I. Call to OrderA. President: Armando Figueroa B. Vice President: Maxwell Kappes C. Senate President Pro Tempore: Robyn HueyD. Senator: Artem Senchev E. Senator: Nicholas Sanchez F. Senator: Andrea Velazquez G. Senator: Azka Fayyaz H. Senator: Amelia Helland I. Senator: Eugenia Chung J. Senator: Anabiah Syed K. Senator: Roman Rivilis L. Senator: Reem Fatayerji M. Senator: Casey NguyenN. Senator: Alex LeeO. ECAC Chair Nilofer ChollampatP. EPPC Chair Marissa Ayala Q. IAC Chair Nathan Bentham R. 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: Rylan Schaeffer

II. Quorum Roll CallIII. Appointments and Confirmations

A. Chief Court Justice – 6:35a. Alexis Caligiuri

i. Lee – What steps will you take to strengthen court’s relationship with other branches?

1. Alexis – Talk with Alfredo to strengthen leadership training. Would like to shape AG to make it more engaging rather than strictly a policing body.

ii. Rivilis – Spirit or letter of the law?1. Alexis – with newer bylaws, letter, but with older, spirit.

iii. Senchev – How do you intend to improve ASUCD?1. Alexis – Strengthening relationship with other branches, don’t want

to maintain island metaphor. Attending senate meetings more, improve institution of constitutional review.

iv. Bach – How about executive and judicial? And why did you want to become Chief Justice?

1. Alexis – The first time I ever went to a court hearing, it was a group of students wearing hoodies but using perfect parli-pro. I loved the vibe, wanted to engage on a more critical level. We have jurisdiction over budgetary concerns if they’re brought to the court, and

executive branch plays such a large role in appointing judicial positions, might be dangerous.

v. Ashe – How does court go about getting people to apply?1. Alexis – It’s a bit of a mystery. People apply to be on the court,

sometimes from committees, interns, ran for office. For others, some people see we have a vacancy and send in an app. Also, public hearings.

2. Ashe – Any relationships with prelaw and other orgs?3. Alexis – Some, but no formal relationship.

vi. ConfirmedB. DREAM Act Committee – 7:58

a. Nilofer – Why you applied?i. Bernice Lacerna – This topic hits close to home. My family is still

undocumented. This is really important to me. As students, no one else will fight for us.

ii. Stephanie Hwang – I wanted to be involved because my family has experience with this. I myself just got permanent residency in 5th grade. Having the opportunity to come here, I want to contribute and be involved.

iii. Laura Galvez – Also undocumented. The rest of the community needs help. This committee is very profound, will do really groundbreaking stuff. We’ve been living with a broken immigration system. Within 4 days, Congress is going to shut down the Department of Homeland Security, and people need to be more informed.

iv. Naomi Lopez – Very personal experiences. Most of my family is undocumented, it has been very hard for us. I think that students should have a safe environment to go to. We should be able to resolve issues for future jobs.

v. Alejandro Espinoza – I am undocumented, I cannot apply for jobs or anything. Because of these barriers, we want to advocate for students.

b. Nilofer – Difference between 8540 and undocumented students?i. Bernice Lacerna

ii. Stephanie Hwangiii. Laura Galveziv. Naomi Lopez – Certain requirements to fill out. High school diploma or GED.

Proof that you were here before a certain date to qualify for driver’s license or be able to work. You have to apply every 3 years. 8540 doesn’t only apply to students that are undocumented.

v. Alejandro Espinozac. Nguyen – First, everything you’re saying is being transcribed. Second: what campus

resources are you aware of that would help you achieve your goals for the committee?

i. Bernice Lacernaii. Stephanie Hwang

iii. Laura Galvez

iv. Naomi Lopez – SPEAK club, offers economical, educational, emotional support to undocumented students. 8540 Undocumented Center, has a legal fellow for advice. Near Tercero: law offices.

v. Alejandro Espinoza – And ASUCD, of course. d. Sanchez – Goals you have for being part of this committee?

i. Bernice Lacerna – Awareness factor. Creating safe space. ii. Stephanie Hwang – More resources, more awareness. Representation of

how many people are actually part of this community.iii. Laura Galvez – Representation, raising awareness, more than just the 8540

Center. iv. Naomi Lopez – Offer form of housing for undocumented students or

students of color.v. Alejandro Espinoza – Paid internships within campus for undocumented

students. e. Confirmed

C. Controller – 6:51a. Chandler Hill

i. Lee – Armando said you had a lot of ASUCD experience, what have you been involved with?Hill – transferred here, I’m very old. I wanted to get involved; got involved with Carly when she was President, and Becca too. Became business manager of KDVS, then under director.

ii. Jaroszewska – Since you’ve experienced both being part of B&F and part of a unit, tell some challenges in B&F versus challenges in unit?Hill – As a B&F commissioner, you’re kind of a noob, you don’t really know what’s going on. You’re reading the paper version of what a unit is. As a director, though, you know it inside and out. It’s a different perspective.

iii. Jaroszewska – How do you see your role as controller playing out between the two?Hill – Bridging the gap. Helping commissioners help units.

iv. Rivilis – In a situation where you have to cut a unit subsidy, what do you do in a situation where you have to talk to them?Hill – I’m not going into the controller position going, “Cut everything!” There are a lot of other ways we can solve our financial issues without destroying a part of our association.

v. Sanchez – Any short term goals?Hill – My short term goal is to meet with all the directors and immerse myself in what they do, help them accomplish their goals. Find ways to make association more efficient.

vi. Lee – Example of worthwhile investment?Hill – Things that are profit-generating. On the books, that’s what’s a worthwhile investment. For example, having a pizza delivery service for the CoHo would probably be a good investment.

vii. Lee – When do you expect to graduate?

