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ASUCD SENATE AGENDAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

6:10, Mee RoomMarch 14, 2013

I. Call to Order

Meeting is called to order at 6:10 PM.

II. Quorum Roll Call

(Sahota, Xiong, and Torres arrived late; Ong absent)

III. Appointments and ConfirmationsA. OA Members

Calderrazzo: We have four new wonderful ladies for OA, really excited to have them on board. They gave outstanding interviews in their thoughts of moving forward in how to contribute to OA.

Thomas: What can you contribute to OA that someone random off the streets would not be able to do?

Andrea Jao: I have some experiences working with different student clubs and organizations and some of the difficulties and challenges that they may face is a tool that will help me facilitate my position.

Virginia Hysell:

Jamie Marzouk: I definitely think I can give so much effort, you can’t even you know. I’m really committed to things that I put myself into. I’m also really creative.

Connie Luong: For me, I never had the opportunity to do student government because I had to make the decision between music and student government. I have experience with working with a tight schedule so I know I can do it.

Thomas: If you could join a club you are currently not in, which would it be?

Andrea: I’d like to join the international students association. I went to a few meetings and their debates were really interesting but I didn’t want to overwhelm myself.

Virginia: Harry Potter Alliance.

Jamie: A singing club.

Connie: Volleyball club because I used to play.

Wonders: I have a very serious question: if you could be any animal, which would it be?

Andrea: I wanna be a monkey because that’s the year I was born in.

Virginia: A dog because I could get pet all the time.

Jamie: A squirrel because they brighten my day in Davis.

Connie: An owl because I like them and I’m always up at night, I like to do things at night.

Nonga: Hi everyone, my name is Pamela, a newly-elected senator and I just wanted to congratulate you on this step of being involved. What does outreach mean to you?

Andrea: Outreach to me is being the bridge between ASUCD and the student body. Allowing the student

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body to know what ASUCD is doing and participating in events is one of the reasons we’re here.

Virginia: It’s just bridging that gap and get more people involved and make them care in a way.

Jamie: I support both of those ideas and as a freshman, it’s hard to find a community so we can help others find a community also.

Connie: Basically, I didn’t even know much about ASUCD myself until I heard about it from other people and I want to be that person to spark the interest and share information.

Torres: I would like to know your name, major, and a career interest.

Andrea: I’m Andrea, I’m an international relations and economics double major. I’m not sure about my career path, still exploring.

Virginia: I’m Virginia and I’m a political science and I have a double minor, I’m pre law, and I’d like to do cyber-crime.

Jamie: I’m Jamie, I’m a communications and sociology double major, and I’d like to first look into PR jobs and eventually have my own business.

Connie: I’m Connie and I’m an NPB major and I don’t know exactly what I want to do yet but towards sports medicine.

IV. Unit Director ReportsA. Campus Copies and Classical Notes

Jess: Seeing as finals are next week, my spreadsheet of numbers are not completed but I promise, spring quarter, I’ll bring them. We’re doing really well with our readers, UWP readers and we’ve begun to reach out to other majors that haven’t used us in the past. Our current notes this quarter have dropped but with that came a high increase in our archive notes. Our website has gotten a lot more feedback which means people are accepting our change and hopefully, we can soon be fully digital. Creative Media has been really helpful and they promise that by the end of this year, we will have a fully functional iPad and iPhone app where they can take notes directly on it in pdf format. We’ve also begun to work more with ASUCD units. We now print the course packets for Experimental College, it’s great working with another unit director.

B. Refrigerator Services

Eddie: I didn’t do anything this quarter, so let me show you this video. I look terrible in video. So yeah, I didn’t do anything this quarter. Any questions?

Burke: That video was awesome.

Figueroa: Next quarter is the quarter that you’ll be doing things again, right?

Eddie: yes we have two major events: refrigerator distribution and refrigerator pick-ups.

Figueroa: Eddie also donates a lot of the microwaves to the CoHo and whatever other units need it so he is very supportive of other units.

Eddie: I do intend to term out this year so I am actively looking or someone interested in being director. Hopefully, I can find a good capable candidate. However, if you have someone in mind that would be interested to plan large logistical operations, please send them my way and I will invite them to be an intern so they can apply to be director when the time arises.

Gerhart: Is it the nature of the business where you do the bulk of the work at the beginning of the quarter and then just coast?

Eddie: We only sell all of our refrigerators to freshmen in the dorms. Throughout the quarters, there may be instances of repair requests or service requests and we do go out and repair them when it happens but this quarter, we haven’t had any. I meant to say it as a joke. To give a quick summary, this unit was projected to earn 60,000 dollars. We are currently $363 away from the goal. This unit is one of the highest grossing, highest profit-generating units. In a year, we spend about $30,000 but earn about


$60,000. Last quarter, I recorded that I intended to do some sort of repair operation but that didn’t end up happening because life happened.

Gerhart: What other mechanisms or ideas do you have to expand the unit?

Eddie: I proposed to Melanie to change the unit’s focus to rental services but we are limited by several factors. One is space. You wouldn’t imagine you can fit about 1,000 units in that warehouse but we triple stack them to utilize that space. We would obviously have to expand in space to even consider being a rental unit. We would also have to expand in staff. There are plans, I wrote business plans last year that I can share.

Thomas: In the spring quarter, you hire via student organizations, how is that process going this year?

Eddie: The way it works is the student orgs that have traditionally worked for this unit, tend to get rehired. There’s not a formal call-out to students to work for refrigerator services. When I became director, it was UCD men’s crew that did it but it wasn’t until a sexual harassment case from that team that I said I’m not hiring them again. On good contingency that the organizations do well, they just keep getting rehired every year. There were talks last Spring about creating some sort of formal process or application but I don’t know how I feel about that because it doesn’t happen very often.

Bottoms: Is there a formal inventory list?

Eddie: Yes, it divides each refrigerator by what brand they are but not by damage. In the warehouse, they are stored in a section of damaged refrigerators.

Cano: Last quarter, you talked to the senate table about wanting to purchase more refrigerators. Senate expressed that you would “audit” the refrigerators you currently have on inventory, how is that going?

Eddie: It hasn’t happened yet but eventually, it has to happen. We are in a weird time right now where revenues are at a record low. Last year, we only made $51,000 and fell far short from the $60,000 requirement. Even though we made more than we spent, it was historically low. Last quarter, I was a little ambitious in saying I wanted to spend more. Realistically, I don’t think I will pursue that any more.

Xiong: Is there a limit to how many student orgs get hired?

Eddie: On dead day, I usually hire about 50 people which is really contingent on how many bodies they can bring that can work. I could divide it so that it’s 5 checks per organization but it is difficult for me to process that. When I do hire, it’s usually one student organization.

Nonga: You talked about revenues being at an all-time low, can you explain why that’s happening and what you predict for the future?

Eddie: I think it’s just been an all-time low for all businesses, don’t you agree? Every ASUCD unit is not making as much as they projected. The leadership of the unit is also only held by two students, sometimes one. If there is no continuity of leadership, this unit is susceptible to extreme fluctuations. They will publicize in different ways. It has a lot to do with leadership with a fluctuation from anywhere between 10 and 20 thousand dollars.

Nonga: How do you advertise?

Eddie: We send out emails and mail pamphlets to incoming students’ permanent addresses.

Bottoms: Nonga inspired me. Do you think possibly the lowering of income could have to do with competition from other markets? They offer cheap refrigerators and microwaves that I don’t like because of social implications.

Eddie: That’s interesting, I could do an analysis. That could be a possibility. there is a Walmart in Sacramento and a Target in Davis.

