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Student Senate December 2nd, 2012 River Valley Room 6:00 pm
MinutesMembers VisitorsLyndy Broomfield Eric Watne Molly Bucher** Justin Glasser Rhonda DeVries Logan Fletcher Casey Furey Shane Gerbert Jacob Gapp Kylene Fitzsimmons Aaron Hommerding Cassie Gerhardt Brett Johnson Brandon Myhre Karl Johnson Derek Rood Joseph Kalka Tyler Herbst Andrew Leizens Bridget Wollack Sean McClain Aryan Sharma Emma Meyer Kaitlin Bezdicek Alan Oberg Thomas Bergman Jacob Osterman Jordan Cepses Kyle Slaathaug* Leah Larson Jacob Stutelberg Landon Adolphson Adam Swigost Cassondra Landborg Brian Tschosik Taylor Waletzko Jennifer Vetter
** Excused *** Unexcused ` **** Left before adjournment CALL TO ORDER Vice President Watne called the 12/2/12 meeting of the UND Student Senate to order at 6:02 PM. APPROVALS APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION Senator Osterman moved to approve the 11/18/12 minutes without objection. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (00:00:44) UPC APPROVALS
MOTION Senator Vetter moved to approve all the UPC members without objection. VOTE MOTION CARRIES (00:02:52) GUEST SPEAKERS No Guest Speakers were present. REPORTS Executive Reports President President Fletcher stated that he and Shane have a legislative luncheon tomorrow, a chance for them to meet and introduce themselves to the legislators. Matt Finley gave him a memo, stating that UPC is planning to bring an event to campus that costs more than $15,000. As per their bylaws they have to give a memo to the Student Body President. Can’t announce the name of who they are bringing, because there is no contract set yet. Thanks for a great semester! Hearing for the Red White and Blue lawsuit is tomorrow morning. CHIEF-OF-STAFF APPROVAL:
Tyler Herbst introduced himself and stated what he is running for and what his major is. MOTION Senator Hommerding moved to approve Tyler Herbst as Chief of Staff without objection. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (00:09:24) TREASURER APPROVAL
Derek introduced himself and stated what position he is running for. He stated that he is an accounting major. MOTION Senator Gapp moved to approve Derek Rood as treasurer. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (00:10:10) Vice President Vice President Watne stated he is working with Shane to finalize our lobbying goals. Also working on an open house for Student Government. There will be a dead week for the execs this week so that they can prepare for finals. Chief of Staff Chief of Staff Glaser stated it has been a pleasure being on exec this semester. Treasurer Treasurer Myhre stated it is his last meeting as well. Governmental Affairs Commissioner Governmental Affairs Commissioner Gerbert talked more about the luncheon that he and Logan are going to tomorrow morning. Going to the North Dakota Student Association retreat next weekend. They will be going over the budget at this meeting. On the city side, had the joint city/senate meeting and they had a great conversation. Talking about getting a co-op started within city senate to give students an opportunity to see that side. Public Relations Coordinator P.R.C Fitzsimmons stated that the board with everyone’s pictures should be up by next week. Subcommittees Judicial Vice President Watne yielded to Senator Osterman, Chair of the Judicial Committee. Senator Osterman stated they approved everyone Senate did. Appropriations Vice President Watne yielded to Senator Gapp, Chair of the Appropriations Committee. Senator Gapp stated they tabled SB1213-19 and had discussion on the other bills in their committee. Approved SB1213-27 and SB1213-25. State & Local Vice President Watne yielded to Senator Hommerding, Chair of the State and Local subcommittee. Senator Hommerding stated passed SR 1213-11,12 &13. Elected Senator Kalka as the new chair of State and Local. Standing Committees SOFA Vice President Watne yielded to the senate liaison of SOFA, Senator Gapp. Senator Gapp stated they gave money to some organizations. They will be looking at changing their meeting time, and they elected a new vice chair. Looking at restructuring the financial models. Senator Osterman asked how much of the money is left for the fall semester. Senator Gapp stated that he thinks they are pretty much right on track, he estimated that they had about $6000-$7000 left for the semester plus take backs. They have about $45,000 for the spring semester. SCFC Vice President Watne yielded to the senate liaison of SCFC, Senator Johnson. Senator Johnson stated they had an unofficial meeting because they don’t have quorum. The chair person stepping down, and no one else on the committee wants to be chair, so he will be stepping in as interim chair. UPC Vice President Watne yielded to senate liaison of UPC, Senator Vetter. Senator Vetter stated they have been doing elections the past few weeks. Have also been doing bylaw changes, that didn’t make it to judicial this week so they will be seen at the beginning of spring semester. Went over event proposals. They are collaborating more with ARH to make sure there is communication between the groups. Special Reports Constituent Reports No constituent reports. Other Matters Arising Senator Gapp gave an update on SB1213-19. Elections Committee Report Senator Gapp stated that they are looking at March 6th as the official elections date. UNFINISHED BUSINESS MOTION Senator Kalka moved to bring line item C to the current item of business on the floor without objection. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (00:28:18)
Senator Kalka talked about the bill since the authors of the bill could not be at the meeting. This would be for programs like Ski UND. MOTION Sentor Gapp moved to approve SB1213-27. SECOND Senator Vetter Seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (00:31:25)
