I. Call to OrderA. President: Mariah Watson B. Vice President: Gareth SmytheC. Senate President Pro Tempore: Miguel GuerreroD. Senator: Mikaela Tenner E. Senator: Gabriel Johnson F. Senator: Parteek SinghG. Senator: Sevan NahabedianH. Senator: Joshua DavaliI. Senator: Danielle Santiago J. Senator: Kamaal ThomasK. Senator: Georgia SavageL. Senator: Puneet DhindsaM. Senator: Adilla JamaludinN. Senator: Anas TreshO. ECAC Chair Sean GuerraP. EPPC Chair Brent RosenwaldQ. IAC Chair Abhay Sandhu R. EAC Chair Joe NazzalS. AAC Chair Ritesh MishraT. GASC Chair Ivon Garcia U. B&F Joe DeAngeloV. Outreach Assembly Jade Wolanski W. Controller: Francisco Lara

II. Quorum Roll CallIII. Appointments and Confirmations

A. Senatora. Singh – Small changes you have in mind?

i. Tiffany Lung – Talk to Darrin in CoHo, get more extension cords. Talk to TAPS administration because it’s hard to find parking even with a permit. Move A/C permits to make it easier for students. Work on schedule builder and integrate it with Oasis.

b. Dalavi – Talk about your experience?i. Lung – Joined winter quarter, applied for two internships under Roman and

Alex. Learned about ASUCD positions, took an ASUCD course in spring. Joined OA, became Alex’s chief of staff.

c. Sandhu – What is your familiarity with the legislative process?i. Lung – If anyone wants to pass a bill, talk to a senator, through them, tell

them what kind of bill they want. Write the bill, get it through senate, Senate chooses which commissions it goes through.

d. Jamaludin – Why made you think of applying for this position for this short time instead of running?

i. Lung – I’ve interned with Roman and Alex, learned a lot. Saw that the campaign process was long and hard, thought this was an easier process for me because school is my number one priority.

e. Confirmed

B. Chief Justice – 7:07a. Malcolm Rivera

i. Sandhu – Plans of increasing retention in court?1. Rivera – A lot of people come into the court and aren’t dedicated.

Previous justices have been giving passes. As Chief Justice, I’d actually enforce our rules about having associate justices coming in prepared. Another thing is getting people more involved in court. A lot of people don’t know that ASUCD court exists.

ii. Tenner – Do you have a plan for what to do on a weekly basis to be more productive?

1. Rivera – Oftentimes, the court has a lot of lull period. Last year, our interim chief justice instituted mock trials. As of now, the only justices on court are me and the current interim chief justice Haley. I want to make mock trials a requirement.

iii. Nahabedian – You talked about retention in the court. Unit Directors get paid, senators get paid, commission chairs get paid. Do you think paying justices would help with that retention?

1. Rivera – I’ve thought about that previously. I think it would incentivize more people to apply, though I’m not sure if it would necessarily help with retention. I think it’s good that the court doesn’t have payment as a weekly stipend. If you just look at it pound for pound, we don’t do as much work as you guys. We have to invent work for ourselves, oftentimes. I do believe that a lot more people would apply, but I don’t think it’s warranted.

iv. Confirmed C. B&F – 6:23

a. Daniel Pollack – I was recently elected officer of the Finance Club. Think that skill set would be a value.

b. Pollack – Bike Barn, I sat through that session for a good 45 minutes to an hour. c. Pollack – Adjusting to the format that B&F uses to review legislation as opposed to

IAC. d. Confirmed

D. SAAAC – 7:26a. Garcia – Experience in advocating, learning, and understanding of communities at

higher risk?i. Casey Nguyen – Worked closely with LGBTQIA community, was a GASC

commissioner. Also served as an ex-officio senator for SAAAC. Spent past couple of years working with communities that are at high risk.

ii. Chloe Tsudama – I’m a transfer student. Before at my community college, I was part of PEERS. We were trained for mental health and given broad resources for help. Also talked to the director of CARE. I also know that LGBTQIA community and women of a certain age are more at risk, want to get more men-identified involved in prevention.

b. Garcia – If there’s a particular outreach or event or issue you want to see SAAAC do?

i. Tsudama – In light of the recent sexual assaults on campus, want to see the lighting around campus be improved. Also more men-identified students on campus to make it more personalized. Want to give a better education program to them.

ii. Nguyen – Greek specific workshops for SAAAC. Talk to them about what consent means. It would be like what PEACE does, but SAAAC version.

c. Dalavi – Being a senator in the past, what do you think is the best avenue for ally-ship training for Senate?

i. Nguyen – I believe you all are supposed to have ally training. That’s something that can be incorporated. The other thing is, I think it would be good if you all kept each other accountable.

d. Confirmed E. TRAVC – 7:34

a. Tresh – What do you see as the most important issue that transfers face, and how will you tackle that issue?

