Student Congress
Minutes
Monday November 1st 1999

I. CALL TO ORDER

President Purtell called meeting of Student Congress to order at 4:20 PM

II. ROLL CALL

Absent Members in Bold. Total absences in parenthesis

Executive Board

President: James Purtell Vice President : Rob Matey
Financial Secretary: Jeff Littlehale Recording Secretary: Matt Goff
Corresponding Secretary: James Holbrook(1)

Appointees

Parliamentarian: (to be appointed) Public Relations: (to be appointed)

Senators

Kristy Hockenberry	Matt Konrad
Jara Freeman	Marcus Staley
Chris Naille	James Lokay
Vanessa Evans	Matt Gehly
Kelly DeRosa (1)	Colleen Cunningham
Christy Kimmel	Melissa Hassler
Corey Smith (1)	Nick Giordano
Taryn Delaney (1)	Anthony Manella (3)
Angel Kutchman	Scott Malgeri (1)
Jason Smalley	Tim Stiffey
Josh Katora (1)	Jodi Price
Dave Dietrich	Gillian McFarlane
Melissa McGuire (absence excused)	Scott Ash
Rob Ludwig (late) (1)	Kerith Lowe
Mikall Powell	Charles Gardner
Ben Pepka (absence excused)	Laura Steffey
Curtis Funkhouser	Josh Fosbrink
Mary Ann Hodge (1)	James Strand
Robert Reilly

Representative Seats

Inter Residence Hall Council (4)	IFC (2) - Chad Miller
Panhel - Autum Smith (1)	Commuter Council - Christina Anderson(4)
BSU - Jessica Johnson (2)	BGA (2)
GSA - Matthew Cipriano(1)	SAB - Rashad Gray (2)
Student Trustee - Ms. Jessica Laike (1)	Can Do Club (4)
SAI Board - Mike Perry (1)

Clubs \ Organizations in Attendance

Big C Athletics	Meteorology Club

Senators on Sabbatical

Chris Patterson	DeWayne Griffin
Dayon Young	Meeka Johnson
Ben Latini	Tom Engler
Brooke Domski	Toby Eshenauer

Open Seats: 2

Total Senators Present: 39
Total Senators Absent (not including open seats or Sabbatical): 7
Quorum has been established

III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

1. Motioned by Lokay

2nd by Morelli
Motion Carries
IV. PRESIDENTÕS REPORT

1. New Senator Orientation:

workshop in Parlamentary procedure
duties as a senator and your right to stand up and be heard
2. Impeachment of lax senators:

Motion to impeach Margaret Glen and Mike Gregory due to persistant absence in excess of 2 meetings - Lokay
2nd - Konrad
Motion Passes Unamiously
V. VICE PRESIDENTÕS REPORT

1. Committees meet in Student Govt and you will establish dates for guest speakers along with organizing future meetings.

VI. FINANCIAL SECRETARYÕS REPORT

(Financial Secretary Littlehale will act as Parliamentarian for this meeting until one is appointed by President Purtell at the next meeting)

1. Motion for $250 to pay dues to Board of Student Government Presidents- Lokay

2nd - Deleny
Motion Passes Unamiously
2. Motion to give $481.23 to the Psychology Club for the School of Psychology to take a trip to Penn State regarding a Psychology Conference - Lokay

2nd - Morelli
29 in favor
8 oppose
2 abstain
Motion Passes
VII. RECORDING SECRETARYÕS REPORT

1. A committee has finished the draft proposal for the new student evaluation of professors which does meet the guidelines set by the board of govenors and puts more emphasis on student opinons in addition to the previous fill in the bubble style.
2. A change machine in the Library is being investigated into the feasability to retrofitting previous machine or possiably a new machine exclusively for the purpose of giveing change.
3. Student Government had a meeting with the PROS Club (Public Relations Club):

they plan to make a commersial for student government this semester and all proposed info is welcome.
they plan to make a stategic plan for next semester public relations campaign.
VIII. CORRESPONDING SECRETARYÕS REPORT

1. SAI webteam will have problems for the next two weeks so no new updates will be made until they are put back online.

IX. PUBLIC RELATIONS SECRETARYÕS REPORT

President Purtell appoints Senator Konrad new Public Relations Secretary

X. PARLIAMENTARIANÕS REPORT

(Parliamentarian Seat Open... President Purtell will Choose Appointee by Next Meeting)

XI. OLD BUSINESS

XII. NEW BUSINESS

1. Konrad requests the opinions of senators on the survey to form a new WVCS logo.
2. Alpha Kappa Alpha - will be having a blood drive on the 4th of November.
3. President Purtell instructs new senators on the functions of Student Government.
4. SAI rep Perry - Requests info on how Senator Lokay was elected to Student Government.

XIII. Announcements

- SAB meets Thursdays at 4:PM

XIV. GUEST SPEAKER

1. Dean of Student Services Barry Nicolai spoke on the proposed new dorms at college farm which would be on SAI property, new garden style apartments which would be of "competive" rates.

XV. ADVISORS REPORT

none

XVI. ADJOURNMENT

Motion: Cunningham
2nd Lokay
Faithfully Submitted,

Matt Goff
Recording Secretary