1. Call to Order
  1. President: Mariah Watson
  2. Vice President: Gareth Smythe
  3. Senate President Pro Tempore: Miguel Guerrero
  4. Senator: Mikaela Tenner
  5. Senator: Tiffany Lung
  6. Senator: Parteek Singh
  7. Senator: Sevan Nahabedian
  8. Senator: Joshua Dalavai
  9. Senator: Danielle Santiago
  10. Senator: Kamaal Thomas
  11. Senator: Georgia Savage
  12. Senator: Puneet Dhindsa
  13. Senator: Adilla Jamaludin
  14. Senator: Anas Tresh
  15. ECAC Chair Sean Guerra
  16. EPPC Chair Brent Rosenwald
  17. IAC Chair Abhay Sandhu
  18. EAC Chair Joe Nazzal
  19. AAC Chair Ritesh Mishra
  20. GASC Chair Ivon Garcia
  21. B&F Joe DeAngelo
  22. Outreach Assembly Jade Wolanski
  23. Controller: Francisco Lara
  1. Quorum Roll Call
  2. Appointments and Confirmations
  3. Unit Director Reports
  1. Aggie Reuse – 6:24
  2. Presentation
  3. Discussion
  4. Lara: Do you have any specific updates in regards to the vehicle and using CCE’s vehicle?
  5. Nicole: We can’t use CCE’s vehicle because it’s no longer in a good state. We’ve been hitting a wall with athletics.
  6. Lara: Athletics never said they’d give you a vehicle, that was my understanding. Best course of action would be to put pressure on CCE to get a diagnostic
  7. Nicole: They’ve run the diagnostic, it would come to $5,000, which at that point we might as well buy a new vehicle
  8. Dalavai: It’s currently a tough financial situation because of a bylaw that says we can’t use senate reserves for this. Roman has been working on this, we just got word back about Athletics about a new deal…
  9. Nicole: The units have been having to deal with this on their own, we haven’t been told where to go, who to ask…
  10. Lara: The logical thing to do would be to ask Fleet Services, come back with the estimate.
  11. DeAngelo: Did you ever get in contact about using the vehicle from [other organization]?
  12. Nicole: We aren’t really able to use those vehicles, they only have golf carts which aren’t feasible…
  13. DeAngelo: How do you currently transport materials?
  14. Nicole: By hand right now.
  15. Guerrero: If not senate reserves, what funding could we use to help out with this?
  16. Lara: I was talking to Janice about equipment reserves, those are apparently only for SSO. Can’t use capital reserves.
  17. Sandhu: Can we use from capital reserves?
  18. Lara: I remember Janice told me that we can’t take from those reserves under a certain threshold…
  19. Dalavai: Would this become more feasible, if the old model was sold to us at a lower price, to take from capital reserves?
  20. Lara: I don’t know the threshold…
  21. Smythe: Has anyone seen what the golf carts in question look like?
  22. Nicole: They’re long-bed vehicles.
  23. Tresh: If the cost of actually fixing the vehicle is $5,000, that’s absurd. Other thing, looking at the sales, week 2 seems really high, and then it goes down. Is that because you don’t have the vehicle?
  24. Nicole: The reason it was so high was because we had a grand opening, we were using the project compost vehicle to bring stuff into the store. It got lower because we were using the vehicle less… that’s basically it.
  25. DeAngelo: Staffing issues resolved?
  26. Nicole: Not particularly. We had exec volunteers come in, and that didn’t cover all the shifts. Haven’t had the outreach we liked.
  27. Jamaludin: Drop-in sales also affected by cash-only?
  28. Nicole: Yes, another thing that I brought up early in the quarter is we really need a card machine. Went to INC about it, didn’t really go anywhere.
  29. Nahabedian: Would it, be as far as that problem goes, let’s say you had a, would it be possible to use Venmo, or is that a security problem? You could make an Aggie Reuse account….
