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[Minutes] Chapter Meeting 2-17-08
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessy McQuaw)
Sun Mar 2 06:13:50 2008
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:13:33 -0500
From: Jessy McQuaw <jmcquaw@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-minutes@mit.edu
APO Chapter Meeting 2-17-2008
present: zev, kkbrown, ianyh, austein, ahailes, mitchb, kree, cruetz,
lanthe,
kchen, kimfad, jaxxson, andrewd, epower, y_lin, jmcquaw, ccrazy, Joni
meeting called to order at 2008h by zev
This meeting brought to you by: Robert's Rules of Order.
SVP
-Project this week
-Tuesday and Wednesday
-Helping kids do science.
-Bookex pickup is also this week.
-If you want to PC a project, email kkbrown
-She'll match you with one you'll probably like.
MVP
-We had a pledge ceremony last week.
-We had 6 pledges, and about as many brothers.
-There is another ceremony tomorrow night at 8.
-That's the same time as the ring ceremony
-That's a big conflict
-We'll see about moving it...
-We'll figure it out after the meeting.
FVP
absent
-Black Morbid happened. It was awesome.
-PAM is this week, and it needs a PC
-SFF is coming up and it needs a PC
-Big/Little Study Break is coming up. We need Big/Little forms
-neboat is running PI Day
Treasurer
-I sent out a mail to people asking who was going to be active.
-You should reply to it.
-Dues need to be in by March 9th (Sunday)
-If you don't pay dues, you can't vote on pledges
AC
-We are in W20-400. We most likely have it for Sunday nights the rest of
term.
Pubdir
absent
APOcEd
absent
-We have the new issues in front of us!
-Submit Articles for the next one!!!!
OM
-The office is getting clean, and keeping fairly clean.
-There will be snacks for people with office hours.
-You should sign up for office hours.
Historian
-Project Linus happened yesterday.
-I got pictures, and will try to put them up today or tomorrow.
Advisor
I'm here! I made it!
Prez
-Nibs have office access!
-I've been bugging the CAC about our trashcans.
-They don't remember giving them to us
-The membership board is not completed, but I'm making progress
-collecting names, phone numbers and room numbers
Bookex
absent (at the time)
-Bookex went exceptionally well.
-We're still doing pickup.
-PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE sign up for hours.
-Tuesday is mostly empty.
-We're still looking into stuff with Quantum, mostly legal stuff.
Nationals stuff
-austein was at the meeting
-Next meeting April 26th at the Sheraton
-They want us to make a scavenger hunt, so people get to know the building
-kkbrown, jaxxson are on it
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Special Orders of business
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We need to renew our standing policies
All standing policies expire 3 years after they are established
(Following are the name of the policy, and my much abreviated summary of
the
policy, not for reference, but simply for your and my convenience.)
Tax Exemption "Don't use AX's tax exempt status for personal profit"
(Distinct from the one about using chapter equipment for personal
profit.)
-motion to renew, seconded
-white ballot
-motion to renew passes
Debt List "Don't use the debt list for personal profit"
-motion to renew, seconded
-white ballot
-motion to renew passes
Discussion at Election "Candidates can't be in the room while they're being
discussed at election meetings, except for being called back in to
answer
questions"
-motion to renew, seconded
-white ballot
-motion to renew passes
Transportation Reimbursement "Brothers get paid back for transportation to
chapter stuff. Cost of gas, plus 15 cents per mile."
-motion to renew, seconded
-discussion about increasing the "15 cents per mile"
-motion to ammend the policy
-further discussion on whether the policy actually needs to be
renewed, or
whether 15 cents per mile is sufficient.
-motion to close discussion, seconded
-confusin stuff happened resulting in the motion being dropped
-motion to renew, seconded
-white ballot
-motion to renew policy as it is passes
Titles "All the officers have awesome titles."
-motion to add an arbitrary line of discussion to the policy, as this seems
to be the trend, seconded
-white ballot
-objection on the grounds that it shouldn't be arbitrary
-By arbitrary, we mean, it can be chossen by contest, not just pointless
-previous motion is repeated
-white ballot
-motion passes
-motion to make a contest to determine what the line at the end is,
seconded
-"Are non-brothers allowed to make motions?"
-"Pledges should be allowed to. If they're not, we should make a new
standing policy to allow it"
-"All motions longer than 10 words need to be submited to officers
before the meeting."
-"Lets allow it for the meeting"
-"Only pledges or brothers can make motions."
-"The motion has been made!"
-(The pre-brother retracts the motion, and it is re-proposed by a
brother)
-"The tradition is to postpone it until I-Banquet, since this is where
it was made."
-The AC is very confused.
-"A white ballot is not a motion. After you move to vote,
discussion is
ended, and then you can white ballot."
-motion to vote
-whitebalot
-motion to vote passes
-motion to have the contest
-whitebalot
-motion passes
-motion to postpone the contest til Steak Fry, and add the line
"<insert funny line here>" in the mean time.
-motion to vote
-passes
-whitebalot
-motion to postpone the ammendment and renewal of the policy passes
Drop Poster Material "Drop Poster is for Profit.
<Specific prices listed here> Customers pay for lost equipment, and will
give us their ID number, to make sure they don't steal it. We don't
accept
collateral. ExecComm can renew it during special circumstances. Equip
doesn't leave the fourth floor, except by alowance of the pubdir.
Groups can be banned from using equip, at the discretion of the pubdir."
-motion to ammend
-motion withdrawn
-motion to renew, seconded
-motion to end discussion
-motion withdrawn
-motion to vote
-passes
-whiteballot
-motion to renew policy passes
We have renewed all our standing policies.
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The CAC are going to make this room warmer for us.
zev is going to appoint chairs
Coke Chair - kree
First Aid/CPR - kpugh
Food - manayach
Sewing - epower
Sour Notes - ahailes
Tools - yukikaze
Web - lanthe
Sergeant at Arms - austein
Press Manager - ostro
Chapter book - neboat
Alumni Liason - alexmv
If there are no objections, zev is striking the position of Ride Board Chair
"Wait, what?" *explanation of the ride board*
Ride Board Chair is no longer
______________________________
New Business
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-motion to discuss the PC program for 15 minutes
-white ballot
-passes
New PC program has PC's taking more responsibility.
Nominations for voting delegates to Conclave
nominated: zev, austein
elected: zev, austein
-Motion for the Chair of the Advisory and the associates of her choice to
choose the silliest hat in the room
-motion passes
Honorable Mention: austein
Winner: jaxxson
jaxxson wins a gift certificate to Tosci's
"Oh, man, I would have tried harder, if I would have known!"-ianyh
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Announcements
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Sign up for Bookex on Tuesday!!
Children's Museum Project needs people on Wednesday
"I totally heard 'I move to close'! They're crazy with me!!"-also ianyh
"If anybody needs a ride to Conclave, there's room in my car. I'm
driving up
obscenely early, and leaving at a more reasonable hour." - Joni
Meeting adjourned by zev at 2139
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