Residence Hall Association



Residence Hall Association

November 5th, 2007

CUE Room 219

I. Call to Order (7:01pm)

a. Rules of Order

b. Roll Call

i. McCroskey-1, Orton-1, South-1, Streit-Perham-1

c. Additions/Changes to the Agenda

d. Approval of the Minutes

i. October 29th Minutes

ii. Honor moves to approve minutes

iii. DD 2nds

iv. Honor- Yield

v. DD- Yield

vi. DD calls consent

e. Media Introductions

f. Guests

i. Residence Life

1. Eleanor

2. Scott form Facilities Operations

3. Talking about Recycling

4. Resident life has had several

5. Scott

6. Direct responses to DPR, that recycling has been removed from

7. Same document present to President Floyd

8. 2004 pilot program, to recycle in the hall, staff from money from the outside, started an incentive to staff from the hall

9. It was a management nightmare, main issue no enough space on floors to hold the larger containers. It was a huge cost to work the smaller containers. Huge containimation problem. Cost of sorting them was a problem to the crew. Lot of the responsibility fell to the custodial staff with the overfull. Problematic for the larger the

10. We were not getting out any more than what we were doing before

11. Moved it back outside this year. Short on staff, just got the last of them filled. Choose where to go with is limited staff. Able to hire another position and move people from other post to fill the position till the hires where cleared

12. We were unprepared for the flow. Getting more containers. We are also getting a truck like the one in exhibit 3. Able to service the sites with one person.

13. It allowed for working with upper level administration. Allowed us to prepare for future capital issue. Getting involvement for RHA and Houses to find the location

14. Individual recycling in the rooms. The community can take on recycling on their own with a few stipulations. Hall Directors have accues to this contract

15. Thank DPR for bring with

16. Allow us to partner better than it has ever been

17. It really showed that there was a lack of communications. We do not favor going back to floors. Unless the floor buy in.

ii. ASWSU

1. Executives

a. Kasey Webster

b. WSL talked about last week

c. Holland Open to close

d. Monday of Final week December 10th

e. Help student, with the study woes

f. Handing out free stuff

g. Planning our multicultural dinner

h. Date February 8th

i. Do a fund the conferences going on later

j. Switcher event center

k. Meet with a vender who will be going into the cub

l. CUB is on time

m. June 11th when people start moving in

n. August 11th it will be open

o. Looking at ways to better help our people at Olympia

p. Do not want to fringe are

q. Looking into start a lobby that will focus WSU issues

r. An Example would be WSUV want to build a rec center

s. DPR- Coug day at the capital

t. February 10 -12th

u. SC- Talk about the cons of making our own lobby

v. Would be crippling the WSL, by not having the

w. Have to be careful when we do it

x. Not breaking away from the WSL, we do not want to support another plan that WSL does not support

y. VP- do you sense the likely hood of others leaving

z. UW tried to do this in 1998, we are not leaving the WSL, we have an interest from branch campus who where think of joining WSL, but WSL does not support the issue that they want

aa. We tend to lose

Quock Question: What was the score of the WSU v. LCSC basketball game on Sunday?

ab. WSL the check of box when sign up for classes, we have to give them extra now, we want to rework our contract to pay membership, and then where are money goes that is over the membership fee

ac. SC- Focus on specific issues, will it take away from our ability to lobby for big issues

ad. No it will not because WSL will focus on big ticket issues. It difficult to deal with issues that are to a specific campus through WSL

2. Senate

a. Sarah

b. Flyers for World vision, wants hall to get involved, each hall government to choose, think it will be beneficially

