ASUCD SENATE AGENDA May 9, 2013

I. Call to orderII. Quorum Roll callIII. Appointments and confirmationsIV. Unit Director Reports

a. CCEThis is my last unit report. Tanzi will take over for director next year. We just finished interviews for staff like twenty minutes ago, but we’re looking to provide a stipend for individuals for some coalition. Most recently 2 weeks ago, we held a convergence in Berkeley and were able to subsidize. We really rec if you’re interested in sustainability to attend these convergence at some point. Otherwise, we are working with creative media to revamp our website. We’re fixing it up and it looks really, really good and we’re debuting really soon. We worked with Epic and helped them table in the quad. It’s every Wednesday in Hutchinson and rec to see us once just to see what were about. This last week we co put it on with ASUCD and had a presentation on indigenous sustainability. Would have been cool if you had come. Fortunately we have a poster event that’s up in the cultural center for the next month. Indigenous people and climate…..Plastic pollution in the ocean. We have an agricultural sustainability panel next Wednesday. Check it out. Action research teams…food recovery network, bee….reroutes uneaten food to food kitchens and low income kitchens. We’ve been really lucky with the funding 2150 with GO green. Very interdisciplinary. Another thing I mentioned is the compostable program. We buy compostable cups…..and make them available to any student organization. Plastic forks are really bad, ASUCD. We have them in the office and you can order them on your website. If we’re not a zero waste org then we shouldn’t call ourselves one. Otherwise, our red cup clean-up program is pretty neat. We will pick up red solo cups and we can divert 2 cents from a cup. If ASUCD were to collectively collect red cups, you can take that two cents from that cup and donate it to any charity. That adds up really quickly, so it’s a cool thing to keep in mind…..green certified. Last PSA, the resident garden has lots of sunflower starks, so if you want sunflowers, you can come pick them up. They’re beautiful. Any questions?

Bottoms: when can we get the sunflowers? Its mother’s day this Sunday.

Tanzi: check the facebook for office hours

Thomas: sustainability next wed. Can you please provide more info?

Tanzi: Hutchinson 3-5 pm. Have rep from student farm…and some professors. Good Q&A session

Wonders: can you talk about expanding the red cup program?

Tanzi: first year it was under SCE. It’s got its own logo now and a Facebook page. So a good way to get a hold of them. We try to get a drop off system. People don’t really want to bring them during the week, but the girls will pick them up from you. We’re hoping to attain a more reliable vehicle to pick up the cups other than their own. Both looking to be involved next year and we’re hoping to expand to more individual students rather than just fraternities. Only sigma nu has a sustainability chair. Having someone responsible for that would be really great. We’ve been doing a lot of flier-ing. But we’re trying to get individuals to become more proactive.

Wonders: are we getting the forks back?

Tanzi: no they’re confiscated. Once they get food on it, you can’t recycle them anymore

Ong: I want to let you know I’m working with lobby corps right now and seeing if we can do zipcar to something contract, and I’ll reach out to you and let you know

Evans: please do not steal more silverware

Bottoms: do they get reimbursed?

Tanzi: no

Bottoms: we’ll talk. We can work on that.

b. Creative mediaPeter: programmerKimmy: marketing

JJ: In case you guys didn’t know, creative media is made of three subsets: marketing, programming, graphics… one of the visions is to unify all the units in USUCD. As you know we have many units, and we’ve noticed that each unit has been an individual rather than representing ASUCD as a whole and the other way as well.

Kimmy: we talked to the streets and surveyed students one on one about what they think of when ASUCD. These were some of the things the people said. Government, senate, exec…doesn’t know about Unitrans….

So basically what marketing does is we satisfy two needs for this. Graphics and programming team have really good work but they also take on marketing responsibilities. And it lags efficiency. So we talk to you guys about what you guys want and then we streamline it to the programming and graphics. So we will satisfy two needs: help unify ASUCD in general, and streamlining the process by distilling the work

at a more efficient pace to programming and graphics. So our vision is to make ASUCD recognizable to students even when they’re not on campus. We figured ASUCD needs a slogan. We took it to the students and let the students decide. We gave them many, many options and half of them went with ASUCD for aggies, by aggies. On a larger scale, our vision is to have that logo with every single poster you see in the MU, Coho, dorms…it should be represented everywhere on campus because we supply resources. We will make it so that everyone comes back right here if they need something.

Graphics: aggie 5k. We only had 2 weeks. So we did a tally for about twenty two hours to turn around the campaign….I brought a book for the chancellor. So she has a bunch of distinguish speakers and we’ve documented these speeches and it’s given. Only 50 copies have been made.

Kimmy: it seems that lots of units are dissociated with the units itself. We realize there’s so much we can do in general to get feedback from the students. So we’ll continue doing surveys from before and hoping get students get more involved and in general reach more students.

We’re also trying to unify all the units within ASUCD. For example, we want monthly newsletters. Be able to inform each other about what each unit have to offer. So we can encourage more unity and relationships

Graphics: we made some copies of the annual report. Collected all the data revenue and highlighted the strengths of every unit. The top right, there is whole earth festival, and this hasn’t been put up yet, but we created a final banner to represent ASCUD to put into the MU. We’ve been working on that forever. Here’s a close-up. For elections…showed a picture. We created some T-shirts that were given out. And a lot of times units come to us asking us to promote their causes and events and I heard a lot of details about this but I feel like these are far more approachable compared to a times new roman word document. And not only that though, we also work on website interfaces and we work closely with the programming side…and this is extremely clean and minimal. It makes us stand out. Janice worked on this for their new website. So just getting word out about our unit in a much more energetic way. Right now we’re working on an aggie mobile app

Programming guy: a professor and a group of students run it and whenever something breaks down, they email us. So to make it easier for everyone, we’ll do these ourselves. This would be a good way to find course listings….and we also have a KDVS stream. The 12 of you out there, there’s an app for you right there. This is how we visualize our home page….and as well as be able to find them rather quickly to find your current location. And most importantly with Unitrans, it'll tell you nearest bus stop and which line to take. Also we’re working on Aggie traditions. Initially it was a book concept, and

we created an app for the alumni center. Idea is that it’s a nice app especially from the graphics stand point. Yeah so this is actually on the app store right now. If you look at Gunrock. You can take pictures and stalk the UC Davis experience.

What happens when you complete all the traditions?

I heard you get a medallion.

Elections…..I was hoping a lot of people voted through his system. We saw a large increase in people who voted. So this is how it looks on a normal computer screen.

JJ: peter and kim are pretty modest. Creative media has the greatest graphics and programming team. And we’re a unit in ASUCD. And it’s our job to make sure other units look good too. Graphics and programming team get poured with jobs and having marketing there it really ties it together and organizes it so that everything has a fast turn out. We’re also trying to further expand our offerings to everything. Communication and affairs office and further promoting through press releases so it extends into Davis community. Fall quarter, everyone will have the mobile app that we’re going to have and we’ll see something everywhere.

Bottoms: thank you.

Figueroa: for the mobile app, will it be available both ios and android

Programming guy: focusing on ios but will have it for android

Figueroa: first presentation in a while where we feel school spirited. I really want to thank you for this uplifting presentation

Burke: are you guys working with Unitrans and incorporating their busses into your app?

Programming guy: so if the bus is behind they’ll actually notify you.

Burke: that’s fantastic. I really like the presentation. I wonder if creative media did that for them, and then I saw the agenda and felt real stupid

Nonga: how effective have your online surveys be as far as yielding responses

Kimmy: 400 responses in a week or two. Email blasts, Facebook page, twitter. If we had more time, it’s hard to say how much feedback.

JJ: It essentially came from two days and one email blast.

Nonga: what kind of strategies are you using as far as your marketing?

On long term, we're….each quarter we’ll do research to gage and evaluate each event so we can amend and improve events each year. And then other than that we’re also doing internal unifying by releasing newsletters. So everyone can see we’re doing something every week.

JJ: also tightening communication between unit directors.

Nonga: as far as reaching out to the larger student community?

Online media through talking and evaluations through each unit. More promotions that reach out to a bigger audience.

Xiong: motion to extend time for 10 minutes

Xiong: question already have been answered but I was also wondering for aggie traditions do you have community specific graduations

Bottoms: we’re working with the alumni student association about that. I’m not sure if cultural days are on that either

Sagala: were there any talk about prioritizing about more underrepresented units like restore and pantry.

Creative media: Actually we have talked to them and talked to the PR and publicist and they actually mentioned stores like that. We’re going to sit down and plan how we can further report them.

Sagala: how’d you do the one on one survey?

Creative Media: We just went out to the quad and had a form and everything and got a wide variety and range of students

Sagala: what were the other slogans?

