DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) failed to meet the quorum of 11 senators required to conduct a senate meeting and scrapped all remaining legislation for this year’s session.
The SGA had 10 of the 11 senators required at Friday’s meeting and was unable to reschedule since it was the last meeting of the year.
The scrapped legislation includes:
- A bill to expand the mediation procedures for the Organization Oversight Committee.
- This bill intended to establish procedures for the Organization Oversight Committee to mediate conflicts in student organizations that cannot be addressed internally.
- A bill to codify public comments pursuant to the Illinois Open Meetings Act.
- This bill intended to establish procedures surrounding public comments at senate meetings, specifically regarding decorum and time limits
- A bill to repeal the stipend for senators.
- This bill intended to remove the stipend received by senators at the end of the semester following the completion of their responsibilities.
- A bill to remove the responsibility of the stipend from the speaker of the senate’s responsibilities.
- A resolution to confirm the deputy speaker for the 57th Session.
- This resolution intended to confirm Eddie Guerrero, currently the Parliamentarian, as the Deputy Speaker for the 57th session.
Before adjourning the meeting, Speaker of the Senate Manny Corpuz shared some words about his time as a senator.
“My time here was one of the best times I’ve had in college. It’s been a long two and a half years for me running. I started as a senator and I worked my way up, trying to help as many people as I can, helping student organizations, helping in every area that I could,” Corpuz said.
Corpuz thanked the senate for their time and work throughout the session and provided some advice for returning senators.
“My piece of advice for you guys is just to start with the little things and work your way up from there. You’ll see by the end of the year that you’ve accomplished a lot more than you think,” Corpuz said.
