February 18th, 2011 meeting minutes

Senate Meeting, February 18th, 2011 minutes

Agenda:

-       Money

-       Student Tours

-       Dance Club

-       Senate Blog

Money:

-       Ms. Libby attended district meeting and is reporting that we have been conducting treasury business incorrectly.

-       Now each ASB sponsored purchase needs to be announced at senate meetings so that we can approve the spending

-       Matthew Wolf spent $16 at Goodwill to purchase baskets for each classroom to hold scrap paper. Motion passed to reimburse him.

Student tours:

-       Overall tours were pretty successful

-       Keep parents with the 8^th grade students on the tours so that parents can ask questions and be vocal, to supplement the shyness of 8^th grade students

-       Stay in each of the classrooms for only 2-3 minutes, not 10-15 – which is too long to be in one place for

-       Next year we should not have such a scheduled plan for who goes to each of the rooms at certain times, maybe instead just go and pop into each room for a few minutes

-       At the end of the tour we had a good Q&A with Sam Wolk’s mom.

-       Keep students on tours in a group with people that they know so that they are a little more vocal, however it’s rather difficult to insure that every student will know someone on the tour. Or at least group people together with others from their same schools.

-       Have every tour go to every classroom so that everything is represented. Find a way to stagger the groups so that each group goes to a classroom with every subject.

-       Another student tour will take place in March

-       We should have a meeting with Ms. Britsova to discuss the suggestions for improvements on student tours

Dance Club:

-       A club for all dancers at the school to have to club to join so they can have stuff of their transcripts

-       Eventually they’d like to start teaching ballet in the TPS rooms Tuesday mornings

-       Another club called TCS Shuffle, after school Wednesday/Friday’s, free, drop in class, attend any day you want. Learn a move that day and add it to your style of dance. (Ballet/Melbourne shuffle)

-       Overall objective is to bring the dancers at the school together: a dance club with two subsidiaries. Any TCS student can join if they’re interested in dancing.

-       Ballet may be requesting a donation for $8 an hour to rent the TPS rooms. They’d like an outside grant or to use their seed money to pay for the charge of the TPS rooms.

-       Two separate clubs at this point (they eventually want to merge). Only ballet club is asking for seed money. Motion passed to approve the Universal Dance Club (which is a name for both clubs).

-       Clubs need an advisor

Blog

-       Purpose is to keep students/staff/families aware of senate and school events 

-       Secretaries from each class have password to email/blog

-       Everyone has access to read the blog, we will create a link to it from the CSCA website

-       Student run blog for representation of the students/student senate

-       Integrate into RSS feed for easier access?

-       Update blog with minutes on Fridays after senate meeting

-       Master calender of school events

Motion to approve senate blog passed by majority

Yearbook:

-       Start laying out the book soon

-       Everyone gets 1-3 photos, in color, in the book

-       Almost everyone gets a book

-       Books are $30-40 dollars, unlike other schools that have much more expensive books

-       They will work over spring break, and some evenings/weekends to produce the book

-       About $3,000 dollars have been saved from profits of yearbooks

-       Ms. Wyn is proposing the idea to continue the yearbook and produce it for us – and have the staff members participating on the yearbook be paid. She is requesting around $2,000 dollars to compensate for her work.

-       Proposal is the take $2,000 dollars from the profits of the yearbook in the past to pay for Ms. Wyn’s time. This money is not coming from the ASB general fund, instead saved money from yearbook profits. She will submit a timesheet at the end of yearbook production to show her hours.  

Workshops:

-       Faye’s wondering if we should ask students to pay $5-10 dollars per session to support workshops (*in the event that we restart them)

-       If we choose to do this, it would be started next school year.

-       Money would pay for instructors, snacks, any surplus would go to ASB general fund

Minutes by Claire Star

February 11th, 2011 meeting minutes

Senate Meeting, February 11th, 2011 minutes

Agenda:

-       Student campaign for a healthy lifestyle

-       Report on Open House

-       What does it mean to be a leader at TCS?

-       Post-dance share out/fundraising update

-       Inter-high meeting report

Notes:

-       Student campaign for a healthy lifestyle:

-       Ms. Britsova and a guest speaker, Tony Lucero, Lieutenant, Special Police. If there is an emergency on Center House property, call Tony (206-684-7272). He is here to support us, not inherently police involvement. Seattle Police is not as able to deal with the individual needs of students, security at the Center House is more available to us. Is there a program that the Center House would like TCS to undertake for student health? We should raise awareness (about TCS security guards, why they are here), who students can get help from, (peers, teachers, administrators, counselors, staff, security @ campus). Lieutenant Lucero to go to health classes to share the message that security/emergency services are available for students.

o   Notes to share out in the Humanities classrooms:

-  Security is here to help and enforce ideals of Seattle Center

-  Most people at TCS have been making responsible, healthy choices, yet there are some that are not

-  You can get addicted to drugs after just one usage

-  If you’re going to do something, don’t do it here at TCS

-  Mention anonymous security phone numbers? Tony Lucero (206.684.7272), around the clock helpline this number will get help/response first, faster than an ambulance, and the people have extensive training/experience in all areas.  Anonymous number to leave a message, (206.684.7200).

-  Many doing drugs might have something going on at home, and maybe the most we can do is offer them help

-  Today students will go to each Humanities class and give the number of Tony to every student. The number will also be announced on the morning announcements.

