UN Meeting Minutes 11.21.2011

U.N. Meeting Minutes
Facilitator:Chris Mientka
Date:11.21.2011 Location: Second floor
Minutes Respectfully Submitted by: Racheli Mendelson, UN Administrative Coordinator

Check In:
Participants:
Rachel Mendelson (UN administrator):nothing
Matt Peterson- UN adviser& Student affairs:Inculsivity committee working on encouraging the president to draft a better/more detailed university statement for diversity and inclusivity.
Kaleigh Radebaugh (Undg Writing and Literature): Participated in a departmental meeting. Talked about the possibility of having a small fall graduation ceremony but decided not to.
Cody Taft (Undg Psych): Talked with students in his department in order to recruit more delegates from his department.
Sean Bernhardt (Grad Environmental Leadership & Green Team rep.): Tomorrow night 7:15 in 8140 Sycamore building: open talk about the green fee. All are welcome.
Micaela Nageotte (Undg INTD): Talked with students in her department about starting and INTD student group next semester. a bunch of students are interested.
Chris Mientka (Snow Lion Representative): Snow Lion government is having trouble getting together and get commitment from students to show up.
Jeremy Scott (Undg Peace Studies): visiting.
Victoria N. Lowery (Undg Environmental Studies): visiting and interested in joining UN.
Agenda Items
1. House of Tea resolution
Suggestions:
a. To investigate with the city of Boulder whether the tea house can be considered a historical site.
b. To set of a fund especially to raise money for the maintenance of the tea house.
action: Rachel contact Steven Johnson about the tea house student group.
2. Constitution revision
Ratifying the final draft of the constitution- first vote- passed.
3. Bylaws: amending the section about selection of representatives:
In order to be voted in to UN the student needs to:
a. Nomination- at discretion of the program .
b. Communication- with students and faculty of her/his program, letting then know about her/his interest in joining UN and informing oneself about students needs and challenges.
c. Attendance- Show up to 2 meetings.
4. UN spring retreat will take place on Saturday January 21st from 10-4. Location not determined.

NEXT MEETING
> Date: 11.28.2011 Location: Second floor, facilitator: Micaela
Agenda Items
1. Rachel’s proposal
2. House of tea resolution.
3.UN end of semester celebration.
4. By laws.

UN Meeting Minutes 11.14.2011

U.N. Meeting Minutes
Facilitator:Nic Ballinger
Date:11.14.2011 Location: Second floor
Minutes Respectfully Submitted by: Racheli Mendelson, UN Administrative Coordinator

Check In:
Participants:
Rachel Mendelson (UN administrator):nothing
Matt Peterson- UN adviser& Student affairs:going to attend a title 9 coordinators training.
Kaleigh Radebaugh (Undg Writing and Literature): Nothing.
Nic Ballinger (Undg Religious studies): Talked with Judith Simmer Brown regarding his roll as a student representative..
Cody Taft (Undg Psych): Planing to reach to students in his department and inform them about being a representative.
Alan Andre (Undg music): Planing to reach to students in his department and inform them about being a representative.
Susanna Lubinskaya (Undg INTD):interested of being voted in as a member.
Sean Bernhardt (Grad Environmental Leadership & Green Team rep.): visiting.
Micaela Nageotte (Undg INTD): Nothing.
Rachel Zatterstrom (Grad Environmental Leadership): Brought a report from a meeting with the green team. Also had a good conversation with Chuck Leaf, new head of BOT.

Agenda Items
1. Continuing to revise the constitution. Going over a final draft and giving comments.
Action: Matt will integrate these last comments.
2. Parliamentary procedure training with Matt.
3. Presidential search committee- talk with Nathan if you would like to be involved with the activity of this committee.
4. Rachel’s report from the green team:
a. Rachel agreed to attend the green team’s monthly meetings.
b. The team is working on drafting a university sustainability statement. .
c. The green team is asking the UN for clarification regarding funds for ‘student activities’
Action; Rachelli will get the definition of student activities from SLP.
d. there is a need to get more people involved in the organization of sustainability day and earth day.
Action: put on the agenda for joint SLP+UN session.
e. Rachel talked with Todd Kilburn regarding the Green team’s recommendation to create a position for a sustainability coordinator. In regards to that Rachel is suggesting that UN will create a document that contains the student’s recommendation for the university’s operational budget.
Action: Rachel will invite Todd to join one of the upcoming UN meetings in order to share information about the budget.

