Legislative Council
Session 85, Meeting #17
Thursday, October 20th, 2016 – 7:00 PM
UMC 247
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Call to Order: 7:02 PM
Roll Call
Approval of Agenda
A. Move to include ratification of assistant election commissioner
B. Amended
C. Move to postpone marketing logo
D. Tabled
E. Approved
Approval of Minutes
A. Approved
Announcements
A. Don’t have any announcements
Public Open Hearing
A. Election Commissioner Aaron Chesler: Good evening. I would like to invite all of
you to our town hall which will be held on Tuesday from 6-8. Its extremely
important to have these voices here. One of our candidates, Carter, he has
taken time to try and learn about what it’s like to be one of you. If he has time to
come here to see how this is run, I hope that you guys will take some time to
attend this town hall. Thank you.
Presidential Action Items
New Business
A. Ratification of Assistant Election Commissioner Brianna South
i. Election Commissioner Aaron Chesler: So I am nominating my third
assistant election commissioner. She is one candidate who has less
experience but what she lacks in experience she gains with insight.
ii. Brianna: I’m interested in this position because I really want to get
involved more with student government. I think I’ll be good about getting
out word for this upcoming election as well.
iii. Ratified
iv. President Lucas Larson: I do solemnly swear I will uphold the
constitution of the University of Colorado government in the spirit it was
created. I will perform the duties and responsibilities as a member of the
election commission to the best of my abilities.
v. Repeated by Brianna
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Old Business
A. 85LCR04-Support for Free Equitable Health Supplies
i. Representative Council Member Johnson: I’ll just offer some updates
because last meeting there were some questions about cost. There are
several strategies to implement this. Initially I thought we would be doing
dispensers but those are costly. Because of new building codes, you
have to put in a specific type of dispenser that is more costly. So this is a
mountable thing that is much smaller and much less costly. I can print
out this email chain but as of now, the regional order from staples is the
last email we’ve received. I think we need to introduce in the rec budgets
or whatnot so, a small offer of pads would be around 2100 dollars and it
is well below our budget. We should introduce a pilot program within the
rec center or UMC then take these results to gain more funding.
Members on the administration side would possibly getting this pilot
program in the dorms. That sort of mode of distribution is not as
guaranteed. In terms of estimates, depending on, the cost can vary
depending on how many restrooms we want to hit. We don’t have to
target every single bathroom in the UMC for this to be successful. And
this is just for logistical reasons. Currently, I have not changed anything
on the resolution.
ii. Senator Gabriel Elbert: I really do like the initiative you’ve taken. Have
you met with the Chair of Health and Safety regarding executing these
actions? I do know you’re not seeking re-election for next term which is
the only reason I’m asking
iii. Representative Council Member Johnson: All the power I’m using can be
used by the students at large, so I don’t plan on dropping this plan in the
future either. I emailed Maggie directly and I got a response from
Madelyn that kinda just said once I see the numbers then I’ll make a
decision.
iv. Senator Gabriel Elbert: Personally, I think that it would be excellent to get
the CUSG brand out there through the dispensers.
v. Representative Council Member Johnson: We do in addition to the
actual dispensers we need to think about the cost of these little posters.
Me and Lisa potter discussed having signs above the dispensers
explaining what they are, to take one keeping in mind that others will
need them, and provided by CUSG.
vi. Senator Gabriel Elbert: Vice President if you could add Johnson to being
compliant with our bylaws
vii. President Lucas Larson: Couple thousand dollars for a solar request is a
very low request for the typical solar request.
viii. Representative Council Member Havey: We saw a 160 thousand dollars
last week. I think once we approve a logo eventually, that buffalo would
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look bomb on this thing. Do you think these are things we should add as
amendments?