i. Dylan Huntii. James Moylan – Getting out the knowledge, make it well known they have a

great array of things offered at UCD. Make transfers feel more involved. iii. Salvador Cruz – Assimilating into the community. We don’t really fit in with

freshmen, with other juniors. Assimilate transfer students better. iv. Ryan Downer –There’s a variety of resources, make sure they’re there. v. Pam Panomchai – Make sure they know they’re not alone, there are people

to support them. vi. Brandom Miller – Adjusting to the academic rigor, assisting with that. 2 of

my roommates are transfer students, change to quarter is very difficult. Make them know academic resources are readily available.

vii. Travis Candeas – Transfer students aren’t connected to people in general. They feel as if they have to make their own place to establish themselves. That’s something I’d like to work on.

b. Thomas – Programming you’d like to see? If you could do anything, what would that program look like?

i. Ryan – Have the focus as narrow as possible, having a welcome day or some kind of event for transfer students, re-entry students, veterans.

ii. Cruz – I know personally I had an issue with housing. I didn’t know what the different apartments actually were. Walkthrough videos, pictures. Stuff like that to give us access to information.

iii. Hunt – Larger focus on older transfer students. A lot of them feel left out. To build up what Brandon said, he’s perfectly right. Most of us feel like we have no place here. Getting a social network set up is one of the bigger goals.

iv. Miller – Specifically focusing on veterans. Welcome day or week for veterans. Veterans in particular would be better off knowing there are other people like them here.

v. Moylan – Events that are tailored to transfers really help. But after the first week, it’s hard to find those connections. Keep those in a small part through fall quarter.

vi. Candeas – Re-entry affairs are really important. Lot of people don’t know the process of re-entry into the UC system. Letting people know that’s an option.

vii. Panochiam – Workshop dedicated to crisis. CAPS, mind spa, etc., make it known they’re available.

c. Thomas – Do you have ideas on how to bridge the gap between transfers and 4-year students?

i. Candeas – Have students buddy up with transfers.ii. Hunt – Freshmen-transfer mentorship programs.

iii. Downer – Integrate those ideas into a 7-12 day event week. Something for veterans one day, relaxed social integrations.

d. Garcia – How would you go about learning, advocating, understanding communities you are not part of?

i. Miller – I would want to go into communities I’m least acquainted with. Try to understand their needs from a grassroots level. They should all be equally represented.

ii. Cruz – Go to student community center and talk to the different offices there. If none of us know about those specific communities, we can go to the student community center and ask them if they want to work with us or connect us with people who have those issues.

iii. Candeas – Start with their resource centers, get an idea of how they’re being helped. Create focus groups, see what each of them are most interested in.

e. Garcia – In terms of you learning, what is the one thing you want to learn/improve on in this position?

i. Miller – This committee interested me because of personal connection. Something I would want to grow on and learn more about are the re-entry students. Work on having a more personal connection and more knowledge on it.

ii. Downer – I want to do that with veterans. Want to go to relevant networks and learn what they’re coming from emotionally.

iii. Cruz – I wanted to be involved with communities in Davis. Resource centers, I didn’t know about the trainings offered there. I believe that we could all attend those trainings to make sure we know the needs of those communities and the languages.

iv. Hunt – I joined this committee because I’m a veterans. VP of Davis Veterans Association. Most of them keep to themselves. Last year, the US Army started RIFing, reduction in force. More a voice of veterans is needed here because the population is about to increase severely.

v. Moylan – Joined because I want to give back. Have seen diverse range of transfer successes and struggles.

vi. Panochiam – Join communities and solve their problems. Ask them their problems, what they would like to see us improve.

f. Confirmed F. GASC – 8:17

a. Dalavi – Importance of ally-ship training, how it applies to ASUCD? i. Alison Tam – Ally-ship training is incredibly important. We’re the ones who

serve, we need to know how to be an ally to communities we’re not a part of.

ii. Karimi Ndwiga – First-year transfer student. Ally-ship in general is very important because there’s never a time to stop learning. Privileges always do exist. Re-energizing, knowing you can keep learning and can make mistakes.

iii. Amber Riley – It’s important to keep educating yourself on needs of other communities. If you’re in a student body, you can’t represent people unless you understand and listen to those people.

iv. Chaaye Vanelha – It’s really important, especially for ASUCD. It’s best to understand the population, and even if you do, never hurts to learn more about them.

b. Confirmed IV. Unit Director ReportsV. Committee Reports – 11:17

A. Watson – Executive counsel. They asked about initiatives. They’re hearing us talk about student experience of very large classes. Provost gave verbal agreement to give more resources to departments if it seems justified. UCOP, prioritizing freshmen over transfers. Doesn’t address housing problem in Davis. Talked about Committee of 2 and the commitments made by Nepalitano. Talked about taking away the ability to retake courses. There’s an undergraduate council meeting tomorrow.

B. Santiago – SAAAC. Stalking awareness month, workshops collaborating with WRRC. They’re looking into peace training new and confirmed members to be better resources. Looking into month of February, healthy relationships week. They also are potentially screening a movie about toxic relationships. Also looking at possible YouTube people coming in.

C. Guerrero – Marketing. Great meeting. Talked about some of their revised websites. Looking to revamp websites for other units. Elections, talked about elections and how marketing for that is going to go down. Saw the timeline of how the marketing of that via social media and how we’re going to integrate units. For the E-Fund, I met with them on Wednesday, they’re continuing to figure out more people to build corporate relationships with to get funds for grant cycle. They’re having an event called Hack Night this quarter.

