- Call to Order
●Vice President Jamaludin called the meeting to order at 6:10 PM.
- Quorum Roll Call
Roll Call
Name / Present / Absent / Late
Executives / President Josh Dalavai / 1
VP Adilla Jamaludin / 1
Controller Jin Zhang / 1
O/R Gurjot Gill / 1
Julie Jung / 1
Daniel Nagey / 1
Jose Meneses / 1
Anastasia Ruttkay / 1
Simran Grewal / 1
Matthew Yamaguchi / 1
Michael Gofman / 1
Khadeja Ibrahim / 1
Rahi Vijay Suryanwanshi / 1
Marcos Ismael Rodriguez / 1
Yajaira Ramirez Sigala / 1
Total / 10 / 1 / 0
Commission Chairs / AAC - Hemali Patel / 1
GASC - Alison Tam / 1
BFC - Alex Mirov / 1
IAC - Nick Flores / 1
EAC - Sara Williams / 1
ECAC - Julienne Correa / 1
EPPC - Sarah Risher / 1
●With 10 Senators present out of 11 seated, quorum was established.
- Chair Awards
●Chair Tam: GASC Commissioner of the year is Becca Nelson
●Chair Patel: AAC Commissioner of the year is Jordan
●Chair Correa: ECAC Commissioner of the year is Nora
●Chair Flores: IAC Commissioner of the year is Ryan Gardner
●Chair Williams: EAC Commissioner of the year is Travis
●Chair Risher: EPPC Commissioner of the year is Alice
●Chair Mirov: B&F Commissioner of the year is Christina
- Chairwells
●Commission Chairs provided their farewells to the Senate table.
- Senator Farewells
●Senators provided their farewells to the Senate table.
- B&F Confirmations
- Chair
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm Alex Mirov as Business & Finance Commission Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Alex Mirov as B&F Commission Chair.
- Commissioners
●Titus Huang
●Shubhangi Gulati
●Meigan Dutcher
●Clement Yuen
●Damien Amzallag
●Controller Zhang: Can you explain the role of B&F?
○Shubhangi: You have to be more objective when it comes to looking at bills
○Damien: B&F is the checks and balances when it comes to looking at a bill
○Clement: We need to look at bills critically
○Titus: Working together with commissioners
●Senator Rodriguez moved to confirm the candidates. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming the candidates.
- EPPC Confirmations
●Chair Risher: Alice spearheaded the oil event and is commissioner of the year
●Alice: 2nd year environmental science major
●Chair Flores: what’s your philosophy on the chair position?
○Alice: it’s about engaging in the conversation
●Senator Meneses: what’s one project you want to accomplish?
○Alice: want to build on what EPPC has done this year, reach out to other student orgs like EJUC and ecohub, supporting TGIF in their first, green the greens (pesticides), advising ASUCD to be sustainable
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm Alice as EPPC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Alice as EPPC Chair.
- GASC Chair Confirmations
●Chair Tam: y’all are so lucky to work with Becca Nelson next year for GASC
●Becca Nelson: 3rd year studying psychology and spanish, we need to start centering voices around the black community
●Chair Flores: What’s your philosophy on the chair position and voicing your opinion on the table?
○Nelson: gender and sexuality are based around a lot of different things, and I plan to voice my opinion as much as possible and utilizing commission members
●Senator Meneses: what is one thing you wish to accomplish as chair?
○Nelson: opening up our commission and make it more welcoming to folks and supporting as many communities as possible
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm Becca Nelson as GASC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Becca Nelson as GASC Chair.
- IAC Confirmation
●Chair Flores: Jacob Ganz has been on the commission for over a year
●Ganz: has loved being on IAC for over a year and a half
●President Dalavai: how do you interpret the bylaws? Are you flexible or stick to the text?
○Ganz: my goal is to revamp all 23 chapters
●Senator Gofman: what projects would you like to start to for IAC?
○Ganz: wants to bring commission closer together, have mandatory socials every quarter, make interactive bylaws, work on election reform
●Chair Correa: how would you make folks on the table more accountable regarding the bylaws
○Ganz: have one on ones with folks on the table, will also be having bill writing clinics
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm Jacob Ganz as IAC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Jacob Ganz as IAC Chair.
