Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, October 26, 1982

CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Telephone (702) 739-3477 AGENDA Senate Meeting #47 Session #12 4:00 p.m. October 26, 1982 MSU 201 I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes #46 IV. Executive Board Announcements V. Board, Committee and Department Head Reports A. Ad Hoc Committees 1. Constitutional Revisions Committee B. Elections Board C. Faculty Committees 1. Curriculum 2. Academic Standards 3. Code 4. Financial Aid 5. Library D. Organizations Board E. President's Committees 1. Parking and Traffic 2. Performing Arts Council F. Publications Board G. Student Services Committee H. Other I. Appropriations Board VI. Unfinished Business VII. New Business A. Endorsements of Candidates, etc... (Discussion) - Senator Newell B. Nominations for Vacant Senate Seats 1. Education (1) a. Kevin Stevens 2. Academic Advisement (1) 3. Health Sciences (1) VIII. Open Discussion IX. Adjournment CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS MINUTES Senate Meeting #47 Session #12 4 p.m. 10-26-82 MSU 2 01 I. Call to Order Senate President Wild called the meeting to order at 4:06 p.m. II. Roll Call Members in Attendance David Begor Julie Conway - unexcused absent Charles Bloom Ginger Clayton MaryBeth Ni/'tzschke - excused absent Terri Tollefson Robert Barnum Steve Bowie - unexcused absent Brenda Roberts Cathy Clay Pam Jacka Greg Goussak Paul Berger Tom Newell III. Approval of Minutes #46 Senator Bloom made a motion to amend the minutes from meeting #46 to refer item VIII A to the student body in a special election to be held in 3 weeks on the mascot issue. Senator Berger made a motion to table this item. The motion to table passed with 7 in favor, 4 opposed and 0 abstentions. Senator Bloom moved to strike the approval of the mascot from the minutes. Senator Roberts seconded and the motion failed with 3 in favor, 6 opposed and 2 abstentions. There being no further additions or corrections the minutes stood approved. IT. ! Executive Board Announcements 1. President Oshinski On Friday, Nov. 5 the Regents will decide what departments will be getting cuts. The Committee on Political Educa-tion ((/COPE) will hold a meeting on Nov. 5. 2. Vice President Hiu He reminded everyone to vote in the upcoming elections on November 2. This Thursday President Reagan will be speaking at the Convention Center. 3. Senate President Wild There are two additions to the agenda. The first item UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NV 89154/(702) 739-3477 SENATE MEETING #47-October 26, 1982 page 2 is the resolution by Vice President Hiu regarding the faculty senate. The second item is the nomination for the outstanding senator award. V. Board, Committee and Department Head Reports A. Ad Hoc Committees 1. Constitutional Revisions Committee The meeting was called to order today at 2:00 p.m. Due to the fact that the chairman was not present the meeting was adjourned at 2:13 p.m. Senator Goussak moved to approve the minutes and Senator Bloom seconded. The minutes stood approved as read. B. Elections Board Chairman Crum read the minutes from the meeting held on October 19, 1982. The minutes were approved with the following corrections. Senator Bloom moved to approve the minutes and Vice President Hiu seconded. Vice Presi-dent Hiu moved to delete Section IV #14 from the minutes of the meeting and Senator Goussak seconded. The meeting was recessed at 5:02 to 5:10. Senator Bloom moved to amend the motion to certify each race except for the A^ts and Letters race. Senator Begor seconded. This motion passed with 7 in favor, 4 opposed and 0 abstentions. Senator Bloom made another amendment to allow the Elections Board to certify the elections after the materials necessary for certification have been turned in. Senator Jacka seconded. This motion passed with 6 in favor, 5 opposed and 0 abstentions. Senator Goussak moved to amend the minutes to include under section IV item #10 the removal of all filing fees of candidates who had not returned their spending and contributions sheet. Senator Jacka seconded. Senator Jacka made an amendment to delete under section IV item 12 on the 10th line to delete the word "completely" and to delete the 11th line beginning with the word "Charles" and ending with the last sentence in item 12., This amend-ment was accepted as a friendly amendment. Senator Clayton moved to table items 2-13 until next week and Senator Begor seconded. The motion failed with 4 in favor, 6 opposed and 0 