D. Singh – SHAWC chair applications went down last weekend. Chair reapplied. SHAWC committee member applications went down tonight. Had a committee meeting with Darin and CM, they’re doing coffee sleeps, stickers, gift cards. Daisy mentioned having the CoHo debate from 4-7. I think we should keep it from 12-3, but I’m just curious about what others think.

a. Smythe – I agree that’s the reason to have it those hours, because that’s when most people are there. But you can’t hear any of the candidates at noon. It’s very unclear.

If we have it in the CoHo at a later hour, the people who are there to be there would get a lot more. To have a more substantive debate, I’d recommend a different hour that’s not 12-3.

b. Abby – 3-6 instead of 4-7. c. Watson – Last year we didn’t really have people pay attention. Had it in the MU, and

was televised. That’s an option as well. E. Tresh – Went to URSAC. Realize how tacky the 3rd floor is now.

VI. PresentationsA. UCSA – 6:26

a. Kevin – UCSA president. I sit on board of directors alongside Georgia and Sam, Mariah makes guest appearances now and then. Every month, we go to a different campus. We met two weeks ago at UCSD. We meet you all as often as we can so you know that these services exist. In terms of ASUCD and how you relate to that, this is the 2nd year where you’ve received a financial waiver as a trial membership to see if it’s worth it. In my opinion, it has been worth it. UCSA has 3 conferences annually. One campaign we’re working on is mental health. Another is UConsent. The most recent conference we had was SOCC. One of the points about UCSA is that the budget comes back to you. I’ll quickly go through the budget and let you know the highlights. This is one of the first times we amended our documents to have budget come back. Sam sent it out, it’s also on our website.

i. Budget Presentationb. Questions

i. DeAngelo – What’s happen when the fee waiver expires?ii. Kevin – 2 primary issues. About 10 years ago, a constitutional amendment

was passed to prohibit student fees from going to outside organizations. 2nd, this is the 2nd year that ASUCD has been on waiver. We can ask for a partial waiver, but I don’t think we can get it on waiver for a 3rd year. This is happening alongside SAGE as well. UCSA loves having ASUCD at the table. That conversation is really up to you. It expires in May.

iii. Singh – Does UCSA send out summaries of UC Regents notes, or make posts on Facebook?

iv. Kevin – We try not to spam students too much. We use listserv primarily for legislative advertising. We don’t currently have a regular mechanism for getting news out. We have lots of social media so we’re not spamming students too much. The information is on there.

v. Wolanski – Staff are full-time?vi. Kevin – Yes, they’re full-time. They work weekdays. Most are UC alumni. We

also have student interns. vii. Savage – Brief update on SAGE?

viii. Kevin – SAGE is an acronym, Student Advocacy Government and Engagement. Proposal we’ve been working on. Right now, UCSA is funded by dues. SAGE, rather than a set amount paid per student, it would make it a voluntary, optional fee.

ix. Smythe – You’re going to have to re-report to this body in June?

x. Kevin – Yes, around May we’re going to bring the full year budget. xi. Smythe – How can people learn about opportunities to get involved?

xii. Sam – You not only can see opportunities on UCSA’s social media, you can see it on the Office of Student Advocacy’s media.

xiii. Kevin – If a student ever applied from Davis, we’d consider them, but without a member on the board, it’s highly likely they won’t be accepted.

xiv. Smythe – Every single group, they have one representative?xv. Kevin – 3 representatives per association.

xvi. Smythe – Has any student association across the state not passed SAGE?xvii. Kevin – Irvine passed a bill that says they have some concerns, want to talk

about it. There are some organizations that want to talk about it, but no one has outright opposed it.

xviii. Dalavi – Talk about the other campuses who are paying members, how do they work it into their budget?

xix. Kevin – It’s about making a case for the cost-benefit. My rationalization, I could keep my $1.30, but my tuition would have gone up several hundred dollars. This association is proven to save money. Nepalitano told me that the housing decision she announced yesterday was directly from a lunch conversation she had with me. Decisions are being made by special interest groups, if we’re not present, there’s no one there to advocate for us. How to pay for it in general, some campuses pay for it out of their budget, some run a separate referendum.

xx. Nahabedian – In the spirit of transparency, you’re bring the budget to all the UCs for oversight. If any AS sees something they don’t like, if students every year are voting on it after SAGE, can the AS do something about it besides mobilizing their students?

xxi. Kevin – We changed it to majority by students. If you veto it, it gets sent back to the drawing board. UCSA charter, can only be amended by vote of ASUCD Senate and everyone else. If we pass a resolution that you all think is totally out there, then enough of you can pass a resolution vetoing it.

xxii. Smythe – We don’t necessarily have to approve the budget, we just have to not disapprove.

xxiii. Watson – In terms of funding, the first exec tried to make a deal with student affairs where they’d pay for it for the first year. Those are alternatives to funding, but you don’t want to tie your hands too much. It’s left up to the next exec to decide if it’s necessary for students to have. The chancellor has been friendly to sending senators to DC.

