ASUCD Senate Meeting

Date: March 14th 2014

Location: Student Community Center Conference Room

ASUCD Vice President Kappes as presiding officer.

I. Call to Order: 6:15 PM

II. Quorum Roll Call:

President: Armando Figueroa L

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes P

Senate President Pro Tempore: Miles Thomas P

Senator: Amrit Sahota P

Senator: Pamela Nonga P

Senator: Ryan Wonders P

Senator: Yee Xiong P

Senator: Ruben Torres P

Senator: Jonathan Mitchell P

Senator: Katie Sherman P

Senator: Janesh Gupta P

Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla P

Senator: Gareth Smythe P

Senator: Mariah Watson P

Internal Affairs Chair: Spencer Mcmanus P

External Affairs Chair: Jenna Wooster P

Enviornmental Policy Planning Chair: Naftali Moed P

Academic Affairs Chair: Dana Servers P

Business and Finance Chair: Zach Griffith P

Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Chair: Kirti Garg P

Genders and Sexuality Chair: Robert Helfand P

Outreach Assembly Speaker: Lauren Ashe P

Controller: Eric Evans NP

Kappes: No electronics on the table as a reminder

III. Farewell Comments:

  1. Sahota
  2. Wonders
  3. Pamela Nonga
  4. Jenna Wooster
  5. Ruben Torres
  6. Yee Xiong
  7. Miles Thomas

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8:00 PM

First Attempt Quorum Roll Recall: 8:17

President: Armando Figueroa P

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes P

Senate President Pro Tempore: Vacant

Senator: Katie Sherman P

Senator: Jonathan Mitchell NP

Senator: Janesh Gupta NP

Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla NP

Senator: Gareth Smythe P

Senator: Mariah Watson N

Internal Affairs Chair: Spencer Mcmanus

External Affairs Chair: -Vacant-

Enviornmental Planning and Policy Chair: Naftali Moed

Academic Affairs Chair: Dana Servers

Business and Finance Chair: Zach Griffith

Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Chair: Kirti Garg

Genders and Sexualities Chair: Robert Helfand

Outreach Assembly Speaker: Lauren Ashe

Controller: Eric Evans

---QUORUM NOT MET---

Second Quorum Roll Recall: 8:17

President: Armando Figueroa P

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes P

Senate President Pro Tempore: Vacant

Senator: Katie Sherman P

Senator: Jonathan Mitchell NP

Senator: Janesh Gupta NP

Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla NP

Senator: Gareth Smythe P

Senator: Mariah Watson P

Internal Affairs Chair: Spencer Mcmanus P

External Affairs Chair: -Vacant-

Enviornmental Planning and Policy Chair: Naftali Moed P

Academic Affairs Chair: Dana Servers P

Business and Finance Chair: Zach Griffith P

Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Chair: Kirti Garg P

Genders and Sexualities Chair: Robert Helfand P

Outreach Assembly Speaker: Lauren Ashe P

Controller: Eric Evans NP

IV. Seating of New Officers 4-0-2

  1. Eugenia Chung 8:19 Oath Administered by Vice President Kappes
  2. Amelia Helland 8:21 Oath Administered by Vice President Kappes
  3. Robyn Huey 8:22 Oath Administered by Vice President Kappes
  4. Nicholas Sanchez 8:25 Oath Administered by Vice President Kappes
  5. Azka Fayaz 8:26 Oath Administered by Vice President Kappes
  6. Artem Senchev 8: 27 Oath Administered by Vice President Kappes

--- Senate President Pro Tempore Election---

  1. Nominations
  2. Senator Gareth Smythe- Accepted
  3. Senator Mariah Watson- Not Accepted-
  4. Votes
  5. no contestation
  6. Gareth Smythe Elected as Senate President Pro Tempore 8:30pm

V. Appointments and Confirmations

  1. Outreach Assembly Members
  2. Ashe: Delay till spring quarter
  3. External Affairs Commission Chair (remainder of chair woosters term)
  4. Amy Ly
  5. Wooster: previous member of EAC, utmost faith, encourage to ask questions, urge speedy confirmation
  6. Watson: projects on eac
  7. Ly: music on the green, incorporation of community, distribution of material, reaching out to sustainable units such as project compost
  8. Fayaz: favorite downtown business
  9. fundraiser 150 dollars for cal aggie camp
  10. Smythe: successor to watch out for
  11. Ly: plan for the long range, rough skeleton of planned following year, quarterly projects. try hard to outreach to bring back community service projects.
  12. Smythe: greatest strength as a leader
  13. Ly:organization, calendar, writing down things, writing down of ideas and communication
  14. AMY LY confirmed unanimous

