THE SIXTY-FIRST SENATE OF THE ASNMSU GENERAL MEETING 3
AUGUST 24TH 2017
6:00 PM
- Roll Call
• Senator Cassidy, Absent
• Senator Szymber, Absent with no motion to excuse
• Senator De Alba, Absent and excused until 8:37pm
• Senator Heins, Absent and excused until 7:25pm - Reading and Approval of the Journal
• Journal read and approved - Petitions and Remonstrations
• Student Initiated Policy Revision for Code of Conduct/Academic Misconduct Policy, introduced by Dr. Timothy Ketelaar, to include:
- Clear and Consistently applied policy across campus
- Distinction between Minor and Major infractions
- Clear Appeals Process - Reports of Standing Committees
• Donovan Olvera, Director of Activities
- Summer Recap
- Promotional Items
- Corbett Center Programming Specialist
- Aggie Carnival
- Welcome Back Concert
-Budget
- Upcoming Events
• Uriel Munoz, Director of Governmental Affairs
- Over the Summer
- Department Updates – Lottery Scholarship cut to 60% funding, looking at raising minimum GPA requirements or implementing a scale for funding
- Summer Research
• Luis Terrazas, Director of Public Relations
- Summer – Promotional Items, Services, Community Outreach, Homecoming Logo, Keep State Great shirts, Pop-Up Tents and Tablecloths, Social Media, Student Tech
- Fall Semester – Social Media, Ongoing Projects
• Nancy Mestre, Chief Elections Officer
- Goals – Packets, Advertisement, Promo Items, Information Meetings, Preparation, Roadies, Time management
- Information meeting on ASNMSU Senator positions – September 2nd
- Senator Packets released September 15th, due on October 3rd
• Chief of Staff
- Current balance – $105,807.24 - Reports of Standing Committees
• Community Affairs, Rules, and Finance committees have not yet met
• ACES Council recap
• Arts & Sciences Council recap
• Business Council recap
• Education Council recap
• Engineering Council recap
• HSS Council recap
• Graduate Council recap
• Athletic Council – not yet met
• Student Advocacy Board – not yet met
• Sodexo Student Board of Directors – not yet met
• Diversity Board – no report
• Alcohol review board – not yet met
• Special events committee – not yet met
• Sustainability Committee - not yet met
• Faculty senate – not yet met - Business on the President’s Desk
Letters from:
Senator Szymber - excusal from 1st hour of Senate, motion to not excuse Senator Szymber due to arrival 1 hour 3 minutes after start of Senate
Senator De Alba – excusal until 8:37pm, motion by Senator Shareef to excuse Senator De Alba until 8:40pm.
Senator Heins – excusal until 7:30pm for every Senate meeting of semester, Senator Ferreira moves to excuse Senator Heins until arrival at 7:25pm, Senator Sanchez seconds.
- Excused: Senator Heins until 7:25pm, Senator De Alba until 8:40pm
- Unexcused: Senator Szymber
Surplus Account Balance $ 780,361.63
Cardinal Account Balance $ 165,626.56
Club Endowment Account Balance $ 2,120,688.61
ASNMSU Endowment Account Balance $ 324,979.20
Remarks of the Vice President
- Welcome back
Remarks of the President Pro Tempore
- Welcome back
- Access to Box application? 2 Senators having diffculty.
- Communication
- Committee as a Whole bills- 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26
- Let's have a good first meeting!