xxiv. Sam – For the sake of transparency, I have been in close contact with a lot of admins. They have agreed that if Davis gets a partial waiver, they would be willing to find ways to fund it. If you’re interested to help find funding, come talk to me.

xxv. Tresh – What if we don’t get a partial waiver? Would admin still be willing to help fund it?

xxvi. Sam – Yes.

xxvii. Kevin – And you will get a waiver.VII. Public Announcements

A. UCD Dance Marathon – 7:16a. Lauren – We’re here to talk about Davis Dance Marathon, think it’s a great way to

have ASUCD student body set an example. Davis Dance Marathon donates directly to Davis Children’s Hospital. Every dollar counts. To participate, we ask that you sign up as a team or as an individual on our website. There’s already an ASUCD student government team. You can fundraise by contacting your friends, family, co-workers to donate. Saturday Apr 2nd, 7 am to 8 pm, Dance Marathon. You’re showing your support for this cause by being with everyone. We also reveal how much we raised together, and how much teams have raised, so it’s a little bit of a competition. We’re still in the earliest stages, and this is where I think ASUCD government can set a good example. We haven’t been around as long as other schools have had dance marathons, and we’d like to make this a tradition. If you go to DavisDanceMarathon.com, you can sign up and join.

i. Singh – Deadline to apply?ii. Halegu – No, no deadline to register, just ask that you register ahead of time

so we can budget for food.iii. Thomas – What % of money goes to hospital?iv. Halegu – All fundraising goes directly to hospital.

B. Elections Committee - 7:21a. Daisy – Here to ask for potential help from all the senators. Election has passed out

a bunch of petitions, 19 for senators, 3 for presidential. We are also planning a number of events for elections week. Here is where I think senate can help us in making elections better. I would like to ask you all for your office hours so I can post them online and send them to potential candidates. Another thing is that candidate workshop is next week. Need volunteers to speak during workshop that’s mandated by the bylaws. Third, social media. Please invite all your friends to elections events. If you can think of anything we didn’t do well last quarter, contact me.

i. Kamaal – Who’s in charge of the marketing strategy for elections?ii. Daisy – Creative Media. I have a marketing chair who is in contact with

them. I am also hiring marketing staff to help in flyering, polling stations, etc.

VIII. Status of Legislation Previously Passed – 8:16A. Passed

IX. Introduction of New Legislation – 8:15A. SR to express support for a SF ordinance and express support for a similar ordinance in

Davis.X. Consideration of Old Legislation

A. SB #28a. Tabled

B. Constitutional Amendment #44a. Author’s Comments

i. Watson – This will create a council for ASUCD investment and accountability. Recommendation body that will look at our long-term investments. Creating business models. Comprised of undergrad students, 5 voting, and your elected president pro-tempore, VP, president retains veto power. Staff members on the board. There were concerns about Unit Director involvement, they were all made ex-officios. This is something we think is necessary.

b. Commission Recommendationsi. B&F – lengthy discussion. All of our concerns were primarily addressed.

Passed the bill. c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussion

i. Tresh – What problems do people have?ii. Watson – Wondering what powers it would take away from Senate. They

give recommendations and if the President agrees, you all have the final power. Worries about role of adopted senator with unit. Unit Director asked if this board dictated how many people they hire in a year, and no, it doesn’t. More general, long-term investments. Different things we usually buy out of capital.

iii. DeAngelo – One of the major concerns: the existence of this board would lead to a slippery slope where more and more power was given to it.

iv. Smythe – A lot of what the council does is in the constitution, so if you wanted to increase or decrease what the council did, you’d have to have it go through the constitutional process.

v. Dalavi – Do AACs not have separate charters outside of ASUCD? vi. Smythe – You’re correct. Charter for this AAC has to be worked out if it

meets for the first time. What we’re going to have written into the charter is that any changes to it must be approved by Senate.

vii. Jamaludin – To what extent will they become more familiar with units? viii. Watson – It’s written into the bill for the council to get more familiar with

units through training. Also why we want unit directors to be ex-officios. They get all the information, have the ability to send themselves or a designee when their unit is being talked about.

ix. Nahabedian – The question of accountability. If an unit is over-drafting, overspending, like the Bike Barn did, traditionally they’re supposed to come to Senate. How would governance board not confuse accountability?

x. Watson – Bike Barn came because Controller made it his mission to meet with units. When it comes down to it, you allocate money to Bike Barn for next year. We’re hoping for this body to come in, review the numbers, provide an objective perspective. It still falls to you all to hold them accountable, if you want to cut the unit, it’s still your decision.

xi. Lee – I think the slippery slope is a tangible thing. While I think this is a good step, I do think there are other options. I don’t think this is the final solution, so you don’t have to approve this if you don’t believe in it.

xii. DeAngelo – How do you ensure this board does what it’s supposed to do? xiii. Watson – No matter what org you have, it falls to the organizer. xiv. DeAngelo – Speak about the selection process?xv. Watson – Chancellors and Provost elects them, elect students through COC.

