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Minutes for Full Body Meeting

October 2, 2008
Meeting called to order at 8:03 PM
Susie Pope, president
minutes recorded by Kim Slattery, secretary

Members present: Chris Zempel, Bradley Bartlett, Chelsea Billeck, Kat Murphy, Amanda Ciecior, Vinciane Ngomsi, Victoria Bradley, Chris Walters, Kim Heitzman, Kim Slattery, Regina Rodgers, Susie Pope, Deana Dighero, Kendall Smith II, Matthew Bernhardt, Kyle Miller, Andrew Kaizer, Katherine Tynan, Sharon Scherffius, Brooke Voss, James Megahan, Tiffany Mooney, Kailey Tyler, Cody Sumter, Ryan Brinkman, Tiffany Najbart

Members not present: Amanda Kliethermes, Dan Hicks, Bobby Ritchie, Emily Noonan, Curtis Westbay, Danny Giddings, Phil Raine, Alexis Mathews, Danielle Sparks, JoEllen Flanagan, Sarah Folks, Talor Lutz, Teresa Bradley, Jared Young, Katherine Hernandez, Amanda Thomas, Craig Deken, Mike Merritt, Kristen Bieri, Sean Parks, Julie Knoblauch, James Sage, Stuart Murray, Caleb Forrest, Dave Carrell

Corrections to Previous Minutes: None; Minutes approved

External Business:
Cody Sumter, Student Representative to the Board of Governors

  • Meeting on Friday at 1:30PM in 3rd floor conference room of SUB; Dr. Krueger (future interim president) will be there (and will be around campus next week)
  • SUB getting tech overhaul
  • Magruder noise leaks being fixed
  • Needs to talk to past/current residents of BNB
  • Can be contacted at cody@truman.edu

Officer Reports
Vice President (Regina Rodgers):needs to talk to presidents of hall senates after meeting to determine what activity space is needed/desired for Halloween; considering a hall decorating contest again; programming committee needs to get together after meeting to make sure other meeting time works
Secretary (Kim Slattery):who wants to read the brag bag this week? attendance going around, mail, sorry about lateness of last week’s minutes
Treasurer (Chris Walters):care packages for Halloween soon – will need help in addition to internal affairs committee
NCC (Kim Heitzman):MACURH delegation has been selected and registered; meetings start next week on Monday, hosting pre-MACURH on October 9th and 10th
Webmaster (Katherine Tynan): The website will be offline in varying degrees over Midterm Break (3 PM on October 8 to 8 AM on October 13) to allow for an upgrade to the new site design.
Advisors (John Gardner and Emily Haupt): none
NRHH (Craig Deken): selected OTM winners, which are listed at nrhh.truman.edu; OTMs for September due on Sunday; OTMs are month-specific
Student Senate: (Kim Slattery)discussed actual absence of plans to stage protest outside of BOG meeting about consultant compensation for President Dixon, Student Health Director position will probably be in place soon
President: Presidents Council meeting on Friday at 5:30 in the SUB Down Under

Hall Reports
Blanton-Nason-Brewer Hall: worked on designing Haunted House, want to get recycling bins for non-freshman students (should talk to Student Senate, Ryle, West Campus to get these)
Centennial Hall:talked about Halloween – Haunted House competition to get people to decorate
Grim Hall:Human Sundaes on Saturday at noon, also kickoff for Assassins; penny wars; Halloween party; passed resolution on keeping Ryle cafeteria the way it is
Missouri Hall: resolution about blenders in the halls, pumpkin carving the day before Halloween, event on election night to watch election results
Ryle Hall:Evaluated our successful events from over the weekend. Discussed renovations of the Ryle cafeteria and designated people to write the resolution. Decided the prize for the winner of the Ryle Cup Challenge. Contributed money to Heartland philanthropy.
West Campus Suites: Contributed to Heartland; volleyball tournament on Sunday at noon; discussed Halloween

