TEMPLE LAW�STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION

SENATE MEETING

10.12.21

WELCOME!��TAKE A SEAT & SIGN IN!

SIGN-IN: https://bit.ly/sbasignin-oct

TONIGHT’S AGENDA

Call to Order

• Welcome & Sign-In
• Old Business
• SBA Meeting Times
• Coffee / Café Discussions
• Guest Speakers
• Ally Lamson, Global Legal Studies
• Jill Steier, Admissions

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BOG Update

• Updated BOG Office Hours
• Admin Report
• Covid Town Hall
• Student/Faculty Committee Appointments

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Committee Reports

• Committee Assignments
• Org Review / Secretary
• Budget Committee
• Social Committee – Barrister’s Ball

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New Business

• VITALL Probationary Charter Application, Lydia Hurtado
• ACLPP Probationary Chart Application, Billy Nam
• Availability of Zoom at Org Events
• 1LE Class Requests, Nicole Williams

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Resolutions

• Student/Faculty Appointments

OLD BUSINESS

NOTES ON ATTENDANCE

Class Officers

• Cannot have more than three (3) absences, without proxy, over the course of the academic year
• Grounds for removal and result in preclusion from seeking further SBA office
• Can elect a proxy that is another class officer, but not an org rep

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Org Representatives

• Cannot have more than two (2) absences, without proxy, over the course of the academic year
• Grounds for losing portions of, or full, budget allocation
• Can elect a proxy that is another org rep, but not a class officer
• No individual can represent more than two (2) organizations during a session of the Student Senate, including proxy representation

If you are unable to attend, you need to email sbamail@temple.edu ahead of the meeting with the reason for your absence and the name of your proxy.

OLD BUSINESS

• SBA Meeting Times
• Tuesdays at 5PM won the poll
• Coffee / Café Times
• Spoke with Debbie Feldman, the special advisor to the Dean, who handles Aramark issues
• Won’t open until Spring 2022; request made to open sooner
• Requests made for vending machines through Aramark; order already placed with the vending machine company
• Coffee to be available throughout the day; will be more routinely restocked
• Will request that coffee is put on risers so cups fit underneath

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GUEST SPEAKERS

ALLY LAMSON

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES

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ALLISON.LAMSON@TEMPLE.EDU

JILL STEIER

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS

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JILL.STEIER@TEMPLE.EDU

BOARD OF GOVERNORS’ UPDATE

BOG ADMIN MEETING UPDATES

• After vaccination deadline, ID will be shut off for access to law school buildings
• COVID Town Hall with Admin: scheduled for 10/25 at 5PM
• School cannot share number of COVID positive law students
• Professors cannot say when someone in class tests positive
• Contact tracing is done by Temple’s Contact Tracing Unit, school admin not notified unless a student comes with an attendance / accommodation request
• Do students want to self-disclose on a shareable platform?
• Students have the right to share information themselves
• Klein Lawn
• Students cannot remove law school furniture outside
• SBA can consider buying folding tables/chairs to make available to students; storage could be an issue
• Permanent outside furniture is not viable
• Spring Course Schedule
• currently being finalized; will be available soon
• Spring registration to occur in early November

BOG OFFICE HOURS

• Laura Wojcik, President
• Tuesdays, 1:00-3:00PM via Zoom (contact for in-person)
• laura.wojcik@temple.edu / sbapres@temple.edu
• Lina Ruth Duiker, VP-Day
• Thursdays, 3:00-5:00pm via Zoom
• lina.duiker@temple.edu
• Sarah Martinez, VP-Evening
• Ad-hoc, please contact to arrange meeting time
• sarah.martinez@temple.edu
• Timmy Miller, Treasurer
• Mondays 1:00-3:00PM via Zoom
• sbatreas@temple.edu / timothymiller@temple.edu

