USRH Minutes
09/29/2016
Call to Order
William Engels called the meeting to order at 4:35 pm.
Roll Call
Donster (1,1)Evans (1)Gruenhagen (1,1)Horizon (x)
S. Scott (1,1,x)N. Scott (1,x,x)Stewart (1)Taylor (1,x)
Guests in Attendance
Proxies
Approval of Minutes
Motioned by: Matthew Semrad
Seconded by: Maya
Motion passed/failed: Passed
Approval of Business
Motioned by: Matthew Semrad
Seconded by: Shannon
Motion passed/failed: Passed
Guest Speakers
Items for Information
Campus Safety Walk – Shania
It is October 12th, Wednesday 6-8, a group of people are walking around campus identifying areas of concern, we want to know from the hall reps to go the halls and find out if there are any area of concerns and we need more volunteers, we will talk more about this walk next week – this is the chancellors safety walk
Parking Lot Closings – Shania
Pub crawl is coming up, parking lots will be closed to all vehicles without a permit
Will – Lot 4 is AC, lot 17 is right in front of halsey, lot 34 is the large lot by Evans
Website – Natasha (
Items for Discussion
Items for Action
Hall Funds – Sarah
We are being more selective this year because last year we had 15,000 and ran out and we have only 10,000 this year
We have three proposals this year and we want to try and get hall leaders and CA’s more active, we are going to through each one, discuss it and then after each proposal we will vote, they can get all of the money, some of the money or none of the money, so please voice your opinion
Sam – CA in Evan’s hall, program about tie-dyeing, shirts, socks, etc. to tie-dye, asking for about170.00, program is for Evans and Stewart
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Matt – Making a team for Run with the Cops originally for Stewart/Gruenhagen, asking for $15 per person about $225 total, cover residents/CA’s – about 5 CA’s have shown interest – have posters up in the hall and CA’s are talking to their residents
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S. Gruenhagen – Grill & Chill program, going to use the front lawn to have a place for the residents to hang out and relax – eat some good food too, asking for $282
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Elections
NCC/WCC Nominations, speeches, Q&A, Discussion, Voting
My name is Brandon Gentry, what I have experience for, I worked with a lot of you in hall gov, I was president, cannot remember names is my biggest weakness, strengths – feel very comfortable talking in front of people I don’t even know, time management/stress – only have 3 classes and one during interim, they are hard classes and I do spend a lot of time on them, every week I make a to-do list, I do day-by-day, shout out to the hall gov crew, I don’t have anything else to talk about
Q&A
Jenni – Part of this job involves recruitment for leadership confrerences, do you have recruitment ideas?
Brandon – I was thinking about doing it during office hours, having like an ask me about this
Shania – What do you see as the biggest problem students face in residence halls?
Brandon – Lack of communication with CA’s, not understanding rules and principles people must follow, not knowing when stuff is going on, whenever we were planning events in Hall Gov we would go knock on people’s doors and you can’t force people to do stuff
Sarah – Why do you want to be part of USRH?
Brandon – We overcame this issue known as the “glass elevator” like men get to a position before women but this is woman dominated, I like the idea to travel/meet people, open to new options
Matt – Do you plan on going to GLACURH?
Brandon – I figured I would because it’s in the job description
Sarah – What do you look forward to about going to conferences?
Brandon – I like to dress nice, learning new ways to interact with people
Lori – The CC represents Oshkosh, what are you most proud of about our residence halls and UWO?
Brandon – I love how Oshkosh is updating their stuff, it gives us hope for a better environment, cool events if people show up, Oshkosh has good programs
Shania – President last year, how do you feel you did in that position? In the NCC position you need to take charge, how do you feel about that?
Brandon – I’m not a very bossy person but I can be like “we have to do this” and I always explain why we have to do things, positive reinforce
Sarah – Being a CC you have to do a lot of planning to go places, the trips, the delegates trips, how are those skills?
Brandon – My planning skills get to the point, I was good at adapting, I didn’t do much planning in hall gov but I’m not a terrible planner and I would like to get better, I can’t say I’m an expert at it, but I’m willing to try
Jenni – Email?
