Humboldt State University Residence Hall Association

Residence Hall Association
Executive Council
Agenda #4
October 9th 2006, 6:00 PM
Moonstone Beach Room

I. Call to Order

Meeting called to order at 6 PM

II. Roll Call

Present: Anondah, Aaron, Billie, Kenny, Michelle, Laurence, Terri, Milo, Ellen, Adrianne, Megan, Ethan, Cari, Adam, Alex, Nancy, Jonathan, Nicole.

Not Present: Manor Chair.

Not present but had proxy: Brittany (proxy-Aaron)

Absence policy: If you are going to be absent, you must send a proxy. If you mess more then two meetings in a semester without sending a proxy, you are stripped from your position.

Committees do not have voting rights, Boards have 1 vote and Council’s have 2.

Also, the reps are the voices for their councils. Chairs do not speak during reports-only the reps can speak for the council.

III. Approval of Agenda

Milo moves to approve agenda, Adrianne seconds. Passes, with 2 abstentions.

IV. Approval of Minutes

Adrianne moves to discuss, Ethan seconds.

Kenny points out that there were several changes made to the minutes that are posted as opposed to the minutes that were E-mailed. Most notable was that the original draft had incorrectly listed Creekview Council as getting the Klamath River Room for the Haunted JGC, when Cypress Council was given the Klamath Room. In addition, several small changes were made (the side note concerning being on time was re-worded, Tunnel of Oppression was explained, one spelling change was made).

(Side note: There was a tangent debate on getting the rooms for the Haunted JGC. Milo thought it wasn’t fair that Canyon didn’t get Klamath, but Aaron wanted to clarify that it was announced in RPB and the information concerning the Haunted JGC was given to all reps. Discussion continued, until Alex moved to exhaust speakers list, Adrianne seconds. 1 opposed, 3 abstain.

V. General Forum

None.

VI. Table Requests and Appointments

A. Associated Students-Oct 10th-13th Wants to appoint people to AS and wants to use tabling J to advertise. Adrianne moves to discussion, Nancy 2nd.

Alex: Notices that there’s another tabling request during the 13, but the other one is only for lunch.

Milo: Asks if AS is only tabling for dinner-which it is.

Milo calls to question

Vote passes, with 1 abstention.

B. Sustainability Committee-Oct 13th, 18th and 25th

For Campus Sustainability Day, lunch only.

Speaker for SC: Wanted to raise awareness for the Campus Sustainability Day. One of their goals: more local/organic food in the J.

Laurence moves into discussion, Jonathan seconds.

Michelle: Asks if they’re tabling just for discussion, which they are.

Milo: Wants to include a petition for trying to get more local/organic food in the J.

Kenny: Has already spoken to Ajay about bringing this up in Dining Committee (which meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 3:15).

Vote on tabling passes, with 1 abstention.

C. Alcohol Screening Oct 17th and 19th lunch.

An educational program where you wear the drunk goggles and attempt to drive RC cars, coinciding with Alcohol Awareness Week.

Milo moves to discuss, Nancy seconds.

Milo: Thinks it sounds interesting, but wants this to be moved to dinner as well as lunch, citing that there are more people at dinner then lunch. Unfortunately, the people putting on this program (UPD) aren’t able to make this meeting, so that they can’t be around to make changes.

Anondah: They may not come for dinner, because may have only given the times they are available.

Ellen: Agrees with moving this to dinner.

Nancy: Asks what days of the week these are (Tues, Thurs)

Alex: Can we approve for lunch, but include that they are approved for dinner as well.

Milo: Would like to amend to include both lunch and dinner. Alex seconds.

Discussion now on the Amendment.

Nancy: Is willing to talk to Mira or Vincent to see if they can amend.

Aaron: both lunch and dinner are free.

Vote on Amendment is made to end discussion and go straight to a vote. On this vote, there was 1 abstention, thus allowing the amendment to include being able to table for dinner.

Next Vote- (on the tabling request, with the above amendment). Tabling passes, 1 Abstention.

VII. Executive Board Reports

A. President

Would like to meet all the presidents, so would like all presidents to E-mail times available for Friday-next Friday, that is. We have applicants for committee positions; Nancy is now on the Drug and Alcohol. Nicole has opened up for residence committees for public safety and transportation, until RHA gets an official response.

B. Vice President: Will be scheduling a LAB meeting, but need other VP schedules by Thursday at 2 PM.

C. Secretary/BOA/Dinning Committee: Dinning meets tomorrow at 3:15. Would like to get a BOA meeting going next week-trying for Wednesday at 8 or Thursday at 6.

D. Treasurer/BOF: First BOF meeting at 6 PM on October 12th in the Klamath River Room. The Hill treasurer can’t make it, but will send a proxy. Please bring your budgets. WOOBOF! (Note: should the room change, wait outside the Klamath room and will relocate.)

E. NCC: Delegates for PACURH chosen.

VIII. Representatives and Committee Reports

A. RPB: Haunted JGC is being planned. There’s going to be a costume contest and a party/dance program.

B. ROBOT: Video Game Competition is going to be on October 28th. The games for the competition are:

Street Fighter II

Mario Kart: Double Dash

Dance Dance Revolution

Halo 2

Super Mario Brothers…the original!

