North Seattle Community College
Student Administrative Council Minutes
Date: 12 Jan 2010
Venue: School
Start time: 2:15 pm
End time:  3:40 pm

Present: Michael, Richard, Rich, Xinying, Sabina, Aaron, Xinzi, Jeffery, Janet

Topics

Change of Public meeting date, Student Fee board, Letter to student body regarding the After Vote Survey, Constitution, Meeting with president, Campus map, Legislative Cards ,sustainability, President Search, BoT meeting, Tech building meeting, Polaris, President’s All College Meeting, website

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Summary  

Public meeting – the date has been changed to Tuesday, February 16, 2:30 because of BoT meeting

Student Fee Board

Barbra Goldner submitted a request for $10,000 to fund tutoring for the Math Learning Center.  The SFB funded awarded $4000 of this request.   The Fee Board believes the college needs to contribute additional funding to the MLC.  Richard also reported that the Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) committee will likely allocate approx $2200 to the MLC. 

Letter to student body regarding the After Vote Survey

Aaron will draft the initial letter for SAC to review at next Tuesday’s meeting.

Items to be included:

• Drinking water fountains
• Furniture in student lounges

Items to be listed as those we are continuing to work on are:

• Campus lighting – we heard your concerns about

 

Constitution

• Aaron said he has not yet identified specific tasks for SAC members to help in writing the constitution.  Stay tuned!  Aaron encourages everyone to read the constitution draft located in the shared drive.  Michael said he found that reviewing this document was helpful in giving him a better idea of the work we need to do.
• Several people said they have read Bellevue College’s constitution and believe it is well written.  It seems this may provide a good example to model our own constitution after.  Richard encouraged everyone to read through Bellevue’s constitution and Aaron’s draft.

 

Meeting with President

Richard had his monthly meeting with Alan Ward this week. 

Items discussed:

• Water Fountains: Alan told Richard that the college would fund a water fountain to match PTK’s purchase.  The current plan is to have one fountain be placed in the Espresso Lounge and one near the Munch Mart.  Rich said that at the last BoT meeting some Board members questioned why PTK was buying water fountains and not the college.  Perhaps this is why the college is now committed to purchasing water fountains.   Aaron said Alan has also committed to placing two water fountains new Tech Building Remodel.  In addition to these Alan has committed to placing fountains in the Wellness Center and the Library when it undergoes a future remodel.

 

Campus Map & Increased Access/Visibility of Frequently Used Office Hours

Students say it is difficult to locate office hours since they are not located in one convenient place on the website.  Janet said that Student Services has a list of office hours which is updated quarterly.   Janet will contact Jasmine to get an electronic copy of this document which Michael Plotke will post on our website.  Rich will work with Carol Summers to see about getting this document posted on the college website in a highly visible location.

Legislative Cards

As of today, only a handful of the 150 cards have been filled out.   Aaron must give these cards to the Cindy Rose, the Presidents secretary, this Friday!  Everyone was reminded to work on getting their 20 cards completed and give them to Aaron by this Thursday!

Sustainability

Richard will invite Christian Rusby to attend SAC meetings once a month to provide to report on Sustainability activities.

Presidential Search – Getting Students Involved

Cindy reported that a form has already created in which students may provide input on the qualities they would like to see in a new president.  A few weeks ago, Jack Bautsch, the chair of the Presidential Search Committee, sent an email to the campus that included a link where staff and students could go to provide this input.  Cindy proposed that SAC: 1) Forward this email to every student on campus 2) Create some posters promoting this link. Cindy will contact Jack to ask about promoting this forum to students.  We will also promote the January 22 open meeting.

Board of Trustee Meeting – Thursday, Jan 14, 3-5p

• Richard and Rich will attend this meeting
• No SAC meeting Thursday

 

Technology Building Meeting 1/8

At this meeting the architect, Walter Schacht, presented the design scheme for the north end of the technology building.  Richard and Janet attended this meeting and reported that faculty had expressed great concern about the proposed atrium in the center of the building citing concerns around noise, smells of food, cadaver labs etc.  A large gathering space will likely be incorporated into this remodel that will include some level of food services.

 

Polaris

Over the past few weeks, Sabina and Michael have provided students working for the Polaris some assistance in getting their survey online and distributed.   Sabina said that Carol Summers would soon be emailing students the Polaris survey.   The email and survey does not indicate SAC endorsement.

President’s All College Meeting – Wednesday, January 20, 2:30, BEC

This is an important meeting where Alan Ward will speak for the first time as the new interim President.  Please plan on attending this meeting if you are free.

Website

Michael will work with Kevin Christopher and others to add colorful icon buttons to side bar links.