University of North Florida Student SenateSenate Meeting Minutes – September 27th 2013 – 1:00 PM – Senate Chambers

I. Call to OrderMeeting is called to order at 1:05 pm.

II. Pledge of Allegiance – Sen. Bryan Jones

III. Invocation – Sen. Morgan Wolf

IV. Roll Call – Senate President Pro-Tempore Kaitlin Ramirez – sgaspt@unf.eduQuorum is established with 31 voting members.

V. Approval of MinutesMotion from Sen. Turner to approve last week’s minutes. Second. No objections.

VI. Approval of AgendaMotion from Sen. Anderson to add SB-13F-2715 to fiscal requests. Second. No

objections. Moved. Motion from Sen. Garrity to approve the agenda as amended. Second. No objections. Moved.

VII. Recognition of Students Seeking AppointmentNone.

VIII. Student RemarksNone.

IX. Guest Speakersa. Katie Delaney & Laura Berger

Katie Delaney – We’re here to talk to you about an opportunity to take part in a UNF tradition. That is, Family Weekend and this is its 19th consecutive year. Student government has always been so supportive of other departments and other programs on campus. We’ve particularly noticed how you’ve reached out to our students and really showcases the awesomeness of our campus. We are presenting the 19th annual Family Weekend on October 11-13. We’d love to have you come out and show your support.

Laura Berger – This weekend we’re in need of volunteers for the Family Fun Zone on Saturday from 10:30am-3:30 pm out on the amphitheater. The Family Fun Zone will have many activities for students and their families to participate in such as a quarterback toss, relay races and other interactive games. Volunteers will help set up and break down this event, manage race and game stations, and help collect donations for the Lend-a-Wing Pantry. We will be happy to apply these hours towards the scholarship or various volunteer hours you might need. For any of you that are in a club or organization on campus, there’s also an opportunity to reserve a table to promote your events. This is great interaction with students on campus and their families to try to get them involved. If you’re interested in volunteering or reserving a table please contact Katie Delaney. We have handouts that are right up here. Please take one and we’d love to have take part in this

wonderful weekend. Thanks very much for your support.

b. James TaylorI’m from the Environmental Center; our office is academic, and we do a lot of campus sustainability. I would like to thank Senate President Brady for letting me come here and Sen. Anderson for letting me know about the opportunity. I’m really excited to tell you guys about this event; it’s Garbage on the Green, and this is also somewhat of a campus tradition but much younger. This is going to be our 7th year. It’s basically a waste audit. We go through garbage throughout campus; it’s actually about 5 buildings, and it’s about 1,000 pounds worth of trash. Volunteers do most of the sorting and we usually have about 100-200 volunteers throughout the day. It’s an all day event; it starts at 7:30 am with the campus clean up. We send out about 30-50 students throughout campus to clean up trash and litter, and as beautiful as the campus is there’s lots of cigarette butts and leaflets and all that kind of stuff hidden in the bushes. At about 10:30 we start the waste audit. Also during the waste audit, we invite exhibitors throughout the community to come and exhibit. Most of them are environmentally oriented, but anybody can come out; we encourage even SG to come out, even Greek Life that wants to come out and table or volunteer, just contact me. This the clean up; you can see a lot of students get out there in the morning. The waste audit is in the afternoon where we actually dig through garbage which I always thought would be the hardest part of my job to get the students to dig through but it’s actually pretty easy. If you give them a t-shirt they’ll do anything. It’s a pretty lively event. We’ll have Pita Pit again this year giving away free pita pit to the volunteers. We also give out t-shrits to volunteers. The point is, we’re not just digging in garbage for fun, it helps us understand solid waste on campus. We have a goal to reach a 75% recycling rate. Right now, we’re hovering around 35%; but we’re increasing it. I’ve been involved in this for a couple years now and we started around 20-25% and so we keep getting higher and higher. You can see the breakdown, and I’ll share this PowerPoint with anyone that wants it. You can see mixed paper; food packaging is the most common thing, followed by plastics. This is actually the most important number that we find; so we sort both trash and recycling bins and we know where all the garbage came from. This yellow part basically means that 40% of everything we put in the garbage can could have been recycled. That’s really what we’re trying to specifically target: why people are putting things in the wrong cans. There’s lots of conflicts about where to put cans and things like that. Unfortunately we don’t have enough staffing to put a can in every room, but generally if you go to a hallway there’s a recycling can there. We’ve been trying to encourage students to take their bottles outside the classrooms and take them to the recycling bins outside, but there’s other issues to. Another thing, we work with Chartwells; Project Clean Plate is trying to reduce food waste. That’s another issue that we find is that students are wasting a lot of food; it’s something we’re trying to prevent before it even gets to the garbage can. We actually measure trash before and after, and without telling students not to waste food, we waste about 4500 pounds a week of cafeteria food; people just scrape the food of their plate. That costs money; we pay for that as we dispose of it. But if we just tabled and told people to not waste food, it’s about 1,000 less; so just that little bit of acknowledgement makes the difference. We have a 75% goal; we throw away about 2 million pounds of trash a year. About 35% of that is recyclable, but if we just get that 40% that we’re throwing away then our purpose would be right there on the 60-65%. I

