uStudent Senate Minutes
September 13, 2009

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Hogan at 6:05 PM.
	A. Absent from the meeting were members: Kristen Marshall, Cassie Beard
	B. Also attending the meeting was: Index, Amanda, Kyle Denk, Lauren Robinson, 		Matt Szewczyk
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business
		A. Flanagan – Presentation of honorary gavels to President Emeritus Matt 			Szewczyk and President Emeritus Lizz Esfeld.
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		A. Flanagan – Organizational Rep for ASG
		B. Hogan –Moves to approve for organizational rep as a slate
		C. Hogan – Moves academic affairs members as associate senators
		D. Hogan – Moves student affairs members as associate senators
		E. Hogan – Moves environmental affairs members as associate senators
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary - No report.
	B. Treasurer – Created new funding request forms.
	C. President – Member of the Week is Yajie Yu for his work with the recycling 	bin crisis. Conference call about the College Readership Program last week. 	Meeting with FAC and SAB tomorrow morning. Meeting with President Krueger 	Wednesday. Casual dress meet and greet with President Krueger on Friday at 3:00 	PM. Need a list of all mandatory events by next Sunday. BOG Rep publicity is 	rolling.	Possibility of having a one day a week dress up. 
	D. Vice President – Money motion today for the retreat. Please volunteer to drive 		fellow senators to the retreat. If you are interested, you need to fill out a release 	form. Tentative agenda will be sent out early this week. 
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor – No report.
	B. Staff Advisor – Customer Service/Relations Committee needs students. Please 	complete your scholarship clearance. Waiting to do GPA checks on students 	signing out election packets. 
	C. BOG – Had presidential search meeting this weekend. Three finalists will be 	selected early in the spring. BOG passed funding for new university bus. 
	D. Speaker – Thank you to all new associate senators. Eleven election packets 	have been signed out! Woo! Posters are coming down the line. Sending out 	election badges this evening because campaigning starts tomorrow! Mock Parli  	Pro exercise at retreat. 
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs – No report.
	B. External Affairs – Kirksville on the Quad is September 26th. There will be 	bands and food. Applying for grant for the Census Kick-Off event. Working on 	trashcan painting project. 
	C. Student Affairs – Bringing a resolution tonight. Met with the WRC director 	about Sexual Assault Awareness Week. On September 25th, Senate will be 	passing out teal ribbons on the mall and hopefully the resolution. Spoke with 	Dean Gilchrist and she is very pleased with how we are handling this. Met with 	University Counseling Services concerning STEP (students together educating 	peers). Collaborating with them to attend social and service Greek organizations.
		i. Campus Diversity 
		ii. Campus Environment – Yay for five new associates! Bringing a 			resolution tonight.
	D. Technology – Currently working with two groups and Dr. Albert’s stat class 	about technology on campus and how it can be approved. Several meeting this 	week.
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director – President’s Roundtable will be Monday 			October 12th at 5 PM in the SUB Georgian Room. Service Roundtable will 		bat October 28th at 5 PM in the SUB Georgian Room. Res Life 				Roundtable Novmber 18th at 5 in the Conference Room.
		iii. Webmaster
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
		viii. Vision Document – Starting off first four weeks reading material.			Starting with Arete.
		ix.Webmaster – Uploaded all information on the member’s page. Starting 			to fix committee pages. Please send updated information to Claire. Let her 		know if you have any upcoming events you would like to see on the 			website.
		x. Scholarship/Collegiate Readership – Going to look through the history 			of the readership program and where it should go in the future. Will be 			reviewing the Student Senate Scholarship program and its 					effectiveness/popularity.
VI. Old Business
VII. Money Motions
	A. Flanagan – Moves $6200 on Senate promotional items to be spent no later than September 23, 2009 on 1000 bracelets, 1000 keychains, 1000 pens, 1000 postits, 1000 magnets 30 nametags and an extra $300 for shipping expenses.
		- Esfeld – Would like to move nametags separately from promotional 			items. Has huge concerns about spending this large amount on these items. 		If it was going to last several years, she would support it. This is students’ 		money. Moves to strike nametags from this money motion. Approved.
		- Gilmor – Every year we get $22,450 from the student body. This would 			cost us about ¼ of our budget for promotions. Thinks we could find better 		prices. Would like to see how this would affect the budget. Not 				comfortable passing this until a finalized budget is presented.
		- Potter – Likes the idea but thinks there are other ways we can promote 			the body than things people won’t really use. Would like to see more 			collaboration with other organizations. 
		- Esfeld – Would like to see this written into a resolution because it is such 		a large amount of money. Moves to table this money motion until a 			resolution is created that breaks down the motion and explains its 				reasoning.
		- Hogan – If you pass a resolution, a money motion is no longer necessary.
		- Flanagan – In light of the discussion, removes motion.
	B. Flanagan – Moves to spend no more than $150 on copies, paper materials, 	publicity and refreshments for the student representative to the board of governors 	selections committee no later than October 18, 2009.
		- Flanagan – this will go towards flyers, handbills and other publications. 			Offering cookies and lemonade to the committee for locking them in a 			room.
		- Gilmor – Are the posters already ordered? (No. Going to make 8 by 11 			posters with CSI paper instead of Printing Services)
	C. Robinson – Moves that no more than $860
		- Robinson - $780 for retreat center and $80 for food. We will be cooking 			our own meals.
		- Approved.
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
X. Other New Business
	A. Yu – Moves first reading of resolution concerning recycling bins
		- Yu – We passed out 700 recycling bins during Dawgfest and the 				Activities Fair. Believes we need more to hand out to all students who are 			interested in having one. 
		- Esfeld – grammatical changes.
		- Bates – You want these for the spring? (yes).
		- Gilmor – Likes the resolution but would like to see the budget come 			together before this is passed.
		- Esfeld – When can we expect to see the full budget?
		- Kwon – Would like to have it reviewed at Ex Comm and then approved 			on Sunday.
	B. Potter – Moves first reading of resolution regarding the conduct code and the 	sexual assault amnesty clause. 
		- Shelton – How do we know sexual assaults are under reported on 			Truman’s campus?
		- Potter – Taken from information given by the WRC.
		- Esfeld – Feels like the intention of the resolution gets lost. Understands 			what the resolution is supposed to convey but does not see it clearly. 			Perhaps move line 80 to the beginning of the whereas clauses and change 			it to say we support the decision of the BOG. 
		- Flanagan – Feels it is ok to include the policy we supported. Does not 			feel this is a negative resolution.
	
XI. Announcements
	A. Please recycle.

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on 09-20-09