C. Bike Barn

Basile: I only have good news for you guys, I’m not sure if you’re used to hearing that or not. We’re experiencing pretty much a record year. We’ve never made this much money in this time frame. We’ve sold more bikes than ever, we’re at 244 right now. Last year we finished with 200, this year we still have 4 months to go. Our merchandise is finally under control. On the flip side, our expense is also down, we


haven’t been buying much inventory and as our numbers go down, our payroll goes up so we can hire more employees and do more work. The aggie bike buy was our biggest program in the last year. It was a pre-purchase program for new students to order it online and pick it up once you get to campus. It exceeded all expectations. As I mentioned a second ago, service plans are also a booster for us. We’ve moved through our inventory a little better and we’ve started improving our commitment to the environment. We started a bike tire recycling program, thanks to former senator Patrick Sheehan who gave us grant money. We’ll have numbers next year for its efficiency. We also supported a rural village in Cambodia which has been working really well and we look to continue that relationship in future years. We’re currently working at full capacity and we’re looking to expand. I don’t have any concrete time frame but we’re closer than ever to increase our space through the relocation of OA and moving into that space. We’ll be looking for all your support in the years to come. Also, this is Natalie who will be replacing me in June.

D. The Pantry

Quincy: Our numbers are looking really good, we’re seeing about 200-250 students a week. We’ve been receiving a lot of on-campus support. We had our biggest food drive at Mrak Hall which got the Chancellor’s attention and the Provost was there. We are still working with the Yolo County food bank as our main supplier. Our big change right now is we’ll be changing our hours, it’ll be the same number of hours but it’s being switched to 10-11 M-F and 4-6 M-R. we’ve gotten a lot of people saying mornings are inconvenient so we’re hoping being open during those afternoon hours, we’ll get more traffic from people heading home.

Thomas: Last year, you had about 100 people a day, is this 250 people a week, is it distinct people or total people?

Quincy: It’s an average and there were also a couple 3 day weekends.

Thomas: Have you been working with local grocery stores?

Quincy: Yes but it’s complicated since they are national companies.

E. Aggie TV

Anna: We’ve done a lot of stuff this quarter, it’s been really great. We reached out to a lot of different organizations and we’ve done a lot of good work. Our unit is growing. We released 3 episodes for our new biweekly sports show, aggie central, we’ve also been working on live streaming some of the games we attend. We’re trying to live stream your senate meeting right now. I’ve been working with Alyson and Justin so thanks to them. I do want to announce that I’m looking for an adopted senator for my unit. We’re not lost, but we want more attention. Any people, any senators who may be interested, I’d be really appreciative if you emailed me, contacted me, I’m interested in meeting you personally. Next quarter, I’m looking to expand the volunteer staff so it will be exciting.

Nonga: Will you be live streaming every week?

Anna: today is our first day, it’s just a trial run. It’s not completely set yet but we’re hoping to do that.

Nonga: Have you thought of post-meeting packages to edit it down to the main points? We do want to be more transparent. There might be people watching now but I don’t see people sitting through the entire meeting.

Anna: we’re not looking into recording and editing because that would take up a lot of time and effort but we are looking into having 1 or 2 of our staff come in and leave the camera on to keep the transparency going.

Sagala: I would think that we really want AgTV to be more production-based and have the creative staff do what they are interested in accomplishing. We do have committed interns and commissioners that would be willing to sit through the meeting and learn how to use the cameras.

Eric: I’m the business manager for AgTV. We’re doing really well, we’re over triple our number for numbers perceived. I don’t see the growth stopping either.

V. Committee Reports

Cano: for INC this week, we talked about a couple things, E-Fund website, Lobby corps getting its own


website. In addition to that, we talked about the tipsy taxi credit card bill which passed. You’ll be seeing that sometime in spring quarter.

VI. PresentationsA. Executive FarewellsB. Office of the New Executive Office

Sandstrom: As we all know, Brett is leaving us and going to the school of law. During this time, we need someone in this interim position. We’ve been interviewing people and we have a great one coming our way. Anne, if you want to stand up, she is extremely student-focused. All of her answers during the interview were just spot on for what ASUCD stands for so I’m really excited to have her on board for this short period of time. We will also have Mark Champagne back on as well, he was with us previously for 32 years. He’ll be acting as a guide for the association and for her since he has so much experience. Brett will still coming on the floor for occasion. Mark, unfortunately could not make it. He is sick but he’ll be around about twice a week. I’m really excited for the business manager position moving forward. Anne’s heart lies in the best place possible so we are lucky to have her.

Cano: Congratulations, my first question: who gets the office?

Anne: I believe the plan is that I’ll be moving down to the third floor.

Thomas: I just wanted to say that there is no one in the UC Davis administration that I would rather see in this role. I just wanted to share my appreciation for our new president’s choice. It is an excellent one.

Sagala: I also just wanted to express my congratulations. I’ve heard a lot of great things in my short time in the association and Carly, congrats as of ten minutes ago. In regards to the hiring processes coming up, I just wanted to extend the table’s transparency.

Sandstrom: With the process moving forward, spring quarter is when we want to identify someone for the official business administrator role but summer, we’ll be in a weird limbo mode where we have to start the process over again. I will keep this process as transparent as possible to ensure we have the same vision in what we want in our business manager.

C. UC Davis Athletics

Justin: Before anyone says anything, I do go here. I registered for spring quarter classes so you all can stub it. I got bored at work for 5 minutes and texted Anna asking about the live stream, she said it never happened, and now it’s being attempted here so whoever read my column today, work can be doing this easy. My inspiration was for cspan and drinking games. Just imagine people at home, every time the gavel bangs, drink. Okay real presentation, to quote Tatiana Bush: this packet is thicker than a motherfucker. So my table spent an embarrassingly long time debating athletics. We spent way too long talking about semantics before passing the damn thing. It was calling for more control of UC Davis athletics by senate. Paul Medved suggested to come but I said, no you’re scary, I’ll go because I’m scarier in argyle. Athletics, it’s a big deal. Financially. We contribute 2/3rd of the ICA budget. We’re talking more money than in the entire ASUCD budget. 12 million. You all don’t have oversight of that because it goes through student services then ICA. UC Davis is the only D1 school that functions in this way. It’s unprecedented. It is being blown up in the public media. These funds are important and you all agree that athletics are also important. I’m here tonight to urge at least one of you on this table to go forward with that resolution. It’s just the key that turns the lock to let you go talk to athletics. There’s discussion of, should we be telling athletics how to do their job? I’m not telling you to do that, I’m just telling you to go talk to them. I would very much like questions. I took time out of my evening because I thought I would be able to better address your questions than Paul Medved, who is admittedly scary.

Burke: I could help you since I sit on athletics so I can help you see the resolution move forward.

Justin: how would you like to see the resolution go forward?

Burke: Honestly, I’m not sure. To clarify, when we talk about the Davis Way in athletics, it’s a real thing that student athletes here cannot sacrifice their education for athletics. This is also unique to Davis.

Wonders: I would like to hear your opinion on the Dempsey Report.

Justin: When I first read the Dempsey Report and when the original version came, I said no, this is the way to go but I had to rethink that because our athletics program is actually somewhat successful in the current model in terms of wins and losses. I don’t thing ESPN2 was the catalyst for Aggie Pride but when


I see other schools collapsing other sporting events to dehumanize their student athletes, a story broke in USC where they gave them injections to play under debilitating pain so they cannot feel pain. Of course, this is an extreme case and I do not want to engage in hyperbole.

Schaeffer: The resolution just called for more transparency, correct?

Justin: It requested them report to senate to talk to senate like I am now, it called for better transparency and to take the opinions of students on these committees more seriously.

Schaeffer: What is the next step for this body to take after the resolution is passed?

Justin: I came here because I realized that turnover in senate is the biggest problem this body faces, institutional memory is more of a joke than a term of art so I came here to enlighten you all and remind you that this resolution did happen and the past table spent waaaaayyy too much time on it. It would be a real shame if we spent all that time and the words thrown around last quarter never left this room. Certain words. Certain words should probably never leave this room.

Schaeffer: If you were still a senator, what would your actions be?

Justin: I would change the committee to some kind of voting process. Even if they don’t take that voting seriously, if students are on that committee then at least then, they will be thinking critically to what’s happening in their athletics department. I would at least ask questions about the discontinued programs if you at least want to know what happened to those, what happened to the faculty, the students that are now clubs teams or just don’t exist, I would contact the Davis Olympians. I would definitely get Tumey here and at least find out what he thinks is the future of this program. Dempsey was the former president of NCAA. They didn’t just have it written for fun. They were thinking about it for something.

