Molloy Student Government March 7, 2017 Agenda 1. Call to Order at 3:35pm 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of Minutes: a. Breann Rissland, SAC, motions to

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1 Molloy Student Government March 7, 2017 Agenda 1. Call to Order at 3:35pm 2. Roll Call 3. Approval of Minutes: a. Breann Rissland, SAC, motions to approve the minutes from February 21, b. Katie Scandiffio, Junior Class President, seconds. c. Abstain: Samantha Drexler, Sophia Ouloupis, Melissa Guida d. Motion passes. 4. Guests: Respiratory Therapy Club, Social Work Club, David, Andrew for Investment Club a. Bowling Club i. Joe, a freshman. For the purpose of having some down time and when you are stressed out. It s going to be Tuesdays at 3:30 with RVC bowling. Shoes are free and its only $3 a game. You can get some practices and there is also a side for those who are interested in a more competitive competition layout. ii. Samantha Drexler: Is it only on Tuesdays? At the moment it s the best day. iii. Jeffrey Lozano: Are you guys aware of how much money you have starting up? iv. Breann Rissland: They are allowed to submit a budget packet. v. Jeffrey Lozano: Didn t think to include people on the Eboard? The E-board is primarily just to communicate with the bowling alley. The advisor is for letting them know what is going on for the week before we go to the alley. It is very simple. vi. Jeffrey Lozano: Transportation to the bowling alley? Everyone gets there by themselves. vii. Melissa Guida: So for members, if you don t pay, you don t go? Yes. viii. Jeffrey Lozano: How many times did the constitution go back and fourth? Four times. ix. Matt Gibbons: There were a lot of grammatical errors so maybe do one sweep through. If we do pass it, then it should be contingent on the corrections. x. Jojo Minasi: Everyone s constitution can be changed. It s a process and things change. This clubs purpose is for distressing so it shouldn t be a big deal. xi. Melissa Guida: Is the $3 a locked price or not? xii. Katharine Black: In the constitution is says it is the president s responsibility to set up transportation? Maybe adjust that. xiii. President is to ensure that everyone is able to get there on their own. xiv. Jeffrey Lozano: Impeachment of the office? It only requires two people to impeach? What about the vote of the club? xv. Elizabeth Meittinis, Junior Class President, motions to approve the constitution. Jojo Minasi, Molloylife Media Representative, seconds xvi. Abstain: Samantha Drexler, Nick Caratelli, Sophia Ouloupis xvii. All in favor. 5. Committees: Campus and Committee Life meeting next week so report is coming. 6. Legislature Officer Reports a. Academic Programming i. Academic Forum March 23rd-- save the date! After spring break. i. Jeffrey Lozano: Speaker? Have to wait until after her presentation that she is currently doing. It ll be sometime in April. ii. Focus Groups this week PR in Slack i. Anika Chowdhury: In terms of room scheduling we re going to sit with Eryn but we don t know if we ll find anything. (The bio teacher made it

