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Call to Order<\/strong>: 8:51<\/p>\n

Attendance:<\/strong> Blewitt, Evers, Gall, Howard, Kohl, McWeeney, Morabito, Nelson, Straube, Taylor, Wilding (Committee); Senators Bagley, Barnes, Blanchflower, and Houtz (Non-committee)<\/p>\n

Absent:<\/strong> Sardinha (Excused)<\/p>\n

Discourse:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/strong>: D&D is a thing that this committee has historically used for bonding. Let\u2019s do it again; I will GM. Hit me up if you want to join, but the maximum is ten people.<\/p>\n

Blewitt<\/strong>: What days and times would this be?<\/p>\n

Wilding<\/strong>: Sessions will be at most two hours. Schedule depends on players, but it will probably be on weekends.<\/p>\n

Discussion continues.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/strong>: I will send out a Doodle for scheduling. We will work on location later.<\/p>\n

Discussion on location continues anyways.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wilding<\/strong>: DAA is next week, and I\u2019ve been getting to know the Alumni Association people.<\/p>\n

Morabito<\/strong>: I will be passing around a Liaison sign-up sheet next week, let me know if you all are interested in any of the positions.<\/p>\n

Kohl<\/strong>: One of my professors, Keith LaBelle, is extremely active regarding Sexual Assault awareness and is offering to train us. Can we do that? I can contact him.<\/p>\n

Consent spreads around the table.<\/em><\/p>\n

McWeeney<\/strong>: Those tie-breaker elections were sort of terrible. We very much need to work on advertising and recruitment.<\/p>\n

Kohl<\/strong>: We didn\u2019t have a ton of time to start implementing things. We need to start talking about the next elections right now, before the semester even comes close to ending.<\/p>\n

Taylor moves that Exec develop a plan by the end of the semester that would accomplish 50% voter turnout. The motion is seconded by Kohl.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nelson, Gall, and Taylor speak.<\/em><\/p>\n

McWeeney<\/strong>: That\u2019s a very lofty goal.<\/p>\n

Howard<\/strong>: Could we instate the Elections Committee early instead?<\/p>\n

Taylor<\/strong>: I don\u2019t think that enthusiasm has been particularly rampant in the Elections Committee, whereas the Executive Committee is supposed to be enthusiastic about their jobs.<\/p>\n

Gall<\/strong> (to Taylor): This is a plan to reach 50% voter turnout?<\/p>\n

Howard moves to amend the motion such that it would read \u201cthe Executive Committee will develop a plan by the end of the semester that aims to achieve 50% voter turnout in the Senate\u2019s elections.\u201d The motion is seconded by Taylor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gall<\/strong>: What happens if people want to contribute who aren\u2019t on the Executive Committee?<\/p>\n

Taylor<\/strong>: Taking the time to organize a new committee would be a mess. This is for efficiency.<\/p>\n

Kohl agrees.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nelson<\/strong> (to Gall): They are all welcome to share their thoughts with us.<\/p>\n

Barnes<\/strong>: If we proposed elections with more enthusiasm, we would have more enthusiastic members.<\/p>\n

Taylor<\/strong>: Good point; it\u2019ll take more than a bill to solve.<\/p>\n

Nelson<\/strong>: A lot of peoples\u2019 platforms when running for Elections Committee is \u201cI can count.\u201d Can we get some more passion than that? That\u2019s a low, low bar.<\/p>\n

Kohl<\/strong>: [agrees]: Members of the Executive Committee need to set a more positive tone for elections. Maybe that\u2019ll help.<\/p>\n

McWeeney speaks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Howard raises a point of order regarding the topic of conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gall moves the previous question, seconded by Wilding. The motion passes (9-0-0), and debate ends.<\/em><\/p>\n

The amendment passes (9-0-0), and the main motion passes by the same vote. The following resolution is thus adopted by the Committee:<\/em><\/p>\n

Resolved,<\/u><\/em><\/strong> that the Executive Committee will develop a plan by the end of the semester that aims to accomplish 50% voter turnout in the Senate\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

Bagley<\/strong>: As a person speaking from experience, we are basically unknown in the Student Body. This is a huge, rampant problem, so thank you for pledging to fix it.<\/p>\n

Barnes<\/strong>: We would need online voting or electronic counting for that goal to be feasible.<\/p>\n

McWeeney agrees.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gall<\/strong>: This will require amendments to the Constitution; this will take like a year to develop.<\/p>\n

Taylor moves that this topic be addressed at the beginning of the next meeting, and further that the first fifteen minutes of the meeting are to be spent brainstorming a list of points to address relating to the plan, the Committee immediately thereafter delegating the points to relevant person(s). The motion is seconded by Nelson and passes (8-0-2; Howard, Blewitt abstain)<\/em><\/p>\n

9:15 Morabito moves to adjourn, seconded by Wilding, which passes (8-2-0; Howard, Gall oppose)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Call to Order: 8:51 Attendance: Blewitt, Evers, Gall, Howard, Kohl, McWeeney, Morabito, Nelson, Straube, Taylor, Wilding (Committee); Senators Bagley, Barnes, Blanchflower, and Houtz (Non-committee) Absent: Sardinha (Excused) Discourse: Wilding: D&D is a thing that this committee has historically used for bonding. Let\u2019s do it again; I will GM. Hit me up if you want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-affairs-minutes","category-executive-affairs-minutes-2018","category-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/studentsenate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}