NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

Regular Assembly Meeting

COGS Assembly Room
Room, 250 Student Life Building
January 22, 2011
6:30 p.m.

Agenda

Call to Order

Pledge of Allegiance

Roll Call

Special Introductions and Announcements

Petitioning In: None

Student Comments

Messages from Student Government:

The Report of the Speaker

• Block Seating Meeting
• Representative Outreach Desk

The Report of the Deputy Speaker for Finance

Committee Report
CSAC Report
• Ways & Means
• Academics & Student Life
• Internal Affairs

Funding Requests: None

Old Business: None

New Business
• Bill 10- Sponsored by Rep. Grimes- Providing Checks on Funding Board Amendments
• Resolution 5- Sponsored by Rep. Blair- Changing Rules Regarding Filing of Legislation
• Resolution 6- Sponsored by Reps. Grimes and Ar’dis- Opposing Concealed Carry on Campus Laws

Final Roll Call

Adjournment

Next Meeting
• Monday January 10, 2010 at 6:30PM in the COGS Chambers
 Report of the Deputy Speaker for Finance
19th Congress of Graduate Students
January 24, 2011

• COGS Administrative $X

• COGS Unallocated $X

• COGS Presentation Grants Left for year - $X

o Carry Forward $X
o July-October $X
o Nov-Feb - $X
o March-June - $X

• COGS Conference Travel Left for year - $X

o Carry Forward $X
o July-October $X
o Nov-Feb - $X
o Mar-Jun - $X

This Information will be completed in the packet received at the meeting;

Data was unavailable on Saturday

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 NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

MINUTES OF THE REGULAR SESSION

COGS Assembly Room
Room 250 Student Life Building
January 10, 2011
6:30 p.m.

REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT: Ard’is, Blair, Boler, Dolan, Fredericks, Glazier, Grimes, Grooms, Hagens,
Lieberwirth, Manojlovic, Metka, Ramirez, Rasch, Sokolikj, Tazaz, Weber, Worrall

QUORUM: Yes.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Blair

REPRESENTATIVES LEFT EARLY, EXCUSED:

REPRESENTATIVES LEFT EARLY, UNEXCUSED:

REPRESENTATIVES ABSENT, EXCUSED: de Jesus, Manojlovic, Schwab, Wollenschlaeger

REPRESENATIVES ABSENT, UNEXCUSED: Englehardt, Fluegel, Iniguez, Kushnir, Ma, Warren

REPRESENTATIVES LATE, EXCUSED:

MINUTES APPROVED: Minutes are approved as written

PETITION FOR VACANT SEAT:

• Galen Wood – Social Sciences- Accepted
• Jimmy Doyle - Financial Mathematics- Accepted

SPEAKER’S REPORT:
• NAGPS
o Director’s Meeting
 Stuck in Texas – snow, meeting went well. Minutes are online.
o Regional Conference
 Regional conference went to Johns Hopkins, liked our proposal, reason for decision
was since the meeting was in Miami, they wanted to spread out the territory, but
want us to submit again next year
o Regional Board
 Two vacancies – meetings done via electronics – no travel
• Training Sessions – legislative workshop
• Student Senate meeting at the Capitol, 7:30 pm, you can join in.
• Vision Casting – setting up meetings, to see where COGS wants to go

DEPUTY SPEAKER FOR FINANCE’S REPORT:

• Get from Agenda
• Hope you had a great holiday. Task force to come up with a plan to engage different departments.
• Training probably on Saturday morning.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:
• C-SAC
o .
• Ways & Means

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 o Met an hour ago – passed Bill 4 out of committee with 1 amendment
• Academics & Student Life
o Discussed home game block seating
• Internal Affairs
o Will be meeting before next COGS meeting.

FUNDING REQUESTS: None

OLD BUSINESS:
• Bill 2 – tabled indefinitely. Glazier withdraws Bill 2.

• Bill 4 – passed out of committee with one amendment

o Internal Affairs – had two suggestions – a leave of absence can’t be taken for more than 4
months, and the representative must serve the next 4 month period before requesting
another 4 month period.
o Ways and Means – looking at the Internal Affairs suggestions, a person cannot be out for
more than four months.
o Combined suggestions make the following language changes.
• QUESTIONS:
o Wood: Would this affect any disciplines? Need to look at that
o Grooms: Do you have to be enrolled to be a representative? Yes
o Grimes: Before you become ineligible, you apply for the leave of absence.
o Wood: How do we count calendar months? Tazaz: 120 days
• PRO:
o Amendment 119.4 and 119.5 changed 4 months to 120 consecutive calendar days.
o PASSED
o FREDERICKS AMENDMENT: puts lower bound to a leave of absence as 30 days.
o QUESTIONS
 Worrall: Why 30 days?
 If you were out for a month you should be getting an excused absence for missing 1
or 2 meetings.
o PRO: Glazier
o CON: Wood – Is their example included in the amendment? Yes with appropriate language
changes.
 Tazaz: Can I make an amendment to change the face of the bill to reflect the written
changes - PASSED without objection.
 Fredericks – 119.4A “from the conclusion of their previous absence” PASSED
o Glazier – 6 months gone in a calendar year is not productive.
o Glazier – if they do manage to game the system, we have other alternatives
o Call the question.
o CLOSING: Ard’is: Pleased about the level of dialogue. Yield the balance.
o Ayes. PASSES as amended.

