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.