CUSA MINUTES
December 5, 2016
1) CALL TO ORDER:
The regular weekly meeting of the CUSA Senate was held on Monday, December 5, 2016 in the Student Center Multipurpose Rooms, the President being in the chair and the Secretary being present.
2) ATTENDANCE:
All were in attendance.
3) READING, CORRECTION, AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
Approve by unanimous consent.
4) GUEST SPEAKER:
None
5) VISITORS COMMENTS:
None
6) COMMENTS:
None
7) OFFICER REPORTS
President
President Riley - Thank you for a great semester. This will be the last meeting for the semester. There will be a dinner Friday but no meeting on Monday. There was a Committee Chair meeting today and they came up with a possibly restructure of CUSA. The implementation is planned for next semester but is up for change. Move down to three committees, with dissolving Activities Committee, combining Student Life Committee and Diversity and Inclusion Committee as well as combining Elections and Policy with Academics. This is how most other Universities structure their Student Governments and Eboard is hoping that this will improve productivity. Possibly switch Inclusion Chair to just being a point of contact for Inclusion. There is a possibility to move the Activities Committee money into Finance contingency as another line item but have clubs and groups prove that they worked with the Student Life and then be brought to Finance for approval.
Vice President
VP Fidler - No report.
Public Relations Director
PRD Abplanalp – No report.
Treasurer
Treasurer Pike – Dinner is at 4 pm on Friday at 1844 House and he encourages people to meet up in CUSA to share rides. If he has not shared the Finance Folder with you let him know. Have a nice break!
Secretary
Secretary Reger – Senator of the Month for November for her work to come up with a better system to track assets and for all of the research she has done and is still doing is Senator Zanni. Make sure you bring your $10 or less gift to the exchange on Friday so you can participate and make sure it is appropriate.
Advisor
Advisor Deso – No thievery for the gifts and make sure it's respectful. Thank you everyone for the hard work and dedication this semester and for having actual conversations instead of everything being one sided. Good luck during finals!
8) COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Academic Affairs
Academic Affairs Chair Kocsis –Will be emailing Deans and setting up meetings for next semester, send him any questions comments or concerns.
Activities
Activities Chair Bayly - This past weekend the hockey trip went really well with 63 people going. People had fun and want to see similar events in the future. We ended up covering $1400 for the bus and students paid for their tickets. Dead week coffee will be from 8am-12pm on Wednesday and 7pm-10pm on Thursday. Trying to bring the Wave Rider backfrom 12pm-5pm this week on Thursday. It was here during Sausage Fest and everyone enjoyed it.
Elections & Policy
Elections & Policy Chair Sexton - No report.
Student Life
Student Life Chairs Nathanson & Duque - Thanks to their committee for hard work. Last week met with Brian Grant on Transportation Survey and he believes that we do need the service and he will be working with other schools to figure out if we can work with them to create a service and then hopefully it will be implemented next year. Want to reach out to more students for bigger in addition to small things with the new committee structure and get more things done.
Inclusion Initiatives
Diversity and Inclusion Chair Ferrari- No report.
GSA
GSA Chair Ferrari- Coffee during exam week on Tuesday in the Graduate Student Lounge and is open to everyone.
9) OLD BUSINESS:
None
10) NEW BUSINESS:
Treasurer Pikemoved to open a discussion on student pay.
-when the administration wants an event done by a CUSA organization then the administration should be paying for it and not CUSA
-if an organization of CUSA is using a service of another organization for their event then it would be on CUSA to pay for it.
-make the pay rate state minimum wage
-look into University funding for things like the pre-orientation trips training
-a by-law will be presented for this next semester and it can be adjusted once it is written
-suggested a meeting between CUB and Eboard to talk about what they already do
-suggested to notify clubs and offices on campus that use CUB that this change is coming
11) ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Relaxation Stations are happening tomorrow and Wednesday in the ERC.
Corey’s birthday is Wednesday.
12) ADJOURNMENT:
Meeting adjourned at 7:40 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Krista Reger, CUSA Secretary
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