Representative Council Member Johnson: Just so that we’re not
throwing our weight so much I wanted to maybe limit in section one;
make the language just a little less binding in terms of the places listed,
so because once this is passed, I don’t want this to be an idea that
would be mandatory just because I want to test out the pilot program
first before expanding to other buildings. We could either add another
section saying install a pilot program for the first year. If successful then
expand to other areas. I don’t know if this is something council is looking
for. Does all of council agree with that sentiment? Loosening up the
language so that all of this is less binding for administration. I don’t want
to put us in a precarious place; don’t get me wrong, I do want this to be
an end goal. I want to keep it in there but maybe make a caveat. If
council thinks that’s something we
Senator Ben Cloud: Gabe just pointed out you could include should aim
to have tampons in the beginning in order to loosen up the language. I
was wondering if you’ve talked to Idea Forge and if you have what
they’ve said. Because they have been successful in this type of service
you’re aiming for. If you haven’t talked to them, you can ask them about
how or where they’ve found this in their budget.
Representative Council Member Johnson: I’ve seen pockets of this
because wolf law has the same thing. Ketchum has the same thing. I
hoping that here at CUSG we can be the catalyst of starting to spread
these services. Along with the shift to aim, I was talking with Lisa Potter,
we had this suggestion of only doing tampons.
I think there should definitely be a choice
Representative Council Member Johnson: With pads, the thing is that
you need a cardboard box and this whole apparatus which is a little bit
more costly which is why I was thinking about maybe leaning toward
more tampons or only tampons. It does seem that tampons are the more
preferred method so maybe we would have 70% of tampons and 30%
pads
Senator Jason Evans: How will you measure the success of the pilot
Representative Council Member Johnson: They do tabling and they do
surveys and they’re very very efficient. When talking with Lisa, the
possible embarrassment of coming up to the booth was something we
thought about, but we thought more people would feel comfortable with
a quick here question questionnaire that can be dropped into a box
Just going back to the pad tampon thing. Do you have to buy them from
a certain supplier because when I buy them they’re not in a box or
anything.
xvii. Representative Council Member Johnson: So Richard talked to the
suppliers, and I feel like if this is a pilot program I don’t want to reinvent
the wheel I want to use the suppliers that we already have. I don’t see us
able of getting out of the whole cardboard box thing
xviii. Representative Council Member Hall: Is this part of the picture, because
you didn’t mention this.
xix. Representative Council Member Johnson: We wouldn’t be ordering all
the features in that picture. We’re really just looking at the plastic
structure. What we’re looking at is just the design of what the apparatus
would look like
xx. Executive Lyons: I really do think that we should loosen up some of this
language. Do you think this is something we could co-sponsor or do you
envision CUSG funding this whole project?
xxi. Representative Council Member Johnson: Yeah, facility manager already
has the 2100 dollars to fund this so. We’re offering not only something
way smaller and affordable than what was originally offered. I do envision
some possible partnerships in the future of this project
xxii. Representative Council Member Havey: The amendment for section 1
could read as what is projected as follows
xxiii. Representative Council Member Johnson: Essentially, for the first year,
what would be the most feasible is putting in that pilot program in
gender-neutral bathrooms as well as HRA. Talking with Lisa, if we do rec,
dorms, and UMC then moving it to Norlin, testing that in Norlin then
moving this into the different departments. So that’s just showing the
high-reaching goals for the future of this project. Is this the new section
1?
xxiv. The new section 1
xxv. Representative Council Member Havey: I think this would be redundant if
we included this as a supplement.
xxvi. Representative Council Member Johnson: If Gabe’s okay with it I’m okay
with it.
xxvii. Representative Council Member Havey: Move to amend section to read
as the red text
xxviii. Amended
xxix. Representative Council Member Johnson: I think this is great
xxx. Representative Council Member Rugh: It seems to me that we’re not
saying that CUSG—I don’t know how to word it
xxxi. Senator Gabriel Elbert: It doesn’t express our support
xxxii. Representative Council Member Rugh: Should the pilot program be
effective instead of saying that we should have a pilot program. We
should say ‘should implement a pilot program’ instead.
xxxiii. Representative Council Member Johnson: Move to amend the
amendment
xxxiv. Representative Council Member Rugh: So then just include this part. I’m
gonna highlight this one in bright blue.
