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Residence Hall Association
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General Assembly 16 February 2012
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Call to Order
o At 10:00 pm President Cindy Zhang called the 14th General Assembly
meeting of 2011-2012 to order
Attendance
o Quorum is established
Agenda Approval
o Motion to approve the agenda
 Seconded, passed
Approval of Minutes
o Motion to approve the minutes
 Seconded, passed
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RA Fund Request: Getting to Know the Library
o Jackie Yeary presents
 Residents requested that she host a “Library” event
 Bill Mayer, a research librarian, will come to the floor
 Requesting $40 for food for the event
 Questions:
 How much is your floor budget?
o About $40
 How much do you expect it to cost overall and why aren’t your
asking for more?
o About $80.
 Changing her request to $80
 Motion to grant $80
 Seconded
 Question is called
o Vote: 33-0-1
o Jackie is granted $80
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Hall Reports
o Anderson
 Recyclemania bulletin board in the lobby
 Will be decorating the lobby for recyclemania next week
 Planning an Oscars event in the perch
 Hoping to plan a Black History Month event
o Hughes
 Sold 205 candy grams
 Holding a cake wars event on Monday
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o Leonard
 Picture frame painting event
 Donated $46 dollars to charity
 Oscars watching event
o Letts, Clark, and Roper
 Handed out Valentine’s day grams
 Oscars event in the perch
 Anderson should speak with them
o McDowell
 Made $84 dollars with valentine’s grams
 Reverse-recycling event
 BYOM event
 Emphasis on vandalism
o Nebraska
 Mardi Gras day event
 Oscars event
o Tenley Campus
 New VP of Advocacy and Chief of Staff
 Have 8/11 floor reps appointed
 tenleyhallcouncil.webs.com
 Coffee event
 Oscars event
 Tenley diversity week
 Scheduling Mr and Ms Tenley event
Executive Board Reports
o President
 Spring training will be Sunday, March 4th from 12-3pm
 Will be meting with Chris Moody next week
 Distributed VPAF’s duties
 Apply for the VPAF position!
o Vice President of Advocacy and Community Coordination
 Met with SG to talk about campus security
 VP’s of Advocacy should fill you in
 Re-examing AU Sexual Assault policy
 Updated Hall Buddies system
 Working with Sarah and Brian on rebuilding Centennial
 Make sure you submit HOTY point worthy things
o Vice President of Programming
 Next week is Founder’s week!
 Next Saturday is Founder’s Day!
 S’mores Event
 Next Friday the 24th from 7-8pm on each side of campus
 Please volunteer to help out (starting around 6:30pm)
 Muppets Movie
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 Tuesday, Feb. 28th showing in WARD-1 at 11pm
 Come table with RHA to hand out popcorn and candy
 Relay for Life
 Email Paige if you’re interested in being on the team
o National Communications Coordinator
 Regional Committee
 Made significant progress on the regional contact sheet
 Conference Committee
 Worked on training session selection
 NACURH Committee
 Working on pre-conference philanthropy
 Working on CAACURH Roll Call video
 Bidding Committee is coming later
o Chief of Staff
 Printed more receipt envelopes, grant request forms, and JV
transfer forms
 Filed JV transfers
 Updated listserv
 Ordered (and received) printer ink, tape, laminating sheets, door
stop, and Mac display adapter
 GA Placards will be ready for next week!
New Business
o Spring 2012 Budget Approval
 Cindy presents
 Motion to approve the budget
 Seconded
 Vote: 34-0-0
o Budget is approved
o Point of information
 What do the restricted funds go to?
 It’s just the funds that we didn’t put onto a line item.
o Resolution 11-12-012
 Motion to allow Rory 15 minutes for presentation and questions
 Rory presents
 See attached resolution
 Motion to suspend the rules
 Seconded, passed
 Dime A Dozen serenades McDowell President, Marlena Luhr
 Motion to move back into the rules
 Seconded, passed
 Rory continues presenting
 Questions:
o Doesn’t it give SG too much power to be able to veto
it?
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We originally had that the RHA president could
veto, but it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to
veto something, since SG has multiple
branches of government, so it’s more
responsible to allow them to veto something
whereas it isn’t responsible for us to with only
one branch.
Discussion
Vote: 27-3-4, resolution passes
o Hall councils must ratify the bylaw change later
o Commitment to Diversity
 Rory presents
 Bidding Committee adopted it as their first bid
 Motion to extend Q&A time for 5 minutes
 Seconded, passed
 Motion to clarify the Statement of Diversity
 Seconded, passed
 Rory will clarify the statement
o T-shirt Design
 Letts, Clark, and Roper’s t-shirt designs are presented
 Leonard Hall’s t-shirt design is presented
 Vote by clapping
 Leonard’s t-shirt design will be used
 Discussion:
o It’s really expensive to use so many colors.
o We should move the RHA logo to go on top of the
logo on the back.
o The front and back should be switched.
o Can we also use the hall council logos?
o Email paige@aurha.org with any suggestions
 E-Board should create the design.
 Motion to exhaust the speakers list
o Seconded, passed
 We’re going to tweak the images and bring them back to GA
Adjournment
o At 11:16pm the 14th General Assembly meeting of 2011-2012 is adjourned