I. Call to OrderII. Quorum Roll CallIII. Appointments and Confirmations

a. APAC MembersSagala: Molly is your chair, and she reports to the Senate. I spoke to Molly over the phone and both of times were very enthusiastic in increasing quality of UC Davis. Want to contribute to projects APAC will for the rest of the week.

Torres: I would like to know if you can describe your passion for art

Sean Guerra: I was introduced through high school and middle school but also did spend time in boys and girls club. It shows correlation between community and the art aspect of the relationship.

Amanda Trieu: I am a design major with an art studio minor. Interested in how art brings in creativity.

Torres: What’s an art project you’ve been most proud of?

Amanda: A mural in a local mall. There was an art mural competition that I got to participate in that. Giving back to community was pretty cool.

Sean: An open lot that was in the center of town and it was a great experience to have community participate in that

Wonders: how would you expand your committee on the campus?

Amanda: to get student artwork on campus. Suggested idea of having student artwork in more buildings not just the CoHo

Sean: have APAC known throughout campus so more students can contribute their artwork

Confirmed

b. Campus Center for the EnvironmentSandstrom: Hi everyone, before you we have Tanzi Jackson. She is a very highly qualified candidate. She has worked in the DC along with Noelle and sat on EPPC for almost two years. She has worked along side with the currently CCE. I think she already lead a commission of nine, so we are aware she can manage people.

FIGUEROA: So, what material would you make an autobiography of yourself?

Jackson: Paper out of banana peels

THOMAS: I’ll ask the scope question. What is the extent of what the unit can do?

Jackson: CCE can do a lot of things. The way I view it. We connect all areas of environmental groups on campus. Whatever group and event that wants to get involved and zero waste. Anyone who wants to, come to us.

THOMAS: Any project or ideas?

Jackson: Expansion ideas. Any event no matter hot, big, or small I want it to be zero waste. I want to have at least once a month a leadership group, so we can collaborate on projects. Bring people together. CCE becoming the central point of the environment.

SAGALA: Significant experience with EPPC Chair that will correlate CCE?

Jackson: I already worked with CCE a lot. And there is always a problem with seeing the difference between the two.

SAGALA: What sound does a squirrel make?

Jackson: Not going to make it

WONDERS: If you were shrunken to the size of a pencil and in a blender, how would you get out?

Jackson: I’ll pass

WONDERS: Move to confirm?

Bottoms: Any objections?Seeing none, she is confirmed.

c. Project CompostCARISSA: Noelle Patterson, interviewed for the director, she is a sustainability intern for the dining services. Involved in the unit for two years. She is looking to get involved with the city. We think she will be able to connect bridges with ASUCD including the DC and the farmer’s market. We think she will be a wonderful director.

WONDERS: Hi, first question. What are your ideas for the unit?

Noelle: Recently, I realized we have a lot of volunteers, and I think we can expand to other places on campus. I spoke to different students such as ramble and fraternity areas and I want to see them involved.

WONDERS: Second question, what would you write the title of an autobiography?

Noelle: Oh my gosh, Died with her boots on.

THOMAS: So, what is the extent of the scope of Project Compost?

Noelle: What we do. I will be in a team of other members not just ASUCD, but working on various projects. Campus groups, what expansion we have will not change how we treat our interns and volunteers. All volunteers that are involved get something out of it.

THOMAS: Do you think Project Compost could work with the city to increase composting?

Noelle: I am not familiar with how their compost system works. I don’t think its our position to push legislation to change it, but I rather talk to them and change their perspective?

NONGA: What are your leadership skills?

Noelle: Actually, working with the Tanzi, being a sustainability intern at the DC. I’ve overseen volunteers and delegating tasks. So, I’ve been in some management position in regards to the DC.

BURKE: Move to Confirm?

BOTTOMS: Any objections?

IV. Unit Director Reportsa. Experimental College

PETER: The numbers are steadily going up. We had a demo this quarter, and I want to institutionalize it in future years. It really is important and great opportunity for students to know what’s going on. We are working with Creative media to work on registration. We are working on the design to make it more appealing, so students can love the system, The buggy system is currently going to be fixed. We are going to sell t shirts and going to have a fundraiser at Delta Venus. And in time for the budget, I’ve been working with Evans, oh no Eric. Sorry. The actuals are currently looking as if we are going to take less from services. The numbers are almost done. We are working pon outreaching to freshman, so they are aware what’s going on. We want them to develop a relationship , so they can take classes with us.

Sagala: I wanted to ask was experimental college evil? Figure out expansion plans and renovation plans with construction?

Peter: Would be a year or two. Idea is to move where the bike barn is. Bike barn would be expanding. Still working out details, but working right outside of the silo would be great.

Sagala: did you have an adequate vocal part or are you waiting to hear?

Peter: any movement is beneficial, but we don’t know how much we’ve been part of the conversation. It’s going through engineering. We have to have the dance room we currently have and renting spaces is costly for us. That’s our main concern and its been addressed

Nonga: registration numbers? Estimate this quarter versus last

Peter: Last quarter 14000, this quarter we went closer to 15000 for registration fees.Sign ups for classes are around 240 and a little higher this quarter. We get people registering late who are in the class.

Lewis: printing catalogue

Peter: greatly reduce

Lewis: UC relationship with adopted senators?

Peter: going pretty well. Need to figure out where we’re going next year. We also need to figure out how to implement things we want to implement.

