Associated Students of Boise State University
General Assembly Meeting
September 22nd, 2021 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
- Call to Order 4:35 pm
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Officer Updates
- AVP of Student Organizational Affairs
- Homecoming is around the corner. Parade is on October 2nd and the decorating party is on October 1st. Volunteers are also needed so please reach out if interested.
- AVP of Academic Affairs
- Meeting with Provost
- Government Relations Officer
- National Voter Registration Day is on September 28th. I need 6 people to volunteer
- Frankie: What time is this?
- Sam: 10 am to 1 pm
- Communications Officer
- Website is up to date with membership
- Vice President of Inclusive Updates
- The Resiliency Room will have an open house soon.
- Revisiting the Land Acknowledgement project
- Vice President
- Food pantry is super busy. If you are interested in volunteering let me know!
- President
- Sarah and I met with housing leadership to create that relationship.
- Aramark resolution passed and was presented to Aramark. We expect updates on this sometime today or tomorrow.
- New Business
- Confirmation of Taite Griffin as Ethics Officer
- Motion to end discussion and move to voting-Sage
- Seconded by Thalya
Approval: 15 Approve, 0 Opposed, 0 Abstain
Official Vote: Confirmation of Taite Griffin
Approve: 10 Abstain: 2 Deny: 0
- Confirmation of Amelia Jobe as Assembly Scribe
- Motion to end discussion and move to voting-Sage
- Seconded by Thalya
Approval: 15 Approve, 0 Opposed, 0 Abstain
Official Vote: Confirmation of Amelia Jobe
Approve: 10 Abstain: 0 Deny: 0
- Confirmation of Francesca (Frankie) D’Alessandro as Senate Scribe
- Motion to end discussion and move to voting-Sage
- Seconded by Thalya
Approval: 15 Approve, 0 Opposed, 0 Abstain
Official Vote: Confirmation of Francesca D’Alessandro
Approve: 12 Abstain: 0 Deny: 0
- Confirmation of Amaia Guerricabeitia as Administrative Director
- Motion to end discussion and move to voting-Sage
- Seconded by Thalya
Approval: 15 Approve, 0 Opposed, 0 Abstain
Official Vote: Confirmation of Amaia Guerricabeitia
Approve: 13 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
- Will reads the resolution.
- Motion to strike “strongly” and the line containing a $60 fee for students to obtain a COVID test.- Richard
- Seconded by Julie
Approval: unanimous Approve, 0 Opposed, 0 Abstain
- Point of Information Kenny
- The University VP of Ethics and Compliance, Alicia Estey, will be in the Joint meeting 9/29 for a public health update. She may be able to provide additional insight into the decision making process of the University.
- David Stolworthy- wondering if there is a possibility to amend the word “admonish” in the purpose of the Resolution
- Will- I feel the word admonish was a step down from the word reprimand, but I still wanted to convey how cross some of my constituents were
- Mary Alice- Are you aware of how the University opened testing centers after the announcement?
- Will- I was, it was open for about an hour and a half then the day of the game.
- Mary Alice- Do you feel it was not enough restitution for the University to provide testing opportunities outside the normal working hours of Public Health
- Will- No.
- David Lund- Motion to table discussion until next week for both Resolution #02 and Declaration #01
- Seconded by Aidan McConnehey
Approval: 20 Deny: 9 Abstain: 1
- Will- I want to make it known that tabling the motion may make some of the provisions mute points, which may be the intent of the tabling. But Voting should happen today for these pieces of legislation to be effective prior to the sale of tickets for the next home game.
- Tabled
- Committee meetings
- Old Business
- Announcements
- Meeting Adjourned 6:00 pm