I wanted to make you aware, before the meeting, that at least one motion in New Business for today's meeting is dilatory, out of order and should be removed from the agenda. Senator Bahr and Scott's legislation titled "Student Association Senators Right to Serve Act" is the motion in question. Since our rules on what motions are out of order come from Robert's Rules or Order 10th Edition (I will refer to it as RR from now on) I will provide you those references.
If you look at your chart of motions in the back of RR you will see that "Student Association Senators Right to Serve Act" is a motion to "Amend bylaws or constitution" and is classified "M/B" (Page 10 of the "Chart for determining when each subsidiary or privileged motion is in order", number 16). You can find rules about this class on page 72 starting at line 10 "Motions that bring a question again before the assembly." Now, Bahr and Scott's last piece of legislation titled "SA Senate Bylaw Revision" did essentially the same thing as their new legislation in that it attempted to remove Article VII Section 1 parts (f)(g) from the Senate Bylaws. According to RR on page 72 starting on line 29:
a)During the meeting or series of connected meetings (called a "session") in which the assembly has decided a question, the same or substantially the same question cannot be brought up again, except through special procedures that imply an unusual circumstance.
Since the Senate meets in a series of connected meetings this legislation is out of order until the next session (2007-2008) of the Senate and thus should not be considered and should be removed from the agenda. To reconsider the old legislation ("SA Senate Bylaw Revision") one of the Senate members that voted for its defeat (a nay voter) would have to motion to reconsider. This is in keeping with the rules of a motion to reconsider for a M/B classed motion.
Thank you,
Jacob Wu
L&S Student, UWM
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Dear Senators:
As you may know, the UWM Internal Audit Department, in collaboration
with the UW System Office of Operation Review and Audit, is presently conducting an audit of the UWM Student Association financial records. While the audit is not complete, we have iscovered several irregularities that will require some additional explanation. I will
be asking your President, Vice President, and Treasurer to meet with mein person as soon as possible to discuss these issues. In addition, if any of you has any information about SA financial matters that you think is relevant to the audit, please contact me.
Sincerely,
Paul W. Rediske
Director of Internal Audit
UW-Milwaukee
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