Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 03, 2004

Office of the Senate President University of Nevada, L a s Vegas Student Government MINUTES CSUNSENATE MEETING 34-01 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2003 •J CSUN SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A called the meeting to order at 7:00pm in the Moyer Student Union room 201. PRESENTATION OF COLORS BY UNLV'S ROTC COLOR GUARD National Anthem was performed by Catherine Schlimgen. SWEARING IN OF THE 34t h SESSION BY CSUN CHIEF JUSTICE MOAS SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A called the roll. The following Senators were present: SENATOR CIANCI, SENATOR FLINNER, SENATOR CORPUZ, SENATOR SOLDANO, SENATOR MULLINAX, SENATOR NISSEN, SENATOR THOMPSON, SENATOR HEEG, SENATOR CAZARES, SENATOR WEST, SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ, SENATOR DONNELLY, SENATOR MAYER, SENATOR SANTIAGO, SENATOR SUMNER, SENATOR MACDONALD, SENATOR CONWAY, SENATOR JIMENEZ, SENATOR HOLMQUIST, SENATOR ROSAS, and SENATOR MONTALTO. Quorum was met with 21 Senators present. SPECIAL ACTION ITEM: A vote will be taken to break the tie for the College of Sciences Senate seat. SENATOR FLINNER moved to allow the candidates to speak for no longer than two minutes, followed by question and answer, followed by discussion followed by a roll call vote. SENATOR CIANCI seconded the motion. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 21-0-0. CANDIDATE BITAR spoke on why he wanted to be the Senator for the College of Sciences. CANDIDATE CRAWFORD spoke on why he wanted to be the Senator for the College of Sciences. CANDIDATE CRAWFORD received the seat 12-9-0. He was then sworn in by CHIEF JUSTICE MOAS. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The following minutes are submitted for approval: CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS1® UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY ® LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 * (702) 895-3645 • FAX (702) 895-4606 33-31,33-32,33-33,33-34 No action was taken on the minutes. EXECUTIVE BOARD ANNOUNCMENTS CSUN VICE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE BROWDER: Announced that he is taking pictures outside and that he is also looking for six members for the Scholarship Committee. CSUN VICE PRESIDENT CHRISTIANSEN: No announcements. CSUN PRESIDENT MORADKAHN: Announced that the city of Las Vegas is looking for a freshman or sophomore to sit on a committee for the 50 year celebration. For the Academic Regents Advisor award let her know. Career services, is looking for one person to sit on a committee that will meet on November 13, 2003. Announced that the Chancellor is visiting November 13, 2003 between 11:30am and 12:30pm about tuition increase meeting. Let your students know. NSA will be dealing with publicity for that meeting. SENATOR NISSEN: Can it be any member? PRESIDENT MORADKAHN: It can be any CSUN member. SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A: SENATOR CIANCI took the initiative to get name badges and plaques by the end of the week and has a complete packet of bylaws. State of the Senate address was given by SENATE PRESIDENT AMESQUITA. REPORTS Senate Committee Reports None Faculty Senate/University Committee Reports SENATOR FLINNER: Tuition and fees. Business Manager Report BUSINESS MANAGER HILL: Old Senators need to pick up their checks and make sure their address is correct becasue that's where the W2 will be sent to. New ones need to fill out their W4 and Edocs. Read the expenditures as follows: BUDGET PAYEE AMOUNT COMMENTS E & P Motor Pool $87.30 Van rental for Rebel Ruckus 2 E & P Reprographics $25.15 241X76510 - Flyers for Rebel Ruckus E & P Reprographics $18,75 241X76510 - Flyers for Rebel Ruckus E & P Reprographics $60.00 241X76510 - Flyers for Rebel Ruckus ELECTIONS Reprographics $33.65 241X76510 - Laminated posters for Rebel Ruckus ELECTIONS Reprographics $16.95 241X76510-Copies NSA Reprographics $50.00 241X76510 - Undergrad registered list for Homecoming NSA Reprographics $278.45 241X76510 - "Say What" flyers OFFICE Reprographics $17.45 241X76510 - Business cards - Jeffrey Panchavinin OFFICE Reprographics $34.40 241X76510 - Business cards - Monica Moradkhan PUBLICATIONS Reprographics $356.00 241X76510 - Vagus Nerve submission packet SERVICES Reprographics $30.75 241X76510 - Recognition packets TOTAL $1,008.28 Director's Reports CSUN SERVICES DIRECTOR IZZOLO: Congrats on being Senators. My name is Anisa Izzolo. My job is a little different than the rest. I was a Hotel Administration Senator. I'm in charge of CSUN Services. Friday November 7 is my board meeting. Critical point with funding, it's important to have a Ways and Means chair to work with disbursements and her. Training on disbursements at