Call to Order

Roll Call

Approval of Minutes from,

Executive Officer Reports

  • Student Body President (K. Walsh)
  • CRCC to present topics about racism, LGBTQ issues
  • Open for students to register
  • Only 300 available spots
  • October 24th
  • Thanks to everyone for the help during festival ISU
  • Sunday is the anniversary of 9/11
  • Assembling students to go on quad day before/day of and put flags around quad to honor those who died that day
  • Student Body Vice President (Z. Schaab)
  • Attempting to get numbers for ELP finalized by Friday
  • Contact asap if more
  • Prepare interest for mentors
  • Need people for library committee, academic planning committee
  • Student Body Executive Director (A. Goldstein)
  • Will be in founders suite October 5th, 19th, November 2nd, and 30th
  • Mistake in calendar – no GA on December 2nd
  • Promotional items to be in soon – have been ordered
  • Clock hours for the days you work for the specific days you worked
  • Cross referencing office hours
  • Coffee and supplies in
  • Space on whiteboard for recommendations
  • Applications for secretaries are up, and will be conducting interviews
  • Does not need to be approved b
    Assembly Officer Reports
  • President of the Assembly (D. Heylin)
  • Rafalovits, Falson, and Broderick were elected in academic senate
  • Internal committees to send minutes to Dan or Morgen
  • Senator coordinators present goals
  • Senators positions to fill for fine arts and nursing as well as on campus
  • Notify Falson if you have any
  • Make sure you’re in the office during office hours doing SGA work
  • IBHE (Chairman) – shifted meeting to ISU on October 21st and 22nd
  • Hopefully a big presence
  • ISU usually has the highest level of attendance
  • There will be no academic senate next week for the senators
  • Committees will still be meeting at 6pm
  • More action items in academic senate to given to senators with more information
  • Faculty representatives have their own committee meetings
  • Vice President of the Assembly (B. Grzanich)
  • CC hours – one week into September
  • Festival ISU
  • Part time job fair
  • Need 4 hours
  • Quad jam 11th from 3-5
  • Pig out with the prez the 13th
  • Sex pope
  • Final week of September tabling to get last minute voters
  • Group calendar for office hours
  • Way to check mobile to see who’s in the office when
  • Replace whiteboard
  • Secretary of the Assembly (M. Snyder)
  • No report

Advisor Report (J. Davenport)

  • ISU police department to begin enforcing jay-walking
  • Warnings followed by citations
  • Inform students to walk in the lines so that they don’t get tickets
  • Students involved in accidents
  • Fencing around railroads – only cross at designated spots
  • Begin passing out flyers about voting and early voting
  • Make sure people are registered before voting day

Executive Cabinet Member Reports

  • Secretary of Governmental Relations (R. Greenfield)
  • Thank you for those participating as election judges
  • Quite a few early election places and registration
  • Waterson
  • Faculty lounge
  • Milner
  • Manchester/Hewett
  • Spoke with Vidette about TurboVote
  • Students still having problems with connect transit and the app
  • Talked to connect transit about this
  • Secretary of Programming (B. Tamme)
  • No Report
  • Secretary of Public Relations (S. Feiz)
  • We are sharing the registration to vote online
  • Increase Facebook following
  • When giving away promo items make sure they are following us on Facebook
  • For events – someone needs to be involved in typing up Facebook posts before that day
  • If you have an event with a resolution make sure you’re involved in that
  • Idan – create snapchat filters?
  • Secretary of Diversity Affairs (A. Reado)
  • This week DAO meetings
  • Reach out and get to know them
  • Try to go to meetings and interact at meetings so they know we’re here to support them
  • For Fly Jam – go and reach out to other students to get the name of SGA out
  • If anybody wants to be in diversity committee contact Reado
  • Meetings into one Facebook post
  • Secretary of Information Technology
  • No report
  • Secretary of College Affordability
  • Meeting with committee sometime this week
  • Idan – there are a lot of teachers are being given bonuses (trips, items) to boost companies by having us register for these programs
  • Maybe talk to these professors/companies
  • Falson offered to help look into because that’s morally wrong
  • Need to have a conversation with professors – do not attack/approach in a non-aggressive way
  • At meeting to discuss trying to have 100 level classes do homework through ReggieNet instead of Pearson
  • Academic senate was worried about us infringing on academic senate in terms of using ReggieNet – could cause push back
  • Walsh – gather information statewide about statewide vs. isu student to pay for textbooks
  • Depends on what major, grade, etc.
  • ISAC – map grants, funding, so maybe textbook affordability
  • Secretary of Sustainability(D. Cichon)
  • World Water Week conference
  • Biggest student group
  • Made a lot of progress but not there yet
  • Meeting with Powers, Walsh, and Cichon about sustainability fund and why it was cut
  • First committee meeting next Tuesday