D. Members of the Controller’s Office

Chris Lee: Hi, we’re part of Melanie’s office and our report is on the current state of the Bike Barn. To summarize, ASUCD bike barn is a very promising unit in terms of revenue, it is ranked 3rd highest right behind the CoHo and Unitrans about $70,000. We’re trying to extrapolate possibilities from the expansion.

Colin Slocum: There is the Bike Barn, Bike Hub, and Bike Garage. They sell new bikes, used bikes, and part and accessories. When their new projects run out, there is also the aggie bike buy. In terms of repairs, you can go and have them repair their bike.

Chris: The projected revenue for this year, the income is really high in September which is expected because of all the students returning to school in Fall.

Colin: There have been two major projects they completed. One was the retail space overhaul which is a new point of sales system, they added bargain bins, they reconfigured their layout, and they acquired new shelving to increase their space by 25%. Fifty bikes were sold through aggie bike buy, increasing their revenue by $30,000.

Chris: Current and ongoing projects, their attic is in terrible shape. They are also working to digitalize their work to reduce carbon emissions and be more environmentally friendly.

Colin: There are a couple of serious reoccurring issues. their structure was originally a temporary structure. It was never meant to be used for a long time but it’s been used now for almost 100 years. First, the size is just not enough. During their peak season, they have to turn away a lot of people. The lines are out the door, they don’t have enough space to store their inventory. There is improper electrical wire all around and when it rains, it leaks through the ceiling so there are puddles everywhere. The attic is a 2x4 so when you step on it, you can see the ceiling sink in which is obviously bad. If someone were to inspect it now, it would not be certified.

Chris: The idea now is to relocate OA and have bike barn take their space. This would be much more cost effective because a physical expansion requires much more capital than just a renovation. The bike barn has a depreciation rate of 25% which is huge. To decrease depreciation rate, the idea is to store more bikes out of the weather. The bike garage is not really efficient right now because it’s in the north parking lot. They’re doubling up on merchandise and staff but it’s more of satellite location than anything. Bringing the bike garage back to the bike barn during the expansion would be much more beneficial. Enabling bike barn to meet demand, they have a much greater demand than they can meet during their peak season. Greater campus presence, if we could expand to OA’s area, we would have


exposure to California and Hutchison road. We’d have a much greater presence in the south silo area. We can project revenue in the millions.

Colin: Current proposal by student affairs is to move OA to the campus recreation pool lodge then have bike barn move into the old OA space to better meet demand and bring Experimental College up to partner with the bike barn. The bike barn would get more space than Experimental College.

Chris: Bike barn has been saving up capital reserves. Bazzle has consistently set aside revenue to prepare for this relocation project. The ASUCD will still probably have to provide a loan through our reserves or other units, probably from Unitrans or the CoHo. Student affairs may offer some financial assistance but this is looking less and less likely.

Colin: Bike barn has been doing really great and to maintain this success, they need to expand to meet demand and have ASUCD’s support.

Chris: ASUCD needs to be dedicated to the success of Bike Barn. Bazzle has stated that ASUCD has not been as supportive in the past as he would have liked but this support will further partnership.

Sagala: I heard OA is looking to move into the Arc?

Bottoms: they basically don’t have enough storage space so they think the rec lounge will be better for storage ability and it’s closer to more campus rec services that actually help them do their scuba classes and stuff like that.

Sagala: Where was WEF in this?

Chris: No idea.

Sagala: I know TAPS has approached them with helping them move stuff which is scary. We do not want to lose the Bike Barn to TAPS.

Chris: They’re cooperative with bike barn which is natural. The first idea was that TAPS would help fund this expansion process.

Gerhart: I appreciate your presentation, I love bikes, I hate physical activity, let’s be real. Could you explain dipping from other unit’s reserves?

Chris: There are capital reserves and unit reserves. If it is indeed 500,000 dollars, then we’d pull around 300,000 from ASUCD’s reserves and looking at the CoHo, they have about half a million dollars in reserves and their operating reserves and their capacity doesn’t fully utilize those funds so we could take some money from the CoHo. We’re trying to minimize the financial strain on ASUCD.

Gerhart: That scares me. I would like to explore other options.

Cano: Why were the estimates for the planning wrong? It just mentions that they were fully estimated.

Chris: These estimates are variable every single day. During December, I’m sure their estimates are lower than they are now. Bazzle told me the most recent estimate was around 585,000 so he told me that to be conservative and realistic, we can expect revenue to be about 570. We’re trying to keep the numbers as close as possible which is why we gave you all a little gap in the numbers.

Cano: I’m confused why there was a 43,000 dollar error.

Colin: They had a bad estimator who told them a different cost from what it actually cost them.

Nonga: when you say expand bike barn, you mean moving into the OA location?

Colin: They would also keep part of the space they have right now.

Nonga: Is that enough space?

Colin: OA has the bulk of the barn right now so relocating OA would allow Bike Barn to double up on space. We don’t see problems in the future with this space.

Wonders: You guys would be sharing that area with three units, partially OA?


Chris: No, OA will be completely out. It will be Bike Barn and Experimental College and that should be enough space.

Sagala: The 43,000 happened because the wood rot would have cost so much money that the construction never started. When I first adopted the Bike Barn, we were thinking very grandeurly of having a two-story building, very unrealistic. They did want the building to themselves but you’re mentioning Experimental College would have a very small space. Where would they conduct their classes?

Bottoms: They’re looking at that as a storage space, they would still retain second floor silo to have classes and such.

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Franklin: I’m also an intern for Melanie. My project was significantly less complicated. I looked at the general trends between capital and senate spending over the past few years. For capital spending, between the total spending and how much was actually use for technology like computers, machinery upgrades, etc. we thought with all the technological advances over the years that there would be an increase in spending over time but actually, it’s pretty random. For senate spending, we looked at how much the allocated amount was actually used. Originally, we thought it would be a lot higher but actually, there’s been a good job of not using up all the reserves. Generally, there’s been a trend of increased spending. This was research over 19 years from 1990-2008 and I calculated the cumulative of the highest spending and there’s really no surprises, the CoHo and the Aggie and Unitrans.

Sagala: Was the giant 93% spike in 2010 because of Aggie Threads?

Franklin: I think it was netbooks and computers but I can check.

Bottoms: It was actually Tipsy Taxi, we bought a lot of stuff for them from our reserves because they didn’t know their own reserves existed.

VII. Public Announcements

Kapur: I am now a member of SFAAC, we voted yes for sports murals and yes for the student health center. In less than 12 hours, CURB is meeting at 2 PM at the field room. They’ll be going over south silo stuff.

Wonders: The campus wellness fair went by really well on Wednesday. Free carrots, free apples, free tea. Next time the CoHo hands you a plastic cup and says it’s okay to hold hot water, don’t listen, it’s a lie. It dissolved into nothing and just melted in my hand. But I’m looking for more bounce houses and more puppies in future wellness fairs.

Burke: Figueroa, I need your quarterly report. I wish target sold onesies. Obviously, as a Democrat, I dislike libertarianism. I think it’s dangerously close to anarchy which is why I dislike it when people say we like situation over the rules. I’m saying the attitude that we can disregard the rules at whim is not a healthy attitude to have for student government.

VIII. Public Discussion (Scheduled)

Ian Lee: Hi, I’m Ian Lee, I’m the student organizer for a labor union that represents campus cooks, janitors, gardeners, etc. and I would like to introduce an urgent bill in solidarity with UC workers currently in a contract fight between the university the contract ended on January 21st and the university wants to freeze wages for 3 years, have the employees pay more for pensions, raise their retirement by 5 years, a lot of messed up stuff, and I think it is very important for us to see this bill right now as urgent because the longer we wait, the less help we can be to workers negotiating right now. They are working 2 or 3 jobs that do not make good wages so it is very important for us to pass this resolution right now. What the university is doing is not right. We’re connected to these workers. They take care of us and when they are not paid well, our UC experience goes down.

