UMSL SBA Meeting Minutes – February 10, 2015
SBA Meeting
Location: Castles
Present: Sam Aarab, Jason Collins, Hannah Cail, Mike Pasque, Taylor Thompson, JR Bathum, Jeff Wilson,
Lindsey West, Pete Schlemmer, Tyler Dugger
Absent: None
Called to order at 12:06 pm by President Sam Aarab.
Previous Meeting Minutes
Jeff moved to approve, Peter seconded, unanimous approval.
Public Comment
None
Officer Reports
JR – Ongoing discussions regarding the theory & practice class, meeting with Dean King-Ries later about
this. Friday @ 5 is this Friday at 5 pm at the Sunrise Saloon.
Tyler – Photography March 2-3 for the 3L Class. Reminded everyone about elections coming up and just
to keep it in mind.
Lindsey – nothing to report.
Pete – Becky hasn’t replied to Pete’s requests on the water bottle fillers.
Jeff – Debriefing with 1Ls regarding workshop
Jason – Reconciled the current FY budget, $1,500 in the negative if we do not receive vending machine
proceeds. If we do receive them, in addition to ticket sales anticipated for various events, we would be
in the positive with $4,200. Without vending machine proceeds, but with ticket sales, we would be in
the positive with $1,200. Bertha negotiations complete, Taylor and Jason have the document.
Hannah – meeting with John Mudd and Dean Munro to discuss the Barrister’s Ball today. Potentially
they want to pair it up with the Friday evening events of law week.
Mike – Academic advising meeting with Dean’s Gagliardi and King-Ries this Friday. Please submit
comments to Mike regarding ideas on advising.
Sam – Suggestion box will be here this Thursday. Communication plan for SBA including ensuring we
make ourselves accessible to students, having meetings in open classrooms, etc. Committee Reports will
be a separate agenda item for the students assigned those committees to report to the SBA Executive
Committee as a whole.
Pete moved and Jeff seconded to have all SBA meetings in “public places” other than the SBA office.
Committee Reports
Curriculum Committee (Tyler) - the curriculum committee will likely hear a proposal for online class
offerings. They haven’t heard it yet.
Appointments Committee (Lindsey) – met to discuss the property candidate.
Faculty Committee – tabled the Full Semester Clinic proposal due to procedural concerns. Approved the
property candidate. There will be a vote at the next meeting likely for the Student Honors Admissions
program.
Strategic Planning Committee – drafted action items that will be presented at the Faculty Meeting.
Old Business
Friday at 5
It will be this Friday at the Sunrise Saloon. There are some posters, it was e-mailed out to students, but
Taylor doesn’t know otherwise what they need to do to prep for it. Jason advised the group that we
have budgeted $300 for this event.
SBA Seal
Sam talked to the on campus design team, and they advised Sam that it would take about an hour to
finish the logo. The charge is $35/hour. Jason moved to approve Sam using $70 to have the team design
3 logos for our consideration, Lindsey seconded the motion. 9-1-0, motion passed.
New Business
Next Meeting
Sam announced the next meeting will be Tuesday, February 24 at noon in Castles.
Jason moved, and Lindsey seconded, to have the SBA buy lunch for the next meeting. This motion failed
during discussion with no consent provided.
Hannah moved to adjourn, JR seconded, approved unanimously at 12:59 pm.
Submitted February 10, 2014
Michael Pasque
ABA Representative
Student Bar Association – University of Montana School of Law