Minutes 10.26.16/Agenda 11.2.16
Post date: Nov 1, 2016 2:56:41 PM
Agenda 11.2.16
Approval of Minutes
Reports
Staff of the Month Bylaw Revision Notification
Mental Health Discussion
Notes and New Business
Council Minutes 10.26.16
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” -Aristotle
Approval of Minutes
Reports
Treasurer: I wasn’t able to get new figures for this week but should be no change.
Secretary: Sheet is being passed around to sign up to report to a Common Ground that doesn’t have a rep assigned to them. Class of 2019 and Staff alternate can vote.
DSB: The board approved all of the March Intensive courses approved with a statement that COI and the Committee could change them based on their discussions they could bring back courses that had previously been removed. Wanted to keep many courses at a low cost. Redesign of the school website coming up.
PR: Talk to your peers to get motion ideas
Admin: talked more about Student of Month and Skip Bean
SAC: Quidditch where seniors beat the freshmen. Halloween dress up on Monday with check-in in the atrium to increase participation.
Curric: Began discussion on Curric survey
March Intensive Ad Hoc: Meet next week sometime
Gender Ad Hoc: Meets Monday during 3rd period
Yearbook Council Pictures
Plastic Water Bottle Discussion
Links to websites that may be worth looking at to investigate more
Going green is a great idea but NPR had a story about UVM banning plastic water bottles and found an increase in the amount of soda and other drinks bought
There are many environmental club members in Council and people should come to the meetings to discuss it because it directly related to the clubs mission
This change won’t shift everyone’s mindset because for students it is a matter of both convenience and thinking so we need to make it convenient and easy by making it an economic advantage and then raising awareness
Most of the plastic water bottles don’t actually contain water bottles so we could talk about instituting a soda fountain with reusable cups to address that problem
How would a soda fountain impact the cafe who already closes early
Is it possible to change the contract with the cafe
It is possible to make a change with the cafe based on what the consumers want
This could be looked at by enviro club and it wouldn’t be the first time they had brought a motion to Council
Five years ago the environmental club brought a motion to ban water being sold in the school and the two hang ups were the contractual obligations with the old cafe company and some group had a major fundraiser selling water at Basketball games
Environmental club can talk about this next Monday during Activity in the room at the end of the science hallway on the right, Mrs. Murray’s room
Conference at Dartmouth Discussion
In March this conference is using Council as the focus of their conference. They are going to come to a meeting and then they want to have a presentation about the history of Council and then Restorative Practices as a Case Study
Looking for people to help plan this conference
New School Space Discussion
The discussion about the new space is including a discussion about Council needing to have its own meeting space and hoping to form a committee of students to give input to the design process of such a space
The computer renderings created so far are really cool and everyone should check them out
We should have Council represented talking about the needs for Council
There is no set problem for this project
Important to have an Ad Hoc with underclassmen to carry on the project
If you are interested actually reach out and don’t expect others to do it
Council has shifted around trying to find a space where people can eat but we can also sit in circle and hear everyone and an ongoing problem has been the inability to find such a space
If you are interested email Mr. Stokoe and copy a member of leadership
Meeting Adjourned