Creative Media: The survey’s still out there. Go take the survey.

c. The AggieThe double homicide was great practice for breaking news. Fair warning, I’m predicting a deficit for next year. If you know we project making money, and every year, we don’t really make money. So I’m really working on a realistic budget. We’ve done a lot of layoffs our salary costs are going to 65 to 35. And we are bringing a position back from 3 years ago. Managing media….otherwise, media board met a few times and a new editor in chief. Elizabeth. You may know her from the aggie and her column every Thursday. She’s been the arts editor. If you have any questions for either of us, thank you.

Bottoms: how’d you determine Thursday as the release day?

Janelle: we’re doing a double drop now. We drop on Thursdays and on Mondays.

Bottoms: people think at the end of the week it’s a bit old so they don’t read the whole thing

Nonga: how aggressively are you marketing the online site and some people might not know the transition?

Janelle: if you look at the Aggie we advertise it. Also we have it on twitter and Facebook and tumblr and so on.

d. AGGIE REUSEKristie: our entire store is supplied by donations, and our goal is to establish a constant donation source. Student housing. Students can drop off their stuff and someone from facilities will donate it to us every month. We’ve also established with the MU lost and found. They supply a lot of stuff for us. We try to have donation drives twice a month, but in total since Dec we’ve diverted 642 pounds from the landfill. For sales and customer traffic. We’ve exceeded sales by 1800 dollars. We’re at 4900 right now. We make 20-30 a day and we’re only opened 3 hours and everything in our store is like a penny. Now we’re keeping track of traffic and average 40-50 people a day. Hopefully in the future we can extend our hours. That’s the biggest issue. We’ve participated in something festival. We’ve also worked with Camille and we’ve collaborated and worked with Girl Scout troop and taught them sustainability. We worked with education…..they got a tour of our store. Health and wellness fair. Another craft thing ad something we’ve been doing since last year was worked with sustainability class. Students create a display to emphasize sustainability more. We also participated in earth day and we stayed open longer for picnic day. Made $80 which is pretty good for us. Whole Earth festival is tomorrow and we’re planning to table there as well. We hope to add three more positions. Two co-store managers. Hopefully extend hours from 11-4. And add a summer store manager position to keep store open. Student consignment a bit more. If they want to make something, they can sell it to the store. They keep 80% of the sale.

Also I had an idea to showcase student work and it can function as a mini-museum. Also contacted creative display and …. And I think that’s it.

Bottoms: can you go over your new storage space?

Kristie: We moved into 23 lower freeborn. We did have to downsize quite a bit. Me and Melanie moved everything ourselves. Limiting what we take in now but it’s working really well, it’s functioning. It’s a little cluttered but it’s going okay

Sagala: I know I’ve met with the bike barn and I know there’s a lot of talk about Aggie Restore relocating.

Kristie: That’s one of my biggest concerns. I thought we would get the entire old space, but that may not be a possibility but ideally we like to stay in the MU and we want to appeal to everyone. The idea of moving out to the silo was to appeal to the craft center people but they’ll come with us anyway

Bottoms: we’re still working that out. Thinking about giving them more space but they’ll get a lot of loft case so their storage would be ….

e. REFRIDGERATOR SERVICESshare warehouse space with Cal aggie camp. For the most part this unit is doing well financially. Some line items that are over drafted. 24000 expenses. We’ve saved some 5000 from being spent. Subsidy much higher than projected in budget. Any questions?

Evans: what’s your plan to build out a comprehensive one?

We have a count, but not for each individual model. I don’t really see the point for each of the models because they’re exactly the same. There’s not much difference.

Evans: Do you have an exact replacement time frame for each fridge?

No. But if you’re requesting time…I have inventory for that. How do we seem to replace each unit….but it seems like something we need to work on?

Cano: so refrigerator magnets to advertise ASUCD. What are your plans on the bill to happen?

If a new unit director is interested, I can advise him on that.

Thomas: thank you for coming out here.

Eddie: if the money is never spent, is there a need for another senate bill.

Senator: Current practice is yes.

Bottoms: thank you so much for coming Eddie.

V. Committee ReportsScholarship committee is reviewing applicants now. We’re going to be picking our applicants to interview and will interview in the next two weeks. May 30 th Thursday in Griffin Lounge Champaign Award

Thomas: URSAC was this Tuesday and we talked about a lot of things. Defer to Kappes

Kappes: remodeling the third floor. Long discussion about how much space creative media should take up. Someone wants a room. Courts would have a room with elections committee. Lot of units talking about space

Thomas: you see these two pillars right there, they’ll be in the middle of a giant open space….for people to hang out……

Evans: great space for social aspects and group aspects where this might be a creative media space. This pillar can’t be moved. It’s structural

Thomas: move lots of units to third floor. Put the equivalent of neon signs on every door and we can actually decorate the third floor now. Super accessible

Figueroa: didn’t go to ROCC. They’re considering looking at divestment…something about letter of support. Idk if they discussed it this past week. Also there’s going to be a unity ball and there’s going to be more info on that. ASUCD formal kinda maybe? Or not

Bottoms: I forgot two things. I said I’m the chair of the student city lays commission. Working on renter's rights. Apparently the committee used to exist and they did nothing. Working on 20/20 initiative and making international students more accessible to downtown. Second: Unitrans advisory committee talked about all the new bus lines and they’re all approved. We have to get it approved by the city as well.

Wonders: some of the night lines are expanding…#yoloswag

Evans: hiring today. Talking about direction we’re going. More as we have developments but until that we’re still in the planning phase. I can fully brief you later, girl.

Cano: I was chair over the committee and we did do stuff. And I can brief you on what we did if you email me.

VI. PresentationsVII. Public announcements

Ong: experimental college is going to be tie dying tanks at whole earth and will sell them as a fundraiser. They’re tabling this week at the quad, feel free to stop by. On the 30 th or 31st they will have a concert to publicize their delta V fundraiser

Han: ASUCD formal is coming up. All the info is here.

Bottoms: please don’t post that because it’s unofficial

Sahota: ASUCD the pantry was awarded with an outstanding community service award today.

Figueroa: so AB-540 AWAREness week. Be more aware of this community and there is a game night and better life movie screening. And the people organizing and sharing. This event may 14th -17th diff locations

This Friday with a craft at noon. And also it goes until next Friday. Lots of stuff and there’s a Facebook event called reproductive justice event.

Thomas: Davis is recognized as the #1 agricultural school in the world

Bottoms: our office is working on a new aggies traditions. Ride a Unitrans bus. Candy bus like cash cab. Come talk to our office if you’re interested. Davis neighbor night out. It’s very open and gets to know your neighbors and stuff like that

Karahn: There’s a meeting tis Saturday from noon to four. I sent an email to the senate. You don’t have to be there the entire time, but I’ll appreciate if senators will come to the event. Speakers. Adam. They will do the lobby training portion and we can talk about the bill package so kinda get an idea of the different

VIII. Status of Legislation Previously Passed

It all passed

IX. Introduction of New LegislationFirst one is authored and introduced by Thomas. Incorporate a consent agenda. To IAC. A consent agenda means you can put noncontroversial bill on the agenda with one motion.

For example if there’s 30 lobby corps, they can put it in one and pass it together.

Condemn UC campus wide smoking thing. Goes to epic.

Kappes, Tran, kappes. Allocate 3000 to purchase video cameras to tipsy taxi

X. Consideration of Old Legislationa. CA #34 McManusb. SB #90 Canoc. SB #92 Kasiwald. SB #93 Canoe. SB #94 Sagala

Authors comments: it was re-referred to BnF after a lengthy discussion last Thursday. Under the impression to reanalyze the bill after the reduced amount. It was a lot of discussion that didn’t pertain to the bill but something we expect to have during budget hearings. But in the context of this bill I can give you the breakdown of the $1300 and I have a lot of extra information that I tried to collect in less than 24 hours. I found a cool something from 2003. These are some discussions that don’t exactly pertain to the nature of the bill. With that said, I’m open to any questions

BnF: as re-referred back to BnF for very specific questions. First of all, Cal aggie camp and the …. Under those we voted in favor. If you want I can elaborate further but I want to keep my comments short.

Diaz-Ordaz: same as last week.

Question in Text

Public discussion

Schaeffer: BnF discussion was really complicated. So the reason why I didn’t want to say it was because it’s really complex. So I’ll try to do as much. BnF wanted this to pass. But the question is we don’t hand out money to random students. Rather students come to us. How do you demonstrate need? The way you do is simple. You say you’re spending…..black grad came in with very specific numbers. Last year’s budget or in terms of quotes. And then you bring the numbers to BnF. And you have to show that you’re bringing in money. Some people on BnF didn’t feel like they have the numbers. The problem with these numbers is they’re not quotes or historical. Additionally there’s no mention of how much income is brought in. BnF want to see those numbers because in order to show need. The problem is they weren’t informed they needed this info. So the question is should we punish this generation for miscommunication from last

generation to this generation. Budget hearings to make sure this problem won’t happen again.

