Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 27, 1993

CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS OFFICE OF THE SENATE PRESIDENT AGENDA SENATE MEETING NO. 23-07 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1993 MOYER STUDENT UNION ROOM 201 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES NO. IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS 23-05 and 23-06 V. BOARD & COMMITTEE REPORTS VI. SENATE COMMITTEE & EXECUTIVE BOARD NOMINATIONS A. Approval of Angela Birdsell to the Academic Standards Committee; B. Approval of Aaron Rosenthal to the Academic Standards Committee. VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. Approval of the contract for Arthur Frasse; B. Approval of the contract for Phillip Walker; C. Approval of the contract for Howard Johnson's Suite Hotel; D. Approval of, but not to exceed, $524.60 for coffee mugs for KUNV to be encumbered out of the 2703 (KUNV) account; E. Approval for a transfer of funds from the 2706 (student services) account to Campus Safety for the shuttle bus; F. Approval of Ed Marshall as the interim Organizations Board Director. IX. STATE OF THE CAMPUS ADDRESS X. OPEN DISCUSSION XI. ADJOURNMENT POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NEVADA OPEN MEETING LAW: MOYER STUDENT UNI0N-1ST FLOOR HUMANITIES-1 ST FLOOR WRIGHT HALL-1ST FLOOR BEAM HALL-1ST FLOOR ENGINEERING-1ST FLOOR UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA. LAS VEGAS/4505 MARYLAND PARKWAY/LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154/(702) 739-3477 KUNV MUGS Mugs Qty: 288 @ $1.70ea $489.60 Art Work $35.00 Shipping $130.00 TOTAL - $654.60 MINUTES SENATE MEETING NO. 23-07 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1993 MOYER STUDENT UNION ROOM 201 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER SENATE PRESIDENT BENNEMAN calls the meeting to order at 5:04 p.m. II. ROLL CALL PRESENT Senator Birdsell Senator Cromer Senator S. Fisher Senator Jackson Senator Nalder Senator Pobst Senator Romero Senator Rosenthal Senator Sabatini Senator Siciliano Senator Stephenson Senator Turner Senator Yan Senator Yohe III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES NO. 23-05 & 23-06 Motion to approve Minutes No. 23-05 by Senator Nalder, seconded by Senator Turner. Move into a vote. Motion passes 12-0-2. Senators S. Fisher and Romero abstaining. Motion to approve Minutes No. 23-06 by Senator Nalder, seconded by Senator Turner. Move into a vote. Motion passes 14-0-0. IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS VICE PRESIDENT HELD we are going to be doing Student of the Month from now on and the names for this month are Jody Tyson and Tracy Walker. She also needs the Faculty Excellence applications today, I have only received four. If you know anyone who wants to be on the committee let her know she still needs three non-CSUN members. SENATE PRESIDENT PR0-TEMP0RE ROMERO states that everyone needs to get people involved in the open Senate seats. SENATE PRESIDENT BENNEMAN after the meeting tonight we are going to the T-Bird and food and drinks are on me. The Grand Opening of the Annex is on Friday at 1 p.m. everybody should be there. About the basketball games don't take tickets if you are not going to go. It has been requested that we move out of the order of the day to the State of the Campus speech from President Kostman. I am considering moving the Senate meetings to Monday nights. Are there any objections? Since there are so many people that can not move their schedules around a meeting change ABSENT Senator Senator Senator Senator Brown (excused) H. Fischer (excused) Smith (unexcused) Wilson (unexcused) SENATE MINUTES NO. 23-07 page three IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS CONT. meetings will stay on Wednesday nights. V. BOARD & COMMITTEE REPORTS APPROPRIATIONS DIRECTOR FINMARK states that she has nominated an Assistant Director to be approved next week. ELECTIONS BOARD DIRECTOR SPRAY was not at the meeting. ENTERTAINMENT & PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR ZENTNER states that there are three contracts to be approved tonight. The contract for Arthur Frasse needs to be amended to $2000.00. Our first board meeting will be next week and she needs one Senator to sit on the board. Senator Pobst asks what the term "up to two performances" means exactly? Senator Turner asks if there will be another copy that reads $200.00? Will we be getting copies of contracts ahead of time? Senator Nalder