I. Call to OrderA. President: Mariah Watson B. Vice President: Robyn HueyC. Senate President Pro Tempore: Alex LeeD. Senator: Miguel Guerrero E. Senator: Gabriel Johnson F. Senator: Andrea Velazquez G. Senator: Sevan NahabedianH. Senator: Sarah Priano I. Senator: Danielle Santiago J. Senator: Anabiah Syed K. Senator: Roman Rivilis L. Senator: Reem Fatayerji M. Senator: Casey NguyenN. Senator: Tresh AnasO. ECAC Chair Nilofer ChollampatP. EPPC Chair Marissa Ayala Q. IAC Chair Abhay SandhuR. EAC Chair Abire Sabbagh S. AAC Chair Allan BachT. GASC Chair Ivon Garcia U. B&F Joanna Jaroszewska V. Outreach Assembly Lauren Ashe W. Controller: Chandler Hill

II. Quorum Roll CallIII. Appointments and Confirmations

A. GASC Commissioners – 7:05a. Syed – What you want to do with commission

i. Derek Matthews – envision bringing events that might explore the masculine identity and how it might be problematic and perpetuate systems of oppression.

ii. Sara Connor – I’m a returning commissioner, want to continue the work GASC has been doing. I want to expand collaboration, work with lots of different groups on campus. Making sure we’re serving the needs of a broad sense of the Davis communities.

iii. Alexa Timmons – Collaborating with other clubs, starting more workshops, having informal events.

iv. Alison Tam – I agree with Sarah. I’ve met a lot of people in Davis who require the services that GASC and LGBTQIA RC provide, but who haven’t sought them out. Want to reach out to those who aren’t motivated to seek those resources out.

b. Santiago – Specific ideas/notions/experiences that inspired you to continue/apply to GASC?

i. Derek Matthews – Experience in military had a lot of oppressive misogyny, homophobia, etc. Coming to such an open campus opened my eyes to a lot

of things, gave me the capacity to speak to people who may not come from such open backgrounds.

ii. Alison Tam – I’m currently chair of Pride Month Youth Leadership Committee, worked with GASC. After seeing their amazing work, was motivated to apply.

iii. Sarah Connor – Applied last year, wanted to get involved with campus activism, serve people like me, queer people, to make sure their needs are being met. Applied this year for the same reason, and I enjoy the type of work that GASC does, and there’s a lot of room to work, a lot of variety in a structure like this.

iv. Alexa Timmons – Went to women’s conference, some workshops on sexual health, realized how limited some resources are. Motivated me to apply.

c. Rivilis – If UC Davis did more ____ it would be more safe and gender inclusive. Fill in the blank.

i. Derek – If UCD had more gender-neutral bathrooms.ii. Alison – If UCD was more dedicated to reaching students of all backgrounds.

iii. Alexa – More awareness, needs to access campus as a whole, not just specific groups.

iv. Sarah – If UCD had more ethical labor practices.d. Nguyen – What on/off campus resources are you aware of, and how would GASC

collaborate?i. Derek – Various external non-profit orgs, and those are interesting ways to

bring professionals to talk about things. Applying for grants, and the lesser known grants outside of CFC, to get funding for our events. There’s a film called The Mask we Live In, wanted to write a grant to get funding to show that.

ii. Sarah – I know a lot of different activist groups on campus. There’s the other ASUCD commissions, etc. There’s also a bunch of student orgs that GASC could connect with really effectively. For example, Davis Democratic Socialists. And reaching out more to social groups on campus, ethnic identity groups, queer groups, to represent our community better.

iii. Alison – I agree with Sarah, social groups and activist groups. Should also try to work with Resident Halls, frats/sororities, big social clubs on campus.

iv. Alexa – I agree with frats/sororities, also taking advantage of counseling in general.

e. Priano – They’re playing The Mask We Live In during Consent week, just wanted to let you know.

f. ConfirmedB. Controller – 9:08

a. Sandhu – What are your thoughts about a zero-based budget?i. Francisco Lara – I don’t think it’s a very good idea. If you start at 0 every

year, you’re erasing institutional knowledge. I think you should use actuals over the past year.

b. Syed – Based on what you know about the units, do you have a unit in mind that you think has a higher earning potential?

i. Francisco – Something that’s recent is Cal Aggie Camp. We were focusing in on them the last quarter, and that brought up a bunch of questions. While it’s supposed to be a philanthropy that isn’t focused on bringing in profits, we could put Cal Aggie Camp in a more stable position to make sure this doesn’t happen over and over.

c. Nguyen – How would you approach issues that may arise when you and Senate have opposing views?

i. Francisco – I understand my role is to give financial advice and work with senators and exec and commissioners. Through working as chief of staff for the past year, I had a lot of differing opinions, but in the end, I knew my place and how I worked in it. In terms of working with Senate, I don’t want it to be like the last exec where a lot of people felt they were cut out of the process or not involved. I want to get more input from people so I can be more informed.

d. Santiago – I want to know how you see UCSA will influence our budget.i. Francisco – Counts on a lot of info that I don’t have. Really factors into

where that money will come from, who might get cut, what sort of resources we need to raise that money. During budget hearings is when you’ll get a clearer answer.

e. Rivilis – 1, what advice would you give to the Senate table about budget hearings?i. Francisco – One thing I learned working in ASUCD is that people will say one

thing and feel another. So my advice would be to be blunt with me. f. Rivilis – How should we prepare Senate for budget hearings?

i. Francisco – I know we had a preview budget hearing last year, that’s a big component. Other than that, making sure the Senate table will know exactly what they’re going to look at before going in.

g. Rivilis – What would you like to change about how previous Controllers did at budget hearings?

i. Francisco – It’s hard to say what I’d do differently, but one of the things is that I want you all to know all the info you should know going into budget hearings. That’s one of the major things I can do as a Controller.

h. Nahabedian – Your thoughts on sustainability of the way we’re running the budget right now, where you see that changing?

