1. Call to Order – 7:05 pm
  1. Approval of October 3 Minutes
  2. Taylor moves to approve, Adrian seconds, approved
  1. Member Reports
  2. Danny Summers, StudEx Chair, Student Senate Chief of Staff
  3. Senator outreach
  4. Email went out on listserv, have been talking about this in meetings
  5. Direct questions to me Connor and Mitch
  6. Have met with 43 senators
  7. Legislative training 2.0 held last night and had good turnout
  8. Stephonn Alcorn, Student Body President
  9. Adam did a great job at legislative training
  10. Streamlining general funding process
  11. Moving forward with that, Mitch heading up those efforts
  12. Admissions reform platform
  13. IT workgroup called Student Profile Project is working on this, discussed how students can best be involved with this initiative
  14. Britney: Who all is in that?
  15. Have had one meeting, Vanessa Delgado, SaidaBonifield, Dr. Durham, Marcia, several people on administrative side, have been in communication with Abdoulie and myself and we will get students involved
  16. How information is stored, who has access to it
  17. Thought it was best to not have students not working with people who may not be educated on the issues, so we have created an advisory group instead to advise this work group
  18. Gabby Naylor, Student Body Vice President
  19. Chancellor revised student code on section of mental health
  20. Switched order of clauses
  21. City liaison working on bike share feasibility
  22. Amy Schumacher, Student Senate Graduate Affairs Director
  23. Put together website for grad student insurance
  24. Grad student colloquium apps are open
  1. Taylor Zabel, Finance Committee Chair
  2. Passed all legislation except for one that we will discuss later
  3. Travel funding all passed
  4. Fee review January 26-29 in International Room
  5. Block Feb. 2-3th in Regionalist room
  6. Line Feb 23-25th in Regionalist room
  7. Want to include CAPS in syllabi
  8. Mattie: Resolution was passed to have it included, but can’t mandate
  9. Stephonn: There have been conversations this year about doing that
  10. Zoya Khan, Multicultural Affairs Committee Chair
  11. All legislation passed
  12. Second round of discussions, geared towards how to bring conversation to more students and work on a grassroots level for outreach
  13. Want OMA staff there next cycle to discuss our relationship with OMA to share and advertise resources and events, get word of MA out there as a platform for students to express and address concerns
  14. Mattie Carter, Student Rights Committee Chair
  15. All bills passed, meeting went well
  16. Adrian Janowiak, University Affairs Committee Chair
  17. All bills passed, one was untabled and passed
  18. Encouraged members to speak up but follow Robert’s Rules as well
  19. Dylan Jones, Jacob Murray, Brittney Oleniacz; SenEx Representatives
  20. Have not had a meeting since last StudEx meeting, have one tomorrow
  1. Regular Agenda
  2. Approval of October 19 Full Senate Agenda
  3. Dylan: Is there a voter percent threshold for the renovation vote on next year’s ballot?
  4. Gabby: 10%
  5. Amy: Question about fee increase for Union renovation
  6. Gabby clarifies
  7. Dylan motions to pass, Amy seconds, passes
  8. Untable 2017-056: A BILL TO FUND NU RHO PSI
  9. Group needs the money fairly soon, I have been looking over it, question was over GPA requirements
  1. Taylor: Their website says that they are “by invitiation” and have a variety of other membership requirements including a $40 membership fee
  2. Danny: She told me that it is open to all students so those are in stark contrasts, so I don’t know
  3. Britney: Sigma Gamma Epsilon is similar group, not eligible for senate funds because it has similar restrictions. We did have a sister organization, geology club, that was open for funds. Is this to fund Nu Rho Psi or just a group in this area?
  4. Zoya: We can’t fund groups with requirements, and this does have requirements, right?
  5. Group: Yes
  6. Adrian: Feels like everyone can come for the first week or so, get an idea of it, membership by invitation begins after this
  7. Stephonn: I think we should keep this tabled until she can provide more documentation that proves these requirements wrong
  8. Taylor: I can find alternate funding resources if you give me their contact
  9. Danny: I sent them all that and they seemed discouraged
  10. Danny: Let’s just leave this tabled
  11. Group agrees
  1. Refer 2017-058: A BILL TO FUND ARS RHETORICA
  2. Angela Murphy, last year’s Grad Affairs director emailed Stephonn, Gabby and myself with last minute request for an event, need money by Wednesday
  3. It is a fundraising event, so it will help them reaise their own money
  4. Dylan: Is it open to undergraduate students?
  5. Amy: Yes
  6. Mattie motions to determine the bill as time sensitive and not refer it to a second committee, seconded, group in favor to refer to full senate
  7. Refer 2017-059: A BILL TO FUND KANSAS FULLBRIGHT SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION
  1. Group has had a few issues with funding, went through MEF, wants to get this done quickly
  2. Looking for $741 for promotion and operating of events
  3. Didn’t specify some of their expenses
  4. Dylan: Anything itemized in terms of advertising?
  5. Danny reads the itemized description of their advertising expenditures
  6. Dylan: When did they want this by?
  7. Wednesday
  8. Britney: Are these banners reusable? It says it is open to all students, but then says KU Fullbright Scholarship Association is to organize meetings for Fullbrighters with other Fullbrighters, so..?
  9. Danny defers to Taylor: They came for funding last year, did drill them a bit because of language, did fund them because they said any KU student could go to these meetings
  10. Britney: What’s a narrated cultural image (listed on itemized advertising)?
  11. We can put this on full senate agenda and have the group explain
  12. Amy: Did they get MEF funding?
  13. They did for four of their events, this is for their really big events, each $500, weren’t granted entirety of their MEF funding request
  14. Amy: Is request through Jayhawk Ink because it seems like a very high price for Jayhawk Ink?
  15. Danny: We will need to address that
  16. Britney: It could be that high if they’re making flyers for every event
  17. Taylor: Did they turn in all the forms they need?
  18. Yes, sent to Allyssa
  19. Britney moves to include on full senate agenda, seconded, bill passes
  1. Announcements
  2. Britney: Next meeting is on Halloween?
  3. Danny: Will reschedule that
  1. Adjournment – 7:35 pm

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