Associated Students of Boise State University
General Assembly Meeting
October 13th, 2021 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
- Call to Order at 4:31 pm
- Welcome
- Land Acknowledgement
- Attendance
- 13 attended.
Approval of Minutes
- Amelia Jobe Motions to fasttrack the minutes
- Richard Renz Seconds
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Sage Stephens motions to approve the minutes
- Richard Renz Seconds
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Richard Renz Motions to fasttrack the minutes
- Thalya Cruz Seconds
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Will Johanson motions to approve the minutes
- seconded by Richard Renz
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Motion to fasttrack the minutes by Thalya Cruz
- Seconded by Laura
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Motions to approve by Laura
- Seconded by David Lund
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Motioned to fast track by Thalya Cruz
- Seconded by Richard Renz
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Motions to approve by Thalya Cruz
- seconded by Richard Renz
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Richard Motions to fast track the minutes
- seconded by Laura
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Motions to approve by Thalya Cruz
- seconded by David Lund
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Officer Updates
- Communications Officer
- Meeting with Lauren Grizwald to start the process to getting senators dedicated emails
- Major revamp of the Instagram starting soon
- Website will be seeing updates soon
- Will be doing headshots next week during committee meetings
- Will be sending out a biography form for all ASBSU members
- Information will be used on the ASBSU website and social media
- Gov Relations
- Starting an alumni and student advocacy network on campus
- Administrative Officer
- No updates
- Ethics officer
- In the process of redoing attendance
- Make sure to accurately fill out attendance today
- Vice President of Inclusive Excellence
- Still reaching out to sororities for the collective coalition initiative
- Monday was Indiginous Day
- Boise Police Department will be talking at the next IESC meeting- if interested you can join to learn more
- VP of Student Organizational Affairs
- Granted 80,000 dollars to clubs on campus
- Vice President
- Mobile food pantry is meeting next Wednesday from 12-4 - feel free to volunteer if interested
- Sent a link to sign up in the chat
- Dining services is reviewing dining plan
- Bronco BEAM is ready
- Alerts people that free food is on campus
- President of Aramark reached out to Vice President and President to set up a meeting
- President
- Reintegration committee is working to bring people to campus after being online for so long
- Faculty senate positions are open- please talk to Kenny if interested
- CDH is overwhelmed with contact tracing and testing
- BSU is now an important testing center for the city of Boise
- New Business
- Confirmation of Amanda Skaggs as Funding Board Officer
- Amanda is a workU intern who is already in Funding Board meetings
- Will Johanson (in Assembly Breakout): who is leaving the Funding Board?
- Sarah Smith: Three People
- Amelia Jobe Motions to end discussion
- Will Johanson seconds
- Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
Official Vote for Confirmation of Amanda Skaggs
- Kenney presents about an ethics code change, see above
- David Lund: Did you mean to say defendant?
- No respondent is the proper wording
- Amelia Jobe: What were the issues with the code change last year?
- David Lund motions to end discussion
- Thalya Cruz seconds
- Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
Official Vote for Code Change #01
- Aidan McConnehey Presents Bill #02
- Motion to move to voting by Thalya Cruz
- seconded by Richard Renz
- Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
Official Vote for Bill #02
- Amaia Guerricabeitia presents Bill #03
- Richard Motions to remove the mention of Mental Health in the bill
- seconded my Kelsie Zak
- Kenney: Will Still keeps the funding for the
Approve: 22 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Amber: Does BSU have an existing contract that would prevent the mental health committee from renting the balloon generator from the provider in the bill?
- Kenney: because the cost of the inflatable and generator is under $10,000, we are not bound by the eventRent contract of BSU
- Aiden: Are there still timeline concerns with this event and the contracts?
- Kenney: No
- Miguel: should we motion to remove the specific names of the food vendors?
- Kenney: We could possibly change the working to “food vendors”
- Miguel Motions to change the wording to “food vendors” instead of listing specific food trucks
- Seconded by Aiden McConnehey
Approve: Unanimous Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Thalya Cruz (in Assembly breakout): Why did we choose to go with the specific company for the inflatable and generator?
- Sarah Smith: Because we were spending less than $10,000, we were not bound by the eventRent contract that BSU has, so we could choose whoever we wanted
- Motion to end discussion by Thalya Cruz
- Seconded by Amelia Jobe
Approve: 21 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
Official Vote for Bill #03
- Old Business
- Announcements
- Kenney: Mental Health committee is holding an informal meeting, attend photo session with Eric and the mobile food pantry instead at the regular committee meeting time
- Eric: Please fill out the Bio information by October 15th
- Sarah Smith: Please sign up to help with the Mobile Food Pantry
- If you know anybody looking for service hours, please send them my way
- Kenney: Download Bronco BEAM
- Meeting Adjourned at 5:43 pm