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Minutes from January 23rd, 2007

Associated Students of Occidental College

Senate Meeting

January 23rd, 2007

Minutes by Sadia Afolabi

Passed: 01.30.07

 

Attendance:

Matt Kuzio, ASOC President; Alison Dempsey, Campus Wide Senator; Rozell Hodges, Campus Wide Senator; Amy Laslett, Campus Wide Senator; Teddy Zou, Campus Wide Senator; Konstantin Chaykovskiy, 1st year; Andrew DeBlock, 1st year; Patrick McCredie, sophomore; Mike Myers, Sophomore; Jimmy Gillan, Junior; Max Thoman-Tedford, Junior; John Wilson, Senior;

             

Ex Oficio: Kenna Cottrill, advisor; Katie Orme, GA Co-Chair

 

Guests: 

 *      This meeting has no official agenda
 

I.                   Matt Kuzio called this meeting to order at 7:00 pm
 

II.                Winter Break Overview

Teddy: Spent his winter break working in Barnes and Nobles. He enjoyed reading a lot of books but especially the World is flat

Allison: Spent a lot of time with her dog and took a trip to San Fran

Amy: Babysat

Mike: San Fran

Max: Went to Hawaii

Konstantin: Saw friends he hasn’t seen in a long time

Patrick: Was with friends

John: Met with friends and went to New Orleans

Katie: Surprised her sister for her 16th birthday

Kenna: Worked a lot and got things done

Matt: Spent 5 days skiing.

Andrew: New Orleans

 

III.       New Business

 

     A.         GA Update

 

Katie Orme said that Honor Board will be present and she is excited for the new semester. Also she will be alone thus misses Patrice. She said that the time for this semester is not ideal Thursday at noon and hope something can be done

 

B.    Public finances:

 

Matt: finances: The board never transferred $5374.00 to RHA

Matt entertained a motion to transfer the amount

Seconded by Jimmy Gillian

Vote: General consent 10-0-0

 

Matt read a letter from the Bengal bus manager explaining their need for an additional $ 2000.00 for their budget. This was due by unforeseen damages.

Jimmy asked if their was a student who was responsible for the accident. Kenna said that the student hit something stationary and the car needs body works and some repairs. Matt explained that whether the Bengal bus has the money or not they are still responsible for the payments. The Bengal bus’s budget doesn’t cover accidents. Andrew asked how they dealt with accidents in the past. Kenna said it has never happened to this extent before.

 

Alison said that she is against the money because the bus runs errands without students and this needs to be cut down. John asked how this will help in paying for the accident repairing. Alison said that they  have to run fewer runs. Jimmy said that this is an interesting precedent because the college is not paying for this and if anything happens in the future they will come to ASOC. Rozell asked what happens if the ASOC doesn’t fund them. Matt said it will come out of their rental agreement budget. Jimmy said that the school  insurance policy is not right because how can one student crash a van and the payment has to come out of every student. Mike said

Alison said that the airport run is not the problem the issue is when there are errands without riders. She has experienced this a couple of times.

 

This will be moved to next weeks’ discussion

 

The new meetings time was set b by the board to be Tuesdays at 7:30 pm in Fowler 111.

 

Discussion on the Guidelines:

Andrew moved to pass the capital improvement guidelines

Seconded by Patrick

Vote: 11-0-0

 

GENERAL UPDATE

 

Amy said that the petition signed went well and so not well. She said that they want to put an ad to explain the 3 phases of the project to the student body so they know that the project is concrete. She also said that the first phase is going on right now and the 2nd phase will be done over the summer. Kenna said that the student life will be responsible for night activities…..

John asked where the TVs and computers will be because of the dances and etc… Amy said it is a good point and that the places where the electronics will be placed will not take up a lot of time.

 

Jimmy was suppose to meet with John Beck the computer programmer but it didn’t work out today. He thinks the board should discuss the fact that there is no cable TV and internet TVs even though he brought it to the GA it was being shut down.

 

Mike worked on his community day is march 3rd.and thinks that Jimmy’s point is very important.

 

Teddy has been working on the student services and the pilot program will start this semester. They students with their degrees will be working with campus safety. He will be bringing a budget proposal to the senate for about 1000.00 that will be geared towards books etc. Andrew said that because the service will be provided along with the campus safety it might scare off students from using it. Teddy said that the program is on a baby stage at this point and the administration doesn’t have enough confidence to let the students operate on their own. Rozell was concerned about the books and their editions.

 

John will be meeting with Holly Nieto and Dean Frank regarding security in the library. He said that the problem is that some locks needs to be replaced. Amy said that having security camera will be cost effective that hiring a student to supervise.

 

Patrick said it’s better not to do hall spread this month because there is nothing to update students on. Quad sitting will be sent via emails.

 

ELECTIONS

 

Elections will be held next Wednesday and Thursday. The petitions are due on Friday.

 

Kuz’s corner

 

Next Thursday is the dinner with President Prager.

Matt is designing a calendar that every senator will be responsible for filling up with activities and event they are doing.

He is very excited about this semester and all the events

 

Moved to adjourn @ 8:00 pm

Seconded by Teddy

Vote GC