Hill – In the spring, will stay for summer. viii. Rivilis – What do you think the philosophy of the controller is?

Hill – I don’t like being a boogeyman. I think money makes everything better; finance is a way to leverage society to better things. It’s more of a person you can go to for advice to get things accomplished. A harbinger of hope.

ix. Nguyen – You only have 5 weeks in your term, how will you improve relationship between government and units?Hill – Meet with directors, see how they can be helped, and how they can help ASUCD. Meet goals of exec. board. Communication and synergy.

x. Nguyen – Unresponsive unit director?Hill – Talk to them in person.

b. ConfirmedD. IUSC

a. Yitong Li (Questions from Dec. 11 minutes) i. Improve service provided to international students, help them solve

questions and problems they may face. I am also an international student, I know they’re facing a lot of issues. I want to help them.

ii. University provides a lot of resources like SISS, Cross Cutural Center, etc. Still, international students are less involved in university activities. There are only 2 international students here in this room. One of the problems is that university did not provide enough information to international students to get involved. University actually needs to hear the voice of international students. The percentage of international students here is increasing, and there are no international students as senators, they are not being presented.

iii. When I was interviewed, I was asked a question, “If there is no funding, how do we help international students?” I couldn’t answer, because if there’s no funding for the committee, how can we help international students? It’s hard for us to organize activities without money. If we can’t organize, they won’t come. That’s really a problem for the committee.

IV. Unit Director ReportsA. Picnic Day Grace – 50 days from Picnic Day. Heart of our Community theme. Started

focusing on safety aspect. Mariah came and did a peace training 2 weeks ago. Safety enhancement zone was approved, Anderson to A street to train tracks. Anything illegal: fee is 300-400 dollars.

a. Ayala – How are police publicizing fines and those things?b. Grace – Every year it goes out in our letter from ASUCD. We will put it on our

website, too.c. Bach – How do I win a free shirt?d. Grace – The week before Picnic Day is pre-week. We’re on snapchat as well. Tues-

Fri, tying it to international week of service. Might have service fair with opportunities to give back. In the quad from 12-1 every week. Need the support for that; Pre-week has kind of been slow these past few years.

B. Alexis Entertainment Council – 1 sold out movie screening, $800 from that show. Horrible Bosses 2 this week. Open Mic Night has been a total blast. It’s been a free event, going to continue. Publicity team is working on making new shirts, double the cost. Wantopia. Something really excited: ticketing policing has really restrained us from bringing outside promoters. 3 years ago, policy changed hands so that promoters wouldn’t come anymore. I’ve been working with others, got policy passed, can expect promoters to come back. Trying to show them that it’s going to be lucrative. Golden Boys is already onboard.

a. Lee – At IAC, you said that movies cost $900 to screen, BH6 made $800, so you lost $100. Maybe you should raise ticket prices?

b. Alexis – absolutely, looking into it.c. Rivilis – New ticketing policy: where will proceeds go?d. Alexis – will go to promoters, but 3 dollar proceeds will be split. e. Watson – What is that split?f. Alexis – Will be negotiated this upcoming week.

V. Committee Reports – 6:32a. Nguyen – Right before Senate next week, around 5, Champagne Awards and

Promise for Education Awards will be presented and given out. Please be here to support them if you can.

b. Fatayerji – ARC extension plan. Reconfiguring Rock Hall backhouse. Adjusting water polo hours in REC pool.

VI. PresentationsVII. Public Announcements

A. CALPIRG – Statewide conference this weekend. Going to lobby on Monday to the capitol. B. Lee – My club, Davis Film Society, is premiering its film on Monday 7 pm, March 9 th.C. Sabbagh – My commission wants to do a video project about taking agency back about how

our school is represented by media, thought it would be cool to collaborate with other commission chairs. We want to show what our school is outside of the negative media attention we’ve been getting the last 2 weeks. Thinking of starting on it start of spring quarter. As EAC, want us to have control how the world sees us.

a. Jaroszewska – One thing you need to think about is whether you want to focus on our school, or ASUCD. Think of the questions that might be asked of you in terms of ASUCD.

D. Ashe – The Student Fashion Association is looking for student designers for annual show. E. Ayala – Tomorrow, student housing is starting planning for fall welcome. Let me know if

you’d like to be involved. Just the student housing events that go on that one week. F. Bach – Men’s Basketball next week, last 2 home games. G. Garcia – Vagina: Our Stories this week. Playing 3 times. H. A coalition of student groups are coming together in a town hall meeting. 2 concurrent

things on the spring ballot next quarter: recalling the regents/vote of no confidence, and a vote to make student welfare broader. Members of the community can weigh in on what this new vote should look like. There will be food.

