Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 25, 1983

CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS AGENDA Senate Meeting #11 Session #13 4:00 p.m. January 25, 19 8 3 MSU Oasis Room I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes #10 and correction to Minutes #5 IV. Executive Board Announcements V. Executive Board Nominations A. Elections Board Chair Compensation (from table) B. Student Services Committee Members - Rusty Smith, Karen Eckert C. Vice President Pro Tempore - Karen Eckert D. KUNV Program Director - Phil Harrington E. Yell Editor - Marc Charisse VII. Unfinished Business A. Approval of Raise in Stipend for Intramurals Director - Executive Board VIII. New Business A. Response to Governor Bryan's "State of the State Address" - Oshinski IX. Open Discussion X. Adjournment UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NV 89154/(702) 739-3477 CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS SUPPLEMENTED AGENDA Senate Meeting #11 Session #13 4:00 p.m. January 25, 19 83 MSU Oasis Room I. Call to Order II. Roll Call III. Approval of Minutes #1 and Correction to Minutes #5 IV. Executive Board Announcements V. Executive Board Nominations A. Elections Board Chair Compensation (from table) B. Student Services Committee Members - Rusty Smith, Karen Eckert C. Vice President Pro Tempore - Karen Eckert D. KUNV Program Director - Phil Harrington E. Yell Editor - Marc Charisse VI. Board, Committee and Department Head Reports A. Elections Board #11 (from table) B. Faculty Committees C. President's Committees D. Security Coordinator E. Student Services Committee (Jan. 20) F. Other G. Appropriations Board VII. Unfinished Business A. Approval of Raise in Stipend for Intramurals Director - Executive Board VIII. New Business A. Response to Governor Bryan's "State of the State Address" - Oshinski IX. Open Discussion X. Adjournment UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NV 89154/(702) 739-3477 CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS MINUTES Senate Meeting #11 Session #13 4:00 p.m. January 25, 19 8 3 MSU Oasis Room I. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. II. Roll Call Members in Attendance David Begor - late Bill DiBenedetto - excused absent David Mounts Stephanie Pettit - late Ginger Clayton August Corrales MaryBeth Nitzschke Trent Parks Robert Barnum - excused absent Robert Eglet Cathy Powell Mike Waller Calvin Valvo Catherine Clay Marc Miller Karen Eckert Jim Eells Eric Emerson III. Approval of Minutes #10 and Correction to Minutes #5 Senator Clay moved to amend the minutes from meeting #10 by substituting in section VII, D "a motion to commit the Elec-tion Rules amendment to the Election Board" instead of "the motion to table indefinitely" and to direct the Elections Board to consider these amendments at their next meeting. Senator Eckert seconded the motion. The amendment passed with 11 in favor, 1 opposed and 1 abstention. Senator Eglet moved to delete from section III of minutes #10 everything after the words "Senator Clayton moved to approve the minutes from meeting #8 and #9" and Senator Eckert seconded. Senator Pettit arrived at 4:06 p.m. The amendment passed with 7 in favor, 5 opposed and 1 absten-tion. UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NV 89154/(702) 739-3477 :SENATE MEETING #11-January 25, 19 8 3 page 2 The motion to approve minutes #10 as amended passed with 9 in favor, 3 opposed and 2 abstentions. Greg Goussak made the following correction to the minutes from meeting #5: Transfer $200.00 from 907-9002 to 906-9001 Transfer $200.00 from 906-9002 to 905-9001 The above correction to Minutes #5 passed with 14 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 abstention. IV. Executive Board Announcements 1. Senate President Wild Item VII, A should actually be listed as item V, G. Senator Mounts was present at 4:10 p.m. He sent a letter to Mary Borsellino informing Elections Board about the directive that was passed by the Senate about the Campaign Spending and Contributions sheets and sent a dupli-cate to Randy Crum. He sent a letter to Tom Foskaris, the Chief Justice of the Judicial Council, outlining the problems he has with the current Election Rules. He has asked that the Judicial Coun-cil meet and