Meeting Minutes: 2006 - 2008
Meeting Minutes, Jan. 27, 2008 Meeting Minutes, Nov. 11, 2007 Meeting Minutes, Oct. 7, 2007 Minutes are added as meetings occur and appear on this page in reverse chronological order. The most recent minutes are at the top. Meeting Minutes, Sept 9, 2007 Meeting Minutes March 18th, 2007
I. BBQ – SBA sharing $$ w/ SALDF to co-host Meatout w/ SBA elections
a. Need clean-up help: Megan Schedler, Kate Stebbins, Michelene D’Angalis
b. Maybe will have beer, SBA will take care of
II. End of year party
a. Holocene reserved May 11
b. Bands booked & dj
III. Elections
a. Need volunteers Tuesday & Wednesday 11:30-1:30, 5:30-6:30
b. Sign-up sheets put out
c. If you are running for a position, you can’t staff the voting table
IV. Student Group Fair
a. Friday March 23, 2:15-3:15
V. Student Groups
a. Running Club - approved
i. Social group to exercise & network
ii. Website w/ health tips & listserv to set up runs
iii. Have a team to run in local races
iv. Funding for a trip to the coast
v. No set members, but roughly 35 people w/ interest
b. Tax Law Club - approved
i. 6 members
ii. Prof Brown as advisor
iii. Events set up this semester already – IRS auditor
Meeting Minutes January 21st 2007
I. Law School Choice Group
a. Julie Nimnick w/ Law Students for Choice: (handout passed out) Nat’l non profit org of law students and lawyers raising awareness on reproductive rights issues/policies. Paula Abrams faculty advisor. First event is in proposal (handout). See handout for specifics.
i. Members: 8
ii. Vote: Unanimous yes.
II. York Memorial
a. Charles Neal presenting: Resolution for cultural tribute for York, slave that accompanied Lewis and Clark in their expedition. Idea is to raise 120K-200K for statue in tribute on the upper campus.
b. Vote on whether to pass resolution to raise awareness and support this initiative.
i. Vote: Unanimous yes.
III. Housekeeping
a. Attendance vote on Kim Rhodes: No votes against keeping her on.
i. Faculty committee: Trying to get Groves to stay on as visiting professor after this year.
b. Admissions committee student rep (Alison Reed) and Alumni Board student rep( Monique Hawthorne) switching position.
IV. Calendar (passed out)
V. Outline Bank: First year students found this helpful.
VI. LRAP
a. Faculty confirmed referendum from last year. $25 tuition supplement = $40K/year for LRAP program
VII. Snowman
a. Monique Hawthorne picking winners. We will have 3 winners and each will get $10 gift certificates.
VIII. Pizza with Dean
Committee Updates
• Budget committee:
• Admissions committee: Reviewed 15 files
• AEP Committee: Have only met once.
• Faculty committee: talking about appointments and budget.
• Transportation and Safety Committee: Daily bus pass thing was dropped w/out committee approval. Will add another shuttle from 3-8pm from Pioneer. Need to figure out how to fund this. Daily will be $4/day and monthly will go up as well by a certain percentage. Possibly splitting undergrad and law school parking pass prices. Possibly tagging fee to undergrad freshmen bcs they have to live on campus and cannot have a car so likely most frequent users of shuttle.
Meeting Minutes Nov. 12th 2006
I. No quorum, 5 short – could not vote on any issues
II. ABA grant
a. ABA has $500 grant for any event that promotes diversity
b. Apply through the ABA website
III. Halloween party update
a. Great success, made $1500 and everyone had fun!
IV. Dean search
a. Update on Dean search from committee
b. Email any suggestions/preferences to Committee head, Dan Mensher at dmensher@lclark.edu
V. Exam help
a. Provide (not free) masseuse for students during the exam period
b. Discussions going with Westlaw to create online outline bank on TWEN
i. Joelle Tavan will follow up
c. Treats in SBA office for all students
i. Duncan Hwang to take the lead
Meeting on October 15, 2006
I. Technology Representative
a. The previous representative resigned and Ted Piteo has been appointed by the SBA President to fill the position.
b. Approval from SBA for the appointment.
II. Halloween Party
a. Update on preparations and continued needs.
III. Bylaw amendments
a. The Rules Committee met extensively during the summer to propose bylaw updates and amendments. Amendments to take effect immediately, except for attendance policy which will go into affect the 2007/2008 school year.
b. Approval from SBA for amendments. Updated bylaws can be found on the SBA website.
