ASLCSC Senate Meeting Minutes

September 4, 2007

Eleventh Senate

 

Roll Call

 

Present

Absent

Late

Binkley

X

 

 

Bozzuto

X

 

 

Filler

X

 

 

Fragnella

 

 

X 

Frei

X

 

 

McKee

X

 

 

Teats

X

 

 

Astle

X

 

 

Curd

X

 

 

O’Harra

X

 

 

Smith

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 Ramirez, Associate Justice Rice, Committees Director Curd, Media Relations Director O’Harra.

Late: Senator Fragnella

Audience: Ernie Williams, Tony Fernandez, Angel Bell, Senate Secretary Myndie VanHorn.

 

Approval of Minutes:

Approval of the minutes for May 8, 2007. Motion to approve Senator McKee, second Senator Filler. 5 Yes, 0 no, 1 Abstention (Binkley).

Approval of the minutes for August 18, 2007. Motion to approve Senator McKee, second Senator Filler. 6 Yes,   0 No, 0 Abstentions. Unanimous.  

Approval of the minutes for August 28, 2007. Motion to approve Senator McKee, second Senator Filler. 6 Yes, 0 no, 0 Abstention.

 

Student Government Advisor

■          Ernie Williams- Nothing to report.

 

Student Activities Coordinator

■          Vice-President Astle reported for Brandon Lytle that there is a free concert on September 12 in the SUB Solarium from 11-1.  

 

LCSC Administration Communications

■          Tony Fernandez- Introduced himself. Asked that the new people introduce themselves. New Student Government members introduced themselves. Advised that LCSC is up for reaccreditation in the Fall of 2009. Every ten years the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities reviews each college in the Pacific Northwest. This is a two year process starting this year. What is done over the next two years is very critical to the future of LCSC. The college will have to do a self-study that the Commission will evaluate in a visit on campus two years from now. The self study is done by everyone on the campus including students. Have started forming committees to address the nine standards that LCSC needs to meet in order to be reaccredited by the Commission. The only student who has been appointed is Matt, but more students will be appointed in the future. The students will be on committees that address the standards related to students. The first draft of the self-study will hopefully be written by June. Have started meeting with the design build team of the new nursing building over the summer. Hoping to name the building Sacajawea Hall but will need State Board of Education approval for that. McAlvain construction and ZGA Architects out of Boise were the companies chosen for the construction. Met with them two weeks ago and will be meeting with them every two weeks over the next few months. In the design process right now. Have not decided where the building will be placed yet. Hopefully will break ground in Spring 2008 for opening in Fall 2009. Will keep Student Government up to date. Will be between 60 and 70 thousand square feet and will house facilities for Nursing, Rad-Tech, Chemistry and Biology.

 

Executive Communications

■          President Smith- main thing he had is the resolution that is in front of you. Met with IT this morning to make sure that what he had written was what they wanted. If this is passed tonight they will be moving forward with the committee and start meeting with those involved. Will be having "webinars" to look at the differences between the emails. There are four "webinars." Want to get this through so they can get started because it is pretty time sensitive. They want to have a decision made by December.   

■          Vice-President Astle- Looking into ways of advertising for LCSC books. One of the ways is to purchase a banner. If anyone else has any ideas they are welcome. There will probably be a bill coming the Senates way for a banner.

■          Committees Director Curd- Everyone has their minimum number of committees. For external committees please go find the contact information for your committee and swap information. Please do that by Friday. 

■          Media Relations Director O’Harra- put together new Warrior Spotlight. Going to start putting out a current topic every week. The current topic is warriormail. The webpage is up to date. Do need some pictures from some people. Will be more updates soon. Need pictures from Binkley, Bozzuto, Teats and Rice. Advised that he can take the picture if you would like him to or you can send one to him.  

 

Judicial Communications

■          AJ Ramirez- reported that they are in need of a Chief Justice. Discussed advertising for a Chief Justice there has been advertisement for Associate Justice.

 

Committee Reports

Craft Fair: VP Astle reported that the committee is already underway. If you are on that committee please talk to him.

 

Old Business

None.

 

New Business

■          Senate Resolution 07-F001: LCWarriorMail Resolution. President Smith stated that Courtney probably already answered all of the questions the Senate had. Reported that LCSC is paying $38,208 a year out of the Student Technology Fee for Campus Cruiser. Over the last couple of years there have been students come forward with complaints about the email. This is a resolution in favor of an “investigation” into getting a better email program. Are not ruling out Campus Cruiser, but there are some other options that are significantly less money with more storage space. Part of it will be looking at what is important to students. IT has put together a survey that will be given to students. “Even if it is the best out there at least we’ll know a little bit more information.” Senator Binkley asked where the survey will be. President Smith stated that the survey is online. Will get the URL for Senate on Thursday. Senator Binkley asked if the information on the survey will be sent out as a Warriormail announcement. President Smith stated that that medium wasn’t discussed although they did talk about advertisement. IT wants to get as much student input as possible. Motion to vote Senator Fragnella, second Senator McKee. Roll call vote: 7 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Resolution passed.

■          Senate Bill 07-F003: Warrior Spotlight Funding. Media Relations Director O’Harra introduced the bill and reminded the Senate of Terri Stamper’s visit to the Senate meeting last week. Also informed the group that he has to have Warrior Spotlight info by Monday. Motion to vote Senator McKee, second Senator Filler. Roll call vote: 7 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstentions. Bill passed.  

 

Senate Resolution 07-F001 Roll Call Vote

Senate Bill 07-F003 Roll Call Vote

 

Y 

N

A

 

Y 

N

A

Binkley

X

 

 

Binkley

X

 

 

Bozzuto

X

 

 

Bozzuto

X

 

 

Filler

X

 

 

Filler

X

 

 

Fragnella

X

 

 

Fragnella

X

 

 

Frei

X

 

 

Frei

X

 

 

McKee

X

 

 

McKee

X

 

 

Teats

X

 

 

Teats

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senate Information Reports

■          President Smith brought up that there were three resignations last week; Chief Justice Bloomsburg, Associate Justice Wittman and Senator Ojeda. There are now three positions for Senate. Chief Justice and two Associate Justice positions open.

■          Vice President Astle asked how long the advertisement for these positions should go. Discussion ensued regarding the deadline. Talked about making the deadline the 18th of September with the interviews set for the next day. Media Relations O’Harra stated that the Bylaws read that there has to be at least 20 days from the time of a resignation. Decided on the 20th of September at 4pm being the deadline. Decided that the 20th deadline will be for all positions. President Smith stated that the printer is working now so if you want to do color advertisement it will stick out more.    

 

Audience Time

■          Senator Frei stated that the social at the Presidents house is this Thursday after Roundtable. President Smith stated that if you are NOT going please let Janis know.              

■          VP Astle stated that there will be a bill on the table for craft fair advertisement soon.  

 

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn Senator Fragnella, second Senator McKee. Unanimous. Meeting adjourned at 5pm.

 

Respectfully Submitted by: Myndie VanHorn