Residence Hall Association
Minutes for Full Body Meeting
January 29, 2009
Meeting called to order at 8:06 PM
Susie Pope, president
minutes recorded by Tiffany Mooney, secretary
Members present: Nicole Derry, Rebecca Gnefkow, Brooke Voss, Kristen Bleri, Sean Serroque, Sharon Robbins, Mandy Ciecor, Curtis Wesbay, Emily Noonan, Chelsea Billeck, Katherine Hernandez, Kyle Miller, Deana Dighero, ,Matthew Bernhardt, Craig Deken, Emily Haupt, Dave Carrell, Ryan Brinkman, Kyle Schemmer, Katherine Tynan, Bradley Bartlett, Kim Heitzmen, James Megahan, Susie Pope, Regina Rodgers, Chris Walters, Chris Zempel, Tiffany Mooney
Members not present:
Corrections to old minutes: None
Previous minutes approved
External Business:
None
Officer Reports
President(Susie Pope): budget roundtable on Monday if you want to see the presentation go
to budgetinfo.truman.edu; Student senate roundtable business for discussion; Liters of the week Tiffany,
Chris Z. and Bradley
Vice President (Regina Rodgers):Senate of the week: West Campus Suites
Secretary(Tiffany Mooney):mail, sign up sheet with a lot of info and brag bag include
jelly bean number.
Treasurer (Chris Walters):sorry I got the bad jelly beans, put the guess in the brag bag,
MACURH checks are all deposited and we need checks from MO hall
NCC (Kim Heitzman): no frills is in 21ish days and we are really excited!
Webmaster (Katherine Tynan): fixed space bar on office keyboard
Advisors (John Gardner and Emily Haupt):None
NRHH (Craig Deken): OTMs due next week-anyone who has done something great. NRHH website
updated.
Student Senate: (Sean Serroque ) became official member, budget crisis-still in a $1
million deficit. Looking to cut programs that are not working. Go to roundtables to discuss.
Resolution about year round residence hall. Want people to go to lobby meeting at the state capitol
in February or March. Craig passed around a sheet of all the upcoming dates for budget information.
Sharon will go to facilities meetings
Hall Reports
Blanton-Nason-Brewer Hall:Nason-Brewer Hall- started a biweekly newsletter and continued
going over programs. Attempted big recruitment with candy. Starting making decorations for program
ABC dance in April. Senior prom in Edina on February 28th. Now we have an office!
Centennial Hall:ECO friendly go green discussion. Conversation candy heart sale. Senior
citizen prom.
Grim Hall and the Apartments: elections, constitutional revisions.
Missouri Hall:more programs, GO green, stop having unofficial name in CSI
Ryle Hall:Joellen and Isaac came about budget. Administrative changes to the senate.
Thought of semester ideas.
West Campus Suites: Feb 25th date and service auction more information to come hopefully
this week.
Old Business
- T-shirts to come and facilities to come
New Business
- Informal discussion on year round residence hall-one of the international student representatives
submitted resolution including being open summer, breaks, and the rest of the semester. It would cost
more to live there by $100-200. Target students are international but any students there would be able
to stay if they wanted.
Emily-what is the problem with using the apartments on campus?
Susie-strictly for first-year residents who cant live there.
Emily Noonan-how would that affect the students who are placed there?
Susie-everyone would have to pay.
Matt-What about staffing, an advisor, SAs, cleaning?
Susie- we have already mentioned that.
Matt-Where is the $100 amount coming from, will it really cover what is needed?
Sean-they do not really know where the number came from, biggest problem will be staffing, getting people who want to stay and how to pay for it.
Ryan B.-Are the apartments available year round?
Emily-first year students cannot be there but they are available during breaks.
Ryan B.-there is no food service while they are staying there-had no intentions of going through reslife, kind of seen as a personal offense since this was not considered through us.
Sharon-does $26/day includes energy costs (this is how much it costs per student) Is there a way to form a resolution to allow students to use the apartments?
Emily-maybe it could be for international students
Sharon-we should try to accommodate
Curtis- Is the bigger problem that it is hard for international students to find somewhere to go during breaks or the summers included?
Emily- we have summer housing, and we are looking at the longer breaks.
Chris Z.-They were initially talking about just breaks
Emily-the only breaks when no one can be in the halls is winter break and spring break. The smaller breaks students are allowed to be there.
Chris W.-beside the food service, you have to find a staff member who would be willing to stay over Christmas.
Ryan B.-I have heard that this has been brought up before and it seemed that there were only about 6 students interested.
Emily-Where is the data that says that there is a large need for this?
Sean- JoEllen stated that this was a concern.
Susie- At roundtable they said that they don’t know right now and have no way of getting it.
Please discuss this at your halls so that we have an answer for student senate. - Info budget meetings start this week: at 7pm
Ryle and Grim-Monday
MO and BNB-Tuesday
C-hall and West Campus-Thursday
Committee Meetings
Committee Reports
- Resident Affairs: e-mails went out to hall directors to alert them to the quiet hour lights. Also, emailed ECO president for and suggestions they need help with. Talk with international students that you know and your hall senates to find out what students think about this
- Programming:We are starting to make progress on the Flag Project we all have task that we will be completing by the next meeting.
- Internal Affairs:make snowflakes during the meeting, BYOS-bring your own scissors! More fundraising ideas. Winner of Jelly beans- Susie with a guess 616!
Announcements
- PSP information night in SUB
- Chris W.-Widdle your wood-teach people how to carve wood. Wednesday February 4th on the 5th floor of CHALL
- Income taxes can be done for free VH 1400 quadrant February and March 8am-3pm
Brag Bag
Adjourned at 8:57 PM