i. Francisco – I feel that every year, we try to go after a few $100 year, a few $1000 here. One of the things I want to focus on is the rebranding of certain units. Better to focus on bigger things to fix them.

i. Johnson – What will the first 3 days of the position be like for you?i. Francisco – 1st day, going to put up a poster my girlfriend gave me. But it’s

meeting people, figuring out what you all want, figuring out what needs you all have, what should be brought to my attention. And also fixing the computer.

j. Nguyen – Now that you are confirmed, address the concerns of having an all-SMART exec?

i. Francisco – Saying we’re all SMART doesn’t mean we have the same opinion. That will be one of my main tasks, however, to make sure you all know that I’m not going to just cater to the SMART populace.

k. Nguyen – Share some ideas you had for your term? i. Francisco – Just one idea off the top of my head was reworking how CFC

gives grants. One of the things we spend our money on is printing, so why don’t we just make it so they can redeem at Campus Copies?

l. Jaroszewska – I really enjoyed working with you this past year. My commission is pretty feisty, but they love Controllers. I’m wondering how you’d like B&F as a resource, and how we should hold you accountable, and what kinds of ways you see that relationship continue?

i. Francisco – I see it as an extension of my job as Chief of Staff. Same relationship dynamics would apply, but we’re focusing on one topic. I know there’s a lot going on, and as long as you all have a goal, it would help keep me focused rather than working in a vacuum. Don’t think the relationship should change just because someone terms out. Will work on projects with the next person to establish continuity.

m. Ashe – Love the idea of working with CFC to make sure the money goes back to ASUCD. We’re in a difficult financial place right now, when you’re looking to make cuts, are you going to cut across the board, or cut some units more than others?

i. Francisco – 2 components to deciding how to cut: the opinion of Mariah and Robyn, and it’s not wise to cut everyone across the board. It shouldn’t be equal, it should be equitable.

n. Fatayerji – 2 scenarios: I’d rather you develop a system of making units make money instead of cutting. How do you feel about EC Large Show Fund?

i. Francisco – We can always say how units are going to make more money, but it’s important to balance and set realistic standards, so sometimes cuts are necessary. Increasing funding is not concrete, but cutting is. In terms of Large Show Fund, I know the basics but not the intricacies. I would have a better answer when I meet with the unit director and others to see what their visions for that are.

o. Fatayerji – Cut units and combine, or cut parts of a unit and bandage them up?i. Francisco – Depends on situation. Take PO and CCCCN, it made sense to

combine them. With other units, that might not be the case. You would have to look at it case by case.

p. Lee – You mentioned CFC reform? I’m trying to work on that right now. I’ll be talking to you about that soon.

q. Roll Call Vote (11-0-1)r. Passed

IV. Unit Director ReportsA. Entertainment Council – 8:15

a. EC – Got a ton going on this quarter. Quad show, got Pirates of the Caribbean showing coming up. Open Mic Night at the end of the month, another quad show. Biggest thing on our plate is Flume, and Lawntopia. Some things for Lawntopia: food vendors and sponsors. We’re going to try to bring some money back through sponsors offsetting cost of event. Charging food vendors. Working on fee initiative, want to prepare it for next Fall.

i. Nguyen – If fee initiative passes, is it effective immediately? ii. EC – Earliest is winter.

iii. Kapur – Not happening. The earliest realistically would be Spring or Summer. Earliest is Spring, but they’ll probably wait for Summer.

iv. EC – There’s a little bit of confusion, not sure exactly when the funds will come in for the this event, but the plan is for it to grow every year.

v. EC – Next quad show will be a band called the J-Band. vi. Garcia – One concern I did have: one thing that wasn’t talked about, no one

knew about gender-neutral restrooms. Want to bring up this concern because it was brought up to me. Any publicly accessible gender-neutral restrooms?

vii. EC – I’ll do my best to look into that. It’s not something that came up, I apologize for not making that a priority, I appreciate you bringing it up.

viii. Huey – On the fee initiative, Mariah and I were involved in the conversation. Some of the discussion we’re having is that Adela wants ASUCD to have a set business plan before asking students for money. We’re doing everything we can in our meetings with admin to make sure this goes through properly. Hoping when this is good to go, we’ll work on it during summer to make sure future bigger plans may happen. Other piece: When it comes down to fee initiatives, vice chancellor and chancellor need to sign it. Let Mariah and I know if you want more info.

ix. Priano – One solution to what Ivon said, WRC puts up signage over gender circle to designate bathrooms as gender-neutral.

x. Garcia – Actually illegal to put it over the signs. But what you can do is, under the sign, designate it as trans friendly.

xi. Kapur – Bringing distinguished speakers?xii. EC – Most definitely. Always open to recommendations, if it’s desired by the

students. Again, as a budget topic, someone like Maya Angelou would be 80-100k to have. Just something to take into consideration.

xiii. Kapur – Ideally would want someone else to pay for it, but student-driven.xiv. EC – Lower Freeborn room 13 on Tuesdays. We combine staff and director

meetings. Talk about upcoming events, different processes. Very democratic.

xv. Sabbagh – EAC will collab with EC. If you want to help, let us know. V. Committee Reports – 12:43

A. Nguyen – Administrative Advisory Committee. We’re in the process of conducting 50+ interviews, must be done by next Friday. Greg is hoping to make final decisions sometime Week 4.

B. Rivilis – Going HAM for AAC interviews. URSAC met this week, trying to figure out Aggie Threads. CURB/SFAAAC tomorrow.

C. Watson – If you all approve, and the commissioners will approve, the DAA will be in charge of overlooking those things. Meeting tomorrow about career pipelines.

VI. PresentationsVII. Public Announcements

A. Sabbagh – Planning, contact EC, reserved Central Park. Happening May 31st. During meeting with Bob, who knows Davis history, he told me Davis Bike Month is in May. Celebrating 50 th anniversary of the 1st bike lane ever in the country. May 1st at 3:30 at Bicycling Hall of Fame.