abstentions. Senator Tollefson amended the minutes to include the payment of outstanding receipts for cam-paign materials to Chairman Crum in the total of $33.26. Senator Tollefson also moved to reduce August Corrales1 and Trent Parks' fines from $25.00 to $10.00. Senator Clay seconded. The amendments to include under section IV item #10 removal of all filing fees of candidates who have not returned their spending and contributions sheets and to delete the last section of item #]2 beginning with line 10, to include reimbursement to Chairman Crum and to reduce August Corrales' and Trent Parks' fines to $10.00 passed with 8 in favor, 2 opposed and 0 abstentions. There being no further additions or corrections the minutes stood approved as amended. C. Faculty Senate Committees There was no report. SENATE MEETING #47-October 26, 1982 page 3 D. Organizations Board Chairman Voelcker read the minutes from the meeting held on Wednesday October 20, 1982. Senator Clay moved to approve the minutes including the Organizations Board Operating Policy and Senator Tollefson seconded. The motion passed with 10 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions E. President's Committees There was no report. F. Publications Board There was no report. G. Student Services Committee There was no report. H. Other There was no report. I. Appropriations Board Chairman Goussak read the minutes from the meeting held on Tuesday, October 26, 1982 at 3:00 p.m. The Board approved the minutes from meeting #15 and Chairman Goussak announced Charles Bloom's resignation from the board effective November 2 at noon. The board approved a transfer of $588.00 from 906-9002 to 903-9001. Increase 903-3000 by $588.00. Decrease 906-3000 by $588.00. Rosana Reyes was approved as the Appropriations Board secretary. Chairman Goussak will be holding a workshop to educate the new senators about the budget, on October 2 8 at 2:00 p.m. in the Oasis Room. The board approved to transfer $1000.00 from 901-3000 to 906-3000 and to transfer $1000.00 from 906-2100 to 901-2100. The transfer of $2000.00 from 906-9002 to 902-9001 Increase 902-3000 by $2000.00 De-crease 906-3000 by $2000.00(request from Vice President Hiu for additional funding of Special Projects Funds) was tabled by the board. The meeting was adjourned at 3:55 p.m Senator Goussak moved to approve the minutes and Senator Jacka seconded. There being no additions or corrections the minutes stood approved. VI. Unfinished Business There was no Unfinished Business. VII, New Business A. Endorsements of Candidates, etc. , . (Discussion! - Senator Newell withdrew this item. B. Nominations for Vacant Senate Seats 1. Senator. Clay moved to approve Kevin Stevens as an Education Senator for the 13th session and to close nominations and Senator Jacka seconded the motion. The motion passed with 9 in favor, 1 opposed and 0 abstentions. 2. Academic Advisement There were no nominations. 3. Senator Clay moved to nominate Charlotte MacGregor for the vacant Health Sciences senate seat and to close nominations for that seat and Senator Goussak seconded. The motion passed with 10 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions, C. Vice President's Hiu's Resolution regarding the faculty senate..- This item will be placed on next week's agenda. SENATE MEETING #47-October 26, 1982 page 4 D. Nominations for Outstanding Senator Award Senate President Wild nominated Greg Goussak, Catherine Clay and MaryBeth Nitzschke. Senator Roberts nominated Charles Bloom. There was a motion to close nominations and the motion passed with 10 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions. VIII. Open Discussion Senator Begor announced that Harmon Road is only partially owned by the University. The University is going to build a new better road when the Sports Pavilion is completed. Senator Bloom announced the rally in MSU on Friday at 1:00 p.m. It is being sponsored by CSUN, Athletics. On Tuesday November 2 at 3 p.m. the Elections Board will be holding a meeting. President Oshinski announced Brenda Martinez's party to be held on Friday November 5 at 8:00 p.m. at his apartment. He also thanked all the departing senators and hopes that they will remain active in CSUN. Senator Goussak announced that on Thursday he will be holding a workshop for new senators regarding the budgets on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. IX, Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 6:35 p.m. Respectfully submitted by, Respectfully prepared by, Jef wild Senate President CSUN Secretary