I. Tori – This town hall is running concurrently with a graduate student led but undergraduate student body. 96 Hours of Action. Preparing for the town hall. Teach-ins by the community. Extending an invitation to you all. General Assembly on Monday at 2.

J. Kapur –March 9th, deadline for administrative advisory committee. Friday, SFAAC/CURB meeting at ARC meeting room 1. Wednesday, MOSS room meeting. Tuesday, office of advocacy having an event, geared towards people of color but open to all. Tuesdays 12:15-1:15 Katehi Office hours in CoHo.

K. Lee – Call for art to be submitted to be installed in CoHo.L. Fatayerji – ECAC, Horrible Bosses 2 screening. M. Kapur – Our basketball team is doing really well. Thursday and last Saturday, last 2 home

games. VIII. Status of Legislation Previously Passed

A. PassedIX. Introduction of New Legislation

A. SB to replace office hours with more flexible expectationB. SB to amend Section 205J(2) of the ASUCD Bylaws to increase amount of undergraduate

students on IUSC by oneC. SB to grant explicit duty to the ASUCD AAC of increasing student representation in Academic

SenateD. SB to standardize the agenda for ASUCD Senate meetings by including specific time intervals

for all scheduled agenda items E. SB to give money to Aggie TV to buy video editing equipmentF. SR endorsing Davis Go Solar Campaign

X. Consideration of Old LegislationA. SB #38 – tabledB. SB #43 – 8:51

a. Kappes – We passed a bill earlier so that Unit Directors were hired in Winter, but that’s not ideal for Picnic Day and Whole Earth Festival. This is just a simple bylaw update for them.

b. Commission Recommendationsi. IAC – agreed with everything.

c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussion

i. Mariah – When would they hire?1. Kappes – They would decide. 2. Hill – How does the current process work?3. Kappes – Unit directors turn in apps, posted online, executive

figures out who to hire. Unit director is confirmed in front of Senate.4. Hill – So it takes a long time5. Kappes – Best case scenario 2, worst case 5 or 6. Picnic Day happens

in April, so you probably want to do it in May. And it’s different for Whole Earth Festival, so it wouldn’t be ideal to specify them.

6. Watson – You talked to each of the unit directors, and that’s what they preferred?

7. Kappes – Yes. 8. Kapur – When was the currently WEF director hired?9. Kappes – I don’t know the specific week.

e. Senate Discussioni. Nguyen – Grace is completely supportive of this bill. Picnic Day will happen

week 3, she said by week 4 or 5, process of hiring should start. f. Call to Questiong. Passed (9-0-3)

C. SB #44 – 9:00 a. Kappes – Stipend plan. Moving stipend money to be better allocated to different

units. Controller, Business Manager, etc. will make it so that positions better reflect how much work each person gets done.

b. Commission Recommendationsi. B&F – B&F really liked this video, saw it as a way of checking ourselves and

individual units. We all unanimously agreed that it’s a good bylaw, but want it to not be forgotten and not used.

ii. IAC – A lot of people agreed, some members said it shouldn’t have come to IAC. Good way to audit ourselves.

c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussion

i. Hill – Why is this better than cutting outright positions?1. Kappes – If we did this and cut 12.5% of the positions over 10 years,

we would only have 30% of the positions remaining. This is to fix unequal pay over a long period of time.

2. Hill – Don’t budget hearings already fix that?3. Kappes – Generally not changed because stipends are either left

alone or cut. They’re the first to go when balancing a budget.ii. Kapur – I agree with the intention of this bill. I’m not sure if you are allowed

to force the next Senate tables to do something in terms of budget. 1. Kappes – There is actually a system set up to adjust over time.

Business Manager and Controller will meet to figure out if this is a system they want to adhere to.

2. Kapur – If you want them to have the freedom, you should add that to the bill.

3. Kappes – This is something we need to have a structure for. You do make a point with issues in control budgets, but the issue is that we sign MOUs committing funds all the time, so you’d probably want to address that.

4. Kapur – The generational thing is problematic. I just don’t want there to be another bylaw that keeps screwing over students.

5. Bach – The way it’s set up now, if the business manager and controller met in 3 years, and they didn’t like this, what would they do?

6. Kappes – Write an amendment. 7. Kapur – I just want you all to be aware that in 3 years, they’ll have

to vote on this if they don’t want it, but it might be hard to pass.

8. Jaroszewska – MOUs are more grandiose and locking, but the reform of bylaws… bylaws are easy to change, but if we change them from year to year… ASUCD, in order for it to financially outlast itself, we have to set a precedent to not overturn bylaws every year. Part of that is the role of the Controller. We have to create financial stability, and this is part one of it.

9. Kapur – Change it so the analysis is every year. Next exec. team does it, and if it’s a good thing for the budget, then implement this.

10. Watson – I’m friendly to it. It’s getting to the point where we start looking at retention. Who gives a fuck about the politics when there are people who can’t afford to stay here? I’d rather it not be year to year. We need to be thinking longer. There has to be some mechanism that keeps us in conversation with previous execs. Don’t do it every year, do it every three years, or even two years. Something’s gotta bind this. Controller is supposed to be nonpartisan, but that’s not the case every year.

