JHU SGAThe 114th Session
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Meetings Working Doc

This document is from a previous session and is kept for the record. It may have been amended or replaced since.

10/5 Attendance: Luc, Chris, Felix, Ava, Simon

Agenda:

  • Introductions: Get to know Felix!
  • Discuss Rules of the Judiciary
  • New folder for Judiciary documents
  • Finish editing the Rules of the Judiciary
  • Picking a new Chief Justice:
  • Part 1, Section 3 of Rules of the Judiciary:
  • “Per the aforementioned provisions in the Constitution in Part I, Section 1 of these Rules, the Judiciary shall select its own Chief Justice from amongst the duly appointed Justices. This selection shall be in the form of an election, with each Justice casting a vote for a duly appointed Justice by secret ballot. The Justice with the most votes shall serve as Chief Justice. Should a Justice fail to receive a plurality of votes for Chief Justice, the Justices shall deliberate and continue to cast ballots until a plurality is achieved.”
  • Discuss CSE and whether all the seats are filled
  • Brainstorm some new initiatives for Judiciary
  • Produce action items for Sean and Ryan for a meeting next week
  • Finalize a bi-weekly meeting time
  • Weekly or bi-weekly meetings

11/12 Attendance

Agenda:

  • Discuss current state of judiciary
  • New chief justice
  • Onboarding Felix
  • Making tweaks to the rules of the judiciary
  • New initiatives
  • Chief Justice to attend every SGA Meeting
  • Another justice to always attend with chief justice (create a schedule for that)
  • Follow same attendance policy as senators?
  • Possibly work with the Committee on student organizations
  • Ideas:
  • Judiciary to review constitutions for each club at the start of each semester
  • Each club must utilize/send out a presentation sent to them at their first GBM just giving a brief outline to club members of disputes that they can appeal to the judiciary
  • Have CSE meet with clubs to discuss elections and transitions of power?
  • Run meeting with CSE
  • CSE to create 2 separate documents
  • Need to complete CSE process for new members
  • Make amendments in bylaws/constitution?
  • Have clubs appeal to judiciary with any issues regarding committee on finance?
  • Judiciary to review all bills that are passed?
  • Should the judiciary be able to introduce constitutional changes?
  • Chief justice to attend executive meetings?
  • Chief justice updates at the start of meetings
  • Felix to get headshot for website

12/2 Attendance: Simon, Ava

Agenda:

  • Meeting with CSE
    • Find out how previous elections have been run and CSE’s role in it
    • Meeting to be held Saturday at 5 pm
    • Discuss filling the remaining CSE spots
    • Discuss if financial and secretary positions have been filled
  • Meeting tomorrow at 6 pm with CSO
    • Discuss these ideas:
    • Judiciary to review constitutions for each club at the start of each semester
    • Each club must utilize/send out a presentation sent to them at their first GBM, just giving a brief outline to club members of disputes that they can appeal to the judiciary
      • Change to possibly sending out as well since GBMs might be niche

1/28 Attendance:

Agenda:

  • Meeting with CSO Today
  • Filling CSE spots
  • Finalize Judiciary

2/18 Attendance:

Agenda: Simon, Felix,

  • Starting the Judiciary SGA meeting Calender
    • Simon on duty dates: May 14th, April 23rd
    • Ava Mock trial dates: This tuesday and week of march 9th
  • Spring elections coming up soon!
    • Election timeline created here
    • Need to follow up with Nubaira tonight
  • Investigate how the CSE was operated before COVID-19
    • Calvin took away funding and the ballot-making from CSE
    • Fine with CSE having no budget
    • Ask Calvin why he decided to take away funding
    • Does CSE care? Do they want to make the online ballots?
  • Starting Partnership with CSO
    • I attended a few of their meetings, and they seem pretty open to working with us
  • Finishing revisions of Rules of the Judiciary
    • We need to formalize the changes we suggested
  • Look into conduct board hearings
    • Here
    • Should Judiciary be involved with this
    • A current senator, Oluwakemi, had a friend who may know more
    • Set up meeting with her to discuss further

3/3 Attendance: Ava, Simon

Agenda:

  • Review Rules of Judiciary
  • Senatorial Consideration for Conduct Board Hearings