Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Minutes 10/02/07

MCSG Legislative Body meeting Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Absent: Wes Alcenat

Excused Absence: Laura Bartolomei-Hill, Andrew Mirzayi

Quorum? Yes

Proceedings:

Macalester College Student Government Legislative Body information distributed.

7:10 – Meeting called to order

FAC:

  • Macalester Protestants’ request for $300 dollars taken off the table.
  • The Mac Protestants focus on discussion, dialogue, and community building.
  • The three hundred dollar request by Mac protestants passes
  • Proposal to appoint five new members appointed to FAC heard
  • Arguments that more then five people to FAC burdens commission, makes meetings unfeasible
  • Proposal defended: more people allows for more connections with Mac programs, eight people not burdensome
  • Soham questions why the FAC gets more people than the SSC
  • The criteria from which these people are appointed was to diversify the FAC
  • Suggestion that the FAC limit the body to five people with diverse views
  • Food policy: will approve $80 dollars in snacks, encourages cooking within event to create bonding, disapproves of funding organizations
  • FAC member (Rudy) argues that the meeting allows for more discussion, consensus is still possible
  • Movement to table bill on the in order to provide a written out description of meetings with the eight-person body.
  • A request that the appointments attend the next LB meeting
  • Vote to table to appointment proposal passes

SSC:

  • Provided an outline of committee, no proposals

AAC:

  • Explanation of committee: Focuses to deal with faculty and community
  • In association with department, ACC members are trying to create a new humanities major focusing on humanitarianism as well as a new Math/Comp Sci major
  • Working to respond to a Mac weekly article focusing on potential elitism in the global citizenship program
  • Trying to create a new text book program (information distributed)

ERC:

  • Working on ways to publicize board of trustees meeting, ERC encourages attendance
  • Attempting to create a plastic slip bathroom stall information distribution program
  • Idea of placing suggestion boxes in the dorms has been received positively
  • Correction of contact information for Tom

Program Board:

  • Program Board has an upcoming dance
  • PB is subsidizing ticket purchases for a play in the cities

Presidential Task Force:

  • Drafting and sending out a survey to students to gather information to aid with budget proceedings

Student Conduct Hearing Board:

  • Picking students for a panel to hear conduct board cases in front of a board
  • Motion to approve the appointments to the Conduct Hearing Board pases unanimously
  • A request is made to have the new appointees attend the meeting

Announcements:

  • Franz attended a conference at Augsberg
  • Franz will attend the Board of Trustees meeting
  • A request to have Franz talk about the Lily Grant to the Trustees is made
  • The rooming situation at Mac is good, 16 open beds
  • Suggest that we ask ITS to present potential new email systems to the body

Programs Board:

Meeting Adjourns at 7:52

Minutes 9/25/07

Absent: None
Excused Absence: Soham Banerji
Quorum? Yes

Proceedings:

Macalester College Student Government Legislative Body information distributed.

7:22 – Meeting called to order

• Roll Call
• Announcement: Amy Knulls is no longer a part of LB
• Commission Assignments announced
• Explanation of information outlined in binders
• Attendance policy explained: 2 meeting absences allowed, 24 hours advance email notice required for excused absences.

FAC:
• Outline of Mac Dems, Mac GOP upcoming debate event. Political Science paying for entirety of advertising. FAC recommends payment for Hotel, airline tickets, meals and hotel for speakers. $4,330 is estimated cost.
• The motion to allocate $4,330 of funding is approved.
• The Model UN asks for additional $50 dollars in order to cover cost increase from last year’s commitment fee.
• Motion to approve $50 dollars of additional funding for Model UN passes.
• Mac Protestants request $300 dollars to fund dinner discussions.
• The body voted to table the request until the following meeting.
• MASECA request $94 dollars to allow them to meet their new budget for their mega-[?] occurring on Sept. 29, 2007.
• The $94 dollar request was approved unanimously by the body.
• $200 dollar request for Thistle literary magazine. Budget covers 200 issues with 25 pages each and a small advertising budget.
• The $200 dollar request is approved.

ERC:
• Student representatives for the trustee committee have been approved. They are having an informational training session for those students on Saturday Sept. 29, 2007.
• Student representatives’ names will be released to the Mac Weekly.

Programs Board:
• Planning new thing for the semester to build off the success of the lawn party
• Committees begin meeting separately

Meeting Adjourns at 7:53