Report date:
Mon, 10/26/2009 (All day)
In attendance: Taylor, John, Ben, Katie, Ron, Akos, Manny, Alex, Rob & Jesse arrived a bit late
Costco card renewal: Akos is no longer attached via credit card. Rob is now the primary contact for Costco. Renewal is due Nov 1st. ~$100 2% return received at exec meeting. Ben needs to go before the next social hour next Wednesday.
Ben (social): Requesting departments to double up for roaming social hour requests, they're complying. New kegerator purchased, then broken after 3 events. Dispensery is busted somehow, refrigeration still works. Proposal to draft a written contract for keg checkout stating: cleanup procedure (draft?) will be followed or penalty of $? from DPC is levied, kegs will be served from ONLY at location approved on the PPM 510-1 permit.
Krista (cultural, via Ron): subsidizing $10 per ticket for 50 tickets. $45 reduced to $35. Alex will point out that she's got to deal with ticket sales.
Ron (campus affairs): Low night club recently with good attendance. Halloween party coming up: $250 under budget. Dental day Nov 14th: encouraging SHIP awareness and dental attendance w/dentist Paul Taylor (smilesaver?).
Akos (leg liaison: Didn't make last UCSA meeting, no contact w/Terrell since. Attending NAGPS in BFE (Lincoln, Nebraska), Terrell will not be in attendance but will be at SOCC that weekend. Scheduling lobby visits soon with lobby committee, (Chad Forester, Mary Winn, John Yamauchi). New profile photo on the exec committee webpage. GLSC: has been meeting, minutes are on gradlife website (via April Bjornsen), Akos will post to gsa website.
Jesse (academic): Most academic committees are filled, 2-3 vacancies still. First AGRS planning committee meeting today, JonaRose is no longer working with OGS due to budget cuts, currently working with Veronica. Possibly approach OGS about transferring access of all-grad listserve to GSA to reduce their staff encumberance. OGS will contribute ~$1k to AGRS this year ($3k last year). Looking at keynote speakers so far. AGRS will be Feb 5th. Need webmaster support for online registration. Concerned about logistics problems with reduced budget this year. Possibly will get donations from local businesses and alumni association, pizza places, Rubios, etc. Post talks at AGRS this year to scivee.com? Approach linkedIn and/or scivee.com for sponsorship? Katie mentioned to contact Nathan Heintzman for contacts with mysdscience scholarnexus etc. Von Leibig center for donations? Jesse's primary concern of hurdle as gsa website registration available. Contact with press for newsclip worthy bits. Presently Ricardo (of history) is only attendee on AGRS planning committee? Cribari of career services (& PhD career conference) is reluctant to merge with AGRS, should we prod him?
Manny (webmaster): Website has been spammed quite badly recently, trying out a spam checking service now. Mollom is a free service. Will start working committee rep registration soon. Info from UCAB today: draft loft fee referendum distributed, UCAB chair (Jordan Taylor) will come to next council meeting to introduce and discuss this referendum.
Rob (coffeehouse): Coffeehouse is having problems with dairy vendor.
Alex (president): grad council, associate students, PPM 510-1, digging up budget info, trying to organize various internal committees (housing, transportation, etc).
Jon (internal affairs): rep retreat went well. Working a bit more on committee appointments, filling emptied seats, updating the committee pages, chasing down old committee members. Working on constitutional revisions and getting representation from ALL departments. Working with Melanie on grad student bill of rights. Melanie, Akos, & Katie (new member?!) discussed the bill at the GLSC meeting.
Taylor (finance): Last receipts for ERF in. 2008-2009 DPC closed last friday, $5-6k unused will be reallocated in upcoming finance committee meeting. OGS recognized department (JDP Language & Communicative Disorders), may have no enrollment via registrar. Possibly we need to clarify the constitution to specify 3rd week registrar (fee paying) grad student counts for representation. Slightly ahead of schedule for volume of funding requests.
Terrell (external, submitted electronically after the meeting):
Student Rally at November Regent's Meeting UCLA Thursday Nov 19th: The rally is to oppose the significant student fee increases that are being proposed (another 15% mid-year increase). I will send an email to recruit folks to go up to UCLA that day. I am hoping to get at least 10 people to attend and possibly do public comment on how the fee increases have affected them.
March for Higher Education: A month of actions during the month of March to highlight the state cuts to higher education. The kickoff event will be the Monday of the Student Lobby Conference where we will be in Sacramento lobbying legislators. There are other dates in flux that include sit-ins, marches, press conferences, etc. I will update you when those are finalized.
GSHIP: Finished the campus review of the bids for quality. The system-wide committee is now looking over the cost of each proposed plan. I plan to participate in the conference calls during the cost review as the student representative from our campus. At the November regents meeting, the regents will be voting to institute a policy for a system-wide GSHIP plan. We will be working to get students to sign post cards supporting the policy change. I want to be clear that this is just changing the policy from a campus by campus referendum to a system policy. NO SPECIFIC PLAN WILL BE MANDATED BY THE REGENTS IN NOVEMBER. The next step is to write a report to President Yudof recommending what type of system plan to use depending on costs, services, etc...South versus North Campuses, Self-Insured, etc. This report should be out by mid-November. Once the type of system plan has been finalized the workgroup will go into negotiations with the specific carriers.
