February 3, 2026<\/p>\n
2:15pm, Forum 3-130, Downtown Campus Room 200B, Zoom<\/p>\n
Student Senators<\/strong><\/p>\n President<\/strong><\/p>\n Vice President of Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n Student Trustee<\/strong><\/p>\n Chief of Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n Office of Student Life<\/strong><\/p>\n Visitors<\/strong><\/p>\n Call to Order (2:15 pm)<\/p>\n Good afternoon everyone, I hope you are all doing well. This past week, on Thursday, January 29th, I had the opportunity to interview a new candidate for student government alongside several members of my team. This was an exciting process, and we are always eager to welcome new additions who are passionate about getting involved. Later that same day, I also had the opportunity to meet with MCC staff alongside Vice President Rizzuti and Chief of Staff Pottinger. During this meeting, we collaborated and brainstormed ideas for a potential clothing drive. I really enjoyed this discussion, as we are always looking for meaningful ways to increase our involvement and better support the MCC community. Overall, this week was very productive and rewarding. It was great to see our continued efforts toward growth, collaboration, and finding new ways to positively impact the MCC community.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t No report for this week<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t No report for this week<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t Hello everyone I’ve had a productive week and have been working on canva, figuring out how to fulfill my role as public relations senator. Besides that I’ve been working hard to prepare for the upcoming student to student meetings.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t No major updates to report this week. I remained available for student concerns and continued to stay informed on ongoing SGA initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t The second week of the Spring Semester went very well. Classes are off to a strong start, and I\u2019ve been able to settle into a productive routine. My course work load has been high, yet manageable, and I\u2019m feeling confident about staying organized and engaged as the semester progresses. This week also gave me time to think about how I want to contribute more actively to SGA. I\u2019m particularly interested in increasing our visibility on campus and strengthening our connection with the student body through tabling events. We aren’t set on dates yet, but I plan to get back to you all once we get those sorted out.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t I had a great first week of classes and feel really good about how the semester is starting. I was able to get organized early, meet my professors, and settle into my schedule, which helped ease a lot of first-week stress. I\u2019m looking forward to staying on track and being more involved as the semester continues. We will be holding our student-to-student meeting on Friday from 1\u20132 PM, and I\u2019m excited to connect with students, hear their concerns, and create a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\t Jodi congratulated all the students who were chosen as SUNY Chancellor\u2019s Award recipients.\u00a0 She thanked the SGA members who would be traveling for SUNY Advocacy Day and would be advocating for additional funding for MCC Childcare, Workforce Development, and Optics.\u00a0 President Burno was selected to be the community college representative on the steps of the capital building to advocate for food pantries specifically for the food lockers like the ones MCC has.\u00a0 Jodi reminded the students to take pictures and video for social media.\u00a0 And not to forget to take Tiberius.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n Respectfully submitted<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 3, 2026 2:15pm, Forum 3-130, Downtown Campus Room 200B, Zoom In Attendance Student Senators Senator Maddilyn Keech Senator Elle Reeves Senator John Breedy Senator Rusty Smetanyak President Lisa Burno Vice President of Governance Margherita Rizzuti Student Trustee Parker Werven Chief of Staff Abigail Pottinger Office of Student Life Advisor:\u00a0Jodi Oriel Faculty Advisor:\u00a0Mark Sample Visitors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-minutes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/sga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t
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\nVice President of Governance Rizzuti called for a roll call to start the senate meeting.<\/li>\n\t\n\t
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\nTeri Best handed out a document that included the timeline.\u00a0 This timeline is available to anyone.\u00a0 There is an open Association board meeting on 2\/26, with a vote on the budget taking place on April 23rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 Ginny asked that if the SGA supports the budget proposal that they draft and pass a resolution in favor.<\/li>\n\t
\nCalvin began by thanking the SGA, on behalf of President Burt-Nanna and the ELT, for their representation at Advocacy Day and their work in advocating for additional funding for MCC.\u00a0 He went on to talk about the Campus Climate Survey and encouraged participation as this is used in planning for the next Stretegic Plan.\u00a0 He asked for suggestions on the best way to promote and encourage the student body to participate.\u00a0 SGA members offered a couple suggestions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nOld Business<\/h3>\n
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\nSenator Breedy so moved, second by Senator Smetanyak<\/li>\n\t