NEXT MEETING
> Date: 11.21.2011 Location: Second floor, facilitator: Heather & Annie
Agenda Items
1. UN constitution revision.
2. House of tea resolution.
3. UN representatives selection process.
4. By laws.
5. Quorum.

UN Meeting Minutes 11.7.2011

U.N. Meeting Minutes
Facilitator:Kaleigh Radebaugh
Date:11.7.2011 Location: Second floor
Minutes Respectfully Submitted by: Racheli Mendelson, UN Administrative Coordinator

Check In:
Participants:
Rachel Mendelson (UN administrator):nothing
Matt Peterson- UN adviser& Student affairs:Working on creating a co curricular education committee and looking for student representatives for this committee.
Kaleigh Radebaugh (Undg Writing and Literature): Nothing.
Nic Ballinger (Undg Religious studies): Talked with Judith Simmer Brown regarding his roll as a student representative..
Cody Taft (Undg Psych): Planing to reach to students in his department and inform them about being a representative.
Alan Andre (Undg music): Planing to reach to students in his department and inform them about being a representative.
Susanna Lubinskaya (Undg INTD):visiting.
Sean Bernhardt (Grad Environmental Leadership & Green Team rep.): visiting.
Micaela Nageotte (Undg INTD): Nothing.

Agenda Items
1. Visitor: Andrea Auguista- looking for volunteers to participate in the Phonathon- a fund raiser, calling Naropa alums, on Tuesday the 29th from 4-10.
Action: Email Racheli if you can participate and Racheli will forward the names to Andrea.
2. Sean from the green team- green team activity report.
Action: send Sean the UN proposal format and add him to the mailing list.
3.UN constitution revision:Voting on sections of Mat’s revision proposal
a. Meetings section: vote passed with the addition: Last minute agenda items can be brought at the beginning of each meeting and voted into the agenda by consensus.
b. Retreats- vote passed.
c. Diversity- vote passed with the addition: the adviser and the admin will be in charge f organizing the diversity trainings.
d. committees- vote passed.
e. Decision making- vote passed with the addition: a page will be added to the constitution that describes the parliamentary procedure. Also to the sentence ” Legislative action items…” a detailed description of what ‘legislative’ means will be added. Legislative in tis case refers to constitutional amendment proposals and UN resolutions to the Board of Trustees.
f. Responsibilities- vote passed with the addition of 2 items:
*Each delegate must understand the parliamentary procedure.
*During the retreat the delegates will set a UN calendar for the next academic year.

NEXT MEETING
> Date: 11.17.2011 Location: Second floor, facilitator: Heather & Annie
Agenda Items
1. UN constitution revision.
2. Parliamentary procedure training with Matt.

UN Meeting Minutes 10.31. 2011

U.N. Meeting Minutes
Date:10.31.2011 Location: Second floor
Minutes Respectfully Submitted by: Racheli Mendelson, UN Administrative Coordinator

Check In:
Participants:
Rachel Mendelson (UN administrator):nothing
Matt Peterson- UN adviser& Student affairs: Nothing.
Heather Goodrich (Grad Writing and Poetics): Fund raiser for the Jack Kerouac School on Sunday evening.
Annie Howley (Grad Writing & Poetics): Nothing.
Kaleigh Radebaugh (Undg Writing and Literature): Nothing.
Rachel Zatterstrom (Grad Environmental Leadership):Nothing.
Nic Ballinge (Undg): nothing.
Chris Mientka (Undg TRA & snow lion counsel representative): Nothing.
Cody Taft (Undg Psych): nothing.
Alan Andre (Undg music): Nothing.