11. Kapur – Controller position: less partisan, not part of exec office, more like a unit director. Office not directly in exec office. Shouldn’t be surprised if a cross-partisan controller is appointed. Two years is still unfair, but it’s more fair than three years. It’s hard to know what this is going to do, since we haven’t done it yet.

iii. Zeknes – Why 12.5%?1. Kappes – It’s arbitrary. 2. Zeknes – What happens if we don’t do this?3. Kappes – It’s unfortunate, but it’s impossible to truly enforce, but

this is a clear “what you should be doing.” We can’t stop someone from not doing it, but it’s as binding as it can be.

e. Senate Discussioni. Rivilis – Divide the house on frequency of analysis. Yes means 1 year, no

means keep it as is. (0-9-3)ii. Lee – When within the year?

1. Kappes – No specifications, but would recommend adding.iii. Rivilis – 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 change. iv. Chung – Motion to change mid-70s so there’s no apostrophe.

f. Call to Question g. Passed (10-0-2)

D. SB #46a. Kappes – ASUCD doesn’t have a lot of money. We’ve spent over 70% over the past

few years. What this does is make it so that a specific amount of our budget is going into capital reserves and net revenue. This will save us money, but we’ll have to do more than this to help the association.

b. Commission Recommendationi. B&F – Good move, reinforces long-term plan of saving.

c. Questions in Text

d. Public Discussioni. Senchev – This is a fantastic bill. However, this money hangs out right? And

while it hangs out, inflation is happening. So how do we combat inflation?ii. Kappes – We collect interest off our holdings. But right now, we’re relatively

stagnant because of fixed fees. It doesn’t account for inflation, but it would be dangerous to tack an inflation rate on it because our student fees don’t have an inflation rate.

iii. Senchev – Where does the interest come from?iv. Kappes – I can’t speak with authority on it. But if you want to set up a bank

system, then feel free to write a bill.v. Hill – The current net revenue reserve is in money market funds. It makes it

more liquid for us to grab it if we really need it, so it’s better than putting it in some treasury fund.

vi. Senchev – In regards to nonprofits, it’s basically that the stakeholder isn’t gaining profit, any excess is given back to the association.

vii. Hill – How many years do we put in 12.5%?viii. Kappes – It is perpetual.

ix. Kapur – Questions about constitutionality. And also, are you allowed to do this since it’s already a student fee?

x. Watson – For those of you who don’t know. For all the cross cultural weeks, etc, we keep a raw number.

xi. Kapur – But it doesn’t specifically come from student fees. This is coming from student fees. Is it 12.5%? Does it have an actual number?

xii. Kappes – about $780,000. e. Senate Discussion

i. Rivilis – Where did you get the 12.5%, and maybe we should define what net revenue fund is.

ii. Kappes – There’s another bill after this that defines net revenue. I came up with several different payback schemes, the goal was to hit 20% by 2025. I came up with this percentage system because it’s dynamic, changes with our budget. It’s not too much of a burden. As far as ways to actually put money into reserves, it gives us the opportunity to actually expand.

f. Divide the House (8-1 (Chung)-3)i. Chung – I just think there should be an endpoint, once our reserves hit a

certain amount. Unfair for students to pay fees when their money doesn’t go towards services for themselves.

ii. Kappes – The reason we don’t have an end date is because there’s no solid funding for these reserves. Creates an odd financial stability.

iii. Senchev – You have an issue with students providing cash flow to the future. But here today we’re enjoying cash flow from past students.

iv. Watson – I agree with you in terms of never-ending funnel of money. I talked to Janice about holding the money: most nonprofits is 25%, which is 3 mill for us, which is unreasonable for us. The number she gave us was

maybe 1.75 to 2 million. I’m friendly to that but I don’t know how to put that in.

v. Chung – Before Champagne left, how were our finances?vi. Watson – we were are 1.6 million, and now we have 560,000 left.

vii. Kappes – The reason why I don’t want to put a specific cut date is because the amount we need changes as the administration grows. It should be a conversation we have when we reach a point. It’s impossible to figure out how much we need unless we put it like “until we reach 20%.” I get your concern, but I feel like that’s a conversation we should have when we do get that much money.

viii. Chung – What if they don’t want to suspend the bylaw because they don’t want to lose that money? I don’t want to keep adding to a rainy day fund when we could be serving students with that money.

ix. Kappes – I think we’re not going to hit the point when we reach 20% and are just sitting on it. It would be invested in big projects. Since Champagne left, we lost over a million dollars. We are a few financially risky administrations away from kablooey.

x. Hill – Kinda have to cut off a leg, save the body. You have this money so you can exist as an entity later. There’s a lot of reasons to save. I think it’s a good thing to put some kind of number on there.

xi. Kappes – Bylaw can be changed over time as our financial state changes. xii. Hill – Putting a percentage is also dynamic.

xiii. Jaroszewska – Someone from 3 years from now could say fuck this bylaw, a goal would give them something to work towards

xiv. Hill – The cool thing about having a cap on it, is that one year, we don’t need to put in 12%, we could put in 6% and not be forced to put in 12%.

xv. Kappes – We can put that language in, but I fear that 10 years from now, they’ll hit the goal and invest in something else, it’ll be a weird buoy line. I know it’s weird to hope that a future table will look at this bill and amend it, but otherwise it creates an awkward budgeting situation.

xvi. Lee – I agree with Max about keep putting money in reserves. There is some use for a horizon, but we don’t need to have it in this bill.