Wonders: would you like to reference SB 89

Nonga: deferred

Schaeffer: reading of SB 89. Senate reserves should not be used….annual budget……this was over a larger debate.

Nonga: I thought the reason was for the actuals and

Schaeffer: I think I should point out that and this is extremely disappointing to me. Can someone please explain it to me? 3 of the people in affirmation spoke to me said they voted the wrong way……there are many commissioners who disagree with me.

Nonga: I really thought that’s why. Do we need to spell out every single thing you need to look at? Can you do your job ad think holistically? And if senate didn’t’ say it then that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take it into consideration

Sagala: questions about telling the quote for the line items. A lot of things they haven’t purchased it yet. There are so many issues. And we had a long discussion with the planning committees and they’re going to have…the only reason they came up is because SB 89 was supposed to give them enough money. Which is why we’re back here. And I thought the re-referring….was to confirm….I feel an anxiety in presenting numbers….why did the budget go from 1900 to 1700 because smaller audience. It’s such a minute amount that I feel it’s unnecessary….it’s just the general idea that you’re giving an average of $180….

Burke: so what’s admin giving?

Sagala: the $3800 admin will give, but this money no

Sagala: students were going forward with the process …. Not under the impression…..admin stepped in with the 3800, and the 1300 is the last piece of the puzzle

Krissy: does anyone want a deferment? Well okay um going off what Alyson said. It’s difficult to get actual numbers. For Fil grad we haven’t gotten the invoice from freeborn hall, but we have estimates from last years. Our budgets are created on actual numbers because we’ve been doing it for almost 25 years. I think it’s safe to say we do know what we’re doing and we do budget them off historical amounts. And I do apologize

that these numbers weren’t given to budgets beforehand. One point I do want to make as you start going into budget hearings is you all work a lot closer with admin than we do. Please encourage them to have a greater role in supporting these graduations. And I do encourage creating 8 separate line items for these graduations because they only go to the CCC AND LR and we have to fill out applications. That’s why last year lavender grad didn’t want to ask for that money. Because why should we have to apply another grant and we have to apply to get the money back. I highly recommend creating 8 separate line items that go into the departments…

Bottoms: I just wanted to clarify that we haven’t done it separately because we didn’t want to politicalize it. We heard recently that it’d be nice if it were under something else. We’re talking about making it under student affairs. And our proposed budget under one lump under student affairs rather than CCC

Schaeffer: historical ….. Right now we’re looking at funding all the grad. What used to happen is that every single event had to write its own for money. One spending bill to one event. So historical precedence shifted with Jared’s bill. I just wanted to clarify that history. As with your specific proposal, I totally understand. It will increase the politicalized process. Is it proportional to how many people walk……increase money to club finance? Senate can force them to do so….and puts it in the hand over administration……

Evans: ……

Schaeffer: senate can overrule that decision because we give them your money

Krissy: to address your concern about politicizing it even more, well first of all if we spate the line items then each one would have to debate separately. That won’t happen if it were a grant and we had the appropriate money based on ….

Evans: there’s always a scarcity of funds

Sagala: we’re saying that we don’t want to politicize the process before but if you want each individual budget, then you’re already trying to access each individual one. There’s not enough money, but I understand. 4000 for 8 separate events is outrageous. We need to support other things over others. Grants are part of our budget and it’s just as much part of our budget. MOU is that we would fund cultural events.

Schaefer: point of clarification it’s under cultural days…

Sagala: these are conversations during budget hearings.

Krissy: damn no one wants my deferments

Evans: 3270 left. If a 1300 were to pass, we’d have 1097?? left which is a dangerous amount to be toying with. I think we need to be careful with what we’re doing with our senate reserves especially given past notes....part of the concern I’m having as well is that it looks like the total costs of these graduations is really, really high. I don’t know where the rest of the money is coming from if it’s not ASUCD

Sagala: the issue is where we’re getting other funding. Its cause not everything is confirmed. This is very rough. And this is the list of org they get grants. Income vs. expenses and that we are filling that gap. But in the meantime as far as proving thatthey need 100 for….

Evans: I don’t want to see receipts or whatever I just want to see the difference. But I don’t see that. If we’d close the gap or what not

Wonders: I want to clarify with Alyson. I heard 1910?

Sagala: a lot of people contested to that amount and wanted it to be more. The need that was assessed with Steven and other reps was 5100 and we were able to procure 3800 and this is just the difference

Wonders: I feel frustrated and screwed over. I didn’t get what I was looking for. 1900 is a little.

Sagala: I don’t want people bashing BnF about this. Miscommunication. Having this much info seems unrealistic in my personal opinion. 1900 something about 2500 excess. The general impression is that our job is to make sure BnF guards senate reserves. But its’ really to be spent on senate projects. Because we choose to support this event. I don’t believe that 1900. Especially with what happened at Cal aggie camp. I don’t see why you want to vote no on that reason alone.

Wonders: I was more referring about the voting one way when they meant another

Schaeffer: I want to reiterate that. I appreciate the defense but specifically that I think BnF failed and I apologize for that. Even if they did know in advance, which they didn’t. the way they fund it is really complex. Each separate one has a separate planning committee. This is why ach separate one had a separate bill. One grad, one bill. I want to move this debate forward. I don’t think that it has been proven that this money is needed. It could be needed but hasn’t’. they have to go through complicated process to get those numbers and we won’t get them this meeting. If you want to go on a leap

then go for it but if you’re uncomfortable with it then vote no

Evans: is it safe to do bad finance today?

Schaeffer: I think it’s a mistake on their part. Some of my commissioners disagree with me. So it’s my opinion versus some of my other commissioners.

Evans: it sounds like if we had more time we wouldn’t be in this messy situation

King: I see a lot of new faces. I’m the cochair for black grad 2013. I want to address a few things. I keep hearing that the grads before had separate bills so you dealt with people individually. I understand that but I thought this would be easier because everyone knows this is something we all put on. And came in a compromise and put something before you. We all believe in this and put effort. We were very forthright with you all. You don’t even put that kind of consideration and I find that a little offensive. But even if we did do it separately we’ll be asking for the same amount of money so either way you’d still have 1900 in your reserves. It doesn’t matter if you give it to us in a group or if you negotiate it with us one on one. What you’re asking for is something you want to look at, I could give it to you right now but I want to emphasize this isn’t unique to us. Tis somewhat rep of what the other grads are going for. Also we have…….I hope this budget is good enough to give the graduations enough money. We’re all getting 150 each. It’s plain and simple. Money is needed and my grad is coming up. This isn’t purely selfish because I made some awesome third and second years and I don’t want them dong this either. They’re my babies I want to take care for them. If you want I have them right here.

Watson: so first I’m going to let Alyson speak on a deferment

Sagala: This is all the info I could get in less than 24 hours. I tried my best. Thank you for everyone. This again is very tentative. Half of them are 2013 and half 2012. I don’t have lavender grads. The mismatch of information is nice because…it’s very incomplete because of all the work that goes in throughout the year. I hope this satisfies some of your questions. Lesson learned that I am a very trusting person. That’s why I need people like Ryan and Evans.

Kriti: referencing student color conference is not an okay reference. I only had 2 line items so just pointing out it’s not a fair comparison to make and let’s not make it again

These people came and asked for this thing, why can’t you give those people that thing.Public: those conferences usually have a set cap but for ethnic grad it varies every year and so we can’t get an exact quote. We can use past data, cause it’s kind of consistent. But exact quotes are extremely difficult. Keep in mind if we give you the quotes of

things we need with the funding…….

Mariah: that’s a delegation that you’re sending. You don’t really pay for this to that extent. Stop bringing up Soc. It’s supposed to be factual.

Figueroa: I will divide the house in a bit. I don’t understand and I don’t hear opposition that makes sense. Not to be malicious, but around 2000 is inefficient to have for the next four weeks. Me and a random blonde person think it’s enough to sustain for four weeks. Just don’t buy a tent or stickers.

Evans: in the past four years, we’ve never dropped under 2000.

Figueroa: okay well we can do it. I understand BnF goes under this in scrutiny. The scrutiny was already given last year during budget hearings and this year and every year. The only time we had all the numbers was when the conference was literally 5 hours away, which is why we have all the numbers. Just invest yourself.

Wonders: we want some detailed specifics, and then when that’s asked for is that well we can’t get that it’s too difficult you need to trust us. And also in the past we don’t need to do that. In most/all circumstances it’s expected they bring a detail expense report. I don’t think it’s an excuse that’s its difficult. I’m not a particularly trusting person but financially I don’t think it’s responsible.

