Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 28, 1997

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President TERRY A. MOORE STUDENT SENATE MEETING 27-19 Wednesday, May 28,1997 Beam 242 6:30p.m. Leia Fleischman Fine Arts Joaquin Trujillo Business Heather Anderson Business Robert Solomon Education William Price Urban Affairs Margaret J. Persch, R.N. Health Sciences Kyle Lopez Student Development Frank Lideros Engineering Steven Amend Business Ben Campbell Student Development Stephanie Gonzales Liberal Arts ilesia Hayes iucation Nicole Lehman Education Joey Song Business Matt Stark Liberal Arts Stephanie Poole Hotel Administration Ildiko Lutar Student Development Matthew Knutson Hotel Administration David Shapiro Sciences r o I V cx; I. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS V. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS A. Senate Committee Reports B. Faculty Senate Committee Reports C. Residence Hall Liaison Report D. Business Manager Report VI. PUBLIC COMMENT[in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) student of the Hotel College to fill the vacant Hotel Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) B. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) student of the Urban Affairs College to fill the vacant Urban Affairs Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) C. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) student of the Liberal Arts College to fill the vacant Liberal Arts Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) D. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to the Ways and Means Committee. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) E. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to the Bylaws Committee. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) F. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to fill an open seat on the Faculty Senate Scholarship Committee. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) G. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to fill an open seat on the Faculty Senate Admission committee CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of authorizing the 1997-98 CSUN Executive Board to administer expenditures of up to $20,000.00 for emergency items from May 28, 1997 to August 25, 1997. B. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) Senator to the vacant position o a - th e Rebel Yell Advisory Board. -« r-o F-O C. Action Item Discussion/Approval of Minority Science Student program funding request of $500.00. (See Attachment 1.) CO -ET D. Action Item Discussion/Approval of UNLV chess club funding request of $500.00. (See Attachment 2.) rsl' CD E. Action Item Nomination/Election of one (1) student as a CSUN representative for the Dean Search Committee for the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. (See Attachment 3.) IX. EXECUTIVE BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SUMMATIONS X. GOOD OF THE SENATE XI ADJOURNMENT Posted in accordance with Nevada Open Meeting Law(N.R.S. 241.000) at the following locations: Moyer Student Union, Frank & Estella Beam Hall, Flora Dungan Humanities, Classroom Building Complex and Thomas Beam Engineering Complex. , 0 58 fft "ft to » j e (j~ttacflim enJ- 3 UNIV UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS A ' J ^ c - •lay 5, 1997 _ -r- ^ S: ^ — ^ ^ ]oe Mills, President CSUN Terry Moore, Senate President CSUN n /; I L/ -ROM: Douglas P. Ferraro p f r l t f f Provost <v ° lEs Selection of Search Committee Representative i am in the process of forming a committee that will be charged with searching for a Dean of the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. The UNL V Bylaws call for the committee to include "one student democratically elected by the CSUN Senate." Thus, at earliest convenience could you please proceed with an election to determine a CSUN representative and provide me with the person's name along with details on how he or she may be contacted by phone, mail, and/or e-mail? 1 realize that it may be difficult to provide me with the name of an elected representative at this time of the academic year; please be assured that an election can be held later, inasmuch as the majority of the search process will be conducted this fall after students and faculty return to campus. However, until a representative is formally elected by the Senate, one of you may wish to attend an organizational meeting of the search committee that I have set for this Thursday, May 8, at 3:00 p.m. in the President's Conference Room. If you have questions, please call my assistant, Nancy Flagg, at Ext. 3888. Thank you. DPF:nmf Office of the Provost 4505 Maryland Parkway • Box 451002 • Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-1002' (702) 895-3301 • FAX (702) 895-4054 STUDENT SENATE MEETING 27-19 SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA Wednesday, May 28,1997 Beam Hall Room 242 6:30 p.m. i—? CO CO VIII. NEW BUSINESS C-4-.o cOzo a s : Hc . o m o O, TO ^arg 33- oOa: »• -n F. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) student to fill the vacant Health Sciences Senate seat. University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President MINUTES SENATE MEETING 27-19 Monday, May 28,1997 Beam Hall Room 242 6:30 p.m. CO „r_ w -.r—. ^v- rn O O 35 ~ I » -N . -I C D O I. CALL TO ORDER: SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE called Senate Meeting 27-19 to order at 6:34 p.m.. II. ROLL CALL: PRESENT ABSENT Steven Amend Matthew Knutson (unexcused) Heather Anderson Frank Lideros (excused) Ben Campbell Ildiko Lutar (excused) Leia Fleischman Stephanie Poole (excused) Stephanie Gonzales Joey Song (unexcused) Alesia Hayes Nicole Lehman Kyle Lopez Margaret Persch William Price David Shapiro Robert Solomon Matt Stark Joaquin Trujillo III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion to approve Minutes for Senate Meeting 27-18 made by SENATOR PRICE, seconded by SENATOR HAYES. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN motioned to correct her comments on page 18: "She also thanked SENATOR LOPEZ for the Pro-Tempore nomination, but she has applied for another position in CSUN." Move into a vote. Motion to Approve Minutes for Senate Meeting 27-17 as corrected passes 13-0-0. ANNOUNCEMENTS: CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • U s VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE PERSCH passed around a name tag list and asked eryone if they had not received a name tag to wear during functions to sign the list. SENATOR HAYES suggested placing the names of people who were not present on the list as well. V. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS: A. Senate Committee Reports: 1. SENATOR TRUJILLO apologized for not calling a Bylaws or Rules and Ethics meeting for the past 2 weeks. He announced that Bylaws will have a meeting next Thursday at 7:30 p.m.. 2. SENATOR PRICE announced that Ways and Means is scheduled to meet this Monday, June 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pida Plaza. B. Faculty Senate Committee Reports: C. Residence Hall Liaison Report: JENNIFER PECK announced that they attended their National Residence Hall Association Conference and they won the national award for their National Residence Hall Honorary and beat out 1000's of schools for this honor. //Applause.// She was also glad to announce that she was also asked chair a regional committee. She then added that they are losing 3/4 of their professional staff and The association is helping the new professionals adjust to their new environment. Lastly, she stated that they are doing a lot of programming within their halls. E. Business Manager Report: BUSINESS MANAGER JIM MOORE read the expenditures: $98.92 - phone bill, $1.60 - postage, $40.10 - for water, $360.00 - lost tables and chairs from the Elections, $15.55 - battery and chord repair on the cart, $280.00 - photographer and supplies for the E-Board inauguration, $240.00 - staples for copier, $140.00 - 4 individuals to attend a parliamentary seminar, $500.00 - letterhead paper, $21.00 - cap and gown for CSUN President at the Graduation ceremonies, and $240.00 - E-Board business cards. In response to questions, he does not have a lot of history on the lost tables and the first notice he received was when we received a bill for it; he stated "in order to get some of these maintenance to set up the tables and chairs for the election, you have to fill out an IDR authorizing them to do that if you wind up losing them, and they said that when they went around to collect the tables and chairs they couldn't find any or at least $360.00 worth." He stated that he has not talked to the Elections Committee. He also announced that they did not get the E-docs signed and turned in on time, so there in all likelihood will be no paychecks and there will be paychecks for April and May at the end of June. In response to another question, SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE added that they did not have signature authority. DON FULLER, the General Manager of KUNV, discussed the budget and whether they -would meet the budget for 1996-97. He referred to a meeting between himself, Anne Kingsley, and 2 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 Jim Moore; and stated that the outcome per Anne was that Jim was satisfied with the results of the formation given and that they looked OK for 1996-97. He also stated that according to numbers Tie's receiving, it looks that way to him also. He added that they took some money from appropriations and paid some bills. BUSINESS MANAGER JIM MOORE made note that there wasn't a 3-way meeting, but rather a 2 way meeting. He stated that KUNV will still be $10,000.00 short and that he was only satisfied that information hadn't changed. DON FULLER also stated that prior to a memo dated April 16, they did have a meeting with Anne and noted that they would take approximately $7000.00 out the CPB grant money and pay the mountain transmitter sight, which they did; and also that if necessary, by mid June they'd go back into the CPB account and take more funds out: $7,000.00 - 8,000.00 to offset the possibility of a $10,000.00 deficit. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN stated that "I'm sure at another time when we get to that subject that we'll have questions." VI. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) student of the Hotel College to fill the vacant Hotel Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) Motion to Remove from the Table made by SENATOR TRUJILLO, seconded by SENATOR STARK. Move into a vote. Motion to Remove from the Table passes 13-0-0. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announced that MILLET CONCEPCION had to withdraw her nomination. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 2 minutes, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 2 minutes, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote passes 13-0-0. BROOK BAUMKIRCHNER, MICHAEL J. BERK, and DONNA MILLS introduced themselves followed by a brief question and answer period. 3 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 SENATOR ANDERSON pointed out that both MICHAEL J. BERK and DONNA MILLS mained throughout the entire last Senate meeting. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE added that BROOK BAUMKIRCHER was out of town during the last Senate meeting. The Senate moved into a Roll Call Vote. MICHAEL J. BERK received the seat for the vacant Hotel seat by a vote of 11-6-4. SENATOR SOLOMON enters at 6:45 p.m.. B. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) student of the Urban Affairs College to fill the vacant Urban Affairs Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) Motion to Remove from the Table made by SENATOR AMEND, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to Remove from the Table passes 14-0-0. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 2 minutes, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 2 minutes, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote passes 14-0-0. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announced that HEATHER HAMILTON had to humbly decline because she unexpectedly got an internship in California, and she wanted to express her thanks to everyone for considering her for the position. JOSEPH COX, GLENN OBSENARES, BRADLEY SMITH, DIANNA MASHBURN, and LEAH GRIFFITH introduced themselves followed by a brief question and answer period. SENATOR ANDERSON pointed out that JOSEPH COX, LEAH GRIFFITH, and ERIC COYLE remained throughout the entire last Senate meeting. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE stated that one candidate was sick and some other candidates had appointments right after the meeting. The Senate moved into a Roll Call Vote. LEAH GRIFFITH received the seat for the vacant Urban Affairs seat by a vote of 9-4-1. C. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) student of the Liberal Arts College to fill the vacant Liberal Arts Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) 4 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 Motion to Remove from the Table made by SENATOR PRICE, seconded by SENATOR "AMEND. Move into a vote. Motion to Remove from the Table passes 14-0-0. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 2 minutes, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 2 minutes, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote passes 14-0-0. SLOANE ARNOLD, STEWART RHODES, CHRIS AUGUSTIN, and RANDY MILMEISTER introduced themselves followed by a brief question and answer period. The Senate moved into a Roll Call Vote. RANDY MILMEISTER received the seat for the vacant Liberal Arts seat by a vote of 8-5-1. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE called for a recess at 7:25 p.m. to allow the new Senators to be sworn in by CHIEF JUSTICE MOSS. He then called the Senate back to order at 7:30 p.m.. The mate now sits at 17 Senators present. D. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to the Ways and Means Committee. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announced that this item was out of order. E. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to the Bylaws Committee. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) Motion to Remove from the Table made by SENATOR GONZALES, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to Remove from the Table passes 17-0-0. Motion to Nominate SENATOR HAYES made by SENATOR ANDERSON, seconded by SENATOR LEHMAN. Motion to Nominate SENATOR BERK made by SENATOR STARK, seconded by SENATOR LEHMAN. Motion to Nominate SENATOR GRIFFITH made by SENATOR GONZALES, seconded by SENATOR PRICE. 5 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE closed nominations. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 1 minute, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to allow each candidate to speak no more than 1 minute, followed by a limited Question and Answer, followed by Division of the House Roll Call Vote passes 17-0-0. SENATORS HAYES and BERK declined their nominations. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE pointed out that all new Senators need to serve on at least 2 committees. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announced that the seat went to SENATOR GRIFFITH by unanimous acclimation. F. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to fill an open seat on the Faculty Senate Scholarship Committee. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-18.) Motion to Move Out of the Order of the Day into New Business item F made by SENATOR PRICE, but SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE passed around a memo because JENNIFER MARSHALL was unable to be present at the meeting and SENATOR PRICE then withdrew his motion. Motion to Remove from the Table made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR GRIFFITH. Move into a vote. Motion to Remove from the Table passes 17-0-0. Motion to Nominate SENATOR MILMEISTER made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR HAYES. Motion to Close Nominations made by SENATOR TRUJILLO, seconded by SENATOR PERSCH. Move into a vote. Motion to Close Nominations passes 17-0-0. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announces that the seat is SENATOR MILMEISTER's by unanimous acclimation. 6 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 G. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) Senator to fill an open seat on the Faculty Senate Admission Committee Motion to Nominate SENATOR GRIFFITH made by SENATOR AMEND, seconded by SENATOR SOLOMON. Motion to Nominate SENATOR BERK made by SENATOR HAYES, seconded by SENATOR STARK. SENATOR ANDERSON informed both candidates that this is something that meets over the summer a lot and asked if they are available in the middle of the day on Mondays and Fridays. They both affirmed that they would be available. Motion to allow each candidate to speak for 1 minute, followed by a Division of the House Roll Call Vote made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. SENATORS GRIFFITH and BERK spoke briefly before the Senate. SENATOR ANDERSON explained what the committee entails: The Senate moved into a Roll Call Vote. SENATOR BERK received the seat for the vacant seat on the Faculty Senate Admission Committee by a vote of 8-7-3. (SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE voted to break the tie.) VIII, NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of authorizing the 1997-98 CSUN Executive Board to administer expenditures of up to $20,000.00 for emergency items from May 28, 1997 to August 25, 1997. Motion to Approve made by SENATOR SOLOMON, seconded by SENATOR GRIFFITH. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN stated that one of the emergencies (over the summer) consisted of a trip and stated that the Senate is here and makes quorum and doesn't have any problems meeting in the summer, therefore she doesn't see any reason to let this go ahead and pass. She stated that if necessary we can have an emergency Senate meeting. SENATOR SOLOMON agreed. In response to a question, SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE stated that the amount was changed from $50,000.00 2 years ago to $20,000.00. SENATOR TRUJILLO stated that the Senate might also want to consider delegating emergencies for buyers to the purchase of hardware to prevent the measures that have happened in the past. 7 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 In response to another question, SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE stated that the authority for iding what the emergency means lies within the Executive Board as a whole. SENATOR HAYES stated that she wants to be able to put her vote in for approving anything for KUNV, therefore she would choose to have it come to the Senate. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN said the same. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE passes the gavel over to SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE PERSCH to be able to speak on the issue. He stated that "the reasoning behind this is it is not a 'rubber stamp' and it's not so KUNV can have their deficit paid for; it's something we've done every year I've been involved in Student Government...yes, it has been abused in the past." Then, speaking for the Executive Board, he said "it is not something that's going to be abused or used frivolously. If something over $500.00 emergency happens (something to keep Student Government afloat, a major expenditure, or something that halts operations for KUNV)" the E-Board will use the appropriation. He also stated, "I'll give you my word. If I break it, impeach me, but we will not misspend this appropriation." Lastly, he stated that calling an emergency meeting would be very difficult. A brief discussion ensued about concerns about past events and the definition of an emergency. Motion to Call to Question made by SENATOR ANDERSON, seconded by SENATE 1ESIDENT MOORE. Move into a vote. Motion to Calling the Question passes 14-2-1. (SENATORS FLEISCHMAN and STARK opposed, SENATOR CAMPBELL abstained.) Move into a vote. Motion to Approve the Main Motion passes 10-4-3. (SENATORS SOLOMON, GRIFFITH, FLEISCHMAN, and HAYES opposed, SENATORS ANDERSON, GONZALES, and LEHMAN abstained.) B. Action Item: Appointment of one (1) Senator to the vacant position on the Rebel Yell Advisory Board. DARRYL RICHARDSON stated that the Advisory Board is made up of a couple of students, a couple of faculty members, and a couple of members of the staff; it does the hiring of editor every year, takes care of major expenditures, and just keeps the paper going on the right track. He stated that it is way for CSUN to have a voice in the broad picture of the Rebel Yell. In response to a question, he stated that the CSUN member does have voting power. SENATOR PRICE nominated SENATOR LOPEZ, seconded by SENATOR HAYES. SENATOR TRUJILLO nominated SENATOR GRIFFITH, seconded by SENATOR \EISCHMAN. 