{"id":120,"date":"2010-03-24T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/blog\/sga\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-03-31T21:33:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T01:33:56","slug":"march-17-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/sga\/2010\/03\/24\/march-17-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"March 17 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I. Call to Order <\/em>Michael (9:10) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

II. Roll Call\/Prayer <\/em>Sarah prayed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Present: <\/em>Michael Spory, Sarah Beck, Brent Beachy, Giles Eanes, Alli Eanes, Hans Weaver, Katie Landis, Brendon Derstine, Darian Harnish, Sara Derstine, Peyton Erb, Heidi Bauman, Gabe Brunk, Brandon Habron, James Souder, Amy Springer, Ken L. Nafziger<\/p>\n

Absent: <\/em>Karissa Sauder, Brook Mussleman, Vi Dutcher<\/p>\n

III. Approval of Minutes<\/em><\/p>\n

Motion 17032010-1 to approve the minutes: Katie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second: Gabe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motion approved unanimously<\/strong><\/p>\n

IV. Announcements<\/em><\/p>\n

a. Writing Committee Report-Darian: <\/em>Darian shared that the committee talked about a potential faculty writing retreat and holding writing workshops for transfer students or first-year students who aren\u2019t taking college writing.\u00a0 These workshops would inform these students of EMU\u2019s writing policy and would most likely take place during orientation week or in Transitions.<\/p>\n

b. Dinner Invitation at Loren\u2019s house: <\/em>Every year, Pat and Loren Swartzendruber host the SGA at their house as a thank you.\u00a0 A sheet was sent around with two potential dates for senators to indicate which date will most likely work better for them.<\/p>\n

c. Budget Requests going out: <\/em>In the next few weeks, budget requests will be going out to all the student clubs.\u00a0 The club leaders will submit their requests and Ken and the exec will meet and draw up a potential budget.\u00a0 This will be approved by the senate and a preliminary budget will go out to the clubs.\u00a0 Club leaders then have an option to appeal their budget allocations and the senate will then determine a final budget.\u00a0 Be prepared to discuss this in future meetings!<\/p>\n

d. SGA Exec elections: <\/em>Elections will be starting up soon so think about running if you\u2019re interested!<\/p>\n

V. Old Business<\/em><\/p>\n

-Nothing to report.<\/p>\n

VI. New Business<\/em><\/p>\n

a. Common Grounds Renovation Event: <\/em>Michael shared that Mark Fenton asked if SGA has any ideas for how to help plan\/sponsor\/be a part of this event since SGA is now pretty heavily involved with Common Grounds due to the fact that we now help fund it.\u00a0 The event will take place next September as a sort of kick-off of the newly-renovated Common Grounds, so this may be a task better suited for next year\u2019s event.\u00a0 There was general agreement that the senate didn\u2019t want to commit to anything because if will affect next year\u2019s senate more.<\/p>\n

b. Housing Brainstorm:<\/em> Michael shared that since we are having a slight housing crisis as far as space for students, it might be a good idea for SGA to brainstorm some potential options to suggest to Res Life.\u00a0 Hans stated that he has heard a lot of students interested in replacing Martin House since it will no longer be an option after this year.\u00a0 Martin House will be taken off line for one year and Student\/Res Life will look into options: can it be renovated or does it need to be taken down?\u00a0 Ken shared that EMU is looking to get more campus housing for intentional communities; the problem with this is that most houses are zoned so that no more than 3 unrelated people can live in one house at one time.\u00a0 These zoning laws will only change if the entire neighborhood agrees to it, and many of the neighbors are unwilling to do this.\u00a0 Another option is to have a classroom building which would include offices for those departments that currently are in houses and those houses could be renovated for students.\u00a0 This can only happen after<\/em> the Science Center is complete though, so it may be several years.\u00a0 Sarah suggested that EMU could buy houses close by (since one is for sale across from Hillside!) for seniors to live in, but this may end up costing the students more.\u00a0 Many students felt that if Roselawn was knocked down and intentional community houses built in their place; at this point no students want to live in Roselawn and houses would be a much more appealing option.\u00a0 This wouldn\u2019t significantly alter the amount of space for students though.<\/p>\n

VII. Open Floor<\/em><\/p>\n

-Hans shared that he met with Information Systems this week.\u00a0 Next year IS is replacing ALL of the lab computers, meaning almost everyone gets an upgrade! Awesome!\u00a0 They are also reconsidering the format for Webmail since there have been many complaints; however, this won\u2019t happen until 2011-2012.\u00a0 They also discussed the vast amount of papers being printed out; this is a problem because IS pays for all the ink.\u00a0 They are discussing possible options, such as students paying for printing.\u00a0 We\u2019ll hear more of this in the future.<\/p>\n

VIII. Adjournment<\/em><\/p>\n

Motion 17032010-2 to adjourn: Hans<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second: Giles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Motion passed unanimously<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meeting adjourned (9:46)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I. Call to Order Michael (9:10) II. Roll Call\/Prayer Sarah prayed Present: Michael Spory, Sarah Beck, Brent Beachy, Giles Eanes, Alli Eanes, Hans Weaver, Katie Landis, Brendon Derstine, Darian Harnish, Sara Derstine, Peyton Erb, Heidi Bauman, Gabe Brunk, Brandon Habron, James Souder, Amy Springer, Ken L. Nafziger Absent: Karissa Sauder, Brook Mussleman, Vi Dutcher III.....<\/p>

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