4:31
pm
Absent: C. Abreu, K. Leung, J. Alfonzo, M. Meshesha,
J. Pereira,
M. Cogliano, M. Skorker, K. Seipp
Arrived Late: None
Left Early: R. Cahill, S. Leahy, O. Jimenez, S. Boucher
Guests: Daniel E. Rooney (Criminal Justice),
Anthony Callahan
(SFL), Jonathan Ring (Student Trustee),
Bruce Perry (Campus
Center), Kathy Neville (Residence Life),
Shawn Newton
(Multicultural Affairs), Jim Stoll (Dean of
Students)
Dr. Brossoit pointed out that he urged
people to consider running
for elections and to talk to people who are
currently in the
position that you are running for and this
was not in the minutes.
President Dalton announced the minutes for
March 2, 2004,
were accepted as corrected.
· President Dalton introduced Dean Stoll and
Kathy Neville who
came to speak about the new residence
halls. Dean Stoll passed
out a paper that showed the fee increases
and went over it with
us.
The reason for all these fee increases is to pay off bonds that
were taken out to build all the new stuff we
have on campus like
the elevators and the new Central Campus
Residence Hall. All
on-campus housing rents were increased; see
attachment. Dean
Stoll spoke about the communications fee
increase and explained
that we are now using Comcast and the fee
covers cable,
telephone, and hi speed Internet. This will include more cable
channels and faster Internet. This comes out
to $60 per month per
student which is a huge deal considering
that to get this Comcast
package at home can be more than $90! This is the first
communications fee increase since this fee
was started. The
transportation fee increased by $60 to
refurbish the Central
Campus parking lot. Questions were asked about whether or not
this fee guaranteed shuttle service. Dean Stoll explained that we
will continue to have shuttles, but in a
year when the contract
runs out, we will most likely have a new bus
company. Dean
Stoll explained the new $500 declining
balance meal plan that is
required for commuters and Central Campus
residents and
optional for Bates Residents. This plan appreciates the fact that
Central Campus and Bates residents have full kitchens. The card
will be able to be used on all campuses and
in a new Chartwell’s
convenience store that is in the process,
the location is still
unknown.
This meal plan encourages socializing between
commuters and residents. If commuters are required to have a
meal plan than they will be on campus more
and hopefully be
able to be more involved with the SSC
community. There was a
lot of questions and concerns about the
Chartwell’s service so
everyone was encouraged to attend the food
service committee
meeting Friday, March 26. Dean Stoll pointed out that SSC was
not the only school experiencing these fees
increases. All the
other state schools are working on projects
as well and they are
all in the same boat as we are as far as fee
increases go. Dean
Stoll agreed that this should have been
brought up before it was
finalized to get student input. Any further questions about any
of this can be directed to Dean Stoll.
· President Dalton called Acting Chief Anglin
about the issue
brought up last week with the Peabody Hall
parking lot not
being lit enough and not being
monitored. The chief was not
aware of this problem and he will put more
cops around the back
of the Peabody hall parking lot. He is also looking into the
number of freshman with cars on campus.
· President Dalton brought up Jonathan Ring’s
part time student
petition and Chair King expressed her
concern with it. She
pointed out that this was already brought up
and by sending out
this petition he is skipping the whole
process. Vice President
Batastini asked what groups supported this
petition and Jonathan
Ring told her that PSA, FEA, WC, and CCC all
approached him
about this issue. Since a lot of people didn’t have this petition on
them, President Dalton urged everyone to
look it over so it can be
brought up at the next meeting.
· President Dalton announced that it is time
to reserve
Merrowvista for next year. For about 20 students and 2 adults the
cost is $4639.78.
MOTION: President
Dalton entertained a motion to fund SGA’s
retreat to Merrowvista
$4639.78 to be adjusted accordingly.
Batastini/
Alexis (Unanimous)
· President Dalton announced some of the
ideas for SGA. This
included the scholarship that was already
discussed. We are
thinking about putting aside $25,000 so that
we can give out $1000
a year for a very long time. She also met with Don Ross about
purchasing flags from all of the countries
that are represented by
our students. There are 63 of them and if we could get them and
hang them all around the cafeteria it would
be a nice
contribution to the school. President Dalton also would like to
create flyers to put above all the trash
barrels in Meier Hall that
say: “can that be recycled?” This will
hopefully promote the use
of the recycling bins.
· President Dalton informed the group that
she had met with the
Chief Aid to the Mayor of Salem. They discussed resident
stickers for out of state students and we
will know by next week,
hopefully, what the decision will be. They also talked about
changing the resident parking times which
are currently 8am-
8pm.
President Dalton suggested that the times be changed to
6pm-8am so that it is at night when most of
the people are home
instead of during the day. This idea was not very popular. She is
in the process of doing research about
getting the no parking
zones removed.
· President Dalton announced that she had a
petition from the
Student Advisory Council to stop the
increase on textbooks.
There was a lot of literature there so she
encouraged everyone to
come by the main office and take a look at
it when they had a
chance.
· President Dalton expressed her concern
about the fact that the
fall catalog comes out before the summer
one. The reason for this
is that there are two separate departments
working on them, but
she is going to try to fix that because it
is really inconvenient.
· President Dalton gave us a calendar of
events coming
up.
On March 23rd Shawn Newton from multicultural affairs will
be speaking at our meeting. On April 13th President
Harrington
will be coming in with all of her Vice
Presidents to discuss
several issues. April 8th is the Board of Higher Education
Leadership day, which is an all day
affair. April 28th is State
House day where student leaders get to talk
to representatives
about public higher education. Let her know if you are
interested.
· Vice President Batastini announced that the
groups and clubs
meeting went well. They went over election processes and how
to run an election. She encouraged everyone to go talk to the e-
board of whatever group or club they are
thinking about running
for and see what they do on a daily basis
that way they can be
prepared before they run.