- EAC Chair Confirmations
●Chair Williams: folks on the commission wanted Amanda to be chair
●President Dalavai: what do you see as EAC’s relationship with the city?
○Amanda: will be here over the summer, wants commissioners to be comfortable with the mayor and city commissioners, making sure we’re all on the same page with people
●Controler Zhang: What do you feel EAC will focus on next year?
○Amanda: look forward to increasing voter turnout
●Chair Flores: what did you change your major to?
○Amanda: was mechanical engineering for the last 2 years, changed to community and regional development
●Chair Flores: what’s your philosophy on the chair position?
○Amanda: I want to be able to feel comfortable to ask questions on the senate table
●Senator Jung moved to confirm Amanda as EAC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Amanda as EAC Chair.
- ECAC Chair Confirmation
●Chair Flores: what made you reapply to this table
○Chair Correa: I wanted to do more work with ECAC and we’ve done so much in the last quarter and a half. I asked myself why ECAC is important and it’s important we support individuals of marginalized communities
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm Julienne Correa as ECAC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Julienne Correa as ECAC Chair.
- Secretary DOR Confirmation
●Tabled.
- AAC Confirmation
●Chair Patel: Abby will do everything we have been doing but better
●Chair Flores: what is your philosophy on the chair position?
○Abby: we need to work with each other. Has been the undergraduate council representative and it has opened my eyes
●Senator Meneses: what is one project you want to accomplish?
○Abby: have programming events, such as resume writing, to happen year after year.
●Senator Meneses motioned to confirm Abby as AAC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Abby as AAC Chair.
- MHI Committee Chair Confirmations
●Senator Suryawanshi: urge for a speedy confirmation, Sam established the Mental Health Initiative
●Senator Suryawanshi motioned to confirm Sam Chiang as MHI Committee Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Sam Chiang as MHI Committee Chair.
- APAC Confirmation
- Chair
●Suhaila: Marielle is involved with ASUCD through Coho and Aggie Reuse
●Marielle Ednalino, 5th year design major
●Chair Correa: how do you plan on engaging the senate table?
○Marielle: establishing strong communication
●Vice President Jamaludin: what resources can you utilize?
○Marielle: will use organizations that I am involved with to network and help committee
●Senator Suryawanshi: what projects do you have for next year and how can senate assist?
○Marielle: reach out to elementary schools
●Senator Suryawanshi moved to confirm Marielle Edalino as APAC Chair. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Marielle Edalino as APAC Chair.
- Committee
●Monica Santo Domingo
●Jenean Docter
●Tessa Koga
●Yihao Lin
●Chair Correa: what made you want to join this committee?
○Monica: didn’t know there was an active art community
○Jenean: relates to major
○Tessa: i’ts a more hands on way to get involved
○Yihao: would like to build more connections with folks
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm the candidates. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming the candidates to APAC.
- Picnic Day Unit Director Confirmation
●President Dalavai: Grace was a spectacular candidate, and we fully trust
●Chelsea: Grace is very confident, has served as the vice chair this past year, was very realistic about all the changes that came this year
●Chair Correa: what are some changes and new ideas for picnic day?
○Grace: since the contract with sodexo ended, so did our food. Want to bring out more food trucks
●Senator Meneses: what other initiatives do you want to add to picnic day?
○Grace: picnic day was almost cancelled for good 7 years ago because of alcohol consumption
●Senator Meneses moved to confirm Grace as Picnic Day Unit Director. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Grace as Picnic Day Unit Director.
- Public Announcements
●Senator Nagey: resigns from Senate.
- OASR Unit Director Confirmation
●President Dalavai: Daniel has shown a selfless service to students
●Senator Meneses: what projects do you plan on working on?
○Nagey: changing OASR holistically, went to B&F with a very detailed budget on where each dollar will go
●Controller Zhang: we’ll be under more scrutiny with such a large OASR budget
○Nagey: $17,000 less because we don’t have to pay for UCSA fees, can come out to senate to present
●Chair Correa: how do you plan on integrating UCSA campaigns on our campus?
○Nagey: there are two standing campaigns and two rolling campaigns
●Senator Rodriguez moved to confirm Daniel Nagey as OASR Unit Director. The motion was seconded. No objections to confirming Daniel Nagey as OASR Unit Director.
