Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, November 13th, 2008
By Matthew Lord | November 13, 2008
Student Administrative Council - Work Session Meeting Minutes
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Start Time: 1:30pm
End Time: 4:15pm
Attendance: Cayla Poznanovich, Matthew Lord, Brandin Watson, Alexis Baranov, Jeffrey Vasquez, Janet Hoppe-Leonard, Roy Flores, Jasmine Tolle
(Alexis and Janet left about 2:00pm to attend the Board of Trustees Meeting, and Jasmine left about 2:00pm for a doctor’s appointment.)
SUMMARY
Roy Flores joined from 1:30-2:00pm to discuss concepts about the how the process of the proposed Student Center can be organized. We identified several areas to keep focus on. We briefly discussed strategies for raising money, decision making with the creation of a committee, and creating a vision for future students and campus community members. The most important of these in establishing and maintaining open communication with the facilities department on campus. We also explored some potential ideas and visions for the Student Center itself. We interviewed a potential candidate for additional Student Administrative Council team member positions. We then worked through items on our agenda for the main portion of our meeting.
TOPICS
Student Center
There exists the opportunity to help and be an integral part to build a new Student Center from multiple funding sources. It will be key for us to create a vision and commit to this vision. Some questions we should ask ourselves and students are:
- What/How do we feel about a student center?
- If the idea is well liked, what does this student center look like? How do we envision it’s existence?
- What are the things that students would appreciate having in the student center?
- In what ways can we ensure it’s compatibility for future generations of students and campus community?
Public Meeting Brief
Utilizing the Green Room as our space for public meetings continues to be an issue. The location of the room is prime, the quality of presentation and discussion is greatly diminished by the sound quality and disturbances from outside sound sources. It is enhanced when the doors are closed. However, this limits our visibility and ability to attract additional students and community members into our meetings. It is suggested that we may look to the Baxter Events Center as an alternate location. Another option may be to have an SAC member outside of the doors (which would be closed) as a greeter and audience recruiter. We all seemed to like this idea. We will continue to develop a sound way to distribute the reporting during our meetings. Additionally we discussed following up about using the campus’ Audience Response System and maintaining flexibility with our meeting schedule when we have guests who are traveling in from some distance. Traffic can have a HUGE impact upon the traveler’s time of arrival.
Outlook
Basically, we need to get this system working and being implemented in a way that will effectively increase our communication with the district.
Cultural Competency
We will tentatively be re-scheduling this professional development seminar for Winter quarter.
ACTION ITEMS
- Identify whether we have properly thanked both Kendall Harris and Phyllis Kenney for their participation in our meeting, and then do so. - ALL/Alexis
- Create an ongoing checklist for our public meetings. - ALL
- Create a regular meeting schedule with Monty in the facilities department. - ALL
- Obtain the details and marketing information for self-defense classes. - ALL/Jasmine/Matthew
- Obtain additional details regarding the Health Fair. - Undefined
- Communicate the tentative dates set for group work over Winter break. - ALL
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