The Geoduck Student Union

Meeting started at 1:17.

Representatives present: Robert Tacker, Naia Danko, Devin Moncada, Charles Adkins, Micah Nordgren, Mia Harvey, Jasmine Wong, Rebecca Canright, Levi Campbell, Aidan Ripley, Dylan Macardican, Brandon Ellington, Adam Barttell, John Gundayao, Chun Yin Kun, Mike Espy, Jonathan Leggette, Devin Moncada, Waylon Robert.

Executive Director: Camille Closson.

Advisor: Tom Mercado.

Motion to approve Minutes

Approved.

Motion to approve Agenda

Approved.

Public Comments:

Kaylan Mahnke reminded us of the Golden Geoduck Awards happening on June 5th from 7pm to 8:30pm in the Longhouse.

Tom let us know that we needed to get our SLARs in to get paid for this quarter.

Jasper, from RAD Services, as well as other RAs, read us a letter explaining their demand for support from the GSU and other campus organizations. 15 RAs so far have stopped working.

Motion to endorse the Resident Assistants Fighting for Tomorrow’s Collective Demands.

Approved.

Motion to write a letter of support to the RAs and have it be approved by the RAs and not the GSU.

Approved.

Devin, Mia, and John volunteered to write it.

Check-ins:

Charles let us know that the event with Judge Robart was cancelled and postponed to the Fall, same thing with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. Also let us know that him and his team are nearly done with transition documents and are excited to see the results of the Legislative Poll on the ballot.  Updated us on his ferry project.

Camille updated the team on the constituent complaint she drafted and said she hoped they would get feedback from students.

Phoebe asked us if it was possible for students to organize their own law enforcement on campus while Police Services seem to be inactive.  (It’s not.)

A.Butler Conference Funding and Geoducks@Nite Program.

The group did not approve the funding request.

WashPIRG Climate Action Campaign.

Mason Rolph asked us for our support for the college to subscribe to PSE’s Green Direct Power Program.  Will go to the President’s Office and the VP of Finance’s Office on June 6th at 10:30am to ask them to support said subscription as well.  Also asking us to support the letter that will be presented to both members of the Administration.

Motion to endorse the letter and add the GSU as a signatory to it.

Approved.

Meeting adjourned at 2:38.

1:15 – Start meeting

1:20 – Approve Agenda and Minutes

1:25 – Public Comments

1:45 – Check-ins

2:00 – Conference funding (A. Butler)

2:15 – Geoducks@nite program (A. Butler)

3:00 – Adjourn meeting.

Meeting started: 3:05 in Tacoma.

Representatives present: Robert Tacker, Mike Espy, Phoebe (Kun Yin Chung), Jenny Whitfield, Charles Adkins, Adam Bartell, Asher Matthews, John Gundayao, Jasmine Wong, Levi Campbell, Francisco Daza, Brandon Ellington, Mia Harvey, Naia Danko, Rebecca Canright, Aidan Ripley, Devin Moncada.
Executive Director: Camille Closson.
Advisor: Tom Mercado

3:00 – Start meeting
3:05 – Approve Agenda and Minutes
3:10 – Public Comments
3:20 – Check ins
3:30 – Bylaws changes
4:10 – Executive Director Interviews (2 candidates)
4:45 – Adjourn meeting

Representatives present: Alexander Butler, Brandon Ellington, Adam Bartell, Dylan Macardican, Levi Campbell, Charles Adkins, Mia Harvey, Asher Matthews, Devin Moncada, Jasmine Wong, John Gundayao, Waylon Robert, Mike Espy, Micah Nordgren, Jacques LeBlanc.

Executive Director: Camille Closson.

Advisor:  Tom Mercado.

Meeting started at 1:15.

Motion to add a discussion about the future Executive Director after “S&A Board hiring”

Approved.

Motion to add discussion about our current Elections Commissioner after “Legislative Poll”.

Approved.

Motion to approve the Agenda.

Approved.

Motion to approve the Minutes.

Approved.

Public Comments:

Jacob Schroeter, from Wildland Studies, talked to the team about the Wildland Studies programs that take students abroad.  Info Session at 4pm on 05/11 in Sem 2 C2107.

Tom talked to us about reaching out to students to be our second Elections Commissioner for week 8 and 9 of this quarter and thanked us for our work for the State Supreme Court Justices.

Arne Nelson asked us if we were going to have a public forum organized for students to meet GSU candidates for next year (we are).

Check-ins:

Asher updated us on the formal complaint we received regarding Charles as our Director of Legislative Affairs and let us know that the person who had sent us the email has now retracted their comments and that the person who had signed the complaint giving their support has retracted their signature as well.  Case closed.

Brandon updated us on his work changing the bylaws.  Looking for more input.

Mia asked the team their opinion on how to get more diversity on the team.

Camille thanked WashPIRG for their work promoting the State Supreme Court Justices and let the team know that she would be gone week 7.

Alexander let us know the First Year Housing project was going well.

Charles  updated us on his projects of making a ferry, train, and Orca cards more available to students.  Federal Judge Robart will be coming to campus on May 31st at 2:30.

