Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 19, 1995

Agenda topics ^ I. CALL TO ORDER ^ n. ROLL CALL III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 25-17,25-18,25-19, &25-20 IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS V. SENATE BOARD & COMMITTEE REPORTS A. OVERRIDE OF THIRD (3RD) UNEXCUSED ABSCENCE FOR BELOW STATED SENATORS: • SENATOR FAYYAD • SENATOR MORROW B. NOMINATION/ELECTION OF OPEN SENATE SEATS C. SENATE COMMITTEE AND FACULTY COMMITTEE REPORTS. D. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT REPORTS VI. PUBLIC COMMENT VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. INTRODUCTION OF SENATE BILL 25-03 (TO BE COMMITTED TO THE BYLAWS COMMITTEE) B APPROVAL OF PERFORMANCE CONTRACT FOR DR. WILL KEIM. PERFORMANCES TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 24- 25,1995. - ^ f o r C. APPROVAL OF AN HOURLY WAGE OF S5.50 AND A SIX CREDIT FEE WAIVER PER SEMESTER/SESSION FOR THE SENATE SECRETARY WHILE HE/SHE IS EMPLOYED AS SUCH. (NEW SENATE SECRETARY TBA) IX. OPEN DISCUSSION X. ADJOURNMENT SPECLALNOTES: SENATE BILL DRAFT 25-03 IS PRINTED ON THE BACK OF THIS PAGE. POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH NRS 241.00 AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: MOYER STUDENT UNION, BEAM HALL, FLORA DUNGAN HUMANITIES, WRIGHT HALL, AND THE BEAM ENGINEERING COMPLEX. STUDENT SENATE MEETING 25-21 Monday, June 19,1995 6:30 PM FLORA DUNGAN HUMANITIES 1ST FLOOR/AUDITORIUM 08-13-1995 12:54PM FROM TO 17028954606 P.01 WILL KKIM SPEAKS! I N C O R P O R A T E D 345 N.W. 31 ST STREET • CORVAILIS, OR 97330 ( (800) 848-3897 MINUTES SENATE MEETING 25-21 MONDAY, JUNE 19,1995 FLORA DUNGAN HUMANITIES 1ST FLOOR/AUDITORIUM 6:30 P.M. I. CALL TO ORDER SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH called the meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. H. ROLL CALL PRESENT Shawna Campbell Terence Carroll Leia Fleischman ABSENT Nadia Deluca (3rd unexcused) Joel Laxague (unexecused) Carl Tolbert (excused) Jaimie Fox Keith McLain Terry Moore Edward Rivera Scott Schwartz Sandra Shelling Laura Zurek Dan Fendell (appointed) Terry Morrow (appointed) Joaquin Trujillo (appointed) Jason Williams (appointed) HI. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 25-17, 25-18,25-19, 25-20 Out of order IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA- Has been meeting with almost every department head on campus regarding the million dollars that will be developed over a year's time as a result of the tuition increase. Any services that need to be improved or developed to better service students, contact him and schedule an appointment to discuss it. STUDENT BODY VICE-PRESIDENT MILLS - announcements unintelligible. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE MOORE - Welcome Senate Secretary. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH - Introduction of Senate Secretary. Announcement of future motion to increase secretary stipend to $6.00 an hour. V. SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS a. Campus Safety & Awareness, CHAIR FLIESCHMAN - no longer has a committee, needs senators to help this summer. VICE PRESIDENT MILLS questioned if she had seen lighting survey results. b. Bylaws, CHAIR MCLAIN - bills 2501, 2502 died in meeting 2 weeks ago. Formed a subcommittee concerning making quorum over the summer. Pending item A, have a tentative meeting Monday, June 26 at 6:00 p.m. c. FACULTY SENATE COMMITTEE REPORTS - no reports. A. OVERRIDE OF THIRD (3rd) UNEXCUSED ABSENCE FOR BELOW STATED SENATORS: - SENATOR FAYYAD - SENATOR MORROW SENATOR FAYYAD not present. Motion to override third unexcused absence for SENATOR MORROW made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR RIVERA. Motion fails 5-3-2. SENATORS ZURICK, SCHWARTZ and FLEISCHMAN opposed. SENATORS MCLAIN and MOORE abstained. B. NOMINATION/ELECTION OF OPEN SENATE SEATS Motion to nominate Catherine Roper for open Liberal Arts seat, Najiya Khan for open Liberal Arts seat, Joaquin Trujillo for open Business and Economics seat, Nicole Anderson for open Human Performance and Development seat, Jason V. Williams for open Liberal Arts seat, Gail Evans for open Human Performance and Development seat, Dan Fendell for open Human Performance and Development seat, Michael Comstock for open Engineering seat made by SENATOR FLIESCHMAN, seconded by SENATOR MOORE. Motion to allow each candidate present to speak for no more than 2 minutes, to be followed by a limited question and answer session made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR RIVERA. Joaquin Trujillo spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Joaquin Trujillo appointed by unanimous acclimation. Nicole Anderson spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Dan Fendell spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Move into a roll call vote. Nicole Anderson received 2 votes, Dan Fendell received 8 votes. Dan Fendell receives the seat for the College of Human Performance and Development. Catherine Roper spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Jason V. Williams spoke to the Senate and answered questions. Move into a roll call vote. Catherine Roper receives 3 votes, Jason V. Williams receives 7 votes. Jason V. Williams receives the seat for the College of Liberal Arts. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH calls a recess to swear in the new senators at 6:55 p.m. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH calls the meeting back to order at 7:00 p.m. Motion to nominate SENATOR MORROW for reappointment to the open seat for the College of Communications made by SENATOR FOX, seconded by SENATOR CAMBELL Discussion from SENATOR FLIESCHMAN on ability to attend summer meetings, SENATOR MOORE on delay of attending previous meetings, SENATOR MORROW spoke to Senate and answered questions. Motion to close nominations made by SENATOR FOX. Move into a vote. Motion passes 10-1-0. SENATOR SCHWARTZ opposed. Motion to approve SENATOR MORROW to the open seat for the College of Communications made by SENATOR FOX, seconded by SENATOR RIVERA. Move into a vote. Motion passes 8-0-2. SENATORS FLIESCHMAN, SCHWARTZ abstained. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH calls a recess to swear in the new senator at 7:05 p.m. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH calls the meeting back to order at 7:08 p.m. C. SENATE COMMITTEE AND FACULTY REPORTS no reports. D. BUSINESS MANAGEMENT REPORTS Business manager has had her baby-name of Cheyenne Rose. VI. PUBLIC COMMENT No comment. VIL UNFINISHED BUSINESS SENATOR MOORE brought the approval of Zenzee Rios as Associate Chief Justice off the table, seconded by SENATOR SCHWARTZ. Motion to take off the table unanimous, motion passes. Motion to approve made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR RIVERA. Discussion from SENATOR FLIESCHMAN as to absence at previous meetings. Zenzee Rios spoke to the Senate and answered question. SENATOR PRO TEMPORE MOORE question ability to take on duties as Chief Justice. Move into vote. Motion passes 10-0-0. VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. INTRODUCTION OF SENATE BILL 25-03 (TO BE COMMITTED TO THE BYLAWS COMMITTEE) Motion to commit Senate Bill 25-03 to Bylaws committee made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR FOX. Move into a vote. Motion passes 10-0-0. B. APPROVAL OF PERFORMANCE CONTRACT FOR DR. WILL KEIM. PERFORMANCES TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 24-25, 1995. Approval made by SENATOR FOX, seconded by SENATOR MOORE. See contract attached - all inclusive fee for the speaker totaling $5,250.00. Keim speaks about Greek life in the 90's, leadership for the 21st century directed toward student government members and executive boards and student organizations, residential life staff on serving residential students better, new students through residential life, faculty and staff on how to treat students as customers rather than numbers, student athletes, etc. Lecture plan is tentative at this point, can plan whatever speeches are desired. Greek life and residential have expressed interest in participating. Approval of this contract expresses interest by the Senate for his speaking. Move into a vote. Motion passes 7-0-3. SENATORS MCLAIN, FLIESCHMAN, and RIVERA abstained. C. APPROVAL OF AN HOURLY WAGE OF $5.50 AND A SIX CREDIT FEE WAIVER PER SEMESTER/SESSION FOR THE SENATE SECRETARY WHILE HE/SHE IS EMPLOYED AS SUCH. Motion to approve made by SENATOR FOX, seconded by SENATOR CARROLL. Motion to amend the $5.50 hourly wage to $6.00 made by SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE MOORE, seconded by SENATOR CAMPBELL. Move into a vote. Motion passes 10-0-0. Approval of hourly wage of $6.00 and a six credit fee waiver per semester/session for the senate secretary Discussion from SENATOR CAMPBELL and STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA regarding credit waiver. Move into a vote. Motion passes 9-0-1. SENATOR FOX abstained. IX. OPEN DISCUSSION SENATOR FENDELL - Thank you for election of Senate seat, will do his best to serve. SENATOR WILLIAMS - Thank you for election of Senate seat. SENATOR FOX - Congratulations to new senators. Thinks bringing Dr. Keim to campus is a good thing. Regarding voting of SENATOR MORROW, if people wanted to vote no, you should have found out why and ask her to speak up and find out why. We all need to work together and she has proven herself. SENATOR MORROW - Thank you for the re-approval to Senate. SENATOR CAMPBELL - Congratulations to the new senators. Questioned if there were any executive board meeting going on, and if the executive knew about the amendment that was being passed this meeting. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA explained time specifications and limitations resulting in limited awareness of some items on the agenda. CAMPBELL-regarding the bylaw, if you have problems, additions or changes, please give the suggestions to the bylaws chair. SENATOR FLIESCHMAN - love the new desks in the office, they look very nice. However, they were on the last Senate agenda, they were not on this agenda and they were taken, as she understands it, from the $50,000 approved, which was why she was afraid to approve it. Congratulation to the Senators and the new Senate secretary. As a point of information to SENATOR FOX, SENATOR FAYYAD is no longer a senator because we did not vote to override his three absences, so his seat is open. SENATOR SCHWARTZ - Support of the bylaw, he did write it and does hope that it gets through. He thinks it is a good idea, and the sooner it gets done, the better. If there are any changes, hopefully they can be done before the budget is finished. Thought he would have trouble making some of the meetings, but luckily his job will allow it and he will be in attendance at all of the Senate meetings. SENATOR ZURICK - Congratulation to the new Senators, and if they didn't read the constitution, get a copy and do read it. SENATOR SCHILLING - Congratulations to the Senators and the new Senate secretary. SENATOR RIVERA - Congratulations to the new Senators and new Senate secretary. Please try to attend the bylaw committee meetings or give suggestions. SENATOR MCLAIN - If there are any revisions wanted in this bill, or any comments wanted to be made - these revisions are encouraged, let them know. Welcome to the new Senators. SENATOR CARROLL - Congratulations to the new Senators. Welcome to new Senate secretary. He and SENATOR MCLAIN have been working on the bylaw and adding a purpose statement to it, and will work on it more before it comes back again. SENATOR TRUJILLO - Thank you for election and congratulations to other new Senators. Verified time of bylaws meeting. STUDENT BODY VICE PRESIDENT MILLS - Congratulations to new Senators and new Senate secretary, look forward to working with them. Support of bylaw payment, may want it referendum in the fall. STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA - It is the responsibility of the Senator that is going to be absent to tell why they are not going to be attendance. The concern of the Senate should not be geared toward why he does not hold Executive Board meetings, just be concerned with the Senate and making quorum in the Senate. Encouragement to make quorum and show up to meetings. Regarding the bylaw 2503- it will be passed. Please don't lash out at SENATOR SCHWARTZ about it, just try to cooperate, he will not veto it. He does feel that Senators should be compensated, everyone should attend the committee meeting and ask questions so everyone can come to an agreement and get the bylaw passed. Congratulations to the new Senators and to the new Senate secretary. Response from SENATOR CAMPBELL: It is the Senate's business to address questions about the Executive Board. The executive board should be consolidated on an issue, and it seems they were not. The Senate and the Executive Board should not be completely separate, the Executive Board asks questions of the Senators, and the Senators should be able to ask questions of the Executive Board. Reminder that the revisions are due next Friday, June 30, 1995 for the constitution. Just put them in her Reply by STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT PIDA - As a student at the university he has a right to ask questions of the Senators and possible Senators of the college he is a student in. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE MOORE - Congratulations to the new Senators. Please welcome the new Senate secretary and say hello. Student government has been trying to get barbecues donated for tailgates, has been writing to a local business of the name Barbecues Galore. Wrote them a letter that the local store is going to pass on to their corporate office. If you would like to see the letter, he has a copy if you would like a copy of your own. Likes the new desks, nice move into the future - very positive, very pro-active. If you have any concerns about Executive Board and what it is doing, come talk to him. If you have a concern, ask him and he will do his best to represent your interest to them. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH - Student government wastes a lot of paper. He has made agendas available to all of the Senators to read and/or copy if desired. Will make documents available without having to have a copy in each Senator's box. It is a cost cutting measure that can be taken. X. ADJOURNMENT Motion to adjourn made by SENATOR CARROLL, seconded by SENATOR MORROW. Move into a vote. Motion passes 9-1-0. SENATOR MCLAIN opposed. SENATE PRESIDENT SMITH adjourns the meeting at 7:36 p.m. Patrick T.C. Smith Dineen N. Barkhuff SENATE PRESIDENT SENATE SECRETARY