Minutes of the 3nd meeting of the 57th CLAS Assembly, September 24, 2013, Bedford Lounge, Student Center

Members present:

1.  Abdou Salma

2.  Abrahams Shani

3.  Bejanyan Maria

4.  Berkowitz Zakery

5.  Berman Moshe

6.  Berman Teddy

7.  Borshch Karina

8.  Chamani Isaac

9.  Deutsch Ronit

10.  Edeson Ian

11.  Elghandour Tarek

12.  Fruchter David

13.  Hovell Mike

14.  Logie Kenji

15.  Mikhli Jennifer

16.  Waingort Alberta

17.  Zaghi Nisan

18.  Cohen, Robin

19.  Andrawis Giuseppina

20.  Cremidis Paolo

21.  Mizrahi Raymond

22.  Shmuel Nadler

23.  Esperanza Maria

24.  Gorbonos Allen

25.  Michelle

26.  Marie

Members absent:

1.  Jean Laurent Yves E.

2.  Rudy Hayeem

3.  Osman Fatema

12:35 pm Meeting called to order

I.  Swearing in of new members Michelle and Marie.

II.  Vote on Non Budgetary status for the pre optometry club (void wrong club introduced )

III.  President Rosenberg delivers his State of the College Address

IV. Government Operations Chair Motioned for referral of the revision of the election act to be referred to her committee

a.  Nadler requested a point of information regarding whether it was necessary to have the matter referred to committee in order to start working on it.

b.  Paolo Cremidis Objected to this referral to committee

c.  The PHD Floor Leader Tarek Objected to the prior objection

i.  Tarek’s Motion was upheld

d.  Salma’s Motion passed unopposed

V.  Committee Chairs report describe their vision for the year:

a.  Academic Affairs

i.  Looking into increasing the number of academic advisers

b.  Budget and Finance

i.  New Grant Form presented to the assembly

ii.  Clubs have started to initiate budget transfers

c.  Media, Outreach and Engagement

i.  Exploring new methods to get the word out to students

ii.  New CLAS Student Government website coming online soon

d.  Student Activities

i.  The Committee will now act as liaisons between Student Government and clubs.

VI. Floor opened to questions from members

VII.  NYPIRG updated the assembly on current initiatives

a.  Requested Co-Sponsorship for their Talent show on the 10th of October

b.  The assembly voted to Co-Sponsor the event regarding Outreach.

c.  The Budget and Finance Chair was asked to look into the possibility of funding the event.

VIII.  Next meeting time announced for October 1st, 12:30 pm, location TBA.

IX. Motion to adjourn made by Shani, seconded by Teddy, meeting adjourned.

1:15 pm Meeting adjourned

Minutes prepared by Kenji L Logie

Notes

Mr. Bruce Crane interrupted the meeting after a motion to adjourn was made, and proceeded to address the assembly without being recognized. After further investigation, it was determined he was informed prior to the meeting by the speaker due to the number of items the agenda his request to have his issue placed on the agenda could not be granted.