  30. (various shutdowns of that idea)
  31. Dalavai: Explain the logic behind not being able to use senate reserves?
  32. Lara: You can’t use senate reserves for things that will last for over 2 years.
  33. DeAngelo: We don’t have enough in Senate reserves anyway…
  34. Dalavai: We’ve used Senate reserves for multiple items that are expected to last over 2 years. So we’ve broken bylaws over this. Those projectors were un-bylaw-ful. It looks like this bylaw should be up for further scrutiny.
  35. Lara: I’m looking at bills that have been introduced, and I found a fleet services diagnostic bill for $881. I don’t know why any action hasn’t been taken upon that. Maybe you should talk to Hannah.
  36. Guerrero: Before anyone continues to speak, I want to thank you for coming in today. You’re stuck between in a rock and a hard space, I know it must be really difficult, you might feel like giving up. I encourage you to work with Joshua to figure out how to get out of this. Don’t give up, this is just a bump in the road. I encourage you to keep pushing through.
  37. Dalavai: Realistically, how much do you see sales improving with a register and a cart?
  38. Nicole: If we’re given all the resources we need to improve, we could make a few thousand more after breaking even.
  39. Nicole: We did have a very good turnout for Valentine’s Day events. Winter quarter has been slower because of the weather, but overall we’ve been doing good, a lot more independent projects on social media to bolster publicity.
  40. Jamaludin: Explain conversation around vehicle?
  41. Nicole: We’ve been talking about this since beginning of school year. Has been difficult to get in contact with the person, and they’ve only given us ballpark figures.
  42. Savage: Where is the storage unit?
  43. Nicole: One in lower Freeborn, one near Tercero. Mostly internal, so can’t use regular cars.
  44. Savage: The other vehicle won’t work because…?
  45. Nicole: It’s in a bad condition, they asked us not to use it. Athletics, kept hitting a roadblock because we had to go to Greg for that, never heard anything after Roman termed out.
  46. Smythe: When you brought this to our attention, we asked Greg about it. He said he never told Roman Athletics was selling a golf cart. I’m going to double-check with Roman about that. In the meantime, we can try to get someone else’s car onto campus to get your inventory in.
  47. Nicole: I don’t have a contact that has a car that can do that, and Roman said he spoke to someone in Athletics directly about the car.
  48. Smythe: I think we can ask Roman to give us those contacts directly to clear up communication.
  49. Lara: There is a $110,141 in equipment reserves, but I can’t find the guidelines for equipment reserves.
  50. Smythe: Where we’re at is looking to authorize a car in the meantime, looking to see if we can use equipment reserves, following up with the fleet services diagnostics.
  51. DeAngelo: Unit equipment reserves would be the account, but Aggie Reuse does not have that account. And we can’t use senate reserves to augment their account. It would be writing a bill to take it out of a larger equipment reserve fund.
  52. Wolanski: The crafts center has a bike with a huge thing that carries stuff in. Maybe looking to borrowing it? Might be difficult because they’re not part of ASUCD, but they’re close to you and might be a temporary fix.
  53. Savage: How much would it cost for credit card register?
  54. Nicole: Spoke to Alex Park about it, talked to Janice and she said it was doable, and it would help us. Don’t know where that ended, weren’t informed about the process. The conversation ended there, and someone decided without including us in the conversation.
  55. Lara: I checked senate reserves and I don’t see that expense… but remember it was a reimbursement bill. Someone paid for it, but I don’t know.
  56. Dalavai: Given no bylaw restrictions on using the large-body equipment reserves, it would be feasible to get this car.
  57. Lara: I think it’s a misinterpretation because there’s an absence of bylaws, suggests they’re somewhere else.
  58. Nicole: This has been frustrating because my team has been putting so much work. Please make this a priority, please listen to me when I say we need this. This really affects the longevity of our unit.