· Vice President Batastini let everyone know
that the e-board has
been planning a birthday party for the
school on April 15 from 8-
12.
This date may change because the speaker series may be
moved to the same date. SGA is putting $15,000 into this party
instead of the concert. There is an island theme, there will be a
reggae band, and tons of giveaways. We hope to give out
computer, ipods, etc. This party is in
support of public higher
education.
There will be tables set up for alumni and other
people.
The details are still being worked out so she passed
around a sheet of paper to form a committee
to help out.
· Vice President Batastini announced that the
next groups and
clubs meeting will be on March 25 and they
will be discussing
the recognition process.
· Treasurer
Garvey announced that he looked over the budgets
and decided to take $30, 000 out of SGA’s
reserve to supplement
the budget for next year. The groups that were given more money
were STE, MSA, START, FEA, CS, PC, WC, BIO,
HAS, SCA,
WMWM, MUSIC, Alliance, ASA, SGA, and
CESA. Treasurer
Garvey talked about our proposed fee
increase that will make
the SGA fee $30 instead of $27, this will
make a huge difference in
SGA’s budget if it passes. He explained that we are taking out a
total of $70, 000 from the reserve; $25,000
for the scholarship,
$15,
000 for the birthday party, and $30, 000 for budgets. It was
asked how Treasurer Garvey came up with who
would get more
money so he explained what he looked
for. First he looked at who
was cut and brought them back up, then he
looked at how much
was cut form what they proposed. He looked at the events,
participation in SGA events, attendance at
events, and how the
group is running.
MOTION:
Treasurer Garvey made a motion to reconsider the budget for
FY 05 and accept the
changes made.
Runyan
(Unanimous)
· No Report
· No report
·
SENIOR SENATE
· No Report
·
JUNIOR SENATE
· No Report
· SOPHOMORE SENATE
· Sophomore Senate had more complaints about the buses. On
Friday, March 5
people were not picked up by the shuttles.
· Sophomore senate will do their presentation
at the next
meeting
· FRESHMAN SENATE
· Senator Higgins asked about recycling on
campus, mainly in
Peabody Hall. Senator Theberge
told him that there was a bin in
Peabody but with the construction it was moved and it is now
missing. She will find it. President Dalton informed us that all
President Harrington needs is a proposal to have recycling so
Senator Williamson and Senator Theberge are working on that.
· Treasurer Garvey announced SFL and the
Women’s Center came to finance last week.
Anthony Callahan from SFL club told us a bit about what he was proposing
for. The SFL club would like to go to a
conference in New Orleans. One of the
students is receiving the major of the year award so they would like to be
there to support her.
MOTION:
Treasurer Garvey entertained a motion to fund the
SFL club $4000
for their conference in New Orleans.
Mazza/
Farese (Unanimous)
· The
Women’s Center also came before finance and asked
for more
money for their Women’s History Month Dinner.
MOTION: Treasurer Garvey entertained a motion to
fund the
Women’s Center
$200 for their Dinner.
Alexis/
Laine (Unanimous)
· Treasurer Garvey announced that the finance
committee
will be
meeting Thursday, March 11 at 6:00 in the Essex
County room
to hear proposals from RHA and MSA.
·
RULES
COMMITTEE
· Chair King announced lots of information
about the elections. She announced a
candidate information session on March 29th at community time. The room is not known yet. She urged
everyone to come so that we can talk about what we do in our positions. Nomination papers will be available March 29th
and due Friday, April 2. On April 5th
at 11:00 Chair King will be drawing names out of a hat to see the order that
the names will be put on the ballot.
April 8th is Meet the Candidates. On April 12th WMWM is doing a live radio show during
community time-“No vote, no voice”.
Victor Santana is dressing as a Viking and carrying a sign encouraging
people to vote. Elections are on April
14th and 15th.
· Chair King is working on changing the
radius candidates can be in around the voting polls. She wants to change it from 15 feet to 30 feet.
· Chair King sent around a sheet so people
can sign up to help out during the elections.
·
Chair King brought up the referendum.
She removed the word “full time”, removed all senate involvement, and
changed the percentage of signatures needed from 10% to 15%. (see attachment to see copy). 15% is about 700 signatures. Some people thought that since it is now
open to all undergraduate students the percentage should be raised.
MOTION:
Chair King entertained a motion to accept the changes
to the referendum.
Batastini / Garvey (In Favor 13; Opposed 1…
Motion PASSES)
· STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE
· Chair Boucher left early so her report was
given by Chair
King.
Student Life committee met earlier and discussed
buses.
She would like everyone to write down any issues
they may have with the buses and put it in
her mailbox. She
also suggested inviting a representative
from the bus
company in to answer questions. She would also like to
advertise it very well so a lot of students
show up.
6:30- At this point we took a short recess
7:00- Resume meeting
·
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
· No Report
· GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
· Chair Lappas is working on setting up a plan for the future
governmental relations chair.
·
JUDICIAL
AFFAIRS
· No Report
·
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
· No Report
· None
· None
· Senator Runyan announced that Program
Council would be a
having a comedian Thursday, March 11 at 8:00
at Vet’s Hall.
· The Women’s Center raised more than $9000
from the Vagina
Monologues and all that money goes to the
North Shore Rape
Crisis Center. Dr. Brossoit recognized Senator Leahy for her
outstanding job with the play.
· Senator Milan announced that on Monday
March 22 Student
Commuters will have WBCN in the cafeteria.
· President Dalton announced a program on
Monday, March 22
concerning land use development presented by
an ex-official of
the Nixon administration.
MOTION: Vice President
Batastini made a motion to adjourn.
Alexis (Unanimous)
SUBMITTED BY MICHELLE L. SPANO