B. Chollampat – Pass the Plate on the 20th. 7 in MPR. C. Sandhu – IAC meetings 4-6 pm for the rest of the quarter. D. Priano – Davis Feminist Film Festival, Apr 30th, May 1st. Accompanying art show next week. E. Garcia – Laverne Cox is a for sure, she’s coming. Happening at the same time as Flume.

Grand Opening next week for Bike Barn/Aggie ReUse. F. Kapur – Tomorrow, CURB/SFAAAC. Cal Aggie Camp Whole Foods fundraiser.G. Rivilis – CURB/SFAAAC tomorrow 11:30 – 1, ARC meeting room 1. H. Huey – Mariah and I did postings for exec. staff, 4 positions up right now. I. Johnson – Dr. Cornell-West coming too. J. Kapur – Our athletics director resigned out of nowhere. Football coach’s wife is taking over.

Next week, Katehi office hours in CoHo. Next Wed, you should either be with Harley or Mariah. Pantry fundraiser.

K. Jaroszewska – B&F is hiring alternates. Tomorrow, Indigenous Arts Market. Pow-wow day after.

L. Garcia – Pow-wow. Be mindful of photos. Aggie ReUse store is hiring. M. Tresh – Tara from Pantry wants people to share Scholarship for Pantry. I encourage

everyone to post online and share it. Amani 5k Bowl is this Sunday, and I just signed up for Aggie 5k Pride.

N. Fatayerji – Next Monday, Alpha Phi, donate blood, say Reem sent you. O. Sandhu – IAC is hiring, 4 alternate positions. P. Rivilis – Encourage your staff to sign up/volunteer for 5k Stride. There should be a petition

for UConsent going around, volunteer positions available. Q. Priano – Take Back the Night is April 21st, followed/preceded by Consent Week. Trying to

confirm with Laci Green. R. Fatayerji – IFC is planning an org to go along with UConsent. Sexual awareness march May

2nd. S. Nahabedian – April 15th, Armenian Genocide presentation. T. Ashe – OA is going to Farmer’s Market next week, 5:30 at Wed. Hope to see you all. Christy

and I are working on a bill to get money for new brochures. U. Santiago – Pow-wow etiquette. Don’t point. Don’t take pictures unless you get permission. V. Kapur – Community report on police relations, Realism of Racism next week. W. Lee – TCSS Night Market tomorrow. 6:30 to 8. X. Huey – Spring Quarter gets busy, there will be a lot more things happening. I just want you

all to know that I understand if you need someone to talk to, just take care of yourself, hold

yourself accountable for your health. I will always be a listening ear and understanding person, no matter what your situation may be.

Y. Watson – Budget Hearing doodle, fill out by Monday. VIII. Status of Legislation Previously Passed – 10:53

A. Vetoa. Watson – All of last week’s was passed, except #56. I don’t want to make a habit out

of vetoes, it was just this specific bill. Asked for info, asked about restrictions of Capital Reserves, etc. Janet was out for the majority of the week. Don’t know if you read the letter in its entirety, but I vetoed because I thought the money could have come out of somewhere better. You’re going to see a bill from the Controller about CM reserves. Also clearly defining what capital reserves are. You all passing bills for so much money, what we tend to ask for is business plans. If you’re going to invest $8k, you have to have a business plan. We need to think long-term with these plans. We cannot afford to just be that administration that just spends. I trust Alex completely on this one, I won’t be offended if you overturn my veto, but I just wanted to give you my reasons.

IX. Introduction of New LegislationA. Spending Bill to allocate $150 from Senate reserves for purchasing supplies for “Pizza and

Politics” Town Hall EventB. Senate Bill to enact new exec. staff positions and change their pay rates.

X. Consideration of Old LegislationA. SB #54 – Rivilis – 8:15

a. Re-referred to IACB. SB #58 – Hill – 6:49

a. Hill – One of the major thing in ASUCD is a lot of different people doing a lot of different things. As Controller, trying to control things is really difficult. In an effort to stem that, trying to create an Underwriting, Sponsorship, and Advertising Committee (USAC).

b. Commission Recommendationsi. IAC – Passed this unanimously. This bill increases communication between

students. ii. B&F – It’s pretty awesome. This is a great idea. Think of it like the

advertising squad of ASUCD. c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussion

i. Rivilis – The acronym for an advertising committee being USA is the epitome of capitalism but I’m still gonna pass it.

ii. Johnson – Does it have to be B&F chair? Or just a member.iii. Hill – Better to have chair because chair can relate back to commissioners

and units. iv. Jaroszewska – I remember being requested to be put on this. v. Kapur – She also has an ability to send a designee. Special committees can

be renewed after a year too.e. Senate Discussion

i. Nahabedian – Just a question: all the people designated to be on this committee, they’re all the revenue-generating units?

ii. Hill – Yesiii. Lee – In the case that one of these positions changes, how would we re-

delegate? Just a bylaw change?iv. Hill – Yeah. v. Kapur – This is not adding anything to the bylaws, is it? It makes sense to

pass this bill and then add this committee to the bylaws. vi. Rivilis – Would anyone want this to be a special committee first? Or just

keep it as a permanent? No? Okay. f. Divide the House

i. 11-0-1 (Velazquez)g. Call to Questionh. Passed

C. SB #65 – Rivilis – 7:22a. Rivilis – OA speaker already works over summer, it’s an important time to do

outreach for the association. It’s important to have a speaker that’s experienced, so this changes the term of the OA speaker to end during Fall Quarter, start in Winter.

i. Ashe – Bill makes sense. Fall Quarter and Spring Quarter are the busiest, make Winter Quarter transition time.

b. Commission Recommendationi. IAC – Passed. One thing to keep in mind, for that specific date, there will be

a posting for OA at end of spring quarter. There would have to be another hiring, something to keep in mind. Other than that, we agree with the bill.

c. Questions in Text d. Public Discussion

i. Kapur – I’d like to take out “freshmen,” should be “first years.” And I’d like to talk about transfer student orientation as well.

ii. Nguyen – Transfer orientation is in summer, only 2 days.iii. Kapur – At least change to “first years.”