Lewis: Want to commend for collaboration with the CCC

b. Cal Aggie CampKIMBALL: Obviously we are going to discuss my bill later tonight. So, I don’t want this to be focused on that. We just trained a brand new staff. We are taking all of them up to the campus this weekend. We are going over a lot of what is appropriate under ASUCD and California Law. Also, how to be the best counselor ever. We have a 5% day at Whole Foods in June. We are partnering with WEF to tie dye the shirts. There is still talk about moving the campus location to a permanent location. However, that’s going to be pushed back a little further.

BOTTOMS: Any questions?? JK, jokes

FIGUEROA: How is the crystal lake expansion coming along?

Kimball: Well. The Cal Aggie Association, approved the idea, but the process is coming a bit slower than we expected. Summer 2016.

c. Lobby Corps DirectorKaran: Great to be back here. This is my 3rd state of the unit address. Broken down into 4 components. Recent past, worked in Daleon’s office? Going well so far. Secondly, working with assembly members in bills office. Two bills seem to be stuck in senator of

appropriations. Finally we added something to 8540 extending access to nonstudents. The bill did pass and is heading toward senator floor votes. Internally, I’ve been working with Eric controller here with unit budget. I’m excited because it started from the bottom up approach. Based unit budget on what were doing. The application for unit director position is closing tonight. And then we will hold interviews. And applications for remaining positions will be opening up. This month, we’ll be starting …bill package is still being finalized. There are few of those coming your way. Question has come up in the past do we contact newspaper or not? Press release so people know what we’re working on. Will be sent out Monday or Tuesday. Will be in TheAggie.

Why is bill package taking forever?

Karan: Lots of bills based on idea. Initially when we left spring quarter we had about 8 built bill packages. Some were withdrawn…where…down to 2 bills. Had to dig up new bills. Finally we have a decent bill package. 8 or 9 in bill package and will see 4 to 5 and still debating on one. So overall a bill package of 13 or 14 bills this year. Once they finalize the bill package, we will hold a lobby workshop. Will send to polisci list serve and reach out to students who want to lobby with us. Highly encourage Senators to join in workshop. Or on Saturday, seems that Saturday would work better. Saturday of next week. We will talk about bills and mock lobby event and everyone has an idea of how things go. Second big event, we had a big…. 8-11. It is coming up. It’s coming up May 22. Office wanted audio and we couldn’t fit it in this week so had to push it back to May 22. Last minute changes we have to make. It will be on the east quad. Want support. If a professor can provide extra credit for coming to the event, please let me know. I’d love to reach out to professor. Second we’re looking for speaker. If anyone is passionate about student debt and loans feel free to contact me. I’m letting you know so more people can advertise about these. Talk to friends, professors, and see if they’re interested. That’s all, thank you for your time.

Nonga: can you send an email about what you said about the positions for the speakers and everything else?

Karan: sure

Thomas: should senators be required to attend lobby corp?

Karan: I think I’d encourage them. I highly recommend so we stay in track with what we’re doing. I can’t say you guys have to. If you are interested in lobbying, which I think we should be, I highly encourage you to attend.

Thomas: thank you for the press release. That’s a great solution. I’m gonna miss you

Figueroa: I also will miss you. Want to thank you. A lot of people did make it to the event. Lucky bastard, the adopted senator. With regards to EC, have you looked into ethnic studies professors?

Karan: I haven’t looked into it. Not really familiar with social science campus. Just for some feedback.

Lara: I’m just curious of lobby corps track record. Can you give me as sentence of how successful we are in recent years?

Karan: size of bill package is increasing over time. I can provide you specific numbers.

Lara: that can be arranged

Ong: he was typing resolutions and works really hard. Really appreciate it. Lobby corps website and zipcar?

Karan: when we discussed possibility of zipcar, it might not be proper model. A better solution seemed like the UC drive initiative offered by taps. That’s were we are in the transportation issue. As far as the website, I’ve been distracted with bill package. But we meet every weekend to discuss content and format. So a tentative timeline would be not this but the following weekend. And again with the website project, it does seem like it is happening little later. It’s always hard to get things initiated. I’m approaching the project with that intent.

d. Coffee HouseDarin: I’ll try to get out here as soon as I can. As far as the Coffee House and the Coho to go goes. Levi has been overseeing CoHo To Go. His contract ends this year, but its been a huge success and we are permanently going to be staying the in Student Community Center. I am really proud of all our management team for all their work. The Coffee House is going to come ahead or break even. This is the third picnic day for our location. We increased our sales by 2% over previous years. About 4000 transactions come through in 4 hours on Picnic day. Very high. We pay our employees time and a half and they are all required to work during that day. Also, looking at our budget, we will not be raising prices. We broke the $3000 plateau for the CoHo (South). We will be red free for at least one year. We negotiated another year for rent free. We will expand our hours of operations. It will be open until 10pm to match the building hours. Approximately 4 or 5 new employees and 2 new student managers for a total of 5. CoHo To Go: You all been helping it out with buying all the f’reals. Bradley was the winner of the contest. We are currently having a Monster give-a-way. PEACE Tea, F’real, cookies. New things for this quarter, we finished the ASUCD Scholarship drive, raised over 2600 dollars. It broke the fall quarter effort by 1000. Thank you Felicia and Carly for all your hard work. All our products will have nutritional values available upon request. This quarter we re-launched our smoothies. We have a fancy menu board. We had twice as many smoothie sales this year picnic day than last year. Our marketing team is stronger this year. This month, strawberry lemonade basil leaves.

HOT DOG Cart well received. We are currently exploring new locations: possibly at the Aggie Stadium. Long way to push the cart. The Farmer’s market asks us to be out. Still looking for vegan hot dog options. We are excited for that. Organic vegan burgers are

new. We have a new steak in the TxMx Grill. Also, we have diced Avocado in the salad area. This is another option because the vender approached us and wanted to see if it would work.

