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North Dakota State University
Student Government
Sunday, October 04, 2015
6:30 PM Prairie Rose Room
Minutes
I. Call to Order
A. Called to order at 6:30 pm
II. Roll Call
A. Senators present 30 out of 32
III. Approve Agenda
A. Approved
IV. Approve Minutes
A. Approved
V. Guest Speaker
A. Sara Lepp - Relay for Life
i. Presentation about what American Cancer Society is and Relay for Life
fundraiser. Meetings are once a month, and the next meeting is on
October 13th.
VI. Public Comment
A. None
VII. Advisor’s Comments – Janna Stoskopf, Steve Winfrey, Dr. Tim Alvarez
A. Dr. Alvarez – Thank you to those who could attend. I would love some feedback
on the event.
VIII. President of Senate Announcements – Josh Fergel
A. Winning Senate Team name is Quad Squad, donuts to follow
B. Thanks to everyone who went to Dr. Alvarez’s
C. One-on-One Meetings the week of Oct 12 – sign-up sheets up soon to sign up for
a meeting time with me.
D. Be confident
IX. Secretary of Senate Announcements – Calla Price
A. Next week in the Prairie Rose Room also
B. Pledge in the binders now
C. Let me know if your key card access doesn’t work
D. Monthly update from senate sent out tomorrow
E. GUYS LOOK AT THE NYAN CAT
X. Executive Reports
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A. Finance – Jay Homan and Mason Wenzel
i. Finance Advisory Board meeting – separate group of people. It is an
open forum meeting with Tier I organizations. This will take place
October 13th at 4:00pm in the Lark Room
ii. CR-20-16 the guidelines make us fund at zero, but with representation,
they can repeal the amount.
iii. Fund Numbers:
1. CR: - $37,337
2. SP: $22,119.00
3. TORFF: $1,750.00
4. Reserve: $103,975.00
B. ExA – Jacob Dailey
i. Come talk to me about Senate Resolutions 1 & 2!
ii. Meeting Dates & Info - Wednesday @ 7:30pm
iii. NDSA - Oct. 16-17 - Minot State University, will have to be available
for both days since we travel there.
iv. State Board Selected Dickinson’s State Board Director!
C. CSO – Mikayla Young and Tyler Fergel
i. HAPPY HOMECOMING!! Get your ticket tomorrow!
ii. Temporary to Full
1. Disc Golf Club
2. Outdoor Adventure Club
3. Special Olympics College NDSU
4. Literacy in Physical Health Education (LIPHE) – thank you
commissioners for coming in!
iii. Student North Dakota Education Association (SNDEA) to Student North
Dakota United (SNDU)
iv. Google form to schedule meeting with CSO – please tell anybody
interested about this page on the CSO website
v. No Commission this week!
D. ASA – Mackayla Headlee
i. DEANS MEETINGS - ONE MORE! AHSS Tuesday @ 1 PM - 2 PM
ii. UBER - Still waiting…
iii. ASA Commission Meetings - Wednesdays @ 7 pm
1. Holiday Lighting
2. Safe Walkways
3. Alumni Awareness
4. Parents Day
iv. Thunderclap to support. Please help us raise money with the
homecoming show
E. PR – Nikki Borstad and Alana Kiel
i. SG Apparel – hard deadline Friday, order forms in our mailbox or top
right hand desk drawer
ii. No commission this week: Go to Homecoming Show!!
iii. Sign up to sell t-shirts! Go to your shift! We still need more people to
sign up.
1. 2XL will be an extra $1. Also if someone comes into the office
to pick up a shirt. The excel sheet will be on the boxes, please
take from the pre order pile, and highlight there who took their
shirt. Have them initial it.
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F. TECHNOLOGY – Michael Russell
i. Bison Points – Bre and I had a meeting and should be launching it next
semester
ii. Innovation Challenge – they want to talk to you guys, they want more
people!
iii. IdeaScale – would love people to go to commission to get more feedback
on how to get more ideas from students
iv. Meeting w/ Marc Wallman
G. PRESIDENT – Eric McDaniel
i. Campus Attractions - Open graphics position - Student Government
representative wanted for interviews. It will occur on October 22nd at
5pm until done.
XI. Vice Chair Report – Nick Evans
A. Senate Retreat – October 25th or November 1st - Sundays
B. Projects
XII. Court Report – Mathew Warsocki
A. Court meeting time; Wednesday at 8PM every other week
B. Homecoming - Please Vote
C. “Court Appeal Forms” are in court outbox
D. Eligibility Appeals this week for student organizations
XIII. Funding Requests for Student Organizations
A. CR-18-16 Public Health Association
i. Moir – move to approve CR-18-16
1. Hogie – Second
ii. Moir – Yield time to representative
1. Representative – We are a modest but ambitious group of
students. We promote public health in the campus and in the
community. We are looking to go to the conference to promote
NDSU on the national level.
iii. Stangeland – What do you do at the conference?