Old Business
Constitutional amendments ratified by 4 of 6 hall senates

New Business

  • MO Hall Resolution
    • Promoted alcoholic drinks, electrical issues
    • Cody: Is it true that the reason is the electrical wiring?
      Emily: Yes, it’s the main reason, and kitchen space issue; it’s an older policy
    • Jimmy: challenge to RHA to write own resolution
    • Matt: safety issue, blades?
      Emily: no
    • Matt: residence halls to-be-renovated to be included as well?
    • Kendall: difference between blender and smoothie machine? Why do you need a blender?
      Zac: Shouldn’t need reason to allow, rather, should need reason to restrict usage.
    • Susie: What does MO Hall want RHA to do with the resolution?
      (Support.)
    • Cody moved to extend discussion time by 3 minutes.
      Seconded. Motion passed.
    • Chris moved to call to question (support for resolution).
      Motion passed.
  • Ryle Hall Cafeteria Resolution presented by Residential Affairs
    Brooke presented.
    • Five-Minute Question/Answer Period:
      • Sharon: friendly amendment to change wording from Main Street Market to “concept dining”
      • Chris: no formal survey performed, maybe we should do it
      • Matt: Are we going to send out a survey or are they?
      • Brooke: They should send out the survey.
      • Jimmy: There was a survey (if he remembers correctly), should change wording of fifth “whereas” clause to be more inclusive to non-athletes, since they will still eat there
      • Brooke: (addressing old survey) We are asking for current data.
      • Zac: other senates are looking into this; regarding survey results, a survey was conducted but the question discussed variety, not concept dining specifically
      • Kim S.: agreed with Chris, should conduct survey to have stronger support for our position
      • Chris: we aren’t asking for a survey in the resolution, but we need to; new layout of Ryle supports concept dining, will need to address this
      • Brooke: they are currently planning to do concept dining, which is why we need to pass this resolution soon
    • 5-minutes up, Sharon moved to exhaust speakers list. Kim seconded. Motion passed.
      • Kendall: time line?
      • Emily: there is very little time – need to pass resolution immediately
      • Kendall: second “be it further resolved” clause does request survey
      • Matt: address layout of cafeteria but also price difference between concept dining and meal block
      • Ryan: get hall senates to discuss and support
      • Zac: get senates to endorse resolution
      • Sharon: we need to better understand the situation before we take a position
      • Chris/Emily: point of clarification Sodexho would not be the only company to ever use the facilities but have a contract for the next two years
      • Chris: we need to say something about changing current plans (in the resolution); we should conduct the survey and include off-campus students
    • Speaker’s list exhausted.
    • Kim moved to suspend standing rules until conclusion of conversation reached. Kendall seconded.
      Standing rules suspended.
      • Chris: The resolution isn’t ready.
      • Tiffany: Putting it off is a bad idea.
      • Kendall: We need to do this right away.
      • Zac: It’s been an issue for two years, and it’s too late to do anything about it.
      • Chris: It’s not ready, even if the situation needs immediate attention.
      • Sharon: need to represent residents
      • Matt: special meeting?
    • Ryan moved to have a special meeting. Matt seconded.
      • Kendall: Could make friendly amendments to the resolution to prepare it.
      • Point of information (Sharon): Friendly amendments cannot change content of resolution.
      • Point of information (Jimmy): If accepted, they can.
      • Chris: We should wait, not throw a bunch of friendly amendments in now.
      • Jimmy: We are the representatives for the halls and have been chose to serve as their voice.
      • Zac: There is already a contract for this. It’s two years too late.
      • Emily: Yes, it’s two years too late.
      • Kendall: Yes, perhaps too late, but we can change that now.
      • Point of order (Kim S.): We’re still talking about the meeting, not the resolution.
      • Chris: We would need 2/3 quorum, take time to build something better.
      • Cody called to question.
        Chris dissented. Chris suggested a friendly amendment to have special meeting on Monday.
      • Kendall suggested having it around president’s council meeting on Friday.
      • Sharon: Make sure you have time to be there.
      • Kim S. suggested a friendly amendment to have the meeting on Friday at 4.
      • Proxy votes allowed.
      • Quorum would be 9 people (half of the 17 voting members).
    • Called to question.
      Motion to have special meeting on Friday at 4 passed.
    • Kim S. moved to table the resolution until Friday’s special meeting. Seconded.
      Motion passed.

Committee Reports

  • Programming:Needs to talk to presidents after meeting, needs to ask other groups about wanting to do activities for trick-or-treating
    • Internal Affairs:Talked about selling candy for Halloween, HvZ t-shirts (need to talk to Cody), Halloween care packages
  • Residential Affairs:(obviously) working on Ryle cafeteria resolution

Announcements

  • Special meeting in WCS multipurpose room
  • Human Sundaes on Saturday at noon

Brag Bag

Adjourned at 9:33 PM until October 16th