Student Senate Minutes
Executive Committee Meeting
25th of September 2007

I.	Executive Committee meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by President Szewczyk at 7:05 PM
a.	Absent from the meeting were members: Dr. Alberts, Jon Graber, and Mindy Manness.
II.	Executive Reports
a.	Secretary: Please send in committee minutes and attendance. Lizz will be taking minutes on Sunday because Libby will be gone.
b.	Treasurer: Still needs budget requests. Meeting with Marty Thursday about the readership program to brainstorm.
c.	President: Needs to find someone to sit on the SUB Advisory Committee. Sent out an email about Intellectual Diversity Committee. Meeting Thursday with the presidents of FAC and SAB to keep up relations. Any questions or concerns to pass along to FAC?
	- Lizz – one concern last year was that there wasn’t a consistent interview process.
	- Greg – Bring up the fact that they funded organizations that didn’t necessarily need it and passed over smaller groups. Would also like to know the results of their spring survey.
	Also attending the faculty senate meeting on Thursday and will be giving 
report on what senate is doing. Please send in information that you want included. Meeting with Brett Wednesday to talk about the bike co-op resolution. Meeting with Dean Gilchrist, Dave Rector, and Cassie Phillips to present information about the bike co-op. The MAC has a potential spot for the bike co-op. This is great because it will help the MAC’s mission of diversity if it is allowing an organization to run in its building. Received email from Greg Xander about homecoming. Wants senators to help register alumni. It will be October 26th around 10-11 in the morning. Is this something we are interested in helping? They only need two people. The selection committee for the new person to be the head of the CSI has chosen to offer the job to Tom Dubois. He was a second tier candidate. The students advised Sujit to continue searching. We need to put our best foot forward with him and try to work with him and the CSI for the semester. 

III.	Auxiliary Reports
a.	Faculty Advisor: No report. 
b.	Staff Advisor: 
c.	BOG: Thank you for approving the slate for BOG representative. 
d.	Speaker: No report.
	
IV.	Committee Reports
a. Academic Affairs: 3 new members! Meeting tomorrow night at 9:30. Hopefully AA can spread out projects a little more to see more progress. Academic Organizations should be turning in their information by the 28th. Military Science meeting has been moved to next week. Meeting this week with David and Priscilla Wriggle to discuss WACT as a possible FINS course.
b. External Affairs: Spoke with committee and came to the conclusion that there will not be a forum. Last year there were only 10 attending the conference. Is it something that people are willing to come and listen to for an hour? Will still interview local land owners, the police department, students with good/bad experiences and have everything available online. Possibly have posters explaining the website with a pull tab on the bottom with the web address. Still wants to do some pamphlets to sit on the Quad or in the SUB to distribute them. Want to be up and running by November 14th. Kirksville on the Quad, would like to have it on April 12th as long as it does not over lap with Greek Week. Health Center…
	- Matt – Whenever a relevant newsletter comes out, include a catchy thing/“sneak preview” of the website
	Kirksville on the Quad, would like to have it on April 12th as long as it does not over lap with Greek Week. Health Center…
	- Greg - The nurse practitioner position is open at the UHC. They want to bring in a candidate but she is already working in a position offering 1.5 times the salary of the UHC. She will most likely take a position with the Health Department. The biggest hold up is the noncompetitive/out of date salary of the nurse practitioners. 
	- Matt – If they were to increase the salary, would they have to increase the student health fee? 
c. Student Affairs: Meeting with MO Hall senate tomorrow. $25 donation required to join a foundation that has resources that would help with the EMT program. Trying to get it going through the business office.
d. Campus Diversity: 
      e. Campus Environment:
f. Budget Review: Nadia has begun to pull records. If we get control of the readership program we want to replace newspaper bins. 
- Matt – If we get new bins can we have a section for the Senate newsletters? “Senate Stop”
We have received our first round of refund requests. (20 of them most of them freshmen). Will move forward and will come up with some general guidelines for student initiatives gaining funds.
- Matt – Can you have someone give a report explaining the general consensus for the refund requests?
- Philip – Will put all of the requests in a spreadsheet.
Dean Gilchrist thinks budget review is a good cause. No one in the collegiate scholars has expressed interest in helping us. 
          
V.	General Reports
a.	Ethics Justice: Working on report. Hopes to have it done by Sunday. 
b.	Constitutional Review:  
c.	Scholarship:	
d.	EOY:  
e.	SOC: 
f.	Communications: Working on redesign of the Renter’s Rights brochure. Redesigned the newsletter and will be asking for important items in the coming week. Talked to Heidi Templeton about emailing it out to all students and having a link on truview. The President’s Roundtable will be November 7th from 7-9 in the Georgian Room. 
g.	Legislative Director: 
h.	Historian:
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VI.	Old Business
VII.	New Business
a. Chris – This resolution creates a “safe rides” pilot program. An ad-hoc committee will be created to start setting up this program. Changed line 31-32 so the committee can decide what the stipend will be for drivers. This sunshines out in Spring ’08 so Senate can review the program and decide whether or not to continue it. This puts Senate out there in front of the students and shows them that we put on programs for them. It will be free to all students with a Truman ID.
- Wisa - Likes the idea. Doesn’t like the idea of paying $20 to people who sober drive. 
- Matt – Likes the approach of just doing it without having to ask for permission. Can we look into window/car lights that advertise the service and student senate.
- Chris – certain wireless providers offer free cell phones to programs like this. This program will be any where from $1000 to $5000.
- Lizz – Start up cost will be pretty great but once its established it should be reasonable.
- Chris – 2 drivers a night with 1 dispatcher ($120/week)
- Philip – Maybe consider a by the mile payment.
- Lizz – Could we encourage each organization on campus to provide workers.
- Chris – Would like to go talk to any service organizations. 
VIII.	Discussion
	a. Lizz – Julie Lochbaum (Center for Teaching and Learning) gets a lot of requests for events which she is incapable of funding. Met with her today. Could she filter her proposals through Senate? We could use this as a test for setting up our own program. Current proposal Talujon, a percussion quartet using only water. Would we be up to funding in this way?
		- Matt – A student initiative should be something long lasting for campus.
		-  Daniel – Does it fall within our mission to put on events and fund people? Aren’t we just a governance body that represents the students.
		- Matt – I think bringing events and experiences to the students is the Senate actively participating in the mission of our liberal arts university.
		- Lizz – It’s not so much if it is in our mission, but if we are going to go for it and give it a try. 
IX.	Announcement

Meeting adjourned at  

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Libby Piel on the 25th of September 2007.