2 an extra credit to attend the meeting so we re expecting a big size). We ll do a high bowl estimation of how much pizza we need. ii. Anika Chowdhury, Academic Programming Coordinator, motions for funds not to exceed $275 for pizza for the focus groups. iii. Sophia Ouloupis seconds. iv. Motion passes. v. Tony Ricigliano: Make sure to level out the freshmen with the older crowd. You are going to address concerns. vi. Maybe hand out a piece of paper when they first walk in and as the focus group goes on check and see what they said. So you re not repeating concerns. vii. Look into making another date to skew for the general bio students. Purpose is to please show up and be aware of concerns happening and be proactive and help find solutions for it b. Molloy Life Media i. Stall Talk: It went up before Accepted Students Day! Also, there may be a lack of communication. When you sign up to do stall talk, please do it! Thanks for those who helped. If you see in the bathrooms that nothing is up or there are no holders, please keep track of it let us know ASAP. Currently keeping a list. ii. Liz Spencer: Public App that sends updates of anything. We can get it started at Molloy. We just need to have twenty or more people to be on the app and then we can see how it works. The app looks like a whale. When you sign up put in Molloy for school. c. Community Service i. Saint Baldrick s Day Thank You! i. Raised over $2,000. Eddie, freshmen, able to raise $1,000! ii. Gina Cristallo: Hats and t-shirts were in the patio, so maybe if you set it by the doors you would be able to sell more iii. Gina Cristallo: Make a cheat sheet on how to use the website iv. Jojo Minasi: $100 by walking around. the dept the day before. If it s a fundraiser that the next day someone will be walking around so they know to bring cash. v. Eryn Hornung: Don t ever turn down the check. We can t do credit cards but we do have an ATM on campus. ii. Dodge for a Cure 2 April 6 th. Inviting back. Trying to see the prizes for the event iii. Easter Eggstravaganza April 8 th i. Going to party city with tax form and buying the stuff. Two days before Bob and I are going to Costco, amounts to $850. Looking to see if it can be a possible point opportunity to fill up the eggs? ii. 250 beads (from dollar tree) it s $1.99 a bag bracelets show how much radiation you re exposed to. iii. Not getting the whole bracelet worth of beads, only a certain amount of beads. iv. How much selling for? Not sure yet. v. You should partner with one of the health clubs on campus iv. Relay for Life MSG fundraiser (April 7 th ) Make sure to sign up and sign up with that team. Help PR and go to it!

3 v. Relay for Life MSG team d. Residence Life i. No Change e. Class Officers i. Seniors i. Yankee Candle fundraisers Due TODAY! Please hand in ASAP a. Leave in mailbox ii. Senior Class Bake Sale a. Bring something in or sign up ii. Juniors i. Molloy s Got Talent Feedback a. Thank you! Congrats to Tony for winning! b. Slack us feedback. ii. Happy Birthday Everyone Day March 27 th a. PR Request form for it yet? b. Slacked in #general for a sweatshirt design and a price people are willing to pay. So please check and respond. c. Carly Spadafora: Stuff for March 27 th? d. Night part of event is 7-10pm in the Larini room. During the day, the giveaways will be in boxes, coordinated and labeled. iii. Apparel is from Dennis iii. Sophomores i. Sophomore Class Gift a. We are helping Grace s old clinical professor. She has her own organization with breast cancer so we are going to the hospital for a day or making baskets. ii. SoFresh a. At the moment have an awesome DJ and lights with the same guys from the Halloween party. Have all the decorations set up and have to send to Alex so she can order it. b. Giveaways include neon tanks & bandanas so you can glow in the dark. c. Outside in the tent. d. Jeffrey Lozano: Towel with lions tearing through too small good to know. iv. Freshmen i. Let Your Voice Be Heard April 3 rd still working with Talita and found a guy for $200 and Karaoke machine with sound and music a. No time or room yet but probably 6-9pm (night event) b. Proceeds so you can donate to one of Talita s fundraisers ii. Easter Bake Sale April 12 th a. Easter-themed! Bring baked goods and help out! f. H.O.P.E. i. Bowling Fundraiser Table Day Thursday March 9 th 11:00-3:00 please sign up i. Help out and contribute ii. Where? Tbd. iii. Boxtown: Save the date: April 27 th! Mandatory. Can start signing up on the 20 th and as a group should to sleep over. We re all there to support. iv. Priest on campus? It s through the college not Campus Ministries. We just get to pick the best option.

