Minutes for Jan 12th

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Opening & Reports

(No statements are direct quotes unless specified by quotation marks.)

President Cailao called the meeting to order at 5:05 p.m. by the Senate Clock.

Roll call

Approval of the Agenda

Changes in agenda

No changes in the agenda

Unanimous Approval.

Approval of the Minutes

Approval of the minutes from Dec 1, 2005.

Braddock moves, Haken seconds to approve the minutes

No discussion

Motion carries

Public Hearing

Mihal POI

What do I do if I have a question?

Cailao

Raise your hand and say, “Point of Information” and I will call you on and then you can ask your question.

Braddock

The Financial Aid staff that I talked to was condescending.  They deal with “our hopes and dreams”, so they could be a little nicer.

Elkin

I concur that Financial Aid can be condescending.  The sidewalk in front of Nemzek is really, really icy. A couple people “have almost died.”

Proxy Advisor Wilson
The sidewalk there is nasty.  I will look into it.

Elkin

Thanks.

Obach

In the Financial aid office, there are two ladies that work the front desk.  One is helpful; the other is not.

Wilson Mattson

The female toilets in the library flush a lot, even while in use.

Mihal

The guy that drives Route 2 during the evening always says, "Good morning" when you get on the bus.  This trips me out: for a split second, I think it is morning.

Also three Nepalese students attending Southwest were killed in a car crash over break.

Reports

Advisor Wiese

There is work being done on the two projects on the wellness center.  There are now two individual projects versus the earlier one project.  The planners would like to come to present to us.  Please look through the plans and give comments.

Kise won’t be replaced completely- this will be cheaper, but will still make al l the modifications we needed.

1//3 of food service budget is equipment, electrical, etc.

Questions for Warren Wiese

None

Justin Schwegel (Treasurer)

Let's see.  Pay for t-shirts.  This next month is a tough one for SABC. I will have a fuller report next week.

No questions for the Treasurer’s report.

James Cailao (President)

Hello Senators and Guests,

I would like to welcome back everyone, all newly elected and returning Senators, to the beginning of a new semester. I hope that you've all had a restful and relaxing winter break. Naturally, this week has been extremely busy, working with my transition over into the Office of the President for Student Senate. I've spent the better part of these past few days organizing files, folders, updating communications with staff and administrators on campus, as well as other campuses and MSUSA, and setting up committees to serve on.

This week I attended  a UPBC meeting where we reviewed the progress reports on the Master Work Plan's of several areas on campus, including Administrative Affairs and Student Affairs.

I also attended the Alcohol Task Force meeting and the Student Activity Fee Review meeting.

Be sure to have your requested office hour turned into my box by Friday afternoon so that we can set up a schedule as soon as possible.
Also, new Senators be on the lookout these next few days for your Senate binders. I will place them in your mailboxes when I receive them. These manuals are an important reference tool for your time on Senate, and will give you a basic understanding as to the workings of our Senate as a whole.

Chair Obach is working on putting together a Spring Retreat. We will let you know the time so that you can all adjust your schedules accordingly. Be thinking of goals for our Senate that you can bring with.

Cabinet will meet immediately after our next meeting, on the 19th.
 

MSUSA is coming up the last weekend of this month. I will send a sheet around for people to sign up to attend. This month's conference will be hosted by Metropolitan.

And last but not least, I would like to congratulate Jennifer Costley, who will serve as the Secretary of Senate. I'm confident that Jennifer will do a fantastic job, and I look forward to having her onboard!
Again, welcome back and congratulations to all newly elected Senators!

<Senate watched the [MSUM:] A Special Place DVD>

Emilie Mihal (S.P.A.M.)

• Did minutes

• Everyone here has perfect attendance- keep it up!

• Misspelled Jered's name five times.

• I would like a volunteer from every committee to learn how to update the website.

No questions for spam

Campus Affairs (Chair Randhawa)

Randhawa was not here to give a report

Committee on Committees (Chair Obach)

We will have COC nominations during new business.  I would like to mention for the new Senators that we have a penalty for cell phones ringing.  We don’t want to hear “We will rock you” coming from your pocket.  Please put them on silent or vibrate.

