Chair: Evelyn Roberts

 

Public Comments

 

Zach Flag is a senior and member of the Campus Food Coalition. He expressed interest in becoming a GSU Representative. However, he cannot run for GSU this year due to the regulations of GSU elections. He encouraged GSU members to revised the constitution and allow transfer/non-first year students to run in the fall elections.

Meeting Minutes: Approved

 

Agenda: Approved

 

Check In’s

Anne Belson: Food and Dining meeting

Bean night in the Greenery

 

Nick: meeting with Matthew Noonan

students who would be able to use the new CRC would be the one to pay the fee

CRC Steering Committee-find GSU members to join

reschedule meeting for next week

 

SV Policy Townhall Meeting

 

• Tonight, 6-8
• First Floor of Library
• SV Policy
• Ways to change on-campus SV policy

 

Anne Belson will be unable go to WSA meeting in Bellingham

Jeff will go, budget discussion before the WSA meeting

WSA-lobby organization

budget year

 

New Representatives and Introductions

Alex, Petal, and Omar introduced themselves to the GSU.

Preferred Method of Communication

Jeff passed around a sheet where the GSU members wrote their preferred communication for committee meetings.

 

Faculty Liaison

Brendan expressed interest

bi-monthly meetings

faculty meetings

 

Brendan is the new faculty liaison

 

Cluster Assignments

cap at fifteen minutes

 

passed amendments to by-laws that created a new leadership structure

 

Officers

 

Chair: Andrew Pawlicki-Sinclair

 

Social Justice

Campus Affairs

Marketing and Outreach

 

GSU nominated:

 

Chief Budget Officer: Tyler Bieber

Chief Technical Officer Nick Bense

Parliamentarian: Brendan Hale

 

Each cluster will confirm their own cluster coordinator:

 

Social Justice

Campus Affairs

Marketing and Outreach

 

State House Representatives Relationships

 

• Bringing state reps to campus
• Early next quarter during the early legislative session
• Have students talk to them regarding financial cuts

• Issues around Ferguson

(Marketing and Outreach Cluster)

 

Monday Meeting Time Vote

• Using Governance hours, 3-5 on monday for GSU meetings
• Informal discussion for clusters and coordinators
• One hour of updates and one hour for cluster groups

 

Real Food Challenge-Jessie

 

Campus Food Coalition

Real Food Challenge: asking the president to sign a commitment to increase the purchase real food (local, organic food)

 

• A committee would be formed to discuss comprehension food policy at Evergreen State.
• two student positions
• funding from GSU budget
• similar to the budget of election commissioners
• students will be chairing the committee
• The Committee would also consist of administrators, staff at Aramark, Flaming Eggplant, and Members from the Organic Farm

 

-think about it during the break

detail job descriptions will be presented at next’s GSU meeting

The committee would be promoting the GSU

students will be elected along with GSU candidates at the end of the school year for the following school year

It would be an official president committee(sub-committee under campus affairs)

 

Concerns:

The power dynamics between students and administration. Jessie ensured that students would have an equal vote on the committee.

Challenges:

• where to put our money in buying organic and local food?
• committee will determine that
• This committee would also connect the organic farm with Aramark.
• Encourage Aramark to purchase more produce from the organic farm

• Vote on it first meeting in winter quarter
• Contribute an effort to increase real food on campus
• Evergreen would be the second Aramark school and first public school to sign with the Real Food Challenge.

 

Ferguson Response

Bring House Representatives to campus to discuss policy descriptions

Draft a bill that described police and community members having the same rights

 

Brendan reported back the GSU that faculty members were discussing in planning for a day in which they give up pay to donate to organizations at Ferguson

President Diversity Fund Committee is discussing in having a  series of workshops around Ferguson.

-Talk to Nick if people would like to use President Diversity Funds for workshops/events

Host a forum to get other students involved

 

(Social Justice Cluster)

 

Student Body Mobilization

-Green Screen videos

audio

advertise general assembly’s

short video-general assembly’s

Nick as the Chief Technical Officer will be designing this project

 

Nick will present a video at next meeting

 

Bylaw Amendments

Tyler wrote a bill that would amend the by-laws

Currently, there is not a proper way to vote off officers in the amended by-law section.

sub-section “Officer Removal”

three different processes

Clusters have the responsibility to remove coordinators and replace the position within 48 hours

 

Concerns: power dynamics between coordinators and members with clusters, have a group wide initiative to replace coordinators

amend bill

write up an official amendment

 

table discussion

 

Special Initiative Request

 

new structure

new meeting

A desire in increase in stipends

 

current stipend analysis

more money to reflect the work of individual officers

new system-more effectively and paid more accurately

 

current proposed stipend structure

 

Concerns:

• Step away from egalitarian structure
• Increased stipends, present ourselves in a negative light to students
• Coordinators should be aware and accept the extra workload
• Create a sense of rivalry within GSU members
• School is in a budget crisis
• Money is coming from S&A, still comes from the school

By-Laws amendments is an experiment that will be tested during winter and spring terms

people are willing to work, the funding structure will not change the desire to work hard

recognize that students would need to pay to the level of the workload

can be beneficial and an incentive for students

accepting more responsibility, representatives need a more fair wage

see if the structure works for a quarter

Tom: S&A board members make the same amount as the GSU, they meet twicely, must make a fair argument to the S&A members

uphill struggle due to budget cuts

be realistic in your expectation

 

present to the student body

 

Nick’s Special Initiative Request

credit option

2 credits

officer role, cluster coordinator, etc

GSU already has a credit option (1 credit)

 

meeting next week with Sarah Martin

talk over the credit option idea

 

GSU work does not qualify as academic credit

think about it during break