Agenda 12/16/2011
- Approval of Minutes
- Reports
- Open Executive Session Motion
- Close Executive Session Motion
- Robert's Rules Modification Motion
- Notes & New Business
“If you think Council is stupid…you’re
wrong.” ~Carl Tischbein
Council
Minutes 12/9/2011
1.
Approval of Minutes
2.
Reports
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[Mod]: Mt. Greylock students are now visiting January 6th.
Admin should be working on organizing the Martin Luther King assembly.
·
[DSB]: DSB Meeting on Tuesday the 6th of this month.
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[PR]: A Council update in the Broadside is forthcoming.
·
[Admin]: We’re still researching the test returns motion.
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[Curric]: The CCCC will be coming to the DSB this Tuesday,
we’ll be looking at it today.
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[SA]: We’ll be discussing Winter Carnival next week, please
bring suggestions for activities!
·
[SL]: We are looking through some historical documents to evaluate
open campus, we will also be doing more research. Food vending machines will be
coming soon.
3.
CCCC
·
Motion: I move that Council endorse the DEC-approved Co-Curricular
Code of Conduct.
o
[Melanie]: The creation of this document has been a long
process, with the original goal being to create equal guidelines between
extra-curricular activities. This is also supposed to promote truth-telling.
·
Significant Changes & Questions:
o
The Dean of
Students may rely on the filing of police charges to make decisions.
§
We’re not going crazy here, this is just because it can take a
while for the legal formalities to go through – we want to be able to make
decisions in a speedier manner. But we’re not going to take advantage of this. Also schools operate under lower legal
standards then the rest of the world.
o
The administration may assign a stricter punishment based on
severe misconduct.
o
if there is no offense within 18 months, the violation may be
considered a first offense.
o
Punishments may include removal from 20% of TOTAL public
performances.
§
How do we know number of games in finals/end-of-season games?
How will this be calculated?
o
Student leadership positions can be restored by the Dean of
Students.
o
Students will be punished for accepting transportation other
than school-provided transportation without proper permission.
o
Council is currently considered an activity under the code.
§
Is Council a co-curricular activity? Should it be subject to
the jurisdiction of the code?
Meeting
adjourns.
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Council
Minutes 12/12/2011
1.
Approval of Minutes
2.
CCCC
·
Motion: I move to amend the motion so that the document title would be
the “Code of Conduct” and the following paragraph would be added to the first
section of the code:
The Council is
“the governance body at Hanover High School, representative of the students and
staff” and Council members are therefore subject to the Council Bylaws in
addition to these guidelines; the Council Executive, the Council Executive
Committee, and the Organizational Engineering Committee (OEC), in concert with
the Dean of Students develops and enforces the standards and penalties applicable
to the “The Council.”
o
[Melanie]: This amendment make it such that Council is no
longer considered a co-curricular activity. It would also ensure that Council
members would be subject to the minimum guidelines of the code, but Council
would still have the power to do follow up with its own decision-making
process.
·
Clarifying Questions:
o
This would just state the Code is the baseline for punishment,
correct? And our Council process is an additive to the code?
§
Yes.
o
Based on what we discussed two weeks ago, what defines Council
leadership?
§
The code will state that only the Council executives and
committee chairs are considered
leadership.
·
Discussion:
o
This will really clarify the code for the board, it’s good
progress. It will also give the board a opportunity to look over the Council
bylaws recently.
o
The changes are good in general, except the name might be a
little confusing as to who it applies.
o
This amendment is redundant, clubs and activities are already
given the opportunity to enforce their own consequences.
o
This is great because Council can still make its own decisions
freely.
o
What would the order be? Would the code’s punishments come
first? Or would Council’s?
§
It would be great for everyone to meet first, but the Code’s punishments
would happen first.
o
Although not the best, this version is the best we have right now.
Debate
closes.
Motion
(amendment) passes.
Debate
closes.
Motion
passes.
Meeting
adjourns.