asks how much we paid Artie last semester? What is coming up this semester? NEVADA STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR KENNEDY was not at the meeting. OFFICE OF STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR BUNIN states that over the break he was at the freshman orientation telling them about Student Government. He is still working on the new brochure about CSUN. The speech seminar will be next week so if you are interested then just show up. He is also considering setting up a table in the union for Senators to sit at and let the students know what Student Government does? Senator Rosenthal asks when the brochures will be done? Senator Turner asks where the packets are? ORGANIZATIONS BOARD INTERIM DIRECTOR NOMINEE MARSHALL AND APPROPRIATIONS DIRECTOR FINMARK state that the meeting January 21st went well. Thanks to President Kostman, Senate President Benneman, Senate President Pro-Tempore Romero, and NSA Director Kennedy for staying after that meeting to help get the tickets distributed. The second half of the lottery will be this Thursday for the organizations that missed the last lottery. We will be changing the Operating policy at the next meeting to include a deadline for organizations to be recognized. STUDENT SERVICES DIRECTOR SMITH states that the Campus Directory will be done soon. We are starting a shuttle log to start recording all the complaints about the shuttle so the drivers can be reprimanded. We are meeting with the lawyers next Friday. At the next meeting you will be deciding on a raise for myself. If you have any questions about what I do then come and ask me . Senator Romero asks how much we made on the book exchange? The log book about the shuttle is a good idea. Senator Stephenson asks what kind of complaints have been said about the shuttle? So the drivers know about the new system for complaints? KUNV DIRECTOR ROSENTHAL no report. HEALTH ADVOCATE PATTI AVILA states that immunization is over SENATE MINUTES NO. 23-07 page three V. BOARD & COMMITTEE REPORTS CONT. and everything went well. She will be meeting with the registrar next week to work out a new system for the process of immunization. Senator Nalder asks her to explain the process for immunization. Point of personal Privilege by Senator Yohe. CSUN BUSINESS MANAGER SNYDER asks for a friendly amendment for New Business item D. to read $10,300.00. We will be selling raffle tickets all the way through half time of the game tonight. RESIDENT HALL LIAS0N MARSHALL states that they had a Welcome Back party in the Dining Commons last week, which went really well. We will also be having an organizations fair and Student Government will be represented. NEVADA STUDENT AFFAIRS DIRECTOR KENNEDY states that the legislature has started. I will be sending out a memo as to what we will be doing in the coming semester. If you have any specific questions then ask me after the meeting. Senator Nalder asks if there will be a board meeting soon? BYLAWS CHAIR ROMERO states that there will be no meeting because there have been no new bills or bylaws. RULES CHAIR H. FISCHER not at the meeting. STUDENT CAMPUS SAFETY AWARENESS COMMITTEE CHAIR BROWN not at the meeting. Senator Sabatini states that there will be a Rules Committee meeting on Friday at 3 p.m. VI. SENATE COMMITTEE & EXECUTIVE BOARD NOMINATIONS A. Approval of Angela Birdsell to the Academic Standards Commi t tee. B. Approval of Aaron Rosenthal to the Academic Standards Committee. Motion to approve items A & B as a whole by Senator Turner, seconded by Senator S. Fisher. Move into a vote. Motion passes 11-0-2. Senators Birdsell and Rosenthal abstaining. VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS None at this time. VIII. NEW BUSINESS Motion to move out of the order of the day to item IX BY Senator S. Fisher, seconded by Senator Romero. Motion passes 13-0-0. IX. STATE OF THE CAMPUS See attached pages for the verbatim copy of the speech. Senator Yohe returns. SENATE MINUTES NO. 23-07 page three Motion to move back into the order of the day by Senator S. Fisher, seconded by Senator Yohe. Motion passes 13-0-1. Senator Romero abstaining. VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. Approval of the contract for Arthur Frasse. Senate President Benneman states that this item is out of order due to the fact that this is in violation of Senator Bylaw 39. You do have the option to over-ride this Bylaw. Motion by Senator Turner to over-ride Bylaw 39, seconded by Senator