Student Forums

Motion to defer this bylaw proposal to the bylaws committee.

Approved.

CEC and S&A Board hiring

Kayla Mahnke asked us for help hiring the next Clean Energy Committee members during week 8.

Asher, Devin, and Aidan volunteered.

Also need 2-3 reps to help hire the next S&A Board members.

Dylan, Adam, and Rebecca volunteered.

Executive Director hiring process:

Motion to have the entire team interview and hire the next Executive Director

Approved.

Elections Banner vote:

Motion to vote on the three banner options separately.

Approved.

Option 2 got picked.

Movie Night:

John and Mia: Week 9 event, Thursday June 2nd, helped by the Greeners Organization.  

Need help the day of and would like to have the GSU sponsor it.

Motion to sponsor the event.

Approved.

Legislative Poll:

Charles: Needs help coming up with more questions for his Legislative Poll.

Motion to let Charles be in charge of the poll.

Approved.

Elections Commissioner:

Beth has been doing the work of three people for the past six weeks.

Motion to double Beth’s pay for Spring quarter

Motion to amend the main motion and wait until Tom can do more research on whether we can pay her more or not.

Approved.

Main motion:

Approved.
Meeting adjourned at 2:43.

1:15 – Start Meeting

1:20 – Approve Agenda and Minutes

1:25 – Public Comments

1:35 – Check ins

1:45 – Student Forums for next year

1:55 – CEC Board hiring

2:05 – S&A Board hiring

2:15 – Banners (wording)

2:25 – Movie night (possible sponsoring)

2:35 – Legislative poll

3:00 – Adjourn meeting.

Representatives present: Waylon Robert, Mia Harvey, Phoebe, Dylan Macardican, Brandon Ellington, John Gundayao, Adam Bartell, Charles Adkins, Francisco Daza, Jasmine Wong, Asher Matthews, Jonathan Leggette, Aidan Ripley, Micah Nordgren, Rebecca Canright, Mike Espy, Jacques LeBlanc, Devin Moncada, Naia Danko, Robert Tacker.

Executive Director: Camille Closson.

Advisor: Tom Mercado.

Meeting started at 1:19.

Motion to add “Discussion about the recently received email” to the Agenda, right after check ins.

Approved.

Motion to add Student Forums for next year to the Agenda after Beth’s presentation.

Approved.

Motion to approve the Agenda.

Approved.

Motion to approve the Minutes.

Approved.

Public Comments:

Mason, coordinator for TOP, coordinator of the climate action campaign for WashPIRG.  Invited us to Purce Hall number 2 tonight at 6 pm for the Olympia Climate Action Panel.

Arne, a new student at Evergreen, mentioned how he did not feel comfortable on campus.

Erik, campus organizer from WashPIRG, updated us on their volunteering efforts to promote the State Supreme Court Justices coming to campus.

Check-ins:

Waylon told us his project about trash cans in the woods is coming along nicely.  He also told us about how we all need to promote the State Supreme Court Justices more.

John updated us on his and Mia’s projects.  Community hangout, relaxing day.

Brandon let us know his budget was ready and he was presenting to the S&A Board today at 4:30.

Phoebe updated us on the first Student Forum Committee meeting this past Friday.  Will have weekly meetings 3-4 on Fridays in the corner of the library lobby, in front of First People’s.

Charles let us know Federal Judge Robart could come by on May 31st 2:30pm.  Public event that we can hold on campus.  Q&A after his remarks.

Motion to reimburse him for gas to get here and back.

Approved.

Still working on having the congresswoman come here.  Also looking for help to review his legislative poll.

Discussion about the email:

Complaint received from a WSA Legislative Liaison

Motion to let Asher have authority to investigate the matter on GSU’s behalf, with GSU’s input.

Approved.

GSU Table Banner:

Motion to approve the bottom left option.

Approved.

Student Forums for next year:

Proposal to have Student Forums every quarter next year.  For it to be in our bylaws.  It is the GSU’s job to organize Student Forums.

Motion to table this matter to next week’s Agenda.

Approved.

Vans for WSA and Tacoma:

Motion to approve the rental of a Motor pool van for the WSA General Assembly meeting on 05/13.

Approved

Motion to leave for Tacoma on May 16th at 12:30 instead of 3.

Approved.

Motion to pay for the van for a day.

Approved

Policy Analyst position:

Adam, Francisco, and Mia will help Charles hire the next Policy Analyst.
Meeting ended at 2:40.

1:15 – Start meeting

1:20 – Approve Agenda and Minutes

1:25 – Public Comments

1:35 – Check-ins

1:50 – GSU Banners and app (election commissioner Beth S.)

2:20 – Van for WSA meeting

2:30 – Van for Tacoma meeting

2:40 – Policy Analyst position

3:00 – Adjourn meeting.

Hello there fellow Greeners!

The State Supreme Court Justices are coming to the Olympia campus for the first time in our history so get ready to see flyers and announcements popping up everywhere soon!

They will be here May 8th and 9th and will be hearing three cases on the 9th (two of them in the a.m, the last one in the p.m.)

