Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 9, 1997

< University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President TERRY A. MOORE STUDENT SENATE MEETING 27-20 Monday June 9,1997 Beam 242 6:30p^ft. Margaret J. Persch, R.N. Senate President Pro-Tempore Health Sciences Leia Fleischman Fine Arts Joaquin Trujillo Business Heather Anderson Business Robert Solomon Education William Price Urban Affairs Kyle Lopez Student Development Frank Lideros Engineering Steven Amend Business Ben Campbell Student Development Stephanie Gonzales 1 iberal Arts 'esia Hayes education 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 Michael J. Berk Hotel Administration Leah Griffith Urban Affairs Randy Milmeister Liberal Arts C O 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: Nomination/Election of one (1) student to fill the vacant Health Sciences Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-19.) VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the Minority Science Student program funding request of $500.00. (See Attachment 1.) B. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the UNLV chess club funding request of $500.00. (See Attachment 2.) C. Action Item: Discussion/Approval for the CSUN Executive Board to attend the June 1997 Board of Regents meeting in Carson City, NV, the total amount of $564.00 to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 (Gen Acct) as submitted by Senate President Pro-Tempore Margaret J. Persch. (See Attachment 3.) D. Action Item: Discussion/Approval for six (6) students to attend the June 1997 Board or Regents meeting in Carson City, NV, the total amount of $846.00 to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 (Gen Acct) as submitted by Senate President Pro-Tempore Margaret J. Persch. (See Attachment 4.) E. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of expending an amount not to exceed $1,348.54 for Business Manager Jim Moore to attend the WACUBO Business Management Institute for a six day professional r-o Ct >- "*«»< 2aa *a ' 1 a~- i " Cf, CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 ( , F. G H, I. c J. K. L. ( development seminar to be held August 3-8, 1997 as submitted by Senate President Pro-Tempore Margaret J. Persch. (See Attachment 5 for cost breakdown and description of seminars.) Action Item: Discussion/Approval of cosponsoring with UNLV Sports Marketing, the Boogie Knights band to perform for the pregame CSUN tailgate at the first home Rebel Football game of the 1997 season, cosponsorship not to exceed $3,500.00, to be encumbered out of the 2702 General Account. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of purchasing two thousand five hundred (2,500) UNLV 40th Anniversary Posters for a total purchase price of not to exceed $858.17, from UNLV Publication Reprographics, conditional that final poster proof includes the CSUN Logo and statement "Sponsored by CSUN, Your Student Government", and proof is acceptable to the CSUN Executive Board prior to production and purchase, to be encumbered out of the 2702 General Account. (See Attachment 6.) Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the Student Position of KUNV Assistant Operations Manager, with a monthly stipend of $500.00 per month for the month of June, 1997, for a total of $500.00, without a 24 credit fee waiver, to be encumbered out of the KUNV 2703 Account. (See Attachment 7.) Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the Student Position of KUNV Assistant Operations, with a monthly stipend of $500.00 per month, for the months of and including: July 1997 through June 1998, for a total of $6,000.00 plus a 24 credit fee waiver, to be encumbered out of the KUNV 2703 Account. (See Attachment 8.) Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the Student Position of KUNV Production Manager, with a monthly Stipend of $300.00 per month, for the months of and including: July 1997 through June 1998, for a total of $3,600.00 plus a 24 credit fee waiver, to be encumbered out of the KUNV 2703 Account. (See Attachment 8.) Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the position of KUNV Station Engineer, with a monthly stipend of $600.00 per month, for the months of and including: July 1997 through June 1998, for a total of $7,200.00, to be encumbered out of the KUNV 2703 Account. (See Attachment 8.) Action Item: Discussion/Approval of KUNV Transmitter Site at Black Mountain operational costs as per prior contract for the months of and including July 1997 through Sept. 1997 as follows: Transmitter Site rent of $617.00 per month, for a total of $1,851.00, plus Generator rent of $150.00 per month, for a total of $450.00, plus Electric Expenses of $920.00 per month for a total $2,760.00, plus total estimated site maintenance and repairs of $500.00, for a grand total not to exceed $5,561.00, to be encumbered out of the KUNV 2703 Account. (See Attachment 8.) M. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of Rob Buska for the Student Position of KUNV Assistant Operations Manager for the period of and including the months of June 1997 through June 1998, with monthly stipend prorated as to date of appointment by CSUN Senate, to be encumbered out of the KUNV 2703 Account. (See Attachment 8.) N. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of Resolution 27-03 regarding excusing absences from Senate Meetings for RA's who are also CSUN Senators as submitted by Senate President Pro-Tempore Margaret J. Persch. (See Attachment 9.) O. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the Consensual Relations Policy as submitted by the CSUN Rules and Ethics Committee, Joaquin Trujillo, Chair. 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. Schedule of Classes Students in Years 1 and 2 have the opportunity to customize their professional develop-ment by selecting elective courses of special interest. Register for six elective classes, two each afternoon on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Each elective class period is one hour and 50 minutes. Students who select a four-hour class (designated by a "1" or "2") should register for the entire class. The course descriptions are listed chronologically by course number and alphabetically by title at the end of the schedule of classes. Record your selections by course number on the registration form. Key: 1 = First part of a 4-hour course 2 = Second part of a 4-hour course ELECTIVE COURSES FOR YEARS 1 & 2 MQISPAY.l;lQ-3;Wp,n), 107-1 Cost-Benefit Analysis Frankie Gilliam Harrison - Must enroll in 107-2 113 Four Pillars of Higher Education Management James E. Morley Jr. 114-1 How to Get Rich Slowly—Retirement Caspa L Harris Jr. Must enroll in 114-2 118-1 Open Forum—Issues for Private Institutions J.E. (Ted) Hollingworth 118-P Open Forum—Issues for Public Institutions Karen A. Hoefel 118-CC Open Forum—Issues for Two-Year Institutions Charles L. Hanson 126 Team Building Strategies J airy C. Hunter Jr. MONDAY. 3:10-5:00 p.m. 107-2 Cost-Benefit Analysis Frankie Gilliam Harrison Must enroll in 107-1 110 Ethics and the Business Officer Jack C. Blanlon 114-2 How to Get Rich Slowly—Retirement Caspa L Harris Jr. Must enroll in 114-1 119 Jg]) Orientation for New Business Officers Karen A. Hoefel <5 James E. Morley Jr. 121 Presentations J.r 'Ted) Hollingworth 124 i, igic Change , , Jeff Marser Schedule of Classes TUESDAY, JLlQJiQQ fijm 106 Coping With the Challenges of Change Alceste T. Pappas 111-1 Facilities Management—Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Chris K. McAlary Must enroll in 111-2 115 Listening and Interpersonal Communication J.E. (Ted) Hollingworth 125 X Strengthening Your Partnership with Student Affairs Ernie Mort 127 Q Web Technology for Beginners John F. (Barry) Walsh 129 What Would You Do? The Case Study Approach Quelda M. Wilson 130-1 JWefhfMy aIr Lseieke You, Why I Don't Must enroll in 130-2 TUESDAY. 3:10-5:00 p.m. 109 111-2 112 116 123 X 130-2 Estate Planning Caspa L Harris Jr. Facilities Management—Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Chris K. McAlary Must enroll in 111-1 Forget those Fancy Publicity Homepages—The Web is for Real Work! John F. (Barry) Walsh Managed Health Care—Implications for Institutions of Higher Education Frankie Gilliam Harrison Sexual Harassment Issues in Higher Education Tobin Conley Why I Like You, Why I Don't JeffMarsee Must enroll in 130-1 "Best business institute known." —Year 3 participant Best training conference I've been to. Focus is unparalleled." —Year 1 attendee Schedule of Classes THURSDAY. 