1. Divide the House on Expiration horizon (1 (Chung)-7-4)2. Vote on voting? (5-3-4)

xvii. Kapur – If a ballot measure gets put on the ballot about increasing student fees, how does that affect this bill?

xviii. Kappes – If it’s just a general fee, we throw that money in. xix. Kapur – If you redo the ASUCD fee now, then you’re redoing Cal Aggie Camp

and Unitrans. This is a specific way of breaking up student fees, does it have to be codified?

xx. Kappes – If we would like to include it, we could. xxi. Kapur – The people who are doing the calculation for how much that fee is

going to generate, they need to be cognizant of the fact that 12.5% is going

to be taken out of it. How will we make them aware of it besides having it in the bylaws?

xxii. Kappes – I don’t know how we can make this more than bylaws, that’s why I’m doing an MOU. We could work with admin on the MOU.

xxiii. Kapur – How would this be put in the budget?xxiv. Kappes – A line item or something. Whatever’s more appropriate. xxv. Rivilis – There’s a lot of conditionals, I would see this as a structural fix.

xxvi. Chung – I don’t see the harm in adding a threshold. xxvii. Kapur – To be completely honest with you, no one in this room is going to

know what’s going to happen here in 20 years. ASUCD needs to figure out how to do this through passing down institutional memory outside of bylaws.

xxviii. Watson – One thing we can do, just like with the previous bill, having some mechanism where we review this every five years.

xxix. Kappes – That other one is a quick fix, this is over a long time. xxx. Watson – Revisiting in five years would make it go both ways.

g. Call to Questionh. Passed (8-1(Sanchez)-3)

E. SB #49 – 11:04a. Kappes – Defines Net Revenue Funds. We historically spend it however we want,

because it wasn’t defined in the bylaws. So now we’re defining it. Historically used as credit card. Defines net revenue as covering losses, lawsuits, and overdrafts.

b. Commission Recommendationi. B&F – Some of the stuff we talked about: definition of emergency. The way I

see this bill, there are 2 big reasons why we want to pull money from Net Revenue or capital reserves. Really big emergencies (essentially an overdraft), or capital investments.

c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussion

i. Lee – We’re working on a bill right now to get Aggie TV new equipment through Creative Media net reserves…

ii. Kappes – As long as it falls under Creative Media, then it’s fine. But if it doesn’t, then you need 3/4ths.

e. Senate Discussioni. Rivilis – Who would take from Creative Media?

ii. Kappes – Creative Media Net Revenue is for infrastructure purchases under Creative Media.

iii. Rivilis – Where does the 10% come from?iv. Kappes – 10% is the bottom of the barrel. We don’t want to be in the

position where we dip below. It seems like an amount where it would be a Day After Tomorrow scenario where we’d burn through 10% in losses and lawsuits.

f. Call to Questiong. Passed

F. SB #50 – 9:25a. Alexis – What I’m asking here is for a transfer of money, not more money. Some

issues that were brought up to me at IAC meeting was that we’re moving too much money from movie screenings to midside show account. But I changed that to move different amounts. I’m trying to make us money, not throw the money away. Lawntopia: food vendors. I’m asking for money to be reallocated to bring entertainment that everyone wants to see.

b. Commission Recommendationsi. IAC – Mostly just concern about too much money being moved, but after

the change, I think more people are okay with it. ii. B&F – We passed this unanimously. Were concerned about pulling a large

amount of money from publicity. Alexis spoke to that. Another part of it had to do with a midside show not bringing a lot of money, but we spoke to Alexis, saw it as a ramp up. Going to make us more visible, an investment in the brand.

c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussion

i. Watson – So you got those number from massive survey that you did? ii. Alexis – No, I did research for all the artists’ costs and factored into how that

would fit into our budget. I’m trying to appeal to a much larger audience. iii. Watson – Wanting to engage students? Lots of students are asking, “Where

are the concerts?” I know this may not be the most profitable thing, but this is a subsidized unit. Student fees are going to them. Part of that is making sure students are having concerts that they want to attend.

e. Senate Discussion i. Rivilis – This is relatively noncontroversial, student welfare is affected by this

bill. ii. Alexis – For the Buzz: we wanted to bring E40. Some people on ASUCD and

Janice didn’t feel like it was a good option for our school, I didn’t agree with that because a lot of students were excited, and it was affordable and popular. Any way we can make that happen?

iii. Kappes – E40 was deemed too controversial. iv. Hill – I think this is a great idea, you could actually improve this with

sponsorships. What do you currently do with you budget for publicity?v. Alexis – Last quarter we had Holy Ghost, wasn’t selling, reached out to

magazines and radios to pay for subscriptions for publicity, so that’s what we did. And the rest of the money is towards regenerating profit.

