SENATE MEETING MINUTES
30th LEGISLATURE
SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
I. Call to Order
Roll Call
II. Corrections to the Minutes
A. We will not be able to approve the Minutes because they have not been approved by me yet. Senator Sheehan and Senator Ammerman will have ? absences for last week's meeting. Next week we will approve both the 19th and 26th meeting minutes.
B. Approval of Agenda
- EVP Brady adds Attendance.
- Senator Perreault motions to approve the Agenda. Senator
Bernal 2nd. Vote is taken and passes unanimously.
III. President Levin-Stankevich Report:
A. Last week I passed out some sheets on USG goals. No one came to me to ask questions or make any amendments. Senator Jueckstock motions to approve the 30th Legislature goals. Senator Anderson 2nd. Floor is open for questions. Senator Perez would like to motion to amend the USG 30th Legislature goals to include researching a new process in booking rooms. Vote is taken and passes 22 yeas, 0 nays and 5 abstentions. Vote is taken to approve the 30th Legislature goals with the new amendment of Senator Perez and passes unanimously.
B. Parking Resolution - this is a recommendation made by last year's legislation. We are not passing this we are only approving this to give to Dr. Howard to look into this. Senator Perez motions to adopt this parking resolution. Senator Anderson 2nd. Floor is open for questions. Vote is taken and passes 22 yeas, 2 nays and 3 abstentions.
C. UB meeting - on Monday I had a meeting with UB student vice president. We talked about structure, plans and goals of both campuses. We were on the same page but on different schedules. They have their initiatives on paper where we do not. I am going to review their list and compare their initiatives to ours. One issue we talked about was maybe working on a common event together.
D. College Senate Nominations - Jamie Jueckstock, Matt McKay, Narcisa Nunez and Leslie Perreault for College Senate. There is 1 more seat open. Floor is open for questions to all the nominations. There are no more questions therefore we will vote to confirm these nominations. Vote is taken and passes 20 yeas, 0 nays and 3 abstentions.
E. Student Assembly is October 20th in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. We will be going with UB and there are 2 open spots. Friday morning we will be leaving and coming home Sunday night. If you are interested see me after the meeting.
IV. EVP Brady Report:
A. Committees - if you are not on a committee please see me after the meeting. Just so everyone knows that if you miss a committee meeting this counts as ? an absence. So if you miss 6 committee meetings you will be off the Senate. Attendance is taken very seriously.
B. Whispering Pines - Sigma Phi
Epsilon and Phi Sigma Sigma had an incident at camp and were banned
from camp for 7 years. Their 7 years is up and Sigma Phi
Epsilon is requesting to go out to camp. Some of the damages
were: fire extinguishers were discharged, glass on the shower door
was smashed, bunk beds were taken apart, a mattress was burned,
cigarette burns on the floor etc. They already have 2 offenses
against them. The E-Board is presenting to the senate three
options:
1. Allow them to go to camp with no
circumstances.
2. Not allow them to go.
3. Allow them to go with a heighten
security deposit.
The floor is open for questions and then vote will be taken on one of the options. There will be no motion on this instead we will vote on each one of the following options separately.
1. Ban Sigma Phi Epsilon from
camp.
2. Double their security
deposit.
3. They can go to camp with no
repercussions.
We will now vote on option number 1 to ban Sigma Phi Epsilon from camp. Vote is taken for option number 2 to double their security deposit. Vote is taken for option number 3 to allow them to go to camp with no repercussions. Vote carries for option number 2 to double their security deposit. We will get back to you with their response. They will have the option to file a grievance and it will go the Judicial. have a correction to make regarding absences. It is a total of 3 absences not 6.
V. Treasurer St. Rose Report:
A. Frozen Budgets - last Friday was the mandatory organization meeting, if an organization missed this meeting their budget may be frozen up to 5%. I will read off a list of organizations that will be referred to Judicial.
B. There is a Treasurer meeting on Friday October 13th at 3:00 pm in Bulger.
C. This is our 30th anniversary and I am looking for suggestions to celebrate.
D. If you are part of an organization please make sure your treasurer is doing their job correctly I will occasionally check on them.
VI. Standing Committee Reports
A. AVP Janik Academic Report:
- Academic Mixer update - I sent out 2 memo's regarding this
mixer.
- I would like to meet with my committee after the meeting.
B. AVP Ammirato Community Relations
Report:
- Breast Cancer Walk - I am passing around the sign up sheet if you
would like to walk sign up if you are unable to walk please
take your name off the sheet. I am working on getting a van.
- Carnival of Clubs - I am passing a sheet around if you signed up
please check to make sure all your information is correct.
- Play - if you would like to go please sign the sheet and tell me
what day you are interested in going.
- Service Day - if you are interested please sign the sheet I am
passing around.
- Pictures - will be taken during the meeting if I call your name
please come up.
- I would like to meet with my committee after the meeting.
C. AVP Dapaah Student Life
Report:
- Homecoming is October 25th - 28th. October 26th is the Pep
Rally and during this USG will be doing a BBQ. I am looking for
people to sign up. On Saturday is the tailgate party and give
aways. There is also a banner competition and decorating a
shopping cart I am looking for some creative minds.