Bubba at 10am should help with funding to make it run more smoothly. ELECTIONS DIRECTOR EVANS: Welcome and congratulations. By December 1 needs a E-board packet so she can submit it. If you have any opinions on the packet, she passed around information sheets, come meet if you want in sight on what it is supposed to be. Researching other colleges now to see what they do. Meeting with Rebel Card today. Trying to implement a plan to incorporate the system with the elections as a swiping system. Problem is it's very expensive. Her big thing is marketing needs a huge plan for E-board elections. How to run and vote for elections. Starting to work on master plan for it. Voter registration booth tomorrow from 10am-2pm. ENTERTAINMENT AND PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR LONG: This week we have a local regee band on Thursday, one on the 21 Soul Redempetion, Hawaiian band, major motion picture show, Pirates of the Carribean, which is donating $10,000.00. 22n d is the last tailgate of the year. Contract on the agenda for the truck. Needs one more board member. Last contract for Frank Fieser Steve Helbi needs to do contracts from now on this is why it's on this agenda now. Asking to work with him now. Don't teach him a lesson. Question up in office all the time. 3 VICE PRESIDENT CHRISTIANSEN gave NEVADA STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR TEGANO's report: NEVADA STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR TEGANO cannot make it to Senate. Her assistant director positon is open. November 20 at the Marjorie Barrick museum will be Dr. Roger Newman a post 9-11 speaker. In conjunction with law and honors college. Let people know. Happy with her board she is now very productive. Continue research on the book store. New board members on the agenda next week. Voter drive 9:30am-2:30pm in the MSU under the stairs. OFFICE OF STUDENT INFORMATION DIRECTOR TAYLOR: Welcome to the 34th session. Looking forward to working with you. I do most media, services such as email and web space and helps out with tech. Support. Website database and engine is finished today all info will be inputed. Bios at least a paragraph. Email him at jtaylor@unlv.edu use it for the Rebel Yell OSI page. We have a one page ad. Best way to get it in is email. Any organization is welcome. OFFICE OF STUDENT INFORMATION ASSISTANT DIRECTOR KOPF helped a lot with the website. New is just a news page. Has an xml site so news will be pulled instantly from it. What is CSUN is a general overview. Would like input. CSUN records most records are up in .pdf form. All Senate minutes, not Eboard. Directors has info, on them and how to get a hold of them. Senate is all about you guys. He will have it set up so that a student will log in and registar and the site will be personalized for them. Will have favorite choices and sports scores feeding off other xml sites. Has database where all information goes to a databae basket and puts the information on the screen so directors can post their own events. What took so long? Phpmyadmin data server took a lot of time and effort. My assistant has been coordinating the two. If they wanted to change the layout they could still change it and keep the info. Pictures are on the site as well. SENATOR MAYER: The site looks great. I like the direction you're taking it. PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR GEORGE: I'm in charge of publishing the Vagus Nerve. Last month we got over a 100 submissions. I'm very happy about the submissions. Two weeks ago I didn't have much. A guy came in with 330 pages of poems. Copies of issue one are still out. We have 14 boxes left. Will change the format completely. This issue will be a full size magazine. I will have a centerfold that is an architecture project. You can find me upstairs working on the magazine. I will be working with NEVADA STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR TEGANO for a writer's forum to promote the magazine. If you have ideas on how to get rid of them let me know. SENATOR FLINNER: What is the release date? PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR GEORGE: Last Wednesday of November. Whatever date that is. SENATOR WEST: Are you going to be more careful of the content? HS won't accept them cuz of inappropriate content. 