xvi. Dalavi – I think we’re framing this conversation too much around this being not a recommendation. Because that’s what it is. I have a question about student affairs involvement. There is a tendency to funnel money into bureaucracy and bloat, worried that will be embodied in this council. I’m skeptical of the argument that this being the only audit is the solution that we need.

xvii. Watson – The recommendation to looking into a governing board was mine. There are many different ways to help yourself become financially stable, this is the one we felt was the strongest to go with.

xviii. Jamaludin – Career staff of council paid? xix. Watson – They’re not being paid extra for this.xx. Jamaludin – Don’t know the incentive for them to show up then. And if it’s

implemented, what if recommendations to exec are just ignored? What mechanisms are in place to make sure it is still needed, or if things are going well, isn’t anymore?

xxi. Watson – COSAF is another body that functions like this. It’s up to them to show up, they have to care about ASUCD. If they don’t show up, we still have quorum with the student body. About ignoring, you could ignore it. And if pro-tempore wants to ignore, that’s on them. If things get so good you don’t need it, make a constitutional amendment to remove it.

xxii. Nahabedian – When we have trouble filling up senate, when we have trouble… when we have 5 students making an advisory decision, where and how are we going to find these students?

xxiii. Watson – Berkeley’s is very different. SB does things very different. I was just talking about different models that I looked at, and what worked best for us. I hear what you’re saying about retention and recruitment.

xxiv. Tresh – We keep on talking about the slippery slope, and I have no idea where it’s coming from. It’s an advisory committee. What if this committee becomes obsolete? As long as there’s funds flowing, it won’t be.

xxv. Nahabedian – In theory, we’re all elected. We’ve been put here to work with student fee money. It’s another degree when an elected official appoints people to do that job. I understand we have to do something, but there are definitely holes to fill. The most difficult thing for this, this council is dependent on the leadership of the first people who do this.

xxvi. Tresh – It’s not just the 5 students, there are others in the committee that have a lot of knowledge. Although it’s an advisory opinion, it’s up to us to take that advice. It comes back to you at the end of the day, I don’t see the harm in having this committee for advice.

xxvii. Thomas – We need to take preventative measures so we don’t go bankrupt. We should also take into account that we’re only short term, we need to

look at long term. Make sure we’re putting in steps to have people who are looking at things from a long term perspective, that’s where we need full-time staff. I don’t see how this council could abuse its power to expand its influence. I wanted to suggest having the president assign a designee.

xxviii. Watson – It’s too hard to send a designee with all the information the President knows.

xxix. Watson – There was a concern brought to us about ties and faculty membership. What we wanted to do is lower the faculty member to one, make number of members 11 so no need for tie-breaker.

xxx. Savage – I’m honestly shocked we’re still having this discussion when we had a summit going through this line-by-line. I also don’t see why there’d be a slippery slope when they’re just advisors.

xxxi. Guerrero – A constant theme that has been discussed is the slippery slope, and distribution of power. I still genuinely feel this is just a recommendation body, another voice for us to listen to.

xxxii. Dalavi – Just wanted to what B&F looks like after this council. xxxiii. Watson – We took B&F into consideration. They actually have a vote, the

budget has to go through them and they can kill it before it gets to you. Joe may have different opinions, but we made sure they were still empowered. We didn’t see the council as adversarial, but helping one another.

xxxiv. DeAngelo – I’m not against this bill because it dilutes the power of B&F. If they make recommendations, it’s up to the table to listen to those recommendations. About the slippery slope, future tables could afford them more and more power as they become more successful.

xxxv. Divide the House1. 9-0-3

xxxvi. Nahabedian – I went to the summit, this is the saddest graph I’ve ever seen. Kamaal was bringing up that this was short-term thinking. It’s not the fact that the term for a senator is one year. This short-term thinking is a byproduct of being a student. If a student isn’t going to be here in 2 years, it’s going to bias them and give them that short-term thinking. If you say there’s faculty and career staff to advise, then we’re still ceding it to the faculty. The power of the purse is the most important power, so to pass the buck along, this is the most important aspect.

xxxvii. Savage – The only case made for the slippery slope was for a weak table. If we had a weak table, do you think they wouldn’t steer us into bankruptcy?

xxxviii. Nahabedian – Right now, we’re saying that Senate isn’t working, so we’re going to do this committee. I’m being critical because I think we should be critical. Realistically, I am for this. But these are… I completely lost what I was going to say, I yield.

xxxix. Lee – The slippery slope idea came from the fear of export power. But hypothetically there’s a similar chance that you have a strong table.

xl. Watson – This still has to go to the student body, so it’s not like it passes tonight. It's still subject to a vote.

xli. Smythe –We can talk about this all night. We can stay as long as you like to determine the future of ASUCD. Let’s be critical. If you’re going to be concerned about the power of the Senate getting taken away, then let’s talk about it.

xlii. Watson – It really depends on your table. The one thing that will never hurt the budget is more people looking at it. It is what you make it. It’s not taking away budget, but you should have more than just the exec saying how they feel. You should have it written in constitutional memory. This is about strengthening your power as student leaders, showing you have the foresight and wisdom to look forward.