c. Pac ten fitness challenge is this week. Log your hours on line at the website

d. Women Lacrosse, Practice Mon 8-9, Tues 7:30-8:30, Fri 4-6

e. Contact grdavis@mail.wsu.edu, for more information

f. March of Dimes, Meeting 5-6pm Thursday in CUE 206

g. Contact Anthony Smith for more information asmith9@wsu.edu

h. Who went to the Matsuri,

i. It was a great time, encourage people to go

j. J board, deadline to next Monday before 3 in Ad Annex 101

k. Application talk to me

l. South- what about child going back

m. There is a chance that it will happen, but it will stay the

n. DPR- meeting location for this week

o. 5:30 at Kappa Alpha Theta

p. Rogers- What is the GPA requirement

q. The requirement is a 2.3

3. SEB

a. Super bad playing this weekend

b. Warn miller, film play 13

c. SEB Cue 219 meeting

d. Ballot in SEB office for Spring fest

iii. Dining

1. Not here

iv. Dad’s Weekend

1. Dan Mare Campus involvement

2. 2 sets of flyer

3. 1st one is about everything going on

4. The website still are adding events

5. Questions call Campus Involvement

6. 2nd Flyer is a new event, an electric car race, still taking registration, it on Sunday November 11th

7. Still trying to figure out how to do the heats

8. Free event, will get a t-shirt

9. Dad of the year finalist in the evergreen soon

10. Veterans’ day event will also be this weekend

II. Public Testimony

III. On the Ball Award

a. Make a mention you cant nominate your own hall

b. Ball going to GG this week

c. Bring the ball to the next meeting

d. POI meeting

e. Roger where is the ball

f. Regents is still drying in our government office

g. Order GG, then Better with age, then Orton

h. GG get it to them before thanksgiving

i. Yes

IV. Old Business

a. RHA Programming- Poker Tournament

i. Got approval to use the Stephenson dinner

ii. Same date Nov 16th

iii. Found poker chips

iv. Got card

v. Still looking for dealers

vi. Advertisement at image shop right now

vii. Honor- time

viii. 8 pm

ix. DD- How many dealer

x. Looking for 50

xi. GG- advertising for

xii. Stevens- are we contacting you for dealers

xiii. Yes build a list and email me

xiv. Discussion

1. East- hall concerned with the amount of people staying around, even though it is a football weekend, due to how well our team is doing this year.

2. Waller Time

3. 8-12 at Stephenson

4. President- True football fans will not miss the game

5. Waller- There is a basketball Game that night at 7 pm

6. DD- Move to pass 550 from PPS

7. Waller 2nds motion

8. DD- took to our hall people are fired up

9. Waller- yield

10. Motion Passes

b. EdAd 398- Presidential Scholarship for Exemplary Leadership

i. Arian

ii. It is a presidential Scholarship

iii. Banquet planed for the Friday before last football game

iv. Scholarship is still in a development

v. We would like to put a preference on people in the minor, but people outside the minor

vi. DPR- what does the minor in tell

vii. It in Tells Ed Ad 497, 389 and

viii. You are required to take classes form com and poly sci

ix. Complete organizing our self

x. DD- you mention open people to people in the minor

xi. It will be like a scholarship like you fill out every year. That will be given a preference to people in the minor

xii. Regents- Yielding to Kasey

xiii. Kasey- they work really hard in this class, they do project, last year they worked on a play ground for a low income apartments. It so much more then what you see

xiv. President-You must ask the chairs to yield to another person

xv. Stimson- How many people would you say are in this minor

xvi. Have to around 50 to 80 it’s a new minor, have support of chamber of Commerce and city hall

xvii. GG- how would it work year to year

xviii. Plan is that every 389 class will work on building up the scholarship

xix. SC- yield

xx. Discussion

1. Rogers- Finance committee specific on what the scholarship, if they met a few

2. DF- we did not able to meet no new recommendation, it is a good program, that RHA could exhibit growth from. But it depends on

3. Waller- it would not benefit all the halls

4. DD- have the same, none of it in favor of it

5. Advisor- people who go through this minor are involved with campus and does benefit

6. SC- certain amount should be donating the amount is still up in the air. It is a more direct affect, for people who are involve in Residence

7. Stevens- torn a little bit about it, it is a little closed off. We are really only give back to the people in the hall