• Maggie Nealon, Secretary (Appointee)
• Wednesdays, 12:00-2:00PM in SBA Office (301-L Barrack)
• margaret.nealon@temple.edu
• Jonah Levinson, Parliamentarian (Appointee)
• Thursdays, 3:00-5:00PM via Zoom
• jonah.s.levinson@temple.edu
• Elaine Barton, ABA Rep (Appointee)
• Mondays, 8:30 – 10:30AM, fourth floor of library
• tue67012@temple.edu

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Office Hours Zoom

ID: 985 0988 2810

https://temple.zoom.us/j/98509882810

STUDENT/FACULTY COMMITTEES

COMMITTEE REPORTS

SBA COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

• Sasha Phillips
• Harry Morris
• Bradley Sinkaus
• Candice Johnson
• Billy Nam

ORG REVIEW COMMITTEE / SECRETARY UPDATE

• Make sure you are tracking your attendance at all events!
• Attendance / event tracking repository (emailed to all student org presidents)
• To submit events/announcements for the weekly brief, please submit to the link at the bottom of the SBA Brief email by Sunday at noon
• Zoom option: we will be amending the submission form to have a Y/N Zoom option
• Standardize the availability of zoom information
• Have zoom information readily available to all students
• Hope to encourage the use of zoom for all student events held in classrooms

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BUDGET COMMITTEE / TREASURER UPDATE

• We’re feeling the effects of a significant loss of institutional knowledge across most student organizations, so the Committee and I will do our best to offer:
• Space: The Budget Committee has been as flexible as we can with requests to give orgs space to learn the processes, and we will allow any org to cure issues with forms or re-submit requests based on our feedback
• Support: I’m happy to meet individually with any organization’s treasurer or board members to talk through plans in advance, answer questions in advance via email, or explain any processes/rules
• Solutions: We’re working on identifying problems and potential solutions to these processes (they weren’t the best to begin with)

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CURRENT PROBLEMS:

• Students usually front money out-of-pocket for events and get reimbursed (this won’t go away entirely for all purchases)
• Tax cannot be reimbursed if it is paid (but we can help you get tax-exempt notice to vendors in advance)
• Class Officers have no formal request method for using their budget
• SBA policies/guidance on purchasing alcohol don’t exist and the historic practice is not clear
• Past Budget Committees have not kept meeting records

BUDGET COMMITTEE / TREASURER UPDATE

CURRENT SOLUTIONS:

• Diamond Dollars Process (One-Sheet Guide Available): We are encouraging orgs to use this whenever possible. Director Walden or her student workers can make purchases for the organization (which automatically takes off tax).
• Purchasing & Tax: If you are making purchases that will be reimbursed through 109, just mention that you are with Temple University and that you are tax-exempt (places like the Fresh Grocer and Cityview will typically honor this).
• Class Officers: For now* if you’d like to use your budget, email me with details of what you want to do (date, location, event type, and quotes for what you want to purchase) and I’ll give the okay and help you get reimbursed.
• Historic Records: One of our members, Victor Ficarra, has filled the role of Recording Secretary to take minutes of BC meetings.

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UPCOMING SOLUTIONS:

• Tax Exemption Form Request: Director Walden and I are working on creating a process where Temple will send a vendor/store a letter explaining our tax-exempt status prior to your purchase.
• *Class Officer 115 Forms: These are almost done. I just need to iron out the appropriate process for review. You will receive an email from me on this when it is fully implemented giving you the step-by-step.
• Alcohol Policies: We are working on drafting alcohol policies for SBA that appropriately incorporate any applicable laws, University policies, or student life concerns so that there is an appropriate and uniformly-applied rule.

BUDGET COMMITTEE / TREASURER UPDATE

REMINDERS:

• Please submit any 106/109 forms to your Budget Committee liaison first, that way they can start reviewing it as soon as possible.
• Fill out the form entirely and make sure to have the appropriate signature(s)
• Include all receipts with 109 requests, and make sure that they are itemized
• When editing forms, please leave them as a PDF and do not use any special program to edit them (this has been breaking the form and requires me to use special tools to fix them)
• You can type a signature as “/s/ Name” in the editable field on the form - using any other signing tool will freeze the form and prevent me from editing it normally.

