I. Call to order
5: 37pm
II. Roll Call
All members present expect for Amber and Chidi
III. Approval of Minutes
Minutes from last week will be approved next week.
IV. Open Discussion
A. Review of past week
Whitney: emailed Mr. Mozie-Ross she hasn’t responded yet. I was Just asking genera questions about transcript fee costs. The campus-dining hall met. We went over the names for the dining hall. I’m going to pass them around for you guys to help me narrow it down. Looking at something to replace Gelatto's. Might serve milkshakes and smoothies there. They are looking to add veggie burgers to the grill in the dining hall.
Rahilla: Dr. Diane Lee did respond to me and she said she would bring up our issues at the faculty senate meeting.
Sunaina: was someone going to draft a pro and con list?
Yasmin: I thought we were going to send students as representatives.
V. Project Updates
A. Increased Library Hours (Matt, Simmi, Sunaina, Toby)
Sunaina: We are coming up with flyers design. Academic row has some signs that show extended library hours. We requested a spotlight. If we can prove that students utilize this, the administrators can be convinced that we need this in the future.
Jen: the library keeps data like this normally so we will have something to look at.
Sunaina: they have a team going to get this date
B. Reaching out to International Students (Chidi, Rahilla)
I went to the library to find about the cards issue. They used to see them on campus. I have been contacting people about getting hem back.
Paula: students taking English language classes don’t have any representation on campus. We could be thinking about was to engage them.
C. Black and Gold Campus Signage (Aditi, Whitney, Jen, Toby)
Aditi: tomorrow I have a meeting with Dr. Hrabowsk about funding. I haven’t gotten a chance to meet regarding designs yet, but I can email them out. I would like to see them up for welcome week.
Rahilla: how much do you need?
Aditi: $3,500
David: so what’s going to happen now with the submissions?
Aditi: we were going to look throw them and see which ones would fit the size requirement and the ones that appealed the most.
Yasmin: would it be possible to do a revolving thing? So as we get more money, we can put up more banners.
Aditi: we could try to do that.
D. Follow-up on Transit Tracker (Simmi, Matt, Amber, Rahilla)
Rahilla: we didn’t have a chance to meet last week. Most of our questions have been answered. Right now we are just looking at marketing.
Rahilla: I wanted to talk about project wrap-ups and ensuring that we will get transition materials. Due before May the 15th. Do you all feel that these projects will be done, or will they be ongoing?
Aditi: mine should be done by the summer.
Chidi: I think this will be more of a pilot program. I want to leave enough materials for someone to follow.
Sunaina: What we are doing now will be done by the end of the semester. After that it will just be following up with Larry Wilt and seeing where we can go from there.
Rahilla: There well be some following up over the summer for the transit tracker. Just make sure that people later don’t go back to ask the same questions.
VI. New Business
A. SR11-0809 – Resolution to Recognize the Great Job done by the Election Board for year 2009 elections.
Toby: This is pretty self-explanatory. This is to recognize how hard the election board members have worked.
Whitney: I noted a grammar thing on the first line.
Toby: I was hoping of passing this and framing it to give to Katie.
Aditi moves to approve, Whitney seconds.
Members for: 10, Opposed: 0, Abstaining: 1, Absent: 0
VII. Executive/ Ex-officio Reports
Michael: Did a lot of election stuff
Gabe: I’m fighting a cold right now. The cabinet was preoccupied with the election last week.
Yasmin: We have 600 left this year for finance board. We will be allocating that tomorrow. We have been dealing with Greek life and how we will be funding them.
Paula: I had two meetings this week. I met with Lynne Shafer about the smoking policy and transit concerns. With respect to the smoking policy: she did say that upper admin is intending to move the entire campus to smoke free. She is under the impression that the majority of the campus is for this. She has no input form students yet. Looking into getting data about this. We talked about transit and the downtown line. She did say they are looking to space out the lines so that the busses can run later. I suggested changing the downtown line to include the inner harbor. I also met with Nancy Young to discus the changes in housing policy. She called walker herself to confirm that they are no longer accepting fall aid to cover summer housing. They are not telling students this verbally; there is a line on the form. I’m going to continue to work with her about this issue. I’m meting with Katie Boon this week to go over everything before I make public media statements about it.
Amber: there was an issue with the downtown line. They cut it because it had the least attendance.
Michael: In regard to smoking policy: you might want to look into the large subset of students who some hookah.
Paula: my suspicion is that many students who don’t smoke would not support a full out ban.
Josh: conversations about this usually involve aesthetics. Addressing that would be the easiest way.
David: We have a couple of traditions at the SGA. One of them is that at the being of the fall semester, SGA members fill out a survey. It will be sent to you to be done online.
The second tradition is the SGA generations tome. This is a book that graduation SGA offices have the chance to leave reflections in when they leave. The contents of which are in the action guide.
VIII. Announcements
Josh: some of you may have seen news about the swine flue. I have been working on getting intuitions moving on there emergency preparedness plans.
David: Black and gold award next week at 6. We could just keep meeting brief.
IX. Roll Call
All members present
X. Adjournment
6: 15pm
XI. Pass the Gavel