Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, July 12, 2004

CSUN SENATE MEETING 34-24 MONDAY, JULY 12, 2004 MSU 201, 4:30PM I. CALL TO ORDER SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI called the meeting to order at 4:40pm II. ROLL CALL The following senators were present: SENATOR CORPUZ (late at 4:54), SENATOR MULLINAX (left early at 5:00pm), SENATOR SOLDANO, SENATOR CRAWFORD, SENATOR CAZARES (left early at 5:00pm), SENATOR DONNELLY (left early at 5:23pm), SENATOR MAYER, SENATOR SUMNER (4:57pm), SENATOR JIMENEZ, SENATOR HOLMQUIST, SENATOR ESPINOZA, SENATOR ZANDER, SENATOR HUERTA, SENATOR BOWERS, SENATOR TEMPLETON (sworn in) The following senators were absent: SENATOR SANTIAGO, SENATOR FRIEDLIEB (unexcused), SENATOR CONWAY, SENATOR MACK (excused) III. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The following minutes are submitted 34-19, 34-23 SENATOR SOLDANO moves to postpone 34-19 and SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds 34-19 and 34-23 are postponed unanimously. V. REPORTS A. Senate Committee Reports SENATOR MULLINAX: SENATOR FLINNER resigned today so there is a new education seat. SENATOR BOWERS: did we get another person on there? SENATOR SOLDANO: bylaws: open seat if anyone's interested. for approval: 34-23 until 34-25 B. Faculty Senate/University Committee Reports VICE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE ANDERSON: scholarship meeting tomorrow at senate chambers at 6:30pm. 1 SENATOR SOLDANO: Move to move out of the order of the day to action item E. SENATOR ZANDER 2nds SENATOR CRAWFORD opposes. 11-1-0 Motion to move out of the order of the day PASSES. C. Business Manager Report BUDGET PAYEE AMOUNT COMMENTS DISCRETIONARY Alpha Gamma Delta $ 100.00 Homecoming 03 float winners - President's Trophy DISCRETIONARY Alpha Tau Omega $ 66.00 $ Homecoming 03 float winners - Student government Trophy E&P IM Operations 231.27 $ dumpster rental and demurrage for RebelPalooza NSA Metro Pizza 76.95 pizza for NSA retreat 1.31.04 OFFICE UNLV Central Stores >t> 60.00 c 3 LPO books OFFICE UNLV Postal 3.70 postage - June SERVICES Muslim Student Association of Am >t> 25.00 reimburse for NV SOS filing fee •RVICES UNLV Student Art Association 25.00 reimbursement of NV SOS filing fee (part II) TRAVEL David Hill $ 160.00 $ 747.92 reimbursement of additional charges for flight from Reno for the Student Government Conference D. Directors' Reports insert i. CSTJN Services: Ea Madrigal (see attachment) ii. Elections: Sabrina Sumner (see attachment) SENATOR HUERTA: how much does it cost? DIRECTOR SUMNER: 14 or 15k. The next next meeting we'll have it in black and white. I'm just giving you guys a heads up. crawford: are we going to have some sort of insurance on the laptops? iii. Entertainment and Programming: Aaron Arneson (see attachment) iv. Nevada Student Affairs: Sherrelle Blood 2 v. Office of Student Information: Michelle Bourdet (see attachment) SENATOR HUERTA: what's going on with the unlvcsun website? DIRECTOR BOURDET: I'm not designing that. Jesse Taylor is. vi. Publications: Michele Muscato (see attachment) vii. Rebel Radio: Tyler Wistisen (see attachment) SENATOR ZANDER: move to move out of the order of the day to Unfinished Business action item J SENATOR HUERTA 2nds SENATOR MAYER: can we just finish the liaison reports and stick to business? PRESIDENT SCHUCK: SENATOR HOLMQUIST is leaving at 7:00, the e-board supports his nomination so I'd strongly suggest waiving bylaw 23. bylaw whatever it is. SENATOR CRAWFORD opposes SENATOR HOLMQUIST abstains 10-1-1 item PASSES E. Liaison Reports i. Greek Advisory ii. Multicultural Student Affairs iii. Residence Hall Association iv. Student Athletics v. Student Body President's Advisory Council vi. Student Health Advisory Committee vii. ROTC viii. Leadership Advisory Board SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: quite an experience at leadership. If you have concerns or questions, I'll give you a full report next week. Any questions? F. Rebel Yell Report VI. INFORMATIONAL ITEM: A. Tara Pike to discuss the placement of recycling bins. 3 I'd like to see where you think would be the best place to place these bins from your experience. I'm just here to get information. tpike@ccmail.nevada.edu I need a copy of our logo as well. SENATOR SOLDANO: move to move back to order of day to Directors' Reports. SENATOR HUERTA 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously B. President Schuck seeks discussion on the payment of $500.00 to former Vice President Nick Christiansen for two weeks of service as a CSUN advisor. Out of order C. President Schuck seeks discussion of the first annual CSUN Executive Board versus Senate Dodgeball