left some volunteer applications with Aaron, because that’s what we’re trying to do, to get volunteers. Feel free to grab one from him, and he’ll bring them back to our office, or you can do that.

X. Judicial Branch Reporta. Chief Justice – Alex Goetz (sgajc@unf.edu) (5-minutes)

Right now the judicial branch is busting about 150 appeals a week, so we’re moving at full force. Still working on fixing parking a little bit but we have 3 good candidates forwarded to the Student Body President for review. So hopefully by next senate we’ll have someone up here to get confirmed into the branch and have a full board.

XIV. Executive Agency Reports: (3-minutes each)a. Osprey Productions - opdir@unf.edu

Brett Weisman – I’ll be doing both reports today as OP is at a conference. Despicable Me 2 is Wednesday at 7:00 and 9:45pm; Battle of the Bands is Thursday at 7:00pm; and the 6th annual Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live shadow cast is Friday at 10:00pm at the Lazarra Theater. Anything more from OP, email them.

b. Club Alliance – Brett Weismann, Director sgacluba@unf.edu Club Fest is next Thursday, on the green, not at the plaza. We have burgers, hot dogs, lemonade, cotton candy, popcorn, shaved ice, t-shirts and a lot more giveaways. 75 clubs have signed up; 15 more than the Luau. We’re hoping to have more; they’ve all been confirmed as well so we’re hoping to have more than 75. You guys probably got my email about volunteers. We’ve had a number of you sign up, most for the 7:30 slot; the 7:30 slot is full, and we have none for the 10:00 shift or the 12:30 shift, and only 1 person for 3:00. So if you guys are available on that day at all, please we could really use volunteers for set up and flyering.

Sen. Caudio – What would senators be doing that day?

Brett Weisman – 7:30 slot will be setting up tables and chairs and making sure the event is in place; 10:00 & 12:30 is probably filling in for my staff, doing sign-ins, handing out t-shirts and giveaways, maybe handing out flyers at the student union plaza and making sure people go to the green; 3:00 would be taking all the tables down.

XI. Executive Branch Reportsa. Attorney General – Paige Lehman, sgaag@unf.edu (3-minutes)

In the past week I’ve been working with Sen. Antworth to prepare for the fall elections. I also wrote an interpretation earlier this week; it’s in display in the Rotunda until 5:00pm on Monday, so if you didn’t get a look at it I encourage you to do so. If you have any questions please let me know.

b. Treasurer – Joe Turner, sgasbt@unf.edu (3-minutes)There are two things I would like to report to the senate today: the first of which is the volunteer coordinator position that has been reported to you previously by our Vice President. It is the administration’s solution in better lay of delivering the services that used to be provided by the Volunteer Center, at a much-reduced cost. It’s actually going to be more effective. The job has been worked out, the arrangements have been made, it has been funded, and the job posted currently and, hopefully, starting November 1, we will have somebody doing that job and getting results for us. I’ll let you

know when we get those numbers in. Also I’d like to report that, on behalf of President Fassi, our senate president and I have conducted a meeting with various university officials, Dr. Gonzalez and the Vice President of Expansion, for Pita Pit; we had a conference call to talk about the logistics of what it would take to get a Pita Pit on this campus and, as you know, it’s something that Carlo and the administration is working towards and trying to make happen. The meeting was not, it didn’t get shut down, it’s still in the works and it’s a possibility. We’re going to report back to you when we know more specifics about what the next step is going to be.