Committee Chairperson Reports

-Membership and Outreach Committee (Falson)

  • Started conducting interviews
  • One qualified guy – hopefully in two weeks
  • Be respectful of interviews
  • More tabling and CC events
  • Waterson
  • Tri
  • Playlist on WZND – keep posting songs
  • Mark calendars December 11th – club Milner 10-10:10
  • Homecoming shirts – passed out Friday before homecoming
  • 3 for Waterson, two for tri – tri is good need more for Waterson

-Finance and Allocation Committee (L. Ingersoll)

  • First hearing today

-Civic Engagement Committee (S. Sibley)

  • Voter registration drives to get going with turbo vote
  • College democrats and republicans in for debate
  • When and where and who to moderate
  • Free speech
  • Reach out to professors, date and where

-Policies and Procedures Committee (A. Kinross)

  • Annotated about half of the student elections code
  • Up and running and complete soon
  • Online and social media

-It’s on Us Committee

Senator Group Coordinator Reports

-On Campus Senators (P. Broderick)

  • Met with cardinal court director
  • Working with bus schedule and arrival – putting on TV
  • Accepting applications past Friday for on-campus senators

-Off Campus Senators (L. Fulton)

  • Met with Daniella Imera –
  • Make aware that off campus 101 presentations for students moving from campus to apartments
  • Items to purchase to what a valid contract looks like
  • Trying to increase student number
  • See Fulton for dates and times
  • Improve awareness for recycling
  • Hawkins is an ambassador for off-campus in LCC office
  • If you want to present contact Hawkins or Daniella

-Academic Senators (I. Rafalovits)

  • Deferring specific classes for math and sciences until you get to the university for transfer students
  • Easier to transfer from community college to four year university
  • Meeting to create outline to help with registration system
  • Help to know what checkpoints they have to meet before registering to classes

-Student Life Senators (M. Shurhay)

  • Currently planning SGA info nights
  • Talk to Todd about RSO page update
  • Room, contact list, RSO of the month
  • Meeting with Nikki Brower about SGA and health promotion
  • Pack the place October 15th
  • Also victory belt date

Ex-Officio Reports

  • ALAS
  • 5pm this Friday potluck
  • Meetings usuallyThursdays at 7pm
  • Will poston FB page about dates
  • APAC
  • DAO olympics Sunday September 18th
  • ARH
  • Past Saturday victory belt captains
  • First GA at 7pm in Schroeder
  • Need a board
  • Contact Falson or ELP for interested candidates
  • Yesterday and today partnered for suicide prevention week
  • Papers and fabric across the quad as well as stories
  • Curb bird celebration today
  • Retreat September 23rd and 24th
  • BSU
  • BSU week – different events this week
  • Panel today
  • Soulfood dinner – to put in group me
  • Can contact Beau about making it CC
  • Quad jam Sunday
  • Saturday community service event
  • Royal Court
  • PRIDE
  • No report
  • Student Trustee
  • No board related items
  • Working with walsh about sales tax exemption in regards to textbook affordability
  • Graznich for more studnets on town council
  • Reach out to student leaders to know about the student trustee position

Information Items

Geoperks – geo cashing, get a discount for certain companies posted on app (TABLED FOR LATER DATE)

  • Collegiate service to provide discounts to services
  • Help fund because we are direct beneficiaries
  • Not necessarily paying for app, paying for the discounts – gets funded through alumni etc.
  • Buying a contract, not discounts
  • How to get the word out to students?
  • Up to the business to make discounts known
  • Does anybody use the app? – stats?
  • Walsh to talk to collegiate services about whether or not the discount will go away
  • To wait until collegiate services rep is available

TurboVote funding –

  • Extremely easy to register,
  • Online, attractive to students, quick and easy – encourages students to vote
  • SGA, Dean of Students, and American Democracy Project all fund
  • No money has been paid to turbo vote

Action Items

TurboVote – easiest way to get students to register to vote and involve student engagement

(PASSED)

Special Items

Passing the Gavel

Adjournment