Student Senate Agenda
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
Location: Sunflower Room
Overman Student Center
I.
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Meeting Called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Vice President Herring.
Roll Call:
a. Present
i. Cabinet: President Hostetler Vice President Herring, Treasurer Cloninger, Academic Affairs
Director Herring, BIG Event Director Botts, Campus Affairs Director Ryan Magee, Community
Affairs Director Lynnes, Legislative Affairs Director Gilchrist, and Public Relations Director
Deuvall.
ii. Senator(s): Alli Audley, Austin Bailey, Bridget Bergkamp, Kenna Bideau, Bryce Burns, Austin
Caskey, Marcus Clem, Taylor Cole, Maya Dandu, Dakota Dudash, Kennedy Dujakovich, Dakota
Dudash, Brittney Feuerborn, Bobby Gill, Zac Green, Ashton Halda, Nolan Higginbotham, Brady
Holthaus, Michael McFarland, Haley Northcutt, Jerry Phommachack, Trista Vogel, Mackenzie
Williams, and Logan Zavodny.
iii. Graduate Senators: Sneha Polusani
iv. Justice(s): Chief Justice Cecilia Franco & Justice Matthew Allen
b. Absent
i. Cabinet: President Hostetler Vice President Herring, Treasurer Cloninger, Academic Affairs
Director Herring, BIG Event Director Botts, Campus Affairs Director Ryan Magee, Community
Affairs Director Lynnes, Legislative Affairs Director Gilchrist, and Public Relations Director
Deuvall.
ii. Senator(s): Alli Audley, Austin Bailey, Bridget Bergkamp, Kenna Bideau, Bryce Burns, Austin
Caskey, Marcus Clem, Taylor Cole, Maya Dandu, Dakota Dudash, Kennedy Dujakovich, Dakota
Dudash, Brittney Feuerborn, Bobby Gill, Zac Green, Ashton Halda, Nolan Higginbotham, Brady
Holthaus, Michael McFarland, Haley Northcutt, Jerry Phommachack, Trista Vogel, Mackenzie
Williams, and Logan Zavodny.
iii. Graduate Senator: Sneha Polusani
iv. Justice(s): Chief Justice Cecilia Franco and Justice Matthew Allen.
III.
Approval of Minutes
a. Vice President Herring: Minutes being presented tonight are the August 19th and 26th minutes.
b. Senator _______________ : Moved to Accept the August 19th and 26th meeting minutes.
c. Senator _______________ : Seconded the motion to accept the August 19th and 26th meeting minutes.
d. Motion to accept the August 19th and 26th meeting minutes Passed/Failed with a vote of __-__-__.
IV.
Special Guest Speaker(s):
a. Jason Meyer and Mary Ellen Coutoure from the USA Today Readership Program.
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V.
Officer Reports
a. President Hostetler:
i. Budget is Complete
ii. Working on Justice Vacancies
iii. Met with Dr. Irwin about getting a display screen in our office.
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b. Vice President Herring:
i. I am very excited that we will be swearing in 22 new senators tomorrow night!
Yayy! Only 10 more until senate and Jboard is full!
ii. Only four people attended an office training session. It must be completed this week
or it will count against you.
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c. Treasurer Cloninger:
i. I am hoping to put up a finance committee resolution if I get enough people
interested. I am also hoping to put up the new Allocations handbook for this Fall
semester. Please look over the previous Allocations handbook on the SGA website if
you do not know what they have looked like before. After I have a finance committee
and an Allocations handbook, I will begin making an info session video.
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VI.
Director Reports
a. Academic Affairs Director Herring:
i. I've scheduled a meeting with the provost for next week.
The first faculty senate is September 28, 2015 at 3 PM. I'm still needing someone to
attend in my place, so if you are interested let me know! We MUST have a
representative at these meetings!
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b. BIG Event Director Botts:
i. As far as progress with Big Event up to now I have secured three sponsors. My main
focus at this point is getting more donations and sponsors. If senators are choosing
committee's Wednesday then I want to say that joining Big Event Committee would
be the best decision in your entire life, or up there at least. There obviously won't be
a lot going on in the fall, but we will be doing a few things to prepare for next
semester. Big Event is always fun to be apart of because it is extremely satisfying to
prepare and put time into it and see the great help it is for our community. I look
forward to what this year has in store!
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c. Campus Affairs Director Magee:
i. Getting ready Dream Machine Challenge Starting in October 1st
ii. Throw me CCI ideas!
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d. Community Affairs Director Lynnes:
i. There will be a sign up sheet for Holiday Heroes. This is where you will need to buy
a gift for a child in foster care. This is not required but highly encouraged, so please
think about doing it out of respect and kindness.
ii. Please be spreading around the word for Kicks for Kids. Each month I will count up
who brought in the most shoes and they will be receiving a reward.
iii. After reviewing the rules for Paint The Town Red, it turns out that we can't win 2
years in a row, but out of good school spirit let's try to still do an amazing job!
iv. Student discounts should be coming out within the next couple of weeks. If you have
a connection with a local business let me know so we can get together with them.
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e. Legislative Affairs Director Gilchrist:
i. The Constitution edits are done, there is a document showing all changes on the P-
Drive and I will email it out to all of you this week. I am also emailing it to the
Homecoming committee so that they may review the changes and discuss the
possibility of allowing us to put the amendments on the ballot further.
ii. Constitution Day is September 17th, and I will be passing around the sign-up sheet
again at meeting on Wednesday.
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f.
Public Relations Director Deuvall:
i. Helping Hank with the allocations video
ii. Hung up table tents for vacancies today
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VII.
Advisor Reports
a. Advisor Erwin:
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b. Advisor Sager:
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VIII.
Old Business
a. There is no unresolved business from the August 26th, 2015 meeting.
IX.
New Business
a. Resolution 15-20: 2015-2016 Fiscal Budget
i. Senator _______________ : Moved to Adopt the resolution.
ii. Senator _______________ : Seconded the motion.
iii. Motion passes/fails, with a vote of __-__-__.
1. Resolution 15-20 is Adopted/Not Adopted.
b. Resolution 15-21: Senate Vacancies
i. Senator _______________ : Moved to Adopt the resolution.
ii. Senator _______________ : Seconded the motion.
iii. Motion passes/fails, with a vote of __-__-__.
1. Resolution 15-21 is Adopted/Not Adopted.
X.
Open Forum
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XI.
Announcements
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XII.
Motion to Adjorn
a. Senator _______________ : Moved to adjourn
b. Senator _______________ : Seconded
c. Motion passes __-__-__.
i. Senate is Adjourned until September 9th, 2015 at 7:00pm.