COHO SOUTH CAFÉ: It’s selling baked goods during the farmers market. Monday and Tuesday doing the same service. We are working with the SCC folk for La Raza Cultural Days in order to store food options. The Café was opened during picnic day. The building hours were limited and the construction made it difficult for public members to go. Might not be opened next year. We did $1400 dollars in sales on 4/20. Ham and Cheese croissants coming to the CoHo this month.

SUMMER is the time to catch up regarding operations. We will decide what we want to unveil new things during this time.

August 19th we will be posting for CoHo employees. We will be publicizing this for a few days. Usually get a few hundred applications. 60-100 new employees will be hired depending on the graduation rate for this quarter. Any questions?

BOTTOMS: Are you interested in doing the Buzz with the Hot Dog Cart?

Darin: Yeah, possibly

BOTTOMS: Café hours changing?

Darin: 10pm M-R but Friday will close earlier. We will have more job opportunities for that service.

THOMAS: I’m going to ask you the same thing I asked you earlier today? Can you bring Kombucha?

Darin: Yes Kombucha is coming. We will also be bringing more healthier options. Kombucha is a type of tea drink

THOMAS: I want to make a comment, I don’t want to know the calorie count of cinnamon buns.

Darin: It won’t be available as you might think.

V. Committee ReportsVI. PresentationsVII. Public Announcements

VIII. Status of Legislation previously PassedIX. Introduction of New Legislation

X. Public Discussion (Scheduled)a. Aggie Hosts

CALDERAZZO: Thank you for giving me the time to talk. I want to update you all about the ASUCD Showcase. I have never been so upset in my life. Thank you IAC for showing up. Even Jenna who has a broken arm was able to tell me that she wouldn’t be able to show up. I don’t know where to start. This gets all our names out there. It’s supposed to be for you not for me. It looks really bad, we had 16 tables and only three of them were full. I’m not a marketing person yet, but this shows how little we care. I am extremely disappointed. We always joke that OA is the forgotten child of ASUCD. It is sometimes overlooked. It is the most commission in my opinion. Whatever you do at this meeting means nothing because you don’t tell people what we are doing. It’s great people are coming to our meetings. We can only market ourselves to the cultural groups of groups for that one Bill if they come to our meeting. We are trying to make this association a better place. We put such much work into this. I put so much work into this. I am trying to be social, handling 3 jobs, an internship in Sacramento, and 16 units. Please don’t give me excuses that you couldn’t Please just do your job and respect OA. I am a fan of moving forward. It is important to take this as a lesson and make a change so this doesn’t ever happen again. Please email me, so I can discuss what I can help you. We hope that we can help you with what you’re working on. If you don’t think our events are not worth coming to, I want to know why they are not worth to. Also come to our meeting. It’s your job. Make an effort to be there! If you can make the effort to see important legislation doesn’t mean you can forget OA. That’s my little rant. I am sorry this has been building up all day. It’s extremely frustrating that I’ve been planning for a month just to see no one show up. I am sick and leaving

BOTTOMS: If you’re leaving, what do you want us to do about your bill?

CALDERAZZO: The designee will talk about it. Also the introducing senator can talk about it.

Gheed: I am really disappointed. I think this just shows why ASUCD gets a bad rep. Like Kate said, this took a lot of time. Just to see that it’s a total fluke is really sad. OA is the forgotten child of ASUCD. We are important. We try to build a positive image for ASUCD. If you have any questions or you didn’t think I didn’t try to reach out to you. I think I did what I was supposed to. I think I deserved a little bit more than that.

CALDERAZZO: Questions?

SAGALA: I can only speak on behalf of myself. You are one of the shining beacons on this floor. I knew this was happening, and I couldn’t make it. I want to show more support in the future.

XI. Consideration of Old Legislationa. SB#84 Kimballb. SB #86 McManus

McManus: This is the LRP of Cal Aggie Camp, if you have any questions regarding operations just ask her. I just want to briefly go over what the plan is about. Organizational chart is updated, and a lot of new material starts in Section 3. There is a lot about the new campus site in here. I’ll keep in brief.

IAC: We saw this a few weeks ago. A lot of questioned focused on the campus site and how the pay works for them

Schaeffer: I wanted further clarification on line 126.This would be helpful but not necessary.

Thomas: Does that mean students who attend has to pay?

Evans: YesMcManus: yes

Bottoms: I have an opened speakers list.

Figureroa: I don’t want to spark another concern. I want to find better language regarding single’s awareness night.

Burke: There needs to be a new line item

Figueroa: I want to amend the language about auctioning off a date. What does the author think?

Kimball: I didn’t realize that was still in there. We want to move away from that, so I am friendly to any change.

Sahota: Line 127, lower case Philanthropy and Contribution

McManus: I have new language for 126. Change this money to their income and change

Thomas: What does it mean to philosophically mean to support a Long-Range Plan?

McManus: First off, this is the factual document. The commission is knowledge that the plan of operations is the correct path to pursue.

Nonga: I have a suggestion on line 226. The event is about setting up a date.

Figueroa: I don’t like that?

Sagala: I think they’ll just remove it entirely.

Nonga: Can I defer to you?

McManus: I think what Anni want to do is move this to the history and remove it from the previous section?

Sagala: Yield

Figueroa: Oh god, yield

Thomas: Questions on the actuals. Why is it always lower than 1000 each year?

Kimball: Yes, but this year we’ve been doing a way better job. It’s almost on track.