1. Representative – This is a place for people in public health to
showcase their work. It is an opportunity for us as students to get
ideas and advocate.
iv. Moir – move to approve CR-18-16 without objection
1. No objections
B. CR-19-16 Paintball Club
i. Vipond – move to approve CR-19-16
1. Stangeland – Second
ii. Reitan – Yield time to representative
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1. Representative – I have no questions
iii. Gilderhus – How have you guys done this semester?
1. Representative – We took second in the last competition! We are
doing pretty well.
iv. Moir – move to approve CR-19-16 without objection
1. No objections
C. CR-20-16 Native American Student Association
i. Connelly – move to approve CR-20-16
1. Stangeland – Second
ii. Moir – Move to amend CR-20-16 from $50 to $0 dollars without
objection
1. Gilderhus – Objection, in the past we have given them half of the
amount asked for. This is such a small number of their small
operating expense.
iii. Hogie – That is a great point Preston. I think they need to show up.
1. Finance iv. Pfarrer – Did they have other time commitments?
1. Finance – We recommended that they should be at senate. They
did not say they could not attend.
v. Evans – If we deny this, could they submit another CR and they can
come to appeal it then.
1. Finance – Yes
vi. Stangeland – I am all for funding them at half. We are all very busy and
everyone makes mistakes. I think we need to make sure we decide here
on half or none no matter how much the amount is.
vii. Moir – I think we should follow our rules. I do not think they should get
the amount without the appeal.
viii. Lee – I am support of funding them if they come in and ask for it from
finance.
ix. Moir – Move to amend without objection
1. Stangeland – Objection, I would like a roll call vote
x. Roll call vote
1. 21–Yes , 8- No, 1 - Abstain
2.
Approved
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xi. Lee – I was a little confused, because an organization does not need to be
here to get funding.
1. Preston – They were not temporary last semester, so without a
budget they cannot ask for any money without an appeal process.
xii. Stangeland – Could this bill be amended again? I feel like this is a lot of
work. I think we should just give them $25. They are going to do nothing
but good things. I move to amend CR-20-16 with operating cost to $25.
1. Faundez - Second
xiii. Evans – The amendment would make
xiv. Behymer – I think it isn’t fair to judge based on the money. As it stands,
it should stay at 0. They can come in at a later date and then approve the
CR request.
xv. Gilderhus – This is a very unique situation. They were told they are
getting funding. They weren’t told they had to be here to get any money.
They will receive an email saying they did not get the money. They will
have a very negative experience with Student Government. We evaluate
case by case.
xvi. Stangeland – Leadership transition document. It isn’t fair to punish
organizations with poor previous leadership. It isn’t fair to make them
jump through hoops to accomplish good things!
xvii. Faundez – I think we should be giving them the benefit of doubt. I know
we need to give the organizations the same treatment, but having
different amounts of money shows a difference in the requests.
xviii. Evans – We are here by a case by case basis. I think we should postpone
this bill to give the organization time to represent themselves.
xix. Roll Call vote
1. 9 – yes, 19- no, 1 –abstain
2. Amendment Fails
xx. Evans – Move to postpone legislation by 1 week without objection
1. No objection
D. CR-21-16American Society of Landscape Architects
i. Reitan – move to approve CR-21-16
1. Schiffler – Second
ii. Lee – Yield time to representative
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1. Representative – We are asking for funding to go to Chicago for
a conference. They offer on the spot interviews for jobs. We are
happy with the amounts.
iii. Ellwein – Yield time to finance, why no money for registration
1. Finance – this is just changing their original request.
iv. Moir – move to approve CR-21-16 without objection
1. No objections
XIV. Unfinished Business
A. SP-01-16 Pride Alliance - Drag Show
i. Second Read
ii. Reitan – move to approve SP-01-16
1. Stangeland– Second
iii. Reitan – Yield time to organization
1. Representative – This is an event for the tri-college students to
celebrate a drag show.
iv. Hogie – Are you getting any other funding from Concordia or MSUM
for the event?
1. Representative – I have not talked to them about any additional
funding. It is also an event that we host, so we just wanted to
invite them.
v. Stangeland – This is the first year getting funding from us?
1. Representative – Last year we got a grant through Campus
Attractions. We have received funding for food. This event will
be October 24th in the Great Plains Ballroom.
vi. Stangeland– Move to approve SP-01-16 without objection
1. DeJong – Objection
2. Pfarrer - Objection
vii. DeJong – For the funding, what will the entertainment be?
1. Representative – The funding has to be to pay the drag
performers. We also have to pay for lights and sound through the
Union.
viii. Pfarrer – Can you explain what you are doing for the advertising?
