This meeting of the Student Government Association was called to order on Thursday, February 18th, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Black and Gold Room, Memorial Union on the campus of Fort Hays State University.<\/p>\n
Executive Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n Vice President Morgan announced that senators’ office hours should be used to help Community Relations Director Avalos, address envelopes for the Big Event.<\/p>\n Treasurer Taylor restated all of the allocations and reported that the process turned out great.<\/p>\n Legislative Affairs Director Brant announced that Tiger Day at the Capital was cancelled due to calendar changes with the legislators.<\/p>\n Community Relations Director Avalos restated the office hour requirement for addressing envelopes for the Big Event. She also reported that a press release was sent out for the Big Event. Lastly, she mentioned that she worked on a Project Proposal \u00a0which everyone is eligible to sign up a project for the Big Event.<\/p>\n Committee Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n Sen. Johnson from Appropriations reported a bill is up for 2nd reading, 3 bills are up for 1st reading, and next week 4 bills will be up for 1st reading.<\/p>\n Sen. Devore from Senate Affairs reported that the committee worked on bylaws during their session.<\/p>\n Installation of New Members<\/strong><\/p>\n Magali Lozoya was sworn into Senate in the department of College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n New Business<\/strong><\/p>\n Bill 16\/S104, 16\/S105, and 16\/S106 had their first readings.<\/p>\n Old Business<\/strong><\/p>\n Bill 16\/S101 – Public Safety and Awareness:<\/p>\n Sen. Devore motioned this to a vote, Sen. Hand seconded. Sen. Templeton asked to have a representative talk about it. Brett Bruner discussed the request to fund half of the salary for the new commission graduate assistant for sexual assault. Bill passed with 17 votes.<\/p>\n Bill 16\/S103 – Appropriations<\/p>\n Sen. Lindsey motioned the bill to a vote. Sen. Rahjes seconded. Sen. Hand asked for a representative from Sigma Phi Epsilon to speak. The President of Sigma Phi \u00a0Epsilon mentioned that the funding in question\u00a0is a for training program for executive officers for them to bring leadership skills back to campus. Bill passed with 17 votes.<\/p>\n Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n Legislative Affairs Director Brandt announced that KBOR approved the honorary degree.<\/p>\n Sen. Dinkel reminded everyone they can apply to be a student ambassador, contact her with questions.<\/p>\n Sen. Garcia announces the Times Talk on Tuesday at 12 pm in the Forsyth Library.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This meeting of the Student Government Association was called to order on Thursday, February 18th, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Black and Gold Room,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"FHSU Student Government Meeting, 2\/18\/16","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,3389],"tags":[106,134],"class_list":["post-25665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-student-government-news","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-sga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25672,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25665\/revisions\/25672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}