xliii. Dalavi – I feel like we’re discounting the possibility of power expansion. I don’t think it’s entirely impossible with an entirely new table. True it’s an advisory council, but the potential for it to expand past that is very real.

xliv. Guerrero – I disagree with it being that possible. Honestly, the people who end up getting elected, that’s how democracy works. We can’t look for ways to address every single probable outcome. You have to trust the way democracy works.

xlv. Dalavi – I get what you’re saying, but what I am saying is that we’ve gotten to this point. Who’s to say that in 10-15 years you won’t see a weaker table voted in?

xlvi. Nahabedian – Right now, just looking at the composition of committees, they’re supposed to be advising ASUCD right now. We are now creating the first of these advisories for the budget. We have found ourselves, in 2003, with our reserves $1.3 billion, and if you brought this to them then, they wouldn’t have wanted it. Because everything was fine. Some of these things, we can’t see coming. Right now, I think we’re doing something that would have been unheard of 10 years. We’re talking about what-ifs and the future of this. I’m in favor of this because it’s part of the fix we need. We have the power right now to amend this before it goes to the student body. We have the time right now to poke holes in it.

xlvii. Thomas – Can someone point out where they see where this body could expand its power?

xlviii. DeAngelo – That’s not what we’re saying. We’re saying that the establishment of this council could lead to the expansion of it.

xlix. Thomas – No document is going to be completely perfect. At the end of the day, you can’t guarantee some of the things that would happen. But in order for that to happen, the new senate table would have to pass a new amendment. At this point, it’s most important that we focus on the student body. We need to look at it and think about how to get back on track.

l. Nahabedian – The one thing I’m struggling with the most, I’m terrible with delegating. My biggest fear with the council setup, is that right now we’re just delegating the most important part of senate to this council. What’s to stop this body from delegating more power to them?

li. Savage – Theoretically, we’re talking about what will happen in the future. But realistically, we can’t know what’s in the future. We need to trust the future table to understand what is happening. If this amendment is passed, and if the slippery slope occurs, we need to give senate at the time, trust them to be competent enough. Clearly, something need to be done, and no one has suggested anything else besides this.

lii. Tresh – One of the things I heard said was that the old table wouldn’t have said yes to this council, no one’s going to say no to more advice. Also, tables are elected to make decisions.

liii. Dalavi – The reason why we should be critical of this, this is a hypothetical, we need to think about what might happen. The reason why I’m talking about a potentially weak table in the future is that we got to this point 20 years ago, don’t see why this wouldn’t happen again.

liv. Watson – We keep talking about 15 years ago. We have exponentially increased. It’s forever changing. We are a transient population that demands change. Janice is student affairs, she reports to Milt. Darin is concerned student affairs, Anthony is student affairs. Enrollment, we had $670,000 from student fees to power a $30 million budget. Last year, we were able to close and make some money. That hasn’t happened in years. Next year, with the way our units our functioning, I don’t know if it’ll be that. You have your pro-tempore, president, VP, controller. If those people can’t rally against admin, we have failed, period. It’s 5 undergrad students, with elected officers in the room. That was built for a reason. I hear us talking about the slippery slope and the 5 students, but those students are supported by 12 amazing people, by unit directors who wanted to kill this bill. We are taking the best of all branches and asking them to do long-term thinking. That is what this is. You’re leaving out the three people in the room.

lv. Garcia – I’m critical of you all thinking that this advisory body gaining power when I have never seen a commission do that. The power that this advisory council would have falls under B&F. Joe should have a say in this, but you all are ignoring him. You choose to listen to senators because those are the ones who have voting power.

lvi. DeAngelo – I feel like I’m being misquoted quite often in this conversation. To rearticulate Garcia’s point, how to expect to listen to an advisory board when you don’t listen to commissions.

lvii. Smythe – Often, we sit in these meetings, and we say, “I notice you haven’t done any programming, why is that? I noticed you haven’t hired any commission members, why is that?” We often lose sight that we are part of this organization, and it’s up to us to decide what happens. For those of us on Aggie Public Arts, go ask them. If committees are not coming to report, hold Miguel accountable. We need to hold those that run these important things accountable. This council is going to work for you. This is not alongside, this works for you. This works to look at what we don’t have time

to look at. 10 years ago, we didn’t know we were going to rejoin UCSA. There are things we don’t know about, that we can’t predict. We need to create a model flexible for change. A lot of people have said, “What happens if we no longer need this body?” I hope we don’t need this body one day. But we have to get there first.

lviii. Jamaludin – I agree with some of the sentiments the other senators said. The reason why I voted yes was because I see the need for a model adaptable to change. It’s not the only solution, but it looks like the best one. But we should be critical, not just tonight. We can’t put all our trust in a future body.

lix. Nahabedian – Moving forward, motion to divide house on the same model but with 5 elected senators rather than appointees.

lx. Divide the House1. 1-9-2

e. Senate Discussionf. Call to Questiong. Passed

i. 10-2-0 (Dalavi, Jamaludin)C. SR #10

a. Author’s Commentsi. Singh – Currently Plan B is available at health and wellness center, it’s $35,

which is the cheapest in Yolo County. This resolution asks to make Plan B available 24/7. It’s recommended that they’re available in vending machines, but it doesn’t have to be.