- I would like to meet with my committee after the senate
meeting.
- Presidents Round Table is October 6th in Bulger E at 3:00 pm.
D. Rules Chair McKay Report:
- I would like to make a motion to adopt Student Bill #1. Senator
Perreault 2nd. Floor is open for questions. Senator Mays motions to
amend this to start next year. Rules Chair McKay does not accept this
amendment. Floor is open for debate. Rules Chair McKay
makes a motion to the amendment that the bill take effect when the
organization goes under re-recognition instead of starting next year.
Senator Mays accepts the amendment. Floor is open for
discussion on the new amendment. EVP Brady motions to table
this until next week. Vote is taken and motion carries by majority
vote.
- I would like to meet with my committee after the meeting.
- Recognition/Re-recognition - there are 27 organizations up for re-
recognition this is a little over 1/3 which is where it should be
with our 3 year rule.
- Alcohol Agreement - last week CSO presented the senate with an
alcohol agreement. President Levin-Stankevich states the alcohol
policy:
1. E-Board reviews the agreement
2. E-Board brings it to the Senate
3. The Senate has a week to review it and it gets voted on the
following week. President Levin-Stankevich states that CSO has come
forth with an alcohol agreement and the Senate will have a week
to review it and ask questions. Next week we will vote on this
agreement. If the senate approves the agreement it will go to Dr.
Kenyon and he will pass this on to Dr. Payne. When it gets to Dr.
Payne he will follow the SUNY guidelines.
E. Senator Pro Tem Agard Report:
- Food Service meeting tomorrow at 5:00 pm with Sodexho and Tim
Ecklund.
VII. Unfinished Business
A. President Levin-Stankevich states that he talked to the organizations regarding Cassety. I have no more information on this. Floor is open for questions.
B. There was a motion on the table last week to form a committee for Dollar Jam. If this goes to a committee we will pick the committee tonight. The committee will have time restraints and the committee will report to the senate. Until they report to the senate we do not debate or talk about it until that committee comes back with a full detail report. Motion is up for debate. Questions or comments on the motion. Treasurer St. Rose states that members from CSO not be on this committee. Vote is taken to form a committee for Dollar Jam motion passes 23 yeas, 0 nays and 5 abstentions. I would like to nominate Chris Janik to chair this committee. Chris is a new student at Buffalo State and will have a non-bias opinion. Also, I think this should be a 3 person committee and all members should be non-partisan. Meaning you should have no CSO history. Floor is open for discussion. President Levin-Stankevich asks everyone who has no knowledge of CSO to please raise your hand. I would like to take a vote on the nomination for Chris Janik to chair the committee for CSO. Vote is taken and passes 20 yeas, 3 nays and 4 abstentions. Chris will meet within 5 days from today. I recommend that non-partisan people be on this committee. Vote will be taken on a non-partisan committee. Vote is taken and passes 14 yeas, 4 nays and 4 abstentions. Senator Jordan makes a motion to reconsider a vote for a non-partisan committee. Senator Perez 2nd. Floor is open for discussion. AVP Bush motions to reconsider. Senator Manzione 2nd. Senator Perez motions to limit the debate to 10 minutes. Treasurer St. Rose 2nd. Senator Nunez makes an amendment to the prior motion to limit to 5 minutes. Senator Perez accepts the amendment on the motion. Vote is taken on the amendment to limit the debate to 5 minutes and passes 23 yeas, 2 nays and 2 abstentions. Vote is taken on the motion to limit the debate and passes 19 yeas, 5 nays and 3 abstentions. Floor is open to continue debate on the committee being partisan or non-partisan. Vote will be taken to reconsider the motion on a non-partisan committee and does not pass unanimously. If you raised you hand up before and you are willing to sit on the committee please raise your hand. There are four hands up does anyone feel that all four should not be on this committee. Vote is taken to have three or four people plus the chair. Vote is taken and passes to have four people plus the chair. The four people are: James Manzione, Jamie Jueckstock, Narcisa Nunez and Jamison Stone. At this time I will recognize Leonora. Leonora asks why Maya is not able to be a senator but she is able to be on college senate. Senator Pro Tem Agard explains why.
C. President Levin-Stankevich states that he would like to nominate Senator Bush for AVP Sports & Rec. There were three letters for this nomination. I picked Julian Bush because he has shared ideas regarding this position and has asked me numerous questions. Floor is open for questions. Vote is taken to approve the nomination for Julian Bush to be AVP of Sports & Rec and passes 25 yeas, 2 nays and 2 abstentions. Senator Bush is sworn in for AVP of Sports & Rec.
D. Senator Manzione motions to adjourn the meeting. Senator Rogers 2nd. EVP Brady announces that senator of the month will get $200 to the bookstore. Vote is taken to end the meeting and passes 19 yeas, 9 nays and 0 abstentions. EVP Brady motions to reconsider because there are people outside the gallery to talk. AVP Janick 2nd. This is debatable. Senator Mays sub moved and there are no objections.
VIII. Constituents Questions/Announcements
A. Ann states that she is a representative from NYPIRG and explains what NYPIRG is.
B. Herman from Student Life is recognized to discuss his position and upcoming events.
IX. 2nd Roll Call
X. Meeting adjourned.