Meeting started at 1:18.

Representatives present: Charles Adkins, Jacques LeBlanc, John Gundayao, Levi Campbell, Mia Harvey, Aidan Ripley, Rebecca Canright, Asher Matthews, Brandon Ellington, Phoebe, Waylon Robert, Jenny Whitfield, Francisco Daza, Jasmine Wong, Adam Bartell, Robert Tacker, Merrill Williams.

Executive Director: Camille Closson.

Advisor: Tom Mercado.

Motion to add Director of Legislative Affairs selection to the Agenda after project check-ins.

Approved.

Motion to approve Agenda.

Approved.

Motion to approve Minutes.

Approved.

Public Comments:

Tom reminded us that our SLARs are due today.

Also talked to us about the State Supreme Court Justices coming to campus on May 8th and 9th.

Check-ins:

Asher let the team know that he is giving his spot for the luncheon with the Justices to the next person in line, Camille (he got randomly picked to go as part of the S&A Board).

Mia updated us on how the Power of One Conference went.  Also let us know about wanting to invite Black Trans Magic to the Olympia campus.

Motion to add discussion and possible vote about bringing the group to the Olympia campus to the Agenda.

Approved.

Camille talked about promoting the State Supreme Court Justices coming to the Olympia campus on the GSU’s social media outlets.  Also asked the GSU about who wanted to go to the WSA meeting on 05/13.  Asked the team about what to tell Wendy during the Leadership’s meeting with her on 04/28.

Rebecca asked the team permission to leave at 2:15.

Jacques talked about a project for a safe-sex vending machine supplying condoms ect..

Charles updated us on who he has been meeting with to bring speakers to the Olympia campus.

Jenny talked to us about events sponsored by the TQC.

Phoebe talked to us about the Student Forum organizing committee meeting on Friday at 3 pm in Student Activities, if anybody is interested in joining the meetings.  Also updated us on her work for international programs.

Waylon updated us on his project with Jacques to put trash cans in the woods.  They are going to start meeting with the administration.  Updated us on fundraising for the unpaid internship fund.

Jasmine told us about a BBQ organized by All God’s People on 4/27 at 5 pm by the HCC.

Survey concerning Police Services (Ballot language proposal)

Survey to get more student input on the Campus Police Department.

Motion to table this Agenda item until the survey contains an “identity question”.

Approved.

Projet check-ins

John: Community Building Day, possibly week 9, working on organizing it.

Levi: Interested in working with John and Mia on the Community Building Day + Student Forum Committee.

Mia: Worked on Lobby Day, Power of One Conference, now working on Community Building Day, possibly bringing Black Trans Magic to the Olympia campus.

Aidan: Worked with the Climate Action Plan petitions + willing to help Waylon and Jacques with trash cans in the woods.

Rebecca: Working on the petitions mentioned above and working on increased sustainability.  Capitol + WashPIRG campaigns + working with foodbank and wildlife conservation groups.

Brandon: Worked on our budget for next year.  Presenting to the S&A Board soon.  Also on the bylaws committee.  Is still looking for ways to keep ourselves accountable.

Phoebe: Working on increasing outreach in between TESC and schools in other countries + increasing study abroad programs + Starting the Student Forum organizing committee + Green wall art project.

Waylon: Talked about maybe having the Student Trustee or Chair of the Board of Trustees to be at the Student Forum + working on trash cans in the woods + safe-sex machine + unpaid internship fund.

Jenny: Week 6 – Queer and Trans week (events all week – spoken word, panels..) + First Lavender graduation ever (June 14th).

Francisco: Tables for a new multi-ethnic group on campus, willing to help with the trash cans project.

Jasmine: Also helps table for new group + creating events for it too.

Merrill: Working on bringing TriO to the Tacoma campus + Tacoma bus passes with Charles.

Adam: Willing to help with trash cans project.

Charles: Working on getting a Fast Ferry from Olympia to Seattle + expanding sounder train down to Lacey + ORCA cards for Tacoma students and opt-in program for Olympia students.

Jacques: Trash cans project, safe-sex machine, unpaid internship fund, willing to help anybody who needs help.

Asher: Helped with unpaid internship fund, willing to help with safe-sex machine.

Brandon offered that we become more digital.  Possibly start an ask.fm.  Icon on the evergreen main page?  Advertise through Facebook?  Promote the page?

Motion to give Asher permission to start an ask.fm

Approved.

Director of Legislative Affairs selection:

Motion to suspend the bylaws.

Approved.

Motion to reappoint Charles Adkins as our DLA for next year.

Approved.

Motion to reinstate the bylaws.

Approved.

Mia’s discussion for inviting Black Trans Magic.

Motion to ask Charles to ask Rep. Jayapal if inviting Black Trans Magic to campus at the same time as she is here is alright.

Motion to amend to make it so both events can happen on the same day, around the same time, but without being the same event (following FEC regulations).

Approved.

Motion to change the first motion to reflect the amended language.

Approved.

Main motion (amended) approved.

Historian election:

Motion to have Brandon be our Historian.

Approved.

Meeting ended at 2:47.