GSA COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES
May 6, 2004
Attendance
Officers
and others: Emily Robinson (President), Beth Daniels (Internal
Vice
President), Susanne Altermann (Secretary), Allison Luengen (Treasurer), Aarti
Iyer (CPB).
Department Reps: Abhijit Sen
Gupta (Economics), Sina Farsiu (Electrical
Engineering),
Ignacio (Nacho) Solis (Computer Engineering), Lisa Downward (Physics).
Others: Erik Dedini
(Physics), Teresa Betts (Psychology), Dirk Robinson (Electrical Engineering),
Joe Schwartz (Physics), Jamus Lim (Economics), Kai Pommerenke (Economics),
Jonathan Adams-Kane
Approval of Minutes and Agenda
Minutes
approved. Agenda rearranged as
follows: LRDP first, funding requests
second, elections, committee reports, budget discussion.
LRDP Presentation (Tamara Belknap)
Tamara
presented the four current scenarios that all the LRDP subcommittees are
discussing based on a projection of 6000 more students by 2020. The number of students is not a done deal,
but the committees are acting as if it is.
All four scenarios feature a graduate college, but in different
locations. PDFs of the maps are
available online at: http://planning.ucsc.edu/lrdp/workshops/04-04-21/. A major debate in the LRDP process is whether
to spread out and maintain the natural look of the developed campus area or to preserve
the undeveloped areas and make the developed areas more urban (more infill). Grads made various comments on the plan. After Tamara left, Aarti took notes so that
Tamara would know what was said.
Funding Requests
GLBTI Center Renaming and Dedication Ceremony and Reception for the
Second Annual Lionel Cantu Memorial Colloquium (Tanya McNeill)
This
event will be held June 3, 2004, and it is open to everyone.
GSA
funded this event with $100.
Approaches to an Interdisciplinary
Pacific Studies Conference (Nicole
Santos)
This
is a two day conference sponsored by and for grads interested in Pacific
Islands research. The event will occur
on May 21 and 22. It is open to all
grads. The sponsors were asking for food
and transportation money.
GSA
funded this event with $400.
GSA Officer Elections
President: Kai Pommerenke ran
unopposed.
External Vice President: no
candidates
Secretary: Allison
Luengen and Jamus Lim ran, Allison won.
Treasurer: Lisa
Downward and Meredith Armstrong (Meredith could not be present but submitted a
written statement), Meredith won.
Committee on Planning and Budget: Beth Daniels
and Ian Dobbs Dixon ran (Ian could not be present, but he submitted a written
statement), Beth won.
Internal Vice President: Lisa
Downward ran unopposed.
Budget Discussion
Emily
will organize an officers' meeting so we can discuss next year's budget.
Adjourn