Meetings:

Minutes

7 December 2009

Call to Order at 3:04pm

Members Present: Mathew Harden, Lauren Obucina, Kenny Sykes, Starr ONeal, Amanda Clark, Stephanie Ramkaran, and Jim Dobbs

Advisors Present: Kristi Arnold

Guest Reports: None

Executive Board Reports: None

Unfinished Business: None

New Business:

Meeting times are going to be held on Mondays at 3:00pm.

Motion passed to allot $700 for a community Easter egg hunt.

Motion brought to the table to vote in the future to have a recruitment dinner at Hideaway Pizza.

President Pro Temp position is now open.

Starr nominated Jim Dobbs for President Pro Temp, Mathew Harden seconded this motion.

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00pm on February 1st, 2010.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:21pm

Minutes

20 January 2010

Call to Order at 2:00pm

Members Present: Matthew Harden, Starr O’Neal

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Guests Present: Jim Dobbs

Guest Reports: None

Executive Board Reports: None

Finance: None

Unfinished Business: None

New Business:

Motion passed to sponsor new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Vice President of Administrations welcome event.  Amount passed is $500.00

Motion brought to the table to vote in the future to have an Easter Egg hunt in April.  Prices will be tabulated and voted on in next meeting. 

Motion passed to change meeting times to Mondays at 3:00p.m. starting January 25th, 2010.

Let the record show that the following members were absent (currently unexcused) for this meeting:

Kenny Sykes (1st absence)

Lauren Obucina (1st absence)

John Gay (3rd absence)

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on January 25th, 2010.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:22 pm

 Minutes

7 December 2009

Call to Order at 3:04pm

Members Present: Mathew Harden, Lauren Obucina, Kenny Sykes, Starr Lacey, Amanda Clark, and Geoff Broach

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Guest Reports: None

Executive Board Reports: None

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: We looked over the Resolution for Dr. Huckeby.

Measure to strike language from last’ week’s minutes that insinuated a rift between student government and administration – Passed

Measure for NSGA attendance at the Emerald ball on 12/12/09 – Passed for up to 5 people to go at $100 per person.

Motion to vote to sponsor SOEA cookies for their holiday party – Passed for up to $25.

Motion to vote on meeting held on December 7, 2009 to be the last official meeting of the fiscal year.

Motion to vote tentative “Welcome Week” snack giveaway for the week we return to school for the amount of $500 – Passed.

Motion to nominate Matthew Harden as Standards and Ethics Chair – Passed.

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting is to be announced.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:18pm

Minutes

30 November 2009

Call to Order at 3:00pm

Members Present: Matthew Harden, Lauren Obucina, Kenny Sykes, Starr O’Neal, Amanda Clark, and Geoff Broach

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Guests Present: None

Guest Reports: SOEA Christmas part will be held on December 9th.

Executive Board Reports: None

Finance: The amount in our budget is $4,300 approx.

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: We discussed not using the words fraud, embezzlement, etc.

The final approval was made for purchasing gifts for the Angel Tree children. Starr plans to purchase gifts on Tuesday.

John Gay has had his second unexcused absence.

Alexander Thorne is ill with Strep Throat and has an excused absence.

We discussed the plaque we plan to have made for Dr Huckabee.

NSGA-BA has tentatively agreed to help SOEA with their holiday party. 

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on December 7th, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:26pm

Minutes

16 November 2009

Call to Order at 3:02pm

Members Present: Matthew Hardin, John Gay, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, Amanda Clark,  Kenny Sykes, and Geoff Broach, Stephanie Ramkarin.

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Guests Present: None

Guest Reports: SOEA is planning a holiday party attentively for Dec 9th.

PPHC will be collecting the food boxes for Thanksgiving by November 23rd. They are also planning to have another food drive for Christmas.

Executive Board Reports: None

Unfinished Business: None

New Business: Alex Thorne was absent with an excused absence.

The committee to present the Resolution scholarships will commence.

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on November 23rd, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:11pm

Minutes

9 November 2009

Call to Order at 3:05pm

Members Present: John Gay, Alexander Thorne, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, Amanda Clark,  Kenny Sykes, and Geoff Broach, Jim Dobbs.

Advisors Present: Kristi Arnold

Guests Present: None

Guest Reports: None

Executive Board Reports: None

Unfinished Business: Finance Chair, Student Activities/ Services Chair, Student Concerns Chair, and Standards and Ethics Chair are open.

New Business: Motion to form committee to address student government scholarship incentives and write official resolution - passed. Alexander will head this committee.

Motion to elect chair to head Student Fee Audit committee – passed.  Alexander Thorne & John Gay will head the Student Fee Audit committee. In addition, other members of this committee will be working along side with John & Alexander.

Motion to establish an ambassador to the NSU-Muskogee campus to engage in student government association endeavors - passed. John will be the ambassador between NSU-Broken Arrow and NSU-Muskogee.

Motion to disburse all storehouses of non-useable goods held in the student government’s name to the student body with remainders being donated to a nonprofit organization - passed.

Motion to enter into MOA (memorandum of agreement) with LIMO RIDE to offer limo services to our student body for both referral fees and also to usher political representatives to our events - passed

Motion for Angel Tree adoption to adopt 6 Angels in the amount of $300 - passed.

Motion to spend $200 to send gift baskets to the representatives of the Political Forum – passed.

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on November 9th, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:40pm

Minutes

2 November 2009

Call to Order at 3:03pm

Members Present: John Gay, Alexander Thorne, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, Amanda Clark, Stephanie Ramkaran, Richard Wills, Kenny Sykes, and Geoff Broach.

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Guests Present: Torki Abualshamat, Maggie McCracken and Whitney Martin

Guest Reports: Goeff-SOEA meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 3:45pm

Executive Board Reports: Starr proposed to launch a formal investigation into student activities funds, and write a resolution asking to increase Broken Arrow NSGA funding. A committee was forned and consists of: Starr, Lauren, Stephanie, Kenny, Alex, John, and Richard are assigned to the committee that will write the resolution and do an investigation to increase NSGA-BA funding.

Unfinished Business: Finance Chair, Student Activities/ Services Chair, Student Concerns Chair, and Standards and Ethics Chair are now open for nominations.

New Business: Amber Trochez has had her second absence and will therefore be removed from office unless an excused absence is received. President of the Senate proposes that the Student Government Meetings take place at 4:00 instead of 3:00, and that they be limited to a maximum of 30 minutes, motion failed to pass for this semester.  Time and day change to be discussed for next semester in the near future.  Student Affairs and PPHC are sponsoring a canned food drive that started this week and there will be boxes in all buildings. Motion to pay dues for OSGA - passed. Public Relations Meeting on Thursday at 10:30am. Student Affairs is planning to have an Angel Tree, which we will be adopting Angels from.

Finance: Kenny, our new Vice-President, presented membership dues from OSGA in the amount of $250.00.

Announcements/Reminders: Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on November 9th, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:24pm

Minutes

26 October 2009

Call to Order at 3:06pm

Members Present: Alexander Thorne, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, Jeff Broach, Kenny Sykes, Stephanie Ramkaren, Richard Wills

Guests Present: Jim Dobbs, Female Guest

Advisors Present: Dr. Melissa Mahan

Unfinished Business: PPHC is planning to have a canned food drive.

New Business: Kendal Key has had his second absence and will thereforebe removed from office if an excused absence is not received. Let the record show that John Gay has had his first absence, in addition Amber Trochez is on her first absence, and Lucy Postoak is on her second absence and will be removed unless an excused absence is received. The positions for Student Services Chair Officer which are pending may be open for nominations during the next meeting.

Announcements/Reminders: *Let’s keep recruiting!*

The next meeting will be held at 3:00pm on November 2nd, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:26pm

Minutes

19 October 2009

Call to Order at 3:07

Members Present: John Gay, Richards Wills, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, Stephanie Ramkaren, Kenny Sykes

Advisors Present: None

Introduction of guests: There were no guests present.

Unfinished Business: Vice Presidents position is open for anyone wanting to run.

New Business: It has been decided, per our Constitution, that if you are an officer and miss two meetings or more, your position will be up for removal.

We discussed the Fall Festival.

We discussed a possible modification of the Constitution.

Motion to cancel the Bonfire - passed 7-0. Bonfire is cancelled.

Finance: None

Announcements: Boy Scout meeting 5:45pm Wednesday

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on October 26th, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:31pm

Minutes

26 September 2009

Call to Order at 3:03pm

Members Present: Kendall Key, John Gay, Alexander Thorne, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, Kenny Sykes-PPHC, Geoff Broach-SOEA

Advisors Present: Kristi Arnold

Guests Present: Amanda Clark, Stephanie Ramkaran, and Mr. Wills

Unfinished Business: Alex plans to have the author of The Last Unicorn, speak at NSUBA.

Starr discussed the St. Louis trip and itinerary.

We still need permits for the Bonfire.

The Fall Festival is October 28 from 5pm to 8pm.

New Business: We would like to welcome our new members: Kenny Sykes, Jeff Broach

Motion to allot Alex $200 from our budget to market/promote any NSGA functions – passed

We adopted a Cub Scout Troop! And have received permission from Dr. Huckabee to use G-132 for weekly Cub Scouts meetings every Wednesday at 5:45pm to 6:45pm.

NSGABA will fund a Sweatshirt Exchange for the trip to St. Louis and the Sweatshirt Committee will consist of Starr and Lauren.

Starr brought a motion to allot $150 for the sweatshirt budget - passed

Finished Business: Motion to vote on dark green shirts with the SGA logo on the front of the shirt and the previous saying from the prior shirts on the back at $8 a shirt - passed.  

Motion to change the date of the Bonfire to Wednesday October 21th 6to 8pm - passed.               

Announcements/Reminders: Call your dentist for donations in exchange for Tax Exemption.

Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 4:00 on September 21st, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:45pm

Minutes

21 September 2009

Call to Order at 3:03pm

Members Present: Kendall Key, Alexander Thorne, Starr O’Neal

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Guests Present: Kenny Sykes-PPHC, Geoff Broach-SOEA, Jeff Stroberg

Unfinished Business: The student government once again looked at various T-Shirt designs.  The apparent frontrunner design was discontinued, so three other choices from another supplier were put forward.  A vote on top selection was not conducted due the absence of the President of the Senate, who holds a position on the T-Shirt design committee, so the vote was tabled until the next meeting. 

The agenda was not presented or read due to a lack of attendance of the President of the Student Senate.    The NSGA-BA website was not updated last week as was scheduled, so its deadline was pushed back to Wednesday, September 23, 2009.  Each executive and chair member will finalize and submit their finalized wording to Alexander Thorne by the deadline or have their page drafted in absentia.  Starr finalized the inputting of the student email addresses into the SGA@NSGBA.COM email address.  In addition, Dr. Mahan notified us that she would not be attending the St. Louis Leadership Conference due to a personal family illness.

Alexander Thorne presented an update of public relations activities including a possible working alliance with the NSU Communications & Marketing Office.

Starr brought a motion to set the date of the Bonfire for October 23rd.  The motion passed 3 to 0.  In addition, candy for the Fall Festival will be provided by the NSUBA faculty, therefore the student government will not be responsible for its associated cost. 

Starr brought a motion for the NSGA~BA student government members to attend both the Thursday and Friday sessions.  The motion passed 3 to 0.  In addition, Kenny Sykes-PPHC requested to attend the conference.  

New Business:  Geoff Broach-SOEA discussed the feasibility of bringing to campus a wider variety of speakers such as RL Stine or T. Boone Pickens. 

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on September 28th, 2009.

Motion was heard and seconded for adjournment.

Meeting was adjourned at 3:36 P.M.

Minutes

31 August 2009

Call to Order at 3:26pm

Members Present: Kendall Key, John Gay, Alexander Thorne, Starr O’Neal, Lauren Obucina, and Asia Hongo

Advisors Present: Melissa Mahan

Introduction of guests: There were no guests present.

Unfinished Business: We discussed inviting all other organizations to a workshop of the Leadership Conference in St. Louis given by the people who will have attended.

Starr and John are on T-Shirt Design Committee to design our NSGA shirts for 2009.

Starr needs to have a meeting with each of us individually to discuss our role(s) outside of the meetings, and reformatting the Insider and assigning monthly stories for members to write. We would also like to pass the Insider’s out to our fellow students in hopes of recruiting new members.

We will work on revising the Constitution, omitting compensation.

Alexander plans to arrange a Mayoral Debate at NSUBA in an effort to give Tulsa/Broken Arrow more of a platform for our thoughts. He will also look into arranging District Debates and City-Wide Debates at NSUBA and plans to get this publicized on channels 2, 6, and/or 8.

New Business: Kendall brought a motion for compensation of the officers – The vote was No 5 to 0, Motion does not pass.

John spoke with the management of CiCi’s and they agreed to donate 3% of sales on peak days which are Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday  with the possibility of donating 5% of sales on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and are willing to do this 2 different days.

Starr informed us that we could not get business cards with the NSGABA logo through the original company.

Starr brought a motion to buy business cards through a new company with the NSGABA logo, with a limit of $30– The motion Passed unopposed 5 to 0

Starr brought a motion for up to six people to attend the Leadership Conference in St. Louis – The motion Passed unopposed 5 to 0 

We will attend one meeting per organization in order to explain our standing, what NSGABA is about and what we can do for them. All organizations need to have a representative present at NSGABA meetings in order to defend any paperwork they might submit to us.

Alex will email the Presidents of each organization reminding them of our meetings. 

Our meetings need to be posted the Friday before the Monday meeting.

Announcements/Reminders: Labor Day next Monday, *No Meeting*  Let’s keep recruiting!

The next meeting will be held at 3:00 on Septmeber 14th, 2009 in Building A Room 141.

Minutes

17 August 2009

Call to Order at 12:00pm

Members Present: Starr O’Neal, Rachel Fixico, John Gay, Alexander Thorne, Lauren Obucina, Kendall Key, Lucy Postoak, Amber Trochez, Tosha Kemper, Asia Hongo.

Advisor Present: Dr. MelissaMahan

Introduction of guests: There were no guests present.

Unfinished Business: The nominations ended at noon and are our new executive officers are; President- Starr O’Neal, Vice President- Rachel Fixico, President Pro Tempore- John Gay, Deputy President Pro Tempore- Alexander Thorne, Secretary of State- Lauren Obucina, Finance Chair- Kendall Key, Public Relations/External Affairs Chair- Lucy Postoak, Senate Administration (SAC)/Standards & Ethics Chair- Alexander Thorne, Student Affairs- Amber Trochez, & Student Concerns Chair- Amber Trochez. We discussed Family Day, Student Organization Day, and giveaways.

New Business: We discussed going to the 21st Annual National Leadership Conference in St. Louis, MO. We also discussed going to Tahlequah to observe one of their NSGA meetings.

The next meeting will be held at 3:00pm on August 24th

Meeting was adjourned at 1:30pm

Minutes

August 11th 2009

Member's present were:  Starr O'Neal, Rachel Fixico, Amber Trochez, John Gay, and Advisor Dr. Melissa Mahan. 

During this meeting the topics of when we should have weekly meetings was discussed, which was decided as Mondays at 3:00 p.m. in the Auditorium in building A Room 141. 

The next meeting on our agenda is Monday August 17th at noon at the Sip-N-Surf on the BA campus. 

We began nominations for the Fall 2009-2010 semester and the nominations are posted on the Home Page. 

we established Monday August 17th at noon as the deadline for nominations.