I. Call to Order -7:40pm
II. Opening Roll Call
III. Approval of the Agenda
a. Motion to approve; seconded
b. Objection; Noah
i. Add A.R. 6-041 to New Business; seconded; approved
c. Objection; Brittney
i. Add to rep reports; seconded; approved
d. Motion to approve agenda as amended; seconded; approved
IV. Approval of the Previous Minutes
a. Minutes from the 20th meeting on February 14th, 2016 (Sent via email)
i. Motion to approve; seconded;
ii. Objection; Chris S.
1. Add last initials; seconded; approved
iii. Motion to approve; seconded; approved
V. Guest Speakers
VI. Community Concerns
VII. Executive Communications
a. Nadine – housing survey, send to your friends, thank you
b. Noah – Meijer bus shuttle not this Sunday but after break, this Thursday University of Central Arkansas, please don’t leave me alone have a great break
c. Kohlton – transfer around $8k to School of Information, etc. with Jared and in accordance with your passing of the resolution
i. Sheema – Noah data on Meijer bus? A – overwhelmingly positive, issue now is getting more awareness, first time doing something like this, just looks like a blue bus
VIII. Report of the Speaker
a. Tania – not too much to report…resignations, working on getting those seats filled
i. Noah – Michigan league meeting? A – I hate you
ii. Rules trivia? A – we decided it might not be for this assembly
1. Jared – we?
2. Abby POI cancelled? A - Ramon – not that much of a response…we can do it if you really want to
iii. Tania – not too much time left, if you have any advice for what we should be putting in new representative orientation let me know I’ll be putting that together: things confused about, weren’t communicated well, make sure everyone’s on the same page, much appreciated
b. Joe – going to work on resolution to get voting and attendance done with iclickers – show of hands?
i. Andy – still recording individual votes, for constituency? A – can bring that into the minutes
ii. Ali – two separate issues attendance and voting, Mcards for attendance? A – good ideas
IX. Representative Reports
a. Lakshman “Lucky” Mulpuri – after a year, finally happy to say gym tracker is happening. Similar to dining hall initiative, similar thing with rec sports. CCRB, IM, NCRB. Funds for 3 ipads, send people around every 15 minutes to count people in each room. Cardio, lifting, pool, etc. breakdown. Maximize student efficiency. Pretty big deal took a long time to get done. CSG led initiative. Want you all to make individual posts so people know was a CSG thing. Something everybody will like. If running for re-election can point to.
i. Atakin – access? A – Michigan app.
ii. Nadine – how does it work? A – they have spreadsheets, created spreadsheet code, numbers into ipads go to app. Will say time it was updated.
iii. Frank - UM App? A - yes if not online. Future updates with groupx classes, etc.
b. Brittney Williams – main thing going on for me right now is trying to get Medicaid resolution put forth first or second meeting after spring break. Thanks all for help. Nadine connected me with professor in school of pub. Pol. Who had a pretty terrible response. Asked about thoughts on realistic to request UHS take Medicaid, regurgitated influx for them if they have to take Medicaid for everyone. Not just university community. Not enough people for it to matter she said, not how I feel so I’ll keep doing this. Grad students who don’t have insurance through programs. Respective grad program reps let me know what it looks like. Other alternative considering is…two possibilities, asking UHS to take Medicaid and say figure it out, or domestic student health insurance which is extremely expensive to make waiver for Medicaid-eligible students and their dependents. SSW students excited about funding, heard of folks not enough support for student parents, will be working on that if anyone’s interested.
i. Chris S. – survey to grad student listservs? A – great
ii. Katy – waiver or telling them leaning? A – I think waiver is more realistic.
iii. Andy – good work, on Medicaid.
iv. Sheema – looking at policies at other big 10 schools? A – David connected me will be looking at that info soon
X. Committee Reports
a. Rules Committee (Report Attached)
i. Jared – met Thursday, talked about Whit’s resolution for codifying operating procedures choosing who gets to speak first during debate
1. Chris M. – adding statement guaranteeing…what was conclusion from meeting? A – just talked about as hypothetical no action, decided to stick with current rules.
b. Finance Committee
i. Max – almost end of semester, still have a lot of money, come to me with ideas. So few ideas, meeting after spring break will have list of resolutions from neighboring school student government bodies, would like people to come and go through them if one appeals let’s work on it. Will have nice list of resolutions you can work on. 5pm Thursday espresso.
1. Brittney – unfamiliar with committee, what kinds of things would you want people to request? A – can be anything at this point, we have so much room if something appeals to you
2. Chris M. – legislative discretionary? A - yes
c. Communications Committee (Report Attached)
i. Katy – still working on 200 for 200, a little bit behind, posted about 45 pictures, well received so far. Updated budget doc on post boosts. Decided to boost page during elections so hopefully people will turn out to vote. No meeting Friday.
d. Resolutions Committee (Report Attached)
i. Lucky – wasn’t there [reads report]
XI. Election and Recall of Members
XII. New Business
a. A.R. 6-041: a Resolution to Support an Academic Holiday on Election Day
i. First reads
1. Noah – A.J. and his team have been working on this
2. Mario – hi, intern for A.J. also on voice your vote. Would happen every even-numbered year starting 2020, guidelines and would encourage university to do so. In meeting mentioned to city clerk and she encouraged me to go forward with this. Talked to registrar, seemed to think great idea. Reached out to Ginsberg center. Chair of voice your vote proposed to regents. CSG next voice to support.
a. Chris M. – Ginsberg center? A – believe center talking about bettering student life in community.
i. Nadine – social justice and community service center, networking with community service opportunities. Own DEI, working on getting students involved with community and civic engagement.
