George Lesica, City Council liaison for Student Government, likes working with Charleston mayor Dan Cougill.

“I don’t anticipate any problems getting along at City Hall,” Lesica said. “The mayor’s a very nice man. I think we’ll be able to work very closely to accomplish both of our goals.”

The Student Senate approved sophomore political science major Lesica for City Council liaison at Wednesday’s senate meeting.

Lesica anticipates a positive year attending the weekly meetings, voicing his concerns and opinions for the university.

His experience in Student Government last year and this semester helped prepare him for the role. Last semester he served on the University Development and Recycling Committee and as Student Government secretary.

This year Lesica is the chair of the External Relations Committee and member of the University Development and Recycling Committee.

He said a liaison participates in discussion with City Hall concerning the relationship with university students and area residents.

“There’s a lot of strain. Some of it probably comes with the students and citizens who kind of want to live quieter lives,” he said.

Lesica, who grew up in Brookfield, is also a pre-law minor with an interest in politics.

“I did some campaigning in high school for state representatives,” Lesica said. “I know I want to be a lawyer, but I’m not sure I want to practice law. I like the idea of being a lobbyist. That would be interesting.”

He said he would welcome the experience of being Speaker of the Senate or vice president in the future.

“They have very important power to get their own point of view across,” he said.

Lesica said there might be some City Hall discussion about sound meters purchased by the University Police Department to read sound decibels coming from any location. The meters have not been used yet, but will allow police to better judge if noise from a residence is over the state or local legal limit.

Lesica said he will likely be one member of Student Government to ride along with police when they do use the meters to look into “basically the reason they were purchased.

“When students complain about tactics the police use it’s just nice (to investigate),” he said.

He said another issue could be rental inspections. The city can inspect rental properties and if found to be below standards, renters can be forced to find another residence.

“The problem is a lot of students wouldn’t want their property inspected because they know it’s substandard,” Lesica said.