Thomas: That was my only concern. I move us into senate discussion. Since the controller is here, and my question was answered. Woops, I yield.

Bottoms: Opened speaker’s list.

Ong: I want to suggest to move out of this and work on the language. Can I temporarily move out of this and we’ll come back. Two minutes is too long. Motion to move out of this bill.

Ong: Motion to move out of consideration of legislation

Ong: Motion to move into unit director reports.

Now back into consideration of 86

Torres: I had a great time talking to the students that came. I felt this should continue because I didn’t really know what ASUCD is. But they brought their concerns during lunch and food was good so we got a natural convo with the students. Idk how the choosing of the students was done but it was arranged diff majors and years. It was awesome reaching out to different kinds of people background ages…..

Bottoms: are we still having it in the coffee house? there were no reserved seats so we went to amc? Are we renting out amc?

Lauren: the senators are taking a room of the choosing meeting students and hand out vouchers. Then meet at a location for lunch

Bottoms: I’m encouraging senators to reserve the amc room so if there are no seats in the CoHo, there will be seats open

Kappes: get free food and talk to me. Really like this program.

Thomas: so it’s really interesting when this bill first came around, I was upset about it. Last year, no I guess fall quarter, I was really upset and pointed it out to a bunch of people I know about how corrupt ASUCD are. The only people who go are people like me or random senators. Kapor will go. Only people who are basically in ASUCD will abuse this program, but it isn’t the case. In fact I walked into amc room and every time it’s with people I’ve never seen before. They shared about new projects that students initiated. Great outreach assembly to do. Very productive and effective way, bringing in people with free food.

Kappes: okay I take it back

Spencer: suggestion. I feel as if these lunches should be in the coffee house for everyone to see. Will drive more sign ups

Sagala: Yeah, it’s awkward when senators lead people into a room

McManus: 206 and We recently bought 26, 15 remaining. Need 6 additional vouchers. Reevaluate the program at the end of the quarter. Passed 6 to continue giving food to continue the program. Like the program so voted.

BnF: The numbers were correctly copied. I yield.c. SR #26

ONG: Motion to withdraw this bill

SB87

Sagala: the bill is a senate spending bill in order to buy mixer board for EC. Passed under business and finance and EMC unanimously. Their sound director personally chose. And have quotes of the same thing. All cost around the same price 700-1500 dollars depending on high end. This one is pretty standard. Being to accommodate the diff instruments. And of course EC helps with music on the green, single awareness night, and does a lot to try doing more quad shows. And again the number one reason is the one they’re using belongs to the unit director and she’s graduating

EC needs to have a mixing board in order to do all their events. She’s providing her personal one from her father’s collection. Additionally we are going for insurance and insurance covers handling. Usually it’s a lot of interns that handle the equipment. Line 20

Public Discussion:Sagala: 3 year insurance. It’s not in background but we just need to make note of it. There may be a shorter insurance package, if you want to debate that.

Thomas: so this is exactly capital reserves are for. I didn’t think anyone objects this. Did you want a deferment Sergio?

Cano: I would suggest from the previous speaker to attach this bill but something about section four. So there won’t be any mishaps.

SB 88

Really straight forward bill. What it is is that basically changes all references from he/she and his/her for bylaws to not have discriminatory language

Cano: it’s a following bill. We’re not supposed to use gender binary term. For future sake to not include that in our language. While it’s nice, some of the text will be grammatically incorrect. And we tried our best to fix it. He/she turns to they. And I’m fine with that.

Gender and Sexuality Commission: we’re pretty in favor of it. We changed some language cause it seems a little awkward

Figueroa: I want ask Roland, how long did this take? Control F? Is this because you went to our storis?

Roland: I was just bored

Figueroa: thank you for doing this.

Roland: I edited all the gender bylaws. We’re done. Unless Sergio has anything else.

Cano: not anything on the top of my head

Wonders: this bill seems legit let’s pass it. Senate discussion

SB94

Sagala: So a lot of people are here to discuss this bill. Would like to amend allocation. Not a lot of senators except Pamela and someone else. We wanted to reduce amounts of the request. Business and finance concerns: first of all I understand that cal aggie camp as a priority over community specific graduations. I never wanted for a judgment call over the merit of both. And I’m disappointed in the order the bills were seen and that created a lot of controversy when they were called in question. A lot of controversy has stemmed from different ideals about fiscal values. I feel members of the public felt offended that given the opportunity to fund bills equally, it wasn’t an option. Both have option to fund other. Not intention to apologize to Anni and that did upset me. I would never question cal aggie camp. I wasn’t lying when we requested for 5100 and people always question the money we ask for. The reduced about reflects that we don’t need that much. We would have returned it as the bill says. The amount reflected shows the amount we need. Again I will clarify the money I found out last night. I found out last night. Steven was able to meet with admin to find that money to provide for us. It’s a one-time unique circumstance. They made sure they told me there’s no guarantee of the

future. I really do want to give a shout out to Carly because she definitely wanted to address those concerns. We also received a lot of scrutiny about the late request. But it’s because we’re researching other avenues. I was in email communication with Steven and someone else to increase student affairs funding, but it was still difficult for students to fundraise. Again this is an opportunity that I see before me now for students to have an and their student representatives to air out grievances to representatives. Wanted to make a point to say that this conflict plagues us in the pass few years. It always goes down to the same ideological conflict that ASUCD must fund appropriate amount. We wouldn’t have students question funding. We have the change to correct history. And before I give it away, of course, it violates bylaws. I have requested to say it’s unconstitutional. So it shall be seen yesterday. Asked to unsee bylaw?