VI. Unit Director Reports

  1. none

VII. Committee Reports

  1. Watson: Dillan, lots of applications, apply.
  2. Mcmanus: INC met, priorities, ursac met on wednesday, substance presented earlier.
  3. Smythe: SHAWC met talked about finals push. Important as finals leads to stress. focus on diet. Gareth eats pop tarts. HIV and aids testing. divesting from bloodsource. HIV and STD tested in the student health and wellness center. Marketing committee important. Picnic Day not acceptable if ASUCD logo not present. As it’s a asucd event. Picnic day graphics position eliminated for next fiscal year. Scavenger app. Sergio Cano won camera. Alex Park punched in face by Carly Sandstrom. lauren talked about splitting Outreach Assembly into 2 bodies, clubs and association. OA will be split pending leg. Talked about bill about ch 16 of the bylaws.

VIII. Presentation:

  1. Hottie Hot Hot Award:
  2. Wooster:Awarded to senator who has served the university and community and very poised, this quarter: Pamela Nonga was awarded. this quarter a little different, presentation of naughty not not award.
  3. Naughty Not Not Award: Miles Thomas presented, not for composure nor patience, did what he felt best for the association. This association is losing a wonderful member.
  4. Michael John Tucker Award:
  5. Kappes:For exploratory work as a senator choose by the SGAO Staff: Senator Amrit Sahota.
  6. Unit Relocation Space Allocation Committee Decision
  7. Thomas: Previously asucd senator, sitting on ursac during all 3 quarters of term. hands out handout, slideshow not available due to miscommunication,bear with me w/ color coding.
  8. Current down times for asucd presentation
  9. mu east wing in january of 2015 and will be a 18 month project. peace meal
  10. mu 3rd floor down march, done at at least to winter quarter of 2015. student services will be online
  11. south hall basement will not be undergoing renovation
  12. lower freeborn will not be going to renovation
  13. TB24 down june of 2015
  14. south silo second floor from august 2014-december 2014. diagrams are not available. will be turned into general meeting rooms, asucd availability shared with public. dance room will stay there, there will no longer be asucd units up there.
  15. tb 24: outdoor adventures moved to rec pool, aggie reuse will move to southern or northern most sections. bike barn will keep back section. bike barn take over of outdoor adventure space. whole earth festival cannot move to tb24.unknown amount of months will be in bike barn. cce moved 3 times. 3rd floor renovations must occur immediately, unitrans must move during winter break.
  16. units moving out of lower freeborn, asucd court getting 80 square feet. things can change.
  17. mu 3rd floor, loss of meeting rooms, bull pen, creative media expanding but loss of square footage, sgao moving, general movement. unitrans moved up to 3rd floor. new freeborn hopefully up in 5 or 6 years.
  18. south hall basement, currently all unitrans, unitrans moving out when 3rd floor finished. flex space available. sts staying. cce, project compost and calpirg moving to south hall basement. cce moving to first floor MU.
  19. MU renewal, nice looking, background of moving on sheet handed out. coho to go among other units are on hiatus. million dollars of cti funds to renovate catering space in MU.strongly advise pushing by senate.
  20. movement to lower harring abandoned labs for units. not advised. ursac powerful. urge priority.
  21. Sherman: how are we moving units, are we asking for help, question of design, did we talk to units
  22. Thomas: in MOU, design finalized, carly sandstrom responsible to talk to units, eric evans likewise.
  23. Moed: given plan to move cce and project compost, unit director proposes location.
  24. Thomas: cce move to said location, spot does not have heating. not optimal location.
  25. Watson: pantry, same location, nothing moving, sad.
  26. Thomas: flex space in south hall for pantry, not in conversation but space priority for pantry. unit director for pantry does not want extra space. senator Watson should advocate pantry.
  27. Watson: where is new mee room and are we shifting meeting rooms.
  28. Thomas: new mee room will be in south silo.elaboration of plans. new mee room will not be as big. mini mee room (proposed).
  29. Kapur: read the list
  30. Favard: for the units/calpirg, has interm location been planned and notice for move out
  31. Thomas: calpirg move out in august, no defined location for interim interim. needs new permanent space, south hall proposed. challenging. cal pirg to move to south hall.
  32. Favard: no timeline
  33. Thomas: this stuff happens fast, communicate
  34. Smythe: what the timeline for move
  35. Thomas: project move timeline available on sheet.
  36. Smythe: when are spaces finalized
  37. Thomas: to be finished. 3 members of ursac available yesterday and inappropriate to make decision
  38. Smythe: aggie threads on hiatus