8 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 Motion to Close Nominations made by SENATOR PRICE, seconded by SENATOR 7HMAN. Move into a vote. Motion to Close Nominations passes 17-0-0. SENATORS LOPEZ and GRIFFITH spoke briefly before the Senate. The Senate moved into a Roll Call Vote. SENATOR LOPEZ received the seat on the Rebel Yell Advisory Board by a vote of 8-7-2. C. Action Item Discussion/Approval of Minority Science Student program funding request of $500.00. (See Attachment 1.) SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announced that New Business items C and D are out of order because they were not passed by Ways and Means yet. D. Action Item Discussion/Approval of UNLV chess club funding request of $500.00. See above. E. Action Item Nomination/Election of one (1) student as a CSUN representative for the Dean Search Committee for the William F.Harrah College of Hotel Administration. SENATOR LEHMAN nominated SENATOR BERK, seconded by SENATOR LOPEZ. SENATOR LOPEZ nominated STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT JOE MILLS, seconded by SENATOR PERSCH. SENATOR AMEND nominated SENATOR POOLE, seconded by SENATOR HAYES. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE closed nominations. SENATOR BERK, SENATOR LOPEZ, and PRESIDENT MILLS spoke briefly before the Senate and answered questions. SENATOR AMEND withdrew his nomination for SENATOR POOLE because she will not be here during the summer. SENATORS SOLOMON, ANDERSON, and PERSCH pointed out that it would probably be a lengthy commitment, but worthwhile. The Senate moved into a Roll Call Vote. SENATOR BERK won the election to represent CSUN for the Dean Search Committee for the William F. Harrah College of Hotel ' dministration by a vote of 9-6-2. 9 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE informed SENATOR BERK that he'd be forwarding his ime to the Provost Office; he asked him to check his box in the Student Government office quite regularly. F. Action Item: Nomination/Election of one (1) student to fill the vacant Health Sciences Senate seat. SENATOR AMEND nominated JENNIFER MARSHALL, seconded by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. Motion to Close Nominations made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. Move into a vote. Motion to Close Nominations passes 16-0-1. (SENATOR SOLOMON abstained.) Motion to Table made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR PRICE. Move into a vote. Motion to Table item F passes 12-3-2. (SENATORS LEHMAN, AMEND, and STARK opposed, SENATORS ANDERSON and PRICE abstained.) IX. EXECUTIVE BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SUMMATIONS STUDENT BODY VICE PRESIDENT VALERA stated that for the past 2 weeks he's been in negotiations for public speakers. In addition, he's in the process of sending a letter to the state legislature's leadership of the Assembly and the Senate in regards to the law school and the library. In response to questions, he stated that the director search is on hold because of setting up interviews and should definitely be resolved by mid July. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT MILLS congratulated the new Senators and encouraged all those who ran to run again in the Fall. He also asked if anyone would like to help assist as counselors and chaperons for high school students coming for the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation during June 13-16 to contact him. Furthermore, he stated that he spoke with Darryll and they'd like to have the CSUN vs. Rebel Yell baseball game in July; he added that we'll have to do our spring training in June to prepare and asked everyone to come by his office and let him know what position they'd like to have and what their jersey size is to look uniform. In regards to Action Item A. referring to the $20,000.00 for emergency expenditures, he agreed with SENATORS HAYES, FLEISCHMAN, and SOLOMON because we have had times in the past where emergencies were very far fetched and he stated that "cease operations" is one of the definitions of an emergency; he stated, "I'm here to assure you that should (KUNV) try to (latch on to the $20,000.00), I will say, 'No!' and I will veto any action that would be attempted on them on that part because if they can't remain afloat themselves, they should not say, 'Oh, look at that $20,000.00, let's say we're threatened and get it. Unless that transformer is burning and we see a cloud of smoke all over Black Mountain, I'm not going to sign f on any emergencies. They have to be life threatening, they have to be physical harm, not just "-physical integrity problems." In reference to the Brian Saunders' contract, he stated that "the buck 10 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 stops here and we're the bucks!" He added that one of the problems CSUN has had with the 5,400.00 was that "it was signed off on by Don Fuller and Bob Ackerman. As I spoke to you at the Hast meeting, I addressed these concerns with the Attorney General's office and they have recommended that Bob Ackerman be removed from signature authority on our accounts. And attempting to do so, we have met with a lot of resistance from the administration because to quote directly from Carol Harter she told me in no uncertain terms and these are the exact these words she said that, 'Bob Ackerman is in charge of CSUN and he controls the //garbled// there.' This, I think, is a highly questionable attitude to have and I don't know who has told her that, but that's the way it is, but we all know that it's not, and frankly we have to stand up for ourselves and stand up for the students and say, 'We're not going to be a rubber stamp for the rest of the administration and we are here to serve the students and the students first and we're not here to just placate the administrators because we're worried about what they're going to