xxxv. Amendment of Amendment Amended
xxxvi. Treasurer Assayag: Is there any other funding sources that we would
possibly have that’s on there?
xxxvii. Representative Council Member Rugh: It just doesn’t read that way to
me
xxxviii. Representative Council Member Johnson: I could see that to read a little
bit binding
xxxix. Senator Gabriel Elbert: This is going off of that. It’s now starting to read
more like a bill because if we urge our cost centers. I think we should be
careful about how specific we are and that the language is appropriate
for a resolution. From what I’m reading here, the pilot program is
something we could have direct control over. We are recommending to
ourselves to create a pilot program. We could say cu student
government is ready to implement a pilot program. It could be similar to
section 1 which encourages the university
xl. Representative Council Member Johnson: Talking with Gary, before the
construction and all of that, there was this program in place in the rec
center. If you’re worried about the
xli. Representative Council Member Rugh: I’ve spoken to UMC board chair
and they’re totally on board with this.
xlii. Representative Council Member Johnson: Should we possibly consider
changing this to a bill?
xliii. Executive Lyons: I think to go back to the thing about administration. I
think that if we amended that part of relevant governing bodies of major
on campus and just delete that and just include administration that
includes the ambiguity you’re looking for.
xliv. Representative Council Member Havey: Move to amend the amendment
to delete the highlighted text
xlv. Amendment of amendment amended
xlvi. Representative Council Member Ballard: I think this is becoming very
strong as a resolution. This is an awesome starting point but I want to
make sure that we’re not rushing this off into changing this into a bill.
xlvii. Executive Lyons: I think that we should amend the amendment so that
that one line would say cu student government will urge
xlviii. Amend the Amendment to say student government will urge
xlix. Amendment of Amendment amended
l. Representative Council Member Rugh: We could just add this on to the
end of this sentence and then just add this part.
li. Representative Council Member Johnson: Move to add to ensure an
equitable academic experience for all our students
lii. Added
liii. Section 1 amended
liv. Resolution passed on 2nd reading
B. 85LCR05-Support for University of Colorado’s Restorative Justice Program
i. Representative Council Member Johnson: The next bill has a lot of
amendments that Tyler and I worked on. I also have multiple paper ones
that people could physically look at the amendments. Tyler is the director
of CURJ.
ii. President Lucas Larson: Thank you for coming tonight
iii. Tyler: Oh no problem, thank you for having me.
iv. Representative Council Member Johnson: Essentially the biggest change
that we saw, and it was my mistake, was that in other cities the police
has a more significant handling of cases, but in CU specifically they
don’t. It’s just changing the language of it to what we thought
represented the student the best. So we moved the eligible to the
beginning of the sentence. We crossed out boulder county police
department and cu police department in favor of boulder municipal and
county courts. Then, another major part, the program is wanting to
increase the number of cases that its seeing
v. Tyler: So the program started in 1999 and right now is probably the
largest justice program in universities in the country. Around 2006 we
entered into a partnership with the county courts and they referred a lot
of cases to us. Now we mostly deal with cases that have a community
impact but not necessarily a direct victim. So we’re looking to kind of go
back to our roots and have the referral agencies send cases that we
usually see in other justice programs around the country. Being able to
say that the cu students support restorative justice will make this
program more effective for a greater number of students
vi. Representative Council Member Johnson: The reason why I was so on
board with trusting Tyler is because I volunteer a lot there. They know
what they’re doing, so this is just to encourage the continued growth of
the CU Restorative Justice program. With that in mind—
vii. President Lucas Larson: If you want to go over all amendments then
bundle them.
viii. Representative Council Member Johnson: We crossed out police
members and changed it to referral agencies which just loosens it up.