b. Commission Recommendationsi. GASC – This resolution was changed a lot to be more inclusive, focus on

emergency contraceptives in general, not just Plan B. On top of that, we made some edits, tried to be inclusive-minded. We all approved it, had a lot of conversation.

c. Questions in Textd. Public Discussione. Senate Discussion

i. Nahabedian – I’m a co-author, I introduced this. I want to explain why this is necessary. The entire purpose why my staff started working on this resolution, it was from learning experiences, personal experiences, and people’s stories. There’s only one 24-hour pharmacy in Davis. There’s a stigma attached to this. It happens that they run out. Plan B’s effectiveness relies on time. Every hour counts. It’s an emergency contraceptive, emergency meaning it has to be taken care of at the moment. This is why we’re even talking about this. It’s fairly difficult to find Plan B.

ii. Francisco – Just wondering where this vending machine would be. Placing is important.

iii. Singh – We’re thinking the 24-hour room, and the library, but as of now this is just a resolution, so we’re open to advice or recommendations.

iv. Nahabedian – We can elaborate more on this, and there was talk about an entire wellness vending machine, but that’s a discussion that doesn’t need to be in the resolution. Once Senate decides this is something we want, that’s a decision for later on.

f. Call to Questiong. Passed

XI. Ex-Officio Reports – 10:15A. GASC

a. Ordered and now received a diva cup demo kitb. Held interviews for GASCc. GASC meeting

i. Reviewed senate resolutionii. Discussed and planned GenSex Week activities and events

iii. Met with Leilani (WRRC) and Chaz (LGBTQIARC) regarding senate resolutionB. AAC

a. Set up meeting with UEb. Worked on event establishmentc. Will be having a technical meeting regarding a vital system that AAC will be

introducing through UCD (syllabus system)C. EPPC

a. Had office hoursb. Spent time strategizing push for TGIF signatures c. Decided to grant $200 to health education & promotion for UCD farmer’s market

vouchersd. Finished marketing upcycling flea market, due to the rain we will be moving it to

Ecohub, should be funD. EAC

a. Tabled Prison Divestment & gave feedback on how to improve itb. Discussed winter plansc. Discussed student vs community relationsd. Aired grievances

E. Controllera. Met with WEFb. Reviewed Senate applications and assisted in interviewsc. Held Marketing Committee and URSACd. I also met with Janice, as well as the executive team

XII. Elected Officer Reports – 10:41A. Tenner

a. Met with Janice to discuss platform and Advisory Boardb. Hosted office hoursc. Finished staff interviewsd. Sent out acceptance emails to staff & set up meeting timee. Continue to research health programf. Meeting with

g. Lunch with ASUCDB. Thomas

a. Fri: met with Georgia Tech’s SGA Vice President about their pre-professional development program

b. Tues: Attended the Cal Aggie’s 100th Anniversary, sat in on interviews for Senate vacancy

c. Wed: Met with Ken Barnes from ICC about establishing pre-professional training program, had staff meeting, sat in on Senate seat interviews

d. Thurs: Spoke with Blake Cooper from UCD Study Abroad about increasing participants in UCEAP and expanding marketing efforts, spoke with Walter Robinson about student recruitment program

C. Nahabediana. Fri: Office hours in the morning, visited * toured Bike Barn following our discussion

at Senate with Miguel and Parteek, came to int. und. committee meeting & nobody showed up

b. Tues: Wrote a res w/ 2 of my staff membersc. Wed: office hours: met with staff member regarding senate election. They were

worried I forgot, picked up an exec petition with Casey d. Thurs: Picked up senate petitions, missed office hours (had a thing go from 4-6

rather than 4-5)D. Savage

a. Met with Joaquin, finalized questions to ask public regarding sexual assault prevention

b. Met with students interested in running for senatec. Attended a lobby training with OASRd. Gathering staff apps -> beginning to reach out to theme. Increase interaction with Active Mindsf. Mainly planning sexual Health Month (April)g. Met with sArah Meredith, Parteek, Puneet, Sam (OASR), VSA

E. Guerreroa. Fri: Bike Barn with Sevan & Riteshb. Wed: SC & Big Surc. Tues: OH, met with Daisy re: elections, senator interview, UCD wears red d. Wed: E-Fund, Pro-temp-VP (NBA classic films), marketing committee (websites,

elections), TRAVC & senator interviewse. Thurs: Bike Barn with Riteshf. Fri: COSAF, APILR

F. Dhindsaa. Sent out emails to units for adoptionsb. Staff interviews/hired staff/meeting starting next weekc. Table for HAUS 1/22d. Sat in GASC interviewse. Had office hoursf. Preparing senate candidates

G. Santiagoa. Fri: SAAAC meeting, National Stalking Month workshopsb. Tues: ASUCD senator interviews, met with co-mentor for APILRc. Wed: office hours, new senator interviews, completed sexual violence/consent

workshop (subject to edits by Pres. AX & Leilani at WRRC)ꭥd. Have not been doing a lot for ASUCD b/c I am concurrently training a new tour guide