make a decision on the constitutionality of the Rules o V. Executive Board Nominations A. Elections Board Chair Compensation ( from table) No action was taken on this item, so it remained on the tableo B. Senator Clay moved to approve Rusty Smith, Karen Eckert and Senator Pettit as members of the Student Services Com-mittee. Senator Eglet seconded and the motion passed with 14 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 abstention. C. Vice President Pro Tempore - Karen Eckert Senator Eckert withdrew her name from this nomination. D. Senator Clay moved to approve Phil Harrington as KUNV Program Director, and Senator Eckert seconded0 The motion passed with 15 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions. E. Senator Eglet moved to approve Marc Charisse as the Editor of the Yell, and Senator Eckert seconded. The motion passed with 15 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstentions. F. Item F was the nomination of Stephanie Pettit to the Stu-dent Services Committee which was taken care of in item B. G. Approval of Raise in Stipend for Intramurals Director - Executive Board Senator Eglet moved to approve the raise in stipend for Intramurals Director, and Senator Valvo seconded. The motion passed with 15 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 absten-tions. VIo Board, Committee and Department Head Reports A. Elections Board #11 (from table) Senator Clay moved to remove this item from the table, and Senator Eglet seconded. The motion passed with 13 in favor, 0 opposed and 2 abstentions. Senator Clay moved to delete New Business sections 2 and 3 from minutes #11, and Senator Miller seconded. The motion passed with 13 in favor, 0 opposed and 2 abstentions. :SENATE MEETING #11-January 25, 19 8 3 page 3 Bo Faculty Committees There were no reports. C. President's Committees Greg Goussak reported on the Intercollegiate Athletic Council Meeting. Most o fthe meeting was in a closed personnel session, but the council did approve a reso-lution stating that the Athletic Council would like to see the Athletic Budget go as follows: $ 500,000 - Women's Athletics 500,000 - non-revenue Men's Sports 600,000 - Men's Basketball Division A football is desirable only if additional revenue is realized. Do Security Coordinator MaryBeth Nitzschke announced that the Guardian Angels' member ship has dropped to 19 members when they originally graduated 35 members. On Mondays through Thursdays the Angels are on the UNLV Campus and Fridays and Saturdays they patrol the downtown area. Senator Begor arrived at 4:25 p.m. She received a letter from John Moran who is aiding the Angel in becoming more informed about laws of arrest, criminal law and weapon identification. At Coordinator Nitzschke's request, John Moran has scheduled instructors to meet with the Angels. President Oshinski was present at 4:26 p0m. E0 Student Services Committee ( Jan. 20) Chairman Eglet read the minutes from the meeting held on January 20, 1983.„ The members present were Jim Eells, Pam Jacka and Robert Eglet. The unexcused absences were Sindy Glasgow, Mary Ann Muserelli, Jim Jackson, Dana Hood, Tina Washington, Marie Mullins, Jay Levine and Steve Bowie. The members with 3 unexcused absences were removed from the committee„ Those dismissed were Mary Ann Muserelli, Jim Jackson, Dana Hood, Tina Washington, Marie Mullins, Jay Levine and Steve Bowie. The chair set up a schedule for the sale of lecture notes. They will begin selling notes on Wednesday January 26, 19 8 3 during registration. The meeting was adjourned at 4:33 p0m0 Senator Eells moved to approve the minutes from the Student Services Committee, and Senator Clay seconded. There being no additions or corrections the minutes stood approved as submitted. F. Other Sam Lieberman reported that there was a meeting held today, for the Nevada Student Affairs- Committee. Members present were Sam Lieberman, Theresa Jackson, Senator DiBenedetto and Mark Shaffer. The committee has been having diffi-culty achieving quorum and there are many things which must be accomplished at this time during the legislative session. Members of the Nevada Student Affairs took a trip to Carson City to meet with the members of the Nevada Legislature. :SENATE MEETING #11-January 25, 19 8 3 page 4 