July 19, 2010

Roll Call

Senators Present: Perry, Rogers, Wheat, Beovich, Byrd, Woodword, Jones, Ringsdorf, Tanner, Schneider, Pearson, Norten, Sells, Youngblood, Hall, Swindle, Wilson

Senators Absent: Mahaffey, Hussain

Senator Youngblood- I move to approve the minutes from June 14 by acclimation.

MOTION PASSES BY ACCLIMATION

Officer Reports

President Proctor- Absent- Senate Pro Tem Perry gave report. We need people to sign up for the Portal Committee to test out the new system for online classes. It will be office hours. I have a office hours T-Thur from 6-8 pm. Bell Tower meeting is on Thursday.

Vice President Al-Greene- Sign up for rooms for retreat. Approve Associate Justices under special orders. Need to Approve $700 for Dean of Students to distribute hard copies of the lowdown.

Treasurer Baldwin- No money- no minuets from last week yet.

Attorney General Macon- Stars retreat report

Chief Justice Shephard- approve associate justices

Special Orders

Dean Mitchell- Football parking passes-still in effect. Free to park wherever in parking zone. Free for all groups to get.

Committee Reports:
Web Chair Johnson: Update lowdown-it will be on the web now. Working with web services on the project. We need to name come up with an innovative name for a new service we are implementing. It will allow students to submit gripes via email.

Senate Pro Tem Perry- Stipend meeting is July 26^th @ 6:30 pm. Wednesday we have a meeting for homecoming and after we will be stuffing bags for campus involvement. Office hour opportunity.

Senator Beovich: Legal Affairs committee will meet after the meeting

PR Chair King: Press releases will be broken down and we will contact you if we need quotes.

New Business

Senator Sells: I open the floor for discussion for Jones-Pearson Resolution.

Senate Clerk: read 700.8-.1-.2

Senator Youngblood: Move to close the floor

Senator Pearson: Move to send the resolution to the legal affairs committee

MOTION PASSES BY ACCLIMATION

Senator Perry: Move to open the floor for discussion on $700 UDC materials. These materials are vital for us to provide students who do not have internet access and make the transition to web easier for everyone.

Vice President Al-Grenne: Ordering business cards also. Total cost is $650. Gives us a $50 leeway.

Youngblood: Move to close the floor

Senator Perry: Move to approve $700 for UDC materials.

MOTION PASSES BY ACCLIMATION

Senator Sells-Move to confirm associate justices

Senator Sells- Move to close the floor for discussion

Senator Pearson- Move to confirm Associate Justices

MOTION PASSES BY ACCLIMATION

Senator Wheat: Move to approve $400 and yield floor to Senator Perry

Senator Perry- We need to cover shipping and extra costs for the cozies and magnets

Senator Youngblood: I move to close the floor and approve the $400.

MOTION PASSES BY ACCLIMATION

Student Forum: N/A

Announcements

President Proctor- We didn’t have 25 people sign up for BayBears’ Night so we decided just to encourage you all to attend the Jimmy Buffett Benefit Concert that will be on the west end of Gulf Shores on July 1^st. They will be taking donations at the door to help with oil relief. Tickets go on sale Wednesday. Jimmy Buffett will be there as well as Kenny Chesney and the Zac Brown Band. We are encouraging everyone to go.

Vice President Al-Greene- We still need a couple of people to sign up to work the table at orientation on Monday.

Senator Sells- Along with that, orientation will be on Monday and Tuesday. Feel free to go to your respective departments on Tuesday at 1:00 to help students register for their classes. This is a great way to get SGA’s faces out there to new students.

Treasurer Baldwin- Thank you, tonight ran very efficiently. I’m very proud of you.

Senator Perry-Thank you everyone who came to the budget discussion meeting last week. Only several of you came. We will need more people to attend this meeting in the fall unless you want a 4 hour meeting like last year. Please be more proactive!

Dean Mitchell- I have two things. There was some discussion about the Saturday exam schedule. I’m inviting someone from the Registrar’s office to come and explain and discuss that with you. She should be coming to the July 12^th meeting. Also, we had someone who was supposed to come and sit in the student forum tonight to discuss the JagTran service for the summer. We have students who are having to walk back and forth from the Grove to class. This student does not have a car. The student didn’t come tonight. If you have any concerns about that, give them to Kim. She will be meeting with the JagTran people in the next few days.

Senator Youngblood- Funday Monday-Ollies right after the meeting!

Senator Sells- Thank you senate for putting on the Spirit Session!

Senator Jones- After the SGA meeting next week we will have a brief meeting for those interested in going on the college tour.

Adjourn-8:30 p.m.