Lexington (MA) High School Senate

LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT-FACULTY SENATE

2005-2006

Moderator Peter Lubershane, Assistant Moderator Sam Kafrissen, Secretary Peter Kim

11-2-05 Agenda: Announcements

Open Comments

Committee Reports

Community Service Resolution

New Business

Minutes from Meeting: 10-26-05

I. Call to Order: Meeting is called to order at 7:50 by Moderator Lubershane

II. Approval of Minutes: Minutes approved.

III. Approval of Agenda: Agenda approved.

IV. Announcements:

1) French exchange students are welcomed.

2) Freshmen senators should see Secretary Kim after meeting for

committee assignments.

3) There's a GSA dance this Friday, October 28th.

4) We need 38 Senators for the quorum.

5) Come to the Halloween Party hosted by the Drama Club.

V. Open Comments:

1) President declared a milestone was reached when 2000 soldiers died in Iraq.

2) Senate pictures will be taken in Commons 1 after school.

VI. Committee Reports:

1) Policy is crafting an amendment dealing with the number of Senators

that should be in Senate.

2) Climate met. Talent show was a success. Climate is also drafting a new bill.

3) Communications committee will meet in Room 633 after school today.

4) Communications meets in the math faculty area on Wedneday

after-school. Oversight meets in Room 615 on Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Climate meets on Wednesday after-school in the black box drama room.

Social action meets in Guidance Conference rooms before school on

Wednesday. Policy meets in room 232.

VII. Community Service

1) Continued discussion of amendment to strike statements 4-7 from the

resolution.

a) Why do we want to get rid of it? Committee that is created should

decide how to proceed with the issues.

b) We shouldn't bring up issues of morality into policy initiatives.

c) Inclusion of the mission statement would be a good idea.

d) Senator Colarusso was not against those statements. He just felt

they limited the flexibility of the new committee that will be formed.

e) We shouldn't dictate morality.

f) The statements 4-7 don't come close to providing a policy

mandate. We should get out as many ideas as we possibly can.

g) We should many alter only statement 4 because it uses superlatives.

h) Let us remind you that we don't know who this committee would be.

Maybe they will be able to formulate a good community service

definition or maybe not.

i) These statements were included after talking to Dr. Jones. These

statements are directly from the Student Handbook and they are in

contradiction with the current policies.

j) We should work with statement #4.

k) Senate will be in close contact with this new committee that is formed.

l) #12 is on point. The other statements should be struck.

m) Amendment fails.

2) Motion to strike statement 4 containing the Newman quote. It is too

strongly worded.

a) Amendment passes.

3) Motion to amend the bottom statement on the front page to strike

everything after "many students" and insert "make efforts to fulfill

their community service obligations by bending the rules and in the

process violating the spirit of our school's community service

requirements."

a) Amendment passes.

4) Motion to insert a new #4 in the resolution on the back page. It

will read "Community service committee will in addition to the

above-named senators, include members from the LHS community up to two

less than the number of senators to be appointed by the executive

committee."

a) We need to be specific. Senate is a majority.

b) Confusion about the last phrase "to be appointed by executive

committee" raised.

c) It will be two less than the numbers of senators.

List of Senators Absent from Senate meeting: *Denotes excused/notified absence.

Gao Krensky* Lane Shen* Jhe* Bogart* Buttaro

Chambers Colarusso Richardson Sher Serrano