3/1/17
Call to order
Roll Call
Present
Lewis Cox
Abby Schulte
Casey Nickel
Charlie Cross
Geoff Converse
Morgan Moline
Britney Samuelson
Cody Isabel
Kelsey Schott
Blake Brown
Nick Laning
Tre Loge
Drew Roen
Emma Schlenker
Jacob Becker
Sydney Samples
Pierce Carey
Cort Singleton
Absent
Madi Riley
Tristen Carmen
Courtney Craig
Ishaya David
Minutes are Approved from last week
Student Body President Sydney Samples
Constitution and by-law changes
Election Code Changes
Alumni Gift recommendation Report
Alumni is still deciding on the project to donate
Liked outdoor project ideas
Really enjoyed the art idea
Former art majors may donate art to school
Potentially add benches, chairs, and hammock around campus
SGA may purchase hammocks
Pfeiffer wall decorations may be updated after Spring Break with help from
marketing department
Senior Class President Ishaya Report delivered by Geoff
$320 quote for newspaper ads for service project outreach for Campus Day
Team signup and t shirt design voting will go out Monday after Spring Break
Flag Football
Junior Class President Nick
Budget Requests will be given out later in meeting
Nick will send out End of Semester Reports trial in April to analyze by the May
committee
Nick is making Finance Code and send out fully updated copy
Lewis will work on PR release for study rooms on the thrid floor library
Sophomore Class President Tre
Shoutout to Britney for Women in Leadership Panel
Still working on parking ticket information being emailed out to students so they are
aware of the violation
Freshman Class President Lewis
Redoing the trifold for first year students that would come in the mail
William Penn College will be visiting Simpson and SGA on March 29th and rest of
SGA should stay after to meet with them
CAB Baltimore Trip
Education sessions were attended
One was on how to get more people to attend musical events
5 comedians were found for Hump Day Has
Found an accapella group that could be hired to come to campus
Food Committee
Sodexo food survey about to close
Old Business
New Business
Budget Requests given by Nick
$74 for new SGA member’s plaques from normal internal SGA budget
Unanimously passed
$2,300 for student mailers for Capital Improvement fund
New project so comes from Capital Improvement
Lewis explains their will order 400 mailers. One panel in the mailer will
be on SGA and include a pennant flag magnet, SC decal
Unanimously passed
$500 allocate to Cancer Awareness Club for 5k tshirts. This allows all
registration fees for 5k to go to John Stoddard Cancer Center
Unanimously passed
$525 allocate PRSSA Conference for 2 seniors and 1 junior.
Nick has concerns since the request was not turned in four weeks early and seniors will not be able to improve campus with what they learn since they will graduate. Also the conference is for networking for jobs.
Morgan agrees with Nick and points out education majors have to pay for their own networking opportunities.
Pierce asks if they have paid yet
Nick doesn’t know
Emma How many people are going?
Nick 3
Lewis violates our code so we should not fund
Casey the opportunity was given to all PRSSA so not just seniors. They have also known about the conference for enough time to turn the budget request in on time
Britney did they offer any feedback on how they could give back to campus through the conference?
Nick No
Sydney We don’t fund money for past events so if they already paid for it we can’t pay for it.
Kelsey Where are we budget wise?
Nick $5400 left in our operating budget. And the Campus Day request is
$1,000 more than was thought so after that we will have $4,400
Morgan What normally happens in this situation
Nick we normally just inform them so they don’t make the mistake again. This is different than the Simpsonian late registration because they can still contribute back to the college with what they learned.
Morgan Can offer finance committee speak on what they thought in the committee.
Casey I have a problem with the networking. I think we should also stick to our rules for the finance code.
Nick The budget request was poorly turned in as well.
The motion does not carry and the budget request is not granted
Constitution and Bylaws Revision
SGA President is changed from speaking at Spring convocation to opening Fall weekend convocation. SGA President will speak at fall All-College Convocation, Campus programs upon as invitation, and inclusion on the Board of Trustees’ agenda must be garnered from the office of the college president.
Election Code Revision
Changes Article 1 to add Class President to election code
Adds Section 2 to have a Presidential Forum to give time for students to come and have a conversation with presidential and vice presidential candidates. Wording accommodates inviting and all candidates will be given time to speak.
Cort Would we still have if candidates are running unopposed
Pierce yes
Britney Who will judge if language is derogatory?
Sydney Moderators will ensure candidates only speak about what themselves will do as President or Vice President.
Britney Could we take out the language that even address the derogatory?
Casey I think we should leave it in for the rare chance it could happen.
Sydney Section 2 is meant to act as a backbone and rules and guidelines will be written out in the future
Morgan offers a friendly Amendment of chance Section 2 D, d to candidates can only speak in positive ways
Kelsey How positive does the candidate have to be?
Morgan If we word it in a positive or neutral manner it is better.
Kelsey Should we only talk about positive issues?
Morgan We should be as positive as possible
Emma Wants it to stay the way it is now because it is vague enough to allow rules to talk over.
Casey Section is giving the intent to have a forum, not getting into rules. Fixing issues is a positive discussion.
Tre makes a friendly amendment to strike section d which starts to imply rules. Amendment is adopted
Kelsey make sure there is equal opportunity for knowledge towards questions
Section 2 is adopted.
New Business
PRSSA Budget denial
Pierce Maybe we should have PRSSA come to an executive meeting to talk about why they were denied
Nick I should do it because it’s my job and I have done it before
Sydney agrees with Nick
Geoff Should we limit how many conferences an organization go to?
Nick The problem isn’t how many they go to, but how much we spend for them.
Morgan It is hard to be more equitable instead of equal. Estimated whole year budget request for groups on conference requests
Casey Number of conferences aren’t a problem until end of year when money is running low
Geoff My thought process is that we should not just give free trips for people to go to. So if you limit groups, they will go to the best conferences for them
Sydney We should start tracking what conferences are going to so we can decide which are quality conferences and should be funded. Quality of Quantity
Lewis Conferences change every year so it will vary. We should try to find a public number so it works for the next year.
Nick agress should try and find a way to limit conferences. Body of SGA needs to be more willing to say no and then the issue of conferences would be solved.
Cort Doesn’t think we should wander into micromanaging. Finance committee tries hard to look at request and the entire SGA can vote on the request as well
Nick Should use conference reports as a tool to address how students are utilizing the conference.
Sydney Can student org at the beginning of the year so students know what to do?
Cort a Student’s wondering how to check Pfeiffer menu online
Cody explains there is a online APP
Sydney explains there is an online menu
Casey Red Mango changes their schedule and asks Cody to look into
Announcements
March 13 at 7 Chuck Hagel will be in Hubbell Hall to give Culver Lecture
Midnight Breakfast will be at 10 tonight in Pfieffer
Britney thanks everyone who came to the Panel last week
March 17 Outside Scoop opens for season
Adjournment
Simpson College Student Government Association 