SGA Executive Staff Meeting Minutes
October 17, 2013 @ 6:00pm
SAC W316
Meeting Leader: Alex Ruiz
Minute Keeper: Ashley Logsdon
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Old Business
-SGA Open House
-3 Sustains
-Food
-Standing outside handing things out
-3 Improves
-More food. We ran out an hour before it was over.
-Make sure that if you are supposed to be working that you are there and
are behaving appropriately
-Be more direct about having visitors go to talk to the Top Four
-Take the food out of the office room and instead having it in the hallway by the escalators or in the Director’s Suite or in the SGA President’s Suite, or in SAB.
IV. New Business
- Space Heaters
All space heaters should only be plugged in if you are by it. Check the cords, if they are frayed then we can purchase a new one.
-Staff Updates and Discussion (15 Min)
-Marianna- Meeting next week
-Bryson- Had a budget meeting and they went over the funds for ELSB, SAB, and SGA. There were cuts and additions to all. In the 20/20 evaluation there were cuts made due to items already being completed
-Spencer- First presidents’ council meeting. 20-30 people each meeting. Work on a central calendar for all RSO’s to be able to see what is being planned. Also on OrgSync so the RSO’s can work together. Address student culture- Looking into starting an outreach campaign with the students on campus, conducting surveys, cardcast. Have a separate section in the 20/20 plan for student culture
-Athletics- There wasn’t another athletic council meeting but they did meet with Carrie. Tailgate will be moved eventually. Proposed to move it to an embankment under Central. Have Athletic Council to shuttle handicap fans back and forth. Within the next 2-3 weeks should have consent. Wrote up a spirit and traditions bill.
-Chase- He and Carrie spoke to get the lobbying going. They changed the name to Cards In Action (Can be abbreviated as CIA). It should be referred to as an “advocacy group.” They created a logo it is the cardinal bird with the American Flag inside of it. The application is going live on Monday. It consists of 3 questions. They would like an array of party members. Mid-February they are hoping to go to Frankfort. Looking to take 8 people to DC right before or right after Spring Break. Leave it up for 30 days.
-Kene- Carrie has a project she is trying to kickstart
-Jarel- Creating an exploratory council for the Green Initiative. Putting in bike lanes around campus
-Kayla-Getting a random sampling of commuter students and what they are involved in/where they live. Still trying to work on the commuter lounge
-Tori- Working on the add/drop dates, will know about the advising chat room on October 28th, haven’t heard about the online syllabus, working on making the student of the month survey to be more user friendly, working on making more study space, maybe opening Strickler lobby.
-Communications- Filmed the interviews, having a meeting on Monday about Card Cast, working on fixing e-mails
-TFF- Have had guest speakers about Strengths, research methods (with Spencer) Social with Reach and LEAD. Encourage to have the TFF’s utilize the office space, rescheduling the TFF/Staff social, taking a waking sustainability tour, and continuing to implement the impact projects. To e-mail the TFF’s email . is just for Amanda and Natalie
V. Ongoing Issues for Discussion
VI. Announcements
-Submit Student of the Month Nominations(Tori Seasor)
- Promo Cards (Alex Ruiz)
We are purchasing the discount cards for the next calendar year. We are working
on making these a better deal
-If you need to change your office hours make sure you e-mail Alex because he is noting when you are not here and we do not want you to be docked at the end of the semester.
-SRC Open House Friday, October 17th from 2-5
VII. Adjourn