  1. Committee Reports
  2. Presentations
  1. State of the Association – 6:16
  2. Watson: This isn’t meant to be long, I just want to let you know a bit about ASUCD from my perspective. This is our association as a whole, and it’s in a good spot right now. We’re in a new era, we’ve had some of our most competitive back-to-back elections in years. Congratulations to you all. We’ve had political movements that have called on us to lead. We’re no longer a place where people are afraid to voice opinions. We’ve increased campus partnerships. It starts with that, not viewing ASUCD as an ivory tower. We’ve had multiple events that has thousands of students in attendance. It came not just from exec, from Senate, but from every single person under the ASUCD name. We have commissions that are mostly full; that wasn’t the case before. We have a new legacy endowment and an alumni database. We’re having our first event in spring where we’re inviting alumni back to see what we’ve done the last 100 years. Students are calling on ASUCD once again to lead; whether it was a campus-wide survey about Davis nightlife. You have to challenge yourself. You can do a lot more and keep your units functioning well. This year, Picnic Day got 83 applications. It’s getting everyone involved and saying ASUCD is for Aggies, by Aggies. But we still have places to improve. Our reserves are still not in the place we want them to be. We have to continue to be innovative, as we have a student population that is increasing every single year. You have to think; are we providing the necessary resources for our students? We have to value ourselves and the people who put in time to make this association great. We’re in a good place, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be lost if we don’t value ourselves. We have units now that just don’t mean the same to this campus as they used to. I think it’s cool that we have Envision on campus right now. I think it’s time to start being innovative, creative, and listen to each other. That’s where I want to leave you all, I want to come back as an alumni and say, “We started something, and now we’re reaping the benefits from it.”
  3. TRAVC – 8:51
  4. Nolan: We had a great meeting this week, even though not everyone showed up. We discussed continued projects we’ve been working on, and discussing other, smaller projects. Survival guide: went to different resources on campus. SRRC, for example. Had them answer a bunch of questions about that resource, how is that resource helpful, who is the contact person. As TRAV students come in, they’re not aware of a lot of these resources. There’s no physical map in student community center that actually tells you what’s in that center, something we were thinking about working on. When we do put this on a PDF file, they can have direct contact in that regard. Don’t want to make it too complicated, want to make it informal. Students won’t all have the same initial response, want to be broad but influential. I want to establish relationships before stepping onto the table. Will share FB page with you all when it’s finished. Still trying to get involved in orientation, have our Aggie Studios project going on.
  5. Watson: The fall welcome planning meetings are starting back up now, president elect will get a complete schedule of when those meetings are happening. There’s definitely space and places for you all to shine in that as well. I encourage you to partner with the next exec.
  6. Guerrero: Been in contact with reps from student housing, you can hit me up and I can put you in contact with appropriate contacts.
  7. Envision
  8. Sarah: I came and presented, I don’t know, 3 or 4 weeks ago? Envision is happening right now. We have 2,365 people who have participated.
  9. Smythe: We’ve allocated 1 hour to play Envision UC Davis. Unfortunately, our projectors haven’t gotten here yet.
  10. Sarah: If you use #ASUCD, you can use that to quantify the power of everything coming out of this room right now.
  11. Guerrero: Essentially, it starts with, you can put a positive imagination or something you’re afraid of happening on the future. You start little clouds, and they grow and influence, and that’s how you get points.
  12. Senate plays the game for an hour
  1. Public Announcements
  1. Lounge Lizards – 8:45
  2. No Instruments Attached 2016
  1. Status of Legislation Previously Passed – 9:40
  1. All signed
  1. Introduction of New Legislation
  1. SB to modify the restrictions on senate reserves.
  2. SR to modernize the inter-collegiate athletics guiding principles.
  3. SB to allocate $230 from senate reserves to purchase stickers for OA.
  4. Constitutional Amendment to improve ASUCD exec branch.
  5. Constitutional Amendment to dissolve AAC.
  6. Constitutional Amendment to dissolve OA.
  7. SB to move money from post office reserves to CC/CN reserves.
  8. SB to move money from ASUCD cinemas reserves to EC reserves.
  9. SB to reorganize committee chairship to align with the creation of the executive cabinet.
  10. SB to enact new exec staff and cabinet positions and change pay rates, allocating money from senate reserves.
  11. SB to improve the management of ASUCD through the creation of the ASUCD exec branch.
  12. Discussion
  13. Jamaludin: Worried about these constitutional amendments being presented to commissions by commission chair.
  14. Sandhu: Would suggest recusing myself and speak only as an author.
  15. Smythe: These things happen all the time, there’s really no way around that unless they resign. Don’t think the solution is to deny the authority they have.
