8:02 pm:

The meeting has been called to order.

8:03 pm:

Sen. Diaz and Sen. Waller are not present.

8:04 pm:

The agenda now includes Bill 05-11F Seahawk Madness Purchases and has been approved.

8:04 pm:

The minutes from the Oct. 25 meeting has been approved.

8:05 pm:

Interim Director of CTSS is now addressing the SGA about technology on-campus.

8:05 pm:

Gass is discussing a survey conducted last month about technology priorities for the upcoming year.

8:07 pm:

The survey included 177 students (9%), 79 staff (34%) and 67 staff (17%).

8:10 pm:

Gass is discussing the responses to the survey, which indicate that students are largely more satisfied with the technology on-campus compared to faculty and to a lessor extent, staff.

8:11 pm:

The top priority for students is faster internet.

8:12 pm:

Second priority, extended wireless internet access to all of campus.

8:12 pm:

Third priority, wireless printing.

8:13 pm:

Wireless printing could be possible by the end of the school year.

8:13 pm:

Fourth priority, improve web portal speed and content.

8:14 pm:

Fifth priority, improve help desk (including elimination of outsourcing).

8:14 pm:

Faculty’s top complaint is to improve the help desk by eliminating outsourcing.

8:15 pm:

The faculty would also like to invest in new technologies like Google Apps.

8:15 pm:

The staff’s top complaint was also to improve the help desk.

8:17 pm:

The company the school outsources the help desk to costs ,000 a year.

8:17 pm:

Few calls come into the help desk on weekends or outside of regular business hours.

8:18 pm:

One of Gass’ recommendations is returning help desk staffed by students locally.

8:19 pm:

Gass believes we are the first college in the U.S. to have 24/7 help desk access.

8:20 pm:

SMCM has about half the number of CTSS staff as our peer institutions and a third among our aspirant peers.

8:21 pm:

SMCM has fewer staff within CTSS because staff salaries are defined by the state, making them much lower than other peer colleges.

8:21 pm:

SMCM also uses far fewer students within CTSS as our peer institutions.

8:23 pm:

Gass hopes increase the CTSS staff by three full-time employees and three full-time equivalent student positions (about 20 students).

8:24 pm:

Gass wants to form a work-group to address the long-term issues around increasing internet access.

8:25 pm:

Gass is moving the college to Google Apps within the next year. Alumni already use Google Apps.

8:28 pm:

Gass would also like to ‘go green’ “by transitioning from physical to virtual servers and by exploring opportunities for desktop virtualization.”

8:30 pm:

Finally, Gass wants to include students on all major decisions in CTSS as well as the overall direction.

8:30 pm:

CTSS has loaner laptops and port switches for students on the ship.

8:32 pm:

In response to a question about the ship’s internet speed, Gass said CTSS could restrict certain types of internet use on the ship like streaming videos to improve internet speed.

8:33 pm:

Gass suggests keeping doors open to help improve internet speed on the ship.

8:38 pm:

Luke Mowbray, the Sustainability Coordinator, is now addressing the SGA about the Green St. Mary’s Revolving Fund (GSMRF).

8:39 pm:

GSMRF is an SGA fund created in 2010 to help fund capital projects to ‘green’ the campus.

8:40 pm:

The fund receives the money the college saves by the initial capital improvement over the life of the loan.

8:42 pm:

Students voted to increase student fees by to be included in the fund starting in FY12.

8:44 pm:

Last year was the first year the fund began projects.

8:44 pm:

Solar panel shingles for Anne Arundel is one project being considered by GSMRF.

8:45 pm:

Geo-thermal heating units for the town houses is another project being considered by GSMRF.

8:46 pm:

The fund is implemented by a seven person committee including two faculty, three students and two staff.

8:47 pm:

Proposals can be submitted anytime a year.

8:49 pm:

Recycling will be added to the boat tomorrow.

8:50 pm:

Student Speak-out: the LQ laundry room has lots of problems including a broken washer and a flooded washer.

8:52 pm:

Student Speak-out: Some students are not happy about the guest policy on the boat.

8:53 pm:

Student Speak-out: Every Sunday there is a lifeboat drill at 9:00 a.m.

8:53 pm:

Student Speak-out: Some students have problems doing laundry.

8:56 pm:

Student Speak-out: There is no remote for the TV in the WC Common Room.

8:58 pm:

The SGA is now considering the Poker Club.

8:59 pm:

The Poker Club is different from the Smokin’ Aces club because it is just for poker.

8:59 pm:

The club will only seek funding for a poker set and a few decks of cards.

9:00 pm:

The club will hold competitive games and learning games.

9:00 pm:

Smokin’ Aces has purchased a poker set.

9:01 pm:

The club constitution has been approved by unanimous consent.

9:02 pm:

The St. Mary’s Drum Corp has been tabled until next meeting.

9:02 pm:

The SGA is now considering appointments to the Joint Oversight Committee for the Student Investment Group.

9:03 pm:

The appointments have been approved by unanimous consent.

9:03 pm:

The SGA is now considering appointments to executive boards.

9:03 pm:

The appointments have been approved by unanimous consent.

9:04 pm:

The SGA is now considering emergency allocations from Finance Board.

9:06 pm:

Pres. Snyder moved to amend the proposal to remove funding for the Outdoor Club to purchase a GPS.

9:07 pm:

The amendment passed.

9:09 pm:

The fund appeals passed by unanimous consent.

9:09 pm:

The SGA is now considering emergency allocations from Programs Board.

9:14 pm:

The allocations were approved by unanimous account.

9:15 pm:

The SGA is now considering funding for Seahawk Madness, which includes funding for beach balls, mini basketballs and Pom Poms.

9:18 pm:

A motion to pass by unanimous consent failed.

9:18 pm:

Some Senators express some concern over the quantity and cost of stress balls (30 dozen for 5.00).

9:20 pm:

There is a motion to remove the purchase of 30 dozen stress balls.

9:22 pm:

The motion to strike the purchase of stress balls fails.

9:23 pm:

There is a motion to reduce the number of stress balls by half.

9:23 pm:

The motion passes.

9:25 pm:

The pep rally is Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.

9:31 pm:

The SGA is discussing if the event will be successful enough to warrant granting the request.

9:33 pm:

The bill failed with a vote of 10 to 12.

9:33 pm:

Meeting adjourned.