Commission discussion

Business: I’m at a lost of words, we have debated a very different version of the bill. I’m still disappointed. We spent hours debating in order to make sure you can hear our thoughts and if circumstances were changed, I cannot ask them now. The bill is completely different and would not feel comfortable giving rec considering we have not seen this bill you are announcing.

Ethnic and cultural: Have been around in a long time. This serves as a reminder that students of color and queer who have been denied are able and do graduate which is a political process. These graduations are all inclusive and provide students and families a way to celebrate in a culturally sensitive way. Encourage everyone that when we debate, we listen to understand, not to form a rebuttal. This is recognizing the political nature of students of color and queer community.

Hill: Given the past discussion of past gender….

Bottoms: changed @

Figueroa: Want to split up the 4000 allocated to them. I was extremely disappointed because it seemed as if communities were fighting each other for the same money….that’s why we need a bigger allocation of money. WE got lucky this year, but we really need to solidify this type of funding. It’s kind of fighting for scraps. I know this ideological battle will happen, but these testimonials and the merits will be questioned. That’s what’s going to happen. Really quickly I will motion to suspend the bylaw. Defer to Alyson

Sagala: members of public allowed to

Jared: I was a senator last year, I’ve authored this bill last year. I coauthored it in 2011, was here for the debate 08 and 09. Sorry if I’m not too enthusiastic but its like the third time through. I want to express disappointment a lot of senators weren’t at the 5 hour business and finance commission. That’s like skipping an entire week of class. Imagine going into a test knowing absolutely nothing about the information. You have the

sparknote version, but there was a 5 hour discussion. I’m really disappointed. Because this is one of your duties. And because it really shows that you don’t care. If you’re going to come into this argument already saying I’m going to vote no for certain versions, you already made up your mind even though you didn’t even show up. I would now like t o ask a question. Is any senator morally opposed to granting funding to these sorts of events? And please raise your hand and I’ll give you a deferment. So you have no moral objections, so they’re all technicality.

Watson: it was brought up in B&F that the number is incorrect

Sandy: Just want to inform speakers on what I’m working on. Had a meeting with a bunch of people to talk about community specific graduations. $4000, how students have paid fees and fundraise. They need to happen, and happen every year and how admin needs to put their end into this. Asucd financially committed. So I talked to all of them and the consensus was they’re willing to pay make up for that cost and I talked to Rich and he said that from ASUCD standpoint, we don’t need to pay any more than necessary. Student affair would pay for it. I really want to make sure of that. I don’t know how much longer we need to have this debate. Everything as far as the budget is taken care of. Rich didn’t have time to let them know, he said if you need anything, talk to me.

Sagala: I thank Carly for being willing to meet with admin. It is a debate about funding and where it comes from. It has been proposed that maybe ASUCD shouldn’t be responsible and that’s an argument people put on the table. I generally oppose because we are student gov, but being able to find a compromise is important. I also think it becomes a bit of an escape route for issues to not be ….. it remains a diplomatic discussion. I wanted everyone to come for a reason.

Haynes: graduating fourth year. Entertainment chair for black grad. Disappointed that this bill is in question. Why do I need to prove that my graduation is as important was graduation of letters and science. We only have 5 tickets. What about the other family members? So I ask you, what can we do in the future so that this isn’t an issue we put on the table? Why don’t we have the money? This means so much to us. And this is bigger than just us. This is legacy, people seeing us as an example of the future. People who are underrepresented can follow our footsteps and shadow our greatness

Sandy: sustainability of this. I completely agree. I don’t want you all to have to fight for the merits of this. Me and Steven Baisa have talked about this. It’s lose-lose for everyone. Rich and I talked about how to sustain this. I think the one I liked the most is having all these pools of money, department funding…….pulling them all into one pot and stating that these are the facilities, lighting, what every graduation needs. And refreshments and things that are not necessity you know not equipment lighting etc. that those will be fundraised or grants will be given outside. That’s what I’m for. Sounds like student affairs is really bucked up and know all the students are really committed. And how ASUCD has committed money to it

Cano: thank you for all your work. Seeing this bill 6 times. Don’t want discussion of the merits. So now let’s talk about the business aspects of it. Questions were asked, does anyone question the merits. No one raised their hand. That’s off the board. I think 1300 and the bill we see tonight is well below what senate reserves actually as. Want the shortest disc on this bill ever.

Rivilis: did you say 1300. That’s quite a short fall from the original. What brought it down?

Sagala: I don’t know what happened, I got a phone call and told me hey magic money

Bottoms: point of clarification. Sandstrom

Sagala: this is what I decided, and this is what came of it.

Rivilis: I don’t understand the need for….this isn’t controversial and this is a great way of doing so. We’re here to recognize and cherish……..celebrate our differences…perfect rep of that. No controversy. Value of graduation

Figueroa: Here are some numbers. Here’s a number that broke my heart. We are 37% of Cali, 15% of the school. Latino/latina population. 1950s there’s a law here in Davis if you were a person of color you were fined ____. You don’t morally oppose this, but how do you support these things? You drop money on these things. At this point you o have no excuse to not allocate more money to these events. Suspend the bylaw.

Thomas: Not every senator can attend every commission. It was said that a member was upset that this is a questionable bill. Every bill is a questionable bill. The reason so many people are here is that student gov and body supports them. I was concerned about 5000 because our units are first served and grants are secondary, however with 1300 it’s really easy for me to say yes. This can come from my share of senator reserves. Senator reserves are dumb. I was the only student who fought that fee hike. I think this is more important than scholarships even.