Remarks of the Faculty Senate Representative
- Dr. Neal Rosendorf–not in attendance–at other meeting
Remarks of the Chief Senate Clerk
- No remarks
- Open Forum – Ehtesham Shareef, Seargent-at-Arms
• No open forum
- First Readings
Bill #: 3
Bill #: 4
Bill #: 6
Bill #: 7
Bill #: 8
Bill #: 9
Bill #: 10
Bill #: 11
Bill #: 12
Bill #: 13
Bill #: 14
Bill #: 15
Bill #: 16
Bill #: 17
Bill #: 18
Bill #: 19
Bill #: 20
Bill #: 21
Bill #: 22
Bill #: 23
Bill #: 24
Bill #: 25
Bill #: 26
Bill #: 27
Bill #: 28
Bill #: 29
Bill #: 30
Bill #: 31
Bill #: 32
Bill #: 33
Bill #: 34
Res #: 9
Res #: 10
Res #: 11
Res #: 12
Res #: 13
Dissolved into Committee of the Whole at 7:51pm
Roll Call:
• Senator Cassidy, Absent
• Senator De Alba, Allowed on floor
Reading of Bills 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26 commences
Bill #: 6
• Amendments by bill presenter
• Amendment to line 11 to say $25.00/night instead of $25.00/day
• Amendment to remove line 12 as it is illegal to fund application fees ($330.00)
• Amendment to change line 6 to read "from" instead of "on"
• Amendment to change line 14 to read $700.00
• Amendment to change line 17 to read $700.00
• Amendment to change line 20 to read $280.00
• Amendment to align zeroes
• Amendment to strike "and" from line 22
• Amendment to change "complete" to "conduct" on line 5
• Introduction to bill and guest
• Discussion on exclusion of application fee from bill
• Question on legality of changing application fee charges to inter-city travel fee as inter-city travel is included in application fee
• Question on whether application fee details may constitute a receipt for $330.00 of inter-city travel
• Objections to including an inter-city travel charge of $330.00 for the reason that the $330.00 application fee may not be comprised entirely of inter-city travel
• Amendment to add "Inter-city travel" to line 12
• Amendment to add "(1 fee @ $330.00/fee)" and "$330.00" to line 12
• Discussion on $330.00 and $700.00
• Vote on adding fee to bill. Bill passes with vote of 17 to 8
• Further discussion on amendment. Rules Committee chair holds that amendment is in direct violation of the ASNMSU Law Book. Attorney General holds that wording of original memo (in that Inter-City travel is construed as a descriptor of the application fee) suggests that amendment is not.
• Amendment to add line after line 12, change line 14 to $1030.00, line 18 to $618.00, line 20 to $412.00.
Advisor letter adopted by Rules Committee, community service forms adopted by Community Affairs Committee, travel form adopted by Finance Committee
Bill #6 given due pass through Committee of the Whole
Bill #: 34 (Substitute Bill to Bill #13)
• Amendment by bill presenter to read "Committee of the Whole Substitute for Bill #13"
• Introduction of bill and guests. Guests presented research papers involving studies done in Law Cruces Public Schools to the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) at a University in Hawaii.
• Question on why one guest stayed in Hawaii for an additional night. Explanation is that guests attended conference separately.
• Amendments to change minor wording and punctuation
• Amendment line 41 and 43 to add ".00"s and line 40 to add ".00"
• Amendment to change line 40 to read "$772.00" rather than "$771.00" and change lines 50 and 53 to add $1.00 to totals and amendment to change line 54 to read "$970.00"
• Question of what inter-city travel charges were for
Advisor letters adopted by Committee of the Whole, proof of presentation adopted by Committee of the Whole, community service forms adopted by Committee of the Whole, travel form adopted by Committee of the Whole.
Substitute Bill #13 given due pass through Committee of the Whole
Bill #: 16
• No initial amendments from the floor. Introduction of bill and guests. Guests did research on drones and research paper was published.
Advisor letters adopted by Committee of the Whole, proofs of presentation adopted by Committee of the Whole, community service forms adopted by Committee of the Whole, FDW adopted by Committee of the Whole.
Bill #16 given due pass through Committee of the Whole
• Motion to read bills #14 and #17 at the end of guests at Committee of the Whole. Motion passes.
Bill #: 18
• No initial amendments from the floor. Introduction of bill and guest. "A Study of Pharmacokinetic Model." No questions or discussion for bill #18.
Advisor letter adopted by Committee of the Whole, proof of presentation adopted by Committee of the Whole, community service forms adopted by Committee of the Whole
Bill #18 given due pass through Committee of the whole
• Motion to refer Bill #15 to Rules Committee (and CA and Finance). Motion passes.
Bill #: 20
• No initial amendments from the floor. Introduction of bill and guests. Mathematics students conducted oral presentations of research papers in Chicago.
• Question on hotel charges, resolved by explanation
• Amendment to add "city" in between "inner-" and "travel"
Advisor letters adopted by Rules Committee, proofs of presentation adopted by Rules Committee portion of Committee of the Whole, community service forms adopted by Community Affairs portion of Committee of the Whole, FDW approved by Finance portion of Committee of the Whole
Bill #20 given due pass through Committee of the Whole
Sub-Bill #: 26
• Amendment by bill presenter to strike airfare from lines 22 and 23 and change subtotal on line 27 to "$918.00" from "$1118.00"
• No initial amendments from floor
• Introduction of bill and guests, Anthropology Graduate Student Organization.
