Session of January 21st, 2021

January 21, 2021

Minutes Recorded by: McKenzie Craycraft, Secretary

Visitors: Citizen Moore, Citizen Crowder, Citizen Livingstone

Call to Order at 11:04 AM

Chairman Willis prays

Roll Called

Approval of Minutes

Minutes approved at 11:08 AM

Officer Reports

PPT LaQuey: Hello, it has been 2 months. One of my responsibilities is to encourage communication. I created a discord. I encourage all of you to use that. It can allow citizens to join and be a part of discussion. I want to discuss this more in open forum. Hop on if you can. If we want to switch to this completely, if and when we can open this up to the public.

Committee Reports

Senator Anderson: FAC will meet next week to discuss this semester’s funding. We will send an email to Abby Turner to get an update on the THRIVE 360 bill that we passed last semester.

VP Murphy: I will find out more about that on Monday.

Senator Dittman: The GoPro we will have the Student President, Vice, YAC, and LSM presidents. We have a little more grace because there is no impact retreat and no spring break. We are getting some breathing room to plan on doing it on a Tuesday or Thursday in March. Get some opinions from your floor. We can get credit. It will be from 11-12. We just want some input. We are planning on having the debate on Friday and the interviews. The impact meeting is February 3. We will cut this down to a week in order to interview. This will allow everything to happen in the needed time frame.

VP Murphy: I have spoken with Pat Mays for the official elections chapel. Hopefully we will find out which day. We can publish them once we find them and get the green light from Belcher.

Chairman Willis: Student life committee we will meet next week. To everyone the student life committee is focused on student life whether that is saga or anything else. Also, ice cream, we will have 2 funding bills one for floors with senators and one for ice cream.

Special Business

PPT LaQuey: I have a resignation letter to share from senator Gowing.

Senator Anderson: I lost the game.

PPT LaQuey: Point of information, would the assignment of a new chair fall under new or old business?

VP Murphy: Ascended Senator Gowing was the chair of governmental processes; we need a new chair appointed. A nomination must be made. Does anyone have a nomination?

Senator Dittman: Are there any requirements for needing to be chair?

PPT LaQuey: At the recommendation of Ascended Senator Gowing I nominate senator Moyes

Senator Moyes: I accept.

Senator Anderson: Because we like fights in senate I would like to nominate senator Dittman.

Senator Dittman: I accept.

VP Murphy: If you want to explain why you should be chair now is your time.

Senator Moyes: My reasoning is that senator Dittman is graduating because she is graduating this next semester and I would make her co-chair.

Senator Dittman: I have the experience of being chair for the last 2 years. When all the graduating seniors leave all the chairs get re-picked. So, the process still has to remain the same. So doing it one more semester with some back-flips I could do that.

VP Murphy: Please step out so we can vote.

Senator Bright: I think the experience of senator Dittman is very valuable.

Senator Edwards: Consider she will only be here for one semester it would be great for senator Moyes to be trained up.

Senator Gonazlez: Can senator Moyes be co-chair to senator Dittman?

Senator Willis: It was Ascended Senator Gowing’s recommendation to have senator Moyes.

VP Murphy: Would someone motion to bring to vote?

PPT LaQuey: Call to a vote

Approved

VP Murphy: I bring this to a vote now

Senator Anderson: I call for a division of the house

VP Murphy: By the votes, senator Dittman will be the chair.

VP Murphy: Senator Dittman is the chair of governmental processes. You can choose your own co-chair.

Old Business

None

New Business

Chairman Willis: I motion to bring Ice Cream Funding bill to the floor.

Approved

Senator Avent: Motion to bring bill to a vote.

Approved

Bill Approved

Chairman Willis: Motion to bring Student Sustenance Act of Spring 2021 bill to the floor.

Approved

Senator Anderson: Motion to amend the bill to have the wording match the dollar amount.

Approved.

Senator Gonzalez: Quick question, will the specifications be set in stone or will we update them every week.

Chairman Willis: Those will remain as they have been told, if they bring it up to us, we can change it.

Senator Anderson: Motion to bring bill to a vote.

Approved

Bill passes

Announcements

Chairman Willis: The official return of senate ice cream for 2021. We should discuss in open forum about the time which we should do this. We want to accommodate as many schedules as possible.

Open Forum

Senator Avent: I would like to suggest the best time would be 2:00 am on Fridays.

VP Murphy: No

Citizen Livingstone: In response to senator Avent, ASC closes at 2 am.

Senator Anderson: The student population who would be awake at that time would be my floor.

Chairman Willis: This is also something we could hold off on and poll your floor and I can set up a time, if we want to have it tomorrow, we need to figure that out.

PPT LaQuey: My recommendation is that this Friday we keep at the same time. If you serve it, they will come. Let’s make sure we have enough senators.

Chairman Willis: Unless there is further discussion student life will host it from 3:30-4:30.

VP Murphy: Communicate this to others.

Senator Avent: Will this be inside or outside?

Chairman Willis: Outside

Citizen Crowder: Chairman Willis, I do have time slot to help with the ice cream social if needed.

PPT LaQuey: I was going to ask on the isolation support network. Do we know how many people are isolated?

Senator Avent: This info might be outdated, out of 500 people 8 people we isolated.

VP Murphy: I can get correct numbers.

Senator Gonzalez: Dale Lunsford became the senate. Steve Mason will be the president in March.

VP Murphy: That will be March 1st, but now he is training and learning the new roles. For now, act like Mason is your president, the board is what gives him that.

Senator Gonzalez: Could we have them come to a session this semester?

VP Murphy: I will speak to Abby about that on Monday

Citizen Livingstone: Which email are you referring to, I saw an email seeing they are considering him.

VP Murphy: There were two emails.

Chairman Willis: I believe the date was from the video announcement, the recent one was speaking about the board.

Senator Gonzalez: Point of information read from the email.

VP Murphy: He is acting, but from our view he is our president.

Senator Avent: I believe he is going to be president. Also seeing that the board has made the change, I was going to ask if we would want change student body to the chancellor.

VP Murphy: Point of information, that would be cool but probably not.

Senator Dittman: One thing to add to that, we do not have a sergeant of arms present.

VP Murphy: We do not have an official resignation.

PPT LaQuey: You have said everything I was as going to say on that. Do you think we should go public on the discord. Secondly is everyone who is on discord want it to be on discord? We will keep the discord for now. Isolation support network, do they currently have funding to purchase food for people.

VP Murphy: I don’t think there was a bill.

Senator Anderson: The bill has a clause that extended it to this semester. I don’t think they have a lot of funding in the bill.

VP Murphy: They have funding.

Senator Bright: Reading the appropriations it doesn’t say that it is a reoccurring.

VP Murphy: Yes, but it will extend to be effective at the end of the year.

PPT LaQuey: One last thing, we another hole on the frisbee golf. Motion to move to student life committee.

Senator Avent: I call for a division of the house

VP Murphy: All in favor of referring to the student life committee

Approved

Senator Gonzalez: Motion to adjourn

Senator Dittman: Second

Division of the house

All in favor of adjourning: 7

All Against: 6

Meeting Adjourned at 11:51 AM