e. Senate Discussioni. Nguyen – Motion to add “first year.”

ii. Kapur – Just take out “freshmen,” just add orientation.f. Call to Question

i. 10-1 (Fatayerji) – 1 (Velazquez)XI. Ex-Officio Reports – 11:43

A. GASCa. E-mailed The Aggie unit director (again); no response stillb. Held interviews for new GASC membersc. Attended SAAAC meetingd. Contacted the LGBTQIA RC to help buy tickets for students for the Laverne Cox

evente. Went to MECHA meeting

i. Talked to a few members; interest in external workshop/training department for Greek Life

f. GASC is getting their vulva back from the WRRCg. Contacted the SRRC & the LGBTQIA RC for a career series collabh. Contacted Bach for info about a career fair (no response)i. Contacted E. (from LGBTQIA RC) so that they have an educational booth in Genitalia

Fair to be more inclusivej. Genitalia Fair is set for 5/22 in the East Quadk. Creating grant flyer to advertise grant moneyl. Talked to the Aggie Reuse Store unit director

i. Helping to create new position, helping connect unit director to professor so that the new position can possibly be more catered to students

m. Talked to Lauren about collab with GASC; trivia questions in an “amazing race”B. OA

a. Held meetingb. Met with members 1 on 1c. Worked with CM Marketingd. We’re doing a giveaway next weeke. Worked with Alex on Town Hall, wrote a billf. Hiring event weeks, RPPIC race week 8, Campfire week 4g. We’re tabling at Decision Day this Saturdayh. We’re tabling at Music on the Greeni. We’re helping the Aggie SK table next weekj. Alex, Roman and I are going to a night market tomorrow, we’re going to talk about

the future of Club imminent in ASUCDC. EPPC

a. Edited constitutional amendmentsb. Created incentive program for red cup cleanupc. We have Wes, previous exec intern who is now trained by the food 2 water watchd. We’re planning a collaboration event in May (we usually do Earth week but we have

decided to do this instead)e. We’re happy to do it with the farmers market on Wed as well on the quad & all of

our ASUCD environmental resources, as well as sustainability groups SROD. IAC

a. Hiring packetb. Meeting with commissioners c. AAC Interviewsd. IAC applicationse. Changed meeting time from 4 pm to 6 pm

E. EACa. Music on the Green Planningb. Met with Bob Bonenc. Commissioners in contact with EC, CCE, KDVS, etc

F. ECAC

a. Talked about ECACb. Talked about woodstocks incident, what to do about itc. Grunt for MECHA & RYEC

G. B&Fa. Met with Greg Ortiz on Mon about committee on committeesb. Held Tues meetingc. Discussed CoHo and Unitrans Long Range Plansd. Handed out transaction listings to all commissioners

i. Each is to look over past two years of transaction listings for various unitse. Went to interviews (Thurs and Fri this week) for AAC members

XII. Elected Officer Reports – 11:57A. Lee

a. Staff meetingb. Went to CSI’s RSO Roundtablec. Held office hoursd. Met with Janice about ASUCD financese. Platforms (test material machine! Getting a platform down)f. Projects (working on maybe 2nd CoHo microwave, planning Town Hall)g. Managed unit adoption CoHoh. Interview with the Aggiei. INC marketing committee meeting

B. Santiagoa. Mon – Sent out with unit ltters; volunteer staff postb. Tues – Unitrans accepted unit adopted; new hire packet day; sent out email to

Pannel Chapter about UConsent, gave a tour and told more people about ASUCDc. Wed – Outreach Assembly; out of the darkness walk, met with Janice & Gregd. Thurs – Phone interview with Aggie, set up meeting with Anthony for Unitranse. Meeting with Brett undergrad edu vacancy

C. Tresha. 4/3 – ASU Banquet, raised 215 for Syrian Childrenb. 4/5 – Registered for Imani525 boltc. 4/6 – Met with Joanne Snap, talked about platform, want to create a central

calendar for premed students, this will show what we are missing so as to create more opportunities, interview with the Aggie

d. 4/7 – Meeting with Janice, need to address situation of ASUCD, MAPS board meeting

e. 4/8 – Volunteer at the Veterans Hospital, board meeting for ASU, registered for Stride for AggiePride

f. 4/9 – SJP GBMD. Nahabedian

a. Fri – Had 1st staff meeting 5-6:30 pm Moss Roomb. Sat – slow magicc. Tues – Meeting with Greg Ortiz, interview with The Aggie for a piece about the new

senators, at night sat on GASC interviews

d. Wed – Set up a meeting with Stephanie Luke and Raeann Davis ATOD Health Educator (meeting is 4/15 10 AM in Health & Wellness Center Main 1 on 3rd floor), alcohol platform

E. Rivilisa. Staff Meeting with Adelab. IACc. University of the 21st Lecture Forumsd. Meeting with Anthony Volkar and Patrick Turner regarding Schedule Buildere. Meeting with Darin about grocery store unit ideaf. B&Fg. URSACh. Meeting with Natasha Coulter in Computer Science department to learn more about

departmental governancei. UC Berkeley trip, many thoughtsj. Administrative Advisory Committee interviewsk. Interview with Nick Dias of California Aggiel. Slow Magicm. Thinking about Passover diet options in all Dining Services

F. Nguyena. Struggling find a flightb. Wed – Native Pathway to grad schoolc. Thurs – Interviews for Controller (all day), AAC (all day)d. Decolonizing the Universitye. Platforms – Academic advising, set up forums week 3, 4, or 5, Neftali and Brett;

AANAPISI grant (intern)f. New interns!

