GSA council minutes from April 21, 05

Attendance

Officers: Kai Pommerenke (President); Lisa Downward (Internal Vice President); Allison Luengen (Secretary); Meredith Armstrong (Treasurer); Marina Sarran (CPB)

Department Reps: Marla Holt (ocean sciences); Kelly Holt (lit); Gerardo Palafox (EDU); Brooke Crowley (earth sci)

Scout Culvert (hiscon); Amy Dexter (psych); Berra Yazar (MCDB); Wendy Cover (EEB); Brian Gerstenberger (chem); Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (astro); Jesse Saba Kirchner (ling); Ignacio Solis (CSE); Sina Farsiu (EE)

Others: Rebecca Schein (hiscon)

Others: Liam Welcher (SUA)

Annoucements

1) The TA Union (UAW) is holding its first ever contested election. Ian motioned to send an email out all grads informing them that there will be an election. The motion passed.

2) Tent University. A motion was passed last meeting to support Tent University and we discussed some of what was happening there.

3) CETGS. The committee for ethical treatment of graduate students is collecting stories from students who feel they have been treated unfairly. Please submit your story at http://www2.ucsc.edu/gsa/committees/form.html.

4) Officer positions. There will be elections for officer positions at the end of May. Here are some brief descriptions of the officer duties.

a) President (by Kai). The president chairs the meetings and attends graduate council meetings. The president works with the Alumni Association and meets with the officers. Kai works on this job 8-10 hrs per week and makes $1600 per quarter

b) IVP (by Lisa). The IVP makes sure that very department rep has a committee and that every committee has a rep. The IVP runs the meetings if the president is not it attendance. The IVP sends out emails. Lisa makes $600 per quarter and works 2-3 hrs per week.

c) Secretary (by Allison). The secretary takes the minutes, interfaces with the web master, helps with the orientation, responds to emails sent to the GSA mailing address, meets with the officers, and develops the agenda. Allison makes $600 per quarter and works 5 hours per week.

d) Treasurer (by Meredith). The treasurer spends a lot of time on paperwork. The treasurer sends a lot of email. The great thing about the job is the exposure to the administrations. Meredith makes $800 per quarter and works 6-7 hrs per week.

e) EVP (by Ian). The EVP is a board member of the UCSA. The UCSA is a liaison between students, governor, regents etc. The EVP travels to other campuses, and discusses system-wide politics. Travel is covered. The EVP travels Friday through Sunday, once a month. The EVP makes $1200 per quarter.

New Business

1. UCSA Budget

Ian gave a long presentation explaining what UCSA does

-18 members of board of directors, 1 grad student and 1 undergrad from each campus

UCSA Budget

Total revenues 361,416 2005-2006 year

UCSC contributed $1850, the lowest amount of all of the UC campus’

USA dues are a minimum of $1.20 per student established this year.

UCSC – GSA pays $1.38 per student

Ian also went over all of the changes to UCSA budget

Motion to approve the budget – budget approved.

2. Motion to limit meetings to 1.5 hours (for 5-against 7 abstain 4 – motion not approved).

3. Ballot measure on health center. Chanda made a motion to endorse referendum for health center and to add to the email listing. Motion passed 10-2-2. Kai will write the email.

Funding requests

1) James asking for money for a film screening. Requested $200, costs $900 to put on event and he has raised $700 already Motion to fund fully at $200, 13-0-1 passed.

Old Business

1) GSR pay. Kai reported that he will email a spreadsheet out to us and we will discuss next time.

Officer Reports

1) Emily Moberg-Robinson is going to be the Councilor for the Graduate Division

on the Alumni Association Council. She'll represent all graduate student alumni.

2) Student Regents update: The presidents of the student governments from the four northern UC campuses met in Berkeley on April 9. There is one student from UCSC among the final 9 candidates for Student Regent. UCSA will select and present 3 of them to the Regents.

2) Nacho – if you want to help with party contact Nacho – no date yet

3) Brian – summer bus pass for free!!! If you are a student who does NOT have a parking pass then your summer bus pass is free. If you have a parking pass then your pass is $2 a month (parking passes include scratch offs).

His suggestion – only go to taps if you FULLY plan to utilize the pass because TAPS will reevaluate this next year (depending on how much money they spent this year). Go down to TAPS office to get it – you may need to prove employment over the summer (i.e. get a letter from advisor).

4) Liam – elections timeline handout

-Resolution supporting Tent University to protest (not necessarily their specific beliefs)

-Resolution opposing drug provision of the higher A (not sure what this means – he was probably talking too fast).

-SUA advisory board – to guide USA – low turnover rate, may seek grad students.

5) Marla – SFAC looking to hire a student for data processing

6) Kai – GSH looking for residential assistant

Adjourn.