8. SC- support people to go to California, why not this

9. DD-yield

10. Rogers- That it is a foundation scholarship. It is decide on the foundation of the college.

11. Regents- it is supported by

12. DPR-How much is left in PPS

13. DF- we have 8035, if you look at line item 22

14. President you can just motions to take money from any line item

15. DD- Would you like to have finance recommendation

16. DF- not really you can

17. Mc- yield

18. DD- only problem we would be we do not meet for several weeks

19. McCroskey- would be more comfortable with a recommendation

20. Rogers- Seconds that, so we have a idea on where to go for

21. Waller- I fell that if people don’t have enough information that we reject it and have them go thought the process again when they have more information

22. DPR- the do not need the money till a later date, Banquet is just to raise funds for the scholarship

23. Regents- Yield to Sarah

24. Sarah- you are voted in by your government, I do not think you should not table it, but you should decide how much money they deserve based on what

25. DF- would like someone from council to motion for an 10 minute emergency finance meeting

26. North- POI next meeting can you only present new business

27. DPR- POI if you table it would come back as new business

28. Stimson- motion emergency Finance meeting for 10 minutes

29. Rogers- 2nd

30. Stimison-we want to see what finance will say on this new information

31. DD- POI can consent be call on a recess motion, yes

32. SC- Consent

33. Ten Minute break for emergency Finance Meeting @ 8:08pm

34. Called to order at 8:18 pm

35. DF- we met and had a discussing it from both sides. It is a board amount, recommended 500, if they come back with more information we would be willing to up the amount

36. Stimson- yield

37. GG-we feel that more money would be beneficially, it does go to a board, and deals with people

38. DPA- really likes the idea, it is for leaders and could affect anyone in this room

39. Rogers- it is a significant amount but not too large for what we know about the issue

40. North- we do have quite a bit left in PPS and Unallocated, but at the same time not all the questions are answered. 500 is a good amount

41. Waller POI, would it be right to come form PPS

42. McCroskey- POI if they come back new or old business

43. President, they would come back as new business

44. Rogers- talk 500 out of Unallocated for the leadership scholarship with the revision that if they come back with more information we will think about upping the amount

45. Stimson 2nd

46. Rogers-yield

47. Stimson-yield

48. DPR- explain the

49. We would

50. GG-POI if want to discuss it late would they

51. It would have to come back as new business

52. Motion passes

c. Pacific Islander Club- “Beyond the Horizon”

i. This Friday is the 6th annual cultural event

ii. Tickets are still available, on the Mall from 10 am to 2pm

iii. Covers an all you can eat buffet. With traditional food

iv. Discussion-

1. DPA- it is a great idea, even though

2. McCroskey- we allocated 1000 to Mat, this could be an even better event

3. DPR- only problem is that there is basketball game that night

4. Stevens- Hall is very excited about this event, have been doing this for six year, should have a good turn out

5. GG- tickets should have been bought at last game to get in

6. President- have been sponsor for the past couple years and has been a great success

7. North move to pass 1000 from PPS

8. South 2nd

9. North- good traditions

10. South- yield

11. Motion passes with a 2/3 majority

V. New Business

a. Rogers Hall-Winter Food and Clothing Drive

i. Josh RA with Rogers

ii. Program, Resident life food try

iii. Food goes to Pullman food bank

iv. Clothes go to

v. Point system, for the food and Clothes, amount of students will be taking in to consideration

vi. Money to go to the winning hall

vii. Starts the 14th till end of semester

viii. Advertisement will be done by us

ix. DPR- will point system be out before hand

x. Yes it will be on

xi. McCroskey- mention perishable foods

xii. My bad I mean None perishable

xiii. Finance committee DD- good program spending a lot more on other events, we recommend the full amount

b. Stephenson North-Black Light, Winter’s Night

i. Kyle

ii. December 1st first annual

iii. Asking for advertising, 300

iv. Saturday before crunch week form 9-12pm

v. Waller- thought of going through ASWSU

vi. Have but we found out that we have more money for it and we do not know how long of a process

vii. DD- was this why you came to our hall asking for money

viii. Yes this is why

ix. Waller- it is a two week process

x. DF- Finance recommends full amount- did go to each of the halls, that they were up to raising there