  16. Sandhu: I can’t not go, but I’ll make it very clear that I am a co-author, I have an inherent bias, I am a co-author and less of a chair.
  17. Singh: Is the bill dissolving AAC going to AAC?
  18. Smythe: Yes
  19. Mishra: I do have to say, it is my commission to lose. I am for these changes, I do believe that, I do challenge the table to say they’ve come to AAC. We’re seeing these radical changes that are needed, but I do think these are changes we need to see, at least for AAC. The commission is split on it. If there’s a way to step away from my vote, then I’d like to.
  20. Flores: As an IAC commissioner, I care more about the opinions of AAC and OA.
  21. Smythe: Mishra, I don’t think that would you said is correct. You can’t deny your own voice. We all do things here that last 50-60 years, the other members look to you to provide that commission institutional knowledge. I hope you don’t take the position of “I’m going to let this happen.” Keep that in consideration.
  22. Wolanski: I agree with Adilla, the opinion of the chair can bias others. I recommend the chairs vote last, and give a balanced pro-con.
  1. Consideration of Old Legislation
  1. SR #14 – 8:19
  2. Author’s Comments
  3. Buchanan: This resolution addresses prison divestment. UC Regents have divested their holdings with 2 of the largest prison companies in the US. But UCs bank with Wells Fargo. We’re calling on you all to demonstrate that it is unethical, anti-black, and an affront to the black students that are a part of this student body. We want to ensure that, moving into the future, that ASUCD makes sure future investments are in line with our ethical standards and not invested in the prison-industrial complex.
  4. Watson: Something that always comes up, “can a resolution do anything,” and yes, it does. It matters, your opinion and vote bears weight.
  5. Commission Recommendations
  6. EAC: made a lot of amendments to make it stronger, passed with a 6-2-1 vote. Overall, support the bill and the idea of it.
  7. B&F: We also passed it with a 5-2-2 vote. No votes were of the opinion that it was not a financially prudent decision.
  8. Questions in Text
  9. Public Discussion
  10. DeAngelo: Back to lines 110-114, what is ASUCD’s current relationship with these companies?
  11. Watson: When you’re looking at things like this, we haven’t done the investigation. We do have a bank account that gets interest. It’s not much, it’s First Northern Bank. Other than that, not really. Anything else is indirect.
  12. DeAngelo: This is more pre-emptive clause, in case we do have these sort of relationships? This clause is a little unclear, a little wordy, would suggest revising it to make it more clear.
  13. Nahabedian: Clause A296. I believe in the power of divestment resolutions, and I completely agree with the spirit of this resolution, but I’m a little bit troubled, Wells Fargo is repeatedly mentioned. Why is Wells Fargo repeatedly mentioned, while other organizations that have a presence on this campus aren’t?
  14. Buchanan: There is a physical presence of Wells Fargo on campus. One of the things is that this resolution comes out of showing solidarity and moving with the African Black Coalition, which is focusing on Wells Fargo. Not all companies are invested in alike, Wells Fargo is the one we provide the most money to. That’s one of the reasons why we’re looking at them specifically, because they’re the ones the university is most complicit with.
  15. Nahabedian: I would recommend putting that language in because it makes it stronger.
  16. Buchanan: it was in the resolution before but was removed, suggested it was to be in its own resolution.
  17. DeAngelo: Changing ASUCD to UC? We don’t know if ASUCD has a current relationship.
  18. Jamaludin: Think that makes it clearer, serves the purpose of this bill to change the language.
  19. Savage: It also shows further solidarity with other UC campuses that have passed the bill.
  20. Dalavai: “That any relationships that ASUCD might have.” Solidarity with other UCs, 125-127 address that.