Burke: Why should we see it urgently rather than through the regular process?

Ian: IAC has already seen it and I’ve run it by a few senators. It’s important because contract agreements are happening right now. The longer we wait, the more they can say students do not


support them. These workers are working multiple jobs and the university wants to cut their pension, raise their retirement years, just doing lots of messed up stuff.

Sagala: I wanted to point out that since Monday, I was sending this out to the listserv and trying to get responses. The only responses I got were from Senator Burke and Senator Kappes. We tried our best. Out of respect to the commission process, I do wish it was seen formally but it’s our responsibility to the students, to Ian who I’ve never met before, to address their concerns. I asked IAC and EAC to see it urgently informally, this bill has been edited down drastically that you would have seen. I really hope you take this into consideration in showing solidarity to people within our community that feed you food, keep things clean. I think it’s directly relevant. It’s important that to have aggie pride and pride in the UC system, we should be proud of the labor practices that the UC upholds.

Figueroa: I think we should introduce this as urgent. I don’t want to insult any commission chairs so I don’t intend any malice in this: we did see a bill urgently not too long ago that was full of ambiguity that we felt was well enough of a cause to introduce as urgent. This also deserve to be introduced as urgent. ASUCD is not too unfamiliar with passing resolutions to show solidarity with workers. It was passed in solidarity with workers of Sodexho. They’ve had problems in the past with their workers, they underpay wages and ASUCD did step up. They didn’t take much action but there was a resolution and the resolution was because of the turmoil that Sodexho was causing the workers. Please consider this as worthy of introducing as urgent. When people say it could have been passed through regular channels, I disagree. Things happen. This resolution is an effect of that.

Sahota: Ian, how long has this strike been going on?

Ian: It’s currently not a strike. They’re at a stage called discovery and they’ll most likely be striking at the end of Spring and the service employees will most likely be striking in Fall. Right now, it’s just a contract fight/negotiation.

Sahota: On that note, I do understand this is urgent. A lot of companies now are learning how to run more lean which does affect our students now. They’ll learn that they can pay them less and cut all their benefits. I also do want to highlight that I do feel this is urgent. The strike hasn’t started so I do think it can go through the proper channels. This is very important because it affects our students directly.

Ian: This contract negotiation will not be settled through tables. Workers WILL be striking.

Sahota: On that note, since the strikes won’t happen until spring or fall, then I think it could definitely go through the proper channels.

Ian: I think it does need to be urgent because we need to support workers now. There needs to be student support right now.

Sahota: Since it will most likely go to strike, we have student support. It is there but as far as making it urgent, we do have the time and process to do it the full length, the full way out.

Burke: What stopped it from being submitted on Wednesday of last week?

Sagala: It was only brought to my attention this Sunday. If I had known about it last Wednesday then I would have introduced it. It is an issue of unfortunately, we missed the deadline but Ian had reiterated that the legitimacy of our support won’t mean as much until they strike. It’s like we didn’t care until they stopped working but we should start caring right from the source of the problem. It just shows a stronger bond and commitment. I see relevance there that if we wait until they strike, then we don’t care until they stop working for us.

Cano: This bill was sent to me via googledoc on Wednesday. It wasn’t through an informal process and I can safely say that only 4 of them viewed it. Some of the concerns were addressed, not all of them. If it is time sensitive because of the contracts and negotiations are happening as we speak or during spring break then I would see the need. I see the need in seeing it as urgent.

Gerhart: I received it ahead of time. They asked if they could speak during the shitty shat time. We discussed its merits and urgency, we put in our input of our changes. The changes were made. If we had it in the vibes of formal versus informal, it could have been different but I don’t think so! Everyone in EAC was favorable to this bill and I think it should be introduced as urgent.

Cano: I think I could say that I could provide some input from my commission members and that’s what my input is.


Topf: How long have you known that the deliberation would be taking place?

Truong: Ian might have known about this a month or two ago but he is a member of the public unfamiliar with the practices of the table. I would like to urge the table to supersede the needs of the student than the bylaws. This student tried their best to do this and at the very least, this table can honor that by introducing it as urgent.

Figueroa: As far as I’m concerned, it did go through the proper channels. I motion to see senate resolution X as urgent.

7-4(Sahota, Topf, Burke, Wonders)-1(Ong, absent)

Figueroa: By not seeing it as urgent, we are slowing down the process even more. Please don’t slow down the movement because you’re concerned with how differently it will go through the proper channels. If you really believe in workers’ rights, then it will be the same now and in the future. I’m sorry we have students that are confused with how fucking complicated ASUCD is.

Thomas: I don’t think the point of this bill matters at all. It is time sensitive. If this were any time other than the last meeting of the quarter then I voted no but this is time sensitive and we have an awkward break with break coming up. There was effort put in.

Figueroa: I don’t see how we can cater the process anymore than with the informal seeing. Trust me, it will be the same. There are way too many pros to stop it right here.

Cano: Some of my members provided feedback and I think I can provide a recommendation based on their feedback.

Kabir: This frustrates me so much. Why can’t we listen to our commissions? We have people here on specific issues that they specialize on. If we don’t listen to them, then what’s the point of having them here?

Kappes: I worked in union before, we had a lot of fights. It was fun. Corporations suck, they like taking our things away. I would like to progress on this or transfer away. We have a lot of bills we’re seeing. Does anybody want a deferment then I’m going to motion to see this bill again.

Sagala: I just have to say, Senator Kappes, thank you. He told me all week he was going to vote no but he changed his vote because he talked to me and he listened to me. You could have given me feedback and saved me a lot of time in writing this resolution, in editing it, saved time for this student. That’s why I tried to contact everyone and I received informal recommendations from both IAC and EAC. Ian is the most important person here, representing the labor union.

Kappes: I’ve been convinced that this is important to introduce as urgent. I motion to see it again as urgent.

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Kriti: I’m coming on behalf of a campaign that seeks to disaggregate southwest Asian or African from “white.” All this seeks to do is change that. This exact resolution beyond the minor changes to make it format for Davis was sent to other UCs. Basically, what they’ve done is develop this particular resolution in conjunction to the vice chancellor of university affairs. This is being introduced as urgent because it must be passed by the next meeting in spring quarter.

Diaz-Ordaz: The main purpose of this bill is to get away from the notion that all middle easterners are white. We discuss what white-ness is and had a good conversation about it. There is very little representation by middle eastern communities, especially after 911 and the discrimination they obviously faced.

Kriti: This information is important because to know backgrounds of students will help with analyzing statistics of retention rates and how to better allocate resources.

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Bottoms: We wanted to open this up to members of the table. Carly and I had a meeting with Don Dudley, they’re reviewing all their codes right now. It’s in regards to a sexual assault. They’re re-


clarifying how they investigate sexual assaults on campus. Normally, how a normal SJA referral happens is they have a meeting and at that time, they can agree whatever happens there and there can be a sanction. There can be an optional hearing that happens or not. They’re trying to make it fair for both sides. Putting the sanction in the middle is to speed up the process. Also, there’s a second item regarding SJA involvement in student civil disobedience instead of the police that handles them now. It’s basically the question of when civil disobedience violates other people’s rights, do they go to SJA or the police?

Sahota: Me and Miles will be meeting tomorrow at the CoHo at 3 because I was just made aware that yesterday UCSD was able to do a vote where it’s considered a “secret ballot” so their name is not linked to their vote, which I am not okay with at all. I don’t think a resolution is appropriate, we were just thinking of writing them a letter. Whatever they vote, that’s what they believe in but however, AS to AS, we should give them a heads up.

Thomas: I’d like to commend our VP for leading his first meeting so efficiently. I would also like to reward Liam Burke for his last alleged protemp meeting.

Diaz-Ordaz: I had a very extremely less than 3 second discussion with Sergio about this, I’m wondering when I was a senator, all bills weren’t sent to IAC but after the former presiding officer, I started noticing that a lot of bills started going to IAC. That’s good but you all get a lot of bills. I just wanted to know what bill qualifies to be sent to IAC?

