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Senate General Body Meeting — Minutes (09/29/26)

Filed in Drive as “Demarri's Senate GBM Minutes - 9/29”

7:06 PM

Members of Public

Sean: Working on initiative for students to get syllabi earlier; requires reaching out to professors; anyone who has their contacts, please reach out to me, no points of contact, this is why i am working on this

jazz: do i hear a motion to approve the agenda?

[someone]: motion to approve agenda

second: [someone]

aye: [some people]

nay:

abstain:

jazz: this agenda has been approved

jason: nothing major; had some meetings with departments to hope for them to come to meetings

sumi: today met with Public Safety and OIS this morning; communicating with them + JHFRE so they can coming to senate meeting

honora: same thing; we will keep you updated

amy: (not here)

jazz: peter, would you like to say anything

peter: no

grace: oct 3rd, flag football, this is a pink-out, classes vs classes; also mean girls day/breast cancer awareness month; tabling; lots of fun; i picked the prizes out; come out to support your class; 2nd event is talent show hosted by leed october 17th; during family weekend; go to instagram of leed; submissions due oct 4th; may sign up individually or as group of max 4; i have it on good authority winner gets a lot of dining dollars (and a trophy?)

veda: do we have a time for battle of classes

grace: i believe 2-4pm, location practice fields; i think will also be on leed instagram

abraham: for talent show can we duo

jason: yes

sienna: nothing major; for any SGA-sanctioned events, feel free to reach out to me so i can make a flyer/promote

jazz: civic engagement committee and executive board got to meet with Public Safety and OIS this morning, we shall invite them here, and be able to talk further; this went well

charles: hi! we need a representative (jason will work on this) for CSEC; there is someone from SGA who sits on there; they are asking for a representative from Senate; usually someone from Senate (jason is current incumbent); jazz got JHFRE to come to give an update on construction; jazz also sent some invites and i will get these out in coming weeks

luke: been working with jackson and natali (CARE) application to dialogue initiative fund; undergrads, grads, professors, staff, a kind of dining event like Longest Table event; working on getting grant finished/budget finalization; talking to people previously in Longest Table; before oct 6th grant due date; any people interested can give help, mostly just the four of us

srika: as a part of HSS: working on doing tabling event in the breezeway for availability; similar to last semester's fresh food/nutrition for the student body

aishani: been working with office of sustainability to talk about DSAI as well as data center on Bay View campus to clear confusion; also invasive species poll in stony brook

jazz: [moving toward closed session]

vote to enter close session:

demarri: poi: what kind of questions to ask

jazz: that is the reason we'd like closed session

[someone]; motion for closed senate second: [2 people i think] aye: [maybe like 5 ppl] nay: abstain:

close session end (8:16)

jazz: nothing for first reading

veda: my bill, passed finance with positive recommendation

[idk name, sits next to tanisha]: can u clarify why buy 10 t-shirts; isn't only for tabling?

veda: idea is that for closet for tabling; regardless of who is doing it they will be able to throw on one of these shirts; i can make it my job to was those once a month

jazz: can we make sure we're washing right after we wear

veda: fear is they will take them home and not bring back if they wash

jazz: poi: chair of programming, can we have a designated person to wash

veda: i put myself!

jazz: i mean in the action items

…

veda: motion to pass

second: kevin

jazz: thank you sean and niel for joining us again; since reopening you only missed the passing of this bill

jazz: we will move into the 2nd reading

shreemann: in Civic Engagement Committee it passed with positive recommendation

earlier today jazz got an email from some dude here is what it says

[....] paraphrase: i would like to advocate

jackson: poi speak slower please

shreemann: actually it's a point of personal privilege!!!!

paraphrase: limited the free exchange of ideas; not the same as others at others university 2006-2010 sga term wasn't free properly,

shreemann: just wanted to share that information

main changes by civic engagement committee; the assumption is that the person is speaking for themself; this was the converse originally, other things they added are boldings for emphasis

jazz: can you go to action items

shreemann: upon passage, jazz is supposed to [...]

demarri: point of information how to i sign;

shreemann: those who do not vote nay or abstain, your name will be on here

honora: motion for 2 min recess to read

shreemann: u can't do that, but someone else can !

jackson: motion for 3 min recess [...]

second: demarri

aye: [i don't remember]

nay: veda

abstain:

jazz: recess has ended

jackson: motion to vote

second: paul

aye: [ a lot ]

jazz: we are now ready to vote

jackson: huh

demarri: oh we only motioned to vote

demarri: motion to pass

second: jackson, []

aye: [ a few ]

nay:

abstain:

passed

shreemann: everyone present will have name on

amy: so as exec i have to say specifically i'd like to be on it?

jazz: yes

amy: ok can i be on it

next bill

peter: this is a funding bill to fund outreach opportunity; been discussed previously, want students to talk to admin about national call to action so the JHU response reflects SGA feelings; incentive having krispy kreme & insomnia, chocolate strawberries

honora: poi: to incentive university form or our form?

peter: primarily ours, but ideally both

honora: poi: i think it should be both surveys; i think it's wrong not to give also this information to the administration

jackson: as said in the survey, the current plan is to collect information; students will indicate how comfortable they are to discuss; it doesn't currently say at the university who looks at the responses; could the admin look at who says what? [....]

jazz: [...]

jason: how are you going to get them on the same day

kevin: we're spacing it out; for example next wednesday we might for example coordinate on which day what time; right before the meeting, we will go and get 16-pack of insomnia cookies for that org; if another org has a meeting on like saturday; we will pick up the other 16 cookies and go to their event

jason: would we be able to get a timeline of like organizations… [...] is this like the entire committee of the RSO?

kevin: the plan is to have 2 Senators or representatives from sga at least 2 (perhaps 3), 1 might be a little awkward; to go to each organization; will not be an exclusively senate, i..e exec or hop can be included in this; the current ideas for orgs exists; we will publish on team/share at future GBM; this is to get the initiative started

jazz: for more questions, please motion for moderation caucus

jackson: last question, poi: unfortunately due on oct 9 (the responses) if we had more time; this is the best we could come up with in the short amount of time

jackson: motion to amend to remove []

second: [idk]

aye: [idk]

nay:

abstain:

jazz: this bill has been amended. do i hear any motions for this bill?

demarri: motion to pass

second: [idk]

aye: [idk]

nay:

abstain:

jazz: this bill is passed

demarri: motion to adjourn

second: [idk]

aye: [idk]

nay:

abstain:

jazz: this meeting is adjourned