Senate amends bylaws, to continue next meeting

Senate Vice President of Finance Curtis Stevens, as chair of the bylaw revision committee, brought proposed changes to the Senate bylaws at Monday’s meeting. Senators passed all the amendments that they did not have issues with and decided to focus on the other amendments at the next meeting Monday.
Senate approved 21 of the 30 amendments. Most of the changes dealt with wordiness and editing words to correspond with the wording in the Student Senate Constitution.
A bigger change in the Finance section of the bylaws will move the whole section to under the Executive Officers section because the Finance section outlines the duties of the vice president of finance and it fits better with the Executive Officers section.
Another amendment will change the power from senators to the vice president to file a motion when senators miss more than the allotted amount of absences.
To see the total proposed changes to the CSC Student Senate bylaws, please see the related article at csceagle.com. Bylaws that will be discussed and changed at next week’s meeting include the following: bylaw change #1, bylaw change #2, bylaw change #14, bylaw change #19, bylaw change #22, bylaw change #23, bylaw change #24, and bylaw change #27.
Senate President Katrina Hurley asked for an allocation of $425 to reimburse Susan Schaeffer’s mileage for the Peru State College Senate Conference Oct. 26-29. The reimbursement for mileage is 42 cents per mile.
Stevens reported $59,126.33 in unallocated projected funds.
Sen. Ashley Goad moved an issue of the desk chairs at the computers by The Pit to the Campus Improvement Committee. There have been complaints about the chairs that “fall to the ground” when someone sits in them, Goad said.
Vice President Karson Langley said that the advertisements for the Holiday Giving event will be up this week and the clubs will return their trees by 7 p.m. Friday for the silent auction Monday-Dec. 12. Clubs will be decorating trees to be on display in the Student Center for the Chadron community. The money donated for the trees will be given to the local Care and Share Drive to buy Christmas presents for children who are less fortune.
Pat Beu, senior director of student affairs, introduced Cassie Mitchell as the new student activities and recreations director.
Chief Justice Sam Merrill reported that Sen. Anas Haddadi has missed more than his allowed absences and because that happened before the bylaws were adjusted it falls to the senators to file for impeachment.
Hurley asked senators how they would like to receive updates from the Senate Open Forum so senators can be updates on issues and concerns discussed at the forum. Senators agreed to receiving bullet-point notes emailed after the forum.
There have only been 75 signatures turned in for the library petition. The petition is to have the library open for a few hours on Saturdays. Senate will not move forward with the petition until they have at least 10 percent of the student body’s signatures.
CAB Chair Molly O’Connell reminded senators that the Casino Night event will be hosted from 9 p.m.-midnight Friday in the Student Center. O’Connell said that she is still looking for help with dealing for the event.