SGA Senate Meeting Agenda January 31, 2005 5:00 PM Commonwealth Room I. Call to Order: 5:02 PM II. Welcome III. Approval of Minutes: Under Section 9 part B VA21 changed to virginia21. Motion to approve with changes, 2nd. Passed IV. President’s Report a. Registration: Registrars office needs help and a benefit for helping them is getting to register early. Will be February 1st and 2nd. b. Chair input: Ken Bonk has chosen a new chair for the Hurlbert dinner facilities V. Executive Vice President’s Report a. Banquet/plaques: All councils, please send a list of members for banquet and you need to pick a member of the year for Ashley to order plaques b. SGA Leadership Retreat: is the new name for the SGA Preschool retreat c. Ashley is planning ring ceremony early this year and if you are interesting in her position next year, please get in touch with her d. Forum: Will have a forum at the end of Feb and if you have suggest please contact either Ashley or Carlyn VI. Legislative Vice President’s Report a. Elections: Advertising for elections will go out Feb 2nd and packets go out Feb 14 and the first information session will be Feb 21st. Feb 28th is “meet the candidates” night. b. Electoral Board: Monique, Chris, Christy and Maggie and Matt is the alternate. c. Election Timeline: In section A d. Office Hours Online: we will put the office hours online at the SGA website e. IG Committees: If you cannot go to an IG committee you will contact the person who has the office hour at the time and they will be able to fill in for you. f. Constitution: We will do a big Constitutional revision before the end of the year and if you have any suggestions, please contact Shannon VII. Vice President of Student Finance Report a. Budget: First budget hearings were held today. Everyone who is under SGA will have their budget hearing Feb 14th. Bacchus is requesting level funding; Sports Club is requesting $43,250 which is an increase from last year due to traveling expenses and field maintenance workers. Campus Recreation requested $87,272 for next year for more staff. VIII. Cabinet/Staff Reports a. Office Hours: Senators are required to due 1 hour, so sign up for your hour and do it every week. b. Newsletter: Get information to Brittany by Wed, regarding your position or your council for the Tartan. c. Honor Code: Cost will be $5760 for a total of 288 honor code plaques. Any suggestions, please give them to Cathleen. IX. Council Reports a. LAC: If you are going on the Richmond Trip there is a mandatory meeting at 7pm Wed the 2nd in the Virginia Room. The 7th we will have another meeting at 6PM regarding the trip and both are mandatory. The room will be noticed later. House Bill 17-73, Budget Bill for Radford is the issues we will be addressing. Any questions please contact Shawn. X. Committee Reports a. Presidential Candidate: The candidate will be coming Feb 1st at 5PM in the Preston Auditorium. Please come and bring your friends. b. Academic Advising: Adrianne needs information about where we think that the Advising Committee should put information about advising on the internet to better assist students and what type of information do you think is needed. c. Dedmon: 2006 redoing the roof, want to know if it would be a good idea to change the ideas for the Heth information desk, look out for an email and please email answers back to Mallery. d. Putting together a Tsunami relief program and we will be setting up a table at Heth and at Wal-Mart. We are trying to put together a walk-a-thon for Feb 12th and we are trying to get expert-Ts to donate shirts and that night the Women’s basketball team is playing and these proceeds will be hopefully doubled by another company and half the proceeds will go to the Red Cross and the other half will go to Lowe’s who is doing Habitat for Humanity. Please any ideas contact Bobby e. Building and Grounds Committee: will be doing finalization of the signs. On the shelf in Dalton, working on putting art work up for decoration. f. Black History Month kick off will be next month and look out for events throughout the month. Feb 1st will be kick off at 7 PM XI. Unfinished Business a. Orange Band: remains on the Table until Conference XII. New Business a. ISAC: Ask for an increase in spring funds due to the costs of catering of International Dinner and increase in programming. Asking for $805.32. Motion for $400.00 out of SGA Contingency to go to ISAC programming, 2nd. Call to Question. Motion passed. b. Parking Resolution: Motion to approve the resolution, 2nd. Discussion. Motion Passed c. Café Name: Looking for a new name for the “cyber café”. Some ideas are Lunar Café, Max, Bonnie Café, Piper’s, Solar Café, Cosmic Café, Java Java, Beans, The Café. The finalists are The Max, Cosmic Café, and The Café. d. Motion to approve $860 for the Honor Code Plaques, 2nd. Passed e. Motion to approve the electoral board, 2nd. Passed f. Involvement Transcripts: Next week XIII. Announcements a. Member of the Week: Martin Mash b. Have a new member as the Assistant to the Legislative VP-Darren c. Cabinet and Staff meeting Monday at 6PM XIV. Adjourn: 6:01PM