b. Andy – gotten feeling from actual higher ups if possible, if take a day in November what would have to give up? A – talked to associate registrar, would probably take one day off of fall break. Believe worth it for civic engagement.
i. Research of student body of which they prefer? A – we don’t have numbers from here, numbers from Rutgers
c. Katy – assuming only changing schedule on election years? A – yes
d. Alex – general or midterm? A – November
e. Husam – get impression people tend to vote consistently once they start, data on people’s age when voting for first time? A – thank you
f. Tania – sum up Rutgers report? A – 95% student body supports, doesn’t take into account fall break issue, data about how some 30% students don’t vote because no time in schedule
g. Sheema – talked to students from other student governments on campus? A – on academic affairs in ESG, really supportive, not sure about LSA or others
ii. Comments on how to improve
1. David – Sarah had good statistics at regents meeting, include in whereas. Would like to see her as an author.
iii. Referred to resolutions committee
XIII. Old Business
a. A.R. 6-039: A Resolution to Support the Creation of a ME/NA Category
i. Second reads
1. Introduced last week, who wasn’t here?
2. Devin – all marked white on census and commonapp, supreme court cases, 1944 all arabs marked as white prereq for citizenship, changed but not for MENA. No count on arab-americans or middle-eastern in U.S., Michigan.
3. Nadine – if something goes on on campus, hard to reach out if you don’t know where they are, hard to advocate for allocation of resources
4. celebrations for graduations for communities of color, MENA students trying to reach out to students. Don’t know how many of us on campus.
5. Going to come to a vote next year in congress. Inspired when at islamophobia working group meetings in march, one of focus areas. Best way to show is to bring as resolution from CSG saying important, prioritize.
6. Devin – all being asked to do is show support. Primarily racial category. Just supporting idea not implementation.
7. Nadine – connected with another representative, Dad from Iran, will be part of conversation moving forward.
a. Chris S. – other demographics similar trouble? A – historically Latinx community here, happened before with other racial categories
b. Sheema – UM-Dearborn? A – does not, University of California has other one but not MENA
c. Teddy – more accurate? – just geographically
d. Ali – changes since last time? A – some logistical changes based on feedback but no big changes
ii. Proposed amendments
1. Pratik – fix whereas’
a. Friendly
iii. Third reads
iv. Vote
1. Resolution passes
b. A.R. 6-040: A Resolution to Amend the Operating Procedures to Ensure Fair Speaking Order In Debate
i. Second reads
1. Whit – superficial changes, closed loophole of phrase speaker’s discretion, consistent throughout section of matter at hand.
2. Chris M. – practiced last week speaker’s discretion in terms of order
a. Noah – what other things in mind for debate other than motions? A – debate resolutions, motions, suspending rules, amendments, language more general
b. Seth – medium used to determine randomization? A – draw lots in text, up to speaker’s discretion how to do that, trusting speaker to randomize in fair way
i. Tania – we assigned every person a number then random number generator for each for and against
3. Whit – could use deck of cards, etc. speaker’s discretion
ii. Proposed amendments
1. Chris S. – second whereas determine the
a. Friendly
2. Chris S. – same thing second resolved
a. Friendly
3. Noah – amend last resolved clause just says a speaker, member? Line 23
a. Friendly
4. Chris S. – resolved line 23 themself?
a. Withdrawn
5. Noah – line 24 as well member/speaker
a. Friendly
iii. Third reads
iv. Vote
1. Resolution passes
a. No with rights
i. Brittney – I just think in the context of how this came to be, frustrated by this resolution, sort of seems like a recognize in personal privilege, upset didn’t get to speak so change the operating code? Sometimes you don’t get what you want or have an identity that is silenced
XIV. Motions and Other Business
a. Tania – second page of agenda packet, written report from election director. Please give it a read-through, required to give weekly report. Candidate packets released, applications due Friday 5pm. Can only be submitted to this email. Also please notice paragraph about clean campaigning [reads paragraph].
XV. Announcements and Matters Arising
a. Ali – friend working on event in April highlighting women entrepreneurs, April 5th, looking for people to help out, let me know if interested
b. Tania –desire for rules jeopardy day (1)
c. Noah – nominate professors for golden apple award
d. Kohlton – echoing about how much money have left. SOFC about 2/3 through, will keep you updated on disbursement of $11k.
e. Brittney – encourage everyone to be friendly to front desk staff. Was on last year. Shift in people’s friendliness. People at the front desk help CSG run. Peers and constituents. Thank you to everyone who was supportive after lost my grandmothers. Love and etc.
f. Chris S. – support for rules trivia (2)
g. Max – national eating disorder awareness week, event tomorrow, panel, hear some stories including mine
h. Andy – shout-out to Max for being awesome at tennis
i. Frank – please show up, thanks
j. Eli – me and Ali and others planning another CSG Shabbat
k. Teddy – student leadership awards nominations due Friday, office of student life. If you want to go to True Blue event, tickets selling out really fast
l. Chris M. – senior class Army ROTC did weekend at Gettysburg, would encourage you to go, good experience for me. Learned a lot about history. Reminder of what we do today and in the past and what a privilege it is to serve.
m. Sheema – being in CSG, getting more students involved – elections, want to work on getting more people to vote. Huge privilege, should use some money to encourage people to vote.
n. Cheryl – event initiative, group has sent out mass emails and gotten good response, encourage groups with space issues to fill out survey. Also run social media page Uncover :APIA. This week doing mental health awareness week.
o. Ali – Ann Arbor picks up composting, leave agendas to recycle
p. Andy – from Zeigler, still dental student, graduation speaker? A – (Tania) committee stopped inviting us. We know nothing. Heard there’s a video.
q. Ramon – performing improv tomorrow, will be teaching swing dance classes in March.
XVI. Closing Roll Call
XVII. Adjournment – 8:52pm