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MEETING 9/11
OFFICER REPORTS
Kevin: wearing phantom toll booth shirt because didn’t do laundry until yesterday
Avalon: talked about communism extensively on Sunday, dressed up in suits and went to laser tag
NEW PERSON!!!!
Amanda, she/her, mech e, second year, once tried to get hypnotized but it didn’t work, breathes sometimes
Theo^Howard: went to an exec meeting, used a hair dryer to dry clothes, we have an event: GBGC, PH A18B
Nick: wrote a report for NASA, stayed up with the boys until midnight writing it procrastinating it, Pravda is out, please email, text on uk phone #, discord, mr_gu
Julia: played betrayal, finally saw barbie movie, fill out attendance
Theo: rode gator over some sticks (he’s a horse), clear the decks
Daniel: shoulder doesn’t hurt anymore
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Robert: ad hoc: Thataway, would look favorably upon throat lozenges
Nick: Block: $6.50
Tim: Corn subs: $4.72
Theo: teletubbies drama: asked professor if could write 2000 word final on teltubbies, answer is yes
Teadora: confused engineer: back to being confused, going to try programming
Theo: gatekeeping: Twain you’re not welcome here
Twain: ad hoc I forgot my charger: can I borrow a USB C charger
Avalon: ad hoc It’s Kevin’s birthday: sing happy birthday to Kevin
Twain: hivemind: happy birthday to you space kevin happy birthday to dear kevin happy birthday to you end report
Theo: space tequila mexico your own name end report
Nick: ah solidarity: solidarity within the kgb is at an all time high
Sanjeev: truth finding committee: solidarity within the KGB is not at an all time high
anti truth finding committee:solidarity within the kgb is at an all time high
anti truth finding anti commitee: anti truth finding committee is not a committee
Robert: anti committee: I’m not really a fan of this
Javier: solidarity is at an all time low
Theo: animal facts: lantern fly eyes, bzz
Twain: animal facts +ah i have anxiety: if you squish enough in a row, it feels like they’re crawling all over you after
Nick: animal facts: lantern flies impart psychic damage, bzz
ah provably unprovable: jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
Theo: culinary standards, made overnight oats with taro chia
Avalon: mis culinary standards: eating yoghurt and cold pizza only
Teadora: mis culinary standards: making salad, winning, gates prima has new menu items and fast panini press
Nick: ah gains: shrimp pasta ideal for after gym, carbs and protein
Howie: culinary unstandards committee: deep fried salted lanternflies
Twain: culinary substandards committee: would you like some chicken churro with that
OLD BUSINESS
Avalon has thing
Theo wants thing, not fault: classes on mondays, is fault: classes on other days
orders of the day:
From 2/6/23:
The procrastination committee, with purpose “I’ll think about it later”
Robert: motion to table for one year.
Nick: motion to amend to two weeks (friendly been changed)
Howard: motion to amend back to one year (friendly been changed)
Passed tabled for one year
Tied, Kevin declares its passed, been tabled for 1 year (until 2/6/24)
From 9/4/23:
Order of the day committee with purpose “To be tabled until next week. According to all known laws
of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.The bee, of course, flies anyway
because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.Yellow, black. Yellow, black.Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.
Barry! Breakfast is ready!”
Keerthana: motion to pass by acclimation
Avalon: motion to table for 1 week
Passed, been tabled for 1 week
NEW BUSINESS
Theo: motion to create the pretty pens committee “to gawk at the pretty pens some people spend way too much money on”
Teadora: fuck you theo
Theo: motion to salute Teadora
Avalon: motion to salute Theo
Howard: context please
Theo: trying to call self out for 40$ of pens, also calling roommate out about pens and washi tape being shipped from california
Avalon: describe
Theo: normal pens, fancy mechanical pencil, washi tape that can be peeled into stickers
Nick: this delegate only uses pilot g207 (didn’t catch the number)
Passed, sold for 2$ to Teadora, chaired by Theo
Javier: motion to create a misinformation committee officially committee “to lie”
Keerthana: motion to amend purpose to “to only spread correct information” (been changed)
Nick: I can only see this benefitting the org
Keerthana: motion to pass by corruption (not well defined)
Passed, sold for 5$ to Daniel, chaired by Pravda
Twain: motion to create a new standing rule defining motion to pass by corruption by anyone yelling out the street that Kevin lives on
if someone yells the name of the street kevin lives on, then the motion passes unless there’s an objection
Theo: Kevin’s address is not on the student directory
Twain: amend such that if you slip kevin a dollar, he can pass your motion, and if not you get your dollar back
Howard: motion to amend such that you can say to our current president (Kevin) dollar or address if he happens to pick $ and you have a dollar, if kevin chooses address, if you yell out the address if it’s correct, it has the same effect (unfriendly, not pursued)
Tim: how do you like your neighborhood kevin
Keerthana: seems to
Twain: if you want to object, you have to object and then give the chair more money, and then only one more time, someone can object to the objection and pass Kevin more money, without knowing the amount that the second person gave
Howard: cash
Twain: yes
Final motion: Motion to create a new standing rule defining motion to pass by corruption such that you give the chair 1$, functions similarly to pass by acclimation , except if someone wants to object, you have to object and then give the chair more money, and then only one more time, someone can object to the objection and pass Kevin more money, without knowing the amount that the second person gave. All of the money that goes up to the front stays with the KGB.