Figueroa: we can provide the numbers, but its really convoluted

Topf: just a reason why I’m abstaining is because it comes up always this time of the year

Sagala: I think the biggest issue is why quotes aren’t accurate or why it’s late. It’s an event that happens at the end of the year that changes throughout the year. We can’t change that. The events are the way they are and are all inclusive. There’s a lot of criticism why can’t it have this perfect quote because the budget is evolving constantly. We’re not asking you to pay or all that. When is the need realized? We realize that over time and our fundraising didn’t do as well as expected. If the sufficient amount is given during budget hearings, then this wouldn’t be an issue. SB89. Only 4000 which is way, way not enough. And it was something I tried to avoid, but it didn’t work out as planned.

Topf: so you know the budget is always changing for these events. I’m just trying to see why this is always happening. How do we know what’s sufficient then.

Sagala: there have been a general movement that’s let’s start auditing all the grants.

But that’s something that previous year’s controller never got around doing. We need to sit down and look at the actual numbers and we can with cooperation and I think previous proponents was what is compromise? If I wanna find that compromise, I am willing to sit down to access the need that should be in the budget so this won’t happen again. If you look at it ….. then there would be no room for complaints if ASUCD gave 10000 like in 2012.

Evans: we were able to look at reserve balances and allocated reserves from nonfunctional ….it was such a circumstantial…..departmental funding started coming through….work with CFC….

Kapir: this is the third time I’ve seen this happen. And it really saddens me that this is what’s dividing ASUCD every year. There are a lot more issues we could be addressing. I don’t relay understand the people who are voting no.

Ong: as I mentioned last week, if we have 5000 then of course I’d be open to this. We don’t know when tipsy taxi….

Kapur: we have 4 weeks left

Schaeffer: we’d be leaving 1900 we have 3300.

Kapur: I like people to get on the list and explain their no on this.

Diaz-Ordaz: I agree with the previous speaker. I’ve heard this for years….former senator Darwin, Rebecca… They all used them. I don’t know I feel like it’s just a tactic of derailment. I don’t see this as valid

Wonders: I guess you can put me on this list

Public: so if the historical amount in the reserves is 2000 then would it help if I say ill fundraise 100 so you don't have to worry about being historically weird or whatever

Diaz-Ordaz: it’s just so taxing on students…….

Wonders: I think the logic behind voting no on this bill is really sound. It’s just a recurring argument between ASUCD. I feel uncomfortable voting yes because specific funding for this bill has not been provided and cannot be provided. There are plans of actions that can be taken account for this…and it’s just irresponsible and it sounds mean but it’s just financially unresponsible

Nonga: accurate numbers cannot be given. You won’t get them. You can get them after the grad, so basically you accept to fund it or you don’t accept to fund it. That’s basically it. Cause you won’t get the numbers. It’s either you fund them or not

Wonders: I don’t think we need a to-the-cent value, but they aren’t even remotely accurate. Put an extra line time, like people signed up late.

Schaeffer: that’s fantastic information. Right now you have 5-10 minutes to look at it behind the senate table. Those numbers need to compare it to this numbers.

Kapur: BnF didn’t have any of these?!?

Sagala: …you’re giving each of them an average of 150. Budget hearings….after the events we’d have exact receipts and we’d be able to access it later….and that’s something we need to talk to this about with admin. People don’t think it’s a priority for ASUCD and should be as important as our units

Figueroa: the most irresponsible thing is that they only used 1000 and we get that money back. That’s like the worst case scenario. And these students are so empowered by walking on stage. The downside…..rather than it just sitting in our budget waiting to see if we need to spend it. Trust me, it’s not financially responsible. If this money, if we were given an inaccurate that doesn’t mean we’re irresponsible.

Kapur: please explain your no vote

Burke: Only one ….the tents not relevant and also came from capital reserves? That’s what’s going to solve the great divide. Talking to administration. As far as this stands, I’m not sold on it

Steve: Hello everyone, I’m Steve. So I’ve been here since 7 and four hours. This talk of money and politics is kinda confusing but I’m sure you all do so I’ll leave it at that. I want to let you know how big these ethnic graduations are these. These are students who are the first in their families who graduate from college. It’s a huge achievement. And this ethnic and lavender graduation is the time for us to have the people we want to be there be there for us and recognize all the struggles we’ve been through from UC Davis. I’m fighting for that. To have that during my graduation next year.

Public: my thing is why are we doing now when it is an annual event? Tbh I wasn’t appointed this position until this winter and we had a new advisor. So that takes time and a minute before we need to figure out. The only thing we need to figure out is entertainment. I take offense to that when you say that we’re financially irresponsible. On top of that I’m still dealing with this as a student too. I’m

______ a bunch of stuff. Anyway I have a lot of hats on campus and I’m busting my ass to make this shit work. I’d really appreciate it if you sympathize with me for a second. I’m only asking for $150 because we did put. 150 would go to option a and c which means there will be money left over. And I’ll be sure to let you know…and I’ll send you like the $10 back. And also black grad. I did receive an email….went into spam….there were communication errors, but we still managed to put something together in front of you

Thomas: first of all I’d like to thank you for the story you shared but I’d like to say that this isn’t effective. We won’t win the no votes with emotional appeal. We can pass this by convincing them that this is better than not doing there. We also need to suspend the bylaws before we pass this bill. Blackgrad gave us quotes, and I was very satisfied. I would like to propose it to give all this to black grad and have them distribute it to the other grads.

Steve: I have a slight problem with that because we did this budget in solidarity with the other grads. I want all of this to go, or none of it. I know these people, and I know they have worked hard. I have full confidence that they have done their work also.

Cano: cool so um while I like these discussions, it’s gone to a different direction. It’s not productive. Let’s talk about the history of this bill. It’s been introduced with 5100. And then 3800 were covered by admin. Last week, no one objects the merits of the bill. And part of ASUCD wanted to help. And the executives and Alyson winded up getting the 3800…..those budgets are really detailed. As far as the dangerously low thing, we have 8000 we have just floating around that we can inject into our reserves. Technically we have 11000 we can be playing around with.

Schaeffer: I do want to clarify what kabir brought up. First of all, no one is saying that anyone is financially unresponsible. It’s demonstrating need. Its’ a procedural argument….you either find it persuasive, or you don’t……..these are arguments are old. What that goes to demonstrate is that we’ve been backed up behind this deadline. I as a person this bill should pass. The bill should be called into question.

Krissy: so as I have introduced myself before, I’m part of the retention recruitment committee. We offer grants. I know how to look at a grant or budget. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for specific quotes and budgets. And it’s within your right in having been provided those grants. But I think we’ve demonstrated the need. Look on the last page…..we hoped to get them from participation fees….there is obviously a need for $150. I really don’t know how else to convince you. It’s really logically presented now at this point and although I apologize it wasn’t presented earlier. And that’s all I can say. What else do you need from these numbers? But it speaks for itself and there clearly shows a need for the funding. That barely pays for freeborn. We’re not asking that

much

Nonga: so basically there’s 3 arguments against this bill. BnF didn’t get accurate numbers/accurate enough. Even if they were more specific the numbers are changing and it wouldn’t be a final amount. There’s a worry that we’re funding too much in these graduations, and the money will come back. Number three is senate reserves and that is the only one that I kind of agree. Personally I believe that we do have enough money. Because if it’s an unforeseen expense then it’s unforeseen. If we were to go under red, do we have any way to address that?

Evans: to address the senate reserves going under red. The way we can cover that is to overdraft a unit and cover that through capital reserves. That’s like a last stop check that’s in place for only of the most dire emergencies. That’s really what we should be using this fund for. These Cal aggie style changes…..there aren’t options to deal with that without diving into murky waters

Krissy: want to express the urgency of this bill. If this bill isn’t passed, I don’t know how to get this $150. I really think you should pass it

Nonga: I went down the list of everything I heard. Anything else? I want to hear someone say why they’re voting no.

Ong: I’m really glad these budgets came to us. I don’t understand the need for this and the numbers don’t really match up. I was told I could read it hold on…..

Nonga: just to reiterate once again, any extra money would be returned into senate reserves. Whether it works out or not, we’ll get our money back. If it doesn’t then the concern is that we won’t have enough money in senate reserves

Sagala: ….your wording that really differently than what I heard. I believe Carly was told the number changed….because in fundraise…he believed the assessment of 5100 is accurate….we can’t keep referring back and forth. Admin also doesn’t ask us for a quote. We need to stop quoting admin...I think that last week 5100 is too much but now it won’t go into the red. You’re lying about the merits of the events. That is the wrong ideology and it should be just as much of a priority

Matton: a lot of points…..if you want to convince the table that some of the arguments that we should be addressing are the ones that SOMEONE brought up. Personally, I believe the bill should pass. But as a commissioner, I think it’s like why didn’t it go through the correct process. …. In order to convince them that the process doesn’t matter, because the numbers are here. We need to convince them to show them that

even though BnF haven’t seen them, they are here today. And that’s exactly what needs to happen

Kapur: last year Jared did bring a bill earlier because people criticize the numbers because it was too early in the year. This is a lose-lose situation. Year after year

Sagala: as of right now, doesn’t matter what numbers. We’re not concerned where it’s going. For me it’s what’s left over in senate reserves. Some people think it’s okay and some people think it’s not. And I think that’s what it comes down to. And before I yield…wait it’s not even my floor

Kabir: not having enough in senate reserves….we have at least that much left over…but historically it seems like they’ve always been enough

Thomas: is anyone good at math? 45x12. That’s put that money in stipend in the reserves.