c. College Republicans-An Evening with Dinesh D’Souza

i. Not here

VI. Open Forum

a. Sarah from NRHH, dealing with OTM awards

b. OTM are do one the

c. Go onto click on OTM to pick

d. DD- McEachern what is going on

e. President- they decide that we come back to them next year

f. Advisor- they had a good discussion about, with population, the dues would not benefit them

g. GG-McEachern do they have to put on programs

h. Advisor- yes they do

i. VP- Did not sell all of the tickets so they are still available

VII. Position/Committee Report

a. President

i. You guys are doing great. First really long meeting

ii. President Focus- last Thursday of the month, won’t be mandatory

iii. I resign my position as of December 3rd. would like to take next semester to re evaluate my schooling. Because I’m not doing as well as I hope

iv. Application going out with tonight’s minutes, they will be due Friday the 16th by 5pm

v. Elections will be on November 26th

vi. President elect will chair the December 3rd meeting with my help

vii. DD- vice president step up to fill the position

viii. Executive cabinet would like the choice of the next president to be up to the council

ix. Rogers-Would the vice president be running

x. Yes he will

xi. Waller – qualification

xii. Will be sent out with the minutes

xiii. DPR- we want you guys to choice the next president

xiv. Advisor- yield

xv. GG- would they fill the vice president

xvi. No they would have to re run

xvii. Roger- appreciate that you want council to choose the next president

b. Vice President

i. Thoughts

ii. RAC 410 Thursday

iii. CUE 203 on November 27 from

iv. This forum is to get your opinion out there, and will be asking people to have their floors step up and have recycling on their floors again

v. Certified green room

vi. Hearing for other speakers

vii. Details are a little fuzzy, because who we were working with had a funeral in the family

viii. Will be a Funding proposal next week

c. DAA

i. Constitutions are due by December 3rd

ii. The week before Thanksgiving Break, my office hours will be Wednesday from 2-4pm and Friday from 4-5pm. So that the applications can be turned into the office

d. Director of Finance

i. Administrative no finance meeting on Thursday

ii. Next meeting is November 15th, last meeting that funding proposal will be heard.

iii. Scholarships are here.

iv. Can be found though me or on the RHA website

v. Due 15th, in hard copy, no name on essay please to the RHA office

vi. Open to everyone who is in good standing and in a residence hall

vii. DPR- You can up the amount of the scholarships if you want

e. NCC

i. Don’t forget this month is crimson gray and green

ii. Me and Tyler are taking on the responsibilities as Constitutional review Chair, if you want to get involved email Tyler at wsu.rha@wsu.edu

iii. We are sending people to this conference because four have to, it will benefit everyone because they have to report back

iv. Let me know about your concerns

v. Travel plans are done

vi. Banner is done by Jenny and Jessie Frable

vii. Clothes bins are done they say WSU Cougs love you, and PACURH ‘07

viii. Delegation come see me after the meeting

f. DPA

i. No committee meeting, stay here after this meeting

ii. Pie eating contest- talk to you halls, do one with in your hall

iii. Team up, want to make it coed

iv. Poker tournament, get a number of dealers from hall

g. DPO

i. Not here

h. DPR

i. Lucky enough to go to the meeting, most of the recognition goes to Kyle for the work on recycling

ii. President Floyd and Vice President Tate, dress up please

iii. President- it is fine if you do not dress up you are college student it represents who you are

i. NRHH

i. Good job on getting through this meeting

ii. On the ball order is GG, Better with Age, Streit Perham, Orton

iii. Quock question, what was the original name, Warren from SC name was three forks

iv. Nomination for Liter of the Week

1. Kyle Ryan- for recycling

2. Two for the NRHH president

3. DF

4. NCC for PACURH

v. Winner is NCC

vi. Inductions for new members this week, Thursday 6pm at honors library

vii. Letter bombs

VIII. Jesse’s Moment

a. Most people took what I wanted to say

b. Great discussion

c. Have a good break

IX. Announcements

a. No meet on the 12th

b. President Floyd on the 26th

c. Last day for new business is the 26th

X. Adjournment (9:04pm)

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