Agenda Items
1. Discussion about the UN constitution
Matt brought a document with a couple f suggestions regarding how to revise the constitution. Gong through a process of discussing and voting on each one of the parts of the document.
representation: vote passed with the amendment that there will be 2 representatives from each program and also a snow lion representative.
Quorum: vote passed.
Considering inserting the town hall into the UN bylaws- further discussion is needed.
Voting in new UN members:
Cody Taft- passed.
Alan Andre- passed.
Chris Mientka- passed.
Nic ballinge- passed.

NEXT MEETING
> Date: 11.7.2011 Location: Second floor, facilitator: Heather & Annie
Agenda Items
1. Discussion about UN constitution.
2. discussion about town hall.

UN Meeting minutes 10.24.2011

minutes taken by Matt Peterson, UN advisor
Present: Micaela (INTD), Cody (BA Psy), Nick (BA Rel), Nathan (Trustee), Shawn (Green Team), Heather (MFA WP), Annie (MFA WP), Rachel (MA Env Lead), Susanna (Eco Action), Brian (El Centro)

Approval of Minutes:

· Minutes from last meeting approved by consent (Heather moved, Nathan seconded)

Snow Lion:

· UN needs to have a serious presence or initiative in Snow Lion.

· Food always helps to bring in attendance at functions.

· There are currently 12 people on Snow Lion council.

· They would like to see representation on UN for Snow Lion.

Information Sharing:

· The responsibilities of the student trustee could include both sides of communication.

· Does the trustee represent the students on the board or is he a student on the board?

· We could open up communication with a monthly report from the BOT to the students via email.

Student Groups:

· Table discussion to joint session. (Brian moved, Heather seconded).

Green Team:

· Lobby admin for changes to Sycamore (i.e. bathrooms, low-flow toilets).

· Will report next week.

Micaela’s Project Idea:

· An always-burning flame on campus.

Constitution Committee:

· We should form a constitution committee with suggestions from all members.

· Decided to just have the constitution conversation during next week’s meeting.

UN -OPEN SESSION MEETING 10.17.2011

U.N. Meeting Minutes
Date:10.17.2011 Location: Second floor
Minutes Respectfully Submitted by: Racheli Mendelson, UN Administrative Coordinator

Check In:
Participants:
Rachel Mendelson (UN administrator)
Nathan Snyder (Undg INTD& BOT rep)
Heather Goodrich (Grad Writing and Poetics)
Annie Howley (Grad Writing & Poetics)
Rachel Zatterstrom (Grad Environmental Leadership)
Micaela Nageotte (INTD)
Brian Kimmel (INTD& El Centro)

Guest students:
Greg Yamada (INTD)
Zach Sripe (ENV)
Nic Ballinger (REL BA)
Chris Mientka (Undeclared, yoga teacher training)
Cody Taft (PSYC UNDG)
Jessica Hansen (Somatic Psyc GRAD)
Zach Liavitt (INTD)
Jeremy Scott (Peace studies)
Sussana Lubinska (INTD)
Erik Ross (Peace Studies)
Alan Andre (MUS&WRI)

Agenda Items
1. Student information resource:
There is a need to have more communication and information flow between the administration & Board and the student body. Especially regarding the changes in the schools and Mr. Lord’s leaving.
Proposals:
a. To have a Q&A with some board members.
b. To use the student paper and or video articles in order to investigate current events, bring information to students and give voice to the student body.
c. To have a faculty member that will be in charge of relaying information from the board+administration to the students. a contact person.
d. To make the minutes/information from the board meetings more accessible to students, put it in public places.
e. UN can help fund raise for the newspaper.
f. Figure out a more efficient way that the students can give information to the board.

Suggestion regarding UN meeting structure: to incorporate a 15 minute free dialogue time within each meeting.