game. VII. EXECUTIVE BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS PRESIDENT SCHUCK: I met with Dr. Mills and Lt. Drake and it's been a positive week. Rebel Yell and OSI page. RY overlooked the OSI page. We're getting charged $300 per meeting. Figure out a different date of different time. There's a student worker who wants to get out by seven but gets out at 10! It's my job to look over the expenses and it's getting ridiculous. Figure out a different time. You need to do it and fast. Director of marketing: interviewed 6 people and I can't describe the caliber of these people. If you look at the ads that Manuel put together, it's amazing. SENATOR ESPINOZA: So you already did the interviews and chose candidates? PRESIDENT SCHUCK: yes. VICE PRESIDENT GOATZ: it's students' money as well. Last year at this time, it says that I have to summarize my evaluations in detail. Please revise that bylaw so I can give a summary of my evaluations. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI, the way you treated the members of Sigma Gamma Rho, was horrible. I hope you write an apology on behalf of yourself and of the senate body. I applaud that you gave them the money. VICE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE ANDERSON: I'll save mine for summations SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: I don't think I badgered them. I questioned them legitimately. You think I badgered them, tough shit. It's my tone of voice. If you're afraid of getting hurt, cry me a river. I'm not here to throw marshmallow at you. I'm not a mean person, I just want to get my point across. If 4 you don't like my tone of voice, deal with it. Anyways, your shirts are back here. I'm waiting for bylaws and chairs to come back. I'll order your name plaque. VIII. PUBLIC COMMENT IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS A. Action Item: Approval of one (1) student to serve as a Senator for the College of Education for the remainder of the 34th session. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. SENATOR SOLDANO moves to open nominations SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously SENATOR ESPINOZA moves to waive bylaw 6 for duration of meeting SENATOR SOLDANO 2nds SENATOR JIMENEZ: nominates Alex Templeton SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds SENATOR MAYER nominates Mary Sloan SENATOR JIMENEZ 2nds SENATOR SOLDANO: Moves to allow each candidate to speak for 2 minutes, followed by discussion, followed by roll call vote. SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously CANDIDATE SLOAN speaks CANDIDATE TEMPLETON speaks PRESIDENT SCHUCK: have you guys looked over the constitution or bylaws? If you have, what's the most interesting thing you've looked at? CANDIDATE TEMPLETON: I don't quite remember the article but it states you can place someone during the interim during the summer. 5 SENATOR MAYER: for Mary: What are some of your accomplismints at University of San Diego? CANDIDATE SLOAN: I worked on a tuition stability to lock during four years . As well as promoting class unity. SENATOR BOWERS: are you guys looking to work through October? CANDIDATE TEMPLETON: I'm planning on holding the position until October. CANDIDATE SLOAN: I'm planning on sticking with for as long as possible. I'm taking 12 credits and student teaching. I graduate in May. SENATOR HUERTA: CANDIDATE SLOAN: how long have you been at UNLV? CANDIDATE SLOAN: this would be my 4th semester. SENATOR HUERTA: what do you do for the community? CANDIDATE SLOAN: I'm involved with my church youth group, my sorority. SENATOR CORPUZ: SLOAN SENATOR SOLDANO: TEMPLETON SENATOR CRAWFORD: TEMPLETON SENATOR DONNELLY: TEMPLETON SENATOR MAYER: TEMPLETON SENATOR SUMNER: pass SENATOR JIMENEZ: TEMPLETON SENATOR HOLMQUIST: TEMPLETON SENATOR ESPINOZA: TEMPLETON SENATOR ZANDER: TEMPLETON SENATOR HUERTA: TEMPLETON SENATOR BOWERS: TEMPLETON SENATOR SUMNER: SLOAN 10-2 CANDIDATE TEMPLETON gets the seat. CANDIDATE TEMPLETON is sworn in. break at 5:13pm Meeting is called back to order at 5:23pm. Senator Donnelly leaves at 5:23pm 6 Roll Call: SENATOR CORPUZ, SENATOR SOLDANO, SENATOR CRAWFORD, SENATOR DONNELLY (LEFT @ 5:23pm), SENATOR MAYER, SENAOTR SUMNER, SENATOR JIMENEZ, SENATOR HOLMQUIST, SENATOR ESPINOZA, SENATOR ZANDER, SENATOR HUERTA, SENATOR BOWERS, SENATOR TEMPLETON Quorum with 12 out of 19. SENATOR ESPINOZA: Moves to move out of the order of the day to New Business action item K SENATOR HUERTA 2nds 11-1-0 passes SENATOR CRAWFORD opposes B. Action Item: Approval of three (3) CSUN members to serve as Justices for a term ending two (2) years from the date of appointment. As submitted by Senate President Pro Tempore Cianci on the behalf of