The following are meeting minutes from the Senate meeting. The Senate meets every Monday at 5:30 PM in Room 318 on the third floor of The Commons. These meetings are open to all students to listen to discussion. If you would like to present an issue, please contact the Speaker of the Senate, Steve Gilmore, in advance so you can be added to the agenda.
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December 4, 2006
Roll Call: 5:35; Mike and Avi Elani and Brittany late
Approval of minutes: GOOD!
Week in review:
Adrienne – Food action committee: Food forum Wednesday, free hour.
Steve – Entrepreneurship. David suggested social entrepreneurship. Seemed interested in having SGA members – having competition for changing something on campus.
Danielle – undergraduate council. Couldn’t make it because weren’t given enough notice.
Andrew Rose (previous SGA president at College Park) –
Working for Mobile Campus.
Provides colleges with program to build out applications and mobile solutions, tailored to what their needs are. Plan to use text messaging to help connect students to each other and campus. Generate groups with Student organizations, fraternities and sororities, etc. No cost to university or students, or organizations. Permission based – students aren’t’ obligated to get in. Can click and choose groups to belong to, as well as venders and merchants. Integrate with OIT. Professors can set up mobile groups with students. Can set up within 45 days of contract.
What kind of initial marketing would be done? Table at event, flyers, hire students to get other students interested, iPod raffles, give-aways. Launch with something else on campus. Facebook ads, newspaper ads, etc. all paid for by mobile campus.
Student Jobs – would have to have an office off campus. Sales rep, marketing manager, and enrollment. Could hire students.
Not charging to sign up – charges to receive will apply to what current text messaging plans are. Mobile campus reviews message that merchants and vendors send out, but save $5 for each message they send out – students can save a lot of money.
About how many messages – no more than 2 a day from vendors and merchants. If they’d like more, can set that preference. When they enroll in M.C., can set who they want to receive messages from, when; also open access groups and closed groups, etc.
How successful has it been on campus it’s been implemented – over 25,000 students enrolled, over 9 schools. 3 of 9 M.C. has been in for over a year. Over 40% enrollment at each school. 30-40 merchants sign up at each school within 3 months. 8-10 more schools by January.
Other schools haven’t had a lot of faculty involvement in the program, mostly focus on merchants and vendors. MC hasn’t made the effort to incorporate professors as much, but plans to soon. Ability to have professors to use the program there, but not really implemented currently.
SL11-0607 DVD Committee
Recently issued movies are hardly ever there. In Dec 2003, under 150 people that went to use Media Center. Oct 2006, over 3,500 every week for DVD’s. Given $1,500 for year to purchase DVD’s. Found not enough given how high demand is. Asking for $500 more for next semester. Buy from Barnes and nobles, get deal buying bulk. The library has purchased multiple copies of some movies. Also trying to branch out to other cultures.
Started with $5,000 and will have $2,000 ish after this semester for rest of the year.
For: 7
Opposed: 0
Abstain: 1
Absent: 2
JL08-0607 Confirmation of Shane Spencer as SGA Justice
SGA Justices mostly have work during elections.
Shane served as justice last year. Both took one year terms, this will appoint them for a two year term. End May 15, 2008 (for both candidates). They have the option of resigning if they wish.
Shane - Interested in law. Not heavily involved with SGA – good for election board to be non-partisan. Will be at Stress Free Zone!
Lisa - Appointed same time as Shane. Served as chief justice. Involved with formal dance committee. Less involved with BSU – has a lot more hours available.
Chief Justice receives stipend of $160.
Table JL08-0607
JL06-0607 Formal Dance
40th Anniversary Formal Dance – unify greater campus community
asking for $16,400 from general ledger
if this becomes an annual event, can be turned over to SEB.
May 5th.
David - there will have been an SGA election, with new people and old. Should be a plan for handling this.
If SGA can sell 500 tickets, the cost will really only be $3,900.
Haven’t heard anything back from GSA or RSA. Looking to get local businesses to sell ads for tux’s and stuff.
Thaddeus – SGA needs to fund some kind of marketing scheme
Adrienne – looking to use SEB as tool to get resources; SGA would then put up.
Mike – will propose idea of them doing additional advertising.
Carrie – concerned that people can afford both their Quadmania ticket and the formal dance ticket.
Jordan – lots has to be planned over break. Need to have goals for ticket sales before the event. Need to establish safeguards, financially.
Adrienne – doesn’t have to be a tux, but definitely formal (no jeans, etc)
Thaddeus – glad there’s a safeguard in terms of transportation. Would feel more comf voting on his next week after talking to Joe Regier about transportation.
Adrienne – preferable to pass this sooner than later. Hesitant to leave something as important as this for last meeting.
Alex – there are a lot of safeguards, and it’s tedious to add on more money, but if we decide we’re going to do the event, we need to stop stalling.
Avi – set deadlines for ticket sales.
Lisa – needs to be finished over winter break.
Danielle – look into other funding sources. This is really low compared to prom in high school.
Thaddeus - $400 more for advertising.
Brady – $400 doesn’t really get you that much in terms of advertising.
David – need plan for money.
Carrie – it’s hard to put a number on advertising when you don’t really know what $400 is going to get you. There are items in SGA budget that go unused.
Thaddeus – shouldn’t only advertise in Commons with $400, but $400 isn’t that much more.
Elani – everything seems good except advertising. Should request more money when we have a more clear cut idea of where it should be going.
Alex – advertising only concern right now. Could pass on the condition that the committee could go to SEB to see how money they’re willing to put for advertising, and come back with plan.
Mike – contact all the groups on campus.
For: 10
Opposed: 0
Abstain: 0
JL07-0607 confirmation of KB Singh as SGA election board chair
No written application and not present.
Tabling till next week.
Executive Reports:
Carrie:
Sga last year helped Alumni association give gift to graduating seniors. Doing this again.
Booked space for conference that Carrie and Tabassum are working on. Hopkins, Towson and someone else invited. Focusing on elections, diversity in SGA’s, food, etc.
Committee meeting with CCSAG – saving for next week to talk about.
Jay, Gabe, Brady and David:
No report.
Announcements:
Dec 11th, Mamas boys, 8:15, LH1.
Food Forum, Wednesday, free hour.
SGA cookie swap, reading day, office.
STRESS FREE ZONE.
Commons advisory council meeting Wednesday, free hour.
Everyone here.
7:19 meeting adjourned.