Call to Order: 10:27

Attendance: Gall, Howard, Menard, Morabito, Nelson, St. Amand, Straube, Wilding (committee); Bagley, Cummiskey, Goyette (non-committee)

Absent: McWeeney (excused); Blewitt, Evers, Kohl, Taylor

Wilding requests that the committee fill out the scheduling When2meet for the next semester, answers various questions.

Wilding: My meeting with President Dooley today went well. They’ve sent out a proposal to the Governor’s office to improve online education. We talked about the budget, and where the money comes from, as well as how Auxiliaries are funded. That will be discussed more next semester. We also discussed how the Student Activities Tax works.

Straube leaves the room. The Chair notes that the meeting no longer has quorum.

Menard: Is it good that they want to work so closely with us?

Wilding: I think so. No previous president has worked so closely.

Discussion evolves into one regarding governments on satellite campuses.

Morabito: Is Dean DeHayes coming to Public Forum? I’ve been emailing him about it.

Wilding: I think so.

Wilding: There’ll be an article in tomorrow’s Good 5¢ Cigar about the Senate’s lack of cohesion this term.

Discussion turns to speculation and potential responses.

Menard: We fund them. We could always try to influence them with that.

Dissent to Menard’s comment spreads around the table.

Wilding: I’m hoping it’s only me who gets slammed. It might be a headliner; this is not under the Senate report.

St.Amand: I put notes on the agenda and asked Yip to put it into the Cigar mailbox, but it seemed to have not made it there.

Howard: A lot of people check that mailbox.

Gall asks a question.

St.Amand: [responding to Gall] The cigar doesn’t always print what we think is important, so I’m considering writing our own report on top of that, about the General meeting. Shoot me an email by Friday so I can work over the weekend.

Menard: Did President Dooley or Vice President Collins ask about Payroll today?

Wilding: No.

Morabito: The bill from Cultural Affairs, SS-18/19-44, was not handled well on the floor. Let’s try to get corrections to the handler on a reasonable timeframe. Some people abstained because they didn’t know what was happening.

Howard: The bill itself was great, but the writing had serious issues.

Menard: It was sort of hard to follow, and I think it would have been more important to get it done right than to get it done quickly.

St.Amand: Much of what was said on the floor seemed accusatory of Chair Kohl. She took every avenue to make that bill perfect and felt like we ignored all of that. It is our job as leaders to make sure that there is a correct and incorrect way to talk on the floor.

Goyette: We do amendments on the floor because there is no other place to make them.

Nelson: Kohl came to me to make sure this bill was good, because I am genderqueer and the Liaison to the Gender and Sexuality Center.

Bagley: Yeah, it was important, and it was mostly written very well. It was the small fraction that wasn’t great that was handled poorly. We all need to pick apart our own bills before they come to the floor. It should be ready to vote on when it is introduced, without regard to whether it is scheduled to be immediately voted on.

Gall: If this bill is to be relevant to higher officials, then we need to be sure that it is flawless. This was a case where every single typo was significant.

Morabito: This isn’t to say don’t correct things, it is to say that the way those motions are made is important.

[10:44] President Wilding declares the meeting adjourned. No objections are raised.