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April 12, 2010 Meeting

Posted on April 12, 2010 by adminNo Comments

The meeting on April 12^th started off with moving New Business to go after Speakers. We had two items under Speakers including the University’s Adoption of LEAP and Dr. Rios speaking about Non-Allocable Segregated Fees. A veto brought to the Speaker’s attention by President Scully was discussed and stands.

4/5/10 Minutes

4/12/10 Agenda

Special Orders

Presidential Election Results: Mr. Horlacher

243 total student votes
Click here for Results
130 for Mr. Andrew Whaley for President
100 for Mr. Jacob Maki for Vice President
The Senate moved to approve the election results with a vote of 14-0-2.
Welcome to the Presidential and Vice Presidential positions for the 2010-2011 school year!

Speakers

Non-Allocable Segregated Fees: Dr. Tom Rios

The only changes from this year to next year in Non-Allocable Fees are: 2.09% change in Student Center, .72% change in Leadership Development, 6.22% change in Health Center, 25.74% change in Williams Center Addition, 4.55% change in Municipal Services.
TOTAL NON-ALLOCABLE: 3.13% change
TOTAL SEGREGATED FEE WITH TEXT RENTAL: 3.71% change

University’s Adoption of LEAP: Dean Mary Pinkerton, Dr. Lois Smith, Dr. Tom Rios

“Our committee recommends that the university through its governance processes adopt and implement shared essential learning outcomes for all UW-W students earning a bachelor’s degree.”
Read HERE: Baccalaureate Learning Outcomes
The Senate unanimously voted to table this item to next week’s agenda. The Speaker will put it under Unfinished Business.

New Business

Housing Guide Veto

President Scully’s Memo
The Senate needs 2/3 majority to override President Scully’s veto.
A motion was made to override the Speaker’s decision of 10 minutes non-extendable debate time. The motion failed 6-9-1.
Sen. Whaley moved to override the veto made by Pres. Scully. He feels we spent ample time discussing this decision and thinks we should stick with the decision the Senate made last week.
Sen. Abbott thanked Pres. Scully for looking into the issue and has specifically put concerns public. She feels it’s in the best interest of the students to stand behind Pres. Scully’s decision.
Sen. Jansen thinks the time Pres. Scully took to align his concerns was appropriate but disagrees. He brought up the response time and feels NoMoreDorms’s response time of 12 hours is adequate. Sen. Jansen agrees with Pres. Scully’s concern about seamless integration. He feels the Senate needs to be thinking more in terms of the future about E-mail and telephone services, instead of taking Pres. Scully’s opinion.
Sen. Gilbert looked up the 2/3 clarification and found that 11 our of 16 Senators is needed to override Pres. Scully’s veto.
Sen. Neerhof feels the Senate should stick with its original decision.
Sen. Bomberg feels the Senate should follow through with the IT Committee’s suggestion of using CyberSolutions as the Housing Guide choice.
It was clarified that this veto is not suggesting the Senate choose CyberSolutions, but only to strike out the decision of the Senate to go with NoMoreDorms.com.
Motion to override the decision by Pres. Scully failed 8-8.
Sen. Neerhof moved to reconsider the previous motion. The motion passed 9-7.
Sen. Jansen moved to extend discussion for 10 mins. with the inclusion of the previous Speaker’s List.
Sen. Drydyk feels this veto is bringing on wasted time and the Senate’s indecisiveness is negatively affecting the original need for a new housing guide. She thinks we need to override Pres. Scully’s veto.
Sen. Jansen wanted to say whatever reservations we have against NoMoreDorms.com, don’t you believe we should have a working relationship with the company we chose? NoMoreDorms.com is closer to us and he feels CyberSolutions only throws money at the problem rather than work with us.
Mr. Rogers, IT believes CyberSolutions is out of the question. He is in full support of supporting a local entrepreneur. He does not feel the necessary needs of the student government were shown in any proposal. He is also a believer of fair business and does not agree with the propaganda (targeted, biased information) that was sent to Senators who voted against the housing guide decision.
Sen. Neerhof pointed out Pres. Scully’s point of whether or not we have a housing guide to provide service to students. Ms. Jan Bilgen says all contracts are negotiable but she would not do that without Senate approval. The contact needs to be changed because there were some things not stated clearly in the RFP such as terms and conditions that are mandatory by the state.
Sen. Whaley wants to remind the Senators who they’re representing. Which website would they rather go to when in need of services? NoMoreDorms or our current site?
Sen. Abbott brought to light the e-mails she received trying to persuade her to vote the opposite way she originally did. She feels she has gotten a chance to speak with students and none of the e-mails she received were from students.
Sen. Drydyk feels the e-mails sent were representative of business owners trying to get business from WSG and should be expected as Senators.
The motion on the floor is to override the veto by the President. The motion failed 9-7.
President Scully’s veto stands.