1:10-3:00 p.m. 102 y Affirmative Action & Diversity Wilfred E. Brown <£ Dennis Shimek 104 Business Process Reengineering Jerry B. Farley 105 Contemporary Legal Issues Dave Frohnmayer 120 Preparing for an IRS Audit Janet Gibbs Achterman 128 What Problem Are You Trying to Address? You May Be Spending Too Much to Solve the Wrong One Richard N. Katz & John F. (Barry) Walsh THURSDAY, 3;10-5;0Qpjm 101 Accounting Update Jerry B. Farley 103 The Art of Negotiations and Conflict Management Dennis Shimek 108 Empowerment and Institutional Accountability: Performance Measurement in Higher Education Richard N. Katz 117 <f Motivation/Leadership J.E. (Ted) Hollingworth 122 Risk Management: An Introduction Tobin Conley Elcctives Course Descriptions 101 Accounting Update 2 Hours Jerry li. Farley Most private institutions must implement FASB No. 116 and No. 117 for fiscal years beginning alter December 31, 1994. This session will bring you up to date on interpreta-tions and implementation issues related to the new FASB standards on accounting for con-tributions and differing requirements and options for financial reporting, as well as other current FASB issues. The current agenda of GASB will be reviewed, with an emphasis on the practical implications of current changes in GASB pronouncements on public colleges and universities. Issues such as the public university reporting model and a review of the applicable GASB standards for public institutions will be discussed. E. Brown & Dennis Shimek This class will discuss and present the historical context of affirmative action programs. We will discuss a range of issues covering E.E.O., non-discrimination, affirmative action, outreach and diversity. Discussion will also cover the changing labor market demographics. The class presentation will be supplemented through an active exchange of ideas with the participants. 103 The Art of Negotiations and Conflict Management 2 Hours Dennis Sliimek The course will cover a discussion of the techniques and practices that lead to interest bargaining and win-win outcomes. Conflict management will cover a discussion of how to effectively deal with our many day-to-day problems. 104 Business Process Reengineering 2 Hours Jerry li. Farley Institutions are rarely prepared to respond to the reality of reduced funding. Often they turn to contract services as a way to reduce costs. There are many l ine contract vendors but perhaps the institution would be better served by continued sell-operalion of an improved unit. How can we make the improvements that will ensure cost competitive services'.' Commercial enterprises face the same pressures and have implemented programs described as business process reengineering I bis involves selecting areas for reengineering. establish-ing implementation committees to cany out the tasks of reengineering, providing input for major strategies and program structure, comparing performance with benehmaiks. review-ing implementation recommendations for additional input, and finally, reviewing completed reengineering projects to modil'v the steering process, il nccessarv. Affirmative Action & Diversity 2 Hours Electives 105 Contemporary Legal Issues 2 Hours Dave Frohnmayer Designed for Year 2 students, this session treats selected legal topics in depth, but is designed for the lay person. The course will discuss contemporary legal issues in higher education. Topics include affirmative action, sexual harassment, The Americans With Disabilities Act, and current United States Supreme Court developments. 106 Coping With the Challenges of Change 2 Hours Alceste T. Pappas This session will focus on the multiple issues facing college and university administra-tors in the implementation of change. Consideration of the human dynamics of change and the role of trustee, senior staff, mid-level staff and front-line providers of services and pro-grams will be examined. Practical solutions to managing transformation in the academy will be provided. Experiences from class participants will be highlighted and critiqued during this session with an eye toward assisting participants in developing practical implementation strategies for change when they return to campus. 107-1&2 Cost-Benefit Analysis 4 Hours Frankie Gilliam Harrison Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a management decision-making tool useful in the alloca-tion of scarce resources. This course provides participants with a basic knowledge of CBA and the ability to apply the technique to the decision-making process in college business affairs. Participants will distinguish between CBA and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Participants generate a list of current or anticipated problems amenable to the CBA format and receive feedback on developing the complete model. 108 Empowerment and Institutional Accountability: Performance 2 Hours Measurement in Higher Education Richard N. Katz Transformation of the workplace culture and in job responsibilities means a greater emphasis on organizational and individual accountability in performance. The extent of empowerment—or delegated authority—the challenge of transformation, and the use of per-formance measures are the topics for this session. 