c. Vice President – Billy Namen, sgavpres@unf.edu (3 minutes) I just want to go over a few things. A few weeks ago I talked to you about the SG convention and the results and what the students really want. Today, I want to talk to you about the progress in the executive branch and where we’ve gone from that. One of the things was registration enhancements; course scheduler, it’s a program that automates registering for everybody. You would put in the classes that you need, it will search a thousand different types of formats for classes; it can even plug in if you have soccer practice that day or you have work this day, and it will formulate classes around that schedule. Basically, it makes things a lot easier, and then once you have that formulated you pick the schedule you want and it automatically registers that for you. This has been used on a few other universities, I believe University of California got a 20% increase in its enrollment of credits. I believe it’s Ohio State, I can’t remember, that got 4% first year, 5% the second year, and 9% the third year. It’s definitely proof that it really works; we’re really excited about this. In terms for Student Government, we really just have to help in advertising the program for the university. The second thing is parking monitors; unfortunately we can’t just build a parking garage like that. But what we can do is make parking more accessible for all students. What we’ve come up with is a parking monitor program that can, not regulate, but tell you how many parking spots are available. We’re pushing for the first to be here in the arena garage. Rough estimates are about $100,000, but we really don’t know yet, so don’t out my word on that. It’s looking good, the CPSR is starting up and we’ll have more information as that goes on. Universal scantrons – I met with Dr. Moore who is on the campus technology committee, she’s the chairwoman; they’re sitting on a survey to all the professors and finding out what scantrons is used the most. Once they figure that out, we can try to push for that scantrons. I did send them some of our reports that students get from here. That’s going on as well. Lastly, Jaguars have come out about 4 times now. We’ve sold about 2700 of our tickets out of the 3500 that we have. The new program that we’re going to go with, well the plan that we’re going to take is, that students can go to the Jaguar stadium anytime during the business hours and get the student discount there with their UNF ID card. It’s the same discount; all the games are still available except the Colts one which is sold out. That’s all I have.

d. President – Carlo Fassi, sgapres@unf.edu (5-minutes)First, I want to wish our Vice President a happy birthday; everybody a round of applause for Billy. This week I attended the first week for interim committees in Tallahassee. Essentially what happens around ever October – September, the legislatures go to Tallahassee and start to review what next year’s priorities are going to be for the 2014-2015 session. Our lobbyist was able to secure quiet a few meetings with leadership within the legislature.

We’re working on getting more for the following week as the second week of interim committees. I attended Florida senate & House representatives budge appropriations committee. The state is expecting about $846 million in additional revenue for fiscal year 14-15; $396 million of that is recurring so we can expect that same amount next year; and $450 million of that will be nonrecurring. What hits us probably the most is a lack of PECO funding, which again is the Public Educational Capital Outreach revenue, which funds all the academic buildings on campus. We’re not expected to get any PECO funds this upcoming year, so what a lot of the legislatures were mentioning to Matt and I was the fact that they’re going to do something similar for us as to what they did last year and essentially take some of that $850 million that’s additional this upcoming year and roll it into the Higher Education and education for capital projects. So it’s not PECO money it’s general revenue that we’re still using for universities and for the other schools who need facilities funding. We met with the representative from the governor’s office. Governor Scott last week came out and said he wants a $500 million tax cut – taking an additional tax and fee cut, so basically taking the additional revenue that we have and giving it back to the citizens of Florida. We met with the house budget chairman who agrees with the concept, however he preferred to have them more family-oriented, so slashing the requirements for a driver’s license to pay for tag on your car so it directly impacts you more than giving the tax breaks to larger corporations and businesses. The senate appropriations chair talked about spending a lot of this additional revenue on the Judicial branch in Florida, for Everglades assistance, and rolling $1.5 billion to our state’s reserves so our bond rating would be higher next year so the state can issue more bonds for capital projects. We’re looking for a new chancellor for the state university system, seeing as Frank Brogan is moving to Pennsylvania; we shared something on Facebook that on Wednesday of next week I’ll be going to Tampa for a Board of Governors facilities workshop. We are basically reviewing every new project all the 11 schools are proposing for new buildings & we’re going to prioritize them. The two projects that UNF is looking into is first buying for $16 million land that’s near Tech Parkway, right outside near Kernan, and then renovations for buildings 3 & 4, which I think are biology, they’re Skinner North and Skinner South next to building 1 and 2, it’d be a $6-12 million project. This weekend the Florida Student Association is meeting in Orlando on Sunday to finalize our legislative agenda. From the conversations I’ve had with the other SG presidents we’re most likely going to be focusing mostly on facilities funding. With the climate in Tallahassee, with the governor planning to veto any tuition increase, our area of focus should be the facilities crisis that the Board of Governors stated multiple times that we have in our system. For those of you who are interested in studying aboard, we have a representative from Thessaloniki, Greece from the American College of Thessaloniki, his name is Tarak Kuwatley, he’s sitting back there. The SG leadership actually, over the summer, went to Thessaloniki to review our partnership with that institution and the institution in Athens. At 2:00 in the ballrooms right after this, he’s going to be giving a little infomercial on the American College of Thessaloniki, so if you are interested in going to Greece, which I will be and I will be there after this, please join me and listen to what Tarak has to. Besides that, I just want to echo the statement that Joe said about Pita Pit. We’re hard at work to make sure the administration understands that we want brand names; it’s the only way we’re going to increase the overall share of revenue that Chartwells receive and students have proven they