SOCIAL COMMITTEE

• Initial Feedback Form responses
• Tentative Details: January 21, 2022 at Vie
• Status: awaiting final signature
• Will be sending out a save the date
• Pricing
• BOG subsidy will be applied
• Ticket Pricing Options:
• Apply subsidy to all tickets
• Apply subsidy to student tickets only (no limit on amount of guests)
• Offer tickets to students first, leftover offered to guests (at same or increased price)

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NEW BUSINESS

APPLICATION FOR PROBATIONARY CHARTER: VITALL

• Visual and Interactive Techniques for All Legal Learners (VITALL)
• Proponent: Lydia Hurtado

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• The goals of our organization are to:
• Acknowledge, encourage, and support the neurodiversity present in the law student population.
• Provide tools for students that do not "click" with the traditional and long-standing teaching methods of law school, and for whom those methods are inaccessible.
• Center wellness and collaboration over competition and burnout.
• Encourage greater incorporation of equity, creativity, systems thinking, and technology into legal learning.
• Ensure that no student has to "reinvent the wheel" but rather can continually improve upon its design.
• Collaborate with the faculty and administration in making the necessary additions and changes to achieve these goals.
• Examples of activities that would meet these goals include establishing a visual outline bank, hosting workshops on how to make flow charts, and requesting that LucidChart be added to the collection of subscription study aids available to students for free.
• Our student organization’s purpose and associated events are unique and will advance the overall goal of the SBA to promote the welfare of students who will seek out this opportunity. A probationary charter would allow us to get critical resources into the hands of students and further the inclusivity of the Temple Law community.

APPLICATION FOR PROBATIONARY CHARTER: ACLPP

• Aiding Community Leaders and Policies of Philadelphia (ACLPP)
• Proponent: Billy Nam

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• The goal of our organization is to aid community leaders in Philadelphia who are overwhelmingly against the wall when dealing with private entities that have an abundance of lawyers. We hope to start a practicum that will allow our members, and any Temple Law student, to aid these community leaders and be active in helping draft local policies for the city of Philadelphia. As future lawyers, we want to act as a support group to our community leaders while also getting experience in drafting legislation.
• Philadelphia has over 260 Registered Community Organizations (RCOs) that have no access to funds or legal advocates. ACLPP is invested in being active in the community of Philadelphia and we already have over 25 RCOs that are ready to support us as much as we are ready to support them. RCO leaders are welcoming us with open arms and are willing to come in for meetings to go over issues they have with certain city policies. In return, our organization would help draft policies that RCO leaders can bring to city council. This will be a great experience for Temple Law students to see how local legislation is drafted and how it can impact the underrepresented.
• Our student organization’s purpose is well aligned with our school’s mission statement of “…committed to excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship, and service.” A charter would allow us to expand interest in our organization and further the goal of making Temple Law a leader in both education and service in Philadelphia. A charter would also promote the advancement of Temple Law students, both professionally and socially. For these reasons, we respectfully request official recognition from the SBA by way of a probationary charter.

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OTHER NEW BUSINESS

• 1LE Class Requests, Nicole Williams
• Zoom option for all student org events held in classrooms

OPEN DISCUSSION

RESOLUTIONS

VOTING PROCEDURE

https://bit.ly/oct-resolutions

RESOLUTION #1-4

Resolved:

1) The BOG appointments to the Curriculum Student/Faculty Committee are approved.

2) The BOG appointment to the Diversity and Inclusion Student/Faculty Committee is approved.

3) The BOG appointments to the Disciplinary Student/Faculty Committee are approved.

4) The BOG appointments to the Public Interest Student/Faculty Committee are approved.

RESOLUTION #5

Resolved:

Probationary Charter shall be granted to VITALL.

RESOLUTION #6

Resolved:

Probationary Charter shall be granted to ACLPP.

THANKS EVERYONE!

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