Student Government Association
Minutes
October 4, 2016
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Call to Order
A Moment of Silence
Roll Call
Approval of Last Meeting’s Minutes – Moved by Senator Garner and seconded
by Senator Courville.
Guest Speakers- Pi Kappa Alpha
Department Headso Joey- R&J: Tiebreaker/Voting Violations. Senator Walker talked about
elections and thanked everyone for helping. He also said that the tie
breaker addition to the election code is finished. He also said to look out
for violations. Senator Walker said to take down old fliers as well if you
see them hanging up. He told all the senators as well to take a picture
before taking them down and report to him, and every senator needs to
bring them to him. Senator Walker also said that he is the only one that
can take down fliers during the elections, but anyone can take fliers
down once elections are over. He also said that campaign receipts need
to be turned into him. An email will be sent out to all candidates about
their receipts via email.
o Kendrick - Student & Academic: Parent’s Day. Senator Jones said his
committee met today about Parent’s Day. He said to sign up for shifts for
the game. Registration will be open until tomorrow. He also reminded
everyone to keep promoting for it. He encouraged everyone to bring up
ideas in General Discussion about his committee because we are all
here to help students on campus. He also said we will talk about
postcards that went out so we can continue sending out postcards to
parents. We also need to find maybe a cheaper way to promote Parent’s
Day in the future to parents.
o J’lyn- Campus Projects: Warhawk’s Best. Halloween Ball. Senator
Henderson thanked everyone for delivering Warhawk’s Best letters to
the businesses. She asked everyone to please be looking up websites
for things for Halloween Ball as well as looking for DJs. She reminded
everyone we do not have long until Halloween Ball because it is
approaching fast.
o Ashley- Promotions: Runoff Elections/Parent’s Day. Senator Hunter
thanked everyone for promoting Parent’s Day and Homecoming. She
also reminded everyone that runoff elections start tomorrow at 8 AM and
end Thursday at 5 PM.
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Treasurer’s Reporto Budget- Banner was down so do not have budget today but scholarship
for Chi Alpha, decal, and polos embroidering.
o RSO Scholarships- 4 for October
 Secretary’s Reporto Office Hours (Wednesday-Tuesday)
o Motion Forms: Please write motion forms in blue or black ink.
o Warhawk’s Best counts as an office hour.
o Parent’s Day and Homecoming Sign-Ups- Everyone needs 1 shift for
Parent’s Day and 2 shifts for Homecoming plus office hours.
 Vice President’s Reporto Homecoming Update- Thank you to all who helped with doing the
Homecoming board. We have the tent ordered, and everything is good to
go.
 President’s Reporto Voter Registration- President Neal said everything is finalized. The food
will be finger foods as well as vegetarian options.
o Mrs. Betty- Mrs. Betty is doing better and has been in the office the past
few days to say hello.
o SGA Salutes You- President Neal said we are still waiting on updates
from that. The dates are November 7th-12th where we will do a
competition for mini care packages.
o Committee Meeting- She thanked the STAP committee which works with
the technology fee that is put on everyone’s bill. President Neal said that
money is going to be used to revamp the SMART classrooms for the
students. They approved in their budget today to revamp 8 or 9 of the
rooms. The money is only to help students, and that is it.
o Copy machines- President Neal said they are looking to be able to use
your prints to copy instead of paying a dime. She also said that there will
be a printer kiosk for different places on campus.
 Advisors Report
o Runoffs- Advisor Jennings said that the administration asked for us to
stick to Election Code and that we only let two people be in runoff for
queen as well as king. That will go on for elections in the future as well
that only the top 2 will be in the runoff.
o Presidential Debate- Advisor Jennings said the next debate is this
Sunday the 9th. She said that since we are doing a Voter Registration Day
the day after that, we should go to promote that on Sunday. Dr. Joshua
Stockley will be there to talk before, and we are looking into a new
location to watch it. The debate starts at 8:00 PM Sunday night and the
location is TBA. She said she will be giving updates on that as well.
o Homecoming Meeting- The website is advertising it 9-11 instead of 11-1.
It is fine because the shifts will still work, and we will just have to move
job duties at all.
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Mister Pageant- Advisor Jennings said we will talk about moving meeting
for Mister Pageant next week.
Old Businesso Vote on Phi Mu- The vote went as Y-33, N-0, A- 0.
o Vote on Alpha Phi Alpha- The vote went as Y-32, N-,0 A-1.
New Businesso Shifts for Parent’s Day and Homecoming- Vice President Belaire said we
have shifts for Parent’s Day which is one day this Saturday, and
Homecoming shifts are next Monday, Friday, and Saturday.
o Homecoming Float Decorations Committee- Senator Aulds said we have
a trailer for the float because we have a truck. Senator Jenkins said that
we can get Spanish moss for the float, and he said we really need to nail
down what we need for the float. The float has to be ready by 1 Saturday.
He asked everyone that wants to help to stay after meeting.
o Emergency Legislation- A motion was moved by Senator Melancon and
seconded by Senator Jones for $500 for Pikes for Pups for Pi Kappa
Alpha. The vote went Y-31, N-0, A-2.
o Snapchat Filter- Senator Nowell passed around his snapchat filter for the
Halloween Ball to all of the senators.
General Discussiono Senator Phillips asked for the chalk boards to be replaced with white
boards for the Toxicology program.
o Mister Pageant- There was an interest vote and was passed to not have
meeting next week.
o Senator Green said she talked to her mom about DJ Grave Digga about
DJing for Halloween Ball. She said she will send the number to Senator
Henderson.
o Advisor Jennings said that the parking lot by Brown will be taken up to get
the floats in line for the parade.
o Senator Hunter said that we could take plastic cups and design it for
Halloween Ball to help promote it. President Neal said we can maybe
pass out fliers with our Koozies to promote them.
o Senator Garner said we should make BOO-Pops for advertising for
Halloween Ball.
o Senator Ingram suggested we add more benches and tables for Bayou
Park. Advisor Jennings said it will be added to the list of ideas to do this
year, and we will vote on the project of the year later this year.
o Senator Jenkins suggested that we have a “comment box” to drop in
ideas for SGA.
o Senator Henderson said she wants students to be involved for events,
and we should try to encourage students to give input for all of those
events so we do not keep spending money on things to get the same
amount year after year.
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Senator Carrier asked to know if we get DJ Grave Digga for Halloween
Ball.
o Senator Sharkey suggested we have a time for students to meet with us
before we have things like Lunch With The President. Advisor Jennings
said we need to make an idea for people to want to come to that to not be
intimidated. Senator Carrier suggested we do it in Bayou Park or the
SUB. Senator Jenkins said we should have a “party” sort of slogan with it.
Senator Nash suggested we have free food with it to encourage people to
come. Senator Phillips suggested we do something to where people can
write on the shirt just like the white board with Let’s Talk Warhawks.
o Senator Jones suggested we make a “Talk to Me, I Can Help With
Problems” t-shirt.
o Costume Contest- An interest vote was taken to reward $150 for first
place, $100 for second place, and $75 for third place.
Good of the Order- Moved by Senator Ho and Seconded by Senator Crnkovic