Students have to pay out of their pockets. Please consider suspending this bylaw so that we can see this bill.

King: I just want to identify myself. Co-chairs of black graduation of 2013. Also transfer student so only been here over a year. I’ve honestly been avoiding ASUCD because I haven’t heard good things. I keep voting cause if you don’t vote you have no reason to complain. Maintaining black space. This is something we constantly have to battle. We’re being hung up by something…I find this highly problematic. As my representative, this is a touch case for you. If you walk down park hall, you’ll see all the previous black graduations. And you’ll see happy faces. Me being a first gen college students. One of the photos is my cousin. I want to make sure that I’m coming back and I want my photo up there and I don’t have to come up here and beg you for the support. This needs to be a permanent thing. We shouldn’t have this debate year over year. The

fact that it goes on until early morning is ridiculous. But avoiding miracle phone calls is to handle it in front of us. Take this opportunity and use it to the best of your abilities. Vote to make this happen.

Topf: defer

Sandstrom: I just want to make sure facts are right and we have the info before we pass any suspending bill. So I just want urge to table the bill I’ll figure out the figures and info so that we have enough money. So students don’t have to come back. Make sure all ducks are in law to suspend bylaw, with rec from B&F.

Topf: So I want to entertain the idea and then yield and let table discuss it. Rerefer to B&F.

Linda pham: 3rd year Asian American studies minor. So even though we’ve all been saying fight of ethnic grad. It’s open to everyone and people can apply. We’re expanding, but we seem like we’re getting less and less money. How is that? At the regular UC Davis commencements…. but what about the rest of your family. 5 people isn’t enough. How do we have all our family that have supported and help us through school have them support us if they can’t go through the door? It’s not only celebrating the individual, it’s celebration of family and community. Without the support, we might not have made it. If everyone who supported them aren’t there, who are we walking for? I’m urging everyone to please support this bill. I know there’s no moral obligation to oppose this bill, but if you do want to support, then help us out. We’re willing to reduce and charge the graduates and fundraise and ask for grants and it’s still not enough. Please consider is.

Ong: I just want apologize to the author. I did email B&F but didn’t get anything back. Well over an hour phone call. I wanted to address a former member of the publics concern. I’m not questioning the merits, my only concern is the logistics of how this is happening. And if this is the case, I’d feel more comfortable giving it back to b&f. I like the merits but I’m looking at the finances now.

Public: it’s just a point to make, there is no mechanism….he’s personally doesn’t give a rec, but the commission doesn’t.

Christine: I am internal chair of retention…Filipino….i want to thank sandstorm and coauthors for working so hard. I’ve been empowered by these people who walk by freedom hall. This is only providing funding for this year, but what about other years. This is the 24th year and the appropriate amount of funding is still not available. You’re supposed to represent our needs and we make up 25% of the population. Grants are not guaranteed because we have to fill out apps. But we cannot afford to fundraise sometimes and we always stretch the graduates wallets. Institutionalize appropriate amount of funding for all 8. Public: to speak to concerns of senators who are uncomfortable amount I’m going to speak independently of that. A lesser amount is probably better than a more amount.

Last year we passed senator resolution #4 and language included in that that ASUCD both monetary…marginalized communities. That’s a T/F statement. It was also stated in SB89 the amount … for future budgets. It’s half of last year’s amounts. I don’t mean to be patronized but to still be having this argument; it’s literally half the amount that we argued about last year. It’s not the amount of money we’re just hiding it through the merits and technicalities.

Kayla: African American studies. Black grad co-chair, ACE under student recruitment retention center. Just wanted to say been to these meetings every year. And it bothers me we’re talking about this. We just need to vote yes and then vote on the bill. The 5 tickets don’t even let my immediate family in. Like next to me. They can’t get it. The fact that we’re saying no so B&F can look over this again is a bit ridiculous. We all know what money you got and don’t got. 1300<5000. And then you guys don’t have to waste time where you can talk about other things.

Sagala: How do you feel about it being a different bill now?

Anyway so I don’t feel like the bill has changed in substance. It’s still the same bill. I was kind of wondering why it’s such a business commission to be honest. I feel like this is out of my realm cause it’s more about merit, it’s not about how much money comes from what or when or what purpose. I wanted to give no rec.

Sagala: a big issue I want to address is that it comes down to whether you think ASUCD is committing this much, that’s something to address during budget hearings. So senators understand how much to fund. But Carly has new info to provide that changes decisions significantly

Carly: Thank you for coming. I want to urge the table to table it. I want more information so that there isn’t a gap of 1300. I want to make sure I’m looking at numbers. There’s no other facility increases and stuff like that. I really want to urge the table to do that. It’s not questioning the merits, it’s just taking more time.

Eric: for spending bills, we require line by line break down when we’re passing this. We don’t see a breakdown here as to where the money is going to. Having that clarity would be useful.

Watson: So I’m on this floor every Thursday night. We consistently talk about outreach and I don’t understand these graduations fill out stadiums. You want talk about outreach? you have potential scholars and donors. This is 1300 for a whole lot more than you’ll be getting. This is incredible outreach. Not only is that amazing, we know this is the shit, we know this is necessary, but it’s also outreach

Eric: it’s not outreach if we don’t have the ASUCD logo

Maria: I’m taking it back on the program it will be there, if we need to put language in the bill. I’m fine with that.

Diaz-ordaz: they will continue to be on that because whenever we get funding logos are get put on there. And they do get funding.

Eric: in that case, creative media should take a look at this too. It’s putting the ASUCD logo for everything else. As long as the older….