Meeting on September 24, 2006
I. Roll
II. Resolution for recycled paper
a. School currently using 0% recycled paper imported from Paraguay b/c it supposedly jams less
b. Resolution from NEDC to make all reasonable efforts to obtain cheaper, local recycled paper
c. Unanimous vote to approve the resolution
III. Approve budget
a. Budget committee worked hard to provide money to student groups
b. Possible that school will increase SBA budget for next year – will help resolve limited funds issue
c. Unanimous approval of budget
IV. Bylaws
a. Vote on bylaws amendments is in 2 weeks
V. Faculty Committees
a. Meetings with faculty will begin soon, please send reports to SBA after the meetings
VI. Office hours
a. Decision to change office hour requirements to 2 hours/month
b. Office hours will be from 12-1pm & 5-6pm Monday-Thursday
c. Sign-up sheet sent around
VII. Halloween Party
a. Saturday October 21st
b. Meeting of Student Life Committee – Thursday Sept 28th from 5-6pm
VIII. Student Calendar
a. Reggie, who schedules rooms for students, keeps a calendar
b. Link to this calendar on SBA website for students to see when groups are scheduling things
c. Students don’t need to add info – Reggie does not
d. Only downside is the calendar is only accessible on campus
IX. Chess Club
a. Request to recognize a Chess Club student organization
b. Since this is past the budget period, no funding will be provided this year
c. Unanimous approval of Chess Club
X. Website
a. Names of Internal Committees and their members added to the site
b. Working to make website more informative and keep it up to date
Meeting on September 10, 2006
I. Introduction
a. SBA members introduced themselves and their positions on SBA
II. Introduce bylaw amendments
a. Shared handouts of bylaw changes, will have a month long school-wide comment period on the changes and will vote on changes in October
III. Treasurer’s Report
a. Budget requests have been submitted
b. Have only $35,000 in funds to allocate and $85,000 has been requested by 25 student groups
c. Need two pod reps to sign-up for budget committee
IV. Office Hours
a. Want to add office hours for SBA members, allows more accessibility for students to SBA
b. Four hours of office hours/month approved by majority of SBA
c. Sign-up sheet passed around
V. Halloween Party
a. Conflict with alumni event on law school campus for Saturday Oct 27th Halloween party
b. Alternatives
i. Have the party on the undergrad campus, but would need to shut down early and would have greater security needs to keep undergrads out
ii. Have the party on October 21st on the law school campus
c. SBA voted to hold the party a week earlier on the 21st
VI. Recycling Clause in bylaws
a. Currently there is a bylaw requiring student groups to use 100% recycled paper to be eligible for SBA funds, however the school does not provide the student groups with 100% recycled paper
b. Want to suspend this provision for the short-term, but keep it on the bylaws to encourage school to provide 100% recycled paper
c. Majority vote to suspend provision
VII. Committee sign-ups
a. Description of the various internal committees, Student Life, Space Allocation, Budget, Elections, Letter of the Law and Rules Committee
b. SBA members signed up for two committees each except for board members that chair a committee
VIII. New Student Groups
a. Requests to start up new student groups and make them eligible for funding
b. Korean American Law Students Association
i. Want to hold a few general meetings, as well as share a couple of cultural events on campus
ii. Host a panel to discuss the difference between the Korean legal system and US legal system
iii. Approved
c. Gastronomy Club
i. Create relationships based around pleasure
ii. Cover issues of food law
iii. Approved
Meeting on August 27, 2006
I. Introductions
a. Brief intro – table semester goals to first all member meeting
II. Letter MCLE
a. Letter to Supreme Ct in support of diversity, allowing “elimination of bias” credits towards CLE requirements drafted by Duncan. Handed out to SBA for anyone to sign if interested
III. Votes
a. Confirmation of appointed Secretary Jenn Forbes
b. Evening Student Committee
i. Rule Committee created new committee consisting of two evening students. Discussion regarding need for consistent presence of evening students on SBA two represent evening student’s needs
ii. Confirmation of new Evening Student Committee
IV. Report on SBA tabling at first-year orientation
a. Lots of interest in SBA at orientation fair – election rules shared with those interested (ie no unsolicited emails, policies regarding mailbox usage
b. Election binder almost ready, self-nomination forms available September
c. Volunteers signed up to sit at voting-booth for pod rep and evening student elections on September 7th
| 