Nonga: what’s the lowest we’ve had with 4 weeks left? If it’s an unforeseen expense how do we know what’s enough. You don’t know what’s a good amount.

Schaeffer: I think that 2000 is more than sufficient. Additionally, if a huge crisis happens, surgio is correct. We have an over enrollment fund. We have $8000. If there’s an emergency, then we can use that money.

Evans: I want see that money in senate reserves

Kabir: he doesn’t want to put it in. it’s for emergencies.

Lewis: okay so if enough money was allocated in the budget in these grads then it won’t be happening every year/ so please allocate enough money. ASUCD has been inflexible before and please don’t make another mistake. And lastly, cgrad is asking for 100 for you and last year we granted 120 for a fucking logo. Can we talk about how ridiculous that is?

Schaeffer: this is an email from Mark Champagne. Read a direct quote. “there is indeed around 1200 that ASUCD is using annually…………”

Katie: I have a question for those who said no. 1. Can you repeat your role in ASUCD? 2. What would you use with the 1300 in the next two weeks if you won’t spend it on students?

Schaeffer: what we would do with that money. That’s the point of the emergency fun.

Topf: I think the thing is unforeseen…in an email...

Sahota: we don’t actually know. It’s not set in stone. It’s like with the admin. We shouldn’t rely on other people’s money. For that reason, even at the end of the year if there’s leftover money. Just because something in the past. My role is to represent the students and my role is to represent each and every one of you. I know it’s not adequate; however, I really want to work on next year’s budget hearings.

Diaz-Ordaz: I think there’s a huge misunderstanding and….I think this arbitrary idea “omg I’m so scared” and I mean even if we did who cares we’re spending it on students. If it were up to me, I would spend it on the students and senate reserves would have 0 every year.

Katie: I respect that yall speaking as the devil’s advocate and such don’t let fear of the unknown dictate your decisions. Sure they aren’t completely delineated but the intentions are clear and it’s there. 600 students x all their families would be impacted.

Sagala: shows the numbers on the board. I did my research and I took my time to sit down with Kathy. I have to hear things myself from the horse’s mouth. I asked her to open up the budget from the over enrollment fund. 573000 and 639000 leaving us with 66000. Unused line items is 19000. 66+19=

Evans: it’s based on the percentage of income to subsidy?

Sagala: 66+10=~85-(100)=(-15)+ 22000= ~8000 surplusthis aside the argument comes down to we’re trying to hide behind the excuse we need enough money in the senate reserves. We’re hiding behind excuses.

Cano: we’ve never went to zero and it’ll never go to zero

Evans: I don’t feel anything just yet. This has to load

Mariah: I keep hearing no. we’ve proven we’ve had enough money. Just please just say no. We’re disproving your arguments every single time

Eric: looking at the last four years, we close around 2000 every single year. So yeah we do have money we don’t spend every year and it’s just a cushion.

Mariah: this is students we’re spending money on. 25 years of graduation. This isn’t random this is something students need and ask for and we keep talking about unexpected changes. They function as a unit and have unforeseen funding too.

Wonders: we are already funding $4000 to this cause. This is an additional 1300.

Sagala: this is an outrageous amount to give to 8 events.

Thomas: ASUCD is bigger than ethnic grads. The senates voting no….I urge to ask everyone’s whose voting no to take a leap of faith with me. It’s not a big leap it’s like jumping off the curb. Please find some pragmatism in your heart.

Nonga: can you divide the house first

Kabir: logic is supposed to prevail but let’s try again. You have 2000 left after this happens. Right now it’s at 3297. Tomorrow something happens. Mark Champagne explained it. It’s pure logic. If you’re hiding behind this concern then you just don’t want the money to go there

Schaeffer: I’m sick of playing devil’s advocate. Now being that said. Here’s an argument we’re running a deficit. Senators may be concerned about the future.

Thomas: motion to public

Lewis: guess how much they pay. Its $1260. Guess how much this bill is asking for but for 500 students

Smith: first off all I’m helluh drunk. That’s the only way I can return to this room. This is the third fucking year I’ve been here. And it’s so demeaning. As a Filipino person in a Filipino body. I’m mad about this. Yall don’t get it. Because you haven’t experienced the experiences that we experiences. How many of you guys who have voted no attended an event. Nobody no fucking body. And you wanna know what. I passed this bill for 10,000. This year is 1000. Fucking chump change. This means elections next year we can say you all are white supremist racist. I would say you all suck my dick but you can’t suck my dick cause to suck my dick is an honor and a privilege.

Xiong: honestly I can say a lot more shit but you all are so stubborn and yall were like we support this. But when it comes down to it, it still comes down to the merit. You all fucking fail as senators. I’m so mad. I will be going home. So that’s it

Public: I would like for all of you look at me into my beautiful brown eyes that graduated across the stage 2 years ago. I watched my sister get the community award. I said I’m

going to cross that stage. I was like a little Chicana fucking…not a lot of money. I crossed that stage because my sister did it. What am I going to tell them next year? I’m sorry your student reps won’t give you money for this. It’s only 1000 money. But they refuse to make this statement…….all those angry brown kids are going to come after you because you won’t give them the chump change. And I’m going home. I wasted my time coming here because I have to work a real job. Lemme tell you I’m part of the alumni association and I know all your names. I know what networking means. You guys won’t be on a good side

Xiong: Tupac hit em up listen to him later. I’m going to fuckin chill

Carla: hello. I’m a recent grad but I actually walked last year and didn’t walk the big grad…I’m also a transfer student and I just want to say how disappointment I am. I don’t want to make a huge shit show, even though I have a lot of jokes I could be busting right now. I really want to know that a lot of your brains work are not the way that our brains work. It’s important to think critically, but a lot of experiences we didn’t think critically. This celebration celebrates are souls…I had to work, I was the first to graduate. I had to come in front f you to beg you for money. And ultimately it’s my money….it’s sad that my community did not get $150. And I get it you need money. I get it. Hopefully that $2000 will go to really good use like a banner or something. If you could put the different communities you didn’t serve on the banner that’d be even better. I’m going to take the rest of my time to think about how fucked up this is.

Linda: I’m really sad that the bill didn’t get passed. But if it did get passed, we’d get $150. If you think about it each grad would get $150……..three participants can raise $150 and yall can’t raise that shit…..yall don’t support shit.

This is the second time I sat in this room talking about stuff I care about. You might hear one thing and it goes the other ear but I’m still going to say it. Believe me or not I was super excited to meet every one of you. I pbb got flyers from you even when I was pooing. I …… and I feel kind of betrayed. And for those who did vote yes then it shows that you do care. I’m just telling you for future references. Please think about it. If I see you at an ethnic grad, then imam so no there’s the door.

I think it’s a very specific group of people you had to cry…..

Lewis: I only have one thing to say. We will see you all at budget hearings. If you allocate the right amount to these grads, then this won’t happen every year. We’ll be there to watch

Figueroa: I fucking cried and I know some of you depict me as one of those chill Chicanos that don’t cry. But that brought me to tears. Those two fucking votes had no

logic behind them. ……. We don’t want to specifically…….. but two people just two fucking people they voted no have said I’m going to look into talking to Evans about the budget about ethnic grads and then you don’t even logically back up that no. because you had so much potential and just know my respect for you has died. I’m fucking leaving….I have a cat to fucking feed. This is bullshit. You brought a grown man to tears. Why can’t you admit you’re a fucking idiot? This is bullshit. I challenge you motherfucker to talk to me about it. Yall can’t so …..how are you going to get two more votes than I am? Ya’ll have never fucking…with a brown dick….

Lewis: I want to commend Alyson for all her hard work.

Watson: no I’m not gonna cry and I’m also not going to yell at you. I just hope that even though they are yelling and saying a lot of things that make me uncomfortable. I just hope you’re really listening even though it’s intense and aggressive but try to really listen. No matter how you voted, it’s done. If they see you in budget hearings, well good luck. They are telling you how marginalized they feel on campus….divest. all we talked about is how uncomfortable it made people feel. The students and how they felt was valued that it was killed in commission. Yes we are funding $4000 and we’re so thankful for it. But it’s not enough. $4000 isn’t really going to cut it. I really do want you to think about sometime in your own life when you want someone to listen to you and throw you a bone. I saw money. I don’t understand. Okay they brought you actuals…..wasn’t enough….we brought you it; it wasn’t enough. It won’t put you in the red…wasn’t enough? Let it sink in. let it penetrate. Not with a dick. But listen. So your personal story, oppression Olympics. You don’t know you haven’t been exposed to their experiences. Go and learn about it. It is warranted. And with that.