• Amendment to change lines 12-15 to read "night" rather than "room"
• Amendment to add "Mexico" after "Cancun" and "Mexico" after "Merida"
• Amendment to change "$82.00" to "$84.00"
• Amendment to change subtotals and less matching funds to reflect $2.00 difference
• Amendment to change line 33, total, to read "$208.00" instead of "$287.00"
• Amendment to change wording to reflect difference in total
• Amendment to remove line 46
• Amendment to remove accents from "Mexico" on bill, motion withdrawn
• Amendment to remove line 23, removing $42.00 informant fee
• Amendment to adjust remaining totals to reflect change
Advisor letter adopted by the Rules Committee portion of Committee of the Whole, community service form adopted by Community Affairs portion of Committee of the Whole, FDW approved by Finance portion of Committee of the Whole, International travel form adopted by Finance portion of Committee of the Whole
Sub-Bill #26 given a due pass through Committee of the Whole
Bill #: 14
• Introduction of bill. Appropriations to account of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Organization.
• Amendment to alter gas fee. Motion withdrawn.
• Amendment add Graduate Student Council Funds ($400.00 rather than $0.00) and reflect changes in remaining subtotals and totals.
Advisor letters adopted by the Rules Committee portion of Committee of the Whole, proof of presentation approved by Rules portion of Committee of a Whole, community service forms adopted by Community Affairs portion of Committee of the Whole, FDW approved by Finance portion of Committee of the Whole
Bill #14 given a due pass through Committee of the Whole
Bill #: 17
• Introduction of bill. PhD student Z. M. Saifullah of Electrical and Computer Engineering travelled to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to present research. Appropriations to account of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Organization.
• Amendment to add Graduate Student Council Funds ($400.00 rather than $0.00) and reflect changes in remaining totals.
Advisor letters adopted by the Rules Committee portion of Committee of the Whole, proof of presentation approved by Rules portion of Committee of a Whole, community service forms adopted by Community Affairs portion of Committee of the Whole, FDW approved by Finance portion of Committee of the Whole
Bill #17 given a due pass through Committee of the Whole
Motion to resolve out Committee of the Whole at 10:36pm
Roll Call
• Senator Cassidy, Absent
• Motion to adopt Committee Report from Committee of the Whole
• Motion to have Bill #13 read at the beginning of 2nd readings
• Motion to add Bills #13, 6, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 26 to Second Readings
- Second Readings
Substitute Bill #13
• Introduction of bill and guests.
• Amendment to line 18 to read "Luggage fee" rather than "Baggage fee"
• Amendment to line 31 to read "Airport parking fee" rather than "Airport parking"
• Amendment to line 31 to change 6 fees to 5 fees
• Bill #13 given a due pass through Senate.
• Motion to take a recess at 10:53pm. Senate resumes at 10:58pm.
Roll call
• Senator Cassidy, Absent
Bill #: 6
• Introduction to bill. Making an appropriation to account of Student Nurses Association. Amendment to change "hotel" to "lodging" on line 11.
• No amendments from floor.
• Question of whether bill on projector is correct bill as amounts are incorrect. Bill adjusted to reflect prior changes.
• Amendment to line up dollar signs
• Amendment to correct total amount in numbers
• Bill #6 given due pass through Senate
Bill #: 14
• Introduction to bill.
• No amendments
•Bill #14 given due pass through Senate
Bill #: 16
• Introduction to bill.
• Amendment to insert "Graduate Student Council" on line 30 and for amount to read "$600.00" and for remaining amounts to reflect the change
• Bill #16 given due pass through Senate
Bill #: 17
• Amendment to strike "-" from between "El" and "Paso"
• Introduction to bill.
• Bill #17 given due pass through Senate
Bill #: 18
• Amendment to insert "Graduate Student Council" on line 21 and for the amount to read "$400.00" rather than "$0.00" and for remaining totals to reflect the change
• Introduction to bill.
• Bill #18 given due pass through Senate
Bill #: 20
• Amendment to insert "Graduate Student Council " on line 31 and for the amount to read "$800.00" rather than "$0.00" and for remaining totals to reflect the change
• Introduction to bill
• Amendment for line 43 to read "are" rather than "is"
• Amendment for line 43 to read "presented their research" rather than "are applying to present their research"
• Bill #20 given due pass through Senate
Substitute Bill #: 26
• No amendments from presenter or floor.
• Introduction to bill
• Substitute Bill #26 given due pass through Senate
- Unfinished Business
- None
- Announcements
- Burning of the Lobo coming up soon, VP calls for Senate to briefly adjourn to show support at event. Poll will be conducted to determine this.
- Retreat information
- Reading of Senator Cairns' resignation letter by Pro Tempore Forbes
- Rules Committee will now meet at 5:00pm on Tuesdays instead of 6:00pm
- Deadline for all summer appropriations is next Senate meeting
- Rules Committee at 5:00pm but CA and Finance still at 6:00pm
- Get familiar with Get Funded page
Adjourned at: 11:36 PM