No Questions

Cultural Diversity Sub Committee (Chair Oni) & MSUSA Cultural Diversity Rep. (Oni)

Report

We will have a lot of events happening this semester.  

Ellsworth

When will you be meeting?

Oni

See me after the meeting.

Legislative & Internal Affairs (Chair Wilson-Mattson)

We will be working on constitutions for organizations, and we will be working on Lobby Day.

Marketing (Chair Brown)

Cailao

Brown is the new chair.  Congratulations, Chair Brown.

Brown

We will be working on the Senate Mission statement, sweatshirts, and whatever else you guys need.  Please meet me after the meeting.

Tuition & Fees Oversight (Chair Elkin)

We will be meeting at 3:00 pm every Wednesday.  I am on SABC and SAFR.  If you have any suggestions for what other committees I should be on, let me know.

Campus Safety Committee (Braddock)

There are two issues for us to work on right now.  The first one is that there is a budget shortfall in Security.  This limits the number of hours that the average patrol office can work.  This really hurts the international students who can only work on campus, and only two places on campus a lot of jobs for them [Campus security and Food Service].  The second issue is to get radios to the GMWs.  When a student is locked out of his or her dorm room during the day, security pages the appropriate GMW.  It can take them a few hours to respond.  If they had radios, this process would be quicker.  In addition to this, we will look at where we want to add the additional Blue Light phones.

Questions:

SW

What is the reason for the shortfall?

Br

I haven’t investigated it. 

Old Business:

No old business

New Business:

Motion SP06-1 Exec

Discussion

Short

I am Niles Short, I have been a Moorhead native for a long time.  Both of my parents were alumni.  My uncle was a lobbyist.  I read the advocate.  I got an e-mail about the opening.  I was interested in the taxi problem.  Hopefully I can work with you.

Obach

You want to work with the taxi program, what else?

Short

Nothing else that I can think of.  Women’s studies brainstorming.  Parking. (ongoing) that I read about.

Braddock

As a non traditional student, what do you add to Senate?

Short

I’ve worked with young people 19-25 years.  I don’t know what is always right or wrong, but I am willing to listen.

Braddock moves, Obach seconds to move to into Executive Session

Motion carries

Senate moves out of Executive session

Niles Short joins Student Senate as a member.

COC nominations

Braddock moves, Haken seconds to open COC nominations

SOAC

Leigh Wilson-Mattson

UPBC

James Cailao

Chris  Braddock

SABC

Nicki Elkin

Women's Center

Matt Bakko

Obach moved Braddock seconds to close COC nominations

Points for the Good of the Order

Obach

I would like to thank Katie for getting us such a great deal on the taxi cab program.

I would like to continue Operation Media Onslaught after this meeting

Braddock

I would like to thank Obach for bringing up Operation Media Onslaught.  After watching the DVD for the second time, I think it is a good primer for senate

Elkin

It doesn’t matter what committee you are on, you can come to another committee meeting

Bard

I think President Cailao did a good job of stepping up.

Braddock

I am just going to ramble now.  Last semester was an uphill battle.  This is a fresh start.  We should take the horse by the reins and run with it.  Sign up for MSUSA.  We are the coolest school at MnSCU.

Elkin

There is a limit of how many can go to MSUSA conferences for free.

Obach

We do have a lot of fun at MSUSA and we work hard.

Cailao

I guess I get to go last now.  Congrats newly appointed and elected.  We will have a retreat planned by chair Obach.  Senate binders will be in the next few days.  Thanks for every one for signing up for MSUSA.  It helps out the relationship we have with the schools in the state.  I will call cabinet next week.   

Announcements

Elkin

He is modest, but Ascheman was accepted to a law school.

Mihal

There are now 76 members in the "I get James Cailao and Will Wheaton confused" facebook group.  That is over 1% of the student population.

Adjournment

Schwegel moved and Braddock seconds to adjourn. 
Motion passes.  Meeting adjourns at 6:25pm.

Housekeeping

Resignations were received from Dan Schmit and Vanessa Deutz.