109 Estate Planning 2 Hours Caspa L. Harris Jr. This is a must for all persons who have, or plan to have an estate of any size for their heirs. Current federal income tax laws have a maximum rate of 39.6%. The current Federal Inheritance Tax law has a maximum rate of 55%. This rate is in addition to various State Inheritance Tax rates. This course is designed to assist individuals in minimizing the pay-ment of inheritance taxes legally through the use of numerous trusts and other acceptable means. In addition the course will provide attendees with information in seeking an attorney for estate pla?1 -;ng and a procedure for keeping legal costs at a minimum. / i 10 ) Ethics and the Business OITiccr 2 Hours ^~ttkC. Wanton Participants will consider the value crisis in our society and how it affects higher educa-tion, particularly in areas such as athletics and financial aid. Participants will gain a better understanding of the ethical questions and problems they face daily and their choices in responding. Mini-case studies will be used. 111-1&2 Facilities Management—Meeting the Challenges 4 Hours of the 21st Century Chris K. McAlary Explore the multifacctcd functions and responsibilities of facilities management. The sig-nificant financial and hum^n resources required by facilities management represent a substan-tial portion of the institution's total assets and annual operaling budget. Willi today's empha-sis on the quality of higher education, coupled with declining resources, the campus environ-ment is under close scrutiny. Facilities management, like most service based industries, is focusing on customer service to gain a competitive edge. Examine facilities as capital assets, and how the management of institutional buildings, grounds, utilities and equipment necessi-tates an entrepreneurial approach which challenges traditional policies and procedures in order to effectively compete. Bring your questions on organization, administration, decision-making aspects, budget cutbacks, chargeback versus maintenance costs and outsourcing ver-sus in-housc personnel. 112 Forget Those Fancy Publicity Homepages—The Web is for 2 Hours Real Work! John F. (Barry) Walsh Nothing has impacted the business of Information Technology as much as the World Wide Web (WWW) has in the past couple of years. The operative word here is "business", because the real action on the Web is not in Yahoo or ESPN SportZone on the Internet, but in the way in which enterprises arc utilizing the Web in locally managed "Intranets" to trans-form their information technology processes. This session will explore what is possible and offer ideas on how your organization can take advantage of the technology to rapidly yield effective, value-added services to your clients. / 113 / Four Pillars of Higher Education Management 2 Hours James E. Morley Jr. The responsibilities of business and financial managers can be grouped into four broad categories—accounting and finance, business operations, institutional management and pub-lic policy. The latest developments in each of these areas will be shared, with an emphasis on the idea that a comprehensive knowledge of the four pillars of higher education management will guide business officers as leaders of our changing campuses. 1 9 Electives 123 J Sexual Harassment Issues in Higher Education 2 Hours ^feBirx Conley Sexual harassment is a problem on campuses nationwide. Incidents of alleged sexual harassment are often troublesome and can cost institutions time, energy and money. This session will include a presentation of No Real Winners: Sexual Harassment in Academia, a video/workshop materials set. The documentary-style video uses actual cases involving alle-gations of sexual harassment as part of a larger program created to help institutions deal effectively with this perennial problem. The workshop experience is designed to increase participant awareness, foster useful dialogue and provide guidelines for addressing sexual harassment issues on campus. 124 Strategic Change 2 Hours Jeff Marsee Organizational change often requires three phases—unfreezing, making the change, and refreezing the organization. Many approaches to strategic planning focus on the last two phases which usually predestines the change to failure. This session will focus on the importance of preparing the organization for change and how strategic planning can facili-tate successful "reculturalization" of the institution. 