f. Call to Questiong. Passed (9-0-3)

XI. Ex-Officio Reports – 6:43A. Bach

a. Held meeting Thursday instead of Mondayb. Discussed plan for Spring Quarterc. Planning excellence in education awards

d. Working with the Undergrad Research Faire. Planning a transfer workshopf. Held office hours

B. Chollompata. Programs – visual art, pass the plateb. Conversation about leg.

C. Sabbagha. Debriefed about DVSFb. Discussed video projectc. MOA talkingd. No leg.

D. Jaroszewskaa. Pizzab. 2 bills seenc. Talked about new t-shirt designd. Audits process moving alonge. Met with Janicef. Went to controller interviews

E. Benthama. 2 bills seen

F. Ashea. Held meeting, worked on eventsb. Tabled at Housing Dayc. Met with members 1 on 1d. Went to Winter Quarter training

XII. Elected Officer Reports – 11:17A. Lee

a. Staff meetingb. Had a meeting with campus officials about Bike Safety Improvementsc. CALPIRG Press Conference/Released. Met with Derreck and Harley on Veteran Student improvementse. AggieTV to Aggie Studiof. Very successful office hoursg. Went to IAC, EAC

B. Syeda. Meeting with RROC chairb. Met with Dr. Svad Josephc. Met with ME/SA SAO – Shyama Kuverd. Met with my amazing staffe. Met with Andrea and discussed possibilities with our staffs

C. Velazqueza. Met with Arev from CALPIRGb. Met with some of my staffc. KDVS event

d. National MECHA meeting in SFe. Met with Anabiah to see how our staff could possibly work together

D. Sencheva. OH people came, request for an interview with KDVS about the financial status of

our association. IF anyone is interested in taking it in my stead, please let me knowb. Met with presidents of organizations in the UC Davis Business Community about

how value-add can be createdc. Financial Training program, staff portfolio diversification. Moving into derivatives

next weekd. Member of Academic Senate, math department. She’s super upset at where

education is goingE. Fatayerji

a. Went to B&Fb. Went to Entertainment Councilc. Went to Sigma Noodles/Camp Kesem Fundraiserd. Went to RACe. Explored summer internship opportunitiesf. Met with Darin from CoHo – toured me around CoHog. Held 2 office hoursh. Learned more about Grad Schooli. Went to 3 Arrow Jam practicesj. Met with Sheri Atkinson

i. Introduced myself and built a lovely bridge. She brought up they’ve had trouble meeting quorum so can’t meet bc not enough students on her committee so she’s working to get more hired in order to get the ball rolling

F. Sancheza. Meeting with Carlos about projectsb. Retention forumc. DREAM Committee finally establishedd. Held a meeting with Sabrina, Reem, and President of Alpha Phi about racist event

G. Nguyena. Mon – Meeting with Brett McFarlane about improving academic planning tools,

meeting with interns about possible SQ projects, meeting with Alex during office hours, went to IAC

b. Tues – Went to EAC, talked to intern about AANAPISI grantc. Wed – Meeting with Max, Sigma Nu-dles, meeting and OH with Greg Ortizd. Thurs – Meeting with Grace (unit director for Picnic Day), Met with CALPIRG Erin.

Won’t be at Senate next week because sustained dialogue campus network conference in AL

H. Hueya. Fri – Election announcementsb. Weekend – Home for Chinese New Yearc. Mon – Chicanx/Latinx retention forum

d. Tues – IT Services meeting, learned about Aggie Feed, expansion of WiFi, modifications to myucdavis discussion, got interviews by the Aggie, stopped by B&F, Fil-Grad meeting

e. Wed – Controller interview, Sigma Noodles with Casey, SHAWC + mental health platform

f. Thurs – Controller interviewI. Rivilis

a. Staff meeting last Fridayb. Office hoursc. IACd. GASCe. Met with Max on role of commissionsf. EACg. SHAWC about projectsh. Met with DaniMaei. Met with Anasj. Met with John from CALPIRG about solar campaignk. Testing Center PACl. Met with Elias Lopez of office of the registrar to talk about projects regarding the

new schedule builder interfacem. Meeting with Milton Lang about campus climaten. Met with Gareth about life

J. Kappesa. IAC & B&Fb. ASUCD Commission Restructuringc. AggieTVd. Court Interviewse. Controller interviewsf. ASUCB was signedg. ASUCD Finances with Admin, also Outreachh. MCed Open Mic Nighti. Coffee Carts are a thingj. Finance Meeting with Darrink. Lost a staring contest with Mariah, but my eyes were open for awhile beforehand so

I don’t know if it countsl. Planning next Bobble Daym. Various meetings I can’t remember