want to be spending their money on brand name concepts – Pita Pit, Chick-fil-a, the Jamba Juice. Another Ozzie’s convenience store doesn’t really attract to many students and I’m convinced about that and we’re steadfast in our point of view that we want another brand name and that it will do great for the housing students there.

XII. Legislative Cabinet Reportsa. Constitution and Statutes Committee – Chairwoman Kaitlin Ramirez

(sgacsc@unf.edu)To remind you, if you miss a committee meeting or miss senate, to please turn in an absentee form; they can be picked up in the rotunda; timestamp them no later than 5 days after the missed event. All our meetings are on Fridays so make sure you turn them in no later than a week by 5:00pm so you can hopefully get them appealed and turned into Chris who will either excuse or unexcuse them. Please remember you can only get up to 4 absentee points. Each meeting is 2 points if you miss the whole thing, 1 point per roll call.

b. Budget and Allocations Committee – Chairman Fransua Estrada (sgabac@unf.edu)Currently we have $24,305.39 in the Student Travel Conference index. A fair warning, if you guys want to attend next week’s meeting, we have 5 requests all ready to go and 3 are pending. So we will have, hopefully, around 8 requests in total.

c. Elections and Appointments Committee – Chairwoman Emily Antworth (sgaesac@unf.edu)

This past week we had the Declarations of Intents due. We got 33 submitted. They’re going through the election process now. A lot of you have submitted some as well. The next big due date for everyone is their whole application which is due October 8th. Other than that, keep in mind that the elections are the 29th & 30th of October, so that’s coming up fast. Those of you not running in the elections will be working the polls and I will have poll sign ups coming out very shortly.

d. Student Advocacy Committee – Chairman Aaron Anderson (sgasac@unf.edu)We had 3 Osprey Voice questions approved in our last committee meeting; one of them was to ask students if they would be interested in Pita Pit or something else. The other 2 were concerning academic advising and One Stop. So we have a new system that we’re going to do for Osprey Voice because we didn’t have a lot of participation last time, and this is something that we’ve talked about instituting in our committee. We’re going to have 2 tabling areas and we’re going to have volunteer sign ups from 10:00-2:00 on Tuesday & Wednesday, the 8th & 9th in 2 weeks, and it just takes so long to set up this new way of doing it. I will be sending you that sign up sheet in the email and also background information & the questions. The questions are going to be asked by you to students while you’re sitting at these tabling areas and the students will be able to fill out on a computer the answers. That way we don’t have problems with handwriting, and it’s going to be easier for me to quantify and qualify the answers to these questions. Again there will be 2 tabling spots, outside the library and outside in the Student Union plaza here. That will be from 10:00am – 2:00pm, and we will have sign up sheets for everybody in that email. Again, you will be asking the questions; I’m really encouraging you to participate in this and interact with the students as much as possible. That’s really what a lot of this Student

Advocacy has to do with, and obviously Osprey Voice as well. I want you to ask the questions and have students fill out the answers.

Sen. Caudio – Is this instead of Osprey Voice?

Sen. Anderson – This is an osprey voice; it’s a different way of doing it.

Sen. Caudio – How are you going to figure out which senators have done it or not?

Sen. Anderson – We still have in the Policy & Procedures we have to have 35 students answer each question. We will be able to quantify that at the end of it all.

Sen. Bachmann – Will the computer allow the responses to remain anonymous?

Sen. Anderson – Yes. Absolutely.