125 J Strengthening Your Partnership with Student Affairs 2 Hours Ye Mori This course will present a brief overview of studont affairs and the student personnel point of view. The session will focus on how as business officers we interact with students as learners, consumers, constituents, and as employees. Participants will explore areas of cooperation and conflict between the business office and student affairs in areas such as stu-dent employment, the bursars office, financial aid, housing and food services, and parking. Effective strategics will be discusscd as to how the business office and student affairs can work in a more collaborative manner with one another and for the best interests of the stu-dents. 126 Team Building Strategies 2 Hours Jairy C. Hunter Jr. Organizational effectiveness is highly dependent upon how well management and pro-ject teams function. This course will present strategies and techniques for the key to man-agement success, team building. "Excellent content. Great instructors." —Year 1 participant ? ? 127 Web Technology for Beginners lolw /•". (Barry) Walsli 2 Hours In this lab, you will leam how to write basic HTML webpages from scratch. You will creatc a personal homepage. (Bring pictures of your dog, your spouse, your mother-in-law!!) On a more serious note, you will learn how to publish policies, documentation and other materials on your local websites using only your office productivity tools (word processor, spreadsheet) and we will explore (time permitting) how you can create simple forms on the WWW to handle miscellaneous services such as travel requests, equipment rentals, etc. 128 What Problem Are You Trying to Address? You May Be 2 Hours Spending Too Much to Solve the Wrong One Richard N. Katz <5 John F. (Barry) Walsh Many institutions are cither currently engaged in or planning initiatives to retool their financial information functions. Some are buying systems from vendors as a major element of this plan. Others are reworking their existing systems or developing new ones in house. For the most part, these efforts address the improvement/recnginecring of operational processes. However, access to institutional information for analytical or management pur-poses may be as important to some, especially to the sponsors of these initiatives This ses-sion will clearly frame these two sometimes conflicting .goals and suggest ways-in which they can be effectively addressed. 129 What Would You Do? The Case Study Approach 2 Hours Quelda M. Wilson This seminar will introduce you to the case study approach used in the Year 3 program of the WACUBO Business Management Institute. You will experience the advantages of using the case study methodology to analyze problems, to distinguish pertinent from peripheral facts, to identify alternatives, to formulate strategies, to draw conclusions, and to develop solutions. Participants will be given one or more eases to analyze and discuss. Cases arc based on real-life situations where some, but not all, facts arc known. This seminar will give you a better idea of what to expect in the Year 3 program while providing a challenging and enjoyable learning cxpcricncc. Limited to 20 people. 130-1 &2 Why I Like You, Why I Don't 4 Hours Jeff Marsee This session will examine how one's style of interaction sets the stage for relationship successes or failures, both professional and personal. Participants will identify their own behavior profile from four primary behavior styles. The characteristics and strengths of each style will be discussed and participants will leam ways to help classify the behavior style of others. Discussion will focus on how most people react to initial behavior within the first 90 seconds, why people behave the way they do, and what can be done to defuse the issues that make the differences annoying. 2 3 Cuti C u ^ J ^ y ^ x ^ s t °J CSUN SENATE RESOLUTION 27-03 Introduced, Written, and Drafted by CSUN Senate President Pro Tempore Margaret J. Persch BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS (CSUN), AS REPRESENTED BY THE CSUN SENATE: WHEREAS, many students serving as Residential Assistants (RA) in Residential Housing on the UNLV campus have expressed a desire to serve in the CSUN Senate; and WHEREAS, in the past these students have been forced to choose between serving their fellow students as RA's or Senators; and WHEREAS, recently, there has been an agreement between the RA supervisors and the CSUN Senate to permit persons serving as RA's to also serve as Senators