Student Senate Meeting Minutes

Emergency Meeting

August 25, 2007

2:00 p.m. Drummond Executive Suite

  1. Call to Order- 2:03 p.m.
  2. Roll Call- EVP Brueggemann (see attendance record)
  3. New Business
  4. EVP changed the meeting agenda, moving iii to D.
  5. Recognition of the School of Public Health and Information Sciences Student Council- APPROVED- Motion by Senator Kersting, 2nd by President Jones, no discussion, unanimous
  6. Approval of Senate Executive Board Nominations
  7. Board/Committee Nominations
  8. Appropriations Committee Nominations- APPROVED, Motion by President Jones, 2ndby Senator Kersting, no discussion, unanimous
  9. Student Organizations Board –APPROVED, Motion by President Jones, 2ndby Senator DeRossett, no discussion, unanimous
  10. Academic Policy Board- APPROVED, Motion by President Jones, 2nd by Senator Downs, no discussion, unanimous
  11. Development Board- APPROVED, Motionby President Jones, 2ne by Senator Whistle, no discussion, unanimous
  12. Executive Staff Nominations
  13. APPROVED, Motion by President Jones, 2ndby Senator Kersting
  14. Senator Awadallah requests the list to be read aloud
  15. Senator Murphy asks if the list is final and if more hires will be made
  16. EVP announces that future hires might take place, but will also be approved by Senate
  17. Motion passes unanimously
  18. Proposed Senate Meeting Schedule
  19. VP Clark asks if all meetings will take place on Belknap campus and when confirmed, asks if some meetings might take place on downtown Health Science campus. EVP states that last year some were on Health Science campus, but that parking was an issue. VP Clark rescinds earlier statement.
  20. Senator Awadallah- Motion to amend agenda to change November 28th date on schedule from 28th to 27th, 2nd by Senator Kersting, no discussion, unanimous.
  21. Motion to correct agenda to change room number from 139 to 126, motion passes unanimously. Discussion that room is still incorrect, motion to change back, passes unanimously.
  22. VP Marcsik requests to move back the November 6th meeting date because of election day, rescinds statement.
  23. President Hoehn and VP Daugherty request to be excused during meetings that fall on DentalSchool spring break, EVP asks to meet with them separately
  24. Motion to approve Presidential Committee appointments. Motion by President Jones, 2nd by Senator Kersting, no more discussion, Motion passes unanimously as amended
  25. Consideration of Senate Speaker Nominees
  26. Recognition of Senator Kersting and Senator Murphy as Senate Speaker Nominations
  27. Senator Murphy addresses Senate while Senator Kersting steps out
  28. Personal Speech
  29. Senator Kersting addresses Senate while Senator Murphy steps out
  30. Personal speech
  31. Discussion
  32. President Kostlek encourages people to vote for Senator Kersting because of his experience with her on RSA.
  33. VP Pfendt asks to outline the duties of Speaker
  34. Collection of votes- Assistant EVP Jacobs and EVP
  35. Counting of votes- Director of Administration Hamilton
  36. Announcement of Senator Kersting as Speaker of Senate
  37. Announcements
  38. There were no announcements to report
  39. Adjourn- 2:33 p.m.

Taylor HamiltonPage 1

Director of Administration