Sen. Hamid – Are these questions going to be accessible through myWings?

Sen. Anderson – Not yet. We’re looking at doing an online aspect, and not totally going to online but that’s going to be something that we institute in the future. Again, I’ll do my part to best explain this in the email, and if you have any questions please come up and ask.

e. University Affairs Committee – Chairman Justin Turner (sgauac@unf.edu)I’ve only got 1 new report from the last meeting of the Parking Advisory Council; the only big thing that I got out of that was them talking about the new parking garage that is going to start being in the works soon. The estimated date that they have right now for starting the build is next fall. I’ll have the monthly report of all the university-wide committees posted on the SG webpage, so if you’re curious about what’s going around the university take a look. There’s a lot of really pertinent and relevant information that you all could use. I also have a calendar on Outlook if you want to use it. Let me know and I’ll get you hooked up to it. That way you can see what’s going on, and you can attend these meetings even if you’re not assigned to it.

f. Senate President Christopher Brady (sgasp@unf.edu)I want to remind you all that we do have a QPR training today after senate at 3:00pm. You have to sign in with Ms. Celeste Watkins, she’ll have a sign in sheet; if you don’t sign in you will be assessed absentee points, just like you would if you didn’t attend a senate meeting. If we get done before 3:00 and you would like to leave and come back, you’re more than welcome to, just make sure you are back here by 3:00. It’s really pertinent you’re all here for this meeting; you’ve been told about this for the past 2 months about this workshop so you need to make sure that you’re there. Candidates in the back, make sure you come see me afterwards so I can sign your application form or else you can’t continue running in the elections. Make sure you see me afterwards. To go off what Brett said about Club Alliance needing volunteers, I want to remind you it is in your duties to work 2 agencies events, 10 hours in the pantry, or a combination of those 2 each semester. Kaitlin has the form that you will need to get signed by Brett if you work that

event. It’s good to go ahead and do that rather than wait until the end of the semester. Make sure you jump on that as soon as possible. Also, I talked about this at the last meeting, you guys need to come meet with me. Only a couple of you have done that so far. I want to talk to you about senate, see what your plans are about the future, and really sit down and have that 1-on-1 with you all. Everybody take a pen out right now and write down my email address: sgasp@unf.edu. Email me by the end of today or by the end of the day on Monday telling me what times you’re available to meet with me over the next 2 weeks. I will accommodate my schedule to make sure I can meet with every one of you in the next 2 weeks. So please email me so that can happen. Lastly, Osprey Voice: yes, this is a new way we’re going to try to do Osprey Voice. I feel it’s a good way, to keep track of who’s doing it, meaning you will have to sign up in advance and what time slot you’re going to be at the table. I actually will be sending people out that I know that you don’t know to walk by while you’re tabling to see if you approach them to do Osprey Voice. We will be making sure that you guys are actively engaging students to participate. I want to see you guys asking questions, grabbing students, and doing your job as senators.

Sen. Wolfe – If the senate meeting finishes early can we begin the training early?

Senate President Brady – It’s not a training from us, it’s a QPR training and there’s somebody coming in from another part of the University so we can’t start it earlier, otherwise we would.

XIII. Judicial Appointments

XV. Fiscal Requests

XVI. New Businessa. Legislation considered for 1st Readingb. Senate and Joint Resolutions on 1st Readingc. Legislation considered for 2nd Readingd. Senate and Joint Resolutions on 2nd Readinge. SB-13F-2715 – Sen. Anderson

Sen. Anderson – I’m here to present Ryan and Ross. They are looking at getting funding. I’d like to hear a motion on changing the funding amount to $1,400; they found a cheaper way to go; and we’ll hear a motion at the end. It’s a great opportunity for students to go out and learn leadership skills. And there’s also going to be a great job fair there. With that, I give you Ross and Ryan of the Organic Project.