Cano: I would prefer for IAC to see bills that affect students on campus that would hinder the quality of life, I know that’s really vague. Resolutions, not all were sent to us, I honestly don’t know why but almost all bills have always been sent to us. My commissioners, we’ve been there for 5 hours.

Xiong: For the sanction part that the survivor of the assault would have to go to that hearing and explain what happened so that the process can speed up?

Bottoms: No, when they start the investigation, basically the person would probably go to police department and give as much information as they want to give. Normally, they try not to report as many things but a lot of the time, it gets referred to SJA from here. At that point, there is an investigation through the Title 9 office in Mrak Hall. They do a complete investigation, give the investigation to SJA, then set up a meeting with the accused person. Then they talk about the possibility of a sanction. If that person chooses, they have an optional hearing they can choose to do or not. Basically, it would take the victim out of more pain if they didn’t have to do an optional hearing every time.

Sagala: Can you clarify what a sanction is exactly?

Bottoms: It’s what the university does to the accused person. The way it’s laid out, it’s good about not having to put the victim in a poor place.

Sagala: I don’t need to be present but can you email the table and update us?

Marquez: I had questions about it too but we can talk about it later.

Xiong: The criminal process is very slow and I do believe that civil disobedience should be referred to SJA so that some justice could be served while the criminal case is being proceeded. I believe this is a very important topic and I would like to be included in the discussion.

Wonders: I take someone’s right to due process very seriously. If you kill the president, you still get due process. My point is that we also need to be very careful with things like that getting tossed around. It’s easy to justify.

IX. Status of Legislation Previously PassedX. Introduction of New LegislationXI. Consideration of Old Legislation

A. SB #56 GASC

Marquez: I don’t know what happened, I printed out a copy but it’s not the final copy that we had agreed upon. This bill’s purpose is to revise Chapter 4 of the ASUCD bylaws to protect the identities of people.

Cano: This bill is not the bill IAC made changes of so, I yield.

Diaz-Ordaz: We spent a good two hours rewriting this bill to be as inclusive and protect students’ names,


not just based on sexual and gender identities, just in case someone is undocumented and wants to use a new name. we thought that the corrections we made were pretty fair.

Marquez: We also spent a lot of time on this. It’s sad the language we wanted is not reflected. We talked about this, weighing importance of stopping people from running under stupid names and protecting students from wanting to use a different name. we spent a lot of time on this.

Cano: There was confusion, at least for IAC, that the corrections weren’t submitted to SGAO in time so a commission member typed it up and then SGAO got really mad that we even saw it in the first place. There is no history of the changes made which is why this bill is the bill you see.

Wonders: Before we get into this discussion, I just want to remind everyone to keep this conversation civil, we’re all on the same team. When I first saw this bill in February, I really liked it but now I have some problems with it, specifically the joint advisory boards.

Marquez: Do you think the way things went down last time was correct? What would you do instead?

Wonders: No, there is an additional window added within this bill to react to any contention and I think this allows us to resolve it without the joint review board.

Lane: As someone who normally doesn’t advocate for inefficiencies in the system, I see potential in slowing down the process this time because if it were slower, then perhaps I wouldn’t have been outted.

Thomas: Is this exactly the bill your commission would be happy with? Because I thought your commission went through 2 hours of changes that aren’t reflected her.

Marquez: most of the changes were in IAC and they were there so couldn’t they just make the changes now? GASC has a lot of shit to do next quarter and we’ve been working on this for a long time.

Figueroa: I agree with Mr. Wonders, we can be civil with this. I believe that I can articulate why the review board is a good idea.

Kappes: So we’re talking about this again.

Diaz-Ordaz: Would IAC’s changes, can they just be talked about here?

Thomas: I remember a lot of changes being made with consent of the author. We spent a lot of time on this bill. I don’t want to throw all that time out the window just because we want to get it through this week. I share the same frustration with the GASC chair.

Diaz-Ordaz: I’m not trying to devaluate IAC at all, I’d like them to propose changes right now.

Cano: The problem with making changes now is that I have to make a case to all your objections of changes I want to make.

Kriti: Specifically with adding IAC, I was at the entire discussion, I don’t recall what the end recommendation was by the commission but it was brought up several times that IAC does not need to be on that commission.

Marquez: Can we table it?

Cano: So I was actually doing a little history of the original text of the bill. In 1998, they added the line at the discretion of the elections committee and I was like, why did they add that? Back in the day, you’ll have people running like Robert, Christian, Christopher and then their names were reflected as Chris, Bob, so I think what we’re arguing about now could easily be fixed. I prefer my name Serg but it was Sergio. The whole nickname thing is sort of separate but everything’s been lost through translation over time so we need to modify current bills.

Thomas: The fact that we’re talking about all these things that aren’t in the bill is another reason I want to table this bill.

Cano: I honestly think there is a different way we can write this bill which is why I chose to abstain. There was a lot of pressure and knowing the history now, I think just a slight modification can fix this.

Lane: I just wanted to say that I think there was reason there was pressure to pass this because this was


a traumatic event for people so ASUCD needs to react and reflect that in a timely fashion.

Kabir: What is tabling going to do? We should just re-refer it back to IAC.

Thomas: In the process of tabling it, SGAO can make the changes by IAC.

Kabir: I don’t trust that.

Burke: Options are it gets withdrawn and can be resent to all the commissions, we can re-refer it only to IAC or we can table it and do this again next week.

Marquez: I think ECAC and GASC saw it before IAC saw it. For the most part, we’re happy with the language. I’m comfortable with re-referring it back to just IAC.

Burke: I motion to re-refer this to IAC.

Figueroa: I commend GASC commissioners for coming and supporting this bill until 1, being unpaid also.

11-0-1 (Ong, absent) re-refer to IAC

B. SB #58 Truong

Eddie: What this committee proposes to do is to take on issues of rape culture. Unlike previous committees and initiatives, this focus is not primarily number-based but it’s targeting a different type of lifestyle of objectifying people’s bodies is the true target of what this committee hopes to focus on. We hope to address and target effectively, move beyond the numbers, to truly make a difference in campus climate. This focus falls under the primary goal of GASC. Something we should focus on is that this committee focuses on the core mission of GASC and GASC still has a say of what this committee will conduct. GASC’s participation in this committee is also fulfilling its mission. If we were to pass this committee, then we should seriously revise GASC’s mission which I think is in the works. As I’ve mentioned, the issues of rape culture is a culture affair and culture is a lifestyle, it’s the way we view the world which is why ECAC has a prerogative, an obligation to have a say in this committee. I urge very strongly for members at the table to seriously consider having ECAC also as an ex-officio member. In summary, this committee focuses and targets a very pressing issue on this campus. We would do the campus great justice by establishing this committee.

Cano: IAC passed this bill unanimously after a very long discussion that went in all sorts of directions. IAC questioned the necessity of having ECAC sit as an ex-officio, however, we were disarmed that the critical issue is this is more or less the mission of GASC. We came to a mutual understanding that there is an update for GASC’s mission statement available at this meeting to better see a distinction between this committee and GASC’s purpose.

Diaz-Ordaz: There is a huge discrepancy in our law system of who gets put into jail. Rape is a very racialized phenomenon which is why it is important for ECAC to sit on this committee.

Marquez: Since this is such a prevalent issue on our campus and in society, it is important for us to do as much work as possible which is why I think it’s good. I’m confused with the statement about GASC changing its focus primarily to a queer focus.

Gerhart: People are more than statistics so we liked that it focuses less on numbers.

Thomas: I have no concerns with this bill. I had a lot of problems and now I have no problems! I’m really excited to see a body focus on this incredibly critical issue on campus.

Wonders: Let’s start with positive: a lot of my fears were addressed and put to rest. Now getting to a few more concerns, first off, I’d like to stress how important this is to our campus and that’s actually why I was a little nervous to see that this was one of GASC’s mission statements. I’m aware that an updated mission statement has not been submitted. I think right now, this is a good direction for us to go. However, I would like to point out that this disappoints me a little bit, not because we’re creating another committee, but because we’re doing it without a heads up from the committee whose job it initially was. Right now, they’re either not having enough time to deal with it or prioritizing other things over it. Seeing it right now is the most disappointing thing to me right now. We really need to check how our system works here. We need to be more active in what we’re prioritizing. I wished the issues as far as time was addressed.


