The UNLV Graduate & Professional Student Association
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
WAYS & MEANS COMMITTEE MEETING 44-04
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
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IN PERSON: Graduate Commons, LLB 2141
4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA
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CONTINUED:
Below is an agenda of all items scheduled to be presented and considered at the meeting. Notification is hereby provided that items on the agenda may be taken out of the order and presented, two or more agenda items may be combined for consideration, and an agenda item may be removed from the agenda or discussion relating to an item on the agenda may be delayed at any time.
Some agenda items are noted as having accompanying reference material. Copies of the reference materials that are distributed at the meeting may be requested by emailing the Chair at gpsa@unlv.edu. Copies of any such materials will also be made available at unlv.edu/gpsa on the “Agendas and Minutes” folder of the appropriate meeting. Reasonable efforts will be made to assist and accommodate persons with a disability attending the meeting. Please email the GPSA Manager at gpsa@unlv.edu in advance so that arrangements may be made.
This meeting’s agenda has been posted in accordance with NRS 241.020. Agendas may also be also be available online at unlv.edu/gpsa/agenda in the appropriate session and meeting number folder.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
Public comment will be taken during this agenda item. No action may be taken on a matter raised under this item until the matter is included on an agenda as an item on which action may be taken. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. Persons making comment will be asked to begin by stating their name for the record and to spell their last name. The Board Chair may elect to allow additional public comment on a specific agenda item when that agenda item is being considered. In accordance with Attorney General Opinion No. 00-047, as restated in the Attorney General’s Open Meeting Law Manual, the Chair may prohibit comment if the content of that comment is a topic that is not relevant to, or within the authority of, the Body, or if the content is willfully disruptive of the meeting by being irrelevant, repetitious, slanderous, offensive, inflammatory, irrational or amounting to personal attacks or interfering with the rights of other speakers.
☐ Daniella Nikoloska, Committee Member, College of Engineering EXCUSED
All other members present will be available in the meeting minutes and listed below.
Members of the Public Present:
AGENDA
Chair Peña opened the meeting at 5:33pm.
- PUBLIC COMMENT INFORMATION ONLY
(See foregoing notation regarding public comment)
No public comment.
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR POSSIBLE ACTION
Request is made for approval of minutes of previous meetings.
3a) CONSENT AGENDA:
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- Minutes for the June 27, 2024 (44-03) Ways & Means Committee Meeting as posted to the public GPSA Drive.
Motion to approve: Hearn
Second: Ain
Motion passed 6-0-0.
4a) GPSA Treasurer Report
- Upcoming revisions to the Operating Policy and the duties of the Treasurer
Treasurer Lopez will be meeting with Business Manager Nia and President Teresa to discuss the budget soon. The budget will be reviewed, then the committee will be asked to review the budget before it is solidified.
4b) Ways & Means Committee Chair Report
- Agenda overview
Chair Peña asked for questions about the general operation of the Ways and Means Committee, and there were none.
4b) GPSA Manager & Advisor
The business manager was not in attendance.
- UNFINISHED BUSINESS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION
Unfinished Business is any motion or action item that was under discussion and was postponed or moved to this meeting at the discretion of the public body as approved by the chair.
5a) No Unfinished Business as of the posting of this Agenda.
Motion to open new business: Ain
Second: Lopez
Motion passed 6-0-0
- NEW BUSINESS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION
New business is any motion that is new to this meeting. All items will be for possible action unless otherwise stated.
6a) Discussion and Approval of new RSO Funding Application(s) in TeamDynamix (TDX)
Chair Peña requests the Ways & Means Committee to discuss and provide decisions relating to recently submitted RSO Funding applications.
6b) Discussion and Approval of Revisions to the Ways & Means Operating Policy
Chair Peña requests the Ways & Means Committee to review and vote on revisions to the Ways & Means Operating Policy.
Lopez asks for a motion to strike Section 3 “Student organization funding guidelines” from the operating policy for Ways and Means, in order to formally transition RSO funding out of the Ways and Means purview as the committee will no longer be handling RSO funding.
Hearn motioned to strike Section 3 “Student organization funding guidelines” from the operating policy.
Godbole seconded.
Motion passed 6-0-0.
Chair Peña asked if any revisions to the operating policy are needed. Seeing no suggestions, the operating policy stands.
6c) Discussion and Approval of Revisions to the Treasurer’s Role within Ways & Means
Chair Peña requests the Ways & Means Committee to review and vote on revisions to the role of the Treasurer within the Ways & Means Committee.
Treasurer Lopez put the language he would like to see in the operating policy under “suggested edits”. Lopez wanted to make it clear who are and are not voting members of the Ways and Means Committee. He suggested we have a minimum of 4 voting members, including Chair and Vice Chair and at least two members of GPSA on the council. Additionally, he suggests we rename the Treasurer an ‘ex-officio non-voting member’, meaning the treasurer will serve on the Ways and Means Committee in an advisory capacity. He further suggests that the Treasurer appoint the chair (who will be approved by council), and the chair will then appoint the vice chair, who does not need to be approved by GPSA council.
Lopez asked for feedback on the deadline for the appointment of the new chair. Peña suggested that the chair be appointed before the first meeting of the committee in the fall semester of each year.
Lopez suggested the deadline be before the overall GPSA budget needs to be approved for each school year.
Peña is okay with the Treasurer voting in the case of a tie. Hearn agrees.
Lopez asks for consideration that the Treasurer’s attendance at meetings will not count towards attaining quorum. Quorum means that a 50% +1 of voting members must be present to hold a meeting.
Peña asks if the chair is a voting member, and Lopez said generally chairs are voting members. Peña asks if chairs are supposed to be neutral throughout the meeting, but Lopez clarified that chairs could present an opinion on voting matters when the time comes to cast votes (but should remain neutral throughout the proceedings as a whole).
Ain motions to approve the minimum voting members for the committee, not letting the treasurer vote, and the chair appointing the vice chair, and the treasurer should appoint the chair before the overall GPSA budget needs to be approved each school year. She motioned to group these changes in the operating policy together and approve.
Seconded by Hearn.
Motion passed 5-0-1 (Lopez abstained).
Lopez addressed new changes that need to be made to the operating policy due to the Ways and Means Committee no longer approving RSO funding applications.
Hearn motioned to strike all wording addressing RSO funding applications and subsequent liaisons in the operating policy.
Seconded by Ain.
5-0-0.
Agenda item was then closed.
6d) Call for New Business Agenda Items
Chair Peña requests a call for New Business agenda items. Agenda items not previously posted to this agenda may be raised for discussion for either the present or subsequent meeting.
- ANNOUNCEMENTS INFORMATION ONLY
Lopez announced that the state will consider another GA stipend increase over the next two years.
Peña encouraged the committee to vote in the next presidential election, and the next Ways and Means meeting is scheduled for August 20th.
(See foregoing notation regarding public comment)
No public comment.
- ADJOURNMENT FOR POSSIBLE ACTION
Chair Peña adjourned the meeting at 6:02pm.