Nalder. Motion fails 7-6-1. Senators Stephenson, Yohe, Cromer, Birdsell, Pobst and Yan opposed. Senator Rosenthal abstaining. B. Approval of the contract for Phillip Walker. Senate President states that this item is in violation of Bylaw 39. Motion to over-ride Senate Bylaw 39 by Senator Turner, seconded by Senator S. Fisher. Senator Nalder yeilds the floor to Director Zentner. Senator Stephenson states that he picked up the contracts in his box on Monday and I think we should approve the over-ride of this Bylaw. Senator Pobst states that we should take action on this contract due to the fact that if it is not approved by February 2 it will be null and void. Senator Turner asks for a 3 minute recess. Recess granted. Meeting called back to order. Senator S. Fisher moves to amend the motion to waive Bylaw 39 for a period of 24 hours, seconded by Senator Romero. Move into a vote on the amendment. Motion passes 12-0-2. Senators Sabatini and Pobst abstaining. Move into a vote on the original motion. Motion passes 13-1-0. Senator Yohe opposed. Move into discussion of item B. B. Approval of the contract for Phillip Walker. Motion by Senator S. Fisher, seconded by Senator Nalder. Senator Romero asks Director Zentner to explain what 500 flow is? Senator Nalder asks when and where Phillip Walker will be? Senator Romero asks what the time and manner of payment will be? Senator Pobst asks where breakfast and lunch will be served? Senator Nalder asks if he is performing alone? Move into a vote. Motion passes 12-1-1. Senator Yohe opposed. Senator Pobst abstaining. SENATE MINUTES NO. 23-07 page three VIII. NEW BUSINESS CONT. C. Approval of the contract for Howard Johnson's Suite Hotel. Motion to approve by Senator Turner, seconded by Senator Siciliano. Senator Turner asks if we need to over-ride Bylaw 39 again? Senator Romero asks what 500 flow is? Senator Pobst asks if the cash bar will be in the room? Will the bar be open the whole time? Move into a vote. Motion passes 13-1-0. Senator Birdsell opposed. D. Approval of, but not to exceed, $524.60 for coffee mugs for KUNV to be encumbered out of the 2703 (KUNV) account. Motion to approve by Senator Turner, seconded by Senator S. Fisher. Senator S. Fisher makes a motion to amend to read "..$654.60.." seconded by Senator Jackson. Move into a vote on the amendment. Motion passes 14-0-0. Move into discussion on the amended motion. Senator S. Fisher asks if the mugs are for fund raising? Senator Romero asks where the mugs are coming from? Senator Nalder asks what they will look like? Move into a vote. Motion passes 14-0-0. E. Approval for a transfer of funds from the 2706 (student services) account to Campus Safety for the shuttle bus. Motion to approve by Senator Nalder, seconded by Senator S. Fisher. Senator S. fisher moves to amend the motion to read "..$10,300.00 from.." , seconded by Senator Birdsell. Senator Yohe asks what the drivers are paid and when does the shuttle run? Are the drivers students? Senator Nalder asks if this is the same amount that we always pay? What does it cost exactly? Point of Information from Vice President Held that the drivers get paid $5/hour. Senator Yohe asks why there isn't a cost breakdown? How do they account for spending. He is against the motion. Senator Romero states that he is in favor of the motion. We are pursuing the accountability for all the money that has been spent. Senator Pobst asks if this money will go to the shuttle? Senator S. Fisher states that he is in favor of the motion. There is accountability for where the money goes. They can't just spend the money on anything that they want. Senator Nalder states that she was here when this was originally passed. It was discussed in depth and the accountability was there. Senator Cromer asks if these were the drivers that we were getting complaints about? Senator Stephenson yeilds the floor to Ed Marshall. SENATE MINUTES NO. 23-07 page three VIII. NEW BUSINESS CONT. Move into a vote. Motion passes 12-2-0. Senators Birdsell and Yohe opposed. F. Approval of Ed Marshall as the interim Organizations Board Director. Motion to approve by Senator Turner, seconded by Senator Romero. Senator Romero yeilds the floor to Ed Marshall to speak for two minutes followed by unlimited question and answer. Senator Yohe asks if this will interfere with RHA? Will you still be the liason? Senator Nalder asks if he is applying of the position. Move into a vote. Motion passes 13-0-1. Senator S. Fisher abstaining. X. OPEN