K. Armandoa. Fri Feb 13th to Thurs 19th

i. Met with Janiceii. Interviewed with an internship

iii. Met with Naftaliiv. Met with Paige & Estrella about Decision Dayv. Met with Bob LZ, Greg, & Harley about committees

vi. Office hoursvii. Met with Walter Robinson on HIS

viii. Met with Milt about ECix. Met with Lyndeezy for nothingx. Met with Alejandro

xi. Champagne committeexii. Sat in on Aggie Protest

xiii. Meeting with Milt on Unitrans for Law Schoolb. Fri Feb 20th to Thurs 26th

i. Met with Janiceii. Champagne Committee

iii. Greg meetingiv. Office hoursv. POC Reaffirmation Committee

vi. 3 hours of Housing Dayvii. Controller interviews

viii. EC gardens meeting about safetyix. CoHo Open Mic

XIII. New Student Court Cases/Prior WeeksVerdicts/ASUCD Court Announcements 7:07A. Andaru – Saw Mitchell v. Senate last week. Opinion went out on Monday afternoon. This

one was about divestment. Took arguments from both petitioner and respondent, agreed and disagreed with both of them. Haley – Resolutions on divestment are fine, but they must have the interest of student welfare in them.Andaru – Reached 3 conclusions, written in majority opinion. There’s a conflict in the bylaws: one says Senate can express opinions of Senate, and one says Senate can express opinions of entire UCD. Political resolutions will hold views of Senate until the conflict is fixed. SR #9 repealed, but no ex-post facto.

a. Fatayerji – How are you going to differentiate between personal welfares of different students?

b. Haley – Within the opinion, we do state that welfare doesn’t mean every person. Resolutions don’t have to affect every student on campus.

c. Andaru – We’ve expanded senate jurisdiction to include a subjective welfare.d. Nguyen – How would the court define student welfare?e. Andaru – Within the hearing, both sides defined student welfare with 4 elements:

education, rights, safety, and resources. There might be other things, but these are the ones we agreed on. We don’t limit the gray area of student welfare.

f. Haley – We didn’t rule that SR #9 didn’t affect student welfare, but we ruled that it wasn’t primarily based on student welfare, but instead politics.

g. Sabbagh – Unless a political resolution specifically states that it affects student welfare, then it’s not constitutional?

h. Andaru – Yesi. Sabbagh – So how about political resolutions applied in the past?

j. Andaru – The court won’t take retroactive action, but if someone wants to take these to court…

k. Sabbagh – My concern: isn’t this setting a bad tone for what students can bring to Senate? How will students feel like they can bring something to the table without feeling like they’ll be sued?

l. Andaru – We’re just doing what the constitution says. If you want to change the constitution to change what can be passed, then you’re welcome to do that. Some other parties feel that this sort of resolution shouldn’t go to senate. The court only draws its power from the constitution.

m. Kapur – Where is the authority vested to repeal resolutions?n. Andaru – In the constitution. o. Kapur – What role does precedent have if the constitution is amended?p. Haley – Constitution takes importance.q. Kapur – For my first question, the verb is “interpret”r. Andaru – The court is saying that the resolution was illegally passed. If it was illegally

passed, then it’s invalid.s. Kapur – No, that’s not true. Where do you have the authority to repeal it?t. Jaroszewska – I understand what you all are saying about the constitution holding

the upper hand. From what I’m hearing, it sounds like it’s the interpretation that limits what the Senate can do, not the constitution. What makes something “political?” When and where does student welfare end and begin?

u. Haley – First, within the opinion, we address that student welfare is not limited to campus. This resolution did not express clear links to student welfare, in our opinion.

v. Matthews – You said something about the Senate not speaking for the student body, but for the Senate?

w. Andaru – Within the constitution, it says Senate has the power to express views of the entire ASUCD, the bylaws says that Senate has the power to express views of Senate.

x. Matthews – So the constitution and the bylaws conflict?y. Andaru – Yesz. Matthews – So what is your capacity to judge the bylaws?aa. Andaru – Our capacity is to judge based on the constitution.bb. Matthews – So what authority do you have to judge both the constitution and

bylaws?cc. Andaru – We’re just pointing out that it might seem unfair for certain minority

groups. We’re pointing out that there’s a conflict in our governing documents.dd. Kapur – If the constitution takes precedence, don’t you have to defer to that?ee. Andaru – If there’s something that’s against the inherent nature of the constitution,

if there’s a resolution that made it feel that a minority – ff. Kapur – Before my time runs out I just want you to know that I wish you were here a

few years ago to talk about minority rights.gg. Rivilis – So you’re saying that any political resolution can be repealed by the court?

hh. Andaru – If a minority feels like the resolution does not have enough link to student welfare, then we have a case.

ii. Haley – Arguments need to be based on student welfare.jj. Rivera – Court has power to review bylaws. As for whether the court has the power

to interpret anything to begin with: “Court can interpret and review complaints.” Court has power of judicial review, can repeal unconstitutional resolutions.

kk. Fatayerji – Almost everything we get here is political. It’s such a gray area: how can the court make a justified ruling in such a gray area? There’s no way every single group will agree with everything we pass.

ll. Jaroszewska – Let’s just not use the word minority unless we define what a minority is.