H. Singha. Picked up staff applicationsb. CSI Club Advisory Council meeting regarding student org leader mixerc. Meeting with Creative Media and elections committee chair regarding marketing for

electionsd. Meeting with Student Housing & CSI regarding student org fair in residence hallse. Meeting with Garethf. GASC meetingg. Meeting with TRAVC chairh. COSAF meetingi. INC meetingj. Meeting with Merril regarding STI testing

I. Dalavia. Sat in on GASC interviewsb. Met with Greg Ortiz regarding grad school prep material distributionc. Got word back from Aggie Reuse for senatorial adoption, began working with them

on their upcoming projectsd. Held office hourse. Set up interviews for my stafff. Editing resolution per EAC suggestions

J. Jamaludina. TRAVC interviewsb. Interviewed staffersc. Meeting with Garethd. Met with Christy in CM about platform which is taking shapee. WEF meetingf. Meetings URSAC & marketingg. Meeting Darin about platform h. Meeting with Rishal (IUSC) and Robin from SISSi. OH with Dalavi

K. Tresha. 1/19 – Sat on TRAVC interviews, TPMP meeting to plan event for transfer day, MAP

meeting, MAPS board meetingb. 1/20 – Sat on IRSAC committee meeting, had meeting with my committee for TPMPc. 1/14 – Gave an academic recovery presentation

L. Smythea. Fri: reviewed senate applicationb. Tues: Parteek, Adilla meetings; Senate interviews; Aggies 100th

c. Wed: Community Outreach Session; Pro-temp VP; senate interviewsd. Thurs: Aggie Reuse Store Feb. event; Senate

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

XIV. Closed SessionXV. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

A. ApprovedXVI. Public Discussion

A. Singh – You should’ve gotten an email from SGAO about SR #10. I worked on the bill, was supposed to be seen by IAC, but it wasn’t seen because of the holiday. GASC did see it, passed it. I would appreciate it if we see this resolution tonight because I have 2 meetings I worked hard to schedule. I motion to remove IAC from the recommended commissions.

B. Dalavi – I think my resolution should see EAC and ECAC, but since it’s related to finances not related to UCD, I’d like to remove B&F from the prison divestment resolution.

C. Nahabedian – A little misunderstanding earlier. I assumed your resolution was like the divestment resolution I wrote last quarter. But after looking at it, it’s asking ASUCD to divest. And since that is ASUCD’s finance, I’m going to motion to re-refer to B&F.

a. Dalavi – I wasn’t opposed to it going to B&F. Just wanted to avoid unnecessary delays. The reasoning why I wanted B&F knocked off is because it’s a UC-wide divestment, the portion of the bill you’re referring to about UCD finances is done by the business manager.

i. Re-refer 9-2-1D. Nahabedian – We have committee reports as an agenda item. Not every committee needs

all the time. So the committees are variable in that manner. That is the avenue that information gets brought back to senate. The new committee, TRAVC, is the only that has the committee chair come to Senate every week. We should have uniformity when it comes to committee reports. When you have one come to Senate, it creates a sort of hierarchy.

a. Smythe – He actually emails me every week to come. He chooses to, he doesn’t have to.

b. Nahabedian – But it’s actually written in the bylaws, right?c. Smythe – No. It’s not a time for committee chairs to come give reports, it’s for

senators to come and give updates on their committee. d. Nahabedian – It’s in their bylaw that he has to come every week. e. Santiago – If the committee isn’t reporting, it’s up to the senator to get information

from them.f. Yuusef – There’s a lot of legislation that has to do with units. I’ve just noticed in

general that there’s not a lot of unit representation inside ASUCD, maybe work with some senators to include unit directors. Another point, office hours, I’ve tried to go to some. I’ve noticed some senators have office hours from noon to one in the CoHo, it’s kind of hard to find them. Maybe designated table for senator office hours?

g. Smythe – You should have received multiple emails about cyber training. If you do have that email and you haven’t completed that training, please do. Also, I was approached by a TRAVC member during the break, they asked, “Is senate always like

that? Not pay attention while people are presenting?” It’s really difficult to have a member of the public come up during a break and ask why no one is paying attention to them. The TRAVC confirmations were some of the best I’ve ever seen, it’s very sad for people to come up and say this sort of thing. We get comfortable here, we lose sight of the fact that it’s very different for people to come here for the first time and see this. I don’t want people coming here thinking we don’t listen to them. If you have something to say to your neighbor, please write it down. Please make sure you’re not talking, especially when people are speaking. I don’t like policing you, but it isn’t an inclusive space if people aren’t being listened to.

h. Nahabedian – I wasn’t insinuating to take the language out of TRAVC. But if we want uniformity, what should we do?

i. Watson – There’s a reason behind having him come every week, there’s been talk about having a transfer rep on the table.

j. Nahabedian – DH on removing mandate k. Divide the House

i. 4-8-0l. Savage – Some activists have voiced that they are boycotting cyber training because

the admins have not implemented mandatory sexual assault training. Thoughts?m. Smythe – Do whatever you feel like you have to do.

XVII. Any Other BusinessXVIII. Adjournment