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By Amanda Riddle and Todd Hardy
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 7, 1996
The Central Coordinating Council survived possible elimination last night when a 3-2 vote to dissolve itself failed to produce a three-fourths majority.The proposed amendment is a constitutional change, which requires a three-fourths majority of voting members to pass.
Undergraduate Senate Chairman Gilbert Davidson, Sen. Ryan Anderson and Sen. Maile Weigele voted for the proposed amendment to eliminate the CCC. Mindy McCollum, vice president for programs and services and Erin Russell, vice president for clubs and organizations, voted against the elimination.
The CCC consists of members of the Undergraduate Senate, Graduate and Professional Student Council, two faculty members, and the Associated Students' president, vice presidents and treasurer.
The Senate passed the proposed amendment Oct. 16 with a unanimous vote.
The vice presidents were worried that they wouldn't have representation, Davidson said, because the elimination of the council would have given the vice presidents no voting power in the ASUA constitution.
Sen. Anderson, who voted for the amendment, said the vice presidents' concerns could be addressed through the president's veto power.
Davidson said, "The result of today's CCC meeting only reinforces student government's ability to hear all sides of the issue. Everything came out at the meeting.
"The next step is just to keep working along at the pace we are and to keep in mind that GPSC has left," he said.
The failed amendment stated that the council would become inactive and all official ASUA matters would be handled by the Senate. The student body president would then have veto power over all official votes and the Senate could override the veto with a two-thirds majority.
It also stated that the GPSC would relinquish all voting rights in the ASUA Constitution.
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