March 8, 2016
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Agenda
III. Devotion – Merritt Franzmann
IV. Organization Charter – Delta Upsilon
A. Honor society for social work
B. Questions:
B.1. Colton Jacob: How can you guarantee that your roles will be filled once the seniors graduate? There are a lot of interested members in the organization, and there are two juniors on the board.
B.2. Tyler Baker: What time of funding would you require from SGA? Wants to team up with the social work club and do fundraising, but doesn’t know exactly how funding works but will speak about this upon becoming an organization
B.3. Kirstie Wallace: What will your meetings look like? Went over the process of getting established, and also spoke about fundraising in the past few meetings. Plans to get professors and staff to talk about what social work will look like post grad in future meetings. March 8, 2016
B.4. Brittany Read: How will you get freshmen involved in the organization? Plans to make flyers to get the word out, and through word of mouth. Also maybe having a table in Bawcom, but has coordinated with the social work club and just recently had a mixer.
B.5. Officially an organization! Woo hoo!
V. Board Reports
A. Internal Concerns Board – Spencer Sims
A.1. Talked about constitution day
A.2. April 12th!
A.3. VP’s will be talking about it during class meetings
B. External Concerns Board – Kirstie Wallace
B.1. Went through ideas from bring a buddy night
B.2. Assigned ideas to the different senate members
C. Resources Board – Maddie Davis
C.1. Nothing new to report
D. Finances Board – James Ewing
D.1. Nothing new to report
E. Spiritual Life Board – Jonah Fox
E.1. Spoke about Reaching out!
F. Public Relations Board – Alex Kown
VI. New Business
A. Faculty / Staff Nominations – Maddie Davis March 8, 2016
A.1. Faculty:
A.1.a) Tyler Baker: Kerry Owens – He really cares about his students and goes above and beyond his job. He has a huge impact on the students.
A.1.b) Merritt Franzmann: Mrs. Harper – Keeps up with students outside of class and is an awesome lady!
A.1.c) Esther Weaver: Dr. Biaz – He has high expectations of students, he understands students really well.
A.2. Staff:
A.2.a) Camryn Schlegel: Mrs. Carol – third floor janitor for Bawcom. Super nice person!
A.2.b) Tyler Baker: Donna Plank – Always willing to help students with different housing situations.
A.2.c) Lulu Shelton: Colleen Lewis – She is awesome and there was a very heartwarming story from Lulu.
B. Election Update – Spencer Sims
B.1. If you are applying for senate, applications are due March 11 at 5:00pm!
C. Food Services Update – Kayla Headley
C.1. Dr. B wants us to keep doing the food services update!
C.2. Tell Kayla if you have a good or bad experience in any food location on campus
D. P2 Update – Esther Weaver
D.1. Nothing new to report
E. P2 Update – Ashley Ward
E.1. Absent March 8, 2016
F. P2 Update – Vonne Lovejoy
F.1. Going to talk to department chair
G. P2 Update – Merritt Franzmann
G.1. The screen is turned on and off all of the time. We can advertise during football season so if we want to advertise SGA in the fall we can!
VII. Open Floor
A. Kendyll Robinson – Hover board policy
A.1. Colton Jacob: What is the current policy? And how do they explode? Current policy is that you can have them on campus but cannot be charged in any residence hall. They explode while in use and while being charged.
A.2. Tyler Baker: Part of the problem is that if you cant charge it in your dorm, you probably won’t charge it in class. There are a lot of different modes of transportation, so I don’t think we need to change the rules.
A.3. Camryn Schlegel: The idea of a temporary ban is a good idea because the technology is not adequate.
A.4. Kirstie Wallace: A temporary ban should appease both sides
A.5. Merritt Franzmann: There are a lot of people making these hover boards so it might be difficult to say if they have been made more safe or not.
A.6. Temporary ban is the consensus of SGA! March 8, 2016
B. Tyler Baker – A lot of people have spoken about a tuition freeze, to where the student coming in pays the same price all four years of their time at the university.
B.1. Kirstie Wallace – Worked on a bill similar to this last year, will explain to Tyler after meeting.
C. Camryn Schlegel – Could Easter Pageant be considered at FAE?
C.1. Vonne Lovejoy – Would it be credit if you’re in it or attend it? Just in it.
C.2. Wesley Bailey – Spoke with Mike and Jeff about this, and it is probable that it could be a chapel credit but probably not an FAE.
C.3. Kendyll Robinson – Do the students in One Voice get an FAE credit for being in a show? No, they have to attend not perform.
C.4. Jonah Fox – Athletes cannot get credit for an exercise class
C.5. Colton Jacob – Could you get your chapel credit that semester for being in it?
C.6. Does not pass to P2
D. Kendyll Robinson – In reference to lighting up Luther, they’ve tried one light and it didn’t work so they’re trying it again in a few days.
E. Merritt Franzmann – Concerned with how our data is protected through the wifi at UMHB. UMHB can’t sell it to data brokers so they don’t do anything with the data.
F. Lindsey Kirk – Someone brought up getting soccer goals on the fields in the spring as well as in the fall. March 8, 2016
F.1. Passed to P2!
G. Wesley Bailey – The Whataburger event was awesome last night! A lot of students thought it was a weekly thing, so it was a huge success. The manager at Whataburger offered it up to doing it again anytime we want to!
VIII.Announcements and Events
A. SGA Game of the Week: Men’s Baseball Game – March 12 @ 4:00pm
B. Spring Break – March 14-18
C. Senate Meeting – March 22
D. Easter Pageant – March 23
E. Reaching Out – April 2 (required)
F. Revival – April 4, 5 and 6
G. Heart of Gold Dance Marathon – April 8
H. Hometown Huddle – April 9
I. Spring Formal – April 9
IX. Prayer Requests – Merritt Franzmann
X. Open Adjournment and Class Meeting