THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT CONGRESS

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1 Session XCIV Session XCIV Executive Committee 6:00pm, Sunday September 13th, 2015 Conoco Leadership Center Call to Order 6:02 Roll Call Pae and Reid gone Approval of Minutes Motion to approve the minutes Thompson sec Elwick Reports: o Chair- Homecoming, still waiting on info from Kate for pomping hours. We will be pomping at AOPi, a bunch of appointments to see tonight and this Tuesday. Think of good questions to ask them. o Vice Chair- Orientation this Sunday will talk more later about that. o Secretary- Office Hours are due this Monday. I only have 10 people so do them and tell your members to do so. Also RSO Lists I need them ASAP. o Academic Affairs- Me and Kendall met, threw around new ideas. Looking forward to new members of committee. 4:00 meetings as of now, may change once we get more people. o Congressional Administration- Did interviews all day, and saw a lot of legislation all rec of do pass. Few interviews will be done Tuesday 5-6:30 since there were some people that had special circumstances. They will be there and find out associate ship or representative at the meeting. We sent out s to 45 people out of the 70 that applied, 31 signed up on the doodle poll and then we saw 28 today. o External Affairs- Doing appointments for VC and sec once I have my new members and will have a more set meeting time then. 4:00 meeting times as of now but may change. o Human Diversity- Meeting with Unite World officers want to hosts a forum event next month for ways that college and international students can talk to each other; want as many people to come as soon as possible. Meeting with Deondre Fisher is postponed till later this week. o Problems and Projects- Main discussion is propose a lot of problems and things that are actually feasible, very much things that can actually be changed in ways, more about direct improvement rather than talk. Want to kick back on initiative on blue lights on campus work. Some boxes and some buttons. Will be Steward and Franzese, maybe Park too. Additionally, Scott wanted to do something, involves talking to the City. Want to talk about bike lanes on the way to school in Norman. Told her to talk to Kara. Water initiative in the works, got a name from Brian Ellis. Secretary appointment next Sunday. 5 pm meetings. o Public Relations- No report

2 o o Ways and Means- We saw emergency allocations, $850 for four different organizations. Told them to do one hour of office hours. Tave Wise is vice chair and Lauren Long Secretary and Echols unofficially in charge of Title XII. Lillian Trinh dropped from WAM because too busy, committee meetings will be at 3:00. Legislative Assistant- We have a bunch of appointments as of now but we will not be having any other legislation soon. Finding out information about the Head of Human Diversity. Special Orders Old Business New Business Items to Be Considered Parking Appeals Board Appointment (Byron/Thompson) Elwick sec Brown Thompson: Okay this is the parking appeals board appointment; she said she was adding coauthors on the bill so look for those later. Sample: Tell Alex to tell Garf that she can t be on Congress because she is on the Parking Appeals Board. Rec of no rec Elwick sec Brown Superior Court Appointments (Byron/Thompson) Thompson sec Brown Thompson: This is the Superior Court members, saw Patrick Dovonan interview. Pretty solid resume and had a good interview. Sample: I sat in on the other two interviews. Thompson: How were the other interviews? Sample: Phone interview with Borlound, good application and knows code very well. Regan was really good too, knows the code, VP of Risk Management for Sorority, discipline members that are not following the rules of their sorority appropriately, Total of 7 applications and interviews. Regan is a junior. Have 3 or more next year to appoint since they are leaving. Rec of no rec Elwick sec Cramm An Act Appointing the Vice President (Byron/Thompson) Thompson sec Brown Thompson: Avery will be the new VP she has been doing the tasks for some time now anyway as chief of staff. She has the most experience, and there is nobody more qualified than her in the interviews. Elwick: Who did the interviews? Thompson: Alex, Shawn and Emma. Red of no red Cramm sec Elwick Follow-Up Reports General Discussion Brown: Noon by Thursday agendas to Brown and Kaylee. Chair makes the committee agendas. Chair is in charge of attendance. Chair is the only person who can excuse or not excuse attendance. Role of secretary is to take the minutes. VC is in charge of follow up reports and for being there when you cannot. You must every member of your committee and anyone who is going to be there because of legislation Thursday at 5pm. Rains: If you don t want to print it off yourself you must send it to me or Chelsea by NOON otherwise it will not be printed off by us and YOU will have to print it off and post it yourself. AGENDAS MUST BE POSTED BY 5:00. If you do not post an agenda you WILL NOT MEET AS A COMMITTEE. Sample: Also, don t tell Kaylee legislation, she can t refer it only the chair can refer it. Brown: All of this information is in Section 6.3 page 21 of the bylaws. Brown: Officially you guys will be getting an from me tonight about orientation. So all the rooms for the union were good to go and then long story short they said no so now were in Wagner. September 20 th this Sunday from 2:00-6:00. Sample: Exec will be at 1:00 that day.

