GSU Meeting:12/03/2014
Absent: Linkon and Brendan
Chair: Jeff Beaulac
Meeting Minutes: Approved
Public Comments
S&A Brunch
Week 10
S&A will be serving brunch at 10:00 AM
Advertise Student Elections
• Post in Greener Commons
• All school emails, like registration?
• Talk to Wendy
GSU Ballot
• smoking on campus
Elections deadline this Friday
Hunger Hoedown
When: January 16th, 2nd week of winter quarter
Washpirg, evergreen psyche club
dance party
donate clothing or nonperishable items
all food items will be donated to Thurston County Food Bank
Mac:meeting with Sharon Goodman to finalized people of color on-campus housing
Agenda: Approved
• point person for representative to talk to the financial board, report back to the GSU to give information to the students
• vote to create a position that would act as a liaison that would work with the investment group, already a person of interest
• Jeff will bring more information next week
Check In’s
No comments
Faculty Liaison
• The GSU needs to find another faculty liaison
• every other wednesday, all faculty meeting
• Ask Brendan
• if not, Evelyn will fill the position
• The GSU decided to leave the position open for the freshmen representatives. (table it next week)
Check in from Green Dot and SV prevention form committee
• Event: 6-8, wednesday, bottom of the floor library
• a community forum of SV policy on campus
• presentation of the current policy, listening to comments, and answering questions
• present students to resources
• Planning meeting on friday, trying to put together pamphlets
• $20 budget for pamphlets
• mention safer’s communities act
• advocate and Kelly will be present at the event
Green Dot
• Tyler, Jeff, Emily, Andrew went to the workshop
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• Green dot training can be beneficial for students, but doesn’t cover everything
• Kelly cannot just change the actual material ,because it is a state-wide initiative program
• Kelly can change how to is presented, activity listening to concerns/feedback
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• examples and videos were presented
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• Andrew: support with a condition: demands that administration financial support for mandatory consent workshops, communicate with Kelly
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• add provision to safer’s communities act: the administration will hire somebody to do mandatory workshops/put hold on students account if they do not show up
• Report back in January
Know Your Rights
• 40 people came
• Nat, Andrew, Raven presented information
• good connection of dialog between students and presenters
• the workshop was filmed
• First people peers are interested in having a similar workshop
General Assembly’s
• General Assembly’s: where people talk about issues on campus
• being visible as a union
• learned about what students care about
• vital community builder, especially during winter quarter
• committee that plans GA’s?
• Do we want to do it?
• Then organize with By-Laws
• week 2 of winter quarter: check in
• have a conversation outside of the GSU meeting
By-Laws Proposal
• Motion to put the proposal of By-Laws into affect (approved)
• New structure, yay!
• The change immediately goes into effect
• Chair/Cluster coordinator positions that need to be filled
• Talk about monday meeting
• Moved to table the rest of the agenda until these positions have been filled
3 Clusters
• Social Justice
• Campus Affairs
• Marketing/Outreach (organizing trips to Tacoma)
Can be crossover between clusters
Clusters themselves can form committees w/o approval, can have weekly meetings outside of GSU meetings
Report time for each clusters at the beginning of Agenda
Consent Cabinet: officers
• Chief Budget Officer
• Technical Officer
• Parliamentary Officer
Andrew and Jeff cannot make next meeting
send out emails to members who are absent
nominate Andrew as chair (nominated)
Misha and Nicholas arrived at 2:14
Nat arrived at 2:00
Safe Pathways-Robyn
• No emergency call booths around the children center, tennis courts, by the HCC, Overhung road and each emergency phone starts at $2500 (buying and installing, assuming utilities are near by)
• Other options: cellular base, counting on cell service, solar power
• may or may not work in remote locations
• found numbers of areas where lights are not working
• pruning
• turning lights back on
• adding lighting
• let facilities know when lights are burnt out
• push it out to greener commons, put on spring vote, reaching out to students
• put together a safety campaign (Campus Affairs cluster)
• safe walk system: police services will walk with students
• contact campus facilities for burnt lights
• seek feedback from students on alternative methods at SV workshop, general assembly, greener commons
Financial Board Representative
• John Harley-VP of Financial Administration
• Financial Board Representative: A student reporter that attends financial board meetings. This student will learn about Evergreen’s investments and what they look like for the college. A business student would be the most suitable for the position.
• Heather Wood is a business student that has work on non-profit projects and is interested in the position.
• Heather will come to next week’s meeting
• The GSU nominated Heather Wood for the Financial Board position.
Board of Trustees Check-in-Nick Wooten
• name change to gwideq
• cost of changing is high, in the face of budget cuts
• concerned with cultural appropriation
Board of Trustee
• 2 weeks ago: governors of director budget came in
• higher ed is the only source to take money out of
• 17% budget cut , possibly
• not a clear picture
• prepare for another round of cuts
• college is doing a decent job in retention and recruitment
• more directly involved in campus this year
• Last meeting had a retreat in Olympia
• the student vote is more of a recommendation
• the issue on the student vote is on the agenda in January
• developing a platform
Social Justice Cluster
Monday Meeting Time
• Add Monday meeting time to GSU meetings
• This time will be designated for cluster/groups
• Monday meeting will be conducted during governance hours
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