for their respective colleges with the provision that should the RA need to leave the Senate meeting early, or be absent from the Senate meeting in order to perform his/her Residential Assistant duties, said person shall be excused by the CSUN Senate President without penalty or criticism. THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED THAT: the CSUN Senate accepts this provision and will excuse the Senator/RA upon documentation that the absence was approved by the Director of Campus Housing or his/her duly appointed designee. Approved this day of , 1997 in the 27th session of the CSUN Senate with in favor, opposed, and abstaining. V ucJn , TO uo : c* i S i c> "eZ •. •- X* a r " s -1 fti . ja a <•«_ X- (/><"'"•. ! I < «* rf S o * "O-nl .^" V . { University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Government Office of the Senate President MINUTES SENA TE MEETING 2 7-20 Monday, June 9,1997 Beam Hall Room 242 6:30p.m. ur>o ~fo —<; M3- {/oS («--!,-— as ' • I •*>•„ —4 -OJ. J '- I. I I . CALL TO ORDER: SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE called Senate Meeting 27-20 to order at 6:42 p.m. ROLL CALL: PRESENT ABSENT Heather Anderson (excused) Alesia Hayes (excused) Matt Stark (unexcused) Matthew Knutson (unexcused) Frank Lideros (excused) Stephanie Poole (excused) Steven Amend Michael Berk Ben Campbell Leia Fleischman Stephanie Gonzales Leah Griffith Nicole Lehman Kyle Lopez Ildiko Lutar Jenny Marshall (elected at 6:55 p.m.) Randy Milmeister Margaret Persch William Price David Shapiro Robert Solomon (entered at 6:50 p.m.) Joey Song (entered at 6:52 p.m.) Joaquin Trujillo III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion to approve Minutes for Senate Meeting 27-19 made by SENATOR PRICE, seconded by SENATOR GRIFFITH. Move into a vote. Motion passes 14-0-0. IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS: CONSOLIDATED STUDENTS • UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 4505 SOUTH MARYLAND PARKWAY • LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89154-2009 • (702) 895-3477 • FAX (702) 895-4606 SENATE MINUTES 27-30/ June 9, 1997 SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE announced that STUDENT BODY V I C E PRESIDENT ALERA is in the hospital in California; he had to have to an emergency appendectomy surgery on Saturday. He stated that he is doing fine and will be coming back this weekend. V. BOARD AND COMMITTEE REPORTS: A. Senate Committee Reports: 1. SENATOR FLEISCHMAN announced a meeting for Campus Safety this month and asked everyone to look at their schedules and tell her what is a good time for them. SENATOR SOLOMON enters at 6:50 p.m.. 2. SENATOR GRIFFTH announced a meeting for Bylaws on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. in Beam Hall 102. 3. SENATOR PRICE announced that Ways and Means met last Monday; they took care of the Chess Club and the Minority Student Science program; and they've found some more funding requests that they're going to be taking care of within the next couple of weeks. B. Faculty Senate Committee Reports: C. Residence Hall Liaison Report: JENNIFER PECK announced that she is in the process of potentially filling three Executive Board positions; they're doing their Student Orientation program and their orientation theme is "You live, you learn."; their Summer Conference Housing program is in full swing; and lastly, next week she's meeting with Sunny Martin about an event their sponsoring together for the Residence Halls. E. Business Manager Report: BUSINESS MANAGER JIM MOORE read the expenditures: $135.00 - drinks for the CSUN debate, $488.25 - end-of-year party for the organizations, and $40.00 - upgrades to gavel for the Vice President and Senate President. He also related that last months pay checks have showed up; this month's E-docs are ready for signature; regarding KUNV, they had another mass mailing trying to get some money collected from the Marathon and were apparently successful, "we're no longer concerned about the $20,000.00, possibly, that I had reported to you about a month and a half ago. I'm pretty sure that they're going to be well under the $10,000.00 loss also. I'm guessing that it will be somewhere right near $0.00 as a matter of fact." He also stated that explained his responsibilities as Business Manager, especially to give newcomers a better understanding; he stated, "UCCSN Board of Regents has delegated to the President of the university certain authority and, basically, she has the authority to...create my position, the Business