Then, we added a fifth whereas statement which states: Whereas, an
increase in the categories of cases offered, will allow a more equitable
access of the program for our students.
ix. Tyler: We specifically are into possibly doing some place where if there is
a roommate conflict we could practice some of these restorative justice
skills in these kinds of cases. It’s kind of like a slow moving process. So
I’m not totally sure what all the types of cases are, it just kind of depends
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on what our capacity is, so we might need to scale the program up
accordingly.
x. Representative Council Member Johnson: Right now, we want to move
toward basic restorative justice programs
xi. Representative Council Member Ballard: Where do you see the office in
five years and does this legislation help you get there?
xii. Tyler: I see us growing with developing more of a high quality process
among our program. We would love students to have more trust and
confidence in the program. In five years, I think I would see us having
somewhere between 5 to 6 hundred. So I don’t see us growing a ton in
number necessarily. Our volunteers, we have around 50 to 6o volunteers
and I see those numbers going up to around 100. We have a nice mix of
folks including students, community members, and faculty members.
xiii. Representative Council Member Johnson: Down to the section
statements. We continued to adjust the language. Section 2 is clearly
crossed out. Section 4 is new in its entirety. Does anybody need any
explanation?
xiv. Representative Council Member Havey: Should the removal of section 2
be reflected in the numbering? Move to amend to adjust the numbers to
reflect the removal of section 2.
xv. Amended
xvi. Move to bundle the amendments
xvii. Bundled
xviii. Senator Gabriel Elbert: If you could add representative Johnson to the
list of bill sponsors
xix. Representative Council Member Havey: Rugh, if you could scroll down to
the summary. The second sentence, I don’t love the wording of that.
Move to amend bill summary to read CU Student Government urges that
the CU Restorative Justice program is given priority
xx. Amended
xxi. Executive Lyons: I would like to add myself as a sponsor to this
resolution
xxii. President Lucas Larson: Could you add me as well please.
xxiii. Representative Council Member Havey: As far as growing your staff, if
this passes, do you have any idea the financial impacts of this.
xxiv. Tyler: So the university only funds my position within the program. So as
we get in new cases we’ll also bring in more revenue as well.
xxv. Representative Council Member Ballard: I think this is an awesome piece
of legislation and I wish you guys all the best.
xxvi. Passed on 2nd reading.
xxvii. Tyler: Thank you guys for having me. Have a good rest of your day
C. 85LCB10-Marketing Logo
Reports
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A. Executives
i. Executive Lyons: Earlier this week we launched our campaign that we’re
doing with a bunch of other PAC 12 schools. This all came from the PAC
12 conference from this summer. We’re starting up a marketing
campaign so if you guys want to get more involved just contact Maggie.
They’re gonna be playing the video we launched at football games and
everything. If you don’t have your photo on the website reach out to
Virgil
B. Council of Colleges and Schools Chair
i. Humanities Club to go to the Denver museum. 1000 dollars funded
C. Representative Council Speaker
i. Spike ball: SOAC already funded them to the limit so we couldn’t fund
them
D. Commissions: Legislative Affairs, Diversity Affairs, Sustainability
E. Colleges and Schools: ASSG, Leeds Business, Education, Engineering,
Environmental Design, Graduate, Journalism, Law, Music
i. Engineering: They had a successful tabling event. We’re just doing them
in the lobby and we’re giving coffee and donuts away. Our freshmen
council are giving
ii. CMCI: We had our career fair night which went really well. And our
elections are coming up on Wednesdays
iii. Environmental design: we just launched a blog last week. The student
advisors are kind of bridging the gap between groups within the school.
F. Joint and Advisory Boards/Liaisons: Air, Culture Events, Distinguished
Speakers, Environmental, Finance, Recreation, SOAC, UMC, VRC, CSI,
Freshmen Council
i. Havey: Finance Board approved new bylaws. Next week we should be
bringing in new members that will hopefully be ratified.
ii. Next week is when George Takei is coming. It starts at 7:30 on October
26.
G. Treasurer
i. CCS: $17,000 REC: $30,414
H. Vice President
i. Wow, I didn’t prepare anything
I. Legislative Council President
i. We have freshmen interns now and we just now decided to go through
the past binders. I would also encourage you guys to ask them for
proxies. It has been brought to my attention that the Leg council meeting
is pinned up against a football game so we’ll try to keep it short.
Announcements
Late Roll Call
Adjournment: 8:22 PM
Next Meeting: October 27th, 2016