Brandon – Good with professors and stuff, not good with announcements/spam but sometimes I have a tendency to respond without formality
Marc – If you had to give this group a users manual on you what would be one thing you would put in there?
Brandon – “Do not talk to him like he is stupid, it upsets him.”
Kyla moves to end the speakers list, Anna seconds
Clara – How do you deal with confrontation?
Brandon – My boss of construction over the summer, and he would constantly belittle me, I’m good with confrontation, I don’t let it get to me, I can deal with people like that very easily
Discussion
I liked his honesty, he didn’t lie
He seems willing to learn but some of the stuff was kind of a red flag but we could potentially work through that stuff
I think what worried me is the tangents he went on but if he has to talk to people and can’t dictate clearly that’s worrying
I think the opposite
I agree with Allison, he wasn’t comfortable taking charge but it could work
I think he’s pretty great
I think he needs to develop, I was nervous that he didn’t have ideas to recruit
I think he would work well with the exec. Board because he’s comedic and it will add to the dynamic
He can grow with the environment
His lack of ideas for recruitment caught me off guard, I think he will have the Exec. Board and advisors helping him brainstorm and come up with ideas
Shannon moves to end discussion; Matt seconds
Voting
Brandon will be the new NCC/WCC
Voting Rights
Hall Reports
Donster(^, ^): Webster is hosting something tonight, ice cream social, talking about safe sex, goes until 7 tonight
Evans (^): Tie-die program on Saturday
South Gruenhagen (^): No Report Submitted
Horizon (^, ^): No Report Submitted
North Scott (^, ^, ^): No Report Submitted
South Scott (^, ^, ^): No Report Submitted
Stewart (^): No Report Submitted
Taylor (^, ^): No Report Submitted
Committee Reports
Constitution (Kyla Brown): Printed out the constitution, read most of it, lots of white space, I plan on fixing the white space
Food (Matthew Semrad): First official meeting is Oct. 10th – Blackhawk 110 at 5:15 on Mondays
Programs (Clara Hewins, Maggie Vacula): Meeting on Monday to plan After Dark, will take place of Titan Nights
Safety and Security (^): Campus safety walk, position is open
Paid Assistants
Social Media Director (Anna Schilcher): Added quite a few friends to the Ffacebook page, about 13 new likes, excited for the conference on Saturday
Student Organization Representatives
National Residence Hall Honorary (^): No Report Submitted
Oshkosh Student Association (Stephanie Garcia-Orozco): In our last meeting we had some new legislation that we are going vote on on Oct. 10th, they want to review the rules on honor cords/stolls, they want to update it so it’s more inclusive – would like the governing bodies to put a voice in
Reeve Union Board (Margaret Cobb): No Report Submitted
Reeve Advisory Council (^): Position is open, meeting was really informative, first guest speaker was on the use of titanlink, contract is almost up, other guest speaker talked about improving diversity on campus, Reeve Renovations – crosswalk in front of Reeve is closed
Sustainability Council (^): Position is open, meet every other week, Thursday Morning’s 8:15, going to do an institute for sustainability, we were No. 3 in the nation last year this year we’re No. 52, it’s not as bad as it sounds, every year the system changes on how they score us and this year we had 0 points in investment because we are still burning coal – Still number 1 in Wisconsin
Executive Board
President (Shania Williams): Working on some legislation and we will hopefully have in next meeting
Vice President (Will Engels): No Report Submitted
Director of Internal Affairs (Jennifer Depew): Spent all of my time this week preparing for training
NCC/WCC (^): No Report Submitted
Treasurer (Sarah Stefaniak): Hall Funds requests are due in two weeks
Secretary (Natasha Zwijacz): No Report Submitted
Advisor Report
Announcements/Concerns/Discussion
Adjournment
Motioned by: Shannon
Seconded by: Jerome
Motion passed/failed:Passed
Respectfully Submitted by,
Natasha Zwijacz
Natasha Zwijacz
USRH Secretary