CSSA Minutes: October 14, 2001

California State University, Chico, Bell Memorial Union, Room 210
CSSA Board of Directors Meeting
October 14, 2001, 9:00 am - Noon

1. CALL TO ORDER 11:05 am, Chair Robert Garcia.
   
   
2. ROLL CALL Present: Chico, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Hayward, Humboldt, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Monterey Bay, Northridge, Pomona, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San José, San Luis Obispo, San Marcos, Stanislaus.
   
   
3. COMMITTEE REPORTS
   1. Legislative Affairs
      1. Approve Policy Agenda for 2001-2001, Stanislaus; seconded, Monterey Bay. Passed.
      2. Oppose fees and obstruction of student visas, Stanislaus; seconded, San Marcos.
      3. Approve CHESS [theme?], San Francisco; seconded, Humboldt. Passed.
         
         
   2. University Affairs
      1. Approve Policy Agenda for 2001-2002, Stanislaus, with the understanding that wording, grammar, errors could be changed; seconded, Sacramento. Passed. (San Diego requested notice in the minutes of its "no" vote.)
         
         
   3. Multi Cultural Caucus
      1. Speaker to bring back Multi Cultural Caucus Policy Agenda to November meeting, Sacramento; seconded, Northridge. [Passed?-Chris Svendsen commented that MCC not a legal entity, can't have policy agenda?]
         
         
   4. Administrative Affairs
      1. Changes to the Conference Policy: under "III Conference Costs," the maximum fee per person for voting campuses should not be more than $70.00 without prior board approval; hotel rates should not exceed $110 single and/or double occupancy; VI deleted in its entirety; VIII, delete final paragraph ("Once campuses submit a Reservation Form, or verbal reservation, they are financially obligated to that number of persons. Reservations may be cancelled up to one week in advance, after that time must pay full conference fees.") Approve with those changes, Sacramento; seconded, San Diego. Passed. Important for host campus to provide transportation to/from hotel, meetings rooms, etc. Billing breakdowns (VIII) are optional. Agreed to accept San Diego's suggestion to specify reimbursement of costs of meals, hotel at current state rates, so that amounts don't have to be changed all the time.
      2. Guidelines on transition will be brought back next month.
      3. Budget. CSSA is $60,000 in debt: $20,000 is carried over from 2 years prior; $5200 from last year's national conference; $10,000 was over spent in travel; $4,000 legal fees; $3,000 printing; $5,000 phone. Staff person responsible for over spending has separated. Robert Garcia stated the situation won't be repeated.
      4. Executive Director: hiring committee is being established; those wanting to participate in phone interviews were told to talk to Emily immediately. Goal is to hire by December. 12 applications as of 2 weeks ago.
      5. Emily handed out a Vice Chancellors phone list reflecting areas of responsibility for each Vice Chancellor.
      6. Communications Committee will meet Nov. 14 right after CSU Board of Trustees adjourns.
         
         
4. ESTABLISHMENT OF INTIAL REVIEW BOARD FOR STUDENT TRUSTEE SEARCH
   Christine Svendson, External Vice Chair. Nominating committee will consist of Chair of University Affairs, Haleemon Anderson; Vice Chair, University Affairs, LaLisha Norton; plus 3 students nominated today. Committee will look at the search process as a whole. Want big media campaign. Student Trustee is one of the most influential seats a student can hold. Nominees from the floor: Veronica Shippy, San Luis Obispo; Elexis Mayer, Humboldt; Joe Salas, Pomona; Dante Gomez, Fullerton; Emily Foster, Stanislaus; Jerl Laws, San Francisco. Candidates stated their qualifications/interests. Emily withdrew her name. Winning nominations were Elexis (13), Joe (10) and Jerl (9).
   
   
5. OFFICER REPORTS:
   LaLisha Norton, Academic Senate Liaison. Pages missing from minutes were distributed. The Academic Senate's Fall 2001 conference will be held in San Diego at the Bahia Resort Hotel, November 28-30; the theme is "Quality Education through Diversity." John Charter, Monterey Bay, is student representative on the Intellectual Property Taskforce. No minutes for the Academic Senate so far this month as the next meeting is the 31st.
   
   
6. EXECUTIVE REPORTS
   Robert Garcia, Chair. In the last weeks Robert met with several presidents. He has given Joan Hemphill, Director, University Relations, several assignments: organize the Long Beach office; create a master calendar reflecting meetings of CSU Board of Trustee (BOT), systemwide committees, Alumni Council, etc.; create a resource/information repository for the ASIs to include job descriptions, bylaws, etc. Laura Kerr, Director, Governmental Relations, has also been charged with organizing the Sacramento office. CSSA board will take action on CSU/CFA in November.
   
   Emily Foster, Internal Vice Chair. Student Assistant Shenequa Johnson has been hired in Long Beach; assistant Michael Bezanson has been hired in Sacramento. Gifts of campus pennants are requested for the Long Beach office.
   
   Brandon Kline, Legislative Affairs Chair. Registration for Lobby Corps, November 16-17, due by November 1st. The clinic is designed for students with no lobbying experience.
   
   Christine Svendsen, External Vice Chair. Looks forwarding to working with the Internal Review Board. CSSA newsletter almost ready to go out; stories and pertinent photos solicited for future editions.
   
   Haleemon Anderson, University Affairs Chair. Thanks to all who worked on shaping up the policy agenda this weekend.
   
   Natoya Blaylock, Multi Cultural Caucus Speaker. Getting bumped from its appointed meeting time yesterday created a situation that made MCC unable to get its policy agenda approved this morning, leading to its tabling until the November conference. Natoya challenged everyone who had issues with the draft to contribute to the final.
   
   
7. COMMENTS
   San Francisco asked if MCC could meet earlier on Saturday. San Luis Obispo is selling calendars $13/each to aid victims of September 11th; contact Veronica Shippy. San Bernardino thanked Chico for a great conference, as did Fullerton, Humboldt and Stanislaus. Fullerton reminded the group it hosts the next conference in just 3 weeks. Dan Cartwright pointed out that MCC members have often perceived a lack of respect on the part of the main board-slights as regards the agenda as happened again this weekend. Humboldt thanked Haleemon and LaLisha for their work on the University Affairs Policy Agenda and Legislative Affairs for taking on student visas. Chico thanked everyone. Brandon Kline thanked Chico and expressed appreciation for MCC; he wants to see student visas on the agenda. Stanislaus thanked everyone who worked on the University Affairs Policy Agenda.
   
   
8. ADJOURNMENT 12:33 pm, Monterey Bay; seconded, Stanislaus. Passed.