2. Snow Lion Community
Getting the first year students from Snow Lion more connected with students who have been here for a while.
Suggestions:
a. Organize a party with that intention in mind.
b. Expanding/revising the roll of peer mentors.
c. Organize events in Snow Lion that will bring students there, for example- sharing food once a month.
d Have more community practice days.

3. President Lord Leaving:
Students feel disappointed about how the announcement was made.
Suggestions:
a. To hold a Q&A about this issue with board members.
b. To collect questions from students and bring them to Nathan (our student representative with the board) and he will bring then to the board and report back to the community.
c.Getting together as a community of students with the intention of holding a space for student to heal and voice their feelings regarding the current events. One way of doing so could be writing ‘love letters’ to Dr. Lord as a constructive way of processing and reflecting.

4. Clubs
Suggestion: having UN be in charge of student groups budget and having a set time where groups can come and bring their proposals to UN.

5. Student Representation in UN:
As it stands right now, UN has representatives from a few departments. However, according to the current UN constitution, the present number of active representatives is not enough in order for UN to vote. For that reason UN has currently suspended their bylaws. The intention right now is to get more students involved with UN activity and figure out a structure for UN. UN is considering whether it should continue as a representative body, move into a Town Hall structure- where who ever shows up gets to vote or maybe a structure that contains both options.
suggestions:
a. To send a survey to all students regarding this question.
b.Create a committee that will study what worked/did not work so far with UN and bring the results to the community so that students could make an informed decision.
c. To have both, the representative body and the town hall.

NEXT MEETING
> Date: 10.24.2011 Location: Second floor, facilitator: Micaela
Agenda Items
1. Discussion about UN structure.
2. discussion about town hall.
3. Snow Lion.
4. Student Information resource.
5. Student Groups.

UN Meeting 10.10.2011

U.N. Meeting Minutes
Date:10.10.2011 Location: Second floor
Minutes Respectfully Submitted by: Racheli Mendelson, UN Administrative Coordinator

Check In:
Participants:
Rachel Mendelson (UN administrator)
Nathan Snyder (Undg INTD& BOT rep): Participated in INTD department meeting.
Matt Peterson- adviser: Student affairs are working on revising their mission statement in order for it to be more representative of the present department. Also working on the upcoming parents weekend.
Action: Matt needs volunteers to be at the parents weekend lunch.
Heather Goodrich (Grad Writing and Poetics): Nothing.
Annie Howley (Grad Writing & Poetics): Nothing.
Kaleigh Radebaugh (Undg Writing and Literature): Nothing.
Rachel Zatterstrom (Grad Environmental Leadership):Nothing.

Agenda Items
1. Proposal: to suspend the bylaws in order for UN to function until there are agreed new bylaws.
First vote: passed. The bylaws are suspended.
2. Proposal to cancel the wind chimes project due to the legal obstacles.
First vote- passed.
Action: Heather will talk with Marcel.
3. Sustainability line item- John Dire gave Rachel some information about what the green team is up to this year.
Action: Send Rachel proposal guidelines
Action: Send Rachel and Matt the approved sustainability proposal from last year.
Action: Rachel will talk with John and communicate that the UN would like more collaboration with the Green Team. Also UN would like to support sustainability projects that engage student participation and education.
5. UN structure: Discussion- currently the schools are only united in their administrative aspects and so there is no body that unites the different departments in the school through faculty connections. Because of that, does it make more sense to still have representatives from each department and not from each school.
Action : publish minutes on Facebook and on MyNaropa
Action: Monthly report on UN Activity to the whole community.
Action: Send out email inviting the student body for next meeting.
Action: Post a sign out side of SUN office.
Action: Form questions and issues to bring to next meeting.
Proposal: to inform the students that the UN meeting is open and try generate more representation for next meeting.
First vote- passed.

NEXT MEETING
> Date: 10.17.2011 Location: Second floor, facilitator: Micaela
Agenda Items
1. Discussion about UN structure.
2. discussion about town hall.