Ryan Holme– We’re from the Organic Project, based out of the organic garden on campus, and I encourage you to stop by when you get some time. It’s a club that’s really accelerating. Just to give you a basic thing about what we’re presenting: we are trying to bring students to an environmental leadership conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this year. We are requesting travel requests for funding for about 18 students. They’re going to go up there to get valuable training and experience, and come back here to participate in a local campaign we have going on on campus, and get that rolling along. That is our end plan. Ross Keen – I’m the president of the UNF Organic Project and this is our secretary Ryan Holme. The UNF Organic Project was founded by myself last summer, and we’ve had a really big year. If any of you aren’t familiar with the UNF Ogier

Garden, we are affiliated directly with the Department of Health Promotion. Through a generous donation from Bruce Ogier and endless support from the Department of Health Promotion, and Becky Purser and everyone over there, we’ve had a hugely successful year in building the Ogier Garden out by the skate park behind lot 18. At the garden, we not only grow crops and grow food to sell to the cafeteria, we sell directly to Chartwells and our food will directly be featured in the cafeteria this year. As well, we do an adopt-a-bed program where different clubs, Greek organizations, groups of students or just friends come out and adopt a bed for themselves and we teach organic gardening workshops, composting workshops, perma-cultural principle workshops, and basically teach students to be a little more self sufficient and grow their own food. We do a lot of cool events. We have our monthly tea party deal, which is basically, we have a lot of different herbs and, it’s not actually tea, it’s the ironic thing that we do because tea is actually, you have to have a lot of tea to be able to even make one cup of it. We do a lot of different herbal infusions. This is our big event this year, taking students to this environmental summit in Pittsburgh. Ryan Holmes – I am the campus coordinator for PowerShift this year for UNF. I’ve been working with stately coordinator who is over about 3-4 other universities, and she has been helping me immensely in this. This is just a basic overview of what’s going to be happening at PowerShift this year. They’re expecting 10,000 young students and leaders to converge in Pittsburgh to attend this conference. There will be workshops and trainings to really get the students interested some great experience and tools to bring back to their own campus; like Aaron mentioned there’s going to be a great organizational and career fair. Because, as we know, students aren’t really solid in their job expectations after they graduate; so this gives them a great opportunity to really expand on their interest, and give them a nice outlet to be open to and have as a tool. Also, there will be panels from influential figures, big names in environmental activists, civil rights leaders currently working in the fields, and on the last day, as they did in 2011 which was when the last conference was (I think that has been going on since 2007 every other year), there will be a big action to demonstrate the views and the wishes of the people there. Leadership skills: what the students will be benefiting from if they attend this conference. There’s going to be panels from community leaders that are involve in this and are affected by environmental issues; they’re going to be speaking and presenting, letting students know what is going on at a local level and what they can do to help. Key note speakers: very influential people, like Bill McKinnon who is the founder of 350 Org and started this whole thing and investment campaigns across the whole nation which are now present in some form on many campuses across the country. The panels workshops – there’s going to be over 200 – training for students and the sessions are tailored to a variety so you can pick where you like to go, so if you’re not interested in a certain aspect like civil rights or human rights you can go towards an environmentalist side, and experience the conference in that way. These are some of the students will be participating in and experiencing; you’ll learn who you need to talk to on your campus to make a difference, who affects them, how to talk to them in sufficient ways, who you should be targeting for your campaign, how to get efficiently a recruitment campaign going. We’ll be talking about the specific campaigns that are going on under this movement; PowerShift is very broad, all-encompassing conference that’s going to be talking about divestment campaigns, the endowment training which is the pool of money that colleges have to invest to get returns in, just basic organizing training that students may not really be aware of right now, and of course environmental issues as the broad subject of it is environmental issues. The career fair: there will be an awesome opportunity for students to go and participate in this, find employers that are looking for young graduate students

to get involved in this environmental, sustainable, responsibly-conscious movement that is happening all across the country. I’m sure you guys have experienced it one way or another it’s gained momentum and we want students to be able to have a future after their college experience and be involved in this and have a viable way to sustain themselves after, and not just volunteer opportunities. After everything we want to bring the trained students back to UNF; this is our goal, to bring them up there to the training and work on local campaigns and community. They’re going to be experienced, they’re going to be motivated, to come back and work on these progressive, sustainability campaigns that UNF, I feel, basically has identified with most – its image is very a progressive college that’s going to be a big influence on Florida, on other college campuses around the country – and it’s going to progress our ethical commitments that we’ve stated as our.

Ross Keen – It is a UNF value, and this is going to be a great opportunity for students to come back and really be motivated to start more movements and really put UNF on the map as a place where these progressive things are happening.

