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Meeting Minutes

Monday, April 24, 2006

 

  1. Call to Order
    1. Additional Students at Meeting: Markus Apellus, Amie Wiligor, Susan Kimble, Gary Broadbent, Rose Osborne, Lauren Vinoker, Kristin Iriarte, Mike Herrick, Nicole Demming, Katherine Mowat, Matt Kelly, Johnny Hutchinson, Gabrielle Kelly

 

  1. Roll Call
  1. Accepting or Amending of the Agenda
    1. New business – alcohol at meetings – Chris Schmitt
    2. Old business – org handbook – Chris Schmitt

 

  1. Accepting or Amending of the Minutes
    1. Accept unanimous
  1. Honor Court Remarks
    1. Outgoing Chief Justice Susan Kimble
      1. Explain purpose of honor court – hear code of conduct violations, but mainly run elections – 3 throughout the year.
      2. Elections - planning, making rules, answering questions, anticipating issue – only goes so far.  Honor court/elections duality
      3. Wants a smooth path for elections in the fall.  We take this seriously, and we ask everyone to lend support to the new Honor Court.  Have fun next year!

 

  1. Honor Court and Student Bar Representative Elections
    1. Student Representative Elections
      1. Nominations from Senate Counsel
        1. Katie Mowat, Gary Broadbent, Jeff, Markus Apelis
      2. Nominations from the Floor
        1. none
      3. Speeches and Questions
      4. Voting
        1. ABA rep: Katie Mowat
        2. OSBA rer: Garyr Broadbent
        3. CBA rep: Markus Apelis
    1. Honor Court Elections
      1. Nominations from Senate Counsel
      2. Nominations from the Floor
      3. Speeches and Questions
      4. Voting
      5. New Justices: Mike Herrick, Amy Wiligor, Johnny Hutchinson
  1. Officers Reports
    1. President’s Report
      1. Executive Board Meeting with Dean Andelman
      2. SBA providing free coffee, candy, and cookies during reading week
        1. Show students we care
        2. Fruit Platter
      3. SBA Banner
    1. Vice-President’s Report
      1. Committees
        1. E-mail about Committee chairs – select 2 senators for your committee
    1. Secretary’s Report
      1. Midnight Breakfast – Conard & Bliss will help organize
    1. Treasurer’s Report
      1. Updated website
    1. Senate Counsel’s Report

 

  1. Committee Reports
  1. Subcommittee Reports

 

  1. Old Business
    1. Senate Counsel Kringel: Bylaw Amendment on SBA Committees
      1. Set standing committees and procedures
      2. Unanimously passes
    1. Sen. Malbasa: 1L Scheduling Survey Reports
      1. 1Ls unhappy with resources provided to make decisions and the times when classes were offered. 
        1. SOLAR not running properly
        2. Too many class conflicts
    1. Sen. Schmitt: 1L Manual
      1. Poor response from student organizations – less than ¼ responded
  1. New Business
    1. Senate Counsel Kringel: Committee Proposal
      1. Accept Committee – 1 opposed
    1. Schmitt: Alcohol proposal
      1. In order to repair and maintain image, need to dispel thought that SBA uses student money for alcohol and having alcohol at meetings.  SBA does not use student money for alcohol at meetings.
      2. Proposal: Prevent alcohol at meetings
      3. Debate
      4. Motion fails – Roll Call Vote
        1. Holmes: No
        2. Aldes: No
        3. Chan: Yes
        4. Kringel: No
        5. Hudson: No
        6. Kuhn: No
        7. Kurnik: Abstain
        8. Paeffgen: No
        9. Pottker-Fishel: No
        10. Saucier: No
        11. Tsai: Yes
        12. Zink: No
        13. Bliss: Abstain
        14. Conard: No
        15. Davidson: No
        16. Malbasa: No
        17. Nardulli: Yes
        18. Saykiewicz: Absent
        19. Schaefer: No
        20. Schmitt: Yes

 

  1. Announcements
  1. Cheers & Jeers
    1. Paeffgen: Bliss guilted into helping with the breakfast
    2. Davidson: cheer to banner and jeer for Newt not being a committee chair
    3. Saucier: cheer for food
    4. Jeer to building closing early
    5. Cheer to honor court
    6. Cheer to Kringel and the baby gift
    7. Cheer Schmitt for bringing that to the table
    8. Cheer to body