mm. Sabbagh – Who is the minority?nn. Andaru – The majority votes were black, the minority was white. oo. Sabbagh – So the minority was the anti-divestment group?pp. Andaru – Yes. On this table.qq. Jaroszewska – So maybe we shouldn’t use minority, take into account who is

represented in this room as who is not. rr. Fatayerji – Basically: I don’t understand how you made a decision in such a large

gray area. ss. Haley – Within the resolution, there were not clear links made, so we felt it wasn’t

based on student welfare. tt. Fatayerji – If that’s what you’re basing it on, then almost no resolution will hold

true. uu. Watson – What mechanisms are there to appeal? Can a decision be reviewed again?vv. Haley – We’re not saying it doesn’t affect student welfare, we’re saying that the

resolution text didn’t link to student welfare. ww. Watson – If there is new evidence that directly links this to welfare, are there

mechanisms in place to repeal the decision?xx. Andaru – Yes, you have one appeal. yy. Kapur – I don’t know how productive this discussion would be, so maybe this

discussion should be focused on something else, like student welfare? Eventually, if you have another resolution, you’d be essentially nullifying this case. Best thing to do would be to move forward. It’s late.

zz. Matthews – The only thing left that really stands out to me: political resolutions should not be the voice of the Senate body because of minority? If a vote is not passed unanimously, then the resolution is from the Senate, not for ASUCD.

aaa. Haley – We’re asking that it be the Senate until the conflict is resolved.bbb. Matthews – Seems like your reasoning could be used to say that this body is

only speaking for the Senate, not the body. ccc. Kapur – Going to reiterate what I said earlier: you don’t have to have this

conversation right now. ddd. Nguyen – I’m a little confused about some of the things you said. “Minority

opinion expressed concerned that SR #9 didn’t represent opinion of all students?” I don’t feel comfortable with the idea that every time someone disagrees with the

majority opinion, that we should repeal it. I asked how you defined student welfare, you said there was a gray area.

eee. Haley – The resolution is not legal because it’s not based on student welfare.fff. Nguyen – When you say student welfare, you said there was a gray area. ggg. Haley – We listed the 4 pillars of student welfare. However, the court would

further interpret if something fell outside those bounds. It has to be linked to student welfare.

hhh. Nguyen – It’s not clear how you define student welfare. iii. Tori – Definition of word political? jjj. Andaru – A more narrow term would be “political divisive.” kkk.Haley – And also, these 2 are not mutually exclusive, they can intersect.lll. Tori – When a resolution is political, the vote only represents view of Senate. Just

like student welfare is gray, I wonder how that definition would be interpreted. I don’t understand how the text isn’t concerning student affairs of the students were authors?

mmm. Haley – Could concern personal affairs, but clear links need to be drawn in the text.

nnn. Tori – So authorship doesn’t account. Okay.ooo. Matthews – Does this automatically nullify other controversial divestment

resolutions?ppp. Haley – No.qqq. Lee – If you want to appeal the case, then you can. Arguing with the justices

won’t do anything right now, but if you want to appeal, then you can. XIV. Closed SessionXV. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes – 11:31

A. PassedXVI. Public Discussion

A. CALPIRG’s “Davis Go Solar” Campaign – 8:43a. John – Addressing problem of global warming. Primarily caused by burning of fossil

fuels, so changing that by expanding our use of renewable energy sources. Expanding use of solar energy, in talk with City Council to make solar more accessible. We’ve been talking to student and community members about this, gathered over 1000 student petitions. Talking to local businesses and groups. Wanted to get you all at ASUCD onboard. Wouldn’t really be complete if it was just one niche group on campus. We have a resolution that we proposed that says you support this campaign, hope you’ll pass it when time comes.

b. Kapur – What’s the communication with the actual school?c. John – We haven’t really been in talks with them, still considering. We just thought

that since the university is an integral part of the city, good to get as many facets of that onboard.

d. Kapur – Okay, because university is planning on massive solar plant. Makes sense to have the university on as well.

e. Chung – How much money does it cost, and is it worth the investment and saves that much more energy?

f. John – I don’t know how much it costs exactly to produce solar panels, and we’re still in talks with the city. The cost of producing though has been getting lower and lower, and certainly the non-monetary costs of the other types of fuels are not worth it.

g. CALPIRG – We’re not necessarily telling the city to invest, we’re talking about creating a commitment and providing the opportunity for residents to have solar installed on their homes.

h. Hill – In the last 25 years, 80% efficiency over 25 years. B. Lee – For those interested in meeting Adela, March 17th, 4 pm. Come with things you want

to talk about. C. Kapur – How many senators were at OA this week? (Ashe: zero). About the meeting during

finals week: for the administration to say they want to be accessible and then scheduling a meeting during finals week… not professional. Alumni said that they’re not supposed to have meetings accessible to students during finals week.

D. Watson – I’m going to be on a committee for regional nominations for new student regent. Want students to be engaged in that process. Going to have first meeting with Nepolitano on the phone. We are signed up for Picnic Day to be in Parade.

a. Nguyen – Grace suggested we collaborate with someone to give us rides.b. Watson – If you have friends with AggiePack, ask them about the fire truck.

E. Fatayerji – SCC, anti-Semitism, anti-Islamophobic event. 4 pm Wednesday. F. Lee – Does anyone not want to meet Katehi?

a. Nguyen – Those who can, should, but having a meeting in spring quarter would be helpful.

XVII. Any Other BusinessXVIII. Adjournment - 11:47