I feel really demanded because you’re talking this bill that’s a meritous event. But no it’s advertising. It’s turning us from students into posters. We can pick up a program. It’s always been there.

Public: it’s really interesting we’re talking about this logo stuff. I’ll put that logo on for you, if you have a problem with the size, we can work with that.

Miles: the logo wouldn’t be on there if UC Davis administration is in charge of this

Public: if you want an outlining of our budget, we’ll give you a line by line of our budget. We are very organized and proper. If I do recall there was a bill that deals with things that have no association with our university i.e. houseboats, that’s something that’s deemed a first aid critical event. We do not need first aid.

Thomas: Figueroa gave me a deferment so I said everything I needed to say out. I have two more things….just kidding… I yield

Norman: HEY! I’m Norman, I’m here and you’re wasting my time. I know my board they have to get back to their community, I’m here representing 300 people. Imagine I’m as big as 300 people. This bill is an acknowledgement for all the work our boards do. It’s 16000 that 22 people have to fundraise. Just give us a fucking bone. Just end this conversation. The merit is there. You never outreach to, we do it for you. So little money, just give it to me. I’m trying to give them a reason to go to the table. But they can’t be here because this shit and that shit. They’d be piss you’re wasting my time. I can’t be there I’m doing this. I don’t make sense, I’m gonna cry, No forreal though. She’s terrified of this battle we have to face. I don’t know what bylaws deferment what the fuck that means. Everything that we do is the shit that you can’t do. I went to an outreach assembly meeting. I had to take a shit but can you support this. I don’t get why it’s so hard to outreach to an org that’s been here since 1969. You know where here. It’s not CSI. We’re out of the fucking MU the first two months for the quarter. We’re outreaching to students who are too scared to do anything. We give them a place that’s safe and feel like family. I’m from SoCal and I found my SoCal friends. My community specifically gives…..I’m a 200 pound Filipino queer that’s kind of into girls…..there’s someone for me. There’s someone for you. Just give us money, I’m done.

Diaz-Ordaz: this was a meritous bill and that it should be the senates bill…..not in terms of merit but in terms of money. It was split because we did have to choose other people thought it was senate. Another argument was whether we should spend our reserves, well

there’s 6700 minus what was last spent on the last bill. That’s still 1700 left in senate reserves. I don’t know what it would do but please clarify

Evans: It’s not enough money to be comfortable. I don’t understand please clarify

Marque: we don’t want to pass both bills cause we don’t want to deplete reserves. A lot of other people don’t feel comfortable defending these ceremonies. 8 ceremonies. How many pay fees for 4 years and then walk? Tabling it for a week is a big deal because they’re coming real soon. Alyson already states money can be given back and we will give it back if we don’t spend it. Urge to suspend bylaw.

Jared: a shit storm happened during break. I don’t think we should table the bill. So the funding ASUCD funded was 10000. 2010 was 10000. And that was when the overall budget was a lot less. The reasoning why it was so high was because the senators thought this was worthy of funding. This represents 5.8%.with this increase in 1300 it’ll increase to 7%. Whooo, so much money we’ll all go bankrupt. It’s such a small amount of money. No matter what administration is funding, it won’t be the entirety of the amount. Is it appropriate for ASUCD to fund these events? My argument is yes. I would argue yes. Do you think 5% is enough, I would argue no. I wrote a bill for 10,000. It’s ridiculous, it’s ridiculous. The percentage of the overall budget was like 20% or even more than that. To ask senate for 7% of funding isn’t a big change. If we’re going to argue, like we are arguing, that it’s merit able, then give it funding. What are you going to do with the money? Sit on it like a dragon in front of a pot of gold. One of the other points is that you get the money back if we have overflowing money. I don’t think the bylaw is that big of a deal. The court case can’t be used as a reason. You have to use one of the reasons of the outcomes. Read from some bylaws.

Krissy: I really just want to implore all you senators to just motion to frickin suspend the bylaw so that we can talk about the actual bill and finally vote on the actual bill and not table it because all of these people are here tonight.

Jared: This is the first debate that never went into the merits of the bill. In hart hall, there’s a hall of intolerance. No Filipinos allowed sign one mile away. That’s the historical background behind this. Just this week there was a hate crime in Union City. The name of the middle school was changed to represent the united farm workers for the back of the day. Along with that someone went and wrote Fuck Filipino. Union City is 32 percent Filipino. 3.6 percent of this university is here. It’s not representative. Imma walk out the door now

Schaeffer: there are points that I choose to make as the B&F chair. This is me as a student. Members have spoken out because it truly matters to them. That said, and I want you to listen to me before, tonight what matters are what these individuals. That means members of the public get 5 minutes. They’re not willing to speak because they can’t make a point. You can make experiences heard and that’s perfectly fine. But as long as you have 9 minutes and they have 2 minutes they can’t say what they want to. It’s your choice.

Haynes: okay so yes I do have a question actually. So my question to be addressed to the senate is “is the reason why the people aren’t seeing the urgency of this bill, why do you not believe so”

Sahota: the reason I would like to table this is because from the info we got, it looks like this year, which what this bill is regarding, this convo will take 5 hours of budget hearing. We want to know if admin is covering and we will have that 5 hour discussion at budget hearings. From what we heard from sandstorm, admin will take care of it. I would like to know if that was true. Seems like the author was kept out of the loop.

Haynes: my question is saying we’ll be tabling this. Will we be waiting a week or a month? We kind of need the money now. I’m concerned it will be tabled again and again and again.