NEW BUSINESS: None

ROUNDTABLE:
• Vicki: Welcome back. I like efficient meetings. Make sure you know the resources available –
Victim’s Advocate, and the Counseling. Be careful and safe. Come to the Capitol, bring some ID.
• Wood: Enjoyed the first meeting. My apt is 3 minutes from here. TV is very close.
• Glazier: There is a few rule changes that I will introduce next meeting. If you have any suggestions,
shoot me an email.
• Tazaz: I was at the Leadership Council meeting, this guy overheard that I was in COGS and thought
he was going to rag on us, but instead thanked us for our travel grants. Dr. Eric Barron is giving a
talk tomorrow at 4 pm in the Turnbull Center – has food.

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 • Grooms: Music Theory Forum, all day Saturday, from 9-5pm excited by our speaker – 1st floor
Copeland and Call.
• Fredericks: Join me at the Capitol, if you want a real seat, join me in Senate. Rolled through the
movies playing this week at SLC.
• Lieberwirth: her prof is using her data
• Ramirez: There are maps on the doors as to where Julie and Barb are. Julie made the beautiful
binders. If Wed Strozier Café if you want to talk Spanish. Don’t walk alone. I can take you in my
car.
• Blair: had fun and welcome to our 2 new members. My birthday is Friday
• Ard’is: Great to be back, first game of basketball since the accident. Start rehabbing next week.
• Grimes: when proposing things on the floor, it should go through the speaker. Now engaged,
boyfriend of three years said yes.
• Email class schedule to Barb, We could find people that are available for events.

FINAL ROLL CALL: Ard’is, Blair, Boler, Dolan, Doyle, Fredericks, Glazier, Grimes, Grooms, Hagens,
Lieberwirth, Manojlovic, Metka, Ramirez, Rasch, Sokolikj, Tazaz, Weber, Wood, Worrall

ADJOURNMENT: 8:15pm

NEXT MEETING: Monday January 24, 2011 at 6:30 PM in the COGS Chambers

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The 19th Congress of Graduate Students

BILL 10
Sponsored by Representative Grimes

Providing Checks on Funding Board Amendments

On January 24, 2011, the body amended Chapters 300 and 302 of the COGS Code as follows:

300.6 E. After the fact amendments to allocations which are greater than $50 shall require majority
approval of the MSC board prior to being sent to COGS Leadership for signature.

302.7 After the fact amendments to allocations which are greater than $50 shall require majority approval
of the LSC board prior to being sent to COGS leadership for signature.

The purpose of this request is to require those making allocations to approve after-the-fact revisions to
those allocations.

___________________ __________________________________
David Grimes Vicki Dobiyanski
Speaker of the House Director of Student Affairs
___________________ _____________________________
Dominick Ard’is Mary Coburn
Deputy Speaker for Finance Vice President for Student Affairs

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The 19th Congress of Graduate Students

Resolution 5
Amending the COGS Internal Rules of Procedure

Sponsored by Representative Blair

WHEREAS, the Student Body Constitution, Article IX, and COGS Code Section 110.1 both grant COGS
the power to create internal rules of procedure and the Congress has adopted such internal rules, and

WHEREAS, Rule 1 of the COGS Internal Rules of Procedure states that the rules may be amended by a
two-thirds vote, and

WHEREAS, the COGS Program Assistant has requested that the filing deadline for legislation be moved to
Thursday and that all legislation be submitted with an accompanying digital copy in order to increase the
efficiency and effectiveness of our operations, and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE 19th CONGRESS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS, that the

Internal Rules of Procedure be amended in accordance with the following provision:

21. All Bills, Resolutions, and funding petitions must be filed with the COGS Program
Assistant no later than 4:00 PM the Thursday Friday immediately preceding a
regularly scheduled session of the Assembly. All Bills and Resolutions must be filed
with a digital copy. The Speaker may at his/her discretion waive this rule if a
measure is important and time sensitive.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be sent to Ms. Vicki Dobiyanski

_______________________ ___ ______________________

David Grimes Dominic Ar’dis
Speaker of the House Deputy Speaker for Finance

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The 19th Congress of Graduate Students

Resolution 6
Supporting the Existing Florida Laws Respecting Hand Guns
on Campuses

Sponsored by Representatives Grimes and Ard’is

WHEREAS, members of the legislature of the State of Florida have introduced “concealed carry on
campus” bills which would permit individuals to carry concealed hand guns on the campuses of public
universities in Florida, and

WHEREAS, university campuses generally have a lower level of violent crime than the surrounding
community, and

WHEREAS, Campus Police at state universities are trained to respond quickly and appropriately to active
shooter situations making their reaction to public safety threats superior to private citizens, and

WHEREAS, this year unintended gun violence has already cut short the promising life of an innocent on the
Campus of Florida State University- a situation which can only increase in frequency if more guns are
present in our campus community,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE 19th CONGRESS OF GRADUATE STUDENTS, that

attempts to amend the already sufficient gun laws of the Great State of Florida to permit guns on college and
university campuses be resisted in all lawful ways.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Congress calls upon the Student Body President, Student Senate,
and Office of Governmental Affairs to leverage all SGA resources to that end.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be sent to Governor Rick Scott, Senate
President Haridopolis, Speaker Cannon, Representative Vasilinda, Representative Williams, Senator
Monford, The FSView, and the Tallahassee Democrat.

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David Grimes Dominic Ar’dis
Speaker of the House Deputy Speaker for Finance