Student Senate Minutes

I. General meeting of the Student Senate was called to order by Speaker Hogan at 6:00 PM.
	A. Absent from the meeting were members:
	B. Also attending the meeting was: Assistant Registrar
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business
		A. Registrar – Saves 14 reams of paper by eliminating paper RAC codes. 			Advisors will meet with students and then check a box on Truview 			allowing the student to register. 
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary – No report.
	B. Treasurer – No report.
	C. President – Four members of the week: Molly Troop, Samantha Goode, Joey 	Shelton and Tom Hogan. Meeting with President Krueger pushed back until after 	break. Last week 25 alumni presidents attended an event held by President 	Krueger. President’s Roundtable is tomorrow. Staff Council is this Wednesday at 	10 o’clock. Next Sunday, JoEllen will be bringing the slate of three candidates for 	the BOG rep position.
	D. Vice President – No report. 
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor – Yay for chips at the meeting. Great idea. Being really active 	and having people at committee meetings is really good. We’re trying to figure 	out how to get through the coming years and budget cuts. Drive safe over break.
	B. Staff Advisor – No report. 
	C. BOG – Busy weekend with homecoming activities and many meetings. Big 	buckets of money will probably be absent in the next few years from the state. 	Trying to trim another $800,000 out of the budget. Enrollment is down. Ryle 	renovations are underway. There is a lack of interest in living in Ryle. Planning to 	offer a two year contract for those going into Ryle next year. Same rate for one 	year while it was under renovation and one year when it is fresh and new. 	President’s dinner was this weekend. Board of Governors selection committee has 	been meeting and there will be three names presented on Sunday for your vote. 
	D. Speaker – Meeting next week will be at 7 PM business only.
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs – Thank you for passing the resolution. First curriculum 	forum did not go well due to low attendance. Needs student input! MG 2001 on 	Wednesday from 3:00-4:30 is the second forum. Please attend! Survey will go out 	the week after break.
	B. External Affairs – Had alumni event on Saturday. Woo.
	C. Student Affairs – Had smoking forum last week. Feedback forms are in 	Kristyn’s mailbox if you would like to read them. Had a very good turn out and it 	was very respectful.
		i. Campus Diversity – Working on what to put in the Vision Document 			about diversity. Feel free to send ideas to Dan. 
		ii. Campus Environment – No report.
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director – Tomorrow is the President’s Roundtable. 			The final number is over 140 attending. Please arrive at 5:15. Dress is 			business attire. 
		iii. Webmaster – No report.
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
VI. Old Business
	A. Yu – Moves second reading of Bike Co-Op funding resolution.
		- Yu – Made some major revisions. People have concerns on how the bike 		co-op manages funds. Wants to give the Co-Op funding for as long as 			necessary on the grounds that a Chief Financial Officer is appointed to 			oversee their treasury and work towards the financial sustainability of the 			co-op. Would recruit from the business organizations and look for 				someone who is environmentally savvy. This will allow the members of 			the bike co-op to focus on fixing bikes without worrying about financial 			issues. The officer would report to the body.
		- Tomlinson – Would not pick the most environmentally savvy person but 		the most business savvy. Would like the Chief Financial Officer to report 			to the treasurer.
		- Robinson – Do we need to create a new position? 
		- Yu – This position will be picked by the President and Vice President of 			Senate. 
		- Robinson – The Co-Op was started with the help of Senate. Does not 			understand why it is our responsibility to keep funding it.
		- Yu – It is a great asset to the Truman community. If Senate does not pick 		it up, it will fall apart and we would be doing a greater disservice to the 			University.
		- Robinson – Has the co-op looked into alternate forms of funding. Maybe 		asking different university offices to donate.
		- Yu – One year the co-op received a $1000 grant from the Walmart. 
		- Robinson – Offers a friendly amendment to amend the amount to $800.
		- Alberts – There are still some grammar and layout issues. As it reads 			now, the president appoints the CFO and can fire them. You should send 			copies to more people.
		- Gilmor – The Walmart grant was not for insurance but ended up being 			used for insurance. 
