Senate Meeting Minutes: August 5, 2008

1. Called to Order – 9:33am

2. Roll Call – Everyone was present

3. Additions – Elect Secretary (Became #10, For the Good of the Order #11)
Corrections – 6a Steer to Sterr

4. Approval of Agenda

5. Approval of Minutes – Tabled

6a. Peter’s Report –

New positions in ASWSUV
- The separation of Pro Tem and Secretary
- Chancellor Student Advisory Board
- Activities Board
Getting retreat ready with Andrea
Helped Executive Staff prepare for the school year

6b. Andrea’s Report –

Planned retreat and create binders
Created a vision and direction for 2008-09 ASWSUV
Working with Legislation
- DLA Funding, Washington Student Lobby (WSL), and Board of Regents
6c. 1) Eric’s Report –
Created calendar for the school year
Allocated a budget for each activity
Preparing Back to School BBQ

2) Nicole M.’s report –

Helped create the new ASWSUV logo
Working on getting banners, new A-frames, and posters
Creating a student email list

3) Michael’s report –
Created a new website with a forum
Needs every Senator’s biographies and pictures
Helped create the new logo with Nicole M

4) Summer’s report –
Attended WSL Meeting with Andrea
Currently planning WSL Retreat
Creating a plan of communication with the Pullman campus

5) Blake’s report –
The ROAR club fair on August 20th
Making a contact sheet with each club’s information
Had a Blackboard account created for clubs
Creating a contact sheet with other campuses’ clubs and RSOs

7. No committee reports
No old business

8. Confirmation of Senate Meeting time – Fridays at 9am

9. Elected Emily Brown as Pro-Tem

10. Elected Jackie Cruz as Secretary

11. For the Good of the Order

Peter –
Bowling Nights are now being put on by the Activities Director
- $ to move from Events Pool to the Activities pool for these events
An Outlook account created for the Senate (sg.senate@wsu.edu)
Business cards created for the Senate
Suggested the Senate to look at the website and promote it to students
Recommended to find students to fill the 2 Senate Vacancies
- Applications located in the ASWSUV office
- The deadline for nominations from the President by 15 school days
- Special election if one more Senator leaves the Senate
- Recommendations from Senate for new Senators
Robert –
Who has control of the budget?
- Senate has control of the budget once school starts
- $3,000 - 4,000 to be moved from Events Pool to the Activities Pool for
Bowling Nights
- $10,000 allocated for rollover

Michelle –
She has been working with Blake and Eric on ROAR Orientation
- Suggested that the Senate to table at the event
A reminder to attend the activities on August 19th
Suggested to come into the office and get acquainted

The first Senate Meeting on campus is on August 29th 2008

Andrea –
There will be an informal Senate Meeting
- To learn about administrative and office procedures
- Date to be determined

Adjourned at 10:04 am