Vice President Sandhu Called the Meeting to Order at 6:11 PM

1. Call to Order

●Vice President Sandhu called the meeting to order at 6:11 PM.

1. Quorum Roll Call

Roll Call 6:11 PM
Name / Present / Absent / Excused/Late
Executives / President Alex Lee / 1
VP Abhay Sandhu / 1
Controller Joe DeAngelo / 1
O/R Jade Wolansky / 1
Senators / Samantha Chiang / 1
Sam Park / 1
Julie Jung / 1
Ricardo Martinez / 1
Shaitaj Dhaliwal / 1
Adam Xu / 1
Josh Dalavai / 1
Sofia Molodanof / 1
Adilla Jamaludin / 1
Parteek Singh / 1
Irveen Grewal / 1
Total / 10 / 0 / 1
Commission Chairs / AAC - Hemali Patel / 1
GASC - Alison Tam / 1
BFC - David Heifitz / 1
IAC - Nick Flores / 1
EAC - Sara Williams / 1
ECAC - Komal Sharma / 1
EPPC - N/A

●With 10 Senators present out of 11 seated, quorum was established.

1. Presentation: Athletic Director

●Kevin Blue, Athletic Director & Lani Rae-Green, Women’s Tennis Team

●Director Blue: Student athletes are being educated in an exemplary fashion. Athletics is enhancing the academic enterprise. Athletics is making an external impact on students, parents and educators throughout our state. The goal is to create the best outcome for our students. Can reach out to him via 530-219-4023/

●Chair Williams: What is being done about sexual assault awareness within the athletics dept?

○Director Blue: There are required programs that athletes must attend per quarter

●Senator Chiang: Is there anything to address athletes’ mental health?

○Director Blue: CAPS provides sports psych

●Director Blue: There will be a town hall on monday at the Football field.

1. Appointments & Confirmations: AAC

●Chair Patel introduced AAC Commissioners Kishan Patel & Justin Hurst

●Chair Flores: Why did you choose AAC?

○Patel: AAC intersects with other organizations on campus and bridges between students and admin. It increases transparency with what's going on in the background.

○Hurst: Academic life is very integral to the student body.

●President Lee: How would you increase the student voice in Academic Senate?

○Patel: What goes on on the academic side should be available to students.

●Senator Dalavai moved to confirm Kishan Patel & Justin Hurst to the Academic Affairs Commission. The motion was seconded. No objections to appointing the AAC commissioners.

1. Appointments & Confirmation: GASC

●Chair Tam introduced GASC Commissioners Mary Rasooli, Sheyla Mirka Dirzo, Savannah Vandenbos, & Weizheng Zhang.

●Flores: Why did you choose GASC?

○Rasooli: It is important to ensure that communities across campus are aware of everyone's identities.

○Dirzo: They had GSA in high school and she was president. Wants to help bridge the LGBTQIA community and work through issues.

○Vandenbos: There needs to be inclusiveness within ASUCD for these communities.

○Zhang: Professors have negative feelings regarding students of color and their identities.

●Pro tem Jamaludin: Personal goal?

○Rasooli: Wants to increase competency with faculty

○Dirzo: A lot of students don't understand struggles members of the LGBTQIA community endure. We want students to have the courage to speak out for issues.

○Vandenbos: Collaborating with panhellenic sororities and fraternities. It can be terrifying for students to come out in those types of communities. There isn't much education around LGBTQIA issues.

○Zheng: Letting asian students know about gender and sexual identity. There is a negative stigma surrounding that.

●Senator Dalavai moved to confirm Mary Rasooli, Sheyla Mirka Dirzo, Savannah Vandenbos, & Weizheng Zhang to the Gender & Sexuality Commission. The motion was seconded. No objections to appointing the GASC commissioners.

●Senator Dalavai moved to recess for 10 minutes. The motion was seconded. The motion carried with no objections.

Vice President Sandhu called the meeting back to order at 8:22 PM.

