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Meeting Minutes

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Minutes

  1. Call to Order

 

  1. Roll Call
    1. Absent:  Michael Mortenson, Devlin Cary, Davalos, Rebecca Slazinski, James Tsai, James Zink, Andrew Samtoy.

 

  1. Accepting or Amending of the Agenda
    1. Sports committee report
    2. Remove mock trial
    3. Add buildings and grounds
    4. Motion to accept
      1. passes.
  1. Accepting or Amending of the Minutes

 

  1. Officers Reports
    1. President’s Report
    2. Vice-President’s Report
      1. Computers in SBA office are networked.  All SBA files will be consolidated. 
    3. Secretary’s Report
    4. Treasurer’s Report
      1. $14,000 in SBA account.  Second Semester student activity fee not in yet.  Plenty of money in speaker fund (over $3,000).
    5. Senate Counsel’s Report
      1. Lesson on “point of information” and “parliamentary inquiry”.
  1. Committee Reports
    1. Student Life
      1. No bar review for a while bc there are fundraising event. 
      2. Fat Tuesday Party on Feb. 28: food from Fat Fish Blue and beers.  Staff and administration are invited.
      3. Lexis Faculty Student Luncheon.
    2. Sports Committee Report
      1. Basketball tournament coming up. 
    3. Buildings and Grounds
      1. Building temps have been tested.  Within reasonable range.   Contact Alice Hunt if there is a specific problem in a classroom.
      2. Seat Covers in female bathrooms stocked.  There is also a genuine concern for seat covers in men’s bathroom.
      3. Posting policy: only allows SBA election posters and the 100 day commencement countdown.  B&G can get an exception for policy.
      4. Mr. Hudson’s question about change machine:  change supposed to last for 2 weeks after filled.

 

  1. Subcommittee Reports
  1. Old Business
    1. Consideration of Election Procedures
      1. Eligible voters for exec board and senate clarified.  Any ID can be used.
      2. Motion to accept amended election procedures.
        1. passes unanimously.

 

  1. New Business
    1. Budget Requests
      1. SBA Fat Tuesday Party: request for $300.  BarBri co-sponsorship will pay for the $300 food cost from Fat Fish Blue.  SBA contribution will go to beverages (beer and non-alcoholic), party favors, and chafing dishes.
        1. Motion to grant SBA $300.
          1. Passes.
      2. National Lawyers Guild: Maurice Hudson
        1. Requests $420 for death penalty awareness event. 
        2. Motion to grant $420.  This money will come out of the speaker fund.
          1. Passes.  3 opposed. 
      3. American Constitutional Society:
        1. Requests $777.10 for Annual Political Process Lecture on Civil Liberties on Wartime, given by Prof. Stone from U of Chicago Law School. 
        2. The plane ticket and ground transportation debated. 
        3. Motion to grant $500 ($100 airline ticket, no $100 refreshments with faculty, and no limo for ground transportation).
        4. Motion to amend to $600. 
          1. Passes. 10 ayes. 7 nays.  1 abstention. 
        5. Motion to Grant $600
          1. Passes.  15 ayes, 1 nay.  2 abstentions.
  1. Announcements
    1. Lisa Levy: “Sing for the Cure”:
      1. March 30 at B-Side instead of Bar Review.  Raising money for Cystic Fibrosis.  Requesting volunteers to take money at door.
    2. James Zink:  Senators are asked to look in their email within the next
      week for a proposal for the changes in the treasurers position and how
      the budget process works
    3. Chris Schmitt: Organization Handbook Taskforce
      1. Jen, Colin, Annamarie, Kevin, Chris, Tyler, James K.

 

  1. Cheers
    1. To the chair for her meeting.
    2. To the greasy lunch.
    3. To smooth budget requests without Mr. Zink and Mr. Arnold.
    4. Ms. Holmes’s sister, Nikola, for shooting the clinching goal in the Olympics in a shootout against Russia to win fifth place.
  1. Adjournment