RECAP: SGA announces new shirts and encourages joining committees
The Sept. 8 SGA meeting was called to order by SGA President Hiba Loya at 11:33 a.m.
- The fund request balance was $22,500.
- There was not a guest speaker for the meeting.
- Loya announced that Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. students could receive free t-shirts on campus.
- Loya announced that on Sept. 17, SGA will host a training on resolution writing for new senators, but students interested in writing resolutions are welcome to attend.
- She also reminded students about the Sept. 11 town hall and explained how the town hall will be set up.
- Loya announced that positions for Vice President of Outreach and Communication and the Vice President of Administration are available. She encouraged everyone who’s qualified to apply. The applications are open and will close on Oct. 16. and elections will begin after.
- Loya reminded everyone of her office hours which are from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will be available on Microsoft Teams.
- Misty Woods reported the executive council report and announced that they need about four to five students from every college to be on the academic policy panel and two one-year representatives for the Student Fee Allocation Committee (SFAC) and also the student conduct panel.
- Dean of Students David Rachita explained what each of these were. SFAC is a committee that decides where student service fees are spent and also considers requests for new funds. The academic honesty panel are those who students accused of an academic honesty violation go to and they decide if it’s a violation and the sanction. The student conduct board is similar, however they deal with conduct.
- Woods also mentioned that she began a committee to update the constitution and if anyone’s interested to email SGA.
- A student asked Rachita a question in the chat whether students could be on different panels concurrently and he said yes.
- Woods said she can put students on multiple committees as long as there is space and students just have to fill out a form on GetInvolved.
- Rachita mentioned he wanted a lot of students to join, but not enough people join.
- Woods said joining committees allows students to create change and have access to the administration
- Loya updated the students about the vacant Vice President of Administration position. Rony Prajapati resigned from the position due to having to move, the long distance affecting his participation in SGA.
- Troy Rudd presented the campus police survey. It is intended to help campus police better serve students and provide better training for their officers. The survey has not gone out and should be going out by the end of this week. Rudd also mentioned a second survey that UHCL PD will be a part of to create two servers to bring the UHCL community together to socially interact with each other and also UHCL PD.
- Open forum began.
- Someone asked what time the resolution training will be and Loya said from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- The Signal Managing Editor Troylon Griffin II asked what resolution writing is and Loya said students will have to attend the training to find out.
- Derek Delgado, legal studies major, mentioned that he has not heard back from the administration, except for Chief of Police Miller, or the SGA executive council about concerns he raised even though he brought it up last week so he sent them to the UH System Chancellor Khatour. Loya mentioned that SGA were still drafting up a response and did not mean to delay the response.
- Someone mentioned that they tried requesting a chance to speak at the meeting but didn’t get a response. Loya apologized and told them to email her and she’ll take care of it.
- Woods also reminded everyone that the executive council is made up of two people so the response time for emails could be slow but she let everyone know to send follow up emails.
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— Signal CAST (@TheSignalCAST) September 8, 2020