  39. Thomas: aggie threads not operational, no director or mayed staff.
  40. Smythe: sodexo problematic to units
  41. Deferment to Sherman: explanation of previous question.
  42. Thomas: south silo there will not be any longer fast food restaurants. turn silo into mini quad, food trucks present, chinese food, gun rock going away. tex mex present along w/ burger bar. all branded fast food gotten rid of
  43. Watson: renovation creating student spaces, 4th floor space.
  44. Thomas: rc 2nd floor will be allocated.4th floor will be CRU and CSI. reservable student spaces will be south silo meeting room. GSA knocked out of south silo. ASUCD will have first dibbs.
  45. Watson dreams of meeting in mee room before end of my term.
  46. Thomas: dependant on presiding officer
  47. Kapur: wants to be back in mee room
  48. Kappes: being worked on
  49. Kapur: falling apart of MOU, now one massive MOU, presented next quarter.
  50. Thomas: carly did not understand what space we are entitled too.
  51. Kapur: admin approve MOU?
  52. Thomas: cannot speak
  53. Kapur: advisement on subject regarding MOU
  54. Moed: multiple smaller MOU presented at URSAC.
  55. Kapur: smaller documents and not one large document
  56. Mcmanus: changed from 1 doc to multiple MOU’s
  57. Kapur: make sure multiple smaller MOU’s. personal concerns.
  58. Senchev: excited to speak for the first time. proposed changes for unitrans, specified space is IT, what about other departments?
  59. Thomas: there are multiple offices on 3rd floor allocated to Unitrans. all offices are accounted for, not optimal but not belligerent by unitrans unit director. all units hurt.
  60. Senchev: unitrans one of largest units and needs more space.
  61. Schubert: large project, large details, experimental college told offices moved to bike barn, ec admin close to dance wing and meeting space to serve as class rooms, curious of plans, and of fate of experimental college display case. 80 square feet allocated to ec admin?
  62. Thomas: 80 square feet for court. this is interim. working on how to put experimental college in tb24 temporarily.bike barn going down 2014, and back 2015, ec will be back in bike barn.
  63. Schubert: move to lower freeborn for summer
  64. Thomas: august 14 to august 15. about a year.
  65. Helland: questions timeline
  66. Thomas: clarifies timeline of interim locations presented in presentation handout.
  67. Schubert: best of EC’s needs
  68. Thomas: to the best of our abilities
  69. Smythe: Thomas mentioned divide the house on best current plan, encourage questions, large scope, yield.
  70. Sherman: border line idea’s, begin advocating, defer to Thomas
  71. Thomas: done by last table, this was not reality, this is our best plan according to ursac, like some solidarity from table. nothing is permanent but need ad hoc plan.
  72. Sherman: vote or no renovation?
  73. Thomas: senate more appropriate than ursac for vote.
  74. Kapur: urge divide the house. do not know if admin approved.
  75. Thomas: asucd internal space.
  76. Kapur: until admin approves, urges against dividing the house.
  77. Thomas: fucked last time because we did not have a plan.
  78. Kapur: require mou
  79. Thomas: no for moving forward
  80. Kapur: mou public information?
  81. Chung: ask questions about rennovation… what is mou about but cannot divulge.
  82. Thomas: impact of director being informed, do not believe due diligence done. asucd needs centralization of power. cannot over consider but do have to consider. needs to be brought to unit. need for divide the house to start conversation
  83. Chung: not all units seen plan, wants to double check w/ units.
  84. Thomas: important to have ursac, to centralize decisions, unit director advice in plans. cannot finalized because of terms. not because not vetted, best thing for asucd.
  85. Watson: do not see floor plans for 1st floor MU, campus copies and classical notes, space issues. what are spaces gonna look like?
  86. Thomas: east wing of mu happy with plans, 100 percent on board
  87. Watson: her directors happy. urge new senators to meet w/ units for familiarization
  88. Senchev: I believe dialogue w/ sodexo to move to first floor of MU.
  89. Thomas: sodexo to centralize in DC and no longer wants to be in MU. Coho keen to take over. east wing units move to that space
  90. Senchev: sodexo willing
  91. Thomas: probably not
  92. moed: senate should divide the house to vett, cooperation of management team. appropriate venue would be larger ursac meeting w/ unit directors present.given nothing is finalized, urge divide the house.
  93. Smythe: love if clarify for purpose of divide the house.
  94. moed: divide the house would move discussion forward.plan would help further planning. urge aforementioned urging.
  95. Sherman: sodexo leaves, other things then coho moving, coho needs to get it over bookstore.

MOTION: divide the house asucd senate table should speak with all unit directors before further plans are made.