Video to promote WSG: Mr. Lane Kimble

Mr. Kimble is going to create a video to promote WSG for his class. He hopes to interview Senators for the video to give WSG a positive piece to put on our homepage, on Facebook, and YouTube.
Project is due May 10th but Mr. Kimble would like to have a script ready

Executive Board Selection and Approval Process Recommendation

E-Board Selection/Approval Calendar
April 13: E-Board Applications made available
April 20: E-Board Application Deadline at 5 p.m.
April 25: E-Board Interview Deadline
April 26: E-Board slate presented to the Senate
May 3: Last WSG Meeting
The Senate voted to approve the Executive Board Selection and Approval Process Recommendation with a voice vote.

S09-10:08: Declaration of Whitewater Political Bloc Formation
Submitted by: Sen. Jonathan Bomberg, Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Jansen

S09-10:08
Tonight is strictly for clerical and content changes to the legislation.
“Political blocs” was described as any idea, theory, knowledge creation formed into a platform.

External Committee Reports

Dining Services: Sens. Stephanie Abbott & Sam Gilbert

A typed up list of information will be available in the office.
Coils in Drumlin need to be rewound so Players Grill will be closed this Friday and Saturday.
Updates on the Dining Contract can be seen in Sen. Abbott’s write up.
Carroll College field trip next meeting.
The Dining Contract will be finalized May 6th.
Discounts for items on food points will be put in place next year.

SHAC (Student Health Advisory Committee): Sen. Jeff Martin

Next week, hopefully, the director of health services will be talking to SHAC about wellness project. He’s going to explain what the wellness project is and what he’s looking for SHAC to do.
Victims of Secondhand Smoke seminar hosted by Stan Nebel is Wed., April 21st, 6 p.m., Upham 145, FREE

SUFAC: Ms. Anna Schwarz, Clerk

Committee representatives will bring back concise feedback on the request as soon as the committee gives them the information.
The committee will be meeting every 2 weeks. Please talk to Ms. Schwarz or Mr. Coenen if you have concerns.

Special Event Policy: Sen. Jeff Martin

5 special event levels was changed to 7 special event levels
Next meeting Thursday, April 15th, UC 266, 3:30 p.m.

Officer Reports

President Tim Scully

University Curriculum Committee: The Communication Dept. is changing their GPA requirements from a 2.0 to a 2.25. What are your thoughts?

Vice President Riley Mabeus

Presidential Banquet is Friday, May 7th at 6:30 p.m. in UC 275
All members of WSG will be invited along with family members already written down.
Tell Riley by tomorrow at NOON if you would like anyone else to be invited.
The banquet is business casual at minimum, formal-wear encouraged (not black tie affair)
Senators look for your invitation in your mailbox

University Services/Luke Schalewski

Recommended by a few people that WSG sponsor the Off Campus Housing Fair next year in October. Luke will be writing up a plan for next year’s University Services Director.

Academic Affairs/Sarah Herlache

Faculty Senate is Tuesday, April 12 at 2:30 p.m.
Meeting with Beverly Kopper for lunch on April 20th with Tim & Riley

Public Relations/Karri Duerwachter

Obscure Awards: Sarah Palin award to Sen. Stephanie Abbott, Happy Birthday to Mr. Cody Horlacher, and Congrats to Sens. Whaley and Maki.

