Minutes Of Student Senate Meeting
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
High School Library
Advisor: Ms. Cerqua
1) The meeting began at approximately 6:00pm
2) Alex Schwartz began the meeting by informing the Senators that they would
be voting on changes to the constitution later in the meeting and that after
the vote the amendment process can continue.
3) The Senate called for a unified agenda for all clubs and asked all the
representatives to return to the next meeting with a list of their meeting
dates so the Unified Calendar can be formed.
4) Then the individual club updates began. Math Honor Society is preparing for
their induction ceremony. Spanish Honor Society just had their Day of the
Dead celebration two weeks ago. PoCoHo is next Thursday and National
Honor Society is preparing for their toiletry drive. Science Honor Society
raised $250 from their joint movie night with Green Club. Green Club will be
donating that money to the Ocean Conservatory.
5) The 1680 Club is still discussing the current presidential election and the
Class of 2016 just had a very successful blood drive and senior banquet.
Chess Club is implementing Chinese Chess into their organization and
Mathletes just had a competition. Peer Responding just ended their Quarter
One Tutoring Session and Finance/Economics Club will be continuing their
“speaker series”.
6) The Feminism Club had their first movie night on November 10 and made
$400, they are planning a “Women in Power” speaker series and making tshirts and selling them for the club. The Class of 2018 is brainstorming for
fundraising ideas for winter and spring and English Honor Society is just
reviewing everyone’s PR Forms for the 1st Quarter. The Class of 2017 is
discussing J-Prom and might be having it at the Swan Club, and Best Buddies
raised $1,187.
7) Mock Trial has the Whitley Competition in two weeks and Yearbook Club is
just finalizing some editing. Interact is partaking in King Kullen and Pet
Supplies Plus Drives and is still selling pizza. Key Club had their Pancake
Breakfast and Greek Club is scheduling Frappe Fridays and is having
someone from Yale come speak about the current crisis in Greece, they are
also having a Greek Chef come and cook some traditional foods.
8) Art Honor Society is having a Bank Sale on November 18 and History Honor
Society is inducting 70 new members and is also donating to Tuesday’s
Children. International Club is preparing for International Night on January
13th.
9) The Senate then moved to the Constitutional Vote. The ballot was as follows:
a. Article I, Section B: “When elected as a Student senate officer the
officer will/will not abdicate their original representative duties.”
b. Article II Section B: “All school clubs will select a Student Senate
representative for the following year and must notify the Student
Senate cabinet of this selection at least two weeks prior to the final
Student Senate meeting of the current year.” Yes/No
c. Article II, Section B: “A club may choose to elect two representatives.
but BOTH must attend each meeting.” Yes/No
d. Article III, Section A: “Student senate requires an electronic
calendar…” Yes/No
10)After the votes were collected and would be counted after the meeting so the
Senate began to discuss the Trivia Challenge.
11)Last year the winners won upwards of $2000 but the event needs more
organization this year. The Senate discussed the possibility of having a new
reward: Clubs that raise the most money will get a portion of the total money
collected.
12)The Club that raises the most money will only gain money, wouldn’t lose or
even break even. Clubs will have to raise money by themselves and will write
out one final check to give to the Senate. Every Club sends in one team but
then each club can add multiple teams with price cuts.
13)The Senate then voted on various Trivia Challenge Rules:
 Reward for the most amount of money raised for the club: Majority in
favor
 Limit the amount of teams a club can send: Resounding no
 Entry fee/team for more than one team: 17, Majority in favor
 Should there be a minimum amount of money for each club to raise in
order to participate: Resounding no
14)The meeting ended at approximately 7:00pm
15)After the meeting, the Executive Board counted all the ballots for the
Constitutional Vote:
 The Senate voted that when a Senator is elected to the Executive
Board they WILL NOT abdicate their original representative duties.
 The Senate also voted in favor of having every club elect their
representatives two weeks before the last Student Senate meeting of
the year.
 The Senate voted that a larger club may elect two representatives to
the Senate but both Senators must attend every meeting and their
vote will count only once.
 The Senate voted in favor of creating a Unified Club Calendar and
bringing the process under Senate control.
Important Dates:
 November 24 - PoCoHo
 December 1 – Finance and Economics Club @7:30
 November 24 - Best Buddies after school in the faculty cafeteria
 November 23 – Key Club can food drive
 November 18 – Key Club meeting
 November 18 – Art Honor Society
 November 23 – S.S. Honor Society induction
 December 7 – S.S. Honor Society Guest Speaker (JFK)
 January 13 – International Night