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes Present

Senator President Pro Tempore: Gareth Smythe Y

Senator: Artem Senchev A (P)

Senator: Nicholas Sanchez Y

Senator: Robyn Huey Y

Senator: Azka Fayaz Y

Senator: Amelia Helland Y

Senator: Eugenia Chung Y

Senator: Katie Sherman Y

Senator: Jonathan Mitchell A

Senator: Janesh Gupta Y

Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla Y

Senator: Mariah Watson Y

10-0-2 motion would pass.

Watson: all leg takes a while

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9:25 PM

Quorum Roll Recall:

President: Armando Figueroa NP

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes P

Senate President Pro Tempore: Gareth Smythe P

Senator: Artem Senchev P

Senator: Nicholas Sanchez P

Senator: Robyn Huey P

Senator: Azka Fayaz NP

Senator: Amelia Helland NP

Senator: Eugenia Chung P

Senator: Katie Sherman P

Senator: Jonathan Mitchell NP

Senator: Janesh Gupta P

Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla P

Senator: Mariah Watson P

Internal Affairs Chair: Spencer Mcmanus P

External Affairs Chair: Amy Ly P

Enviornmental Planning and Policy Chair: Naftali Moed P

Academic Affairs Chair: Dana Servers P

Business and Finance Chair: Zach Griffith NP

Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Chair: Kirti Garg P

Genders and Sexualities Chair: Robert Helfand NP

Outreach Assembly Speaker: Lauren Ashe P

Controller: Eric Evans NP

Quorum Established

IX. Public Announcements

X. Status of previously passed legislation

XI. Introduction of new legislation

  1. no new legislation,

XII. Consideration of old legislation

  1. SB 47 Thomas (tabled 3/6)

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes -

Senate President Pro Tempore: Gareth Smythe N

Senator: Artem Senchev N

Senator: Nicholas Sanchez N

Senator: Robyn Huey A

Senator: Azka Fayaz Y

Senator: Amelia Helland Y

Senator: Eugenia Chung A

Senator: Katie Sherman N

Senator: Jonathan Mitchell A

Senator: Janesh Gupta N

Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla Y

Senator: Mariah Watson N

SB 48 Thomas

1.1.Thomas: creation RACC for renovations and constructions. credibly influential and very important. memorialize that importance. new lines of communications. Life long terms for members (4 years) like the court. this committee would meet up every 2 weeks, to allow for voice on campus for students in terms of construction and renovations. students care about construction. 9 members to start, town hall meetings would be held. members hired based on project and interest. this would gender more interest.

1.2.Mcmanus: no recommendations

1.3.EAC Chair not present for recommendation

1.4.moed: there is a need to try this to see how we can improve it and would not cost asucd anything. logistics wise there can be no harm.

1.5.Sherman: concerns as to why we are creating this committee,understands purpose but why voice on matters which don’t concern us.

1.6.moed: this would be less like ursac but to provide a voice when it concerns students.

1.7.Sherman: why not just members go to pac meetings?

1.8.Thomas: it’s now allowed

1.9.Kapur: sat on pac’s this is a big issue. dedication of specialist will improve representation.

1.9.1.Sherman: concerns regarding age discrimination

1.10.Kapur: recommends referral to iac and reintroduced back to senate.

1.11.Fayaz: can I move remove my name from the recommendation from EAC? (no). concerned with double vote. in terms of long appointments, lifelong are just encouraged not required.

1.12.sahota: the bill that should have been seen next is time sensitive. this committee is a private entity, how is a committee member suppose to get into those meetings?

1.12.1.Thomas: meeting w/ campus architect, time requirement minimal. have found multiple people willing to have this position.

1.13.sahota: recommends movement into experimental college bill.

1.14.Huey: motion to call this bill to question

  1. Vice President: Maxwell Kappes
  2. Senate President Pro Tempore: gareth Smythe Y
  3. Senator: Artem Senchev Y
  4. Senator: Nicholas Sanchez Y
  5. Senator: Robyn Huey Y
  6. Senator: Azka Fayaz Y
  7. Senator: Amelia Helland Y
  8. Senator: Eugenia Chung Y
  9. Senator: Katie Sherman N
  10. Senator: Jonathan Mitchell A
  11. Senator: Janesh Gupta Y
  12. Senator: Shehzad Lokhadwalla A
  13. Senator: Gareth Smythe
  14. Senator: Mariah Watson Y

this would pass pass

Vice President: Maxwell Kappes

Senate President Pro Tempore: Smythe Y

Senator: Artem Senchev Y

Senator: Nicholas Sanchez Y

Senator: Robyn Huey Y

Senator: Azka Fayaz Y