G. Johnsona. Met with LGBTQQIARC student leadersb. Attended Queer vs. Gay space workshopc. Met with Adam and Georgia of Collective to discuss platform progress and transfer

accessibilityd. Attended Black Leadership class lead by students on campuse. Finally appointed a Chief of staff and internf. Met with Karen Gonzales to schedule meeting time to follow upg. Emailed folks in regards to platform workh. Attended BSU Board Meeting and planned rest of spring quarteri. Met with a student regarding student-professor dispute in the History departmentj. Adopted by Experimental College

H. Prianoa. Fri – Janice meeting, vacancy apps put up and adopted unitsb. Tues – Aggie Interviewc. Wed – SAAAC chair meeting/take back the night planning/consent week training,

Global Water Brigades meeting, STAND: anti-genocide club meeting/soda week planning, EDU PEACE training, Davis Fem Film Fes meeting

d. Thurs – Finalizing ASUCD paymentsI. Fatayerji

a. Tues – met with Janice about EC Fee Referendum, scheduled meeting with Greg Ortiz, met with Darin about LRP for CoHo, went to B&F, talked with Taylor from EC to change movie price from $1 to $2, went to Madel URV meeting, filed vacancy listing for staff, worked with Dani for UConsent for Fraternities and Sororities

b. Mon – Met with Lyndon, emailed Janna about scheduling a meeting went to AD meeting promoted SK

c. Wed – Go to SRG EP meeting (paid for abroad, go to Fin Aid), bought/filled plannerd. Sat – Slow Magic concerte. Thurs – Meeting with Janna about outlets, held all 3 interviews for controller, met

with Janice again about business cards, paid for abroad officially going to London, met with Thomas for Panhellenic/IFC & sexual awareness, do econ 102 homework

J. Guerreroa. Unit Adoption Letter sent outb. Aggie Q&A, photo taken Monc. GASC Interview Tuesd. Marketing & E-Fund Meetings (Wed, Thurs)e. SLAC Statusf. Meeting with Janice & Greg Ortiz (Fri)

K. Syeda. Meeting with Anas and Rangeena to discuss our roles as leaders in the MEMSA

communityb. ME/SA week planning meetingc. Staff meeting: lots of very cool ideas/projects geared towards the international

community and orientation reformd. Meeting with Darin regarding diversity trainingse. Discussing with Muna regarding broader diversity trainings for writers (e.g. PAPs

when reporting, etc.) L. Huey

a. Fri – Meeting with Janice concerning various “fires” and risks in the association to be aware of

b. Sat – Slow Magic on the Quad, thank you Entertainment Council & Alexis Munnelly!c. Mon – Meeting with AVC Dr. Milton Lang concerning ASUCD updates and concerns

from administrationd. Tues – Meeting with ASUCD career staff concerning financial status, business

strategies, etc.; had another meeting with AVC Dr. Milton Lang & Janice & Greg about the student forums Mariah and I want to host in the future; at night had a work session with Mariah to develop new exec. staff positions and take care of other ASUCD business

e. Wed – Met with Mariah to discuss and take care of more ASUCD business, 4:00 pm Picnic Day parade meeting, 6:00-8:30 PM chief of staff interviews

f. Thurs – Controller interviews, met with Julia from strategic communications

XIII. New Student Court Cases/Prior WeeksVerdicts/ASUCD Court Announcements

XIV. Closed SessionXV. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

A. Approved XVI. Public Discussion

A. Townhall Scheduling – 8:38a. Lee – Our Town Hall is going to be Apr. 30th, 6-8 pm. Will be in CoHo. Program-wise,

we’re still determining, might get The Aggie or AggieTV to moderate. Calling it “Pizza and Politics.”

b. Ashe – Alex and I have talked about this event and what we think is the best structure. We think it’d be cool for everyone to introduce themselves in beginning. Have members of public and Aggie ask questions. There’s going to be music and pizza at the end. Mingling opportunity. CoHo will help with marketing and advertising.

c. Huey – I won’t be able to be there on April 30th. If there is something you’d like to me to do before the meeting, let me know. If you’re interested in being pro-temp for that day, think about it.

d. Lee – Since it still is a Senate meeting, how strictly do we want to stick to Senate structure? Thing to consider.

e. Fatayerji – 2 things: Alex, we could either vote for a pro-temp before, or suspend parli-pro. 2nd, have you talked to Darin about advertisement? Yes? Okay.

f. Rivilis – One thing to note, it’s still an agenda item. So if we get done with it, low attendance, etc., we can move out of it. I helped planned the structure, think it’s pretty solid. Let us know if you have any questions.

g. Nguyen – I have a suggestion: don’t start until 7, take care of business before. Another: demystify questions/concerns about ASUCD. Some people don’t know what ASUCD is.

h. Lee – Regarding time, I’ve already booked the time. I think it’s best to do it earlier, while people are still around. Lauren has suggested we do a mingling part for demystifying.

i. Nguyen – April 30th is Black April, Remembrance Day for those who died in Vietnam War. Would be nice to mention that.

j. Kapur – Take pre-questions?k. Lee – Working with AggieTV and The Aggie jointly to see who bites first. l. Ashe – Hopefully, people will be able to submit questions online, before and during.m. Kapur – If you guys want to take Casey’s suggestion, you should just take 10 or 15

minutes. n. Priano – That’s the night of Feminist Film Festival. If we can solidify a schedule ASAP,

it would be great. o. Nahabedian – Is this going to be filmed/streamed while it’s going on?p. Lee – Very possible. q. Nahabedian – John Wu mentioned people don’t like it when we take up half the

CoHo. I think that’s something to keep in mind.

r. Nguyen – If you all want, there are other spaces. s. Nahabedian – I understand the value of having it in the CoHo, but yeah, just wanted

to make that clear. t. Lee – Who holds the student governor banner? Can we use it for that day? u. Jaroszewska – If we are clear about what space of the CoHo, which tables we’re

using, that’s one solution. The second thing: I want to stress about how figuring out how we facilitate to make it more accessible.

v. Nguyen – Meeting Room D is booked until 6:30, so we’d have to wait until 7. I urge the table to decide soon so we can book a room.

w. Huey – Never really liked it when Senate was held in Meeting Room D. Want it in CoHo because that is an ASUCD property.

x. Kapur – They had a public senate meeting fall quarter of 2011. They made the mistake that Joanna was talking about earlier. But if you all do what EC does for Open Mic – or I’d suggest you do it in a roundtable format – so it’s not as easy for people to just sit down or walk through the middle. The way it worked that meeting was not very good because people were still walking through.