Figueroa: I want to apologize the language I used; that language not very cool. Vote penis not fucking cool. But I’m not running for president. Fuck this. This just shows people change at this table

Sagala: that’s my freshman that’s my intern. Everyone here has justified reasons to be angry, and we are all friends. And ….they took things under proportion. We hide behind excuse senate reserves won’t have enough money. Especially because we’ll only meet 3 more times, but what it comes down to is that you don’t believe that our money shouldn’t benefit just a small community of students. But its’ a large very active amount of students that care about what happens. A lot of them aren’t that active, and we provide for them through Unitrans, bike barn, Coho…..on principle ASUCD should be supportive of these events. ……

Mariah: oh this isn’t my community……I voted for Liam your platforms were dope. Despite your color I genuinely thought you cared.

Diaz-Ordaz: I like to think I’m pretty objective, but no I’m pretty biased but I think critically through my bias. I think this is all just a reflection of hahahhaha fine I won’t say it. This is kind of stupid. This is really. I was really upset last year that it went down to 1300. And we have 80 people begging for shit. Those are the standards……tedx here you go homies no problem. Why? Because most of the people on the event are white.

Smith: every fucking year that I’ve been here there has been money in senate reserves. You took a reserve to invest that money in student body. Not to let it dwindle n stent reserves. …… Imma make this face at yall. If you don’t find something better to spend this money on then yall failed. Congrats this money goes back to doing nothing period.

Norman: I’m not going to yell but I’m very mad. If you missed me last time it was unfortunate. Where do I even start it’s exhausting. I feel the pain for all. People of color pass down institutional knowledge; just because you weren’t here physically doesn’t mean you can’t do your research, you have the recorder’s notes so look at them (ie from past meetings and budget hearings); the pain I feel right now will be manifested into people who aren’t even in college yet

Eddie Truong: will this money be used? For students? Your job is to do well. It’s embarrassing when we run as a business more than worrying about students. Other schools. They don’t need to beg for his. Why do you value profit making over students’ lives? I’ll take my time to educate you. If you don’t have your phone number I can email you. I will educate you and tell you why I’m pissed off.

Norman: I just want to apologize. These are my babies. They’ve worked hard. It’s unsporting. I appreciate everyone’s who’s fighting this fight. I want to say we’ll figure this out. We’re a strong resilient community. We’ll thrive like no other with or without your support. The longer it takes; the uproar is going to be insane. 2000 Normans and a shitload of Alysons. We get it. Figure it out. My struggle is everywhere. We are everywhere. I’m gone. Who has a cigarette?

Krissy: so a lot of people have been talking about why we feel so marginalize. Up until the 1980s the KKKs exist on campus. Last year at SOC. These aren’t anyone’s fault in this room but this is why we feel so marginalized. It’s so hard to navigate a system. I took this from sorryweb? A UCD retention survey. For the API community only 93% returned for the second year. Only 87% of the American Indian and only 80% black returned for second year. They dwindled third year. Only 43 native and 26 black. Let me tell you some more recent numbers. The black 2percent………It totals to 61 and that’s more than half of the population. We don’t have safe spaces but we do create positive alumni. We need ASUCD to be supportive. What else can we do together and bring to budget hearings to allow you all to give the appropriate amount of funding?

Figueroa: for those of all who thought I lost credibility for o crying, I’m man enough to cry.

Lisa: I want you all to remember me and you’ll see me again budget hearings. I will do whatever I can so people don’t have to come next year to embarrass and beg money from you guys. I can’t believe you can’t give just $150. I can’t even believe I voted for some of you. You’re not doing your job. You’re not representing me. I don’t like to stand here and talk. Lemme tell you I’m shy. This took a lot. You will see me again and I don’t know why you’re apologizing. I am not going to stand here and apologize for anything. I believe that some of you are racist whenever it’s internalized. My younger sister, one of her schools is uc davis and I don’t want her to come. Student government doesn’t represent us. You still have a fucking excuse to not give us the money. Its $150. Most of the income comes from ourselves and registration fees. We paid over $8000 and you can’t give us $150. I bet you a lot of us didn’t go to the culture days. I feel like I’m wasting my time. And I really need my beauty sleep. And it’s hot and I’m sweating and oh hell no.

Trang: this is my first time speaking at senate meeting and it just reminds me why I don’t want to be here but now I want to be here. Just want to say thank you to those who did vote yes. I just want to recognize all yall help. And I want to validate all the emotions coming out. This is our way to get through to yall.

Francisco: I hope this touches you all. At least one person who identifies with one of those communities or lavender….I does care about the individuals graduating in a few months. I probably will cheer for you all too because I’m not a deceitful person. And we walk out with our head high and we’ll find the $1300. Thanks for not funding us

Cano: it’s been years since I see people cry. I mean two weeks ago at the meeting…it’s obviously not apparent what’s going on out there. Obviously there’s need for my position if there’s so many people here in front of you. What’s the need for my position? It’s important obviously. Common let’s move on. It’s not cool to have people cry in the public. I mean I hope you got something out of this. I really do

Public: I wonder seriously this is like my 6th time fighting this. But do you not have a heart because honestly have you ever fundraised for your own graduations? Everyone ever sit in the sun for 8 hours to that your graduation has money. I did that 3 times, not just for my own, but for others. Because I knew that the money wasn’t going to come from anywhere. We needed student government to solidify this money for us. The fact that at this point it’s’ not a common sense thing that we might as well pass this thing….to me that you’re not doing that, you’re stupid. You’re just really stupid. Whether or not people agree with bills that means they made the logical decision…..if you go out there….go out there and see how it feels to sell soda under the sun. I know a

lot of you don’t have the mind to make the vote of your own…you’re being manipulated. Take the smart route and support your students. I know you have the power to say something about it.

Robin: I’m really sick and tired but I’m here right now and I have a lot of thoughts. I can’t say it as eloquently as everyone else. I remember applying for college they want students who involved. And I am involved. Once you’re here you’re just another student, but I expected student government to pay attention to us. I’m here and involved and pouring my heart out to Fil grad but I’m here tonight and it’s a real struggle. The reason why I’m here is because I was angry as a freshman …… and why hasn’t these graduations been institutionalized. I hope that this year we wouldn’t have to struggle and we’re here fighting for funding even though we worked our asses off all year. I expect more from our student government. I have friends from other schools and they don’t have to deal with this. Am I happy right now? No. I voted for a lot of you guys and I’m disappointed. I yield I’m tired I need to go home.

Kristy: so I’m another Fil grad coordinator. I’ve helped out and have been involved in your side of the fence as well. The whole community that I’ve been raised in has taught me it’s important to give back to the community. It’s frustrating that giving back just a little bit back to the community. That’s just so frustrating. We’re so built up on volunteering……..that’s it. Well I was here last year too. I had an event because I wanted this bill and I went to the BnF meeting and to see all the same shit. And I know it’s a different bill but we have to fight the same fight. None of us want to do this tango.

Nonga: bringing it back to what happened tonight; I personally tried to address everyone’s concerns on a fiscal rational level. I addressed them one by one. One of the arguments was about senate reserves. If an emergency were to come up the money would go to students. So basically we prioritize students that don’t even exist and prioritized a situation that didn’t exist instead of people who need help right now. I don’t get angry and I don’t speak loud. I try to be objective and try to listen to all the sides. I’m hesitant to bring up my minority status because I focus on what I have in common with other people and the reason that I do that is because I want the number one priority to be serving students. That should be the number one priority on the table. Say they were all gray blobs, we had an opportunity to serve them and we didn’t. we could have made this happen and it didn’t. if it had been another event. What if it were Cal aggie camp in front of us? And they were asking us for money they needed. They needed that money and it wouldn’t put us in the red. Would we have said no I’m sorry…no we wouldn’t have said that. I don’t know. Next year, I’ll be a fourth year and I’ll be participating in black grad and it puts things into perspective for me. I promised myself as someone who wanted to bridge the gap. It’s something to work on and I yield.

Sadalia: I just want to gloss over and make sure you know my uncomfortablility. I’ve only been here a little over a year now. ASUCD’s rep. I was told to avoid it unless it’s necessary. After a month of two into the school year, one of the departments that you fund. They ran a story called jungle fever. And I didn’t see too much of a response except from the black community. I didn’t see a senator go to the meeting and it definitely let me know that I didn’t want to have too much deal with it. I’m going to be an orientation leader this summer and if anyone is going to ask what student gov is like I’m gonna be honest and have to tell them of my experience. It kinda sucks that I had to tell them I was denied 150 for my event. We couldn’t get 1300 between 8 other communities. It’s weird that ………however I come before you and this isn’t good enough for this bill to pass. And I’m not attacking the people …I just want to let you know that your peers think that I’m important enough to do that…so I do what to emphasize that. And if we didn’t have any of these organizations, we wouldn’t be sitting here for crazy hours. We’re still collaborating. Putting this orange paper isn’t the end of it. We are still busting our ass. I’m also doing a fundraiser for black family day. And so we can also avoid more jungle fever experiences. Someone donated to us. Willingly gave us food to sell. Someone took it to their hearts and donated food to us. Willing to take something under their budget to fund ours.

