SGA Senate Meeting Agenda January 17, 2005 5:00 PM Commonwealth Room I. Call to Order: 5:00 PM II. Welcome III. Approval of Minutes: Motion to Approve, 2nd. Minutes Passed IV. President’s Report a. Office: Last night some one left the office open. Please be sure that you always shut the down and keep the office locked to take care of all our equipment b. Important Dates: Please be sure that you get the list of important dates from Kenda c. Heth Renovations: The student Health Center will be moved to Heth as well as the Sexual Assault and Counseling center. d. VASGA Conference: If you have any questions about how other schools are working on a particular project, please contact either: Ed, Kenda, Bobby, or Amanda. V. Executive Vice President’s Report a. Retreat: Retreat went really well thank you to whoever came and if you were not there please contact Ashley b. Banquet will be April 20th in the Muse Banquet Hall VI. Legislative Vice President’s Report a. Elections: Will be the week before spring break and if you are interested in running for a position, please meet with the person that is in that office now. VII. Vice President of Student Finance Report a. Bonnie: Decision was made on the Bonnie Proposal and they approved $56,450 for the equipment in the Student Union. VIII. Cabinet/Staff Reports a. Secretary: Office Hours IX. Council Report a. Graduate Student Council has added a member who will update the Graduate Student Council website. Will be holding a PhD and loan consolidation session as well as a faculty appreciation day. b. LAC: Lobbying trip mandatory meeting with be Feb 2nd 7PM in the Virginia Room. VA21 has a new website at va21.org and please give feedback on the site. The official trip to Richmond will be on Feb 9th leaving at 2:30 to Feb 10th c. International Dinner will be April 23rd and they will need people to cook, so please sign up. X. Committee Reports a. Presidential Search: Narrowed down the search to 3 candidates and they will be on campus January 31, February 1 and 2 and every night at 5 PM they will have a student forum. Please get the words out of all of the students to have many people hearing what the candidates have to say. SGA will have surveys for the students to evaluate the candidates. We will need lots of members help at these events. Please wear your SGA shirts. b. Smoking Policy: Met with Patrick Critzer and in the process of writing the final draft of the smoking policy. Going to talk to the Building and Grounds to see where we can place smoking grounds c. Black History month will be at 7PM in the ballroom and the 24th we will have a speaker for Martin Luther King. XI. Unfinished Business a. Orange Band: February 12th is Orange Band meeting all day event at JMU. If you do have questions and you do want information, please attend this workshop. XII. New Business a. Bonnie: Motion to approve $56,450 out of the SFC funds account for the Hulbert center equipments, 2nd. Call to question, 2nd. Motion Passed b. SFC Appointment: Motion to approve Martin Mash appointed to the SFC, 2nd. Motion Passed. c. SGA Budgets: Final Budgets were given. Discussion. Motion to accept the SGA budget proposals, 2nd. Motion Passed. d. BSAC Budget: Motion to accept BSAC budget, 2nd. Amendment-Motion to add contingency lines into proposal, 2nd. Motion passed. e. Graduate Student Council budget: Discussion. Motion to accept the Graduate Student Council Budget, 2nd. Amendment to change Promotion items to $822.50 for 250 Student Planners and change the budget to $3322.50. Motion withdrawn. Vote on the GSC Budget as originally proposed. Motion fails. Motion to approve the budget to allow for 750 planners and changing the Promotion items to a total of $2467.50 and bringing the total budget to $4,967.50, 2nd. Discussion. Motion to leave the budget as originally written, 2nd. Discussion. Call to Question, 2nd. Vote on keeping the budget as originally proposed. Motion Fails. Discussion on the 750 planners, call to question, 2nd. Vote of total of $4967.50. Motion passed. f. OCSC Budget: Discussion. Motion to accept the OCSC budget with the addition revenue line of $500.00. Discussion. Call to Question, 2nd. Motion Passed g. ISAC Budget: Motion to accept the ISAC budget proposal, 2nd. Motion to change the budget to $9,369.00 and reduce the revenue to $1,000.00. Discussion. Call to Question, 2nd. Motion to change. Call to Question, 2nd. Motion to approve the changed budget passed. h. APC Budget: No changes. Discussion. Motion to accept, 2nd. Call to Question, 2nd. Motion Passed i. LAC Budget: Motion to approve LAC budget, 2nd. Discussion. Call to Question, 2nd. Motion passed. XIII. Announcements a. Member of the Week: Next Week b. Joke of the Day: Next Week c. Blood Drive this week 18th and 19th from 10-4 in the Heth Ballroom. XIV. Adjourn: Motion to Adjourn, 2nd. 6:52 PM