11-15-2017 Meeting Minutes
1:25PM Medicine Creek Treaty was read
1:25PM Approval of the Agenda and Minutes
1:26PM Public Comment
- Introduction of Andy Corn (Student Affairs Division)
1:28: Check-Ins
- Speaker – Notes on the retreat. Meet with Sharon Goodman at RAD so they talked about Aramark and how they could get student more involved with information about that work. WSA met this weekend and it was interesting.
- Student Interest Committee – Did not meet last week. Recap of the Board of Trustees Meeting. VPs give them updates about the status of the college. There is more to be heard but there is a wait with John Carmichael. Enrollment of out of state enrollment is down. One of us can talk to sandy Kaiser and get her to give a recap of what they are doing so far. At the check in it was suggested that the Board come into a GSU meeting. They were really interested but no one asked them.
- Satellites and Soundwaves- Prototype send that and have it permanently on the Green Screens. (Did they not listen to Feven about students not looking at them?)
- IDEA – 2 main projects. Expanding fem hygiene dispensers around campus and working with off campus groups to budget. Hunger project to flow through the group.
- Emergency Prep – Not present.
- Sustainability – Working with Rebecca and is supporting
- Finance Committee – Close to finalizing the weekly budget and have a draft by week 10. So we can move into the next couple of quarters with a solid plan. Delegating a lot of work to Beth and she has to max out her hours. We should start delegating to Beth so that can be cut down.
- Legislative Committee – They did not meet but they are trying to sort schedules. They went to the WSA event in Ellenburg on Sunday to represent TESC. They introduced proposals related to veteran students to the WSA. They have most of their bills sponsored. Reeds with Veterans Tuition Waivers, Cells with Homelessness Bill, McCoy with Native Tuition Waiver, Hunt with Seattle Ferry. The WSA will be tackling decoupling during the session.
- Constitutional Drafting Committee – Met with Sharon Goodman to talk about changes in relation to RAD. The draft is almost done and very particular changes need to be done. Ian is reviewing bylaw stuff and Martha Zo is doing the Election’s Report stuff. Work over the summer is being research.
- Rules-met Monday and will meet again on Friday, discussed Forum and problems, transparency, creating a criteria for the leadership committee to increase pay,
- Brandon – Didn’t think that it went well and is considering striking that portion from the Bylaws. Is giving notice because it takes a ¾’s vote to put through. Wants to focus on efforts that will increase student participation through specialized events.
- Advisor Check In –SLUG request check in need a person/ from each student group to fulfill the request for the space. Next SLUG meeting is 12/18/2017.
1:51 Emergency Meeting was approved and
1:52Pay was approved for Richelle and John
1:54 Pay increase specifications with Beth
- Discussion about criteria for Officer pay
- Officers= Treasurer, Speaker, Deputy
- Criteria as established by Rules committee
2:00 Devin moves to increase the MO stipend to Level 2 which was seconded by Arne Nelson nad passed by a consensus vote.
- Criteria for Officers Pay Raise
- Their delegated responsibilities beyond non-officer representatives. So the hours load should be between 8 to 12 hours maximum. If they are hitting 12 hours then we are hopeful that they will be able to delegate to another member of their committee.
- Following the Bylaws and making sure weekly reports are submitted on time and that your duties are being completed.
iii. Making sure that quality of work is high and there is appropriate documentation of the work being completed outside of committee meetings ie. Check-Ins, Reports, and etc.
2:02 Rebecca Canright on the Carbon Neutrality Letter
- To receive an endorsement to pursue this from the GSU.
- Students care about this issue and they want the admin to commit.
- A massive issue is heating and cooling.
- Devin – does it need to be endorsed?
- Brandon – is into letting committees have some kind of autonomy.
- Paul – Being endorsed by the GSU means that it has the backing of the entire body.
- Devin – Should the line be added that the body authorizes or endorses the document?
- Rebecca – Sure, that would definitely be okay and that would be fine. Her thoughts align with Paul’s.
- Ian – We shouldn’t have to endorse it but it would strengthen that letter.
- Arne moved to support the letter and Charles made a second onto that.