Roll Call 8:22 PM
Senators / Samantha Chiang / 1
Sam Park / 1
Julie Jung / 1
Ricardo Martinez / 1
Shaitaj Dhaliwal / 1
Adam Xu / 1
Josh Dalavai / 1
Sofia Molodanof / 1
Adilla Jamaludin / 1
Parteek Singh / 1
Irveen Grewal / 1
Total / 8 / 1 / 2

●With 8 10 Senators present out of 11 seated, quorum was established.

1. Presentation: Citizens for Responsible Planning

●Eileen Savitz, former planning commissioner for City of Davis: Concerned about lack of housing for students on campus. Davis agreed to provide 25% of housing through an MOU. Davis is the largest UC in the state. Davis was growing over the years but did not increasing the amount of housing. We won't be able to house all students. 2020 initiative - there was not enough done to cater to the housing needs of students and the goal is to bring in 5,000 students. Will be bringing 10,000 students with governor’s plan. American Campus Communities works with housing for students. Energy should be put in high density housing. ASUCD should sign the petition opposing the LRDP.

●Chair Heifetz: What is the current percent of housing is offered on campus?

○Savitz: 27.2%

●Senator Singh: Other than signature, what do you want from ASUCD?

○Savitz: Signatures, advocacy to administration and the city.

●President Lee: There is a cost that comes to building housing on campus. The responsibility lies between the city and the university.

1. Appointments & Confirmations: WEF

●President Lee introduced Whole Earth Festival Director Jess Tierney.

●Senator Dalavai: We had interesting relationships with past WEF directors. What is your plan to fix this bridge?

○Tierney: Would like to be part of the same team and foster open communication & mutual respect.

●Senator Martinez: What is your goal for the student staff?

○Tierney: Essentially to create a festival for students by students. Start an open dialogue so we don't run into issues.

●Senator Martinez moved to confirm Jess Tierney as Whole Earth Festival Director. The motion was seconded. No objections to appointing Director Tierney.

1. Presentation: Elections Committee

●Item postponed.

1. Consideration of Old Legislation
2. SB #7 Tam

●Chair Tam: GASC needs money in their budget.

●Chair Flores: IAC looked at it in a quality of student's perspective.

○Found there was a $20 discrepancy.

●Controller DeAngelo: This bill contradicts another bill. GASC has usually spent over $1320 before.

●Chair Tam withdrew the bill.

1. SB #9 Dhindsa

●Senator Grewal: HAUS needs $61 for a banner for housing day. It will not have the date so it can be reused.

●Controller DeAngelo: It would make more sense to add $61 in the line item budget for HAUS. This way we know in the future how much it cost to publicize housing day.

●Senator Dalavai moved to call the bill into question. The motion was seconded. The motion carried unanimously. No objections to passing the bill.

1. SR #1 Breuninger

●Ellie Breuninger sits on the Chancellor Search Committee.

●EAC & IAC had well rounded discussions around the resolution.

●John Lee: Every 5 years they get an evaluation from Academic Senate and the student body should also provide an evaluation.

●Breuninger: Is one student on a committee of 17. Does not even have a vote, serves on an advisory committee.

●Pro tem Jamaludin moved to call the resolution into question. The motion was seconded. The motion carried unanimously. No objections to passing the resolution.

1. SB #X B&F

●Controller DeAngelo: Commissions are spending money and it is not being accounted for, causing confusion for SSO.

●Senator Dalavai moved to call the bill into question. The motion was seconded. The motion carried unanimously. No objections to passing the bill.

