Last Full Council Meeting of the Year

What a day! Tuesday started with Honors Convocation at 11 in Shove, where I got to see a number of my friends honored with shiny things in the form of medal awards and, if they were especially lucky, checks. Executive Council members stepped up to the plate, or in this case, the microphone, to present some all campus awards. (I admired their grit, as these awards only came after we’d made it through the alphabet of all the majors and all their awards.) Involved Student of the Year and First Mondays founder Andrew Wallace looked like Michael Phelps up at the podium. It’s very strange to be writing this post and thinking about how graduation is in 12 days, but at the same time it’s very nice to be a senior at all of these end of the year ceremonies where you can actually see many of your class peers being sought out and recognized.

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PENULTIMATE Meeting of the Year

Welcome to the almost final Executive Council meeting of the year!

  • Joseph came to talk about email options — whether we want to stay with Microsoft Solutions or switch to gmail. We have to pay more, indefinitely, every year to keep the @coloradocollege accounts going. It could possibly be switched to an opt in system, where you decide whether to keep your account after graduation or not (less expensive).

Save FREX Official Site

Check it out: http://www.SaveFREX.org/

Phoenix McLaughlin is in a band called Bill Nye and the Science Guys and they just performed for the Bill Nye the Science Guy. At the Broadmoor.

A flag display on the quad to raise awareness of genocide, April 2012.

On the meeting minutes agenda tonight! Moving out! How student groups feel about us! The FREX bus to Denver! The budget reports! Read on, young grasshoppers.

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The Last Block

I took this picture just before the end of seventh block, when the sun was starting to come out and knitted rainbows on trees seemed like a most excellent way to celebrate. Now, it is eighth block.

Eighth blocks tend to produce a palpable sort of…commotion.

Everyone has come back from their final block breaks of the year (or their final block breaks ever), probably having ingested more substances than they usually would, probably a little sunburnt, probably a little burnt out. It seems that my own block break rafting group is now experiencing a perfectly time-released bout of heat rashes that we thought we had escaped when we left Utah after several full days in beating sun.

But yes, there is a sort of commotion because commotion is a word general enough to be applied to many different, more acute feelings developing in many different people. For me, it was kind of like this:

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Tigers and Pits and CCSGA, Oh My!

Ben has drafted a copy of the strategic investment proposal so that CCSGA can get more funding. Logan will go over it tonight and we will finalize tomorrow. Logan needs all the budget applications by the time he wakes up on Wednesday morning!

Pat wants to make sure that the email transition will run smoothly next year. He met with Bob Holmes and Jan Martin and wants to have a follow-up meeting with the director of transportation for Colorado Springs.

Ari met with Elliott to talk about a few projects that he will be doing or continuing next year, including strategic investments, constitution work, and elections. We will be using the honor council’s layout as a blueprint to set up rules and regulations so that everything will run more smoothly than it did this year. We want to set up a system that makes it harder to “break the rules” (i.e. the same person voting with multiple student ID numbers, etc.)

Becca will be sending everyone a draft of an email to send out to their constituents to make the end of the year cleanup happen. It’s difficult to get people to pay attention and volunteer for things like this, even when they are incentivized with an extra day to move out for anyone who helps! If we don’t get enough volunteers, it won’t happen anymore…which would be a damn shame.

ALSO, for Honors Convocation, NO ONE should be campaigning for votes because it is against the protocol/rules/code, what have you. SO if you see someone or some group campaigning, shut it down.

Discussion: What to do with the Tiger Pit space when the new gym opens?

So, your tit pit, ti-pi, estro-gym, whatever you prefer to call it…it’s getting to’ up when the new gym in El Pomar opens. The question is, how can we best utilize it? How could CCSGA potentially utilize it?

Logan and Ben met with John Lauer, the head of ResLife, and he was not at all fazed by the idea of making huge changes to the space (e.g. walls, desks, etc.) Ben asked member of full council to brainstorm about the use of space.

People raised the idea about opening the space to other student groups whenever SGA was not using it. Logan raised the idea of small offices for each VP, according to the needs of the different positions. Finance, for example, could really use a projector so that everyone on the finance committee could simultaneously look at different financial documents as they come into discussions. He brought up the idea of secondary benefits–being more productive in one’s own space, taking the job more seriously, along with incentivizing more people to run (because of more prestige), and professionalizing the positions.

Ryan raised the point to that we should still have transparent walls so that people feel invited into, not included from, the goings-on of CCSGA. Becca and a lot of others did not feel that anyone should have an office with a closed door.

Emily brought up that Worner is packed and really strapped for space as it is, so if we were to get new offices–like a mental health coordinator–we would ideally want a location in Worner.

Also, we are thinking about couches, printers, and storage space…

 

The Budget Application

If you came here looking for it:

http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/ccsga/files/2012/03/Finance-Application.pdf

Executive Council Meeting, 4/2/2012

Reports

Ben Quam

  • We will be putting up posters for the President’s Council around Worner.
      • This will be a go-to group of students for Jill to utilize when high-powered individuals come to campus
  • Met with John about making the Tiger Pit CCSGA space

Jack Regenbogen

  • Working on student liaison position
  • Has a meeting set up on April 25 to talk about job placement for homeless through Springs Rescue Mission
  • Focusing on committee appointments – taking applications
  • Next year we want to make sure that the appointees are doing their jobs and taking the position seriously

Logan Dahl

  • We have $30,000 we just found out about! Llama will be better!

Discussion Items

  • Prioritizing our goals with the administration
    • For now, we would like to prioritize the Student Bill of Rights
  • Strategic Investment ideas for CCSGA?
    • small and growing budget for student liaison position
    • mental health worker on campus full-time
    • more positions like web manager
    • higher salary for Executive Council members
    • more money for general purposes
  • Tiger Pit, and CCSGA possibly taking over that space next year, turning it into offices
    • space will fall to student life
    • OR, Jack proposed, it could be a bar
    • None of these ideas are set in stone yet, nor are they mutually exclusive

STOP! Committee time!

As the head of the “Committee on Committees,” Jack Regenbogen has spent a lot of time putting together a committee application along with descriptions of all the committees. Check it out at the “For Committees” page. CCSGA encourages you to apply and get more involved on this campus!

TAKE ME TO THE COMMITTEES PAGE!

Logan Dahl has also graciously spent part of his spring break working on a new Finance Application, which you can check out here:

Take me to the Finance Application!

(You won’t regret it.)

We take condescending Wonka’s sarcasm in stride and stand by previous statements of encouragement. Love, CCSGA.

Back from Spring Break, Luckily No Lobster Tans

Updates and Announcements

Ben and Jack drafted a letter to city council about the surveillance cameras downtown. Jack is working with Springs Rescue Mission and the position of the student ambassador to City Council. Jack is in talks with faculty/administration about wages (i.e. heightening the minimum hourly wage) and letting graduating seniors keep their CC email addresses for a small amount of time (like a semester) after graduation.

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