4 PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR GEORGE: It's a magazine by college students, for college students. Can't look at what high schools do. And coming from a college you can't avoid it. Nothing that we would think would be offensive would be offensive to them. We won't publish 10,000 copies. Magazine will be 30 pages approximently. SENATOR MAYER: Where are they being distributed? PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR GEORGE: Colleges and magazine racks around campus. SENATOR MAYER: Can we hand them out? PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR GEORGE: That's something we could do. Why we couldn't is because of my board. Issue one was in the submission packets. SENATOR MAYER: Marketing scheme was pretty good. What other schemes are planned? Ad in paper and some flyers? PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR GEORGE: I'm going to take the same tacticts as before and set up a forum even without a well known writier. Go to classes too. Submission info, in this issue for issue three. SENATOR MAYER: It will gain steam. SENATOR FLINNER moved to waive Senate Bylaw 72, article III, C, 3 for duration of the semester. SENATOR NISSEN seconded the motion. SENATOR MAYER: UNLVision is the Nerve? Doesn't apply to all publications? Bylaw is WAIVED 22-0-0. Liaison Reports Greek Advisory None Multicultural Student Affairs JOESPH RIOS: We don't have this position anymore. NRoesnied ence Hall Association Student Athletics None 5 Student Body President's Advisory Council JESSICA ADLER: One NSA board member and I is going to be at the booth tomorrow for voter registration. Let people know. Bylaw 71 is the newsletter give the information to the undergrads about stuff going on in CSUN. Since the RY doesn't report anymore this is a good outlet. This is good submission. Need at least one Senator to submit something from each college. Hotline is still being tweaked. Pens are being distributed with the number on it. Any events you want on the line let her know. Will have an email addy too. Class Council will meet 18 November. Location TBA and a general meeting before the end of the semester. Student Health Advisory Committee VICE PRESIDENT CHRISTIANSEN: Wellness roadshow in front of the SHC. Still finalizeding arangements on AIDS day. Committee meets in the dugout every Friday. Immunization clinic is open every Tuesday from 8am-9:30am December 2 - January 20. ROTC CADET: We will be participating in the Veterans parade on the strip. Honors those who served and are still serving. Leadership Advisory Board SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A: We will have a meeting on Friday. One app for funding of leadership program. Whether disc or hash. Will fund up to 500 dollars. PUBLIC COMMENT ASHANTI GHOLAR, REBEL YELL ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN: There are problems. Two student member postions open for other than Senators. JOESPH RIOS, MULTICULTURAL STUDENT AFFAIRS: Tunnel of Oppression November 17-20. We're in the midst of planning and construction. Looking for volunteers. Takes 100 people over four days to put it together. You can find me in MSU 130 or leave a message at the info. desk. 48 hours to build the tunnel in. Need whatever time you can spare. If any are interested sign up downstairs or in room 130. UNFINSHED BUSINESS None NEW BUSINESS SENATOR MULLINAX moved to postpone new business action item A until Senate meeting 34-02. SENATOR CORPUZ seconded the motion. 6 a. Action Item: Approval of Peter Goatz to serve as the Senate Secretary for a term ending April 30, 2003. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR DONNELLY moved to approve new business action item B. SENATOR CIANCI seconded the motion. b. Action Item: Approval of a $8.00 per hour salary to be paid to the Senate Secretary plus a twelve (12) credit fee waiver divided equally between the fall and spring semesters. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 02-03 Wages and the Voluntary Transfer (Fee Waivers) account. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. SENATOR MULLINAX moved to waive Senate Bylaw Six for the duration of the meeting. SENATOR DONNELLY seconded the motion. SENATOR CRAWFORD: Does this apply to the Senate Secretary? SENATE PRESIDENT AMESQUITA: Yes. Bylaw is WAIVED 22-0-0. SENATOR FLINNER moved to amend the item striking, "6" and inserting, "12". SENATOR CONWAY seconded the amendment. b. Action Item: Approval of a $8.00 per hour salary to be paid to the Senate Secretary plus a six (6) credit fee waiver divided equally between the fall and spring semesters. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 02-03 Wages and the Voluntary Transfer (Fee Waivers) account. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Amendment PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR FLINNER moved to amend the item by stirking, "divided equally between the fall and spring semesters" and inserting, "for the spring semester". SENATOR CORPUZ seconded the amendment. b. Action Item: Approval of a $8.00 per hour salary to be paid to the Senate Secretary plus a six (6) credit fee waiver for the spring semester. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 02-03 Wages and the Voluntary Transfer (Fee Waivers) account. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Amendment PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. 7 SENATOR CORPUZ moved to amend the item by striking, "02-03" and inserting, "03- 04". SENATOR HEEG seconded the amendment. b. Action Item: Approval of a $8.00 per hour salary to be paid to the Senate Secretary plus a six (6) credit fee waiver for the spring semester. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 03-04 Wages and the Voluntary Transfer (Fee Waivers) account. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Amendment PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. New business action item B, as amended, PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR MACDONALD moved to approve new business action item C. SENATOR CIANCI seconded the motion. c. Action Item: Approval of $6,400.00 to be paid to the Multicultural Student Affairs Department of UNLV for the Cultural Leadership Retreat 2003. Cost to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 03-04 Senate Discretionary (Miscellaneous) account. As submitted by Senator Cianci. (See attachment 34.01.01) SENATOR ROSAS: Looking at the break down and the first thing I see is $650.00 for supplies? JOESPH RIOS: Where you see $646.00 is all inclusive with printing and folders. It includes whats listed plus more. Includes workshop materials. SENATOR ROSAS: What's the $186.00 for printed materials for? RIOS: You pay a great deal for a three-day reteat. I wish I could give you a more expansive supply list. SENATOR MAYER: Is their not enough budgeted for food. Is it provided in the rental agreement? RIOS: Potisi Pines provides meals. It includes two, dinners, lunches, breakfast. The money for food is for snacks, and vegeitarian foods. SENATOR MAYER: It says 40 students on the back. RIOS: We will take up 45 students. They can get a waiver for the $15.00 fee. Estimate in giving out scholarships. They shouldn't have to pay. SENATOR FLINNER: What is balance of the discretionary account? 8 BUSINESS MANAGER HILL: $24, 365.82. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ: Is that the rest of the fiscal year? SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A: Yes. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR CORPUZ moves to combine and approve new business action items D-I. SENATOR CIANCI seconded the motion. d. Action Item: Approval of $3,590.00 from the Rebel Road Trip to be moved from the General account to the Entertainment and Programming (Rebelpalooza) account. As submitted by Senator Arneson. e. Action Item: Approval of amount not to exceed $1,000.00 for Thom Kazz to perform on January 22, 2003. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY03-04 Entertainment and Programming (Movie Night) account. As submitted by Senator Arneson. f. Action Item: Approval of contract of Barry Van Wie for the Tailgate on November 22, 2003. As submitted by Senator Arneson. (See Attachment 34.01.02) g. Action Item: Approval of amount not to exceed $1,500.00 for Staging and Audio at Tailgate on November 22, 2003. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY03-04 Entertainment and Programming (Tailgate) account. As submitted by Senator Arneson. h. Action Item: Approval of contract for VW Major Motion Picture Show on November 13, 2003. As submitted by Senator Arneson. (See attachment 34.01.03) i. Action Item: Approval of contract for Franck Fiser for "Noonscene" on October 24,2003. As submitted by Senator Arneson. (See attachment 34.01.04) Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR DONNELLY moved to open nominations. SENATOR CAZARES seconded the motion. j. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Senate President Pro Tempore for the 34t h session. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR ROSAS moved to nominate SENATOR CIANCI. SENATOR HEEG seconded the nomination. SENATOR SANTIAGO moved to nominate SENATOR MACDONALD. SENATOR CONWAY seconded the nomination. There were no further nominations. SENATOR FLINNER moved to allow each candidate to speak for no more than five minutes, followed by question and answer, followed by discussion, followed by a roll call vote. SENATOR CRAWFORD seconded the motion. SENATOR MAYER: Can we ballot vote? SENATOR ROSAS moved to amend the motion by voting by ballot rather than a roll call vote. SENATOR NISSEN seconded the amendment. SENATOR MULLINAX: I understand the point of view, but I'm concerned of the professionalism of it. Thinks its bad practice. If we had to ballot each one so we wouldn't hurt someones feelings. SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A called a recess at 8:32pm. SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A called the meeting back to order at 8:40pm. SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A: We cannot do ballot voting. I rule the amendment Out of Order. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR MACDONALD spoke on why she wanted to be the Senate President Pro Tempore. SENATOR CIANCI spoke on why he wanted to be the Senate President Pro Tempore. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ: SENATOR MACDONALD, What two committees did you not sit on? SENATOR MACDONALD: Ways and Means and Rules and Ethics. SENATOR THOMPSON: SENATOR MACDONALD, do you know Roberts Rules? 10 SENATOR MACDONALD: Yes. SENATOR MAYER: What do you do to be certified? SENATOR MACDONALD: Have to take a test that is monitored. It's a three month process. SENATOR MULLINAX: You say you want to work with SENATE PRESIDENT AMESQUITA? SENATOR MACDONALD: I served on the Senate for a brief period of time. Together could be a great success. SENATOR CORPUZ: Why did you take a leave of absence? SENATOR MACDONALD: April 11 no longer had parent support and I had to drop. SENATOR CORPUZ: Do you feel that you can keep up with the changes that have been made since you were in? SENATOR MACDONALD: Yes. SENATOR ROSAS: Personally I think SENATOR CIANCI is qualified for the position. He's done an awesome job with the committee. I honestly think that a leave of absence is hard to come back from. SENATOR DONNELLY: Do you prefer one or the other? SENATE PRESIDENT AMESQUITA: SENATOR MACDONALD had great input in the retreat. What she did say is not having a working relationship. She has not approached me about the position. SENATOR CIANCI has approached me and I know how he works and appreciate him and I know how to react to him. SENATOR CORPUZ: Big discussion with the Ad hoc committee as a way of dealing with it. Why would you speak against an ad hoc committee to investigate the elections and to be against it did cause an issue last session. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ: SENATOR MACDONALD has accomplished a lot. I think SENATOR CIANCI is the best because he knows all of us personally as individuals. He can handle us as people. SENATOR CORPUZ: Seems kinda like the last Senate. There was a lot of changes so change was not a bad thing. If we don't know someone as well its not a knock against them. 11 SENATOR MAYER: From taking POS classes I've talked a lot about group think. New blood is not a bad thing. SENATOR CRAWFORD: The Pro Tempore has served us more than to serve the constitutes. They are served by having us serve. In a big a way as familiarity can be but it is a not a huge hurtle to overcome. As far as motivation to serve you are both highly motivated. A big example to serve was SENATOR CIANCI bylaws. There's a lot of work he's done to prepare even before he knew who was going to be on it. SENATOR NISSEN: As far as when I first becaome a Senator, we didn't have a Senate retreat. I was brand new and didn't know what I was doing. SENATOR CIANCI was the only one who took the initative to help me out and I continue to look up to him. SENATOR MACDONALD, I think she has great potential where I feel that SENATOR CIANCI has been in the last session and he has been chair, and set on committees where he should move up. SENATOR MACDONALD's leave of abscene should have her start as a chair or vice chair. I think both are awesome and I think we're lucky to have people so expeiranced. But the leadership role should be to SENATOR CIANCI. SENATOR CORPUZ: She was chair of a committee. SENATOR WEST moved to call the question. SENATOR HEEG seconded the motion. Motion PASSES 15-7-0. SENATOR MULLINAX, SENATOR NISSEN, SENATOR CONWAY, SENATOR MACDONALD, SENATOR MONTALTO, SENATOR HOLMQUIST, and SENATOR CIANCI oppose. The following Senators voted for SENATOR CIANCI: SENATOR CIANCI, SENATOR MULLINAX, SENATOR CRAWFORD, SENATOR NISSEN, SENATOR HEEG, SENATOR ROSAS, SENATOR CAZARES, SENATOR WEST, SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ, SENATOR DONNELLY, and SENATOR JIMENEZ. The following Senators voted for SENATOR MACDONALD: SENATOR FLINNER, SENATOR CORPUZ, SENATOR THOMPSON, SENATOR MAYER, SENATOR SANTIAGO, SENATOR SUMNER, SENATOR MACDONALD, SENATOR CONWAY, SENATOR MONTALTO, and SENATOR HOLMQUIST. SENATOR SOLDANO abstains. SENATOR CIANCI received the seat 11-10-1. SENATOR CRAWFORD moved to approve new business action item K. SENATOR ROSAS seconded the motion. k. Action Item: Approval of $500.00 per month stipend plus a twenty-four (24) credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring 12 semester for the Senate President Pro Tempore. Salary to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 03-04 Wages Account. Fee Waivers to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 03-04 Voluntary Transfers (Fee Waivers) account. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. SENATOR CIANCI moved to amend the item inserting after, "spring" "04". SENATOR CAZARES seconded the motion. k. Action Item: Approval of $500.00 per month stipend plus a twenty-four (24) credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring 04 semester for the Senate President Pro Tempore. Salary to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 03-04 Wages Account. Fee Waivers to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY 03-04 Voluntary Transfers (Fee Waivers) account. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Amendment PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. New business aciton item K, as amended, PASSES 21-0-1. SENATOR CIANCI abstains. SENATOR CIANCI moved to open nominations. SENATOR FLINNER seconded the motion. 1. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman of the Bylaws committee. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR NISSEN moved to nominate SENATOR SOLDANO. SENATOR THOMPSON seconded the nomination. SENATOR THOMPSON moved to nominate SENATOR FLINNER. SENATOR SANTIAGO seconded the nomination. There were no further nominations. SENATOR CIANCI moved to allow each candidate to speak for no more than two minutes, followed by question and answer, followed by discussion, followed by a roll call vote. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ seconded the motion. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0, SENATOR FLINNER spoke on why she wanted to be the Bylaws chairman. SENATOR SOLDANO spoke on why she wanted to be the Bylaws chairman. 13 SENATOR THOMPSON: SENATOR SOLDANO, do you have any experience as a chair? SENATOR SOLDANO: Yes, SENATOR CIANCI yielded me the chair on more than one occasion. SENATOR MULLINAX: Very few Senators are still around. Good to see Senators in leadership postions after they've served in other positions. The following Senators voted for SENATOR FLINNER: SENATOR FL1NNER, SENATOR CORPUZ, SENATOR THOMPSON, SENATOR MAYER, SENATOR SANTIAGO, and SENATOR MONTALTO. The following Senators voted for SENATOR SOLDANO: SENATOR CIANCI, SENATOR MULLINAX, SENATOR SOLDANO, SENATOR CRAWFORD, SENATOR NISSEN, SENATOR HEEG, SENATOR ROSAS, SENATOR CAZARES, SENATOR WEST, SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ, SENATOR DONNELLY, SENATOR SUMNER, SENATOR MACDONALD, SENATOR CONWAY, and SENATOR HOLMQUIST. SENATOR SOLDANO received the seat 16-6-0. SENATOR ROSAS moved to open nominations. SENATOR MACDONALD seconded the motion. m. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman of the Campus Safety and Awareness committee. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. SENATOR ROSAS moved to nominate SENATOR DONNELLY. SENATOR CRAWFORD seconded the nomination. There were no further nominations. SENATOR DONNELLY received the seat by UNANIMOUS ACCLAIMATION. SENATOR SOLDANO moved to open nominations. SENATOR MONTALTO seconded the motion. n. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman of the Constitutional Revision committee. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. SENATOR DONNELLY moved to nominate SENATOR CAZARES. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ seconded the motion. 14 There were no further nominations. SENATOR CAZARES received the seat by UNANIMOUS ACCLAIMATION. SENATOR HOLMQUIST moved to open nominations. SENATOR HEEG seconded the motion. o. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman of the CSUN Rules and Ethics committee. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ moved to nominate SENATOR MULLINAX. SENATOR DONNELLY seconded the nomination. SENATOR DONNELLY moved to nominate SENATOR CIANCI. SENATOR SOLDANO seconded the nomination. There were no further nominations. SENATOR CRAWFORD moved to allow each candidate to speak for no more than two minutes, followed by question and answer, followed by discussion, followed by a roll call vote. SENATOR CONWAY seconded the motion. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR MULLINAX spoke on why he wanted to be the Rules and Ethics chairman. SENATOR CIANCI spoke on why he wanted to be the Rules and Ethics chairman. SENATOR HEEG: Knowing that you're so busy as Pro Temp., don't you think it's better to have him run it? SENATOR CIANCI: Lots of people thought I couldn't handle three committees but I still did that. SENATOR DONNELLY: How long were you the chair? SENATOR CIANCI: I was appointed after Senator Zarndt. SENATOR MACDONALD: Pro Temp, and a committee chair shouldn't happen because it's too much. 15 SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ: Should let some of us to chair the committee. I think either candidate will do a great job. The following Senators voted for SENATOR MULLINAX: SENATOR CIANCI, SENATOR FLINNER, SENATOR CORPUZ, SENATOR SOLDANO, SENATOR CRAWFORD, SENATOR NISSEN, SENATOR THOMPSON, SENATOR ROSAS, SENATOR CAZARES, SENATOR WEST, SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ, SENATOR DONNELLY, SENATOR MAYER, SENATOR SANTIAGO, SENATOR SUMNER, SENATOR MACDONALD, SENATOR CONWAY, SENATOR JIMENEZ, SENATOR MONTALTO, and SENATOR HOLMQUIST. The following Senators abstained: SENATOR MULLINAX and SENATOR HEEG. SENATOR MULLINAX received the seat 20-0-2. SENATOR DONNELLY moved to open nominations. SENATOR MACDONALD seconded the motion. p. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve as the Chairman of the Ways and Means committee. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR DONNELLY moved to nominate SENATOR ROSAS. SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ seconded the nomination. SENATOR SUMNER moved to nominate SENATOR CORPUZ. SENATOR CONWAY seconded the motion. There were no further nominations. SENATOR CIANCI moved to allow each candidate to speak for no more than two minutes, followed by question and answer, followed by discussion, followed by a roll call vote. SENATOR HEEG seconded the motion. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR CORPUZ spoke on why he wanted to be the Ways and Means chairman. SENATOR ROSAS spoke on why he wanted to be the Ways and Means chairman. SENATOR MAYER: Why would you be the better guy? 16 SENATOR ROSAS: Lack of experience would make me a lesser candidate. I like to take charge of things and run with it. SENATOR NISSEN: Both of you have experience with numbers, what do you have with budgets? SENATOR ROSAS: The numbers I was working with was from a grocery store chain. We just budgeted the store. Working with the million dollar budget as a whole. SENATOR CORPUZ: I was president of two different organizations and had to work with treasures and saw the actual budget from last time. SENATOR CIANCI: Ways and Means has not met since passing the budget. SENATOR THOMPSON: Who was the chair? SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A: Former SENATOR GOATZ. The following Senators voted for SENATOR CORPUZ: SENATOR FLINNER, SENATOR MULLINAX, SENATOR THOMPSON, SENATOR MAYER, SENATOR SANTIAGO, SENATOR SUMNER, SENATOR MACDONALD, SENATOR CONWAY, SENATOR JIMENEZ, and SENATOR HOLMQUIST. The following Senators voted for SENATOR ROSAS: SENATOR CIANCI, SENATOR SOLDANO, SENATOR CRAWFORD, SENATOR NISSEN, SENATOR HEEG, SENATOR CAZARES, SENATOR WEST, SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ, SENATOR DONNELLY, and SENATOR MONTALTO. The following Senators abstained: SENATOR CORPUZ and SENATOR ROSAS. Vote was tied 10-10-2. SENATE PRESIDENT AMES QUIT A broke the tie by voting for SENATOR ROSAS. SENATOR ROSAS received the seat 11-10-2. SENATOR CIANCI moved to open nominations. SENATOR DONNELLY seconded the motion. q. Action Item: Election of six (6) Senators to serve on the Scholarship Committee. As submitted by Vice President Pro Tempore Browder. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR CORPUZ, moved to nominate SENATOR SUMNER. SENATOR CONWAY seconded the motion. 17 SENATOR MULLINAX moved to nominate SENATOR DANESHFOROOZ. SENATOR ROSAS seconded the motion. SENATOR JIMENEZ moved to nominate SENATOR CIANCI. SENATOR THOMPSON seconded the nomination. SENATOR SOLDANO moved to nominate SENATOR WEST. SENATOR CIANCI seconded the nomination. SENATOR CORPUZ moved to nominate SENATOR THOMPSON. SENATOR DONNELLY seconded the nomination. SENATOR NISSEN moved to nominate SENATOR FLINNER. SENATOR THOMPSON seconded the nomination. SENATOR CONWAY moved to nominate SENATOR JIMENEZ. SENATOR CIANCI seconded the motion. There were no further nominations. SENATOR CRAWFORD moved to amend the item striking, "six (6)" and inserting, "seven (7)". SENATOR THOMPSON seconded the amendment. q. Action Item: Election of seven (7) Senators to serve on the Scholarship Committee. As submitted by Vice President Pro Tempore Browder. Amendment PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. New business action item Q, as amended, PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR CIANCI moved to open nominations. SENATOR DONNELLY seconded the motion. r. Action Item: Election of one (1) Senator to serve on the Rebel Yell Advisory Board. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. Motion PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 22-0-0. SENATOR CIANCI moved to nominate SENATOR-ELECT FRIEDLIEB. SENATOR ROSAS seconded the nomination. SENATOR MACDONALD moved to nominate SENATOR MAYER. SENATOR FLINNER seconded the nomination. 1R There were no further nominations. SENATOR MULLINAX: How many Senators are on the board? SENATE PRESIDENT AMESQUITA: One, but two general members. SENATOR MACDONALD moved to allow each candidate to speak for no more than two minutes, followed by question and answer, followed by discussion, followed by a roll