1. Introduction of New Legislation

●Senate bills going to committees

○ASUCD Bill to exempt KDVS and Cal Aggie social media pages from including ASUCD in their social media page titles - Chiang/Dresser

○ASUCD Bill to increase spending limits during elections - Nahabedian

○ASUCD Resolution to stand in solidarity with Standing Rock - Ferreyra/Jamaludin

○ASUCD Bill to allocate $270.50 for Aggie Reuse

1. Ex-Officio Reports

●Chair Flores:

○IAC meeting on Monday, Academic Senate interviews on Monday after IAC, held office hours Monday and Wednesday, Aggies for Humanity meeting, applied for the Students of Color Conference (extra stoked about this), met with members of APAC last week to review and rework their Bylaws as the current chair has a different view of where the committee should head (this is still ongoing), assigned my commissioners to units to for LRP updates, I will be reaching out to each newly confirmed Unit Director to provide them with a copy of their Unit's LRP so they can review/work with IAC to update, ASUCD scholarship application is out please share with friends (this is one of my favorite aspects of ASUCD and my favorite interviewing committee than I sit on), every minute I'm not on campus I'm at work

●Chair Patel:

○I held AAC Interviews on Monday. Those commissioners just got confirmed today during the senate meeting. Since we have a full commission now, we can see legislation and start getting to work. First official meeting starts on Monday. I also worked on changing the logo of AAC so it's colorful and a circle now. I have to attend the Marketing meeting to get it approved.

●Chair Sharma:

○Still waiting for people to turn in apps for ECAC. Deadline is November 3rd. Have been spreading the word and encouraging people to apply.

○Talked about the SOCC coming up at UC Irvine. Most of our commissioners are planning on applying to be a part of the conference. Working on promoting and marketing the event so more people will apply-especially freshmen because this would be a great opportunity for them.

○Working on crafting a bill that would state how ASUCD will respond to instances such as the Chance controversy.

●Chair Heifetz:

○Met with the unit directors for Picnic Day and CoHo. Have more meetings with unit directors tomorrow and next week. Met with Janice to get an update on the fiscal state of the association and recommendations for auditing. Asked to put me in contact with IAS. Have an interview next Thursday so I won't be able to attend meeting but will be sending someone from B&F.

●Chair Williams

○We had our first EAC meeting with legislation, and had a great discussion about SR #1. We contacted the Executive Director of Downtown Davis (Business Association) in hopes of setting up an appointment to discuss future relationships with them. Working on establishing a permanent student ex-officio on Davis City Council. Missed the CSAG meeting because of a miscommunication, but read the notes from Commissioner/OASR LD Daniel Nagey. Spoke with Eileen Samitz and Colin Walsh, community members, at length about Russell Fields housing and more student housing on campus.

●Chair Tam:

○Interviewed new commissioners

○Met with SWERV

○Began work on "Abortion: Just the Facts" pamphlet

○Dry Spaces -Out in STEM happened! We now have a Facebook group

●Secretary Wolansky:

○Office hours (handed out raffle prizes from homecoming event), Interviews, Marketing Committee at 8am, ASUCD Harvest Festival October 31st 12:30-2pm

1. Elected Officer Reports

●President Lee:

○Hired WEF & RS Directors

○Interim Chancellor Meeting

○One on One's with Exec Staff

○CSAG Meeting

○TGIF meeting

○Voter Reg Letter/Event

●Vice President Sandhu:

○Academic Senate Interviews

○Tobacco Cessation Meeting

○Shifa Board Meeting

○Elections Meeting with Elections Chair

○Weekly Check-In Meeting with Exec and Janice

○Shifa Committee Meetings

○Pro Tempore Meeting

○Cabinet Meeting

●Pro-tem Jamaludin:

○Meetings with Vice President Sandhu, SJP, & Senate Staff

○Interviews

○Classes

○Internship

●Senator Park

○Held office hours on Tuesday (October 18, 2016).

○Will be holding new member training for my staff next Monday.

○Currently discussing how to improve Aggie Job Link with my staffers and brainstorming ideas on how to encourage the school to make these changes.

