- Call to Order 6:13
- President: Armando Figueroa np
- Vice President: Maxwell Kappes p
- Senate President Pro Tempore: Mariah Watsonpy y
- Senator: Artem Senchev p y y
- Senator: Nicholas Sanchez np y y
- Senator: Robyn Huey p y y
- Senator: Azka Fayaz p y y
- Senator: Amelia Helland p y y
- Senator: Eugenia Chung p y y
- Senator: Katie Sherman p y y
- Senator: Jonathan Mitchell np a y
- Senator: Janesh Gupta p y y
- Senator: Nick Park np a a
- Senator: Gareth Smythe p y y
- ECAC Chair Nilofer Chollampat np
- EPPC Chair Marissa Ayala np
- IAC Chair Nathan Bentham p
- EAC Chair Abire Sabbagh np
- AAC Chair Allan Bach np
- GASC Chair Ivon Garcia p
- BNF Joanna Jaroszewska p
- Outreach Assembly Lauren Ashe p
- Controller: Rylan Shaeffer np
Break – 7:18
7:34
- President: Armando Figueroa p
- Vice President: Maxwell Kappes p
- Senate President Pro Tempore: Mariah Watsonp y
- Senator: Artem Senchev p y
- Senator: Nicholas Sanchez p y
- Senator: Robyn Huey p y
- Senator: Azka Fayaz p y
- Senator: Amelia Helland p y
- Senator: Eugenia Chung p y
- Senator: Katie Sherman p y
- Senator: Jonathan Mitchell npy
- Senator: Janesh Gupta p y
- Senator: Nick Park np a
- Senator: Gareth Smythe p y
- ECAC Chair Nilofer Chollampat p
- EPPC Chair Marissa Ayala np
- IAC Chair Nathan Bentham p
- EAC Chair Abire Sabbagh p
- AAC Chair Allan Bach p
- GASC Chair Ivon Garcia p
- BNF Joanna Jaroszewska p
- Outreach Assembly Lauren Ashe p
- Controller: Rylan Shaeffer np
- Quorum Roll Call
- Appointments and Confirmations – 7:14
- External Affairs Commission 7:43
- Mikayla Kutsuris - confirmed
- Questions
- Watson: Why?
- Kutsuris: get involved with Davis and community. Thought it would be fun
- Helland: How can commissions improve relationship between students and community?
- Kutsuris: Communication.
- Helland: Favorite downtown business?
- Kutsuris: Crepeville. Yoloberry.
- Sherman: Experience planning events, businesses?
- Kutsuris: CA State delegate for high school, learned about community and creating events
- Kunzhao Lao – 8:12
- Questions
- Kappes: Why?
- Lao: needs lots of communication skills, which I’m interested in. Did a lot of jobs like this in my high school
- Kappes: How can commissions improve relationship between students and community?
- Lao: UC Davis is only a school. There’s no connection between campus and town. EAC builds a bridge. Hold activities that can improve relationship. Try our best to make more events.
- Kappes: Favorite downtown business?
- Lao: thrift shop?
- Kappes: Experience planning events, businesses?
- Lao: President of student gov. in high school, more than 6 big events at high school.
- Outreach Assembly - 7:40
- Joseph Pi, Jennifer Chiou
- Questions
- Sherman: What intrigued you?
- Pi: work with clubs, get involved with decisions
- Chiou: get involved, transfer student. Reach out to other students
- Watson: Any projects you’re interested in working on?
- Chiou: more events for transfers for transition into Davis. Transfers are also very new too.
- Pi: more events to involve with international students. International students outside the loop.
- Confirmed
- Student Organization Special Committee Chair – 7:14
- Ashe: Maegan Enverga. Served in OA for a long time, a lot of involvement with clubs.
- Questions
- Smythe: Most important goals for this year
- Enverga: See that clubs are inactive, would like to join pre-law clubs so they can work together. Get more manpower.
- Smythe: what are you going to do with money?
- Enverga: Leadership Summit, teach skills.
- Watson: What do you envision your first big project to be after you get people in on this?
- Enverga: Post applications, on FB, spread word
- Confirmed
- International Undergrad Committee Chair – 7:37
- Vishal Chakraborty
- Questions
- Sherman: Biggest obstacle?
- Chakraborty: Funding. Hopefully ASUCD will provide us with funds. No free food, no one comes.
- Watson: Biggest barrier between domestic and international students?
- Chakraborty: Registration. International students often can’t get their classes bc they register after most domestic students.