y. Fatayerji – I like that idea of having a circle, in a way that we can have a sign saying “Please join our circle.” I think it’s important to have it in the CoHo because that’s the place where people are just walking by. Wanted to know why we didn’t want to have the town hall during school hours.

z. Lee – Bylaw that Roman specified made it have to be during the first 2 hours of Senate.

aa. Fatayerji – Not a lot of people on campus during that time. Also, what other types of advertising are we going to do besides FB event and flyering? Are we able to get ads on the busses that fast? I just hope that this gets a larger crowd than any regular Senate meeting.

bb. Rivilis – Previous speaker mentioned that we had 6 interviews with CoC. Invite those on committees to join so they can learn about ASUCD.

cc. Ashe – Election debate happens around lunchtime, not at 6 pm, so there will be less people bothered. This won’t be a normal Senate structure meeting, hopefully facilitated by questions mostly. Also let people submit questions through FB. This starts week 5, when hirings go up, so hopefully this will kick off a string of things. Hope that this will be a period of a lot of student gov. activity, also this is a great time to advertise hirings.

dd. Lee – I’ll take all of your suggestions into consideration. Making a google doc right now about my plan for it, will share with group.

B. Testing Materials Vending Machines Placement – 11:12a. Lee – If you recall, I campaigned on getting more testing material vending machines

on campus. I negotiated with UCD stores, and they are going to get more. The first place we figured out was SCC. They got funding for multiple machines, so any suggestions for where they should go?

b. Syed – Storer, Kleiber. Engineering, Physics.

c. Nguyen – My only concern about SCC machine is that part of our retention programming is to give out free testing materials, so I think it would go against our retention efforts. I suggest near the dorms.

d. Lee – I don’t think it would impact, because you’re still offering free stuff. And we won’t incur any of the losses.

e. Tresh – Just building off of that, there are so many students going into the SCC, it would be nice to have one over there.

f. Rivilis – Kemper is an option, Wellman. Generally where there’s a lot of foot traffic. See if maybe any of the dorms could have one. One thing I’m talking to Berkeley about, maybe this could be a good opportunity for ASUCD to poll students.

g. Syed – While I was on Fayyaz’s staff, we discussed selling testing materials in the dorm convenience stores instead of vending machines.

h. Santiago – The purpose of these vending machines would be for those with 7 or 8 am finals to have a place to buy.

i. Nguyen – I have a lifetime supply of blue books and scantrons. So let me know.j. Johnson – I suggest putting them in dining halls… k. Nguyen – Having them near printer spaces would be cool. Maybe the library? l. Johnson – Is it possible to put machines outside?m. Lee – They said no. n. Nahabedian – I know you guys suggested Segundo Services Center, but I

recommend Tercero Services Center. There’s a lecture hall right next to the center. And I’d also suggest Yeet. I agree, show the science area some love.

o. Garcia – I know that everyone has been a freshmen, but you spend 3+ years unable to access those resources. So maybe somewhere where everyone can access.

p. Nahabedian – The only time you can’t access them is when it’s like after 1 am. I think it’s a hub where you can reach students.

q. Lee – I’ll give them the name of the halls, so it’s very quick, but not democratic. C. OA “Why I Joined” Campaign

a. Ashe – Hirings are coming up. OA is hosting a Why I Joined Campaign, will have flyers quoting people on why they joined ASUCD. I encourage you all to participate, put on social media. Everyone talks about how they don’t like outreach is going, if you don’t participate, you don’t have a voice to complain. We’re kicking off with townhall, and week 6 there is a hiring fair for ASUCD, would love people to table. I need from all of you tonight is your sentence for “Why I Joined.” It’s fine if you can’t get it tonight, but it’d be ideal.

b. Garcia – I prefer not having any pictures of me associated with my position, but I’m open to alternatives.

c. Huey – Can a committee/commission do a group one?d. Ashe – Yeah, it’s really flexible. Meeting with Graphics Director at 3 tomorrow, so a

message before that would be nice. e. Huey – You’re trying to get it onto Unitrans busses?f. Ashe – Christy didn’t mention that, but they might be doing that. We’re also going

to have a FB event for hirings going up. Need a lot of ASUCD support to make this happen.

g. Huey – Thank you so much for pushing this project through.h. Kapur – On Unitrans busses, a bunch of spots are open right now, so that’s perfect

for unit hirings. When are you doing FB event?i. Ashe – Probably around end of week 4.j. Kapur – Possible to do that earlier?k. Ashe – Want to do it at the same time as graphics. This is not hiring for right now,

it’s hiring for next year. D. Updates from Meetings with Janet Napolitano and Governor Brown

a. Mariah – Had meeting to talk to people who actually write the tuition. The forum that was being requested by us was sent out through UCSA, requested a forum at Mondavi with Brown and Nepalitano. Recorded meeting purpose was to present Brown a non-UCOP version of student life. Brown talked about 3-year degree, we ripped it to shreds. Also talked about activity-based funding, we were supportive of this. Talked about online education, we ripped that to shreds as well. Talked about administration bloat. Talked about Committee of 2. Biggest thing we ended on was how they have meetings on the campus, and students who are invited to this are paid by admin, on advisory board, etc., not elected officers. We were given 3 documents of sorts explaining higher education, funding for UCs. Every single UC was present, exception being Irvine.

b. Mariah – We had a meeting that consisted of UC presidents, Nepalitano’s team. What is being passed around now is what we received at the meeting. I also took 10 pages of meeting minutes with Nepalitano. We talked about general funds decreasing, things we agreed on with Governor (greater transparency), idea of efficiency over quality, more money for student advocates, money for capital projects, lack of student representation at regent and UCOP level, regent campus visits are closed off, trust between UCOP and state is not fantastic, sustainability of UC model, senate constitutional amendment to change board of regents (not much comment on that).

