ASG Advisor Rudy Trejo: 

ASG is starting a “Senator of the Week” award.

Input is needed to determine the “camping” policy for the remaining home games. Camping starts Thursday at 6.

ASG President Michael Dodd: 

Getting a poll on online class experience.

Fun times were had on the Ole Miss Rollin Trip.

Going to be a big sustainability push this week including an event Thursday at 6 p.m.

ASG Secretary Bailey Moll:

Thanks for participating in Crosswalk Safety Awareness Day, he said.

ASG Interim-Treasurer Austin Reid:

In the middle of a funding round, he said.

At the end of the funding round, Senate members have to vote on and approve the final appropriations budget, he said.

Nominations for the appropriations committee are still ongoing.

Senate Chair Grant Hodges:

Vote in ASG Senate elections.

And the ASG website is being updated to include legislation and votes.

Jeremy Battjes, director of university recreation (special presentation):

Has eight different program areas.

In the spring 2011 they “completed program planning and conceptual design for renovation/expansion,” of the HPER building, Battjes said.

Though expansion would have been into Lot 67, that isn’t possible because of the athletic facility, but the study did show a need for expansion, he said.

We were supposed to open the doors [to the university recreation fitness center in the union] on November 4, Battjes said. “We are really hoping by January 14, 15 when schools starts back up we’ll have that open.”

The biggest challenge moving forward is how University Recreation can keep up with more than 23,00o, with more and more students wanting to use the facilities, he said.

The study showed that the university needs a center of about 300,000 square feet, more than double what the HPER is, he said.

Hopefully the expansion will bring students that have went to gyms off campus, back to campus, he said. “But we’re still going to be just as crowded.”

University Committee Nominations 

Senate members have to approve the nominations as a slate (all together). Senate members have had about two weeks to consider the nominations, Hodges said.

With 33 votes the nominations were approved.

College Caucus Leaders Nominations

Nominations were taken two weeks ago.

Dale Bumpers College 

Sen. Norton

Fulbright College

Sen. Keffler

Sen. A Williams (With 9 votes)

Sen. Bray

Walton College

Sen. Renner

College of Education and Health Professions

Sen. Lee

College of Engineering

Sen. Faubion

Sen. Rogers

Law and Grad School

Sen. Aspeeri

Appropriations Committee Nominations

Sen. A Williams

Sen. Dunn

Williams won in a vote of 21-15.

Public Comment: None

Senate Bill Number Five: Memorial Flagpole Appropriations Act

The flagpole would “glorify our university’s commitment to public service,” said Matt Seubert, the legislation’s author.

The $5,000 that this bill appropriations will be matched with by facilities management, he said.

A veterans group that Seubert met with said this project will have a “beacon effect,” he said.

It is bodies like these that are responsible for showing that “we are committed to welcoming them back into our communities,” he said.

That value of the flagpole for the UA community is extraordinary for its small amount, he said.

 Appropriations Committee voted 8-0 to do pass as written.

Legislation fits the vision and the mission of ASG, according to the appropriations committee report.

An amendment has been brought fourth to amend the legislation so that it funded $3,000 instead of $5,000.

We’ve already had one expensive project—Rollin’ With the Razorbacks, Sen. Keffler.

“I just think it might be a little fiscally irresponsible to pay as much as we have with these bigger bills,” she said.

I just think we could fund it differently, she said.

She would be behind giving more money to the project later if ASG has it, she said.

Dean Pugh just announced  that if ASG passes $5,000 he will give $5,000, but if ASG only appropriates $3,000 he won’t match its appropriation, he said.

We’re not a bank, our job isn’t to have money and sit on it, said  Sen. Curry, speaking against the amendment.

The total cost of the flagpole is $75,000.

The amendment fails by a vote of 31-5.

In a vote of 33-2, the bill passes.