Student Senate Minutes
September 20, 2009

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: Lizz Esfeld, Hillary Shoun
	B. Also attending the meeting was: Bike Co-op members, Index, Community 		Garden Project - Will Erker, Josh Mantooth
II. Preliminary Items
	A. Roll Call
	B. Corrections/Approval of the minutes
	C. Gallery introductions/business
		A. Bike Co-op – Request funding for the insurance $1400/year. The co-op 		is not yet self sustaining and still needs the body’s help. Would need to 			start charging a membership fee if they are required to cover the insurance 		cost on their own. 
			- Robinson – the co-op was supposed to be self sustaining by 				Spring 2008. How do you plan on making the co-op sustainable so 			we aren’t in this same position next fall?
			- Co-op – Planning on fixing broken bikes over this winter and 				then have a large surplus bike sale in the spring. Plans on 					expanding the co-op to the Kirksville community and charge them 				membership fees.
			- Serroque – Have you applied for FAC funding or attempted to do 			fundraising?
			- Co-op – The FAC wants funding for certain events. The bike 				co-op needs funding for day to day expenses. They won’t fund 				events directed at people outside of the Truman community.
			- Gyawali – How many students use your services?
			- Co-op – Not everyone signs log. Can range from 2 to 30 people a 			day. Trying to get more people in and interested.
		B. Community Garden – Intend on starting a small scale, student run 			garden on campus. See attached power point.
			- Serroque – What is the amount of funding needed?
			- Garden - $1700
			- Flanagan – Do you want a resolution endorsing it? What can we 				do?	
			- Garden – Resolution to support the effort. Would like the 					university to see that the student body believes this is worthwhile.
			- Gyawali – Plans for the longterm?
			- Garden – No better investment than good tools.
			- Heagney – Are you asking for money from Senate? (No. Looking 			for FAC and SILO funding).
			- Buckler – What’s the operation schedule for this?
			- Garden – Centered on benchmarks needed to get it off the 				ground. It will follow Roman season (after last frost until first 				frost). Would like to have workshops/training in between seasons.
			- Gilmor – Cool idea. Details will be hammered out in the 					resolution. Exciting.
			- Bates – There are long term university construction plans 					regarding that area. Have you spoken with administration? Would 				start by talking to the Campus Planner and Physical Plant.
	D. Guests of Honor
	E. Membership Issues
		A. Piel – Phil Raine has resigned as legislative director. Accepted. 
	F. Appointments/Administration of the Oath
		A. Flanagan – Dan Heagney as Diversity Committee Chair.
			- Heagney – Would like to be the Diversity Chair because he has 				come to understand oppression. Worked at institute for highschool 			youth teaching about diversity. Will bring something new to the 				position. Wants to focus on gender orientation, political diversity 				among other things. Looked through anti-discrimination policy and 			sexual orientation was under an entirely different section. Would 				like it to fall with race and gender. Excited about the position.
			- Closed session.
			- Appointed. 
		B. Hogan – Jared Hoffman as associate senator for academic affairs. 			Approved. 
	G. Changes/Approval of the agenda
III. Executive Reports
	A. Secretary – Attendance policy. 
	B. Treasurer – The budget as proposed has been passed. Currently over by $5000 	dollars. Would like to have discussion over where money can be cut.
	C. President – Member of the Week = Kristen Potter. Mandatory events coming 	up are retreat and President’s Roundtable. Thank you for joining Dr. Krueger 	Friday. Board of Governor’s selection committee is starting up. Money motion for 	nametags after elections. New members are coming! Get excited! Remember 	vote.truman.edu.
	D. Vice President – Trying to bring speakers to campus has been transferred to 	SAB. Please fill out travel registration form for retreat. Tentative retreat agenda 	emailed out this weekend. 
IV. Auxiliary Reports
	A. Faculty Advisor – No report. 
	B. Staff Advisor – Checked all GPAs. Kirksville on the Quad this . Oktoberfest 	will be October 2 from 4-7 on the Mall. $1 for a nice mug and all-you-can-drink 	rootbeer. Get there early.
	C. BOG – Awesome meetings over the past week. Presidential search moving 	along. 
	D. Speaker – Election is happening this week. September 22nd and 23rd. 	Encourage everyone to vote. Putting ballot together. Woo. 
V. Committee Reports
	A. Academic Affairs – Some progress with Professor Ratings. It links directly 	from the open course list. What your grade is based on question has been 	modified.
	B. External Affairs – Kirksville on the Quad is this Saturday. Bands, food, and 	fun. Rainsite in the HUB. Still working on the census event. Working on getting a 	government grant. 
	C. Student Affairs – This week is Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Senate will be 	involved on Friday with a table on the Mall passing out ribbons. Please sign up to 	help. Work your office hour outside. Panel discussion Tuesday at 6:30 in BH 	Little Theater. 
		i. Campus Diversity
		ii. Campus Environment – Have very passionate associate senators. First 			meeting last week. Things are going well.