3 Brown: Hopefully we will be done earlier, dinner will be after. Adding a few things to the table of contents, going to have a Parle pro thing by Emily. Going to have a legislation thing that will be split up in two rooms. I feel like most people will benefit from a more in depth session, sorry to people that know it already, it will be a good refreshers. Going to hideaway for dinner after! YAY! Cheaper too. Going to send out a doodle poll for pizza. Cramm: How much are we going to save going to Hideaway? Brown: It is about to $ hundred at Hideaway rather than like $500 at a sit-down restaurant. Also giving a bill and resolution template that will be in the package will be good for new members. Almost solidified our guest speaker will know by Monday or Tuesday. If he says no, then we will not have a guest speaker. What do you think about adding all Congress names and district to the back of the packet for reference? All: Good idea. Sample: Are you taking pictures? Brown: Yay. Yes were taking pictures of people at orientation, PR is doing Meet your Rep thing, so make sure you dress nice! Thompson: Is the guest speaker a secret? Brown: No, it is supposed to be Clark Stroud if we can get a hold of him. Everything else will be in the . Any other questions? Cramm: Question are committee chairs meeting in the front? Sample: Yes I was just expecting you to come down but no one did. Balangue: Orientation for everyone? Brown: Yes everyone is required to be in it. Sample: Committee meetings will be on this day tries to keep legislation minimum Brown: I had a lot of people tell me they did not have enough time. EA and WAM will have their own rooms since I know you guys do more intensive things; everyone else will be in one large room split up. Two committees in one room completely separate. Sample: Matt has you heard from Bryce? Cramm: No I haven t Sample: AA has 8 people. WAM has 6. HD has 9 with Lily. EA 7. PR 7. PP 13. ConAd 8. So you guys know what your committee size is. Sample: If you have any problems with associates let us know early on. If there are going to be vacant seats we want to know for filing purposes since we can t change the amount of seats open after filing. Filing is the week after OU/TX. Rains: Send me names of people that are not showing up, I want to know who is committed and who is not. Brown: Also, send minutes and attendance, to both Chelsea and Kaylee. Balangue: If I didn t met quorum do I still send it? Sample: Yes and if you didn t meet quorum and you excused them they are then absent. In the bylaws. Adjourn Move to adjourn Elwick sec Thompson Chair: Emily Sample Vice-Chair: Chelsea Brown Secretary: Kaylee Rains

4 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO SENATE BILL NO. GF CONGRESSIONAL SESSION XCIV September 15, 2015 GRADUATE STUDENT SENATE SENATE SESSION GF15 September xx, 2015 AS INTRODUCED An Act appointing Student Parking Appeals Court Judges; providing for codification; providing for a short title; and providing for an effective date BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION: Section 1: TITLE: This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Student Parking Appeals Court Appointment Act of 2015 Section 2: PURPOSE: To appoint student members to the Student Parking Appeals Court Section 3: In accordance with Title IV, Chapter 4, section 46, which delineates the appointment process for students on the court, the following students shall thus be appointed: Stacy Donaldson Sarah Garfinkle Somto Iromuanya Ankita Patel Nathan Schmenk Section 4: This act shall become effective, while in accordance with the SGACA, immediately following passage and approval. Author(s): Nathan Thompson, Executive Branch Legislative Assistant Alex Byron, SGA President Co-authors(s):

5 Verified by Chair of Congress Date: Verified by Chair of Senate Date: Approved by SGA President: Date:

6 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO SENATE BILL NO. CONGRESSIONAL SESSION XCIV September 15, 2015 GRADUATE STUDENT SENATE SENATE SESSION GF15 September xx, 2015 AS INTRODUCED An Act appointing SGA Superior Court members; providing for codification; providing for a short title; and providing for an effective date BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION: Section 1: TITLE: This Act shall be known and may be cited as the SGA Superior Court Appointment Act of 2015 Section 2: PURPOSE: To appoint student members to the SGA Superior Court Section 3: In accordance with Title IV, Chapter 2, section 38, subsections b and c, which delineates the appointment process for students on the court, the following students shall thus be appointed: Connor Bourland Patrick Donovan Reagan Metz Section 4: This act shall become effective, while in accordance with the SGACA, immediately following passage and approval. Author(s): Nathan Thompson, Executive Branch Legislative Assistant Alex Byron, SGA President Co-authors(s): Verified by Chair of Congress Date: Verified by Chair of Senate Date: Approved by SGA President: Date:

7 CONGRESSIONAL BILL NO SENATE BILL NO. CONGRESSIONAL SESSION XCIV September 15, 2015 GRADUATE STUDENT SENATE SENATE SESSION GF15 September xx, 2015 AS INTRODUCED An Act appointing student members to the SGA Vice President; providing for codification; providing for a short title; and providing for an effective date BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION: Section 1: TITLE: This Act shall be known and may be cited as the SGA Interim Vice President Appointment Act of 2015 Section 2: PURPOSE: To appoint a student member to SGA Vice President Section 3: In accordance with Title III, Chapter 1, section 3, subsection a, which delineates the appointment process for the interim Vice President, the following student shall thus be appointed: Avery Marczewski Section 4: This act shall become effective, while in accordance with the SGACA, immediately following passage and approval. Author(s): Nathan Thompson, Executive Branch Legislative Assistant Alex Byron, SGA President Co-authors(s): Verified by Chair of Congress Date: Verified by Chair of Senate Date: Approved by SGA President: Date: