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THE FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

2011-2012

Minutes of the First Meeting of the General Assembly

27 April 2011 at 9:00 PM

Pryzbyla Center, Great Room

Speaker Leslie Martin, Presiding

I. Call to Order

a. 9:12 PM

II. Invocation

III. Roll Call Attendance

IV. Adoption of Agenda

a. Appointment of Molly Fitzpatrick ’14 to the office of Communication Director was

added.

V. Adoption of minutes from last meeting

VI. Report from Speaker

a. Appointment to Supreme Court

i. Patrick Burke ’14, Chief Justice1. Speaker Martin said she knows a lot of people and has worked with

many people before but looks forward especially to working with this

group of people.

ii. Michael Loughney ’12

iii. Molly Lovell ’13

iv.Genevieve McGann ’13

v. Samantha Cannon ’14

vi.Motion to confirm

vii. Voice vote

1. Passes

b. SFAB Appointment- Director McLaughlin

i. Natasha Medeiros ’12

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ii. Armaine Decastro ’13

iii. William Hogan ’14

iv. Wesley Cocozello ’14

v.Motion to confirm as group

vi. Voice Vote

1. Passes

c. Appointment to the Executive Office of Speaker

i. Roger Bacon ’14- Treasurer

ii. Molly Fitzpatrick ’14 -Communications Director

iii. Appointment of Roger Bacon for the SAGA Representative on the Joint

Budget Committee

iv. Voice Vote

1. All motions pass

d. Appointments to the Committee on Allocation Review

i. Therese Desilets ’12

ii. John McCarthy ’13

iii. Chris Consalvo ’14

iv. Andrew St. Hilaire ’14

v.Motion to Confirm as Group

vi. Voice Vote

1. Passes

e. All appointments were then sworn in

f. Delegate Handbook was then passed out

VII. Reports

a. Academic Affairsi. Delegate Perrone said they are currently in the transferring process she has a

meeting with the provost after finals week. The library schedule for the rest of

the year has been released. She said that the university archives are looking for

student organizations to contribute so please talk to people who are involved in

other student organizations.

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b. Student Services

i. Delegate Scharmer said she is excited for this committee and urged the body to

spread the word that enrollment services now has a facebook and twitter, also

next week enrollment services will send out a survey so please fill that out.

c. Campus and Residential Affairs

i. Delegate Rescigno said he looks forward to working with everyone this

upcoming year. He also said that he and Delegate Fecteau met with DPS about

the recent break ins he yielded to Delegate Fecteau to discuss this meeting.

ii. Delegate Fecteau said the concern was that there was not enough

communication between DPS and Students, however DPS does not feel that the

break ins were done by someone off campus, so there was no press release. It is

also important to note that DPS itself does not do press releases, all official

press releases are done by the Public Affairs Office, this office also keeps the

crime logs.

iii. Delegate Rescigno said only the Public Affairs office can do press

releases. Also each year SAGA sponsors Orientation Extended t-shirts, there is

legislation to get SAGA to use $600 to buy Orientation Extended Program

shirts, this is something we have done in the past.

iv. Bill 11 12 001, A Bill to support Orientation 2011

1. First Reading Waived

2. Motion to Debate- Passes

3. Delegate Perrone asked if the $650 was advertising for SAGA?

4. Speaker Martin said it is coming out of the operating budget so we can

subsidize.

5. Director McLaughlin said the money given for the T-Shirts is notspecified so it is not specifically for T-Shirts.

6. Delegate Perrone said it will have to advertise Student Association

because of Joint Operation Budget.

7. Delegate Fecteau asked if there will be the new SA logo?

8. Speaker Martin said there is no new logo as of now.

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9. Delegate Dowd said a great idea to think about is the relay for life

shirts , and that we should think about that.

10. Debate Ended

11. Voice Vote

12. Passes

d. Dining and Pryzbyla Center

i. Delegate Essig said he formally welcomes the committee members, they will

get started with meetings. On another note the CUA express worked great over

Easter and the award goes to Jonathan Sitko and Tom Horsman, he encouraged

any delegate to get van certified and said sign up for end of the year starts

tomorrow.

e. Allocation Review

i. Delegate Morris congratulated the members of the committee, she said there

will be an SFAB meeting tomorrow, it is very important for people to come and

help plan for next year.

f. Rules and Administration

i. Delegate Fecteau said there is no report

VIII. Unfinished Business

a. No Unfinished Business

IX. New Business

a. Time Reserved by Delegate Essig

i. No statement, see Pryzbyla and Dining Services section

b. Time reserved by Delegate Fecteau

i. Bill 11 12 002, a bill to change rules and administration

1. Delegate Fecteau said it is not practical to have other committee chairsserve on Rules and Administration Committee, it is always difficult to

work with large committees, so it does not seem reasonable to start off

with 8 people.

2. Motion to Waive First Reading

3. Debate

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4. Delegate Rescigno said this is not something he thought about until

Delegate Fecteau brought it up, but he nonetheless agrees with him urges

chairs to leave door open and he will support it.

5. Delegate Dowd said he thinks it is a good idea.

6. Debate ended

7. Voice Vote

8. Passes

ii. Resolution 11 12 001, a resolution to promote a greener CUA

1. Debate opened

2. Delegate Perrone said we talked with Aramark about switching to other

forms of containers, they did mention that it is pricy and it is up to their

discretion so all we can do is urge them, but the amount of styrofoam used

is ridiculous, the purpose of the containers was originally for when there

was not enough space in the cafeteria, it was not designed for their

convenience.

3. Delegate Scharmer said she feels this is a good idea given the way CUA

is heading, but with such little time left, we should not be debating this at

this point.

4. Delegate Essig said to clear up any misconceptions, the head of dining

services would love to switch to greener ideas, however there is not space,

and with paper, it is too costly.

5. Delegate Rescigno said he likes the styrofoam, but there is nothign

worse than taking things in these containers, he feels that the problem with

SAGA is the lack of communication, and pointed out that neither the

Green Club or Dining services were contacted about this.6. Delegate Consalvo said the Princeton Review rates CUA as a green

college, this is his reason to why it would be good to cut down on waste at

CUA. If we can recycle this would cut down on trash.

7. Delegate McCarthy said that he feels that supporting it now would be

beneficial, it gives them the summer to look at it and look for other

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options, it is part of our Catholic identity to promote sustainability.

University of Maryland has a great program and they have received much

national recognition, he has talked to a few people, not neccesarily the

Green Club, but feels they would support it.

8. Feels we should pass this next year, but it is a great idea, he is a member

of the Green Club and to his knowledge they support it.

9. Delegate Fecteau said that this is a resolution and it is not binding, the

intention is to set a goal, he recently visited with Emerson College in

Boston, they have Aramark food service and recently switched from

styrofoam to cardboard, so it can be done.

10. Delegate Pylant said she co-sponsored the resolution because she has

been to all of the meetings for dining services and felt it is a good idea to

pass it now, everyone uses styrofoam, ti would be beneficial.

11. Delegate Rougier said she feels SAGA should start ideas and pass it

on.

12. Delegate McCarthy feels that Congress uses styrofoam as a political

stunt.

13. Delegate Morris said she had a question for Delegate Essig, and that is

has the contract with Aramark been renewed?

14. Delegate Essig said that decision will not be made until June

15. Delegate Atlas said he feels we would wait until we get credibility of

the other clubs and it makes everyone happy as more than likely it will get

passed.

16. Delegate Perrone said that the Green Club took the initiative to get the

trays out of the Pryzbyla Center.17. Delegate Essig said he should add an amendment that SAGA should

go paperless, as if we are going Green we should set the example.

18. Speaker Martin said as this does not have anything to do with the

resolution and said it cannot be added as an amendment.

19. Voice Vote

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20. Fails

21. Amendment added, cardboard changed to paper

22. Passes

23. Voice Vote

24. Division

25. Fails

X. Public Comment

a. Wesley Cocozello ’14 said he feels that after observing members should channel their

energy towards issues rather than personalities.

XI. Open Floor

a. Delegate Perrone said the Bookstore closes at 5 on Saturday and the last finals don’t

get done until 6, this is a problem because students can’t sell back their books. She also

let the assembly know that Seth Nadeau and herself are reps for College Boxes, a

storage option they pick up stuff and store it over the summer and it is dropped off at

your dorm net year the deadline is May 2nd, so please tell others.

b. Delegate Fecteau said he has been in contact with a student from Georgetown and they

are trying to establish a chapter of DC Students Speak at Catholic, so he needs people

to run for seats.

c. Delegate Perrone told the assembly about a group called ANC which is a committee

for neighborhoods in DC it would be useful to have a Catholic student on the

committee for Brookland, but for someone to run they must change their residence.

d. Delegate Rescigno said he would like to see the resolution about the Green initiative

brought up again only with support from other student orgs.

e. Delegate Rougier said it was a shame it wasnt passed as it was only a non-binding

resolutionf. Delegate McCarthy said he is dissappointed it didn’t pass and feels it should be

brought up again and that we don’t need organizations to support it but rather

individuals

g. Delegate Dowd said he is “furious” the resolution wasn’t passed and that next time it

should be a binding bill.

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h. Delegate Atlas said that he completely disagrees and feels we should talk to student

organizations, if not we will appear “power hungry”, rather than concerned which we

should appear as.

i. Director McLauglin said that tomorrow there is an SFAB meeting, it is very important,

and her goal is that everyone will stay up to date with it. There will be a Club Sports

Council next year and two reps from each team will make it up they will make an

operating budget and there will be $230,000 for club sports, the only difference from

last year is that this year it will be grouped in one.

j. Delegate Essig asked if the people who are on the over-flow list will get a time?

k. Director McLaughlin said yes.

l. Delegate Fecteau asked if there was a list of club sports?

m. Director McLaughlin said yes.

n. Delegate Perrone said she is curious as to how this will look online?

o. Director McLauglin said there will be one sport and each sport will see what they get,

as SFAB now has a secretary who takes notes at meetings.

p. Delegate Perrone said she feels everyone did a great job tonight and that she realizes

there is a new administration, however we need to set a better example to the new

students and is afraid we may have set a bad example for the people on SA.

q. Delegate McCarthy said he would like to be the first to commend Speaker Martin on a

great first meeting and said that is an interesting point on how we are perceived and

feels we voted a good thing down tonight and that may be perceived poorly as well.

We need to listen to ideas from regular students.

r. Delegate Dowd reiterated his earlier points and pointed out that this was a non-binding

resolution.

s. Delegate Pylant said she can’t think of other student organizations that will look toother organizations for their decisions.

t. Delegate St. Hilaire said we need to remember that we are a week away from the end

of the semester and that many students would not even know the difference between

styrofoam and paper. He said it really is not a “big deal”

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u. Delegate Rescigno said he agrees with everyone, we can rip the paper up but then what

is the point? to build support before it is passed, not after it is passed.

v. Delegate Rougier said she feels what the delegation has said is very important and we

need to work on it as we work towards a new SAGA.

XII. Closing Remarks

a. Speaker Martin thanked everyone and urged people to look over the manual as it has a

lot of important information. She said if anyone has any questions to please contact

her, as we are trying to stay relevant in the summer so we are prepared when we come

back. Finally she said she does agree with Delegate Rescigno and that we need to make

sure our bills and resolutions are actually carried out not just passing legislation.

XIII. Adjournment

a. 10:31 PM

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