feel about us and what they're going to say to us. That's one of the reasons why no one is getting paid this month...but I think it's more important that we wait and do what's right and suffer a little bit than make the students suffer overall; and that's why we've had an issue with the signature authority going on right now." SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE thanked everyone who ran for the open Senate seats for their enthusiasm and involvement. He then congratulated SENATORS MILMEISTER, BERK, and GRIFFITH and stated that he will be planning a workshop with SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE PERSCH within the next three weeks. He added that hopefully the interviews for Directors will begin in two weeks. Regarding emergencies he stated that he passed the gavel because he feels very strongly about this issue; he stated that "I'm not going to do something that'd be mtrary to your interests...and neither is VICE PRESIDENT VALERA or PRESIDENT MILLS. ""Remember it requires 2/3 of E-Board to spend anything. KUNV can't spend any of our money. We spend our money for KUNV." He also stated that he is having a lot of problem with our committees because chairmen aren't calling meetings or when they're calling meetings people aren't showing up. He thanked everyone in the gallery who stayed and stated, "Students like yourselves are why we're here. We're here to represent your interests." He also thanked Dr. Piper for remaining for the meeting. Then, he thanked our BUSINESS MANAGER JIM MOORE by stating, "It's funny because over the last month I've spent more time in the office than I almost ever have before. I mean I see Jim in there day in and day out and I see all the crap that he has to put up with, and I emphasize the words 'put up with' because I'm having to put up with it because he's usually coming over and telling me about it, or I'm coming over there and complaining to him about it. Signature authority - we had a meeting. Jim when was that meeting?...a week last Friday between PRESIDENT MILLS, VICE PRESIDENT VALERA, myself, Dr. Ackerman, BUSINESS MANAGER MOORE, and Karl Armstrong, the Assistant General Council for the university system. At that time we raised several issues. One of the major one(s) among them was signature authority. PRESIDENT MILLS stated that Dr. Harter has ordered that we're under...we're a department of Dr. Ackerman. I don't know that. That's...I'll take his word that she said that, but I'm going to give you my word about what I've heard. In that meeting we deduced that there was a problem with Student Government having Vice President Ackerman as part of the signature authority. In conclusion and in resolution of that, all of the parties at the meeting came to a verbal agreement with Karl Armstrong, the attorney, acting as a witness, that Anne Kingsley, the Director of Budgeting and Student Services, she works under Dr. "ikerman, would be our signature authority. That was a verbal agreement reached by all four of us as long as we received a letter from Dr. Ackerman stating that. We did. We also received a letter 11 SENATE MINUTES 27-19/ May 28, 1997 from Dr. Harter signing off on that, which was something that had been brought up by PRESIDENT ILLS was that she didn't know about it. So, she sent us a letter saying, yes, she knew about it and, yes, she agreed with it. This process took approximately three weeks. We had that meeting a week ago from last Friday when that verbal agreement was reached. I went up that following Monday and got the letter from Dr. Ackerman's office and then it preceded to take another week for anything to happen; for people to come into the office for signatures to be put onto the signature cards. I don't know what happened...I don't know why, but that's what happened. That's why we're not getting paid. That's why you're not getting paid is because somehow the signature process took an extra week when it shouldn't have, when it didn't need to. Now, an agreement has been reached with a witness. All three of the Executive Board members stated they agreed to having Anne Kingsley be our signature authority upon receipt of the said documents. Well, they've been received by all three of us and that's where the signature authority situation lies now. As it is I believe our Business Manager has sent our signature cards over to the controller's office with myself, Anne Kingsley, VICE PRESIDENT VALERA, and PRO-TEMPORE PERSCH's signature. He did not have PRESIDENT MILLS because PRESIDENT MILLS was not in the office for the past week or when he was in the office he wasn't in during normal business hours when Jim was there...He sent the cards over and now I have been informed that he was accused of insubordination. Insubordination to whom I'm not sure because his supervisor is in the controllers office. Now, I would like the Senate to know we almost got sued by everyone of our receptionists because there was a problem with the payroll sheet. That fortunately got solved through a lot of hard work by our Business Manager. I'm not at liberty to discuss the situation surrounding that, but trust me that he did have to pull a few strings to get that accomplished. Now, currently we are all set to get paid next month for two months pay. This a financial burden on a lot of us, myself included, but by all means, if you have questions about Why you're no