North Seattle Community College
Student Administrative Council Minutes
Date: 23 Feb 2010
Venue: Student Leadership & Multicultural Programs Office
Start time: 2:15pm
End time: 4:00pm

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

Topics:  NSCC Student Community Forum, Manuals/Questionnaire, What’s Next, Haiti fundraiser

NSCC Student Community Forum – Michael talked about the organization and policing of the forum.  What do we want and who is going to be in charge of it.  He said that the forum needs to be promoted.  He has sent an email to everyone at North introducing and has been talking to lots of people but only 20 have registered.  Helen pointed out that we need to talk about organization and policing before we promote it any further.  As for people to monitor the boards, usually a random person who registers, monitors the sight – this is how it works out in the online forum world.  When people are registered to a forum about 1 in 10 post regularly.  Others don’t post at all. 

Janet pointed out that when she tried to post an announcement she wasn’t able to so she went to Student Activities and posted under events instead.  Michael explained that the announcement section is locked so only official people can post there with official announcements.  He will give permission for people who can post announcements.

There was discussion about the categories and whether they make sense etc.   Helen asked if responsibility for this forum should be added to the research/policy position in SAC for the 2010-2011 academic year.  There was general consensus that this may be a good fit.

There was discussion about getting different offices/divisions to monitor sections having to do with them, like Financial Aid overseeing the scholarship section for example.

Hiring for SAC positions for 2010 – 2011

Helen asked if there are students who are on committees that are interested in applying for SAC.  There was discussion about this and whether people can automatically stay on or if they need to re-apply for positions.  At this point only Sabina is coming back for the full year and only Donna on the Fee Board is returning for the full year. Richard will be here fall quarter and can stay on part time to help someone transition into the position.  Helen sent out the timeline for hiring and everyone needs to review that timeline.  Sabina would like a separate application for the Fee Board and more thought needs to go into group dynamics for this board since they work so many more hours than students on other committees.  There was discussion about talking with faculty about students that would be good for positions.

Manuals

Helen introduced the students that are working on the SAC manuals.  They sent a draft questionnaire to Richard and Helen and Helen sent it on to the rest of SAC to see if they had questions.  Many of the members fill out the form and the students from the class (that are doing the manuals) said they wanted to meet with Helen and Richard before they had other members fill out the questionnaire.  Richard, Rich and Aaron did not fill out the questionnaire. 

The students from the class answered questions about the form and got feedback on how to change the questions.  Richard explained that it’s hard to have each position fill out the same questionnaire because every person does different things so it would be best to design a different questionnaire for each position.  They still need an out-line for the manuals for Richard, Rich and Aaron.  The students agreed and said they could do this and the will re-produce the questionnaire.  The questionnaire is in lieu of separate interviews with each member.

They still need table of contents – they received one from Jeffrey and Michael will be sending one to them.  The students are planning on having the manuals ready by the end of Spring quarter.

What’s Next – Richard

• Furniture – Sabina and Janet met with Monty and the rep from correctional industries about the furniture for the walk through lounges
• Fees on website – Sabina set up a meeting with Betsy Abts, Michael Shaw, Dennis Yasukochi, Michael Vellines, Sam Bayne regarding student fees and how to update the college website and making it possible for students to find out where their fees go.   If SAC is going to have a flyer explaining fees (which was talked about before) we need to decide if that’s going to happen and who will do it.  Richard suggested that because the fees change often, making a flyer is not sustainable.  There was a suggestion to make business cards that say, “Want to know where your fees go?  Go to www………… to check it out.”
• Constitution – Aaron reminded people to get in their by-laws in for the constitution. 
• PTK ESL tutoring program – Aaron is looking for volunteer tutors for the program that PTK runs for ESL students.
• Cindy asked if we should do an end of the quarter survey about how SAC is doing and what needs to be addressed. This will be talked about at another meeting.
• Richard got a request from Alan Ward and Kurt Buttleman to attend a meeting regarding vending machines because the contract is coming up for

Fundraiser for Haiti Earthquake

The Classified staff is doing a fundraiser for Haiti and NW Harvest and they are looking for volunteers so if anyone is interested, contact Toni Bajado in the Security office. 

No meeting this Thursday because students are reviewing the presidential applications that have been chosen by the committee for interviews.