- BREAK - 8:23 PM
Roll Call 8:23
Name / Present / Absent / Late
Executives / President Josh Dalavai / 1
VP Adilla Jamaludin / 1
Controller Jin Zhang / 1
O/R Gurjot Gill / 1
Julie Jung / 1
Jose Meneses / 1
Anastasia Ruttkay / 1
Simran Grewal / 1
Matthew Yamaguchi / 1
Michael Gofman / 1
Khadeja Ibrahim / 1
Rahi Vijay Suryanwanshi / 1
Marcos Ismael Rodriguez / 1
Yajaira Ramirez Sigala / 1
Total / 7 / 2 / 1
Commission Chairs / AAC - Hemali Patel / 1
GASC - Alison Tam / 1
BFC - Alex Mirov / 1
IAC - Nick Flores / 1
EAC - Sara Williams / 1
ECAC - Julienne Correa / 1
EPPC - Sarah Risher / 1
●With 7 Senators present out of 10 seated, quorum was established.
- CSI MOU
●Controller Zhang: this is CSI giving CM money. $12,000 really goes to CM because $2000 goes to SSO
●Senator Jung moved to approve the CSI MOU. The motion was seconded. No objections to approving the CSI MOU.
- Public Discussion
●Controller Zhang: we usually say no backpay, but these people were volunteering, if we did say yes then HR would pay them. HR said this would be a one time thing
●Amelia Evard: it was something we’ve seen done before, we don’t feel like these people should not be paid just because of a miscommunication with SSO
●Vice President Jamaludin: we want to pay these WEF folks, they have already done their work
●President Dalavai: this will hopefully not happen again in the future, we have already hired the folks for next year and they will go through their training
●Evard: working with Greg to create a hiring guide for unit directors
●Senator Jung moved to approve the WEF pay for the 2017 festival. The motion was seconded. No objections to approving the WEF pay for the 2017 festival.
- Status of Legislation Previously Passed
●President Dalavai: all legislation has been signed.
- Consideration of Old Legislation
- SB #107 Gutierrez
●Vice President Jamaludin: wanted to create a platform to work on food security issues
●Nagey: this is not a committee to go for food resources, but more of a place to network and collaborate around food security issues.
●Vice President Jamaludin: would this be a permanent committee or special committee?
○Ganz: it’s a permanent committee right now
○Vice President Jamaludin: would like this to be a special committee right now, so if it needs to be dissolved as the situation changes it can
●Nagey: Napolitano spent a lot of money this year on food insecurity issues,
●Senator Jung moved to call SB #107 into question. The motion was seconded. No objections to passing SB #107.
- SB #111 Flores
●Chair Flores: because the constitutional amendment passed in spring, we had to dissolve this
●Senator Meneses moved to call SB #111 into question. The motion was seconded. No objections to pasing SB #111.
- SB #113 Evard
●Jess Tierney: WEF’s 50 year is coming up in 2 years
●Amelia Evard: most of the goals have changed
●Senator Rodriguez moved to call SB #113 into question. The motion was seconded. No objections to passing SB #113.
- SB #114 Flores
●Ganz: we unanimously approved it in IAC.
●Senator Meneses moved to call SB #114 into question. The motion was seconded. No objections to passing SB #114.
- Emergency Legislation
- SR #X Rodriguez
●Senator Rodriguez: this resolution takes a stance against the RSO room reservation fees
●Gofman: we all campaigned to our students so this really shouldn’t be an issue for folks on the table, the university shouldn’t charge us for things like this
●Senator Surywanshi: clubs might cease to exist because of this
●President Dalavai: you all should definitely pass this, would ask that you strike the student affairs whereas clause because we will be asking student affairs to be an ally with us
●Senator Rodriguez: we got over 900 student signatures supporting this resolution
●President Dalavai: it’s going to make it more difficult to talk to student affairs with this clause present
●Controller Zhang: this is great resolution, that clause was added for emphasis and will end up hurting us in the long run, it would be best if we just struck that clause and add what will benefit us
●Senator Jung moved to call SR #X as amended into question. The motion was seconded. No objections to passing SR #X as amended.
- SB #X Yamaguchi
●Senator Yamaguchi: E-fund used this year’s money for last year’s winning entrepreneur
●Chair Mirov: we have a zero tolerance policy for things that have already happened, but because this was an accounting error B&F agreed with this
●Senator Jung moved to call SB #X into question. The motion was seconded. No objections to passing SB #X.