-       Report on Open House:

o   129 families with 2-3 people on average at tour, ten extra sign up sheets and we started ten minutes late in the conference room because there was such a high turnout

o   60 students signed up to take a tour on Wednesday 2/16 (9 to 10am)

o   10 names were hand-picked off the sophomore volunteer tour guide list provided by Claire

-  Skye, Sam, Franny, Faye, Ashley, Lacaia, Dae Jin, Toshi, Megan, Matthew are volunteers as upper classmen tour guides

o   students will be given a debrief that they should cover with the 8^th graders on the tour

-       Prom:

o   Senior/junior prom? Are juniors invited? Prom meetings take place Tuesday morning at tutorial

-       Post-dance share out/fundraising update:

o   Most profitable dance over, made over $2000, cost $800. Around $1300 to $1400 profit

o   From now on, only high school students may be guests to dances. No guests who do not attend high school will be permitted in the future. Definitely no college students invited.

-       Inter-high meeting report:

o   Three groups and different meetings:

-  school sports

-  raising spirit (pep assemblies, but not they’re not really possible here) (coordinated spirit days that all go with one another)

-  diversity (more unity between the classes, seniors don’t have many opportunities to be with lower classmen)

On being a leader: "Leaders be leaders, don’t look outside yourself to be a leader, if you’re not comfortable as a leader, ask someone else who you think is a leader." - Mr. Bell


Minutes by Claire Star

February 4th, 2011 meeting minutes

Senate Meeting, February 4th, 2011 minutes

Agenda:

• Penny Harvest
• Advertisement for spring musical
• Students and paraphernalia
• Prom
• Val-o-grams
• Winter ball tonight
• Microwave donation
• Harry Potter fundraisers for classes
• Interhigh (aka S3)
• Senate blog

Penny Harvest:

-   9.5 bags qualifies us for $1000 donation to our choice location from our school

-   1^st time TCS has been allocated by Penny Harvest $1000

-   Possible recipients: homeless

-   needs to be a nonprofit, 503 for at least three years

-   need to donate money by April 13^th, two days before spring break

-   one person from each humanities class will communicate and be part of a team that selects organization to give money to

-   perhaps pick one organization in each organization and put it to a whole school vote. Humanities class will choose the organization they want to have in the all school vote.

-  all school community meeting not an option, all community meeting times have been spoken for already

-   Humanities class representatives should report back to their Humanities classes today to report back on senate meeting happenings, introduce Penny Harvest donation selection process decided on by ASB

-   give names of each Humanities class representative to Mr. Bell by next Friday

Spring Musical:

-       Ms. Storey is asking to promote Ballard High School’s spring musical, Cabaret, by hanging poster in the school.

-       Motion unanimously passed

Students and paraphernalia:

-       Healthy lifestyle is not always the choice of every student

-       Ms. Britsova does not want to call 911 at the dance or in general because of alcohol or drug usage. It’s been thought that the situation at TCS was improving, yet maybe it’s not?

-       Promote cause and effect or have a fun video or anti-drug/alcohol groups/posters, etc. to promote a healthy lifestyle of anti-drug/alcohol

-       Can student senate take a stronger stand on promoting a healthy lifestyle at the school? Does ASB want to do something?

-       Unanimous vote to support Ms. Britsova in promotion of healthy lifestyle. A specific plan or action has not been decided on, but we, as ASB, have chosen to support Britsova on this issue.

-      A group of senate members can go into each Humanities class to talk about drug/alcohol free lifestyles and discuss that school is not the place to use them when Britsova is ready

Prom:

-      Seniors have said that they want a seniors only prom. Currently, prom is supported by CSCA, but prom needs to go through ASB as a CSCA supported prom is not legal. Seniors have taken a vote saying they didn’t want a senior/junior prom.

-      Prom committee: meets every Tuesday @ tutorial in Greenberg’s room

-      Issue: senior prom or senior-junior prom

-      Need to change the CSCA ability to have just a senior prom. At this time, it seems that CSCA can sponsor a solely senior prom, and ASB has to have whole-school dances.

Val-o-grams:

-       Will begin selling at lunch today, 2/4, all of next week and Valentine's day, 2/14

-       All val-o-grams come with a box of conversation hearts

-       Raffle to guess the number of hearts in a vase, will win vase full of conversation hearts

-       Another raffle to win a half dozen cupcakes

-       Will be distributed on Valentine's day

Winter ball:

-       Contract sent to Sam Wolk by Vera Thursday

-       Masks/tickets will be sold at lunch and at the door

-       Committee will go to Vera to set up at 6pm

-       Mr. Bell, Ms. Storey, Dr. Glew definite chaperones

-       Karin Dietrich will be the photographer, Devon Hall is DJ

-       Dance 8-11:30, everyone needs to clean up/be out of Vera by 12

-       Issue with a security guard, Britsova will call security people to get one

-       Coat check of some sort will be there

-       Food/drink: non-alcoholic drinks will be sold

-       Price still $10 at the door for student senate, $15 for non-senate

-       We’re the cheapest winter ball in the district(!)

Interhigh:

-       Next week at Ingraham: Dae Jin, Sierra will attend

Harry Potter fundraiser:

-       Faye thinking of idea of inter-class competition to raise money for classes by putting money in jars, Faye proposing to tap onto that idea by having Harry Potter ‘jewels’ to put jewels in the jars (pay to put a jewel in the jar)

-      One jewel removed for every unexcused absence (or at least a percentage as there are more freshman)

Microwaves:

-       One in commons is broken – Ms. Britsova will make a Blast announcement to have one donated

Senate blog:

-       Features agenda, announcements, calendar, etc.

-       Secretaries will have the password to the blog in addition to an email account created for it. Discussion will be continued next week.

Minutes by Claire Star

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