	D. Technology
	E. Other Reports
		i. Historian
		ii. Communications Director – President’s Roundtable October 12th at 			6:30 in the Georgian Room. This will be mandatory. Please send your 			events in so they can be posted on the calendar. 
		iii. Webmaster – No report. 
		iv. Ethics Justice
		v. Recruitment
		vi. Legislative Director
		vii. Constitutional Review
		viii. Vision document – March 25th is the reveal date. It will be huge. 			Trying to get in touch with printing services. It will be anywhere between 			$2000-$5000 for all things vision-y.
		ix. Collegiate Readership – One time event is not something we want. 			Looking into something sustainable. 
		x. Scholarship Review – Putting out a survey. Having trouble writing 			unbiased questions.
VI. Old Business
	A. Yu – Moves for a second reading of the recycling bin resolution.
		- Yu – Edited syntax based on recommendations. Questions or concerns?
		- Gilmor – Moves to table this resolution while we discuss the budget. 
		- Shelton – This is already budgeted in? (Yes).
		- Gilmor – Can this be tabled until the budget is hammered out?
		- Yu – Would like to get them as soon as possible. 
		- Shelton – You said this is a lot for next year as well, right? (700 will be 			saved for next year). Can’t we pass a smaller motion for you to buy 100 			now and consider the majority of the motion later? (Yes).
		- Bates – It is better to buy them in bulk. It is cheaper ($3.00 vs. $8.00)
		- Gilmor – Is there a place to store these? (Recycling Center)
		- Shelton – Other than personal requests, when is the absolute earliest you 			need them? (Earth Week in April). Heard that people left a lot of these in 			their dorm rooms at the end of the year. Have you investigated this? 			(Howard, from the recycling center, picked up 30-40 from the dorms and 			redistributed them). 
		- Bates – Check with residence life because they have quite a few.
		- Gilmor – Really likes this resolution but moves to table this a couple 			weeks until the budget is finalized. 
	B. Potter – Moves five minutes of discussion over conduct code resolution and 	second reading.
		- Potter – Would like to keep proposed policy in the resolution. Would like 		to include cover letters with the resolution so there is no confusion over 			why the proposed policy is included.
		- Flanagan – Would like to have a smaller summary for the students to 			read on Friday instead of the entire resolution.
		- Heagney – What do we agree with?
		- Potter – We accept the current conduct code as appropriate but we still 			support this other proposal.
		- Shelton – Why is it necessary to include the proposal?
		- Potter – It is not specifically necessary but would like to inform students 			about what happened with the process.
		- Gilmor – Has a copy of this been sent to the body? (No). Everyone this 			resolution is directed too is familiar with the situation. Feels including it 			can be seen as hostile even though we don’t mean it that way.
		- Sumter – Include it as an appendix item instead of in the resolution itself.
		- Flanagan – Could include it as a footnote. 
		- Shelton – Would rather see what the resolution looks like with the 			appendix before voting on it. 
		- Gilmor – Not comfortable voting on this without seeing changes made 			from the first reading. There was a lot of content discussed. Thinks it 			would be worth to have a special meeting this week to approve it. Will not 		vote on it blindly. 
		- Hogan – This will be voted on via email after Ex Comm on Tuesday. 
VII. Money Motions
	A. Tomlinson – Moves that $120 be spent to purchase Kirksville Cash to be used 		as a survey incentive by the HES department in reviewing their pilot program to 	replace HLTH 175/176 to be spent within two days of survey administration.
		- Gilmor – Decided last year that incentives aren’t a good way to spend 			student money for Senate surveys. This is for an outside survey so it is a 			good use of funds. 
		- Passed. 
VIII. First Readings
IX. Discussion Items
	A. Sumter – Moves six minutes of discussion time regarding Presidential search.
		- Sumter – What would you like to see in our new president?
		- Gilmor – Keeping the Truman experience. 
		- Tomlinson – Be hesitant of people with very specific plans for the future 		of the university.
		- Hogan – Good item for discussion at the retreat.
X. Other New Business
	A. Flanagan – Moves ten minutes of discussion time for the proposed budget.
		- Gilmor – This does not consider the Vision Document or Scholarship 			committee. Some standing budget items are also not in here. There is a 			certain amount of vote needed to remove them fro the standing budget. 			We need to remove the SOC budget from the standing budget. $1000 of 			Diversity budget needs to go to HIV testing. 
		- Flanagan – Senate swag will be $1500 not $5000…
		- Kwon – This is just a raw proposal. Everything is up for discussion.
		- Tomlinson – Food for student forum in Academic Affairs can be cut 			from $1000 to $200-$250 dollars. 
		- Kwon – For ex comm. meeting on Tuesday, chairs need to look over 			their budgets and decide what can be cut.
		- Potter – Spent $10 on ribbons for Sexual Assault Awareness Week.
XI. Announcements

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Piel on