4 v. Jojo Minasi: What s the breakdown of the event? 8:30-9pm starts and then till 10pm it s done. The boxes are provided and have to give some sort of donation and it goes to Bethany house vi. Relay and Boxtown are we doing something during the events? vii. Elizabeth Meittinis: Would it be beneficial to sell t-shirts? Perhaps long sleeves. viii. Melissa Guida: In the dorms, when we have smores night, people love it so maybe 11pm do it. ix. Elizabeth Meittinis: The point of the night is live in solidarity. We ll figure it out. x. Micheala Johnson: Only get t-shirt if stay over. xi. Kayla Buff: I participated. You have to make the experience for itself. A way to come together. Make different things happen on the spot and make it your own. xii. Maybe add another component like making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cookies and sending them to the inn. g. S.A.A.C. i. Meeting Thursday March 9 th 3:30pm ii. Make-A-Wish Trivia Night: Athlete can make a team and MSG can make a team too and if enough interest it can be a sector team too. Just need four people per a team. Reach out to Grace, Megan or Kelly. Please sign up. For 5 years in a row we raised the most money. Last couple of years we kind of lost it so we need a lot of support to get back on the top and if we make a certain amount of money, we can get a kid to be apart of the team, to make their wish come true. They d be able to sit in on the basketball games, etc. iii. Girl Scouts Sports Badges: If want to get involved, talk to Jess and sign up! iv. Women s Bowling Made it to semi-finals! Congrats! v. Women s Basketball Friday March 10 th Adelphi! Won championship and last game of the night be there if you can 7. Executive Board Reports a. President & Vice President i. Elections scheduling and announcements Think about over break and PR interest meetings i. Two weeks after break. If anyone running make sure to schedule it and what you decide in that room will be final. ii. April 3 rd is when we will start end of year evaluations iii. Interest meetings April 4-6 th iv. Election packets due April 11 th by 3pm. v. Elections begin April 17 th and they will run until about noon on April 21 st vi. See a guideline of rules of do s and don ts ii. Congratulations to Men s & Women s basketball teams! iii. Wednesday March 29 th Event Volunteers Needed! 4:30: 7:00 David Broque and need people to help out. Possibly a point opp. iv. Relay For Life April 7 th, 5:00pm-5:00am. If not successful this year, we will not have it in the future. It s embarrassing v. Member & Sector of the Month Voting i. Fill out the info and make sure it s out by the end of the meeting vi. Constitution Committee Meeting

5 i. Friday at 3:30pm and amendments sent out during spring break. They can be approved or rejected at the next meeting so we can finalize them then ii. Voting on them when we come back iii. How many members needed on constitution committee Vary in size. Right now we have 6 confirmed YES s vii. Constitution Amendments Review over spring break b. Treasurer i. Budget Update If any questions please let me know. There won t be as many tent expenses due to how close in time the events are so we will only have the one as of right now. We went to President Bogner and said we need this money because you have a lot of good ideas and we want to see this through. The money is not in for a cushion. It is too spend. Still no dates for Doughouloy but we re working on it. Estimated leftover? Two tents built in so $4,000 still extra. Senior BBQ perhaps? Look into it. We can start talking if you guys want to consider. Attendance dwindled from year to year. Timing is tough but we can think of other ways to sponsor and waste money. c. Secretary i. Office Supplies: Afsha Malik, Secretary, motions for the funds not to exceed $200 for office supplies i. Carly Spadafora seconds. ii. Motion passes. d. Student Activities Coordinator i. Buffet for St. Baldrick s Day Wednesday March 22 nd Larini Room