Krissy: I just want to say 1300 ain't no thing. Armando is on my board but he’ll support us. As student recruitment retention center will fund you

Schaeffer: I needed to apologize is because regardless how this vote turned out. I tried hosting meetings for this issue one after 3 am meeting about divestment. I blame myself for that because……this is a communication thing and the communities don’t have a true way to navigate the space. Although I can acknowledge the fact that the communities have come to a predominantly white table to ask for money….and I thank you for coming to all four meetings. Thank you.

Sadalia: a lot of people don’t go to regular commencement. They just go to black grad

Sagala: I cried every day at this room. Yall don’t deserve my tears anymore. Thank you Roland for saying that I really appreciate that. We’ll come back during budget hearings. I have admin support that on principle ASUCD should fund this. No we do and I know for a fact if we prioritize correctly. These aren’t things to think about at the end of the day. These are student events and are as important as units. We just need to make sure we consider that it’s important. I know it’ll turn into behind closed doors. I’m your friend and we disagree but I know you’re friends.

Schaeffer: if anyone wants to know BnF’s closed session about divestment. I want to make them as transparent as possible.

Motion to 10 minute break

authors comment: this is the updated long ranged plan for university affairs. Basically to keep it short university affairs is an info and advocacy unit. They dissimilate info to the students and talk to regents on behalf of the university. Add members to like taps committee. For ex I served on library committee. We had one meeting it was great. It’s an important unit so I encourage you to read this line by line.

Cano: we like long range plans. For most part this is the same thing minus quarter registration references….the previous plan was written under Backster so with that it’s a good long range plan

Schaeffer: correctly copied numbers. Well done

Public discussion: Lara: I don’t know why….

Smythe: the most time we spent conversing was about the chart. She wanted assistant director on the same line as the other assistants including interns. Then I was told that assistant director was a paid position and technically need to be in charged by the unpaid ones. I recommend striking the one below and keeping the one on top.

Interns and university affairs are different from other committees you served on. What they do is they compile info, type it out, and disseminate it across campus. They aren’t the traditional “intern” and that’s why they are on the same level as UC liaison and UC ambassadors.

Nonga: motion to strike the assistant director. I have a question but I’ve never gotten any info from university affairs. Maybe I live in a cave.

Ong: a lot of work is internal. A lot of info from within UC is dispersed….she appoints people to the student …. They do a big push…but it’s usually within internal university

Smythe: a on social media and also the bulletin boards across campus will have different snip bits of info so there’s a colorful flyer. Did you know student fees are this high? And they give a history. So it’s really to encourage info owe should know but don’t necessarily know. If you don’t like us or follow us on the boards, it’ kinda hard.

Smythe: so basically the reason why I updated it so frequently was because the university affairs under the previous director were kind of nonexistent. So I decided as an intern on the same level as the other ones, I wanted to make sure this is accurately depicted in the legislation

Thomas: under two year goals, if you read them as bullet points….so the actual two year goals are underlined …..

Smythe: highlighter yellow, robins nest blue, salmon pink. Paper is like half sheet of paper in those colors.

Topf: motion to make those changes

Senate Discussion: Kapir: lines 138-140…

f. SB #98 McManusauthors’ comments: this should be a quick one. So I don’t know if you all remember but in fall elections we passed #31 which oaths of office for office of senate vp and president…..it also corrects table of contents by adding an s

Cano: fairly straight forward. It never made sense in theory because then senators can suspend oath. That problem has been solved by amendment 31 and this something about bylaws and constitution.

Questions in text

Public Discussion: Thomas: motion to senate

Senate Discussion: Bradley: should we do the constitutional amendment first

McManus: court offices is not in the constitution. I don’t think the constitutional amendment needs to pass first

g. SB #99 McManusallows commission to table legislation without counting against their tabling limit if the author isn’t present. The main arguments against the legislation are based on a few select cases, rather than the number of cases that would benefit. It would allow commissions to more effectively … how we feel about something. I really urge you to think about what the trend is over the years rather than the few rare cases.

Internal affairs objected tabling bills. What’s the right of an author? Does this bill infringe of that right. As an author you have the right to show up to the commission meeting, and some of my commission members felt that this bill makes it too lenient on the authors that they’re not expected to show up to the meetings. But at the end of the

day internal affairs agreed that when we vote or see bills, we currently only have one week if the authors not present and that’s not fair. So we voted 5-4 to rec to senate because there have been numerous bills where internal affairs seemed to be pretty rushed. Professor Bulfksdjf;als bill. Language that we hashed out and senate was more than happy to accommodate….by adding another week is a safe compromise. Or deferring bills if we have too many on our agenda. This would allow commissions to work better and focus better and have enough time.

Questions in text.

Public discussion:

Sagala: I personally liked the idea of the bill from personal experience as someone who authored it. I feel like it’s a huge responsibility to be present. But for instance what happened this week with BnF with my second job, cause I guess this is job, or a life ruiner, and I definitely think that only because I wasn’t present, and it wasn’t tabled. To me it’s a good safe hold especially when you have people who can’t necessarily be there right away. I guess you can send a designee. I generally like the idea of the bill

Herskevitz: hi guys. I’m on IAC I did vote no on this bill. But I do see the valor in this and it’s really frustrating we have to stay up late to make sure bills are valid before sending them to senate. In past, we stay late and fix it and we’ve done no rec and did a Google doc with authors. And one of the members of the tables explained why we voted no. it’s the duty of the author to come. The responsibility for the author to come to commissions at IAC or any other meeting to explain the bill. This gives a reason for authors not to come and it makes meeting more tedious.

Figueroa: increasing the number of table limits instead of making it limitless

McManus: we’ve been talking a lot in IAC to reduce our burden. I see this as a compromise between the senate’s unlimiting tabling ability. As far as increasing the tabling ability, I wouldn’t be in favor of that either. Especially if the author is present. But if the author isn’t present then it really restricts us. I really see it as a compromise.

Rivilis: finally cleaned the pie off my face. So I voted no as well on this. First reason is I feel the existence of this is that it reduces the priority in which IAC should take presence. Second reason is more an institutional restriction. Say the author comes to the first meeting and their bill is tabled, but next week the author isn’t present. We can’t predict the author’s schedule. I think an author should attend a meeting and it should be their responsibility that the legislation gets passed. They should make it a priority to attend a committee meeting to get their bill passed.

Cano: the arguments for this bill is this legislation might make the process a bit longer but to sum up how is the author informed where to go. The author may have work on whatever day and need to plan accordingly. This allows the author to miss the first meeting and plan accordingly and be able to show up to the meeting. And it’ll give us two meetings to fix the bill if it’s controversial or fixable. We want to show our support on bills but we want to have the best product. We don’t want to vote no on bills because we can’t stay and fix the bill. ….sometimes we get kicked out at 9, but I think this is a safe compromise to a problem where the author doesn’t know where the bills are referred to…

McManus: if we have problems with the author not showing up a lot, there is a mechanism that addresses that. To have those things addressed in an open meeting is more beneficial and having this ability if the author doesn’t show up the first week to do so is just better in my opinion

Topf: if an author doesn’t show up twice, it gets withdrawn automatically.

MacManus: it doesn’t change the bylaws

I was afraid we were legislating laziness. The author’s byline should be a privilege…I think IAC has always voted to extend seeing times. Our students and commission are working hard and is legit. This takes away some of the obligation that comes with the author byline. But the ….. line with the author doesn’t show up twice…I would have changed my vote.

Riviles: so like the person has can’t come to senate on a Thursday. Say your bill has like four commissions. Say your bill can’t come to just one of the commissions, personally for me, I ….

Diaz-Ordaz: just like to retract an earlier statement I made. I think that the one body on BnF…the multiple beautiful bodies of IAC…

As a collective body, we thank you.

Nonga: couple questions. Can someone speak on roman’s point? About other alternatives and no recommendations?

McManus: if the author doesn’t show up for the 2nd week it’s gone. If the author doesn’t consistently show up then we have other problems like time conflicts. They can also send a designee and someone can come speak on behalf of the bill. ICC is very lenient and we’ll see this bill in an hour when you’re free. This adds another layer that commissions can give good recs to the senate

Thomas: motion into senate

Senate Discussion:

Thomas: I had a pro con thing going on. When I found out the author not showing up twice thing I changed my mind. Also this seems to be entirely an IAC issue.