Thomas: To address that, commissions just move in the direction of their chairs and chairs often build up on other chairs. Over time, if issues have drifted away from issues of sexual prevention, that’s a gradual thing. They skip an event due to some other event and the next year, the next chair might not know about such an event. in ASUCD, it’s not unreasonable. I don’t hold any fault.

Wonders: I get that but I also think that this is something that is IN the mission statement. It’s not hidden in the bylaws, it’s in the first sentence for god’s sake. I won’t vote no, it’s too important, but I am disappointed.

Mariah: GASC has a lot to deal with on this campus and other campuses in Irvine, things that happen within the GASC community. We were saying that rape and rape culture is huge. We need to give GASC help. We need a committee that deals directly with this that will deal with these issues, or at least, help.

Wonders: I wanted to iterate again, the idea that the committees are open to interpreting the constitution as they will. If something is assigned to them, it’s their job. It’s their job to do what is assigned to them in the constitution.

Lane: There’s a lot that GASC has to cover. I think it’s ridiculous to think that we can cover everything that’s in our mission statement. This is a great way to go about it.

Kappes: I’d like to bring up the new mission statement thing. The idea isn’t to just tweak it, but if we’re creating this new committee, then GASC should rework what it works on to focus more on issues that it has deemed important.

Justyn: I think no one on GASC thinks that preventing sexual violence is not important. It’s focusing, it’s narrowing this huge and pervasive issue. It requires extra work. Taking it out of GASC would not make sense because it falls under GASC. It’s just an additional thing. It’s support. It seems unnecessary to take it out of the mission statement. To just focus on queer things doesn’t make sense. It all falls under the spectrum. We all interact and deal with gender and sexuality even if we aren’t queer.

Thomas: I would hope that in no situation would GASC take this out of their mission statement but this issue is too big for just GASC.

Sagala: I know that it’s been expressed that there’s a sentiment that GASC has the capacity to do all these things. Would there be programmatic overlap?

Marquez: I wouldn’t take it out of the mission statement because in the future, if GASC has time to work on it, then obviously we would. I was actually thinking about rewriting the mission statement of GASC before this. I think we should support this committee when they’re doing this work but we should also do this sort of work when we have time. I can’t help but feeling attacked like GASC isn’t doing their job or whatever. I don’t know if y’all remember but the commission chairs did not get any training so I spent the first quarter figuring out how to do my job. It’s absurd to say that because it’s in GASC’s mission statement to do this kind of work, then GASC is responsible to do this sort of work. we’ve expressed that GASC does a lot of stuff. The work that GASC does includes sexual practices, queer issues, reproductive justice, feminism, transgender issues, we have a lot of stuff that we’re supposed to be doing. Look at CCE, EPPC, WEF, Project Compost, that all do similar stuff. Honestly, GASC should be two commissions, a queer focused commission and a feminist focused commission, like how it’s done at other campuses. I feel attacked, I think GASC is being attacked for things we don’t need to be attacked for.

Cano: I sent an email out a few weeks ago and I can say from my interpretation of history with sexual assaults and whose job it was, we created a campus safety unit and one of its purposes was to tackle sexual assault issues. I think we just forgot to update the mission statements along the way and we forgot to train each other of what’s important. I do think the mission statement is out of date. With that said, I think we need to draw a fine line because as of now, the mission statements are almost identical. The distinctions between organizations you believe are virtually the same, there is a difference.

Diaz-Ordaz: What’s the problem with having multiple bodies to fight destruction of bodies?

Cano: I think it creates a lot of confusion for external organizations.

Figueroa: If I was an external organization, I would contact both. I’m going to try to get a feel of what we feel of making this a permanent committee. Right now, we’re talking about rewriting mission statements but if this is only a special committee, it’s only going to last a year so why would we rewrite stuff?

Burke: To see if it’s an effective platform of which rape culture can be addressed on campus. If it isn’t,


then we have to go through the whole process of dissolving it. Rather, if we have it as a special committee, we just have to evaluate the success of the committee and determine whether or not to keep it, which is fairly simple.

Diaz-Ordaz: Believe it or not, I was in a frat at some point haaahahablargh. Our job was to pour our own brothers half a shot, pour other men a tiny, tiny shot, while for women, we were encouraged to pour full shots for you know what. We were encouraging each other in rape culture. I want there to be education in Greek life of rape culture.

Burke: My fraternity proudly does not serve hard alcohol for that very reason.

Topf: I just wanted to say that mission statements are all encompassing which means that if a certain issue is pertinent at the moment. Just because it’s in your mission statement doesn’t mean you have to do your entire mission statement all the time. I wanted to point out that this does differ from GASC a lot because you’re getting input from people that might normally not attend GASC meetings. I also don’t know where this meeting is going, so I’d like to divide the house.

Sahota: Just as a learning curve, other than the fact that commission chairs sit at the table, what is the difference in committees and commissions?

Bottoms: Commissions tend to receive funding and review legislation while committees are a subordinate body.

Sagala: Timeline: it’s a temporary committee for one year, correct? After we pass it, we can talk about amending it.

Cano: Something I wanted to talk about earlier is the composition of the committee. Right now it reads as 9 voting members. Take ABOC, it’s somewhere. Special committees are all by default, seven. I think seven is a safe number to shoot for rather than 9 because then you’ll have a lot of vacant spots.

Thomas: Motion to call this bill to question.

11-0-1(Ong, absent) pass!

C. SB #60 Figueroa

Figueroa: This is my first bill, it’s one of my platforms, something I really wanted to work on. it’s to create a committee to create resources and advocacy for AB540 students and other undocumented students. I went through the proper channels. UC Berkeley already has an undocumented student center so UC Davis is being very reactive while others are proactive. The current AB540 task force is on pause for whatever reason and that’s sad. This task force doesn’t have their shit together as of right now so with this bill, I want that legitimacy backed by the student government to communicate and collaborate with this task force. Talking to Sergio, it’s going to be hard to even have advocacy for this committee. I really want to thank the co-authors, especially Liam and Sergio for helping out. There were a lot of questions raised at EAC that were really cool because they were all related to protecting the students. I want to point out in this bill: be aware of your biases. I wanted to make sure this bill was not Mexican-centric.

Cano: IAC passed this bill unanimously. We talked about if it overlapped with the international committee. We amended the structure to include representation from the SRRC. Additionally since this committee is heavily policy-driven, the intent is to outreach to undocumented students.

Diaz-Ordaz: I love this bill. I am a former undocumented student. I’ve been able to deconstruct the politics and the shitty-ness. AB540 students on campus can be documented, as most of them are. What the AB540 status does is it gives students who would otherwise pay out of state tuition, the opportunity to pay in state tuition. To fulfill the AB540 requirement, you have to one, attend a California high school for 3 years, two, graduate from a California high school, and three, sign an affidavit to apply for US residency as soon as possible. Eleven states have AB540 policies so it’s not universal throughout the nation. There were discussions as to why GASC is part of the committee as an ex-officio. One of the biggest undocumented movements is the queer and undocumented identity for notions of coming out. Queer students can be outted. The struggles are similar. Likewise, marriage for queer people is a path towards documentation but it’s not allowed because you can’t get married if you’re a homo. Undocumented pregnant women have very little resources allocated to them and they exist on our campus. That’s why I think GASC should be part of this committee as an ex-officio member.


Gerhart: The biggest concern of EAC was protecting the students involved with the committee. We wanted to make sure they’d be in a safe space and how they would tailor questions so they’re not just saying, are you an undocumented student? We also wanted to distinguish the difference between it and SPEAK. If you make one more person feel represented then you’ve done your job.

Marquez: GASC is really excited about this bill. I wanted to clarify the abstention was due to an absence. We are really excited for the possible collaboration. We had a discussion about the ways in which the issues surrounding undocumented folk that Manny already stated. Undocumented people leave their country due to sexual practices, gender identity, when people are put into prisons, there’s a lot of issues with transphobia.

