Monday, December 1, 2008

Union Council Meeting 11/20/08

Brittany Wiegand presented a brief overview of information regarding the Student Activity Center (SAC), which will open spring semester. SAC is a part of the new University Square complex at 333 East Campus Mall (Lucky Apartments is above it), with the purpose of providing student organizations meeting spaces. The Student Activity Center Governing Board (SACGB) is the ASM committee that oversees the spaces, which is chaired by Lauren Vollrath. They have finished allocating offices for registered student organizations.

Brittany also gave out information about the current draft of the new ASM Constitution, which can be found online at asmconstitution.wordpress.com. Feedback can be submitted to the blog.

Each of the four departments of the Union (Admin and Marketing, Facilities, Food, Social Education) gave a brief report on efforts currently being used to increase its sustainability. They will report back again in the spring to show what new efforts have been taken; any suggestions are welcome, and it was agreed that it would be a good idea to get experts in the area to give feedback and suggestions.

The one action item of the meeting was concerning extended hours for both of the Unions during finals week. It was voted to keep them open until 3am on Dec 14 (Sun night/Mon morn) through Dec 17 (Wed night/Thurs morn) (as opposed to 12 midnight, the normal closing time). This was concurrent with WUD's recommendation, but different than the Facilities subcommittee's recommendation of leaving them open for 24 hours Sunday through Thursday.

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