6 i. Clubs donate food & gov donates baked goods. Charge $5 a plate and all money goes to St. Baldrick s Foundation ii. Going to Radiagans, Ferrings and Touch to see if they can donate iii. Set up is 11am, PR it around. iv. Make sure people don t repeat the same thing food wise. I m sending out a google doc v. Selling left over hats and t-shirts there? Sure! vi. Asockination: Out of hand so it was canceled for this semester. vii. Mary E: Invites sending out tomorrow, electronically so check your s viii. How many members per club? 10. e. Programming Coordinator i. Spring Fair Updates 04/20 i. Met with Angelo and going to set up five bands, same thing as last year. ii. What is Spring Fair? Charge $40 to outside vendors and $35 to clubs and basically all fundraise. There were wing-eating contests. Going to get the tent and do something both inside and outside. Motion for the tent just in case we don t have the permanent one. Tent is typically 20x40 iii. Anne Collins, Programming Coordinator, motions for the funds not to exceed $4,000 from MSG budget. a. Jeffrey Lozano seconds b. Motion passes. ii. End of the Year BBQ Updates 04/25 i. Everything is set option wise. Only thing not decided is the giveaway like water bottles or shirts. Motion for BBQ then. ii. Gina Cristallo: With all the extra money if you want, we can double the amount of giveaways iii. Break down? Don t have yet because we haven t booked people. iv. Anne Collins, Programming Coordinator, motions for the funds not to exceed $13,000 for End of the Year BBQ. v. Melissa Guida, ResLife Representative, seconds the motion. vi. All in favor. Motion passes. 8. Old/Unfinished Business a. If submitting and want PR request form ASAP. Please Ask! We are going to find a way to pin the form to slack so that it s easy to access. b. Elizabeth Meittinis: 50 of us and event crew yet we are still pulling teeth to get people to work hours for events. It s not a lot of work, but mostly just checking people in. This is huge. Please make the effort. And not just the events we want to work out. Points should just be a by product of helping c. Jeffrey Lozano: Thank you to Student Affairs for helping set up with us. d. Melissa Guida: I think it s a good idea if MSG should sponsor zumba for free for a couple of weeks. Every Monday there is Zumba for students. MSG should sponsor Zumba for free for a couple of weeks. Melissa Guida, motions $500 for Zumba. i. Nick Caratelli seconds. ii. Motion passes. 9. New Business a. We have credit with Dennis. It s only a few hundred dollars so using it as a giveaway. Currently designing a t-shirt or tank and then going to have 50 of us hand out those shirts so we can give it out to someone not involved on campus. A great way to PR b. Gina Cristallo: Savages to the snacks. Please only eat one pack at a time. Please be respectful of things in office as well c. Samantha Drexler: Two benches are broken in the office and one has a hole on the side.

7 d. Jeffrey Lozano: Retroactively motions for $50 for lunch for haircutters for St. Baldrick s. i. Elizabeth Meittinis seconds. ii. Gina Cristallo: Please be aware of sectors spending. iii. Motion passes. e. Tony Ricigliano: A little extra money so you can wear a designed shirt/ give away at color run and pull funds from MSG. Giveaway or not? i. Tony Ricigliano, Junior Class President, motions for the funds not to exceed $600 for t-shirts for color run. ii. Breann Rissland seconds. iii. Jeffrey Lozano: White t-shirt with design and do the color and cool design iv. Motion for powders, etc. That s already in our budget. v. Abstain: Samantha Drexler and Jeffrey Lozano. vi. Motion passes. f. Sophia Ouloupis: Massage chair. Have an event to distress. Check out slack. Nothing is set in stone but looking into a $250 one and either the 50 th or 100 th person can take it home as a prize. They don t know which person that is what number only we do. g. Afsha Malik: So much money and so little time so I am motioning to create and events planning committee in effort to create and think of ideas for events for the rest of the semester. i. Afsha Malik, Secretary, motions to create a planning committee. ii. Jeffrey Lozano seconds motion. iii. Motion passes. 10. Announcements a. Union Hispana is having Latin Night March 25 th! b. Spectrum meeting at 3:30pm Wilbur on Thursday. Making Pride ribbons and having a table day sometime to get more PR. Screening the TV show When We Rise. Let us know. c. Jackie Bassey: Craft club meeting at 3:30pm on Thursday and Business & Accounting club has a guest speaker who is recruiting women to join a scholarship program! 11. Adjournment a. Jeffrey Lozano, Community Service Coordinator, motions to adjourn the meeting at 4:58pm b. Anika Chowdhury seconds. c. Motion passes