Manager's, and also, she has the authority to delegate the final signature authority. Let's see...the responsibilities that I have...I need to make sure that we nply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for colleges and universities. I also need to comply (with) all Board of Regents' policies, make sure that nothing that the Student Government 2 SENATE MINUTES 27-30/ June 9, 1997 "'oes violates those policies. In accordance with this also, audits are mandated by the Board of agents; they periodically come down and check the books and make sure we're doing things. What it says specifically here, and this is the most interesting part, 'the institutional president shall,' and they can delegate this authority they have to me and to whoever right, Anne Kingsley, it's our job to assure the legality of student body transactions and we have the authority to stop the execution of a contract for legal reasons. This authority shall not be used as a device for censorship, nor to control development of student body policy, rather the intent is to assure the legality of student body transactions.' They've been very careful to limit the scope of my authority and the scope of whoever that bottom line signature is. And, since there has been so much controversy about that, I greatly appreciate if anybody ever thinks that I'm exceeding that authority let me know." SENATOR SONG enters at 6:52 p.m.. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE added that we can thank Dr. Ackerman for getting our paychecks now. He stated that he emailed Dr. Ackerman a list of all the Senate's names and social security numbers and Dr. Ackerman personally called the Director of Payroll Services and asked her to process them immediately. He stated, "next time you see Dr. Ackerman around campus, you might want to tell him, 'Thank you.' and he announced that the Senate Secretary just notified him that the Senate Meeting 27-10 minutes are missing from the book on her desk and he asked, "if anybody knows what happened to them, could you please just let us know." He also recognized Don Fuller for being present and thanked him. PUBLIC COMMENT [in accordance with N.R.S. 241.020 (2)(c)(3)] DONNA MILLS thanked the Senate for letting her speak before them, for nominating her, and for voting for her. VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Action Item:: Nomination/Election of one (1) student to fill the vacant Health Sciences Senate seat. (This item was tabled at Senate Meeting 27-19.) Motion to Remove from the Table made by SENATOR GRIFFITH, seconded by SENATOR SONG. Move into a vote. Motion to Remove from the Table passes 16-0-0. Motion to Allow Jennifer Marshall to speak to the Senate made by SENATOR FLEISCHMAN. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE allowed the motion. JENNIFER MARSHALL introduced herself and stated why she would like to become a Senator. In response to questions, she stated that she'll be able to all the summer meetings and she has scanned over the Constitution, the Bylaws, etc.. ( 3 SENATE MINUTES 27-30/ June 9, 1997 Move into a vote. JENNIFER MARSHALL was elected to fill the vacant Health Sciences ,nate seat by a vote of 16-0-0. SENATE PRESIDENT MOORE congratulated Jennifer and called a recess at 6:55 p.m. so that she could be sworn in. He called the Senate back to order at 7:00 p.m. and stated that the Senate now sits at 17 Senators present. VIII. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the Minority Science Student program funding request of $500.00. Motion to Approve made by SENATOR LUTAR, seconded by SENATOR GONZALES. SENATOR PRICE stated that Ways and Means had a meeting and asked them to give a breakdown of how they spent their money; they did so and Ways and Means passed this item. Move into a vote. Motion passes 16-0-1. (SENATOR FLEISCHMAN abstained.) B. Action Item: Discussion/Approval of the UNLV chess club funding request of $500.00. Motion to Approve made by SENATOR GRIFFITH, seconded by SENATOR TRUJILLO. SENATOR PRICE stated that the numbers didn't add up the first time, so they had the president explain the numbers and what was going on and they made some changes to it. He stated that this item passed Ways and Means. Move into a vote. Motion passes 16-1-0. (SENATOR FLEISCHMAN opposed.) C. Action Item: Discussion/Approval for the CSUN Executive Board to attend the June 1997 Board of Regents meeting in Carson City, NV, the total amount of $564.00 to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 (Gen Acct) as submitted by Senate Preside