Diaz-Ordaz: ASUCD’s name was not on the original AB540 week.

Wonders: Since I’ve been confirmed, I’ve learned to love being wrong. I came to this discussion with some serious reservations and before the conversation even started, they were put to rest. I would like to thank ECAC for directly addressing my concerns. This bill is cool. It is actually super cool.

Torres: first of all, congratulations on your first piece of legislation. I hope to get there someday. I did notice that you talked about protecting people on the committee as far as their identification but I didn’t see it anywhere in here in how you would do that.

Figueroa: Besides not ask the question, we would have a lot of disclaimers saying, do not reveal your status and their concerns are actually really valid. When I had interns, they were already revealing their status to me. We’re going to put a disclaimer on it and at any point they are on this committee to not reveal their status. We’re gonna try to hit up listservs and other resources.

Diaz-Ordaz: I think working closely with SPEAK, a group that is extremely knowledgeable of undocumented struggles and policies, then you’ll probably get a really nice batch of representation without having to ask. I think working with SPEAK is a good first step.

Sagala: How many people hire the chair?

11-0-1 (Ong, absent) pass!

D. SB #66 Cano

Cano: The reason why I’m reviving this committee is because every year after elections, people always have issues with election bylaws. This year’s committee is a little different because we want to focus on the elections amendments. I think a lot of the issues that came up in this year’s elections could have been avoided with this committee. IAC unanimously passed this bill. We focused on the differences between last year’s BRSC and this year’s. Arguments from last year were that the VP might be too busy to show up so they were willing to participate in discussion but not do actual work. we don’t really vote on anything so it doesn’t matter that much. It’s going to be a lot of policy, as you know, from amending the election codes, there always needs to be a diagram on the white board. It gets very technical so it only makes sense to have all the technical people on this committee. We will diagram everything for you when we make changes.

Burke: What’s the logic behind reducing the number of justices?

Cano: Honestly, last year, none of the justices ever showed up but we saw the importance of them. Plus, we like odd numbers.

Kabir: A recommendation is to reorganize the bylaws because it’s a clusterfuck with everything all over the place.

Thomas: This is meant to be a lean mean bylaw writing machine. Meetings are open to the public. This is really exciting, I know a lot of people want to work on this from inside and outside of the association. I’m really excited about this bill because everyone and their dog has a problem with election codes.

Cano: Something I left out is that the termination date is the end of spring quarter. It’s a one quarter process.

Sagala: I’m actually surprised that you didn’t want a senator sit on it. I was interested in opening it back up to allowing at least one senator sit on it.


Thomas: I will be at every single meeting at this. Not having a vote is actually a benefit since I may not be specialized and as well-informed in bylaws to vote.


E. SB #68 Diaz-Ordaz

Diaz-Ordaz: This is a bill to get ECAC, GASC, ASUCD, and ASUCD scholarship banners. The main purpose of this is for outreach, just this quarter both ECAC and GASC put on events, pass the plate and the genitaliaffairs. Each garnered about 100 people and it would have been great if we had more visibility, and we did, but having that banner just looks nice. It looks cute.

Schaeffer: B&F agrees with the purpose of this and we have previously ordered from this manufacturer before. They are of high quality and cheap. Note the two no votes. One was on the disagreement of the purpose of the use for capital reserves. The second no vote was from a gentleman who believed that y’all lost the banner, y’all better pay for it through senate reserves. Y’all done fucked up.


F. SB #69 Kappes—TABLED G. SB #70 Cano

Cano: This should not take too long, I hope. When we created Aggie Threads, the LRP was scheduled to be written now but this is asking to extend the deadline to spring quarter. IAC passed it unanimously. We promise this won’t ever happen again.


H. SR #12 Hackney—TABLED I. SR #X Truong—INTRODUCED AS URGENT

Ian: There were a few concerns that IAC talked about when we informally sent to them which was accuracy of the numbers. they are 100% correct. They have to be. they are numbers that are publicly and freely available because we are a public university. On top of that, these numbers are 100% accurate because these are the numbers that AFSCME uses during bargaining and if they use incorrect numbers, they get slammed. Another point IAC brought up is yes, workers are getting screwed by the IAC but how does that affect students? UC workers are the ones who take care of us. When their livelihoods are threatened, then our livelihoods are also threatened. We are still in a recessed economy. We are missing consumer demand and how do we do that? Raise wages, and we are a public institution and we can do that. We have to remember that we are UC Davis. We should be the shining example of what labor practices should be. we are here as students because we want to get good jobs. We want jobs that have good labor policies and all labor struggles are connected. We should support labor practices here at UC Davis because one, it’s the right thing to do and two, it also helps us. Tuition hikes are the same struggle.

Thomas: I worked very closely with AFSCME, I reviewed their MOUs so I have a lot of respect for the organization and I’ve also seen a trend in AFSCME that I also see in this bill where it gets more political than it needs to be. I’d like to support our workers but I don’t want to tear down our administration. If we could remove some of the language irrelevant to the student experience then that would be great from lines 28-36. I do want to support the workers.

Marquez: Not all of us have copies of the resolution so when you mention certain lines, can you read them out loud?

Truong: I’m okay with all the changes that Senator Thomas has proposed. Is there anybody that feels that any part of that should be kept?

Figueroa: Although me and Thomas are respectfully disagreeing, I think it just waters it down. It would be completely fine to keep some of the language in, or at least amend it somehow.

Burke: I think most of the proposed line removals are actually fine. The other statistics are all perfectly relevant.

Eddie: There are sufficient funds within the UC system, it’s just the UC is taking a corporate approach where they focus on the top people where it should be more focused on the people at the bottom that


are most susceptible to wage decreases. I enjoy having clean bathrooms. These workers only make 15-18k a year.

Thomas: You convinced me, I’m happy with keeping those lines in.

Gerhart: Props. You see something you don’t like, propose a change. That’s how things get done. I’m glad you deleted 27-28, I think 36-39 seems like a soap box stand that isn’t in direct relation.

Ian: I added that because it was through a request by IAC that they wanted more connection to students.

Gerhart: Also, yes they take care of us but I think there is a better way to say that in this resolution.

Marquez: For some reason, the table has historically been afraid to be political about things that should be political. Before you think about completely erasing something, think of different language. It is important to retain the ideas in here.

Bottoms: What is the highlighting in the bill?

Ian: IAC made a lot of comments and it changed a lot from the original version. On googledocs, a lot was changed and added which was why there is weird font and highlighting.

Thomas: I just gave Eddie a few more of my grammar things. To address the political statement of this, this is not something I have researched because I just heard about it yesterday. I didn’t have time to research something so broad overnight. I know AFSCME is really careful about their numbers but I would like to do diligence of something my name is being put on. More importantly, there’s just no reason, I would rather have a pro-message than an anti-message. I don’t think how we treat our workers should be relevant to how we treat our management.

Nonga: I agree with Senator Thomas that even if you are for something, you don’t have to be anti-something else.

Ian: The dates for bargaining have been set for months. On March 7th when bargaining came to Davis, about 100 workers were there at the Arc and the date has been set for months. The UC made the statement that they needed time for a presentation which took hours and most workers had to leave by then. It was intentional.

Nonga: I would say that then. It’s clear, just stick to facts. Provide the background information and anyone that reads it would interpret it that it’s disrespectful.

Wonders: I don’t think sounding pissed off is the way to go in this bill. With resolutions, you have to consider the audience you’re sending it to. When you go off on tirades, an objective resolution is much better received. I motion to strike lines 29-35.

7-3-2 lines are stricken

Ian: I think it’s great that work is being done. This is my first time coming here and it’s amazing, it really is but I do think that lines 36-37 are essential to the point of this bill, so are 39-46.

Schaeffer: What I want to do is clarify what Ian meant by that. It’s not just that it’s the truth but it’s extremely relevant. These workers are in danger of losing an amount of pay that is there. The higher executives are taking a larger piece of the pie. The problem is the inappropriateness of how the money that is there is being allocated. Therefore, these lines must be put back in, in some form or another.