Senator Emerson moved to approve the minutes from the NSA meeting leaving the assignment of excused and unexcused absences for that meeting up to the Director. Senator Corrales seconded the motion which passed with no objections. Assistant Director DeTillio announced that during their trip they met the Governor and many legislators and lobbyists. She is going to Carson City tomorrow to meet with 3 legis-lators who want more information from Nevada Student Affairs, and she's also going to Reno to meetiwith Donald Klassic and some people from the Chancellor's office about the issues that the NSA is currently working on which are on-campus housing and the security issue. The total cost to CSUN for the trip was $1671. In the future, NSA does not foresee that great of an expenditure on their trips. They will be sending 1 person or 2 people at the most to conduct business. Assistant Director DeTillio felt that it was effective to meet the legislators in force last week, but now it will only be necessary to send 1 or maybe 2 people once a month. President Oshiriski announced that while they were in Carson City, they submitted a proposal for a bill to the bill drafters which is currently being work on. The bill involves a request to the state to issue a revenue bond which would allow us build on-campus housing0 Another bill proposal would involve the expansion of the jurisdiction of the University Police Officers. Currently the Campus Police Officers can only serve as officers when they are within the boundaries of the University. For example a boundary line is the middle of Maryland Parkway, and if a UNLV^Police Officer were to see a crime committed on the other side of Maryland Parkway he technically could not prose-cute. G. Appropriations Board Chairman Goussak read the minutes from the Emergency Meeting held on January 24, 1983. Paul Berger is on a leave of absence which ends officially at the first meeting which will be next Monday. Sindy Glasgow was an excused absent. Cathy Powell, Karen Eckert, Rosana Reyes and Pam Jacka were present. The board approve the minutes from meeting #25. Accounts #902 (Special Projects Funds), #906 (CSUN Opera-tion) and #911 (Nevada Student Affairs) Reports were sub-mitted and attached to the minutes. Under Unfinished Busi-ness, item B the board approved the following: Increase 911-1100 by $3000, 911-1600 by $30, 911-2200 by $4000, 911-3000 by $2970. Decrease 906-1100 by $3000, 906-1600 by $30, 906-2200 by $4000, 906-3000 by $2970. (Resubmission of 911 line breakdown) Pam Jacka moved to replace the original line breakdown approved at meeting #2 5 with the above line breakdown. The motion passed with 4 in favor, 0 opposed, and 0 abstentions. The Appropriations Board will meet at 4:00 p.m. on Mondays during the Spring Semester. Senator Clay moved to approve the minutes from the Emer-gency meeting held on January 24, and Senator Eells seconded. The minutes stood approved as submitted. VIIo Unfinished Business A0 Approval of Raise in Stipend for Intramurals Director - :SENATE MEETING #11-January 25, 19 8 3 page 5 This item was taken care of earlier in the agenda. Bo Wordload Waiver - Senator Emerson Senator Clay moved to approve a workload waiver for Senator Emerson which would allow him to be involved in only one committee (CODE). Senator Corrales seconded and the motion passed with 15 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 abstention. VIII. New Business A. Response to Governor Bryan's "State of the State Address" - Oshinski This item has been postponed until the Senate receives written copies of the address. IXo Open Discussion Senator Clay announced the current openings on the boards and committees. President Oshinski announced that there will be a workshop in the dorm on Friday, January 28, 1983 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the fourth ;floor. If any Senators wish to attend please call Ann in Student Services. He also announced he's forming an ad hoc Code Study Committee to research Chapter 6 of the Code. Karen Eckert announced that the Organizations Board meeting will be held on February 2, 19 83. X. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 4:58 p.m. Respectfully submitted by, Respectfullyorepared by, CSUN Senate President CSUN Secretary