- Confirmed
- Unit Director Reports – 6:15
- Coffee House
- 1300 more customers than last year first day of school
- Increase prices 8% overall
- Sales up between 14-16%
- 9000 daily transactions reached 5 times this month
- New expanded training, 4 hours added to training: including diversity, food handling
- 4 project teams this summer, allows student managers to see different aspects of launching new concepts
- Veggie medley for meatless Mondays promo
- PCI compliance – credit card handling
- Assistant facility manager hired
- CoHo South Café – 1000 customers per day
- CoHo to Go – 500 transactions per day, East Wing renovations will close store
- CoHo Thanksgiving Dinner
- Student Manager Curriculum Program
- Restarting Open Mic nights? Coffee service in study spaces?
- Public Discussion
- Mariah: make a 1% more profit?
Darren: reservations about profit-driven model, coho always stood for being a service for students, keeping costs as low as possible. If we do what we should be doing and we’re doing everything effectively, then we should make money. I don’t think we should look at it as a profit-driven model.
- Gareth: thanks for Coca-Cola.
Darren: asked to do a beverage agreement, made a decision to not participate. We are here to serve customers, not to make money. A lot of debate on financial benefits anyway.
Gareth: You are aware of CoHo south lines. What steps are you taking to relieve tension in space?
Darren: not a lot we can do besides be efficient. Never ask employees to rush. Make it right and with a smile. The space is limited. Ultimately, we are seeing great numbers, and we’re seeing happy customers.
- Watson: Did we solidify space in International Student Center? Sodexo or us?
Darren: Not confirmed. Janice sent email to DCM, no answer.
- Chung: How’s catering service?
Darren: Fairly good, 50k a year. We’ve made a conscious decision to not dive headfirst into the catering world. Unless we bring on more staff, catering is a big job.
Chung: Lots of clubs don’t know CoHo caters
Darren: We don’t want to market it too much.
- Huey: I noticed when I use card, they don’t check my ID.
Darren: Never obligated to. Visa doesn’t even recommend checking ID. Even if they don’t have an ID, we are still obligated to serve them. Not something we’re allowed to enforce.
- Gupta: You mentioned that sales are up, price increase. Ever see prices will go down?
Darren: No. Don’t know where we’ll be at the end of the year. Food costs continue to rise. As a food service operator, reducing prices is really never done. 14% more sales = 14% more food. If we made 150k at the end of the year, I’d have to look at it again, but we’re spending a lot of money right now. We didn’t raise money until September. We need these good months.
- Aggie ReUse – 7:07
- Aggie ReUse Store – oncampus store that sells secondhand products to students. Biggest goal is to do new upcycling projects. Goal to get new manager for just upcycling.
- Hopefully meet goal by end of winter quarter.
- New advertising techniques.
- Get interning credits.
- Consignment
- The Move – TV 24
- Update website, hopefully move online.
- Public Discussion
- Chung: Work with clubs like Student Fashion Association?
- Isobe: Difficult to coordinate right now, hopefully with upcycling manager will work out.
- Committee Reports – 8:10
- Kappes – the scholarship has been pushed back. Reception on 20th, due on the 9th.
- Watson – Automatic course evaluation met, going to have it implemented in every single department
- Presentations – 6:40
- The Pantry
- Tera: since last Thursday, got 700 items of food. Special thanks to all who posted on Facebook. Calculating all that we gained, that’s an additional 4 weeks of food. We’ll be set for the quarter if it keeps coming in. Craig Brady assisting with purchasing power. Wanted to thank all of you guys.
- Public Announcements – 6:43
- Fayaz: Thanks to everyone for Pantry donations. Also, I’m in contact with grad student associations, they have also contributed to the Pantry. You can continue to reach out to those associations.
- Roman: Election Day coming up. Be sure to promote it. Shoutout to Amelia to Carry That Weight.
- Ashe: OA was going to have an event, but rescheduled to next week because rain. Bring cans for Pantry contest.
- Kapur: Giants won. Special events room in ARC.
- Smythe: I’m down with pumpkin patch year round. Talked about Promise for Education money, they found the money when I went back to check on it. We have our 25k. We have to give it out this fiscal year. Max and I are working on project to give out that money. Prepare to see leg. For that.
- Casey: FAHC event.
- Chung: SFAHC meeting. Can’t make it. Can someone go in my place?
- Fayaz: Meeting with Student Affairs and Campus Recreation. Potential for another reflection room, built here on this part of campus. Washing facilities for Muslims, but not exclusively. Working on resolution to support that, working alongside Armando. If you have any questions, please talk to me.
- Watson: Retreetreat. Applications due tonight. Open to anyone. Geared towards education. First weekend of winter break.
- Smythe: 3rd Annual 5k Strive for Aggie Pride – Apr. 26th. If you wanna run, you should. It’s going to be my 21st bday.