Passed, been stood
Avalon: motion to create the nicolas commemoration committtee “to say hi to nicolas in the minutes because I know he reads them”
Tim: something in French
Howard: love from the KGB
Nick: something in German? (actually french but I can’t change this according to Daniel)
Keerthana: motion to salute nicolas with love
Passed, sold for 4$ to nic, chaired by nicolas
Theo: motion to replenish the exec discretionary fund by the amound of 205$
Passed, been allocated
Nick: motion to allocate 73$ and 20c for this week’s event
Passed, been allocated
Keerthana: motion to create a standing rule such that any person named robert can supersede robert’s rules of order
Nick: motion to amend such that the person has to be robert^2 (unfriendly, not pursued)
Theo: motion to amend such that “robert’s rules of order” superseded by robert plus one (one being a friend new to the kgb robert brings
Daniel: motion to amend such that additionally someone named “roberts”
Teddy: motion to amend such that any colloquialism or nickname for robert is also allowed (unfriendly unpursued)
Keerthana: supersede means you get to do whatever you want in a gbm
motion to create a standing rule such that robert plus one (one being a friend new to the kgb robert brings), or anyone named roberts can supersede robert’s rules of order
Passed, been stood
Twain: motion to the left
Avalon: motion to create “a memes committee” purpose: “memes”
Theo: motion to fail by acclimation (Failed)
Theo: motion to amend the standing rule that has the corner of shame in it to also include committees
Passed, been stood
Twain: motion to create a standing rule such that if someone objects to a pass or fail by acclimation, if someone yells “pay attention in GBM”, then the person objecting must state at least generally what the motion is (as determined by the recording secretary), if they fail to do so, they are sent to the corner of shame for 2 minutes
Theo: motion to create the standing rule such that similar to a motion to acclimation, you can create a motion to eh by acclimation, then say “it’s an idea”, if no one objects, the motion will be tabled for one week
Passed, been stood
ANNOUNCEMENTS
WE R KGB, plan events Sunday in UC
Howard: event, GBGC, betrayal and other inferior games, friday 7pm in the oven
Theo: there are dues pay them, 15$/sem, 20$/year, 69$/hour can be payed via cashnet (and notifying theo on discord) or cash
Kevin: dues deadline for contiguous membership, sept 30th
Kevin: booth shirts, 20$ for non-dues, 15$ for dues
Kevin: booth: got email from SCC, we’re planning to do the vote on whether we do booth as an org next week
Elise: they’re asking for our booth chairs
Kevin: they asked for booth chair availability, we don’t have booth chairs
Kevin: important vote for us to know what our booth plans are/what we will be capable of in spring
Theo: if we vote to do booth, it will be a committment for the booth chairs, and the org, we will need people to come to weekly booth builds
Elise: arts and craftsing the shit out of it
Kevin: become a booth chair if you’re interested in organizing booth things, not recommended for freshmen,
Keerthana: # of booth chairs
Kevin: still 6, probably
SCHMUCKS
Nick: submit to pravda! please!
Sorry I don’t know your name yet: reached 9.1 octillion paperclips
Alex: president of speculative fiction book club, about 50 pages a week, will have food weekly, link to discord is in schmucks channel of kgb discord, circe, all systems red, laizel okimura, project hail mary, one more I did’t hear. Announcements channel of discord will have when2meet to set time.
Theo: motion to purple
Avalon: motion to gitfo
