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I. Call to Order/Pledge of Allegiance b.ii.1. By the end II. Roll Call of the week a III. Approval of Agenda schedule should be a. Motion to approve up in the office b. Second c. Treasurer (Guy Ardell) c. Motion passes c.i. Account Balances IV. Approval of Minutes c.i.1. Main Account (S70830) - a. Motion to approve the minutes $352,252.00 b. Second c.i.1.a. Ev c. Motion passes eryone’s Recognition of Visitors – Thanks for coming! V. student VI. Officer Reports activity a. President (Nate Peterson) mmoney a.i. Meeting with Senate goes into a.i.1. Possibly this setting up a USG account. meeting with the It is then Senate leadership. split up a.ii. Week of Career Fair between meeting the SBG’s a.ii.1. The and meeting of career student fair week with organizati possibly be on ons. Half Thursday, just to is swear in the new received members in the fall, a.iii. GSG Representative and half will be a.iii.1. We need a received USG member to in the serve as a liaison. spring They meet the 1st Allocations and 3rd Mondays of c.i.2. each month at Account (S70830) - 5:15. $-7,348.48 b. Vice President (Darien Benner) c.i.2.a. Re imbursem b.i. USG Printer ent b.i.1. Currently account, it are still trying to is all right figure out the if it goes printer connection negative. in the office. Also c.i.3. Reserve we are trying to Account (S70832) - work out access to $111,793.55 the network drive. c.i.3.a. Pl b.ii. Office Hours ease pay attention to this a. Joe Cooper account. a.i. Thanks to Jesse and Greek USG has Life for helping out and to keep at making K-Day a successful least event. $50,000 in a.ii. RAINN Week: The event this tomorrow is 11 am-1 pm in account the MUB circle. You have as a the opportunity to make a precautio pledge against sexual n. This abuse. includes a.iii. Beth Lunde (Title IX the Coordinator) is interested in Opportuni giving a presentation to ty fund USG about the results of allocation the MTU Speak Up s. campaign c.i.4. Opportunit a.iv. Homecoming king and y Account (S70832) queen nominations are - $0 open c.i.4.a. M a.v. Parade of nations is this oney form weekend. There also is the this multicultural event at the account is Dee stadium afterwards moved a.vi. Refer students interested in from the Greek life to the Greek Reserve office Account b. Les Cook c.i.5. USG b.i. Take advantage of career Operations fest events Account (S70838) - There is a mobile app for $743.57 b.ii. the career fair, and a list of c.i.5.a. Th what companies are e USG attending. budget is Old Business $11,000. VIII. d. Secretary (Greta Colford) IX. New Business d.i. Agenda a. Ways And Means (usgwam- [email protected]) d.i.1. A survey Please look over all the will be sent out a.i. each week to the request in the office body to submit any a.ii. Motion to approve the items you would reimbursements request like added on the a.iii. Second agenda a.iv. Motion passes d.ii. Elections a.v. Motion to move $5000 to d.ii.1. Created a the Reserve account to the nominations form Opportunity fund and survey for the X. Committee Reports first year elections a. Events ([email protected]) VII. Advisor Reports a.i. K-day was successful a.ii. Meeting about storage barn d.i. First meeting is next week. set up is Friday morning. More information to come. b. Public Relations ([email protected]) e. Houghton City Council () b.i. First meeting tomorrow at f. Parent’s Fund (Jackie W.) 4:00 pm in the USG office, f.i. First meeting is tomorrow. help Andrew to come up g. Senate (Yvonne L.) with website ideas g.i. Academic calendar proposal b.ii. First year election posters was sent to a committee. It are to be made will probably be another b.iii. Update the Facebook page two weeks before we hear c. Student Affairs (usgissues- results. Nate would like [email protected]) hold off on the K-Day half- c.i. Meeting yesterday, elected day switch to collect more the diversity chair and vice data and feedback. chair. Talked about the h. Student Commission (Abbey S.) feedback on K-day. Possibly h.i. The library has a new food place a FAQ page on the and drink policy. Website. h.ii. Dining hall in Wads c.ii. Meetings are on Tuesday’s underwent construction, at 5:00pm in the USG office which has caused a lot of d. Political Affairs congestion; they are trying d.i. This committee attends to optimize the space in the SAM conference to discuss dining hall. issues more on larger, h.iii. The water bottle filling university level. Issues stations, would like one in include lowering tuition and every building. Currently increasing government working with facilities on involvement. Travel is the matter usually on weekends. h.iv. Looking to outreach to d.ii. Plan on meeting Thursdays more students at 6 pm in the USG office. i. Outdoor Council (Sam R.) There is a meeting in two i.i. It is a combination of weeks with more outdoor organizations. information about the SAM They plan on continuing conference. reaching out to more d.iii. There is a SAM conference outdoor groups. The goal is Next week. to figure about how to XI. USG Liaisons make the outdoors more a. Graduate Student Government () accessible to students. The b. Inter Fraternity Council (Guy A.) plan is to become a student b.i. Nothing exceptional to organization, and to have report. Each chapter gave the outdoor clubs work their own report at IFC. together. c. Panhellenic Council (Cora i.ii. Issue in the works is to Taylor/Dallas L.) potentially change the c.i. Elected a new Social and campus to utilize the Public Relations Chair this waterfront property. week j. Other Liaisons d. Inter Residence Housing Council XII. Open Floor (If you are a visitor and would like (Yvonne L.) to speak, this is your chance!) a. Student issues- students want to d.i. Motion to make Surya have more recycling options on Sudhirr the School of campus. Recycling is hard to put into Business Representative public areas, but students want d.ii. Second recycling to be more accessible. It is d.iii. Motion passes not advertised in the Residence Halls. e. Michael and Surya are swore into b. Bio forms need to be filled out for the USG body. the website. Look for the link in XIII. Closed Session (If necessary) another email. Andrew is taking XIV. Announcements | “Remarks for the Good” suggestions for improvements for a. Attend the Multicultural Event after the website. the Parade of Nations. c. Changes in the library, specifically b. Formal Sorority Recruitment is the 2nd floor computers, they were starting this Friday moved to the “loft” on the 2nd floor. c. Color Run is this Sunday. Come No computers left the building; they participate or volunteer. were just relocated within the XV. Adjournment library. a. Motion to adjourn d. Nate approves Surya Sudhirr to being the School of Business b. Second Representative c. Motion passes