- Approval of Last Meeting’s Minutes
●Senator Jung moved to approve the 2017 Budget Hearing minutes and 6/1/17 minutes. The motion was seconded. With 7 in favor, 0 against, and 2 abstentions, the minutes were approved.
- Ex-Officio Reports
●Chair Mirov
○Tabled SB-112. Author did not show up.
○Passed SB-113. WEF did a great job making a solid LRP.
○Had OASR budget presentation. Cleared up 'Special Projects' line item increase. OASR specified how much money they received from extra-ASUCD sources in 2016-2017.
○Gave a brief ASUCD "Crash Course" to the new incoming commission members.
●Chair Patel
○AAC Week 10 Dinner
●Chair Correa
○Dialogue Event on Monday
○Midterm Tuesday
○Sent emails
○Spring quarter report for ECAC
●Chair Williams
○We held City Student Advisory Group this week, and Lukas Griffiths from Campus Planning informed us about continued plans with the LRDP. Stacey Wonton from the City of Davis provided us with information about how to get involved with Davis Neighbor's Night Out in October, and we plan on meeting over summer to discuss this. We planned our next CSAG meeting for July. I hired the new Chair, Amanda Bernal. We had our Commission celebration dinner downtown.
●Chair Tam
○Hired new chair, planned for next year.
- Elected Officer Reports
●Vice President Jamaludin
○WEEK 10 - BOOYAH, exec meeting, meeting with AAC, meeting re. Buzz and ASUCD night out, legislation
●Senator Grewal
○Interclinic Relations
○-\Imani Board
○Office Hours
○Nap Spaces Collaboration
●Senator Meneses
○attended IAC for WEF's LDRP
○met with campus counsel Mike Sweeney
○WEF unit director interviews
○attended Scholarship lunch over the weekend
●Senator Jung
○Monday 6/5, Tuesday 6/6: APAC Meetings and Interviews, Aggie Reuse Meetings, Staff Meeting (Mock Senate)
○Wednesday, 6/7: OASR Interviews, Aggie Reuse Meeting, APAC Meeting
○Thursday, 6/8: Jin and Nicole Meeting, International Center Meeting, 1-1 Meeting with Aggie Reuse Unit Director, SGAO Meeting
●Senator Rodriguez
○Finals week. I met with HAUS to figure out what responsibilities ill be absorbing over the summer to plan Housing Day while we continue looking for someone to take over the Unit Director Vacancy for HAUS. At the same time helped EC move equipment to their storage space. Equipment courtesy of Creative Media.
●Senator Nagey
○Met with Government Relations Director, Adrian Lopez
○Helped prep OASR budget proposal for B&F
○Attended IAC and B&F
○Attended Senator Ruttkay's event, "It's Time to Reclaim our Bodies”
○Held Office Hours
●Senator Sigala
○Held my office hours, attempting to be more inclusive of my locations
Attempted to schedule DREAM Committee Member interviews this week but failed
○Interviews will begin Week 1 of Fall Quarter 2017
○Will be meeting with DREAM this Friday
○Met with Cirilo Cortez, Director of Strategic Chicanx and Latinx Retention Initiatives
○discussed Chi/Lat Graduation and future collaboration with SPEAK as well as ASUCD
○Attended WEF Unit Director Interviews
○Attended Chief of Police Interviews
○Supported Yik'al Kuyum during their Ponte A Estudiar Event focused to improved academic and community retention
○Had two finals already this week and will be having one early tomorrow morning
●Senator Surywanshi
○Lets Decolonize Our Arts
○Worked on two resolutions - introduced one and will talk about the other
○Emailed Deans of colleges and set up meetings with them
○Started planning “This is what is happening in_____” for fall
○Attend Annie’s “It’s time to reclaim our bodies”
○Interviewed with the Aggie regarding the increase in International Student Fees for SISS
●Senator Ibrahim
○Held a “Lets Decolonize our Culture event” (with Senator Rahi) in which we discussed cultural appropriation and began planning an art exhibit for this Fall. This exhibit will showcase art from artists who have had their work stolen or appropriated.
- Adjournment
●Vice President Jamaludin adjourned the meeting at 10:00 PM.
Minutes taken & completed by:
Naeema Kaleem | ASUCD Senate Recorder