DISCUSSION SENATOR STEPHENSON states that the Senators should help get the fliers out about the Annex. SENATOR TURNER talks about the article in the Rebel Yell about the previous Senate meeting. The attitude of my constituents is not good. I spent some time with Ched Whitney talking about the resolution for independence for the newspaper. Students should have a choice as to what their paper looks like. If we grant them independence then we will have no choice in what happens to the paper. Don't make a rash decision. I would like to see everybody at the opening of the annex Friday. SENATOR SICILIANO everyone should go to the opening of the Annex. The table tops are glass but we are in the process of changing them to formica so they won't break if they fall off the table. Thanks to James for the driving lesson on the cart today. SENATOR ROSENTHAL agrees with Shannon about the way Senator Yohe drives the cart. SENATOR S. FISHER explains why he abstained during the vote about Ed Marshall. He didn't want to give Ed unfair advantage ahead of the other applicants for the position. It was kind of cool not sitting next to Senator Yohe at this meeting. I picked up my UNLV alumni sticker today and it was really cool. It's burger time. SENATOR SABATINI nothing at this time. SENATOR NALDER this was a really good meeting today. everybody is happy with the Executive Board. I just wanted to tell Jay Jay that she is doing a great job. SENATOR YOHE states that the newspaper is not independent. We have transferred control of the paper from a representative government to a bureacracy. The paper will not be independent it will still uses student fees. They are spending other peoples money so we will never get exactly what we want. KUNV is the University radio station but we still put in 42% of its funding. Everyone should think about the things that are happening now. I have always managed to drive the cart with no problems. SENATOR CROMER states that since she was not at the meeting SENATE MINUTES NO. 23-07 page three X. OPEN DISCUSSION last week that she needs to get a handbook. About the shuttle we are giving them this money and there should be some sort of accountability for where the money is being spent. SENATOR BIRDSELL says thank you for the appointment to the Academic Standards Committee. SENATOR YAN states she is very enthusiastic about the Annex. She was an orientation leader over break and there were a lot of questions about CSUN. SENATOR JACKSON nothing at this time. SENATOR POBST congratulations to Senators Birdsell and Rosenthal. Cheers to President Kostman for his speech. VICE PRESIDENT HELD states that she was wowed by President Kostmans speech. Thanks to Senator Nalder. There is a Directors meeting tomorrow. See everyone at the T-Bird. SENATE PRESIDENT PR0-TEMP0RE ROMERO states that the Annex is cool but a long walk. A lot of people from the other side of campus have been waiting for it to open. As for the Yell issue we had a lot of concerns when this was passed and these are all valid concerns that were said here tonight. The Yell said that we had to help them and they made us promises of producing a quality paper. A lot of people are unhappy with the Yell as it is. They promised more advertising and they claim to be self supportive but the paper looks really thin to be supporting the Yell staff. The Yell is always reporting about the raises that CSUN officers are getting but you never see them printing articles about the raises that they are giving their staff. Congratulations to Ed Marshall. Good to see everyone. PRESIDENT KOSTMAN can't we all get along. There will be softball practice on Friday at 8 p.m. SENATE PRESIDENT BENNEMAN introduces Martha Pratt. The Rebel Yell independence there was a pub board which hired all the photographers and everyone who worked at the paper. The Yell was run by CSUN. The Yell advertising revenue has increased since their independence. The quality of the paper that they produce needs to be improved. I recently talked to Ched Whitney to see if he would come to these meetings and give a report like everyone else and they didn't think that since they get $50,000 of Student fees that they should be accountable for the money. They should be accountable. Don't compare KUNV or the Rebel Yell they are two separate entities. This is why we put a time limit on the resolution was for problems like this. See everyone at the T-Bird. XI. ADJOURNMENT SENATE PRESIDENT BENNEMAN adiourns the meeting at 6:50 p.m.