		- Yu – Plan from two years ago included taking one dollar from the 			activities fee. It would give four times the amount needed for the 				insurance. Feels that is unnecessary.
		- Tomlinson – Moves to insert after line 38 A) be selected in the same 			manner as all chairman. B) To serve for a term concurrent to all other 			chairman. C) To pursue outside funding. Add “by reporting to the 				treasurer” at the end of line 41.
			- Tomlinson – Based on Dr. Albert’s statement about appointment, 			not entirely sure if the part regarding selection is viable.
			- Heagney – Does this mean the person would be part of this body?
			- Tomlinson – No but they would apply in the same way as any 				member of Senate does and their term lasts the same amount of 				time.
			- Amendment passes. 
		- Passes 18 – 0 – 1 
VII. Money Motions
VIII. First Readings
	A. Potter – Moves first reading of a revised smoking resolution
		- Potter – Had a forum on Wednesday. Over 100 students showed up and 			88 of them filled out a feedback form. There were 115 wall posts on the 			Facebook event page. 
		- Robinson – On JoEllen’s behalf, she is opposed to this resolution. She 			feels it does not represent the opinions of the students. She feels the 			majority of students are in support of designated areas or smoke free 			campus. Disagrees with President Flanagan. Working with Dan and 			Kristyn, he believes this reflects student opinion and it is a good direction 			for the university to go.
		- Esfeld – Likes the compromise of the resolution. Do you say anything 			about the rights of smokers on campus? (No). 
		- Gywali – Was at the forum. Likes the compromise proposed by the 			resolution.
		- Heagney – Would not include a section about smoker’s rights because 			there are so many different opinions on the matter. It might divide people.
		- Alberts – Might want to include the city policy. Thinks a smoke-free ban 		is very unlikely because it would have to go through faculty senate, staff 			council and the board. Thinks those students that were against the smoking 		ban would be in favor of this compromise.
	B. Tomlinson – Moves first reading of the resolution supporting the dissolution of 	RAC codes.
		- Tomlinson – Costs less money and has less impact on the environment.
		- Gilmor – Seems it is self-explanatory. Never liked RAC codes. And it 			saves paper. Yay.
		- Esfeld – Moves to suspend the standing rules to vote on this tonight.
		- 19 – 0 – 0 
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Kwon – Moves five minutes of discussion on the university speaker.
		- Kwon – Special events chair of SAB. Will be bringing the university 			speaker with $25,000 from the University and $20,000 from SAB. Has a 			short abbreviated list but would like people’s opinions on the speakers. 			Wants to appeal to both faculty and students. 
		- Esfeld – Is there any criteria for picking the speaker?
		- Kwon – Looking towards the more political speakers. Wanted to bring 			Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs but he costs $100,000. Anderson Cooper is on 		the list!
	B. Robinson – Moves five minutes of discussion on Truman Values.
		- Robinson – Wants to gauge everyone’s opinions regarding the most 			recent set of values to the original list. 
		- Alberts – If you do like them, speak up. These will be very important as 			we move forward. If we do take a large budget cut, things that fall under 			these values will be preserved. 
		- Esfeld – Feels they are too vague and could apply to any university in the 		U.S. Not sure how to be more specific. Need to find something unique 			about Truman. 
		- Schueler – Could you read the values?
		- Tomlinson – Feels these values mean less than the 1994 version. 
		- Heagney – Seems like they just included prettier words. Would like to 			see some focus on the environment or a commitment to it. 
	C. Robinson – Moves five minutes for the OAF amendment discussion.
		- Robinson – At last week’s Executive meeting, Jerry Wolmering 				(athletics director) attended and brought up two conflicting resolutions 			passed by Senate. One said the athletics fee would be reviewed in the 			Spring and one that said the Fall. Decided to put the review of the athletics 		fee under the direction of OAF.	
		- Serroque – Which resolution came first, spring or fall? That should 			dictate which one we follow.
		- Hogan – Need to make a clarifying statement but not in the form of an 			amendment. Write a new resolution. 
		- Williams – What are we trying to do within the resolution?
X. Other New Business
XI. Announcements

Adjourned at 7:22 PM.
Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on October 11, 2009