<p> President’s Session Meeting Location: HUB 102</p><p>Saturday, October 7th, 2017</p><p>I. Call to Order</p><p> Time: 9:05am</p><p>II. Roll Call</p><p> Not in Attendance: </p><p> i. Abington</p><p>III. Approval of 10/6 President’s Session Minutes</p><p> Altoona: Move</p><p> Harrisburg: Second</p><p> All in Favor</p><p>IV. New Business</p><p> CRC Vote</p><p> i. Everyone turned in votes for CRC commonwealth members </p><p> Smoke free task force</p><p> i. Rachel Miller is representing CCSG </p><p> ii. Here are recommendations </p><p> iii. We are passing legislation that we support the committee, UPUA passed this on Wednesday </p><p> iv. In contingency with UPUA and GPSA</p><p> v. Recommendations (Support of Penn State smoke free)</p><p> v.1. First recommendation is to become smoke free </p><p> v.2. Second recommendation is to create an office for the smoke free task force v.3. Third recommendation is to implement this in Fall 2017, This spring a small launch of this will be implemented, summer of 2018 will attempt to get employees on board</p><p> v.4. Fourth: Tobacco programs will be available </p><p> v.5. Fifth: Enforcement of policy should be through the mechanism of peer support</p><p> v.6. Media Campaign </p><p> v.7. Each campus work with community </p><p> vi. Moustafa (Behrend): Can you post on BOX?</p><p> vi.1.a. Zak: Can do </p><p> vii. Ryan Morris (Berks): I like what we have here</p><p> viii. Collin (York): Is there different implementation for each campus?</p><p> viii.1. Yes, full-time director will oversee implementing it in a certain way that fits to each campus </p><p> Greek Life</p><p> i. Anything to do with Greek Life go to Hunter!</p><p> ii. Greek Life campuses see Hunter </p><p> Ad-Hoc </p><p> i. Asking for input on what Ad-Hocs you would like to see</p><p> ii. Ones we have come up with:</p><p> ii.1. Sustainability </p><p> ii.1.a. Relation to housing and food services</p><p> ii.1.b. Commonwealth campuses to not have a composting facility, UP does </p><p> ii.1.c. Anything relating to sustainability </p><p> ii.1.d. Feedback:</p><p> ii.1.d.i. Altoona: thumbs up </p><p> ii.1.d.i.1. Green to-go boxes on our campus, must bring them back so that they can be washed and reused, but most students do not return ii.1.d.ii. Berks: Sustainability team is formed, community service, clean trails around campus, use the trash they find to build new things</p><p> ii.1.d.iii. Beaver: Community garden is being started</p><p> ii.1.d.iii.1. Giving to vegetables to salvation army </p><p> ii.1.d.iv. Shenango: Also has a community garden, problem is that students do not want to take the time to separate their trash</p><p> ii.1.d.v. DuBois: Separate containers for trash, recycling ad hoc</p><p> ii.2. Student Leadership Styles</p><p> ii.2.a. Everyone has a different leadership style</p><p> ii.2.b. Feedback: Most campuses give thumbs up</p><p> ii.3. SMART Goals</p><p> ii.3.a. Feedback: Most campuses give thumbs up</p><p> ii.4. Diveristy Summit </p><p> ii.4.a. Feedback: Thumbs up</p><p> ii.5. How to Plan Cross-Campus Events</p><p> ii.5.a. Feedback:</p><p> ii.5.a.i. A couple of campuses are close to each other</p><p> ii.5.a.ii. Mix of thumbs up and down, mostly No</p><p> ii.5.a.iii. Collin (York): A million things he would rather do than trying to work with other campuses </p><p> ii.6. Transition of Administrations</p><p> ii.6.a. Feedback: One Thumbs down, most thumbs up iii. Any other ideas from campuses? </p><p> iii.1.Ryan Morris (Berks): Club and organization by campus (collaboration between clubs)</p><p> iii.1.a. Ann-Queen: This happened 2 years and was not very effective</p><p> iii.2.Austin (Fayette): Getting athletes involved in campus events </p><p> iii.2.a. Most campuses agree with this</p><p> iii.2.b. Megan (Behrend): Sometimes athletes are just too busy to go to events iii.3.Schulykill: Commuter Problems </p><p> iii.3.a. Everyone is divided</p><p> iii.3.b. Commuters won’t go in the </p><p> iii.4.Samuel (Abington): Space on campus that recently opened, I was told that the space was basically only for certain orgs but when it reopened they reiterated the fact that anyone can use it</p><p> iii.5.Collin (York): Should have specifics of things to discuss </p><p> CFB</p><p> i. Zak is a partial expert, Andrea is the expert!</p><p> ii. Pulling of funds or adding of funds</p><p> iii. Estimate of what enrollment will be on each campus and give out money based on that (Permanent Allocation)</p><p> iii.1.When they get the real enrollment total, they might have to take back a certain amount of money if you have less students than they originally forecasted </p><p> iv. Andrea: Some campuses give waivers to certain students, they do not have to pay the fee</p><p> iv.1. UP does not take your funds! </p><p> iv.2. Asked that the budget office makes the adjustment permanently so campuses aren’t faced with the challenge of allocating funds that they actually don’t have</p><p> Paying for CCSG</p><p> i. 54 cents per student, increase of $1 </p><p> i.1. It was originally funded through administration, but we wanted to be more independent like UPUA</p><p> ii. The Problem: We give the campuses autonomy to decide where they want to pull the funds from </p><p> iii. We increased fee to supplement an original cost</p><p> iv. Make sure that your voice is being heard in that decision-making process </p><p> v. Andrea: One or two campuses decided to take it from parking fines, most campuses decided to take it out of the SGA fund </p><p> v.1. If you were not involved in this decision, I would ask next year to be involved </p><p> v.2. CCSG’s role is to educate you at a university perspective vi. Ryan (Berks): This whole thing came out over the summer, a lot of the DSA’s just made the call because students were not on campus at the time </p><p> vii. Zak: Everyone should talk to their DSA about this (you need to be involved in the decision-making process)!! </p><p> viii. Andrea: Your facility portion of the fee, is being put into the same pot as it was before it was only one fee</p><p> viii.1. Two documents that inform the use of the facility fee: If you have not seen these, please look at those! We will be reminding the DSA’s that these documents do exist</p><p> viii.2. If you are saving for a major project, we suggest/encourage that you set aside a small amount of money to do immediate things that might come up, so that students see that the fee is being used for their benefit </p><p> viii.3. Communication between administration and campuses, talk to DSA and also use the membership of CFB in that</p><p> viii.3.a. New website for student fee (studentfee.psu.edu)</p><p>Adjournment: 10:01 am</p>