the Executive Board. SEANTOR SOLDANO moves to posptpone 34-25 SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds Unfinished Business Action Item B POSTPONED unanimously C. Action Item: Approval of contract between Zeki Media and CSUN for website creation services. As submitted by Senator Cianci on behalf of the Executive Board. See attachment 34.24.01. SENATOR SOLDANO moves to postpone 34-25 SENATOR CRAWFORD 2nds Unfinished Business Action Item C POSTPONED unanimously D. Action Item: Approval of one (1) student to serve as a Senator for the College of Student Development for the remainder of the 34th session. As submitted by Senate President Amesquita. SENATOR CRAWFORD: moves to postpone until 34-25 7 SENATOR MAYER 2nds Unfinished Business Action Item D POSTPONED unanimously E. Action Item: Approval of Mary Tostenrud to serve as the NSA Assistant Director for a term ending April 30th, 2005. As submitted by Senator Cianci on the behalf of Director Blood. SENATOR MULLINAX moves to approve SENATOR DONNELLY 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously SENATOR SOLDANO moves to move out of order of the day to New Business Action Item A. SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously F. Action Item: Approval of two (2) senators to serve as members of the CSUN Scholarship committee for the remainder of the 34th session. As submitted by Senate President Pro-Tempore Cianci. VICE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE ANDERSON: SENATOR ZANDER and SENATOR DONNELLY are interested. SENATOR CRAWFORD move to open nominations SENATOR MAYER 2nds SENATOR ESPINOZA: move to nominate SENATOR DONNELLY and SENATOR ZANDER. SENATOR CRAWFORD 2nds SENATOR DONNELLY and SENATOR ZANDER get seats unanimously G. Action Item: Approval of one (1) Justice to serve as Associate Chief Justice for the remainder of their term. As submitted by Senator Cianci on behalf of the Executive Board. SENATO RSOLDANO: move to postpone until 34-25 SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds 8 Unfinished Business Action Item G POSTPONED unanimously H. Action Item: Approval of an amount of $729.99 to be paid to Boise Office Solutions for a new impact printer to replace the broken one in MSU 312 (Jamille's office). Cost to be encumbered from the CSUN FY05 Discretionary (Equipment) budget. As submitted by Senator Cianci. SENATOR CRAWFORD: move to combine and approve action items H and I. SENATOR HUERTA 2nds Unfinished Business Action Items H and I are COMBINED and APPROVED unanimously. I. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $1,500.00 to be paid to OfficeMax for the purchase of new Chairs for the CSUN conference room, Senate Chambers, and Director's workroom. Costs to be encumbered from CSUN 2702 FY05 Furniture Budget. As submitted by Senate President Pro Tempore Cianci on the behalf of President Schuck. J. Action Item: Approval of Sean Holmquist to serve as the Assistant Director of Entertainment and Programming, term ending April 30, 2005. As submitted by Senator Cianci. SENATOR MAYER: move to postpone J under Unfinished Business until next meeting (34-25) SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds VICE PRESIDENT GOATZ: it doesn't violate Constitution. DIRECTOR ARNESON is leaving for 3 weeks. We might lose this contract and it's a very good dael for us. I'm more than capable of taking over these duties during his absence, but I... SENATOR MAYER rescinds motion. SENATOR JIMENEZ: why was it just put in right now? PRESIDENT SCHUCK: We wanted to give E&P ample time to market the position so you guys could get the best candidate. SENATOR MAYER: move to call to question. You're aware that you have to resign your senate seat? SENATOR HOLMQUIST: Yes. 9 SENATOR CORPUZ 2nds SENATOR SUMNER opposes 11-0-1 motion PASSES Action Item J PASSES unanimously. SENATOR HOLMQUIST resigns. SENATOR SOLDANO moves to move back to the order of the day to Liaison Reports SENATOR MAYER 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously K. Action Item: Committing Senate Bill 34-34 to the Bylaws committee. As submitted by Senator Cianci. See attachment 34.23.08. SENATOR ESPINOZA: move to commit action itmes K, L, M, N, and O. SENATOR SOLDANO 2nds PRESIDENT SCHUCK: O is not a constitutional reivisions case. It's a judicial council case. There's no clear definition of what judicial council does and it is not your job. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: you cannot veto what is committed. If it was approved, maybe. Items K, L, M, N, O are COMMITTED. L. Action Item: Committing Senate Bill 34-35 to the Bylaws committee. As submitted by Senator Cianci. See attachment 34.23.09. M. Action Item: Committing Senate Bill 34-36 to the Bylaws committee. As submitted by Senator Cianci. See attachment 34.23.10 N. Action Item: Committing Senate Bill 34-37 to the Bylaws committee. As submitted by Senator Cianci. See attachment 34.23.11. O. Action Item: Committing Senate Bill 34-38 to the Constitutional Revisions/ Statute committee. As submitted by Senator Cianci. See attachment 34.23.12. 10 X. CONSENT AGENDA Consent Agneda Action Items A - E are APPROVED unanimously. A. Action Item: Approval of $26,073.00 for pay to receptionists. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY05 Wages budget. As submitted by Senator Cazares. B. Action Item: Approval of $300.00 to be paid to the Directors of CSUN Services, Elections, Marketing, Nevada Student Affairs, and Rebel Radio for the month of July and $450.00 per month there after until the end of their terms. Plus a 24 credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring semesters. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY05 Wages budget and Fee Waivers budget for the Fee Waivers. As submitted by Senator Cazares. C. Action Item: Approval of $300.00 to be paid to the Directors of Office of Student Information and Publications for the month of July and $400.00 per month there after until the end of their terms. Plus a 24 credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring semesters. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY05 Wages budget and Fee Waivers budget for the Fee Waivers. As submitted by Senator Cazares. D. Action Item: Approval of $300.00 to be paid to the Entertainment and Programming Director for the month of July and $500.00 per month there after until the end of his term. Plus a 24 credit fee waiver to be divided equally between the fall and spring semesters. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY05 Wages budget and Fee Waivers budget for the Fee waivers. As submitted by Senator Cazares. E. Action Item: Approval of a six (6) credit fee waiver to be paid to the Assistant Directors for CSUN Services, Elections, Entertainment and Programming, Marketing, Nevada Student Affairs, Office of Student Information, Publications, and Rebel Radio. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN 2702 FY05 Fee Waivers budget. As submitted by Senator Cazares. XI. NEW BUSINESS A. Action Item: Approval of $5000.00 to be paid to Career Services for a sponsorship of the Major Exploration Fair. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN FY-05 Senate Discretionary (Campus Events) Budget. As submitted by Senator Cianci on behalf of President Schuck. See attachment 34.24.02 11 SENATOR HUERTA moves to approve SENATOR CAZARES 2nds ANNE HEIN speaks about 8th Annual Major Exploration Fair. PRESIDENT SCHUCK: how much do you guys fund? MS. HEIN: About 2k SENATOR ESPINOZA: do the other colleges, have you spoken to them? Are they willing to set a table up? MS. HEIN: Yes, we've had support from other colleges. Students can go around and shop for different majors. PRESIDENT SCHUCK: what's the 5k for? MS. HEIN: a lot of costs are to set up (lots of fun types of events) decorations, advertisements, refreshments, chair massages, games, hiliters, notepads PRESIDENT SCHUCK: will you put "sponsored by CSUN?" If the senate chooses to approve, will you make sure to get our logo? MS. HEIN: yes. SENAOTR JIMENEZ: where's it at? MS. HEIN: It's usually in the ballroom. SENATOR JIMENEZ: anything else you're doing to advertise? MS. HEIN: We haven't started yet because we want to secure the funding first. SENATOR CAZARES: anyway to get outside funding besides us? SIA? MS. HEIN: we never have been able to secure other funding. SENATOR SUMNER enters at 4:57pm SENATOR SOLDANO: Move to amend by striking "carreer services" and inserting "university college," strike "senate" after "fy05." SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds 12 SENATOR MULLINAX: did you mean to put in 7k? MS HEIN: the person who submitted it put at least 5k PRESIDENT SCHUCK: keep in mind that you have to cut funds from other events like "Tunnel of...." Amendment PASSES unanimously Item as a whole: SENATOR HOLMQUIST: We need to make sure; they're asking for a large amount of money. I'd like an itemized request. SENATOR JIMENEZ: can you make us something to show us what's going on? Documents and such? MS. HEIN: I have a video. SENATOR CORPUZ enters at 4:54 PM SENATOR MULLINAX, SENATOR CAZARES leave at 5:00pm 10-0-3 item PASSES SENATOR CORPUZ, SENATOR BOWERS, and SENATOR HOLMQUIST abstain SENATOR ESPINOZA: move to move out of order of day to Unfinished Business action item A SENATOR CRAWFORD 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously. B. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $2,500 for Business Manager Hill to attend the annual WACUBO Conference in Santa Barbara, California. Cost to be encumbered from the CSUN FY05 Travel (WACUBO) budget. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci. SENATOR SUMNER moves to approve SENATOR MAYER 2nds BUSINESS MANAGER HILL: change the amount to $1500. 13 SENATOR SUMNER: moves to amend by striking "2500" and inserting "1500" and strike "WACUBO" and insert "out of state." SENATOR CORPUZ 2nds. Amendment PASSES unanimously Item PASSES unanimously as amended B. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $1,500 for Business Manager Hill to attend the annual WACUBO Conference in Santa Barbara, California. Cost to be encumbered from the CSUN FY05 Travel (WACUBO) budget. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci. C. Action Item: Approval of Senator Nicholas J. Bowers to serve on the Bylaws committee for the remainder of the 34th Senate Session. As submitted by Senator Soldano. SENATOR SOLDANO moves to postpone until 34-25 SENATOR MAYER 2nds SENATOR SOLDANO withdraws motion SENATOR SOLDANO moves to approve SENAOTR CRAWFORD 2nds Motion PASSES unanimously D. Action Item: Approval of one (1) CSUN member to serve as Director of Marketing for the 2004-2005 term. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of the executive board. SENATOR MAYER moves to approve SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: in order to act on these, we need to waive bylaw 6 SENATOR MAYER: moves to waive bylaw 6 SENAOTR ESPINOZA 2nds 11-1-0 bylaw 6 waived for duration of meeting 14 SENATOR SUMENR opposes SENATOR MAYER moves to amend by strking "one (1) CSUN member" and inserting "Manuel Cabral." SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds Amendment PASSES uananimously D. Action Item: Approval of Manuel Cabral to serve as Director of Marketing for the 2004-2005 term. As submitted by Senate President Pro tempore Cianci on behalf of the executive board. 11-0-1 Motion PASSES as amended E. Action Item: Approval of one (1) CSUN member to serve as the Assistant Director of Marketing. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of the executive board. SENATOR SOLDANO moves to approve. SENATOR ZANDER 2nds. SENATOR SOLDANO: move to amend by striking "one (1) CSUN member' and inserting "Shawna Wergen." SENAOTR MAYER 2nds Amendment PASSES unanimoulsy SENAOTR SOLDANO: move to amend by inserting after "marketing" "for the 04-05 term" SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds Amendment PASSES unanimosly Item PASSES unanimously as amended. E. Action Item: Approval of Shawna Wergen to serve as the Assistant Director of Marketing for the 2004-2005 term. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of the executive board. 15 F. Action Item: Approval of one (1) CSUN member to serve as Assistant Director of Rebel Radio for the 2004 - 2005 term. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of the executive board. SENATOR SOLDANO: move to postpone until 34-25 SENAOTR ESPINOZA 2nds SENATOR SOLDANO moves to combine and postpone action items F and G. SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds New Business Action Items F and G are COMBINED and POSTPONED unanimously G. Action Item: Approval of one (1) CSUN member to serve as Assistant Director of Elections for the 2004-2005 term. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of the executive board. H. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $1000.00 to be paid to Las Vegas Office Furniture for the Purchase and Delivery of a new conference table and telephone/computer stand for the CSUN Conference room. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN FY05 Furniture Budget. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of President Schuck. SENATOR HUERTA: move to approve SENATOR CORPUZ 2nds SENATOR SOLDANO move to amend by removing "1000" and inserting "5000", strike "conference", insert after "stand" "replacement of furniture for the directors." SENATOR JIMENEZ 2nds SENATOR TEMPLETON: who's going to have access to these rooms? VICE PRESIDENT GOATZ: the conference rooms can be checked out through Jamille. Any organization can use them. Senators are encouraged to visit them. Amendment passes uananimously 11-0-1 Item PASSES as amended SENATOR HUERTA abstains 16 H. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $5,000.00 to be paid to Las Vegas Office Furniture for the Purchase and Delivery of a new table and telephone/computer stand replacement of furniture for the directors for the CSUN Conference room. Costs to be encumbered from the CSUN FY05 Furniture Budget. As submitted by Senate President Pro-tempore Cianci on behalf of President Schuck. I. Action Item: Approval of Senate Bill 34-38 to the Bylaws Committee. As submitted by Senator Espinoza. See attachment 34.24.03 SENATOR ESPINOZA: move to combine and commit items I and J SENATOR SOLDANO 2nds New Business Action Items I and J are COMBINED and COMMITTED unanimously J. Action Item: Approval of Senate Bill 34-39, which proposes to change to Bylaw 51. As submitted by Senator Soldano. See attachment 34.24.04 K. Action Item: Approval of an amount not to exceed $7,000.00 to be paid to the Multicultural Student Affairs Office at UNLV for the sponsorship of Sigma Gamma Rho, Inc. to attend the 50lh International Boule being held in Memphis, Tennessee from July 17th -July 22nd, 2004. Cost to encumbered from CSUN FY05 Senate Discretionary. As submitted by Senator Espinoza. See attachment 34.24.05 SENATOR ESPINOZA: move to approve SENATOR HUERTA 2nds SENATOR ESPINOZA: yields to Sigma Gamma Rho ZARINAH WASHINGTON: My name is Zarinah Washington. Thank you for allowing us to speak. We are trying to raise money. The conference will touch on subjects such as risk management to address all members of the greek community. We need the necessary tools that we'll get from the boule. We have a revised budget we'd like the senate to consider. SENATOR ESPINOZA: have you guys raised any money for this? MS. WASHINGTON: yes, the revised budget we have has a list of costs that have been raised on behalf of our chapter. On the 2nd paragraph you'll see the 17 costs that were raised by individuals of our chapter. The remainder we are asking from the senate today. SENATOR SOLDANO: are they recognized? DIRECTOR MADRIGAL: very active. Yes. SENATOR BOWERS: you said that by doing a presentation... Have you done that in the past? MS. WASHINGTON: we have actively participated in the UNLV Greek retreat where we offer what we've learned. It hasn't been a formal workshop. SENATOR HUERTA: Will you be able to do a presentation for us? MS. WASHINGTON: yes. Definitely. It's something I have to do in my position. PRESIDENT SCHUCK: when's the conference? MS. WASHINGTON: 17thofjuly. PRESDIENT SCHUCK: Just so you know the money wouldn't get to you until past that. PRESIDENT SCHUCK: the problem we'll run into is that by the time you actually receive the funds, it'll be at the earliest .. .Dave? BUSINESS MANAGER HILL: they can pay them. It shouldn't be a problem, but they won't have the 7k for a long time. They can pay out of their own account, with the expectation that we'll pay them. SENATOR MAYER: you're just asking for 1890? Would you still be able to go if you didn't have it on time? The other question is why are you coming to us just 5 days before you leave? MS. WASHINGTON: Actually we put in a proposal weeks ago, but I guess due to various reasons, there was... SENATOR ESPINOZA: They didn't have anybody to sponsor it. SENATOR HUERTA: The funding shouldn't be an issue because MSA did the same thing for us. SENATOR TEMPLETON: move to amend item by striking 7k and inserting 1890 18 SENATOR ESPINOZA 2nds SENATOR TEMPLETON: can you elaborate on what the conference is? MS. WASHINGTON: Actually even better to answer that question is past international President of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, Corine J. Green. MS. GREEN: Would you please allow me, I'm still a little bit confused and I'm really glad to be here because I'm learning a lot about what's going on with CSUN and... SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: Can you please spell your name for the record? MS. GREEN: My name is C-O-R-I-N-E, middle initial J, G-R-E-E-N, past national president of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. What part would you like us to elaborate on? First of all, the one that I most.. .is the one aout risk management because we have our trainer in Washington D.C. coming in. and we have what we call our new torch program because hazing is totally out of order on most of these campuses. It is okay for one representative to go but we need several representatives in order to share. There is also a right of passage program that we provide for low and middle income that has been sponsored by her that a certification that goes for those, they will be certified at the conference and there is also a leadership workshop that teaches them in depth how to run a business, so we have about 9 different workshops. It's not a feel-good, do-good thing it's one of these educational type conferences that we feel they should go to. I don't know why it was not accepted. Do you have to have a sponsor to get it? SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: I'll explain it to you. The procedure to getting an item on the agenda is that it must be sponsored by a senator and up until about a week ago, maybe two at this point, there was no one to sponsor your event and I.. .that's basically what the process is. If there's no senator, and that's just senate, not executive board, directors, or judicial council. Just senators. If no one's willing to sponsor it, then it doesn't go on the agenda. Period. MS. GREEN: I was just kind of curious about how you get a sponsor. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: Well, in order to sponsor, the person must write item and obviously pretty much do how it is written on the agenda under K. I'm assuming that SENATOR ESPINOZA wrote the item, so he's the one who submitted this. 19 PRESIDENT SCHUCK: what happened is that this item was turned into a receptionist and the receptionist told them it would be turned into the senate and the lines of communication somehow broke down. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: My advice to Sigma Gamma Rho is that if you are looking to get funding in the future, don't go to the receptionist, go to the senator because the receptionist can say they're going to turn something in, it doesn't matter. Unless that senator is willing to sponsor it, then it will not go on the agenda, regardless of whatever you say, whatever you do. SENATOR SOLDANO: yields floor to DIRECTOR SUMNER DIRECTOR SUMNER: few concerns. Risk management is a great thing, but it's already in the process of happening. A concern of a senator who couldn't be here was that CSUN has never funded Greek organizations before. SENATOR TEMPLETON: move to detail constitution so it says that an item be given to a senator. SENATOR MAYER: Your sorority has 7 members? So you can't generate the funds that other organizations can. I don't think we should get in the habit of funding Greek organizations, but I think we should approve this thing. SENATOR SOLDANO: yields to SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: Due to unfortunate circumstances I had to act as SENATE PRESIDENT, so I cannot stick my hand out and ask questions directly. My question is how'd you find out to go through Multicultural Student Affairs vs. just going straight through senate? MS. WASHINGTON: First, we thought we would go straight through the senate. I'm still not sure what's going on with everything. We're still just learning about this. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: From what I know, you approached SENATE PRESIDENT AMESQUITA asking about your situtation. Did he inform you at all that we have a fair shake act in our statutes which states that we cannot fund any organization more than $500 in any given year? MS. WASHINGTON: I wasn't aware of that. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE: He didn't mention that to you? There is a loophole, like in most governments and the loophole is to go through a department which is obviously MSA. My concern is that, do you 20 think that MSA would accept Lamda Chi Alpha or Delta Chi, or Phi Delta Theta under their umbrella if they were to ask them for funding and say that, "Look, we can't get more than $500 because of the Fair Shake Act that CSUN has so let's run through MSA and go ahead and use that loophole. Do you think that that could become a potential problem? Do you think that MSA would allow that? MS. WASHINGTON: I can understand where you're coming from, but as multicultural is governing us, it would make sense for us to go to MSA. If we were under Greek Life, we would go through them. If you're not governed by MSA, how would you go through them? SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: Obviously not all the details were filled in to you. That's what I'm perceiving here. Do you think it would be right to have all the other Greek organizations to go through and get money for their national conventions whatever year they come up sending how ever many people are coming through? MS. WASHINGTON: I don't feel that funding for this convention is strictly a Greek issue. Any organization with a worthy cause should be heard out. SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE CIANCI: I believe any worthy cause should be funded, but everyone has their own concept, their own perception of what a worthy cause is so you're saying it'd be okay for any other of the Greek organizations go through MSA and get as much funding as they like and send as many members as they'd like as well to their national conference. MS. WASHINGTON: I don't think you understood me correctly. MSA governs Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. at this time. So, if they were to be .. .it would be just as so because they are governing our organization. If someone that's not