- Devin- in the future, committee should have the autonomy to do this on their own.
- Amend the motion to include that the autonomy should be there.
- The motion is passed and the letter has been endorsed.
2:17 Forum Debrief
- Brandon – heard from those who were there that certain things were questionable. Not really into detail at the moment.
- Devin – For the group generally, they didn’t have enough oversight for marketing. The people the forum was for did not arrive. There were lateness. There are positive proactive steps to mitigating things like that. There needs to be expectations and standards. We really need to be okay with delegating and not getting to Beth or not doing the work at all. We shouldn’t have to do so many things on the fly. It was a blessing that not many people came and he shouldn’t have to say that.
- Kai-Ave – How disorganized when we all got up there. People were sitting and standing everywhere. There was no lead person and we seemed very all over the place. If students were there then would have been disappointed if students were there.
- Martha Zo – the questions that were received weren’t being answered and there was no listening being done.
- Emily – It is one thing to critique how we were at the forum, the stark item was that there were only 2 people there and at max 3. We have to grapple with the fact that we had a responsibility to hold a forum and this was an abdication of that. We should focus on how we can present a forum where students attend. Don’t blame the student body. Flyers were put up on the Monday of the week that there.
- Arne – Did not know what was going on and didn’t know what he was walking into. What are we going to do in the future? How do we fix it?
- Charles – Nothing
- Ian – We need to publicize them and the posters need to be comprehensive and give them a reason to attend. Tell people why it’s important!
- Alex – we rep the body but we don’t have a way of really connecting with them. Would love to access the all student DL to make sure that students can be aware of the forum. It would be a very good first step.
- Paul – Nothing to say.
- Justin – Nothing to say.
- Waylon – Everything was covered.
- Kai-Ave – Personally thinks that regardless of lack of students, the performance of the GSU and the presentation should be as good as possible. There needs to be more marketing oversight. One committee couldn’t do.
- Beth- Committees have existed since week one, committees exist to delegate work. Forum is not too much work for one group, but no work was done, communicate moving forward rather than complaining retroactively. Forum was hard to watch. We planned the forum together, we didn’t come together as a group. There was a schedule plotted in the minutes for who was speaking.
- Devin- List of considerations for advertising; 4 weeks in advance (tabling, GC, CPJ, KaOS, Facebook Live or other stream, Blog, etc.) Would like a communications and advertising policy and have a PowerPoint to present instead of just talking at them. Include stage directions, who is speaking, etc.
- Sharon Goodman Feedback – Her perspective was that there was good energy around Q and A. For her, GSU was refreshing. Even if they don’t have it right, they are showing up and such.
- Andrea Sherell – Was wondering if that was the forum she attended.
- Martha Zo – It should be very specific and for students to get to know what GSU is.
- Devin – wants the forum to focus on constitution work as a motion that was seconded by Charles.
- Kai-Ave – not motion discussion
- Emily – forum to a specific issue. I believe that there is a time in every forum that student have a time for Q&A. The reason students didn’t come was because they didn’t know that it was happening.
- Martha Zo – we should have a fun time one week 2 or 3 then the drafting committee items
- Devin – motions week 3 to be a town hall forum and the week 5 as a drafting committee focused student gathering Seconded by Charles but it was passed.
2:45 Bylaws Discussion
- Not everyone has read them
- Would like to be on the same page on what something says and then go forward with the interpretation. We have had discussions about rules and regulations, and Devin might be getting used as a crutch. Devin is supposed to say that the rules need to be followed but that.
- Andrea – Emailed Charles and wants to know when the email that lets people know they get elected will be sent out.
- Brandon – wants that rule to be changed and the committee planning it doesn’t want to be a part. Debating the idea about the open forum. That whole thing is not worth following. If they are in agreement then it should be taken
2:50 Petition for the GSU Officers
- It was authorized through the motion from the proposal placed on the body via the Rules committee via the motion by Devin as it was slightly amended with such verbiage.
3:00 Meeting Adjourned
Visitors: Andy Corn, Andrea Sherrell, Stella Sprackin, John Gundayao, Richelle Enriquez
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