Ryan Holmes – This is the numbers that we’re working with right now for the conference: student registration, which is going to be covered by students, is slowly creeping up as it approaches the date of the conference. Right now it’s $65 but PowerShift is constantly putting out new promotional offers for this week – if you bring a friend and you’re already registered for the conference, you get a $15 discount for the registration fee. They’re trying to get as many people there as they can, and really do what they can to get people on a student budget to come and attend, to get these experiences. We’re chartering a bus with Florida Atlantic University and we are going to split the cost with them to bring it up there; like I said we found a cheaper way to do it, so this is the total cost. The charter bus is going to be $8400 – that is the only thing we need funded. We have housing already established up there – a student has family in Pittsburgh and we’re money value for us, and students are going to pay for their own lunch and dinner, so that’s something else. The only thing we need funded is this charter bus that is going to make this trip a lot more comfortable and cheaper for UNF and the other university participating in it. This is the amount we have pledged so far from donors; the donors consist of organizations like Sierra Club & 350 Jacksonville, which are all environmental organizations and the other donations have come from individuals. We are asking for $1,400 from Student Government, which is about $400 shy of our total goal from $2,800 from the university. That will get us up to the conference and get all these kids their experience. I feel it would greatly benefit them and the university.

Sen. Estrada – I just wanted to make a point of information to all the senators. I advised my committee to purposely go this bill due to time constraints. They were unable to present and we wanted to give them a just and fair chance to come up and present before senate.

Sen. Pino –You said that 18 students are going, is that simply based on the people who are willing to attend and pay for the registration fee?

Ryan Holmes – It’s just a number that is divided on the bus so that the universities that are going have an equal amount of students going. So that’s basically we’re counting it at 18 just as, you know it may go a little over depending on what the universities are bringing; we’re trying to pack the bus out so we have the most efficient travel possible. But that’s just a division.

Sen. Caudio – How do you see this trip impacting the students that go and UNF as whole?

Ryan Holmes – Like we presented, there are trainings and workshops that the students are going to participate in, as well as many other activities. There are speeches that are going to get them motivated and try to get students to realize what their passions are. They’re going to go up, get trainings, get motivated, and bring that trainings and motivations back to UNF.

Ross Keen – There are going to be environmental leaderships at PowerShift that are going to raise issues that a lot of students aren’t even going to be, that we aren’t even, aware of. There will be these issues that will be presented and the trainings on how to actually make a difference in regards to these issues. Our hope is that our group of students is going to come back, now being aware of a bunch of issues facing our planet and facing the wellbeing of humanity in relation to the planet as well, and they’ll have an idea of where to go with that information, how to start a movement, how to get people aware and hopefully that will be able to bring change to Jacksonville.

Ryan Holmes – Also the very real-world application if of the job fair, with a bunch of great green companies, and companies that are just promoting sustainability, looking for students to apply and get involved in their businesses that are going to better the planet, that are going to better everyone and the university.Sen. Estrada – If you guys were to be funded, do you have an estimate of how much will be coming out of the pockets of the students individually?

Ryan Holmes – Just the registration is what we’re planning on the students paying and the food for the weekend, their lunch and dinner. That’s really all. We have the funding to cover everything else, with student government money. We have raised money and have people pledging the remainder of the fees basically. We also have a donor who is fronting the money so it eliminates any kind of deadlines, which for the bus would have been October 4. It extends that to the actual date of the conference, so we have a lot of extra time to raise barely any money. We have the majority of everything we need right now. Ross Keen – But we anticipate for students probably around $100.

Motion from Sen. Tortolero to strike line 22-25 to read the total amount requested of $1,400. Second. No objections. No discussion. Roll call vote.Motion from Sen. Caudio for unanimous consent. Second. No objections. Moved.Motion from Sen. Caudio to approve SB-13F-2715. Second. No objections. Sen. Caudio – I find that this is a great trip and I cannot wait to see how it’s going to benefit UNF in the long run. Roll call vote. Passes 31-0-1.

XVII. AnnouncementsSenate President Brady – I apologize for getting out an hour earlier than what the training is scheduled for. It’s really hard for us to gauge 2 months in advice what time senate is going to get out. We will have an hour break right now; if you want to go to the Career Fair on campus, if you want to go to the study abroad about Thessaloniki which is a really pretty place; you have a lot of options just make sure you’re back here by 2:55pm so you can sign in with Ms. Celeste and not get your absentee points.

XIV. Final Roll Call - Senate President Pro-Tempore Kaitlin Ramirez – sgaspt@unf.edu Quorum is reestablished with 32 voting members.

XVIII. AdjournmentMeeting is adjourned at 1:55pm.