Associated Students of Boise State University
Executive Team Meeting
September 20, 2021 3:30-5:00 pm
Fishbowl Room in the Student Union
Zoom Link available on request
I. Call to Order 3:30pm
II. Attendance
a. Kenneth Huston (President), Sarah Smith (Vice President), Eric Kline (Communications Officer), Graf Kirk (Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs), Grace Burgert (Associate Vice President of Inclusive Excellence), Samantha Mulvihill (Government Relations Officer), Kayla Magana (Associate Vice President of Student Organizational Affairs), Taite Griffin, Amaia
Guerricabeitia, Charlie Varland
III. Approval of Minutes
a. Minutes 8.30.2021
i. Sam motion to fast track the reading of the minutes
1. Grace seconds.
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
ii. Sam motions to approve the minutes.
1. Graf seconds.
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
IV. New Business
a. Kenny- I entertain a motion to amend the Agenda to include confirmation of Amaia Guerricabeitia as Administrative Director
i. Sarah motions to amend the Agenda to include Confirmation of Amaia Guerricabeitia as Administrative Director
1. Sam seconds.
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
b. Team Member of the week
i. Taite is the new team member of the week.
c. Confirmation of Taite Griffin as Ethics Officer
i. Grace motion to confirm Taite as Ethics.
1. Graf seconds
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
d. Confirmation of Amelia Jobe as Assembly Scribe
i. Sam motion to confirm.
1. Grace seconds
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
e. Confirmation of Francesca (Frankie) Dalessa as Senate Scribe
i. Eric motions to confirm.
1. Graf seconds
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
f. Confirmation of Amaia Guerricabeitia as Administrative Director
i. Sam motions to confirm.
1. Graf seconds
Approve: 7 Deny: 0 Abstain: 0
V. Updates
a. Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs
i. Meet with the Provost on Thursday
b. Associate Vice President of Student Organizational Affairs
i. Five grants will be heard this Friday
ii. Homecoming Decorating Party will be October 1st.
c. Administrative Director
i. N/A
d. Government Relations Officer
i. Looking for 1-2 Volunteers to assist with National Voter Registration Day on the Quad next Tuesday, 28th, from 10AM - 1 PM.
1. Working with committee
e. Associate Vice President of Inclusive Excellence
i. Resiliency Room Update
1. Creating marketing and a statement of purpose for the room. Will
be hosting an open house soon.
ii. Land Acknowledgement Project
1. Reopening this conversation from prior years. This has been going
on for multiple years
iii. GALA
1. Looking at restarting the Gathering All Leaders and Activists
coalition event
f. Communications Officer
i. We’ll be buying a Canva!
ii. Interacting more with other orgs on campus
g. Ethics Officer
i. N/A
h. Vice President
i. Bill #01 and Resolution #01 both passed last week in the Assembly and Senate.
ii. This week in the Assembly/Senate would normally be only committee meetings. We will be opening an actual meeting for the first portion so that they can confirm the four people that we are potentially nominating to
them today. There is also a resolution that Will will be presenting. You’ll
see it linked on the agendas that you received this morning.
iii. Housing reached out to Kenny and I to set up a meeting and so we meet with them later this week.
i. President
i. Dr. Tromp following the UTEP football game sent an email expressing concern for the behavior of the student section, I met earlier today and last week with Ed Whipple, the President of the Corral-- Alek Rea, Cory
Gougler, and Charlie in how to best navigate training for the student
section in how it usually behaves.
ii. The Aramark Condemnation resolution was presented to the Aramark President of University Services Thursday last week. We expect to see
significant change in their behavior early this week, if not, the University will be taking stronger action
iii. Assuming the confirmation of Taite, I will still be in attendance to the IESC and Funding Board meetings to ensure smooth transition. For the
Funding Board, I’ll remain a voting member until Taite receives the
Viewpoint Neutrality training.
VI. Open Floor / Announcements
a. Kenny- Next meeting will take place in the Fishbowl Room of Student Involvement at 3:30 pm Monday, September 27th, 2021.
VII. Meeting Adjourned 4:11 pm