Thomas: That’s not unreasonable. I thought we kept lines 36-37.

Topf: I think the big issue with 36-37 is that it didn’t make sense anymore because of the stuff we cut out before it so it seemed like we were just throwing numbers out of nowhere.

Diaz-Ordaz: You all spent an hour talking about taking out the teeth of the bill and now y’all are talking about putting it back in? like helllooooOoOo


J. SR #10 GARG—INTRODUCED AS URGENT


Cano: I just wanted to let you all know that my commission didn’t think this bill should have been seen as urgent. This is a long resolution and IAC had many bills to see so their full attention was not given. They did provide suggestions.

Sahota: Nowhere here is south Asian included and there is a huge difference between south Asian and Asian.

Kriti: South Asian has never been under white.

Sahota: It hasn’t but it’s been under Asian so it’s hard to find statistics for just south Asians since they’ve been grouped with Asians.

Burke: On lines 149-152, this is just a list of countries. If we do this, are we not obligated to list all of the countries?

Kriti: This format is just the way that it’s been done before.

Burke: It seems to me that there’s a lot of overlap. Each of these countries are distinct ethnically which I don’t think is true.

Kriti: That’s not a distinction for us to make. It’s how people identify.

Cano: I’m looking over the suggestions my commissioners suggested. Did you plan to include something about the 2020 initiative?

Kriti: No.

Cano: you came to IAC, there was discussion and it was an “informal recommendation” to fix this resolution to better it when you came to senate. In lines 184-185, we don’t ask for that type of information so it could be understood that we are requesting that sort of information which is why I feel uncomfortable.

Kriti: That line as I understand it says that if there is ever a form put up by ASUCD, it would list all the SWANA checkboxes.

Kabir: Is this strictly the one Berkeley passed?

Kriti: The only difference in Berkeley specifically in their text lines 141-142 were not fully fleshed out at that point but since then, it’s been to UCOP, Irvine, LA, SD, SB, and UCSA.

Kappes: I feel as though there are quite a few whereas clauses here. I know it’s a lot. I scrolled through and I just marked a couple. I’m going to ask you a few of the rationale, behind 124-174.

Diaz-Ordaz: The main point is representation. If you don’t have the representation then funding can’t be directed to alleviate the qualms of these people.

Kriti: All of these are listed and described as such because when this piece of legislation moves forward with UCOP, this is what people will see when they decide on making the change in upcoming UC applications. 158-174 are all talking about the process and support behind this resolution.

Diaz-Ordaz: I want to know exactly what you all want to add in terms of the 2020 initiative, specifically what because there is a lot about the 2020 initiative, a lot.

Topf: First of all, I think this is awesome. I know from personal anecdotes from friends, there is a lot of confusion with applications in how people identify. With the breakdown of it, when they go to the application, will they check the box and then will all of these things come down?

Kriti: It lists all the API ones right now and that’s what it will do for SWANA. Again, this honestly depends on whoever codes the app and that’s something the resolution wouldn’t handle or advocate.

Nonga: Can you clarify how the 2020 initiative relates?

Cano: The rationale is that we have international students and we want them to come here but when they apply and their category isn’t there, it seems uninviting. We would look appealing than other


schools that don’t have all their categories.

Eddie: The 2020 initiative is a campus-wide expansion to include more international students so there is more of a need for us to consider this resolution more seriously.

Cano: IAC talked about the length of the bill. It’s almost identical to other UC’s, it gets more personal towards the end. I understand it’s a campaign and you want to pass the same resolution.

Kriti: The point is that people look at this bill and think, it’s the same bill, they’re supporting the same cause.

Cano: We can come to different conclusions based on the same reasoning. If IAC had the opportunity, we would have cut down on a lot of text.

Figueroa: On line 172 and 173, would you be open to change the word minority to something better?


K. SR #9 Cano

Cano: This resolution is honoring Brett Burns. It’s straightforward just saying how awesome he is. He worked for Entertainment Council as a student, so I called him out on that. It’s sad to see him depart from the student-life part of campus. IAC didn’t fight over this resolution but it’s very straightforward.


XII. Ex-Officio Reports A. Commissioner Chairs

Jackson: held OH, commission trying to finish waste audits (some unit directors not responding), talked about coal vs. fossil fuel divestment, started Earth week planning, caught up with CCE director, Tessa, on CCE’s projects, planed tree planting for this weekend! (ASUCD scholarship plan), all is settled for zero waste at 5k run!

Cano: Monday: found out one of my projects I had been working on is no longer possible to find an alternative form of payment for undocumented students of ASUCD; Tuesday: went to B&F, EAC; Wednesday: went to INC

Gerhart: emailed Adelaide Uni! Stopped by Genitalia Af(f)air, held OH, EAC meeting, saw a shitty shat ton of bills, worked on music on the green event and aggie pride 5K, worked on google doc/EAC chair training manual, will pick up apps the first week of spring quarter

Marquez: genitalia af(f)air! Divestment bill passed in UCSD

Diaz-Ordaz: IAC, B&F, went to EPPC to visit my sustainability homies, went on a date with IAC chair, B&F chair, EPPC chair and former senators Kapur and Goss, had my last ECAC meeting of the quarter, bought some trinkets from the Aggie ReStore, went to the Pantry because I’m broke

B. Outreach Assembly Speaker

Calderrazzo: week of competition 1st week of spring quarter, held OH, met with CSI about advisory council, OA saw loco bill

C. ASUCD Controller

XIII. Elected Officer Reports D. PresidentE. Vice President

Bottoms: ELECTED

F. ASUCD Senators

Xiong: held OH, went to ethnic grad fundraisers all week


Sahota: went to campus recreation guide meetings (really interesting, amazing)… finals.

Torres: M: take home final over the weekend; T: B&F, my first commission meeting; W: meeting at SRRC to summarize progress of events going into Spring quarter

Thomas: M: attended IAC (won one battle, lost another), researched on Davis wiki a lot, researched how other AS’s organize themselves, Sergio happened to grow older; T: held 3 OH, EAC, B&F, EPPC (coal divestment yay!); W: longest OA meeting ever, listened to complaints about ASUCD; R: held 1 OH, re-read the constitution and the bylaws; 25 miles on the stair master since last year; ate a lot of vegetables; URSAC last FridayOA! Fight for clubs!Very last week of winterFeels just like the spring

Burke: press conference at sigma nu for greening the greeks, held OH, URSAC, SSFAAC last week, studied AS at Berkeley, I hope we don’t get filmed, was ASUCD president for five minutes

Topf: held OH, work for 5K (painted A-frames), met with Darin, wrote a bill, met with Yena, genitalia affair, EPPC, exec farewells

Wonders: held OH, went to IAC (first time), AAC, helped hold ASUCD’s first quarterly pre-finals wellness fair—success, held a flyer on Wednesday without running away, post-campaign PTSD getting better, stole scholarship committee spot out from Thomas after sudden death showdown

Figueroa: went to GASC x2, publicized genitalia affair, went to IAC and EAC, hired interns, went to DREAM education workshop, held OH, communicated with admin about ASCUD townhalls, created a committee

Nonga: EAC meeting, Black Graduation meeting (BIG), feelers out for interns, talked with controller about future appointment to learn about budget

Sagala: hosted international womyn’s fair, aggie 5K pride, had a midterm, did APAC spending bill, awesome intern meeting, late night with my 2 fave interns that I think are now my chief of staff, met with Adela, went to farewells, had indigestion

Kappes: sleeping bags are warm… followed my bill through commissions, god dammit I have class in a few hours. My longest senate meeting ever, almost wrote a bill, being filmed is fun, won the Daviswiki war with Miles, URSAC, city council thing, god dammit Groundzero

XIV. New Student Court Cases/Prior Weeks Verdicts/ASUCD Court Announcements

XV. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

XVI. Public Discussion (Unscheduled)

XVII. Closed Session

XVIII. Any Other Business

XIX. Adjournment

The meeting is adjourned at 3:59 AM.

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