Legislative Affairs/Scott Coenen

66% of the U.S. has returned their census forms!
77% in Wisconsin – Best of all states!

IT/Jay Rogers

Mr. Rogers was not in the neighborhood.

Advisor/Jan Bilgen

PB Poorman Pride Center Dedication: Saturday, April 17, 9:20 a.m.
Nonessential Power Reduction on Earth Day: April 22, 8:10 a.m.
Make a Difference Day: April 23rd go to my.uww.edu to sign up!
Diversity Forum May 4, 9 a.m. – Presentation, 10:45 a.m. Listening Session

Clerk/Anna Schwarz

April 27th at 5 p.m. is the day dedicated to scanning hard copies of legislation to get them on our website!
S90-91:10 Readmitting of Executive Board to Table: Members of the E-board are invited to sit at a specific table. Passed 14-5.

PARLIAMENTARIAN’S TIPZ OF THE WEEK

Reconsidering a motion is generally practiced on the day of a motion. The prevailing side is the only side that can reconsider a motion. A certain strategy could be that if you feel like a motion’s going to fail then you should agree to fail with it so you can move to reconsider it. There is only debate on motions that are considered debatable.

Rescinding the motion is generally used in future meetings, not the day of. You can announce it early, before the meeting, at the Speaker’s discretion. But if you wait until the meeting you need 2/3 majority vote to pass it.

Speaker/Justin Schoenemann

Standing Rule: 5.2 (C) Have primary responsibility for the Senate.
If any Senator ever feels threatened or that any inappropriate conversation has been had, he is available for advice.

Unfinished Business

S09-10:07: Special Fee Process Committee Act

S09-10:07
The Senate voted to pass S09-10:07.

Whitewater Student Governmenent is the voice for UW-Whitewater. We want to hear what you have to say whether it’s good, bad, or ugly! We meet every Monday at 7 p.m. in the University Center room 259. Come sit in the gallery and see what we’re all about, we’d love to have you!

If you ever have any questions/comments/concerns either stop by our office in the Warhawk Involvement Center in the UC room 140, call the office 262-472-1166, or e-mail ScullyTA20@uww.edu.

April 5, 2010 Meeting

Posted on April 5, 2010 by adminNo Comments

April 5th’s meeting had a plethora of committee reports! The final Housing Guide decision was made and S09-10:07 and S09-10:08 were discussed in New Business.

3/29/10 Minutes

4/5/10 Agenda

Student Issues and Concerns

Ian Boschert: Brought a concern to WSG about landlords misleading tenants about Internet speeds. He feels Internet speeds are too slow in his Stettler Apartment but was told otherwise when signing a lease. University Services Director Luke Schalewski informed him of the phone number for violations and suggested he contact the free lawyer if he is very concerned.

Speakers

Max Taylor: Common Council Re-Election

Mr. Taylor has changed his mind about not running for re-election for his District 2 Common Council seat. He came to WSG asking for all District 2 resident votes in tomorrow’s election.

Internal Committee Reports

Elections: Mr. Cody Horlacher

Elections are this week Wednesday and Thursday! 11 a.m.-6 p.m. in the UC. Need your student ID to vote.

External Committee Reports

Student Tech. Fee: Sen. Hagen Kaczmarek

Fund provided by the Wisconsin System for general access labs (i.e. McGraw Labs, Upham Labs, Andersen Labs) ResHall labs not included.
The committee’s calling for proposals on April 22^nd. Please contact Leslie Meyer – Advisor to the Dean – with ideas.

Special Event: Sen. Jeff Martin

Summer camps, waivers and an alcohol clause were added to policies.

Sustainability Fund Ad-Hoc: Sen. Karen Drydyk

Proposal was due today but there is not one available due to lack of committee meetings.
Sen. Drydyk plans to have a proposal ready next week for WSG.