March 28, 2011

Roll Call

Senators Present: Mahaffey, Perry, Wheat, Beovich, Byrd, Gessner, Husain, LePointe, Miller, Powell, Tanner, Purnell, Schneider, Johnston, Pearson, Carlson, Hall, Norton, Sells, Youngblood, Pruett, Ramsey, Thomas, Horton, Swindle, Wilson, Wolf, Davis, Speller.

Senators Absent: Rodgers, Woodward, Berglund, Ringsdorf, Calhoun, Fishel, Pittman.

Approval of the Minutes

Sells- I move to approve the minutes from March 21 by acclimation.

MOTION PASSES

Officer Reports

President Proctor- Welcome back. Charlene Hale from USA Today came out last Wednesday and did a campaign for the USA Readership. Thank you to the senators and officers who came to help. To follow up on GLBTA Resolution, the administration is drafting up a policy to put in place what our requests were for that, and we will have a meeting in two or three weeks to discuss the results. On the committee, Dr. Smith chairs it, Gene Tucker, Dr. Johnston, and Dr. Conners; Dr. Conners and I are huge advocates. Parts of the policy are already in handbook, they just want to make sure it is covered across the board.

Vice President Al-Greene- Thank you to those who came out to the Gumbo Chili Cook off. Also, we have about $40,000 left, so be thinking of Senate Projects.

Treasurer Baldwin- There is $40,290.27 left in the Operating Budget. Keep in mind, we will be funding Higher Ed Day next week, so it is a little less than that, but it still it is too much money to be left in the account.

Attorney General Macon- Just a reminder, April 7^th is Higher Ed Day. Sign up after meeting, if you have not done so. For going, you will get SGA office hours. Bridgette says she will give 10 service hours per person in Greek Organizations.

Chief Justice Shephard- I met with the police chief. He says the main crime on campus is people leaving cars unlock and having valuable items out in open. He wanted me to relay to you all to put it away. Also, he wants to work with the SGA. If you have any projects, contact him. He is very open, and he wants to work with us.

Special Orders

Dean Mitchell- no report.

Committee Reports

Proctor- On the back of your agenda, will be the ballot that everyone will be receiving. We had 10 students not show up to the mandatory meeting. Information on the mandatory meeting was on the campus-wide email that went out and on the application. So, there are no excuses not to be there or to not have had a representative. But those students have right to appeal. In our code of laws, it says to be there or have a representative. Also, can someone please make a motion to approve $600 for pizza for forum tomorrow. Also, we will announce winners of the election on the Bell Tower stairs. We will need a DJ. We were hoping to get the guys from Jaguar Productions to come setup their stuff where we can have a microphone for the speakers. I don’t think they charge student groups a fee. We really only need to set aside $300 to do this.

Sells- As a point of information, it is about $15 an hour to rent out JP.

Proctor- Just to announce some important dates, the candidate forum is tomorrow at 7:30pm. We decided to invite the Chief Justice and Attorney Genera since they invest so much into SGA. Encourage your friends and organizations to come out to know who is coming into SGA. We will send out ballots Monday, April 4. Cecilia Martin will send them out. If you have any questions, let her know.

Pro Tempore Perry- Thank you to all those who came out; especially Jessica McHaffey, who cooked all the chili. The med students loved ya’ll! LePointe helped Jessica a lot Saturday as well. I will give you hours if you came. A lot of people need office hours. If you went to the Spring Scrimmage, I will give you hours. We got tons of money we need to use it. We will figure out how to do whatever ya’ll want to. I have heard from several senators about this thing called Redbox, if you want to help with that, we are going to meet Wednesday, but the time hasn‘t been set yet.

Al-Greene- Special Student Services moved to a new building, so go see if they need anything. Contact Angela Avery if have any new ideas you want to run with.

Johnston- Homecoming is already in the planning. They are wanting people to go to the meetings and be thinking of ideas.

Hall- I need to meet with the Rules Committee next meeting to discuss the absences.

Sells- I would like to discuss improvements to be made. I will Facebook you all times available to be made.

Old Business

No report.

New Business

Sells- I move to appropriate $600 to the elections committee.

Senators- Second.

Al-Greene- All in favor?

Senators- I.

Al-Greene- Opposed? Abstentions?

MOTION PASSES

Powell- I open the floor for talk about the Senate project of Violence Awareness and Prevention.

Senators- Second.

Byrd- $500 for food and $725 for t-shirts with Jaguar Productions. We did do this last year. To raise awareness for sexual violence.

Perry- I move to close the floor for discussion and appropriate $500 the Violence Awareness Kickball.

Gessner- Objection, should we approve the whole sum?

Proctor- It is two separate projects that need to be separately appropriated.

Senators- Second.

Al-Greene- All in favor?

Senators- I.

Al-Greene- Opposed? Abstentions?

MOTION PASSES

Byrd- I move to approve for the $725 for the march.

Senators- Second.

Al-Greene- All in favor?

Senators- I.

Al-Greene- Opposed? Abstentions?

MOTION PASSES

Hussain- I motion to bring up the volleyball nets on the SGA pavilion. I was contacted and told that they are deteriorating. It will be $250 to $300. I am pretty sure we can put a little money out there. I will have an exact quote next week.

Perry- Move to close floor for discussion.

Senators- Second.

Student Forum

No student forum

Announcements

Proctor- I would like to announce the senators who are on the Election Committee: Johnston, Sells, Miller, Gessner, myself, and Robin Jones and Dean Mitchell. Faculty and staff will be patrolling the area. We are going to have an infraction form online. You don’t have to put your name if you reported, but please help us patrol. Also, if I need to meet with the committee after the meeting.

Schneider- CSA is having a bake sale tomorrow. The proceeds are going to the To Be Choices for Women. We are also accepting baby items.

Pearson- Intramurals also needs a new gator to carry stuff around. It’s about $6,000.

Johnston- There is a list of potential homecoming themes on the SGA group. We just want feedback, so please go look at that.

Sells- To go off what chief justice was saying, the Police Chief is doing a luncheon every Wednesday at 11 to be completely open to the students. This is something new, and I think it is a wonderful idea. Secondly, Lesser Taught Languages is going to offer American Sign Language in the Fall. Sign up if you are interested. It will be a basic class.

Ramsey- The College of Engineering needs new welding and safety equipment. I know te equipment is poor quality, and that is not a good thing to be lacking. They want to see what SGA would be willing to fund for them, so they might be coming to a meeting.

Proctor- I have been contacted by Exercise Science students for wireless in their building. Carly, the might be something you would like to head up.

Perry- The ladies of AOPi are having their softball tournament 11-3pm on Saturday. Thursday, if you go eat at Buffalo Wild Wings, the proceed will go to patients with premature arthritis. Friday is their carwash.

Hall- Will we get office hours for going?

Perry- It’s a good cause, so no.

Adjourn

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