats. Unanimous. Motion for friendly to change date to September 4, 2007, Senator McKee, second Senator Teats. Unanimous. Motion for friendly to add “Chief Justice Bloomsburg, Associate Justice Wittman and Senator Ojeda,” as the names of the Student Government members who resigned under President Smith’s Senate Information Report. Friendly to read “advertisement” instead of “advertised” under Judicial Communications. Senator Bozzuto, second Senator McKee. Unanimous. Motion to vote Senator McKee, second Senator Bozzuto. Unanimous.

Approval of the minutes for September 11, 2007. Motion for friendly Senator Bozzuto, Page 3: in Senate Information Reports to read “it is the actual amount that the Senate is starting the month with.” Page 1: Tony Fernandez’s report to read “Almost a 6 ½ percent increase over last fall.” Add Tony Fernandez to the audience. Page 2: change “duel” to “dual.” Page 1: add “pm” to 12:15 under the Student Activities Coordinator section. Page 2: Change Committees Director Curd’s Executive Communication to add “pm” to 12:15. Second Senator Binkley. Unanimous. Motion to vote Senator McKee, second Senator Filler. Unanimous.

 

Student Government Advisor

          Ernie Williams- Co-Curricular / Non-Curricular grant requests are due at midnight on October 5. Will have a committee made up of this group that will be reviewing those requests. Thanked everyone for showing up to the Volleyball game last Friday. It was the biggest crowd he has seen at a Volleyball game so far. This Friday at 7pm the “woman volleyballers” will play Westminster.

 

Student Activities Coordinator

          Brandon Lytle- Absent.

 

LCSC Administration Communications

          Tony Fernandez- Absent.

 

Executive Communications

          President Smith- Good job on the minutes and “getting those cleaned up.” Working on getting numbers from other Student Governments before the SBOE meeting next month. Trying to get a meeting together for the SSAI at the SBOE meeting. Main one he wants to talk to is BSU because they have not passed the SSAI Constitution yet. The new president wanted to get involved; he’s been trying to get in contact with her to “remind her of that.”  Will be hard to do without BSU. When he talked to Amy (the BSU President) last spring she seemed to be “on board.” Checking into getting the Student Performing Arts Board going. The ASLCSC had put together guidelines for the board. But there are entities on campus that believe the board is too large and have resisted meeting. People believe that the board is too large and it will be hard to get all of the people together to meet. Will be meeting with Mary Flores. Advised that he has been part of this body for three years and he doesn’t “think that committee has ever met.” There is money being spent but no oversight and he believes that something needs to be done.

          Vice-President Astle- Went to CDA on Friday. Showed the Senate the “River Review.” Passed around a newspaper and a few pamphlets. Trip went well; the group seems to be pretty productive.

          Committees Director Curd- Clubs and Orgs meeting in ACW at 12:15 pm.

          Media Relations Director O’Harra- Nothing.

President Smith added that at the CDA meeting last week they discussed the WarriorMail issue. Stated that they couldn’t even email the “River Review” back and forth using WarriorMail. The CDA representatives asked that they have a representative on the WarriorMail committee, maybe by teleconference. Reported that he talked to Courtney today and she told him they were going to work on the issue and try to get them involved. Will try to get the “webinars” broadcast up there as they are about 10% of the LCSC population. CDA has also been having text book issues, which has been an ongoing issue. They get all of their books from Follett’s and they aren’t always getting the correct books. Professors are sometimes waiting until the last minute to put in their book orders and this causes them to not get their books until two to three weeks into the semester. Advised that he did talk to them about LCSCbooks and asked for their input on that as far as what would be easiest for them.   

 

Judicial Communications

          Nothing.             

 

Committee Reports

Safety Meeting: Senator McKee reported that they met on Thursday. One of the main topics was problems with the paint fumes around the printing shop. They are looking at ways of possibly moving that classroom to another place on campus. There is a website where people can post things when they have a concern. There is still a problem with people having candles in dorm rooms. Talking about getting satellite phones so instructors could have a phone in case of emergency during a backpacking trip or other similar event.  

LCWarriorMail: President Smith stated that they would be meeting soon (possibly the first part of October). Encouraged Student Government members to do the survey. Make sure you advertise the website in your classes so there is a student response included in the survey.  Courtney told him that they have had seven faculty fill out the survey and six of them supported WarriorMail. Need to make sure there is a good student response to the survey. The URL is www.lcsc.edu/it/survey.asp.  

 

Old Business

None.

 

New Business

          Senate Bill 07-F005: Associate Justice Appointment.  Motion for friendly Senator Teats, second Senator McKee to add a period at the end of line 22. Unanimous. Motion to vote Senator McKee, second Senator Filler. Roll call vote: 6 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Bill passed.

          Senate Bill 07-F006: ASLCSC Coeur d’Alene Chairperson Appointment. Motion to vote, Senator Filler, second Senator McKee. Roll call vote: 6 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Bill passed.

 

Motion to amend the agenda to swear in Ali Faris Mohamed as Associate Justice. Senator Binkley, second Senator McKee. Unanimous.

Associate Justice Rice swore in Ali Faris Mohamed.    

 

Senate Bill 07-F005 Roll Call Vote

Senate Bill 07-F006 Roll Call Vote

 

N

A

 

N

A

Binkley

X

 

 

Binkley

X

 

 

Bozzuto

X

 

 

Bozzuto

X

 

 

Filler

X

 

 

Filler

X

 

 

Fragnella

 

ABSENT 

Fragnella

ABSENT

Frei

X

 

 

Frei

X

 

 

McKee

X

 

 

McKee

X

 

 

Teats

X

 

 

Teats

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senate Information Reports

          None.     

 

Audience Time

          Senator Frei passed the gavel to Senator Binkley. Stated that she talked to Physical Plant today regarding the recycling situation on campus. Decided that it would be a good idea to have “bumper stickers” on the bins so people know what the bins are for. Also talked about getting trash bins put next to the recycling bins so people aren’t putting trash in the recycling bins. Will find out more this week. May have a bill written up for the cost of the stickers for next week. VP Astle stated that he thinks that certain colored bins should be designated for certain things and the stickers should advertise what type of recycling should happen in that container. AJ Mohamed stated that it might be a good idea to put pictures on the stickers. Senator Frei stated that John will be finding out exactly how the recycling is separated and where it all goes. Senator Frei took back the gavel.   

          Senator Frei stated they will be doing Senator interviews Friday at 2pm. One applicant will not be available on Friday. Frei stated they could interview her on Thursday at 5:30. Any other applicants will be on Friday at 2pm.

          President Smith stated that the conference room is full of things that need to be organized and taken downstairs.   

 

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator Filler, second Senator McKee. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5:15 pm.

 

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn