American University
Residence Hall Association
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General Assembly Agenda
Reiter Boldt
President
(202) 885-1878
reiter@aurha.org
Devon Wallick
Vice President of
Administration and Finance
(202) 885-3606
devon@aurha.org
Rajita Sanji
Vice President of Advocacy &
Community Coordination
(202) 885-1742
rajita@aurha.org
October 3, 2013
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Hayat Abu-Ghazaleh
Vice President of
Programming
(202) 885-2772
hayat@aurha.org
Patricio Barnuevo
National Communications
Coordinator
(202) 885-3676
patricio@aurha.org
Marieka Cober
Chief of Staff
(202) 885-2179
marieka@aurha.org
Daniel DeHollander
Advisor
(202) 885-3138
deholla@american.edu
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Call to Order
o President Reiter Boldt called the 2nd General Assembly meeting to order at
9:08 pm.
Attendance
o Anderson 6/6
o Cassell 6/6
o Centennial 6/6
o Hughes 6/6
o Leonard 6/6
o Letts Clark and Roper 6/6
o McDowell 5/5
o Nebraska 1/5
Agenda Approval
o Motion to approve last week’s minutes by unanimous consent
 seconded
o Motion to approve today’s agenda by unanimous consent
 seconded
Hall Reports
o Anderson
 Fall fest/Halloween plans
o Cassell
 Successful block party last week
 Midterm study break/pumpkin-themed event
 Open forum meeting coming up
o Centennial
 Finalized budget
 Gave out most of shirts with tabling event
 Planning South Side fall fest
o Hughes
 Started giving out shirts at first hall-wide meeting
 tabling event next week for the rest of shirts
 Planning North Side Haunted House
 Talking to North Side after this meeting about Halloween
o Leonard
 Meet and greet event on Saturday
 Looking forward to working with North Side on Halloween
o Letts Clark and Roper
 Wednesday meet and greet, will hand out shirts
 Fall fest with South Side planning
o McDowell
Meeting with North Side and Jason about Halloween after this
meeting
 Distributed shirts at meet and greet event
 Met with RAs
o Nebraska
 New budget
 Giving out shirts and meet and greet event tomorrow
 Planning events for second half of semester
Executive Board Reports
o President
 Pick up your shirts ASAP
 Dining services committee starting next week, will keep you all posted
o Vice President of Administration and Finance
 Set out all budgets on Google Drive
 Planning one-on-ones with VPs of Finance to go over budgets
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 RAINN Day featured in Huffington Post!
 MTV University put up trailer about RAINN Day as a teaser for their
full episode
 Starting 8 Constitutional resolutions… never been done before!
o Vice President of Programming
 Started planning multi-cultural night
• American Indian Heritage Month
 Two athletic games this weekend, go and show your spirit
• Volleyball, 4:00 pm, Saturday
• Soccer, 12:00 pm, Saturday
 Fill out birthday survey on Facebook group
o National Communications Coordinator
 Pre-bid due tonight, will meet that optional deadline
 First CAACURH meeting happened tonight, delegation selected
 All delegates will be submitting to present programs
 Asked for letters of support from staff this week
o Chief of Staff
 Roundtable before this meeting went well
 Interest in writing resolutions for Constitution from the General
Assembly Members, look out for those
o Advisor
 Planned Power Outages
• Two upcoming power outages on October 10th-12th that will
affect north and south campus residence halls due to
connecting main electric to the McKinley Building.
• These power outages will affect main electricity in the
residence halls to include lighting, electrical outlets, and air
conditioning. Students should unplug computers and any
sensitive equipment before the outage.
• Emergency lighting, card access, fire safety systems, and at
least one elevator will still be functioning using generators.
• Full list of the affected buildings:
o http://www.american.edu/finance/facilities/serviceinter
ruptions.cfm
• The following buildings will be affected:
o Thursday, October 10th from 10pm until Friday,
October 11th at about 2am
 Cassell
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 Hughes
 Leonard
 Mary Graydon Center
 McDowell
 Bender Library
• Friday, October 11th from 10pm until Saturday, October
12th at about 6am
 Anderson
 Centennial
 Clark
 Letts
 Roper
 Mary Graydon Center (5am-6am)
 Bender Library (5am-6am)
• Note that Nebraska Hall is not affected.
• What happens to our General Assembly meeting that night?
o Alternative venue will be selected for next week
because of power outages
o Will keep you updated and post on Facebook group
• What services will still be working? Will Wifi?
o Daniel will check
• Will emergency blue lights be on?
o Daniel will check
o Should be on, will double check to be sure
• Will refrigerators be out?
o Tell residents about the refrigerators going out
o Keep it closed and everything should be okay
o If you had medications that are temperature sensitive,
talk to RDs
• For Hayat: When is Do It in the Dark?
o November
 Process for Advocacy Efforts
• In-Hall: Talk to your Hall Council Advisor
• Campus-Wide: Talk to your Round Table Executive Board
Member, who will talk to Daniel.
 Daniel is the RD on duty tonight, sorry if the phone rings
Administrative Board Reports
o Parliamentarian
 Giving presentation later tonight about parli pro
 Holding meetings with councils next week to go over parli pro and
answer any questions about procedure
o NCC-IT
 Zoe couldn’t be here, report by Patricio
 Contacted Cava about fundraising for CAACURH
 Preparing bids
o Deputy Programmers
 Planning for multi-cultural event
 Have the agenda for the rest of the semester
 Discussing Founder’s Day and filling in for meetings for Hayat
o Deputy of Social Media
 Working on updating the website
 Speaking to hall councils about upcoming events and advertising
New Business
o Hall of the Year Presentation
Presented by Rajita, VP of Advocacy and Community Coordination
If I write an OTM about Anderson and am from McDowell, who gets
the points?
• You wrote it, you get the points
 Are athletics posters advocacy posters?
• They are programming posters
 If a resident comes to an event in a shirt, does it count toward the
ten event pictures?
• You can count it as a hall swag picture
 Do late arrivals count for attendance?
• As long as they sign the attendance sheet
 What does the hall get if it wins HOTY?
• Bragging rights and glory
• Some kind of food prize for the whole hall, usually
• Trophy for the hall
• Hall name on a plaque in the office
Parliamentary Procedure Presentation
 Presented by Paul, Parliamentarian
 Can you send us this presentation?
• This will be sent out with the minutes
• Can answer any questions after the meeting
 Can you object after the second to unanimous consent?
• Object to the motion when asked for objections
• The vote can be done differently if objected to
NRHH Presentation
 Presented by Sam, NRHH President
 Are there any nominations for NRHH applications?
• No, open invitation to all eligible people
 Do you need to be a member of NRHH to be a liaison?
• No!
 Can you be the liaison if you have only lived in the halls for one
semester?
• Yes
 Can a hall council member be the liaison?
• Yes
 Daniel
• You all should have goals for your hall council and yourself
• Submitting/winning OTMs are great for your resume and
leadership
• Good skill to develop
• Recognition is important in any job
 Rajita
• Well written OTMs will be counted
• Bad OTMs will not be given points
 Does NRHH pick the winner each month? How competitive is it to win
an OTM?
• NRHH OTM committee selects the campus winner
• Depends on how many people apply each month for the
category
• Poorly written OTMs will not be sent to the region, even if they
are the only one entered in a category
 What are the categories?
• categories are listed online
 September OTMs are due at 11:59 pm on Saturday
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 All OTMs are due by the fifth of the next month
Open Forum
o Shoutouts
 Rajita for taking care of sick Sol
 RD Jason for meeting with Nicole and Bianca yesterday and skipping
his dinner
 Advocates for taking on eight resolutions already
 Financers who have budgets
 Last year’s Hughes Hall Council for buying Halloween supplies (like a
chainsaw)
 Programmers for starting their events
 Hour-long, effective meetings!
Adjournment
o The meeting was adjourned by unanimous consent at 10:06 pm.