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Minutes for Full Body Meeting

November 20, 2008
Meeting called to order at 8:04 PM
Susie Pope, president
minutes recorded by Chris Walters, treasurer

Members present:

Members not present:

Corrections to old minutes: None
Previous minutes approved

External Business:
None

Officer Reports
President(Susie Pope): had regional chat and pres council meeting. Been talking to other schools about our ResLife stipend
Vice President (Regina Rodgers): programming meeting Tuesday at 4:30
Secretary(Kim Slattery): no report; not in attendance
Treasurer (Chris Walters): diploma display labels, care coming in, budget approval to me a week before
NCC (Kim Heitzman):made binder of MACURH programs that delegates went to
Webmaster (Katherine Tynan): Minutes archive is up on the website. Photos are coming soon
Advisors (John Gardner and Emily Haupt): intention over two thousand responses, results are back on dining survey not yet replied about 600, looking about blender resolution
NRHH (Craig Deken): have shirts being created for themselves, working on leadership retreat, OTM’s remember month specific, bake sale Friday and Saturday after 1030
Student Senate: (Kim Slattery) no report
Facilities: (Kendall Smith) quick, went over renovations, finishing up tasks over break, basic upkeep
Liter of the Week is Brad Bartlett.

Hall Reports
Blanton-Nason-Brewer Hall:Chris found the report, did not get recycle bins, fast food run December 7 from 8 to midnight; T-shirts still going, plans for next semester
Centennial Hall:put candy canes on doors saying happy holidays and decorate hall, reading day have cotton candy machine
Grim Hall and the Apartments: - busy! Doing great, new doors on third floor and thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday, penny wars third floor won
Missouri Hall:no report
Ryle Hall:planning ceremony for Ryle cup challenge, two north won
West Campus Suites:silent auction going on, in process of planning dodge ball tourney for finals week, and YouTube contest

Old Business

  • Budget approval - Ryan wants to be reimbursed $45.96 was a motion and second
    Discussion- Chris- no money set aside, and we would have to reimburse everyone
    Kim- repeat this project
    Sharron- repeat and maybe next treasurer set aside money for off-set
    Chris- stress we don’t have money for this
    Katherine- did we do a budget approval for costumes, and yes we did.
    Jared- should we to keep numbers going that we remembers to encourage people to going
    Kim- lots of people would have to be reimbursed
    Matt- question- was there money set aside last year for costumes, no it was a budget approval.
    Jimmy- maybe having funds as an add on fee to combat the price of spirit items.
    Chris call to question-
    Division was called- budget approval fails
  • Motion to remove from table and second.
    Discussion- Susie- explanation- Adding finances section- no dues, how we pass budget approvals, dissolution of funds and strike Truman State from name, Correction with size of letter of intent and a grammatical error later in that section.
    Ryan- what will final name be of organization be RHA
    Regina- good to have
    Brad- call to question- motion passes

New Business

  • Sharon- allowing Sharon voting rights, fits requirements- set by members at large section, move to vote on whether she can vote, motion passed and tabled
  • Nominations-
    Explanation of position- Kim explained NCC, Chris explained treasurer, and Susie the secretary position
    Fill in here who is allowed to vote for these positions
    Nominations open for secretary- Tiffany Mooney, Brooke on behalf excepts
    Nominations for treasurer- elect- Chris Zempel and accepts
    Ryan is nominated and accepts
    Nominations for NCC-IT- Brad Bartlett is nominated and accepts
    Nominations closed
  • MACURH- presentation about RBD
    Kim, Sharron, and Regina present

Committee Meetings

Committee Reports

  • Programming: All hall ball now called bulldog bash, April 20-25 luau theme; MDT reading day at 2:00pm vh1320; Activities for ResLife week; Prep for flag project; Monday and Tuesday- thankful program write things on feathers and put it on there
  • Internal Affairs: no report
  • Residential Affairs: no report

Announcements

  • none

Brag Bag

Adjourned at 9:13 PM