MEETING START TIME: 6:30 PM

 

ATTENDANCE:

Committee: Buck, Percy, Mattern, Wilding, Taylor, Temple, Watka, St. Amand, Bertel, King, Cordova,

Absent:

Non-Committee: Howard, Evers, Morabito

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION:

• President
  • I did Zach’s employee review today.
  • Sexual Violence Prevention Committee Report and Tobacco-Free Committee Reports still taking time to be released.
  • I talked with Carl today about SOLC.
    • He is here for us regardless of our decision. He is very reassuring.
    • He is going to try coming to our Wednesday meeting.
  • Our decision:
    • Take them out of our budget.
    • Make a contingency line labelled “Workshops and Retreats” that any recognized organization can access.
    • Make them an unfunded organization.
  • Vice President
    • We have some commencement applications in!
    • Formal
      • Numbers in by tomorrow.
    • I am interested in progression meetings next week
      • I want to focus on Senators since I see you all here every week.
    • Retreat, not doing a full retreat
  • Treasurer
    • Not much happening.
    • I signed some stuff for Ace of Cakes
  • DOC
    • Newsletter is out
    • The bulletin board is going into full effect.
      • First “Senators of the Month” are going to be members who are not participating in elections.
    • The extra desk calendar will be used on the other bulletin board.
    • Declarations close on Friday.
  • CIO
    • Give me your bills.
    • I have a Bylaws Bill to show you.
    • The way I take minutes
      • Quotations
      • Capturing the Message
      • Recording the meeting/Time Stamps
    • They way I organize agendas, or, “SOARC, you can have your bills back.”
      • More unsuccessful than successful experiment
      • I was looking to make the agendas more neat but it seems I made more inconveniences.
    • Voter registration, let’s do it!
  • Academic
    • No report.
  • Campus
    • I introduced myself to some of the directors.
    • I talked with Buck about having Campus Committee liaisons.
    • Parking Public Forum
      • Bertel: What can External do?
      • Watka: Push to meet with them.
    • I am meeting up with Public Safety to hear what they thought about the riots.
    • Thank you for having me.
  • Cultural
    • Calendar Faculty Committee brought up the Indigenous People’s Day bill.
      • They said they cannot do anything right now.
      • They presented three options:
        • Creating a dual calendar, separating a faculty and students calendar and an offices calendar.
        • Creating another day before Thanksgiving.
        • Disassociating from the State altogether (not happening.)
        • Not doing anything, just celebrating it the way we choose.
      • The next meeting of the Standards and Calendar committee is February 16^th. Please go.
    • Ace of Cakes
      • Almost one month away
      • We are getting more participants
      • Talking about it at President’s Meeting, hopefully that will bring in participants.
      • We finalized the judges
        • Director of the MU, Director of the Women’s Center, Associate VP
      • Rhody-Thon
        • Talk with you Committees about it. It is a fundraising effort for Hasbro’s Children Hospital.
        • There will be a dance at the end.
        • Lots of (good) food will be there.
      • Advertising for Future Events
        • I emailed people to share that we can advertise for them.
      • February Program
        • This is our monthly diversity program, but we do not have time for one this month.
      • External
        • The Narragansett Meeting is happening tomorrow at 4:30 PM.
          • We are going to talk about ways to have, as students, a better relationship with the town.
          • I am interested in hearing what you think the Narragansett Liaison position should do. It would serve as “a backward complaint system.”
          • They would regularly work with members of the town council to prevent too much bad feelings.
          • I am also interested in committees and liaisons for other reasons.
          • ZT: Let’s come back to how many reports they are taking in a semester or two.
          • Bertel: I would like it to be multiple people participating.
          • King: Could not these duties be added to the External Committee’s bylaws? The framework is there to assign these tasks to members of the committee.
          • Bertel: I thought of that. But External is very broad so we already get a lot coming at us. This would not be a Senate committee. The town can create ad hoc committees to help us.
        • Finance
          • Budgeting
            • They are due this Friday.
          • I received 67 on time out of “a lot.”
          • I am looking at Senate Stipend changes. The Finance Committee will be voting on these if brought to them and ultimately the full Senate.
            • I am interested in lowering Finance and President and raising SOARC Chair.
          • SOARC
            • We started Stipend Review today.
              • We will be doing that every Monday and Tuesday for the next month.
            • President’s Meeting is today.
          • New Business
            • Howard – Desk
              • Explains idea.
              • Taylor: We can move old stuff out of Filing Cabinets into the library.
            • Bylaws Committee notices that committees are creating many liaison positions. We are paying closer attention to that part of the Bylaws relating to Liaisons.
          • Extra
            • Taylor: What records would we be comfortable moving into the library?
            • King: An IT MU employee is interested in helping us with IT.
            • Morabito: Kareem has Vending Machine plans.
            • King: I need a Vice Chair. I nominate Alison Flath.
            • Buck: Second
            • (8 – 0 – 0)
            • Watka: I nominate Mark Gall as VC of Campus.
            • Amand: Second
            • (8 – 0 – 0)
            • Mattern: We are starting Assassins! (Formal is open season for Senators by Senators.)

MEETING ADJOURNMENT TIME: 8:35 PM