c. Smythe – Talked a lot about what they were asking from the state, what the state wasn’t giving them. All of that has been changed now. Nepalitano said that the CA budget is 165 billion a year, and it grew 1 billion more in revenue. She said she didn’t like how UC was cut in bad times, not increased in good times, felt Governor wasn’t giving back to education system. She said that the UC was going to ask for 100 million more a year for 4 years. Money will preserve access to CA residents, bring in 5k more residents, preserve affordability, and excellence. She said she argued to Brown that UC generates 4.6 billion a year, 3rd largest employer in state. She said that the reason the state isn’t providing money is that 70-80% of expenditures are already locked away. Only 20% of CA’s entire revenue is discretionary. She talked about how burden has shifted from state to students. Biggest thing threatening UC is pensions.

d. Mariah – State has bottom line, they reason why they can’t help us with pension is because UC’s bottom line is much higher.

e. Smythe – The biggest majority of the meaning was them asking us to ally student voices to their mission. They kept alluding that students and UCOP are natural allies

(like United States and Britain). They were unclear about what we were upset about. Chief Media person was excellent at deflecting criticisms and questions. One of the things she was implying was, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” I said, “I think it’s funny that you’re telling us you want to hear us student voices, then telling us what student voices you want to hear.” And she said, “Hasn’t your mother ever told you that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar?” So the meetings weren’t really about what they could do for us, it was about what we could do to support them.

f. Mariah – On that note, at least from Davis, is that we don’t trust them enough to go to the Capitol with them right now. And we refuse to get talking points instead of working on those points together. What’s really missing is the student voice, not UCOP or the governor.

g. Smythe – If you saw the different schools and their breakdowns and costs, don’t feel better because we’re not paying as much, as public schools, as private schools.

h. Mariah – Gareth and I and Harley will figure out with you all about what we want to do, especially since May Lobby Day is coming up. Want to make sure student voice is apparent.

i. Rivilis – Involvement, how and why?j. Smythe – Don’t know how and why certain students were chosen to go.k. Mariah – How it works varied between campuses. Lot of the EVPs were pissed off

because they thought these people were appointed, but they were selected out of those who were nominated as representative of student life.

l. Santiago – Just from both the senator role and tour guide role, CA residence. How deep did you go into admitting students? I’ve had high school students saying the myth that those outside of CA are being admitted at a much higher rate than residence.

m. Smythe – Didn’t talk about it much, but touched on 5k more residence accepted across the UCs. Also contingent on transfer students and international students, because they are let in at a certain % to pay for 2 residence. We want them to be let in for the right reasons.

n. Mariah – They’re talking about 17% tuition increase for out of state/international students to use them as cash cows. Nepalitano says they want to kill the bill. UCOP says they’re against it.

o. Fatayerji – I’m a little bit confused. The media makes Nepalitano out to be someone who hates the UC, so is she on our side? I heard that she’s doing this as a ploy to get Brown to give us money.

p. Smythe – The media will portray anyone in a negative light. She did say that the media has been favoring the state officials. One thing that she said: “I do not want to raise tuition.” In fact, she’s made promises that she wouldn’t raise tuition unless it was a last resort. What we heard specifically from her is that state is being stingy, we’ve done everything we can, and she did say that there’s a huge difference between waste and cost. I don’t believe she wants to raise tuition. But one thing we keep hearing is that she’s a “lightning rod.” To interpret what that means, is that she’s not afraid of attracting bad press to get what she wants done, done.

q. Mariah – But she did say that she would hold fast. If they don’t get the funding, the tuition will go up. One thing we did talk about, tuition and service fee are bundled. We are asking if service fee will be increased with tuition, and the answer is that yes, no matter what, they will increase together. Part of the issue, I told her, is that you’re tying them together. Students want to know how many counselors of colors, retention, sustainability.

r. Kapur – Nepalitano is a ne-politician. We are a pawn in their game. I’ve always been of the mindset that the only thing we can so is voter registration. Our state senator said, “Students don’t vote, so they don’t get what they want.” So on all of us, we really need to get students registered and active. Even the mental health stuff is only being put together because of what happened at UCSB last year. Also transparency stuff, come to the meeting tomorrow to see where our student fees are being spent.

s. Nahabedian – You touched on what I wanted to talk about, those who put our budget together are politicians. They do exactly what they need to do to stay in power. It’s a matter of education is not popular electorally. We have to focus on making sure that the funding is on that chart, and now it’s being completely put on the students. It’s about making sure we get our voices heard and don’t play to either side.

t. Jaroszewska – To kind of think about who I’m voting for, I’m worried that there’s so many degrees of separation.

u. Kapur – In response to that, we have CA initiative system. v. Jaroszewska – Some actual politician made a measure, can anyone speak to that?w. Mariah – We vote those people into office and they have careers that outlast

regents. There are critiques that these people don’t understand the UC budget. It puts accountability into someone we can hold accountable.

x. Kapur – We’re research facilities, and when education and research is tied up, well I wouldn’t want an Oklahoma senator reviewing the research we’re doing here. We want to get more students appointing regents, more student regents, etc. But we can’t do any of that if we don’t vote.

y. Nguyen – For suggestions about getting students aware and voting. z. Mariah – We talked about HSI a little. Casey asked me to look into ANAPZ grant. If

we hit the designation and we can sustain it, why not get funding for it? They’re looking into it, Nepalitano met with the black caucus, Asian caucus. They have grilled her. I’m gonna email her, and she’ll give us information.

aa. Santiago – We’ve talked about voting. We should incorporate this info at the town hall. #2, I know there’s that plan of $1 mil. a year, is that going to go to advisors, bettering training?

bb. Smythe – They didn’t go into specifics, esp. where the money will go. But I do know they talked about this money going to administrative costs, and peer advising is part of that. So it’s possible.

cc. Mariah – A lot of it will be in the discretion of the chancellors. It’s on her radar.dd. Fatayerji – Why would they want us out of here if they want our money?

ee. Mariah – Brown wants the 3-year degree for more students to come in quicker. Nepalitano says, when students stay for 5, 6 years, it erodes overall quality of education.

ff. Smythe – And it’s not just that they see us as revenue, they see us as a cost-revenue analysis.

gg. Kapur – I don’t think one of us said the word “prison” in this conversation….hh. Mariah – Google prison-industrial complex, school-prison pipeline… prison spending

has gone WOOH, and education has gone weeeh… We asked Brown about it, he said that was what voters want. If I bring you all a constitutional amendment to vote on political reasons, it’s for something that I have seen, that I was potentially part of, that my family could’ve slipped into.

ii. Priano – Would encourage you all to look into Sodexo, which serves us food, but also serves most of prison food. It’s a component of the prison-industrial complex. Same with our beds and chairs.

jj. Rivilis – We talked about voter reg. earlier, Harley tried to work with student housing on this. It was seen as a form of solicitation. If you want to talk about effective voter registration, need to break down institutionalized barriers. Let’s start tapping into our resources.

kk. Mariah – I’m glad you’re all engaged, asking questions. Knock on my office, set up a meeting with me, contact Shay.

ll. Smythe – And you can see me at Aggie 5k Stride on April 26th. mm. Nguyen – You and Robyn have put up new rules under administration?nn. Mariah – Applications are online right now, created positions: Director of

Development, Director of Public Engagement, Director of Administrative Affairs, Director of Programs.

oo. Huey – In the bill we’re sending through next week, will have all the positions and expectations.

E. Picnic Day Announcementsa. Nguyen – I’m adopted senator for Picnic Day. It’s coming up soon, April 18th. We’ve

got the fire truck, sharing with We Are Aggie Pride. Next week is pre-week. Tues, Pantry Food Drive partnering with Picnic Day, so please support. Grace would like you all to support that. Tues-Fri, Picnic Day team will be hosting a bunch of events. Thurs, acapella. Grace would like you all to sign a pledge for safe Picnic Day. The fine for drinking in public will be doubled during Picnic Day.

b. Kapur – ASUCD alumni event during Picnic Day. In terms of the pledge, go ahead and sign it, but don’t do it if you know for a fact you’re going to violate it.

c. Huey – Mariah and I attended Picnic Day Parade meeting on Wed to figure out what’s going on in terms of ASUCD. We’re going to be leading parade on fire truck. We’re sharing it with men’s basketball and Aggie Pack, but we don’t know if they’ll actually be there. Mariah and I are trying to figure out the exact # of us can be on the truck. Some of you all might have to walk behind the truck. Mariah is filling out the waiver right now. Almuni event will be in MPR. Janice and different people in SSO are trying to get a lot of different alumni to come.

d. Kapur – If you don’t sign the pledge, you might not want to ride on the fire truck.

F. Veto – 10:58a. Jaroszewska – I remember looking at this at B&F. We also had INC explain a week

before. I want you to know that’s why I was comfortable with this bill.b. Mariah – Alex Park has been here for a long time, has turned out a lot of jobs to stay

here. Usually we would trust him at his word, but we were given the impression that there would be a business plan before I signed, and it didn’t happen.

c. Nahabedian – Aggie TV turning into Aggie Studios, the way I remember it, it was something that needed to be done to transition. I want to make sure that this stuff is necessary for turning Aggie TV into Aggie Studios.

d. Mariah – Park says, “We need 7 servers,” and we say, “Okay.” I was told it was a necessity.

e. Johnson – Is it not coming out of capital reserves?f. Mariah – Coming out of capital, because CM reserves are not supposed to be used

for CM, because Park uses that to buy technology for all of the administration. g. Johnson – If we reverse this, then it’s on the contingency that there’s a long-range

plan? h. Lee – The idea of this bill is that it is a pre-cursor of a business proposal to

restructure the unit. i. Guerrero – The main question I have is: what would constitute a viable business

plan?j. Mariah – One of the biggest things that B&F and IAC say is, “Where the hell is the

long range plan?” What the position title is, responsibilities, strategies, goals. They coincide with each other. I didn’t see that or a promise of that.

k. Lee – AggieTV has become like my de-facto adopted unit. I think this is a good lesson for me and other senators, that units can also play politics. My suspicion is that they’re not committed to it, that they’re just going to work under a different way. And I know that if they continue to do what they’re doing now, it’s not sustainable. If they keep doing what they’re doing, we’ll keep losing money. I urge not to overturn the veto.

l. Nguyen – Our 2 options are to trust Aggie Studios will make good on a promise, or we can uphold the veto and let Alex figure out what’s going on. I like the 2nd option.

m. Divide the Housei. 7-3-2

n. Syed – If we decide to uphold the veto, can we stipulate that we have a business plan?

o. Mariah – Yes, I support this bill, just want a business plan. p. Nguyen – We can always reintroduce the bill, it wouldn’t take the same amount of

time.G. Rivilis – Met with Adela, and she was talking about a white-water rafting trip. We’re not

down? We’re good? a. Kapur – How ridiculous is that this trip is expenses paid from our tuition when we’re

trying to cut back on spending? XVII. Any Other Business

A. MOU – 8:30

a. Huey – Janice added another clause about including ICA and ticket office. The purpose is to prevent from suing ICA. Basically, we need to motion to approve the MOU, needs to be done tonight.

b. ApprovedB. Chief of Staff

a. Mariah – This position has a lot of different responsibilities. We went on the hunt for the best possible person, out of all the applicants, I’m pleased to present Shaytaj. She worked as my chief of staff, one of the most organized people I’ve ever met. Robyn and I are trying to be efficient with interviews, so we did a kind of grid to evaluate applicants with. She outscored every single person in every single category.

b. Shaytaj – I’m a sophomore in international relations. Will be having a meeting with Diane Feinstein, will be using that info to develop myself as chief of staff.

C. Closed Sessiona. Lee – There has been a disagreement in IAC between chair and commissioner. I’m

calling for a closed session to resolve that, next week. Inviting Commission Chairs. b. Sandhu – Alex is the senator who called for this session, so he’s going to have to

notify the person involved 48 hours before the session. XVIII. Adjournment – 12:48