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GSA Meeting Minutes--June 7, 2001
Attendance:
Officers: Lee Ritscher (President), Tina Chin (IVP), Heather DeShon (EVP) Jesse Matonak (Treasurer), David Machledt (Secretary)
Department Reps: David Raymond (History), Katy Flint (Astronomy), Ruth Schmitz (Physics), Line Mikkelsen (Linguistics), Jessica Breheny (Literature), Sara Sutler-Cohen (Sociology)
I. Approval of Agenda and Minutes
Agenda and minutes were approved with minor changes.
II. Approval of Budget 2001-02
Jesse presented a budget for 2001-02. The budget was passed after increasing the funding for Grants to other organizations to $3000 from $1000. Total expenditures amount to $36,950.
III. Committee Reports
| Line | The Campus Welfare Committee has presented its report to the PAC. Comments from reviewers have led to the addition of the word “honesty” to the “Principles of Community” document. Line will be on the CWC next year, but will not be actively involved with the GSA. |
| Sara | The Hate/Bias Committee met but Sara was unable to attend and had not received any minutes. |
| The Single Parents Action Network will plan an event for October involving “Follow me home,” a Peter Bratt film. The funding will require around $2000. Sara announced that she would not be leading the group in 2001-02. | |
| Katy | A CPB report to move the student center to the redwood buildings has recently come under fire, despite the planning funds that have already been spent to organize the move. The EVC wants to institute an interior space management program and might cancel the move, thus effectively killing a buyout plan that would allow operating fees to shift to the new buildings and could lead to a learning center in the current student center. |
| In Grad Commons, the grand opening party was a successful event drawing over 500 people. Construction should finish by mid-June with a possibility to move in July. Ramesh Balakrishnan agreed to help set up a program to book the work room on-line. Grad commons plans to buy its own server to facilitate this process. Grad Commons officer elections will be held Friday, June 15th. A full grand opening will be held October 12th, from 10AM-12PM. |
IVa. New Representative Appoinment
A motion to make Amy Smith the department representative for Psychology was seconded and passed.
A motion to designate Amy Smith as a GSA representative to the Title 9 committee was seconded and passed.
V. Officer Reports
| Heather | The UCSA meeting at UCSC was very successful. Kenny Burch from SUA helped plan the event, which included an organizing session for the SP-1 and SP-2 protests at the UC Regents meeting. They made signs, organized van rides to San Francisco, created publicity packets and mailed out tapes in a successful action. The Regents put decisions back to the academic summits of each campus. The UCSA will set the agenda for next year this July. |
| Jesse | The GSA's unallocated funds were somewhere between $11,000-44,000, depending on who you asked. |
| Dave | Dave will plan a surfing class and another GSA hiking trip for the coming year. Erin Kraal would be asked to co-chair the social committee. Also, he requested that the GSA get some HTML software to facilitate website updates. A proposal to move the GSA webpage to the grad commons server was tabled. |
| Lee |
The Grad Division had several fellowship openings for the summer. A brief discussion on an upcoming Grad Council meeting indicated that the GSA approves of the idea of a residential grad college, but only if the rent will be reasonable. |
| Tina |
Twice as many travel grants came in for spring quarter as for the winter. The total allocation is $3000 per quarter, and receipts should be turned in with the application.
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VI. Elections
The Executive Council elections were conducted as follows:
| CPB | Due to lack of nominees, election was postponed to the fall. Ruth is a possible candidate |
| Treasurer | Heather DeShon was elected by unanimous acclamation. |
| Secretary | David Machledt was elected by unanimous acclamation. |
| External VP | Due to lack of nominees, election was postponed to the fall of 2001. |
| Internal VP | Jesse Matonak and Sara Sutler-Cohen were nominated. Sara was elected. |
| President | Lee Ritscher was elected by unanimous acclamation. |
VII. Orientation
It was agreed not to hold orientation on the same day after the TA workshop. Rather, the program would start with the Chancellor, then the grad dean and grad financial aid, followed by GSHIP, the TA union, and GSA. The formal program would then shift to Grad Commons for a Grad Resources Fair which could segue into a beginning of the year party. Several planners will also put together an information packet to distribute with “survival hints.” This reorganization of orientation was approved by the council.
VIII. Adjourn
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