Senator Vetter stated the reason for this bill. They want to increase the amount of the scholarships because they will be spending more time working because it is a legislative year. Senator Osterman stated that this is a necessary increase because as it stands right now the AA’s make more money than both the President and Vice President. Pres. Fletcher stated the amounts of the executive scholarships from previous years. Senator Vetter stated that the money would be coming from the cab crawler line item. Senator Kalka asked why Shane’s position is not included in the increase. Senator Vetter stated Shane’s scholarship amount is determined by the president and vice president. Senator Kalka asked if the plan is to increase his salary. Pres. Fletcher stated that the increase would have to come out of salaries line item. This is the same line item that the AA salaries come from. Have to look at how much of that money we have spent already. Senator McClain asked for clarification on how much each person would be receiving. Senator Vetter stated how much everyone would be getting. Senator Leizens asked why the treasurer salary isn’t increasing, because he sees that he will be doing the same thing as the chief of staff while everyone is gone. Senator Vetter stated that the treasurer focuses more on the finances and that will not really be affected by them being gone. Senator Swigost asked if they have any other financial incentive besides what SG gives them. Pres. Fletcher stated that the chief of staff only gets this scholarship, the Pres. and Vice Pres. In addition to this they get a full tuition waiver. Senator Meyer asked about Kylene. Senator Vetter stated that her position is the same as the Gov Affairs position in that it is determined by the President and Vice President. Senator Furey asked why when they made the budget last year knowing that it was a legislative session, how come this wasn’t considered then. Senator Vetter stated that they has to put the $48,000 towards cab crawler last year, and now that we don’t have that there is extra money to help compensate them for their time. Senator Tschosik asked why the Chief of Staff salary was reduced last year. Pres. Fletcher stated that last year senate was not happy with what they had in unallocated funds, so it came down to where could they cut money. MOTION Senator Gapp moved to approve SB1213-25. SECOND Senator B. Johnson seconded. MOTION (amendment) Senator Gapp moved to amend line 23, strike the period to read “and, whereas the governmental affairs commissioner and the public relations coordinator have been given additional duties due to the legislative session. Therefore be it resolved that $1000 be reallocated from the cab crawler allocation to the salaries line item for the ability to increase the salaries of the governmental affairs commissioner and the public relations coordinator, and”. And change line 34 from $45,500 to $44,500. SECOND Senator Hommerding seconded. VOTE (amendment) MOTION CARRIES. (00:53:33) VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (00:55:17) NEW BUISNESS
GAC Gerbert stated that this is a small lobbying goal that they have. They have been up for reaccreditation since 2007 and they have until 2014 to fix their deficiencies. Senator Furey stated there is about 250 students and there is only 4 classrooms for all 3 years. Library only has 4 study rooms, which isn’t enough to accommodate all the students. There are no restrooms in the library facility which is 3 floors. Overall, the building just needs a lot of updating. There is a minimum amount that they have to do otherwise they will lose their accreditation. MOTION Senator Osterman moved to approve SR1213-11. SECOND Senator McClain seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:01:18)
GAC Gerbert stated they are asking for a freeze because it gives them some bargaining room. Vice P. Watne stated that we do have to work with NDSU a lot and we don’t know what they are doing so this will also help with bargaining to get the lowest increase possible. Pres. Fletcher stated his concerns about the third whereas clause. GAC Gerbert stated he is fine with removing this clause if the senate so chooses. MOTION Senator Tschosik moved to approve SR1213-12. SECOND Senator Oberg seconded. DISCUSSION Pres. Fletcher stated that he is not comfortable signing this resolution because of the third whereas clause and how it is mostly opinion and not supported by any facts. Senator Osterman moved to make a friendly amendment to strike the third whereas clause. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:08:10)
Vice P. Watne stated that this resolution is to say that we support this resolution that has been proposed. Says that we support the idea and the steps that they are taking, and we want to see this move forward. GAC Gerbert went through what the funding model looks like right now. (see attached powerpoint) Senator Slaathaug asked how this will affect smaller schools. GAC Gerbert stated that there is extra line items for them based on the programs that they have. MOTION Senator Gapp moved to approve SR1213-13. SECOND Senator Osterman seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:21:09)
Vice P. Watne stated that we are required to go over the apportionment so that the elections committee can plan for the elections. Since nothing has changed within the university we will be keeping the same apportionment that we have now. MOTION Senator Osterman moved to approve the reapportionment as is. SECOND Senator Oberg seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:27:05)
Senator Gapp stated that March 6th would be the best date for the elections. MOTION Senator Hommerding moved to set the day of SG elections to Wednesday March 6th, 2013. SECOND Senator Osterman seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:28:46) MOTION Senator Gapp moved to pull SB1213-28 out of committee to the current item of business. SECOND Senator Vetter seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:29:29)
Pres. Fletcher stated they had an opportunity from ASGA to bring a consultant to campus. Asking for $10,000, but does not expect to spend all of it. Benefit is having an outside perspective look at what SG is doing. They talk to not only people in SG but also staff members, faculty, administrators, and other random students on campus. If this gets approved we would be looking at having someone come around mid-January to late January and then they would have a report to us about a month later. Senator McClain asked if in the future would we have to request more money to make the changes that they are suggesting. Pres. Fletcher stated that we are not required to do anything that they suggest, but if we do want to make changes they could be done in house. MOTION Senator Osterman moved to approve SB1213-28 as is. SECOND Senator Gapp seconded. VOTE MOTION CARRIES. (01:38:49) PUBLIC COMMENT/ANNOUNCEMENTS Senator Meyer asked everyone to come to BWW on Tuesday night for tip the kids night. GAC Gerbert stated this is one of the best semesters for involvement. Cassie Gerhardt wished the best to our graduating senators. Also gave special recognition to Justin for his many years of service to SG. ADJOURNMENT The 12/2/12 meeting of the Student Senate was adjourned without objection at 7:51. Respectfully Submitted, __________________ _____________________ Eric Watne Megan Beneke Chair Recording Secretary
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