- Status of Legislation Previously Passed – 8:12
- It passed
- Introduction of New Legislation – 8:08
- ASUCD Senate Bill to reimburse Pantry
- Move Student Government Affairs to Student Services
- 56 bucks for CoHo vouchers for lunch for ASUCD
- Clarify Creative Media relationship to ASUCD Social Media
- Consideration of Old Legislation – 6:52
- SR #1
- Tabled.
- SR #3
- Senchev: ratifies Title 6. If there is any org. that receives federal grants, they need set of rules regarding discrimination. Needs to be ratified by governing body. Unitrans will get 2.4-2.6 mill a year.
- Internal Affairs: easypass, pass it.
- External Affairs: Same.
- EAC Affairs: Add citizenship. Also my name is spelled wrong, a real problem.
- Questions in Text
- Remove lines 12-15
- Public Discussion
- Helland: was Unitrans not in compliance before this?
- Senchev: It always had them, but Title 6 requires governing body to ratify
- Senate
- Senchev: if anyone would motion to divide house, then table.
- 10-0-2
- SB #4 – 7:47
- Senchev: sets up gift fund for entrepreneurship fund. Allows opportunity for funding to be gained from other opportunities. Might need to table this though.
- B&F: passed, makes sense for them to use the money they have. Don’t need to just spend money on anything.
- IAC: Least contentious bill. Makes complete sense, further student involvement in entrepreneurship.
- Questions in Text
- Public Discussion
- Smythe: Empowers e-fund.
- Divide the house 11-0-1
- Senate
- Sherman: motion to pass
- SB #11 – 7:56
- Smythe: split reserve account between experimental college and gardens. Purpose of reserve – to pay for expenses gardens and courses incurred. Gardens needed more money in their accounts. Takes 5k out of courses, creates account for Gardens.
- B&F: Made sense. Not contentious. Made sure both parties were okay.
- IAC: Amount being split off, how it was decided on? Garden traditionally donated to reserves. Non-contentious.
- Questions in Text
- Public Discussion
- Senate Discussion
- Watson: Everything Nathan said took care of my questions. Experimental college not have money in reserves?
Smythe: Addressed in next bill.
- Chung: Currently 6k after or before 5k?
Smythe: Final gardens – 5k. Final courses – 1k.
- Sherman: Explain spending breakdown?
Smythe: It’s total cost.
- Kappes: we’re not spending money. It’s just moving. It’s no cost.
- Senchev: These accounts are cash accounts. Instead of plus, it could be credit. Instead of minus, it could be debit.
- Passed
- SB #12 – 8:03
- Smythe: Update to experimental college budget to reflect changes we have made. Experimental college exceeded goal by 125%.
- Internal Affairs – Rylan asked for us to withdraw this bill. We weren’t supposed to see this in the first place.
- B&F – diagram.
- Questions in Text
- Public Discussion
- Senate Discussion
- Passed
- Ex-Officio Reports – 8:17
- Ashe
- Went to CSI Student Advisory council meeting
- Met with graphics about research manual
- Met with Alfredo
- Meeting on Wednesday
- Harvest Event 11/6, Dorm Fair 11/19
- Sabbagh
- No legislation
- ARTorertum: Fall into Davis with FAC
- Nov. 14 or 21 at MU Patio – 3:30-6 pm
- Contacting Art Club/Department (will get supplies by this weekend)
- Outreaching to community (want families & kids to join)
- Stay tuned for flyer – help us advertise!
- Chollompat
- Legislation – we passed it. Teri was really nice, we talked about Dan Savage coming to campus and what we can do about not having him on campus, talked about other program options (comedians)
- Bentham
- Bach
- This week we held our meeting. I have been communicating with CRU campus REC union in regards to having a year-round poster/flyer about study spots on campus and times they are available. Still helping Outreach Assembly with their event that has been postponed. Last Lecture Series is still in the works. Should have a date by our next AAC meeting. Looking into having a resource fair specifically for academic resources. Also trying to work on a de-stress event in the future
- Jaroszewska
- Saw some great legislation: some controversial, some not
- More audit meetings coming up soon
- Outline created for doing audits
- Rylan’s pep talk
- Garcia
- Elected Officer Reports – 8:27
- Gupta
- Smythe
- Friday – Intern Meeting
- Monday – Office Hours – new club president, Sherman/Colto Social Media Meeting
- Tuesday – GASC Interviews, Marketing Meeting, Office Hours, SK Meeting, Massag-at-thon
- Wednesday – office hours
- Thursday – Promise for Education with Max, Artem Unitrans meeting, Senate
- Sherman
- Met with Gareth about media
- Met with Darin about equipment
- Met with running candidates
- Met with Eugenia & Gareth
- OH
- Chung
- Project Compost meeting
- Aggie TV meeting
- IAC for ab it
- OH Tues & Thurs
- Staff meeting
- Met with Janice about Media Board
- Helland
- Mondavi Dance Show (Akram Khan Company)
- Davis Air Show at airport, also visited bee-keeping place!
