RESIDENCE HALL ASSOCIATION

at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Stanley Gawlik, President – SAG6@njit.edu

Elizabeth Lee, Vice President – EML2@njit.edu
Michael Gonzalez, NCC – MLG3@njit.edu
Ruby Rogers, Secretary – RJR22@njit.edu
Patrick McGrail, Treasurer – PHM2@njit.edu
Christopher Ojeda, Public Relations Officer – CDO2@njit.edu
Karen Quackenbush, Advisor - quackenbush@njit.edu

Website: http://web.njit.edu/~rha E-mail:

RHANJIT@gmail.com
Residence Hall Association Minutes – December 1, 2008
I. Introduction – start: 11:43 AM
II. Approve Minutes - approved
III. Reports
i. President
a. E-Board Meeting – discussed leadership training program. People we are going to contact when
it is going to be.
ii. Vice President
a. Toys for Tots – video games 1$ each in Walmart. Donating as organization.
iii. National Communication Coordinator
a. Information on bidding for awards for No Frills – in Feb. Like to have us bid for every award at
the conference.
b. Old business – Lawson said bottom of email was hard to read. Karen doesn’t want to send more
than one thing.
c. Karen – lots of emails, people will ignore. Want everyone to read emails. Cannot send out
numerous emails.
d. Directions of what people should do on the forum. There is a new tab up on the form now for
info for new members. There will be new innovative ways to advertise.
e. CAACURH – cheers in meeting. Practice cheers. Did jump shake your booty =]
iv. Treasurer
a. Budget – has not been updated. No changes. Printed one copy – going green. Read numbers.
b. Leadership Seminar – getting people on campus – people who would be willing to present.
v. Public Relations Officer
a. Senate Cabinet Meeting – not present
vi. Senate - absent
vii. Hall Council Representatives
a. Redwood – met with Cypress. Planning to do an event when return to school. Trying to get
other hall councils.
b. Cypress – met with Redwood. Dinner Cruise, last day of classes, as of today open to whole
building.
c. Laurel – nothing to report
d. Oak – absent.
viii. RA Representatives
a. Redwood – no programs yet, Ken had a program yesterday, meeting with Cypress tomorrow.
b. Cypress – Wed – roommate game, ping pong tournament, guitar hero tournament, gift card
prizes.
c. Laurel - absent
d. Oak - absent
ix. Clubs
a. BGA – nothing new
b. NRHH – inducting people on Dec. 7 having meeting around then.
 c. Green Team – nothing new.
x. Committees
a. Programming – went on forum a bit over the weekend, a few ideas, solidify Senate weekend.
Superbowl party, summer bash.
b. Food – going to set up a weekend. Full launch with ticketing system in the spring.
c. Fundraising – we have a fundraising idea, need to do more research on it.
IV. Old Business
i. Budget discussion – Lawson and Ken had discussion last week. Should we distribute the budget now? *5
min discussion.
ii. Key points gone through from last meeting.
iii. Ken – asked do we have the solution that we need. Is the budget going to go away? No.
iv. NCC – money cannot go away. Money will still be taken from residents but won’t go to RHA.
v. Karen – the way the account is set up, it’s never been touched before. Has spoken to people and their
budget is gone. Economy issues. No idea what is going to happen. “Crazy things could happen.”
vi. Ken – it hasn’t happened in 10 years is reassuring. Even if the entire budget is yanked, we will still be
fine. If we lose $20,000 we can still fundraise. Hopefully this puts away all uncertainty.
vii. Vote to close discussion: voted.
V. New Business
i. Ken – one of the things that he has been working on the website is an online proposal system. Need to
know what would you need in a system? *5 min discussion Feedback: Katie – like to see who’s
proposing it, and if you’re proposing it and you don’t have voting rights – voting person’s name, money,
and what the proposal is for.
ii. Ken – looking more along the lines of how would you like the info presented?
iii. General feedback: good idea. Concerns: time constraints
iv. Stan – *extend by 2 min.
v. Ken – RHA goes through a lot of paper. The goal is managing the website to go paperless. Have
everything on that. All records from like 2005 online. All going towards going paperless, go green.
vi. NCC - *extend by 1 min.
vii. Ken – second question – know that address is a little obtuse. Technical possibility of changing web
address.
viii. Ken – purchase domain. / Karen – very strict on how the website looks and everything. Don’t want the
higher powers to scrutinize website. Can put in a request to forward to RHA. Could try that.
VI. Open Floor and Services Issues
i. Rebecca – where drop off Toys for Tots? – Reslife. If we can hold an event where we can raffle stuff.
Would it help spend money? Answer: not an open floor and service issue.
VII. Kudos and Shout Outs
i. Kudos to Ken for comment
ii. Karen – being Karen.
iii. NCC – for jump shaking the booty.
VIII. Announcements
i. Programming – Cypress 8th floor lounge – 8:30 PM – conflict with Honors Theater – adjust meeting time.
ii. Matt – doing program for honors night at the theater. – directors project. Plays put on by students.
NJIT/Rutgers theater program.
iii. NCC – use forum.
iv. Ken – emails going out about next food committee meeting.
IX. Adjournment 12:25PM