Wednesday 10/28/2015

Chair: Anne Belson

 

Public Comments:

 

Tyler Bieber

  • announced that he will be running for GSU position

Emily Dunn-Wilder

  • New Student Trustee
  • Interested in speaking with GSU reps

Tom

  • SLARS are due today
  • Bus will arrive at 2:15 PM at Parking lot C on Thursday
  • Reminded the GSU that they have a Code of Conduct and that personal attacks are not allowed. Representatives should critique the issues and not the person
  • Tom will hire an off-campus facilitator (Thurston County Dispute Resolution)
  • Anne volunteered to type up the Code of Conduct

 

Approve Agenda:

 

  • Added a discussion topic of conflict resolution to the agenda (approved).

Approve Minutes: Approved

 

Check-ins

Alex met with George Bridges

  • George Bridges will not lower the acceptance rate
  • interested in increasing retention rate
  • more activity on Red Square
  • George Bridges will meet with the GSU once every quarter
  • Monday, December 7th (Week 10)
  • Alex will meet with George every month
  • Wendy posted the #whitelivesmatter fliers response from the bias response team early this morning

Mac

  • went to faculty meeting
  • He mentioned the #whitelivesmatter fliers, professors holding class during governance hours
  • Faculty asked when the GSU make the response to the #whitelivesmatter fliers to bring a copy to the faculty. They are interested in signing the GSU response.
  • Last 8 years, Evergreen has lost 40 full time faculty
  • Debriefing on the teach in

Tacoma Check-ins

  • A few people are interested in running as the Tacoma GSU reps
  • Will be attending the Tacoma S&A board

Discussion and Voting on Emails

  • create .edu emails for certain GSU positions (President, Vice-President, Budget, Governmental Liaison)
  • Everyone would have access to these emails, but would be unable to send out emails unless you are that specific position.
  • The GSU will set up guidelines for the use of these emails

 

  1. Anyone who is not in the listed position will only be able to view the email accounts.
  2. If an email is not specifically geared for that position, then it will be forwarded to GSUrep@gmail.com.
  3. Violations will be discussed at the following meeting
  4. Active only during term of office

Names for .edu addresses

 

GSUchair@

GSUvicechair@

GSUGOVliaison@

GSUbudget@

 

Motioned to approve email names (not approved).

 

Election Commissioners (scheduling interviews)

 

  • Schedule 3 applicants to interview at Monday’s meeting

 

Robert Lasker interview for WSA position

  • Transfer student in the business program
  • Applied for the WSA liaison position and GSU rep
  • President at pierce college
  • Appointed to the delegate for the Washington Community and Technical College
  • In-depth experience with the legislative and advocating for students

 

Move to appoint Robert Lasker as the WSA liaison (approved).

 

Parking Passes for Veterans

 

  • The VA does not pay for parking
  • Alex will speak with Andy to determine how many veterans are paying for parking passes.
  • The GSU agrees that Veterans should receive parking passes.
  • Student groups could potentially be against this motion.

 

Bias Related Incident Response Team Appointment

  • Alex is technically not the elected student rep for the Bias Related Incident Response Team
  • Motion to approve Alex as one of the representatives to the Bias Related Incident Response Team (approved).
  • Move to approve Mac as the second representative to the Bias Related Incident Response Team (approved).

 

The GSU will need to do more outreach to fill empty GSU representatives positions.

 

Response to Fliers

 

Mac will email Naima Lowe to confirm the White Lives Matter fliers around downtown.

 

The GSU did not finished the response to the fliers, as there was not a general agreement on the message of the fliers.

 

⅔ requirement for all votes to be valid. AKA. if a vote was not ⅔ it would not be valid

 

Jeff reviewed his own written notes from a GSU meeting on October 6th.

 

Jeff’s notes showed that both Lupe and Mac were voted onto their positions. However, Alex was not technically voted as chair, as the vote was 3 to 2, and not 2/3rds vote.

 

A few members pointed out that no one was officially taking notes, and meeting minutes were not approved at the following meeting. There was also a debate on whether there should be a revote.

 

For three weeks, Alex has been presented as the Chair to the President and other groups on campus.

 

Jeff forwarded his notes from that meeting to the GSUrep@gmail.com and mentioned that he would notify Wendy Endress and George Bridges about the mis-vote. However, GSU members and Tom Mercado encouraged Jeff to wait until after the next GSU meeting.