- Office hours
- Carry that Weight
- SVSA Task Force Teleconference
- Watson
- Friday-Sunday – Friendship Games, Black Leadership Council
- Monday – EAC interviews, OA/SOSC, office hours, BSU meeting
- Tuesday – A.C.E. committee, office hours, dinner with dad!, legislature writing, IUSC chair interviews
- Wednesday – office hours, meeting with Admissions in regards to HIS, GASC interviews, PEACE, SOCC orientation, BSU
- Thursday – meeting with students regarding ASUCD elections & involvement, Senate, about a week until we launch Dare2Care Davis (pro educational photo campaign surrounding sexual assault advocacy and awareness)
- Senchev
- International undergraduate student committee choir interviews
- GASC & ECAC for Unitrans Title VI legislature
- Met with Gareth to talk about Creative Media social media oversight of units managed by career staff
- Look for that in the bill Gareth introduced that Max forgot
- Huey
- Monday – IAC & Project Compost
- Tuesday – SOCC Orientation
- Wednesday – EAC Interview, GASC Interview, SOCC Orientation
- Complimented Senator Fayaz’s outfit <3
- Fayaz
- Monday – Graduate school info. day (lack of representation for soc. sci. majors; Pupils dilated, told I have beautiful optic nerves; meeting with Armando
- Tuesday – Meeting with Student Affairs + John Campbell + Steven Baissa + MSA President regarding washing facilities, bidets, refelciton rooms, office space for RSO’s; EAC, SOCC Orientation
- Thursday – office hours, attempted to sit in on GASC interviews, complimented by the Great Robyn Huey <3
- Sanchez
- Lunch with Gareth, it was amazing
- Meeting with Emily on projects
- Interview on GASC
- EPPC meeting
- Met with Azka, it was okay
- Meeting with Aggie TV
- Senate office hours
- Met with Alma on projects
- Met with Carius, Natalia, and Malaquias on giving extra credit to donate to pantry
- Mitchell
- Armando
- Held office hours
- Post Office Meeting
- Sat on CCFIT
- Hart Hall open house
- Met with Chief of Staff
- Sat on the Chancellor’s committee for Diversity and Inclusion
- Student Advisory Council to Chief of Police
- Presented at Hola welcome
- Athletics Advisory Committee Meeting
- Met with Jance
- Principles of Community Meeting
- Met with Stephanie, new student wants to get involved
- Met with Naftali
- Met with Aggie TV
- Met with Emily P
- Met about the Athletics position
- Met with Adela about EC
- CSI open hours
- Had dinner with Mike Sweeny & Campus Council
- Met with Milton Lang & John Campbell about SSFFAC
- Public Affairs Training with Strategic Communication
- Met with Nancy Alderete from admissions
- Met with the Chancellor
- Met Clinton
- Kappes
- ASUCD Scholarship delayed to 9th for due date, reception on the 20th
- Promise Platform Scholarships meeting. Look-out for potentially related legislation regarding a potential special committee for distribution
- Made Katehi wear a squid hat. Platform completed.
- Meetings about CoHo Open Mic Night. Things are looking up for this eventually-happening event. Platform in progress.
- Coffee Service in study space. Pitched Coffee Cart. Darrin is cool to just talk to.
- Various meetings about various units.
- Various emails about various projects.
- Bill Clinton?
- Got bill tabled in B&F.
- Fought for ICEEs in the CoHo.
- Helping EC do stuff.
- New Student Court Cases/Prior Weeks
Verdicts/ASUCD Court Announcements - Closed Session
- Approval of Past Meeting Minutes – 9:01
- Public Discussion – 8:37
- Sherman: has everyone looked at their email about the possible closed session next week? Unit chairs want to be a part of that? Executive team, Janice, B&F Chair, Unit Director are invited. (Motion passed to have closed session added to agenda next week)
- Smythe: Editorial in Aggie mentioned closed sessions – yield
- Fayaz: Nov. 10 meeting for campus-wide events calendar. In terms of interviews, please clarify location. Interviewing process needs to be improved.
- Ashe: FB page for Senate. Creative Media wants to be added as admin. The only admin is a previous pro-temp who doesn’t go here anymore. Needs to be cleaned out. Tone on FB and how we wanna use in the future.
- Smythe: That’s why I wrote the bill we passed in the spring. I would recommend that President Pro Tempore to email that individual –
- Watson: I am an admin.