Winners get a $50 Gift Certificate to GameStop. Also, got $1000 for Video games, which will be available (hopefully) by next week.

C. ROCC/Diversity Advocate: Expressions of Oppression will be on Nov. 1st. Plus, each month, they’re going to have a meeting dedicated to a particular issue. Finally, National Coming Out is Wednesday, October 11.

D. ResLife: Still no ResLife Rep. And no proxy.

E. NRHH: Kuddles 4 Kids tentatively planned for October 22. Some of the Teddy Bears will be sent to PACURH. OTM winners decided and OTM dinner is going to be on Oct. 15.

F. Creekview: Blurted out an idea for their Haunted JGC, but shouldn’t have (so thus, it won’t be re-printed here)

G. Canyon: Committees formed. Secretary resigned, while an RHA rep was elected.

H. Hill: Sending a rep to Canyon about sharing a room for Haunted JGC. Currently have 2 activities: Kitchen Appliances (who, among their goals include getting a blender for the Hill kitchens) and Musical Instruments (for revising the Musical Instrument Policy). Also talking about Budget and how to split it up.

I. Cypress: Continued on Budgeting and passed it. Also wants to change the constitution so that any Cypress resident can attend a meeting and vote, instead of just residents that attend 2 consecutive meetings (editorial side note: Cypress is the only Area Council with this restriction). Also, brainstormed ideas for Haunted JGC.

J. Manor: Ice cream social on October 26th at 7 Pm in Apartment 1720 A. Come and Gate Crash!

K. AS: A lot of things are going on, but they reiterate need to fill committees. Plus working on that bonding event.

L. (2) UC Board of Directors (n/v): Meeting on Wednesday. Michelle was appointed to Rec Center.

M. Alcohol and other Drugs (n/v): Nancy appointed. Already talked to Mira and got a grant so that a taxi service can run between Eureka/Arcata.

N. Student Health Advisory (n/v): Applicants pending.

O. Rec Center (n/v): Michelle (but has not been officially seated.)

P. University Space and Facilities (n/v): No applicants

Q. Publicist (n/v): Still need someone…

R. RHA/AS Bonding event: Michelle volunteered (I forgot to put that in last meeting), who will get on it.

S. Advisor (n/v): Dialogue on Race is starting up, with a lot of programs for that. Budget: in addition to BOF, all Treasurers should talk to their advisor. Hosing is doing a study on building new housing (2008 is the most ridiculously optimistic date). There’s still a waiting list for housing. If interested, there’s an E-mail address. Residence Satisfaction Survey will go out in a few weeks-4 questions deal directly with RHA (Matt will E-mail questions). If you want to see the results from other years, Matt has it. There’s a section on the Royal Flush for RHA events. Also, operations can post things on the Royal Flush website. Finally, as advisor, we should, as a group, figure out what we want to be.

Milo: How often does the Flush publish and how long do you need to get things to Kenny before events posted? First question: every two weeks (aprox). Second: to get stuff on the website, just contact a website. For the paper copy, a week in advance.

IX. Old Business

No Old Business

X. New Business

No New Business

XI. General Council Discussion

Aaron: First, for the Hill: Make some questions for the bottom of the J for getting blenders. Two, there’s been plans of turning Van Duzer into a classroom, turning lower level classes into 200 people classes.

Anondah: AS has drafted a resolution opposing this action, but the proposal was voted down, on the grounds that the resolution wasn’t strong enough, sending them to revise the resolution. We can make a committee to draft our own resolution against these plans. This resolution could be sent, alongside AS’s revised resolution, to make both stronger.

Nancy: There has to be a Parli Pro cheat sheet, so that we can take a glance at what we’re doing (side note: I have a few that I’ll bring in)

Alex: OTM Winners: Cypress Council won Spotlight for the MNF program.

Jonathan: ROBOT is not going to be a part of the Haunted JGC, because all they can get is the Computer room (blue screen of death…heh, no one gets that).

Ethan: How do we get a room for the Haunted JGC? Talk to your RPB rep.

Milo: Point of Clarifications should be preserved. At the same time, both Canyon and Hill are drafting resolutions for a change in the musical instrument policy, so a proposal was created for a RHA committee to be formed to revise the Musical Instrument policy. The formation of this committee will be on next week’s agenda.

Matt: The current policy about musical instruments was created by RHA years ago, so should RHA change it…

XII. Announcements

Nancy: Tunnel of Oppression is coming. E-mail Nancy or BJ if you want to help with Tunnel. Also putting on a program: Sex Jeopardy!

Kenny: Need to meet with people for E-mail list.

Anondah: Will be attending Canyon Council this week. Cypress next.

Alex: Finalizing the list for the games to be bought with the $1000.

XIII. Adjournment

Nancy motioned to adjourn, along with most of the rest of the people at the meeting, with Ethan seconding. Meeting adjourned at 7:02. OAACS flood room afterward.