Minutes for February 22nd, 2010

Student Government Association
Minutes
February 22nd, 2010


I. Call Meeting to Order: 12:35PM

II. Attendance (Roll Call): Nick Calandra, Ryne McCord, Jackie Guglietta, Josef Beamer, Quinneka McDonald, Kelly Pozantides, Joelle DelMonte, Brenna Gerwitz, Megan Lumadue, Eric Richardson, Anthony Passerino, Faith Lesniak, Diana Marchiano, and Christopher Ripley, Alex Lindauer , Katie Vanderwerken, Shelby Little, Jamie Wisner, , Caitlin Reese, and Jessica Newcombe.

i. Excused-Club Council Chair Joelle DelMonte and Public Relations Coordinator Kelly Pozantides

ii. Absent

III. Approval of Minutes: Senator Brenna Gerwitz and Senator Eric Richardson.

IV. Approval of Agenda: Senator Catlin Reese and Senator Kate Vanderwerken.

V. Advisor Reports: Advisor Lakeisha Flood- Thank you for inviting Greg Florczak , encourage students to go to club trainings , club liaison communicate with clubs because a number of clubs missed the club council meeting last week.

VI. Executive Reports:
• Treasurer Josef Beamer – Overall SGA budget $92,798.57 and SGA budget is $11,590.55.
• SAB REPORT- (VP of Programming Jackie Guglietta) - Wednesday at 7PM Improve Group on the 4th floor of Main. March 2nd is Casino Night at 7PM and March 3rd announcing band in the campus center, Powder Keg is this Sunday.
• Ryne McCord – Constitution Update – March 3rd at 12:30 there will be a Constitution Committee and will be presenting new updates in the following week.
• President Nick Calandra (BOT Update)- Dr. Jurasek is working on get an SGA representative on the Board of Trustees at the last meeting , Dr. Jurasek wrote a letter detailing it was hard to paraphrase feelings about having a Board of Trustee representative from SGA but he is optimistic and hopefully an action will be taken in May.

VII. Chairperson, Committee, Senator Reports:
• Club Council Chair Joelle Delmonte- Art and Photo Club, SMAT, Mavatees, Helping Hands are currently on probation for not attending the Club Council Meeting. MMD needs a club liaison; Senator Catlin Reese offered to take the position and Intervarsity Fellowship also needs a campus liaison; Senator Faith Lesniak offered to take the position.
• Decorations Committee for EYB- The winning theme is a Black and White Affair. Senator Brenna Gerwitz will be e-mailing everyone in the committee to discuss break the committees into sub-committees.
• International Committee- The meeting was last Friday at 12:35PM. It was a very short; the committee is trying to bring in Dr.Lu from UB to talk with faculty and staff. Four out of the six programs need to be attended by faculty and staff. In the student angle we are at a standstill.
• IT Committee-Results from survey include: 155 respondents- 87% use BB Vista, 41% Do not use BB Vista,56% believe that sometimes the outages on BB Vista affect their academic performance, 58% Like BB Vista, 25% have 3 or less professors who use BB Vista and 75% of students have PC and 89% have laptops.

VIII. New Business:
• Future Teachers Club- President Andrew Godfrey on behalf of Future Teachers club would like to have $180 to go towards Lecture Hall Bingo – March 16th and Lollipop Fundraiser ($144) and for their student teacher panel ($36). Senator Gerwitz and Ripley moved motion into debate. Motion to vote by Senator Passerino and Richardson. Motion Passed 16-1-0.
• SACC- President Dan Barencatta, would like to celebrate Medaille hosting of the AMCC tournaments. Coral Crazies would like SGA to help sponsors, sixty shirts for 7 dollars for $420 bucks. The shirts would be handed to students during the women’s game at 1PMand if there are more at the men’s game at 8PM. SACC does have funds, however these funds have been budgeted for the Spring Semester. Senator Wisner and Treasurer Josef Beamer moved motion into debate. Motion to vote by Treasurer Josef Beamer and Senator Newcombe. Motion Passed 16-1-0.
• SAB- NACA Conference- Andrea and Tara of SAB wanted to thank SGA for allowing them to attend the NACA Conference.

IX. Motion to Adjourn: Senator Lumadue and President Nick Calandra.

Greg Florczak is coming in!


E-mail: sga@medaille.edu
Phone: (716) 880-2220