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1. Representative – The new numbers would be $83.50. We had not
gone to the printing services for printing. And then I updated the
list. It will be posters, digital advertisements.
ix. Dubasi – Finance, when you give money to the organization, do they
explain how they expect you to give money line by line item?
x. Gilderhus – Amend Advertising to $71 and entertainment to $402 for a
total of $473
1. Moir – Second
xi. Stangeland – Will you still be able to do the event with these numbers?
1. Representative – Yes!
xii. Hogie – Move to approve the amendment without objection
1. No objection
xiii. Ellwein – Move to approve SP-01-16 without objection
1. No objection
B. SP-02-16 International Students Association - International Night
i. Second Read
ii. Gilderhus – move to approve SP-02-16
1. Stangeland – Second
iii. Dubasi – I am not sure why they asked money for flags?
iv. Faundez – This is the student organization, they can borrow the flags, but
they are not property of the organization.
v. Dubasi – Yield time to the flags.
1. Representative – There is a charge to pay for the moving of the
flags. The office doesn’t not collaborate with us for the event.
vi. Pfarrer – was this held in the Festival Concert Hall before?
1. Representative – Yes, but it had a higher building fee to use.
vii. Okakpu – This event happened yesterday.
viii. Evans – Thank you for coming in today to represent the organization.
How did the event go?
1. Representative – The event was so great! It was so full! We had
a great fashion show!
ix. Evans – This is an event we fund every year, and I am so glad to see that!
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x. Stangeland – Is this something you guys have considered adding this to
your budget instead of an SP every year. This event will be docked each
year through the special projects.
xi. Pfarrer – Yield time to the finance
1. Finance – They cannot add this to the budget.
xii. Pfarrer – Move to approve SP-02-16 without objection
1. No objections
C. Appoint 3 proxy Student Government members to the CSO commission
i. Nominated: Kastel, Ramakrishna, Schotters, Knudtson
1. Mastel – Nominate myself
ii. Congratulations Senators Kastel, Mastel, and Knudtson
XV. New Business
A. SR-01-16 Support of the National Bison Legacy Act
i. First Read
B. SR-02-16 Support of the Final Retirement of the Nickel Trophy
i. First Read
C. SR-03-16 Support of Setting Expectations for the 2015-2016 Student Senate
i. First Read
D. SR-04-16 Support of Distribution of Unclaimed Student Football Tickets
i. First Read
E. SR-05-16 Support of Enforcing Student Football Tickets
i. First Read
XVI.
Reports Off The Floor
A. Dubasi – I encourage all senators to meet their college deans! You can use the
ideas from one college to another college. As a graduate student I learned so
much. I made many connections and learned so much.
B. Hogie – Need some help family. I go to the University of Academic Affairs
council, I need someone to fill in for me.
C. Pfarrer – We scheduled a meeting with dining services. We were shut down, but
only because there is a bigger plan in the works! We are going to sit in on their
advisory board to understand how they go about their plans.
D. Moir – Sorority recruitment just finished. Think about getting involved. I highly
recommend getting involved. The dean that I represent had no idea who I was,
and now he knows who you are. That way you can bring ideas to them. Buy a
homecoming show ticket. Tickets are available from 10-2 on a contact table this
week.
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E. Ellwein – I have a meeting with the Wellness Center for the Mental Health
Awareness Event that I am planning.
F. Lee – Bison Brainstorm through the Bison Robotic organization went very well!
There are a lot of students that would like to include a green campus. We funding
a button maker, and it was super cool!
XVII. Student Concerns
A. Dubasi – Anytime I introduce myself to anyone, I use my shorter name. I would
love to have photos of us on the website so they can see my face instead of my
long name!
XVIII. Announcement
A. Evans – Tonight we had good discussion. Please keep discussion respectful. We
don’t want to tell people that we want to “get on with our night”, because we
need to respect their time as well. Abstaining is fine, but when you do it, you are
talking away a voice for about 1000 students. The challenge this week is to sign
up to sell t-shirts.
B. Eric – Take a deep breath in and out. Let us remember to be respectful to our
peers. We have to respect the other opinions. I just want to make sure we go
forward in the right way. Let us keep a positive outlook going forward.
C. Mason – Student Government member of the week goes to Senate Pfarrer for
putting a lot of time in.
D. Jay – I would like you all to come in and talk to us about the finance guidelines.
It will help a lot.
E. Fergel, J- Let Bre know your favorite donut for Quad Squad. Please use the
microphones, it will really help! Reports off the floor and announcements differ
in that reports off the floor are usually internal, announcements are external.
Something today that really bothered me is that we would pass something
without objection, but then 8 people said no in the roll call vote. Without
objection should be only used for times when absolutely everyone is completely
sure that you agree. Please be confident and have your voice heard.
XIX. Adjourn
A. Dubasi – Move to adjourn without objection
i. No objection
B. Meeting adjourned at 8:26 PM