Herskevitz: I just wanted to point out that also we’re not supposed to look at this in recent events. If controversial things come up, that’s another reason I voted no. I think the process should be as efficient as possible.

Thomas: okay it’s not JUST an IAC issue. I apologize for saying it’s just an IAC issue

Wooster: there have been points where we tabled before so we have to finish. I don’t find that as a huge roadblock. I definitely encourage you to pass this bill

Ong: I think it’s the responsibility to tell the author where it’s going. We should be held accountable to tell the authors where the bills are going. There are other coauthors that you can send also. When you figure it out in advance…but this is why I’m against this bill. If you put your name on the bill, it’s personal responsibility.

Wonders: call to question

h. SR #31 Kappesi. SR #32 Hackney

………ensures funding for four yearsEAC: we honestly like this resolution. We were a little confused but talked it out. Mostly Cal grant was either awarded or not. A rep was not the most informed but definitely tried hardest. We were definitely in support of this.IAC: saw bill Monday and discussed this. Deemed it the boo-boo bill 2011 messed up and got cheated.

Questions in text

j. SR #34 Hackneyyou can apply your 3rd year and get Cal grant 4th year…IAC: language wasn’t exactly clear and we had to look up the text. Basically if you’re graduated and not pursuing education you can still get Cal grant for 3 yearsEAC: enables people who chose not to go to higher education…for the diff it can make for the few it’s worth the investments

XI. Ex-Officio Reports

a. Commission Chairsb. Outreach Assembly speakerc. ASUCD Controller

XII. Elected Officer Reportsa. Presidentb. Vice Presidentc. ASUCD Senators

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

XIV. Approval of past meeting minutesa. approved

XV. Public discussion (unscheduled)

The impede will be presented to the senate next hours and everything will be explained. And then there’s also the fact that we went to BnF closed session. Court accepted closed session request. The deliberation will take place next wednesday. The court has also expressed .dismay at the timing. We’d like to have enough days to achieve quorum. Essentially Wednesday. It’s very hard for us to achieve quorum by Wednesday. I know it’s not feasible in a lot of ways but that’s how the court systems working.

We went to URSAC.

Public discussion: if you leave then you forfeit your right to speak on this legislation but there’s no reason why we can’t carry on this meeting. If you don’t want to do your job then you can go home. Do your jobs I yield.

Thomas: the fact that I’m here right now, shows that I do my job but I don’t feel like we represent the student body. We did represent the student body. Going beyond this point with only 8 of us. That’s not representative.

Burke: it’s a copout to vote on those legislations…..but to say we can vote on those two but ton the rest is absurd.

Kappes: they wanna vote on 31 then. I get where you’re coming from and 8 of us and basically an entire party left. We can’t really I don’t know

Thomas: so the reason why I’m lingering is because I’m torn. I want to represent the student Gov. and I want to call a roll call vote to adjournment

Burke: just tough it out. I love all my meetings I can do this all day or night.

Cano: I honestly don’t think we should see those resolutions. I was preoccupied to say anything but it looks bad on a capital level. And we have four abstentions of the bill. We’re not allocating money or policy

Wonders: I’m pissed that four members left because they didn’t get what they wanted. I’m pissed two members want to leave to show solidarity. I’m pissed that people at this table can be voted and attacked numerous times while the presiding officer does nothing about it. Its bullshit. It’s s unprofessional and it’s wrong. To adjourn meeting when we have quorum it’s wrong. And I’m really disappointed. I thought that when I ran I was joining a body that was better than this. I was fucking wrong. That’s okay. I’ll yield

Kapur: professionalism and respect got thrown around a lot on my table too. But my disappointment from my table right now is you remember you first meeting that I had high hopes that you’d be able to compromise and after tonight I’m super disappointed. For the 5 people who votes no, I think one was explained as thoroughly as possibly be. And another one was explained and logically proven wrong and the other three don’t have accountability. And it’s another issue but I am a lack of accountability. We knew if it came here it would fail. I wanted to know if you wanted to know no I wanted your name next to it. We criticize people in Washington but ASUCD does this stuff when we’re gonna be the ones changing the world and we’re doing this at his level. It’s just disheartening. I though it was ASUCD pretty bad and this is rivaling it and that scares me. There’s no one at this table that’s as polarizing as me and dos. But no one at this table that gets to you like that. And it’s really disheartening. And this……..and I just think you all need to have better accountability. And have something to say and c a reason and explanation. When I was threatening or contemplating to vote no I demanded the reasons and it’s very disheartening. Honestly I feel like I care more than some of more of you. Now you represent me. That really disheartens me. And I’m assuming no one wants to respond cause no one wants so be accountable

Thomas: I’m cool. Can we suspend that bylaw? I don’t think anyone who voted no was unreasonable even though I wanted them to vote yes. It doesn’t matter though. I have nothing to gain in student Gov. Do my best damn job and then leave. Let’s do some legislation then. We can talk about bills and untable things. Let’s make this thing work. I feel like the need we need public discussion stops at 2 minutes when we have more than 2 people. It’s being abused…..

Thomas(?): I half wrote the bill doing just that. But then … it drives me crazy how we spend pretty much an hour of these meetings being yelled at. But it gets in the way of doing our job. ASUCD is bigger than any one issue. We are more than this. We are more than a single issue and we are more than a single vote. A single vote you deserve every one of the votes

Nonga: I agree that ASUCD is more than a single issue so a lot of people lost faith over ASUCD tonight but I wish they could take in account of the positive stuff we have done. I apologize for my unprofessionalism for crying. As far as members of the public.

Wonders: that’s not what I meant during unprofessionalism

Nonga: I can say we didn’t do our job by failing the bill. You can say 8 votes is enough…we represent all students. We’re subjective people. But I still believe in us and I push for better communication between all of us. I didn’t understand why it was such a divisive issue but I see that now.

Tanzi: hey just want to say this is all sounding very familiar. Similar conversations and I would go on rants screaming at other people for lack of professionalism. I don’t know if people are really upset about the public but they come here to yell us. That’s why we’re here to be yelled at. I know I wasn’t here for this conversation today but you need to hear it. My very first senate meeting. You all need to chill take some deep breathes, stop yelling at each other, we’ve all been there we all kind of understand what each one of us are going through and I know I’m getting all hippie like but relay I don’t like seeing this. It just breaks my heart

Cano: I’ll just address my concerns to individuals after the meeting so let’s move on. There are no longer polarizing figures on the table. Who would always argue and yell face to face. I understand you were yelled at but it’s disgusting to make remarks about them when they aren’t present. Should I live stream this? They would love to see their representatives talk about their backs. I’m going in the wrong direction with this convo but keep this in mind. So I would urge the next person to move on with the meeting.

Wooster: I yield

Ong: I don’t really tell people this a lot. I just want respect. I respect that one member of the public that talked to me after and I hope people respect my vote. I learned this and these past two weeks and my community ….I was lucky enough that this divestment brought a community to accept me…

Orders of the day

Jacksoncancelled meeting-mtg day of Davis city council changed

Still working on reimbursements for earth week

Helped Tessa with CCE interviews

Will be helping whole earth ASUCD unit! Act with waste sorting at some point this weekend

Went to ursac

Held office hours

Cano:

Friday: meeting with controller to discuss my small budget. $9 increase

Saturday: Quetamol?

Monday: didn’t go to classes busy studying and writing paper. Had my meeting

Tuesday: cancelled bylaw? went to a really long BnF meeting for moral support. Today: commencement speaker c=today scholarship committee read 83 apps. And held OH

Wooster:

Friday OH

Posted new chair hiring’s and then applied to myself

Met with controller and finalized eec budget

Monday wandered downtown by myself. Got my nails down.

Tuesday: OH designed ad to apply for EAC. It was a sexy adWednesday: meeting. Went until 7:06Calderazzo: Went to IAC and loved it. Held OH and talked to commissioners about life. Also we talked about more programs for next year. More dorm fairs and more resource forums and more collaboration with freshman, transfer, and international leadership.

Evans

Closed the 2013-2014 proposed budget and had it printed by the lovely folks at CCCN

Held URSAC meeting to discuss third floor renovations

Met with business manager hiring committee to go over action plan

Budgets will be distributed tonight

Burke

Held office hours

EAC

Reviving mid-quarter evals

Tal

ECAC BnF divestment meetings held office

Bottoms

Make sure to come out to those forums one tomorrow. At 115 in SCC

Met with calperg

Red scholarship for days

Job initiative

Nonga

Focused on school

Held OH

Read through scholarship apps

Ong

ASUCD scholarship mtg

ECAC and OA

Office hours

Mtg with experimental college

Read scholarship apps

Met with Carly

Met with extremely concerned constituents

Cashed in more ASUCD scholarship

Burke

EAC and OH

Kappes:

OH URSAC

Wonders

BNF OFFICE HOURS

Midterms,essays

Adjourned at 1:03