PSA Meeting Minutes - September 9, 2008
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Attendance:
13:00 (Election Only, for those that couldn't make 13:30) - Run By Steven Suh
Clara
Ryo
Vincent
Zara
Golnar
Matt
Laleh
Marcus
Brian

13:37- Run By Alex Loosley
Elena Barbir
Jason Alexander Kirkby
Aditi Ramesh
Mehrad Alavino
Savanna Shaw
Michael Ages
Karol Krizka


Official Meeting Start at 13:37
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Nominations Based on WhietBoard, 13:00 votes written in brackets
President: Steven (8), Savanna (added at 13:37 by Alex)
Secretary: Karol (9), Dusanka
Treasurer: Mehrad (8)
Forum Rep: Karol, Steeb
Upper Division: Keelan (9), Steve
Lower Division: Brian(9), Gwen

Decided if Savanna gets 1/2 or more votes than Steven, we get revote due to late addition.

Votes:
Alex gave introduction to Steven (not present).
Savanna  talked about herself and involvement with CUPC2007.
Steven came in for pizza, so gave his speech. Talked about replacing the small couch, replacing Mac keyboard, cleaning up and replacing broken lights.

President: Steven (8+4=12) Savanna (0+4=4) 			STEVE WINS
Secretary: Karol (9), Dusanka 					KAROL WINS
Treasurer: Mehrad wins by default				MEHRAD WINS
Forum Rep: Postponed, because no one who knows who Steeb is.
Upper Division: Keelan wins, since Steven is the president.	KEELAN WINS

Alex introduces Gwen (not present).
Brian likes pizza, can't get him out of the room and listens to people
Lower Division:	Brian(9+6=15), Gwen (0+1=1)			BRIAN WINS			

SUMMARY
President: Steven Suh
Secretary: Karol Krizka
Treasurer: Elena Barbir
Upper Division: Keelan Watkins
Lower Division: Brian Kootte

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Alex motions to reimburse Brian Kootte for $52.64 for pizza. Voted for unanimously.

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Alex talks about current state of the PSA
~$350 from Summer + $600 for Fall = $900-$1000 to spend
Minutes from past are on the PSA website

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Alex talks about going to 100 level physics classes and talk to recruit students.
Savanna mentions that we should only go to smaller classes, because the big classes have many students who take physics because 
Alex tried to recruit people into PSA from PHYS211 by classroom speaking, but no one showed up from there.
Postponed for now...

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Antonio Daling's talks about PSA and SFSS
- Funding of $600 will be transferred to core funding after Antonio gets these minutes.
- New travel funding form.
- Food safety training advertisement and how it works. If done at SFU, free for DSU members. See poster on the PSA door.
- Nuts&bolts workshop for new executives. How to run a DSU and so on...
- Pub is reserved for DSU meetings on Fridays. See http://www.sfss.ca DSU Bulletin
- Other ways to raise money: 
	- Grants for events
	- Loans for other things (ei: loans to sell shirts

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Stephanie Hendy
- Science carnival ideas, let Stephanie know.
- Are people interested for an online forum for science students.
	- Computer science already has one
	- Good for socializing
Contact Information: 
	Stephanie Hendy
	MBC 2220, SFU 
	Phone: (604) 732-1245 
	Fax: (778) 782-5842
	E-Mail: sciencerep@sfss.ca


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Physics career day in November, looking for volunteers. There is a link on the website. (http://www.sfu.ca/psa/Event0811.txt)
Finance aware night, Alex not sure if he should advertise on mailing list...

Meeting adjourned at 2:24pm