●Senator Chiang:

○Coauthored Standing Rock solidarity resolution

○Authored bill on exempting The Aggie and KDVS from including ASUCD on their social media page titles

○Emailed all units that did not adhere to bylaw 1705F

○Attended OASR officer meeting

○Attended EAC

○Attended SOCC delegation planning meeting

○Wrote proposal for API mental health workshop for SOCC 2016

○Held Senate staff meeting

○Attended Russell Field meeting

○Attended Xperimental College staff meeting

○Met with Interim SHCS Director Corey Vu

○Wrote proposal for CAN workshop at the 2016 CAPS Cultural Competency Summit

○Attended SOCC Budget planning meeting

●Senator Dhaliwal:

○Monday: created letter for unit adoption, met with chief of staff to go over fall senate election and quarter goals

○Tuesday: Emailed Alex and Adilla to find point of contact for MU Renewal Committee to send a staff delegate to these starting next month. We plan to use the pre existing items to further our platform if the shields library lounge.

○Wednesday: Coordinating to find transportation for the SOCC at UCI!!

○Thursday: Had one on ones with new staff members

●Senator Xu:

○I had 4 midterms this week, so I had to study really hard for my exams. I had a nice talk with Colin Walsh during my office hours. We've talked about the LRDP in Russell Fields. I think we need more people to shout out their voices about the LRDP. We pay to go to school, so we definitely have the right to decide what we want from the school. I will back to working mode next week. Go to the commission meeting regularly. Hope I have good grades on all the midterms. Still my OH is 2-4PM T 4-6PM R at MU patio.

●Senator Molodanof:

○I had a staff meeting and I had office hours this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. On Tuesday night, I hosted a Pre-Law Association Resume and Personal Statement Workshop. On Wednesday, I met with Emilia and members from HEP to discuss my Mental Health Platforms and how HEP and ASUCD can work together on mental health issues facing UCD students. I gave Emilia contacts of other Senators who work on mental health issues including Sam and Ricardo as well as Irveen because they want to discuss more about her nap ideas for the new library. Today, I attended the Graduate and Law School Fair. On Friday, I will be attending Marketing Committee in the morning.

●Senator Martinez:

○I had a very rough past week with midterms, papers, and family issues. Nonetheless, I was able to have my first activity with my FYAC at the AMC room this past Friday. I also met with my staff on Monday and did some progress on the Chicanx/Latinx Council project I hope to establish by the end of this quarter. On Wednesday, I attended the Picnic Day board meeting, and they are doing amazing stuff for next year. I held office hours today from 3:30 to 5:30 and received great feedback on the Chi/La Council project I am working on. Other than that, I submitted two midterm papers and had a midterm.

●Senator Jung:

○Last Friday, I went to Marketing Committee to discuss the marketing strategy for the upcoming elections. On Monday, I held office hours as well as volunteer at the Aggie Reuse Store. On Wednesday, I met with Rosy, the External Director of the Pantry, to discuss the details of the upcoming ASUCD Unit Food Drive. Tomorrow on Friday, I will go to Marketing Committee again and meet with the Xperimental College team.

●Senator Grewal:

○Went to the international building to meet with the historical and research associate on how to fund for new classes

○Academic senate interviews

○Submitted staff applications

○Went to EAC meeting

○Went to BnF for my spending bill (HAUS)

○Went to SOCC meeting

1. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

●Minutes from October 13th, 2016 were approved unanimously.

1. Public Discussion

●President Lee: Make sure to get SB #X to SGAO.

●Pro-tem Jamaludin: Please check excel sheet on Facebook group for adopted units. Reach out to committees. Please do not be late next week as we are having a Peace Training regarding gender and sexuality. Getting AB 540 allyship training this quarter as well. Next week is interviews for committees/

○Senator Dalavai moved to have a closed session from 6:30-8:00 PM on October 27th, 2016. The motion was seconded. The motion carried unanimously.

●Chair Williams: Aggie Tour Guides is hiring.

●John Lee: Will be interviewing Ralph Hexter on November 9th.

●Senator Molodanof: Any info on no saturday finals which means no dead days?

1. Public Announcements

●Chair Flores: Will create Google Doc to see how the court’s power will be absorbed into IAC

1. Adjournment

●Vice President Sandhu adjourned the meeting at 9:48 PM.

Minutes taken & completed by:

Naeema Kaleem | ASUCD Senate Recorder