Sergio: Senate can table as many times as he wants

Kayla: what’s up with the obstinance and what’s up with the tabling. The bill clearly states that if this magic money is given to us, we’re not going to steal your money. It’s been reduced, it hasn’t been eliminated. Obviously admin hasn’t given us all the money. It’s only been reduced. So for those to abstain and those who said no, what’s the purpose?

Nonga: reason why I abstained is because I didn’t understand the bylaw. I would like an explanation for the bylaw.

Topf: another thing to consider is that if the court doesn’t pass this, then what we pass is void anyway. Another thing is that I’m under the impression that there are the budgets but I haven’t seen them.

Kayla: oh no problem I’ll print them out

Thomas: specifically written to protect….

Evans: it was specifically states that it prevents money to prohibit money from being taken out of grants, not preventing people putting money in a grant

Thomas: there’s no reason to not suspend the bylaw. Tabling the bill is a different issue.

Kayla: if the bylaw cannot be suspended, then……

Thomas: hopefully we can suspend the bylaw so we can see if we can table or pass the bill already

Diaz Ordaz: yielded

Sagala: since I’m good at transparency, so the magical money came out of nowhere and filled out the gap. So is it admin or student government to fill the gap. I think it’s fucked up but I brought everyone here so that we don’t need them to come out here during budget hearings. Why do other things get money? Houseboats get 6000.

Point of clarification: that money will be deposited

Sagala: I think it should come from student government. Is that so wrong? I don’t know if you want to table the bill and you can try to suspend the bylaw. I want this to pass even if it’ll be vetoed.

Marquez: Please give them the money. Suspend the bylaw. I yield.

Kapar: anyone still confused or opposed about the bylaw. I don’t understand the logic of that because if the court says its constitutional,

Thomas: if we make an appropriation….if the bylaw…

Kapar: if they say it’s constitutional in two weeks, then we won’t have to suspend the bylaw. It’s so counter logical I don’t understand the court argument.

Thomas: if it is constitutional, then you’re voting to suspend it. We are making a promise to outside organizations to provide the extra money……people elected after us shouldn’t allowed to ….to protect this fund….not to prevent it from getting more money…..

Point of clarification: I’m still a little confused about what …it needs to be suspended to move on because it does not allow for amendments.

Kapar: I think that this money should come from the administration. It’s what we make elections about. If we don’t need to worry about this we can …… I’m all for tabling the bill. But you should suspend the bill and then vote on tabling or not. It’s not going to happen tonight so we need to find ways…….

Cano: Everyone was asking the intent of the bylaw. I actually can speak to the intent. Last year a senator wanted to cut money from the club council. I wrote the bill to protect the bill to getting cut. The way you should view the bylaw is that its more like a gift for the campus. The senate table does change. In theory, they can change things and cut things here and there. We’re adding money. That doesn’t harm anyone. When we allocated money….for power outlets in the library. Admin gave the money back. The money does come back eventually. This bill is beyond tabling it. I think we should move it along and someone should suspend the bylaw. The intent was to protect, not prevent more money from being added.

Thomas: next person yield so we can motion

Senate discussion

Nonga: motion to suspend by law blah blah blah

No objections.

Bylaw suspended.

Nonga: what I have to say is that can everyone hear me? At this point, we have the money and we will have enough money left over. We can have this philosophical debate at another time and just pass this bill

Sagala: from a pragmatic standpoint, what does it matter where it comes from? On principle it should come from people who represent you. And I know we should let go of this to worry about other issues, but to brush it under the rug and not understand the brevity of these ceremonies. I don’t get why it’s not a priority. Admin pepper sprays us and doesn’t tell us. I don’t trust admin and they know that.

Nonga: I think it’s just that everyone is looking out for their community and their community is made of diff people. This convo won’t go away.

Point of clarification: everyone’s open to going to these ethnic grads

Nonga: motion to divide the house

Sahota: motion to table and withdraw

Wonders: want to hear what Schaeffer wants to say.

Kappes: there are some numerical issues.

Topf: biggest question is that for principle why it should pass. But if where money comes from I don’t understand why the urgency of that is tonight. I guess that’s my only concern. For this particular bill, the money will be allocated. And the other convo if it should or should be from admin should happen at budget hearings or a later time. This is just my concern

Wonders: Schaeffer

Schaeffer: speaking as B&F chair. I think the previous speaker stated that everyone hear was elected by a specific subset of UC Davis and wants to help us over all. He told us a problem that happened in Berkeley a while ago. Every single senator wanted to help the people they came from. Put no restriction. Because they had to auction off because of debt, senators will look after people but what about the CoHo the bike barn. To me there are two reasons we should table the bill. First we have the money. Given the choice having someone else pay it then. Best interest. If my obligation is to speak about the finances, same outcome without having ascud’s. Normally if a bill came for money,

they gave us months ahead. Every single dollar and sent were worth. This is not a budget. And I believe you can, and it won’t be an issue. B&F exists for that scrutiny to help against senators who want to help their community. I ask for honesty and rationality. That said, I do want to point out one lie that wasn’t clarified. The problem is that last year ASUCD gave 10,000 to ethnic. One of the units was no longer operational and we liquidated the amount. But only in specific years when we have extra reserve. The point is this I understand if senate passes this bill, but as B&F we should scrutinize their budgets very closely.

Wonders: I’m kind of uncomfortable passing without referring to B&F. I think the admin should pay for this anyway. I cannot in good conscious vote yes on this bill because I want to refer to B&F.

Evans: if we agree that this bill has merit. We’re objecting on execution.

Jared: I want to refer to a point, but the point is by calculating the figure from 10000 from 2012. That’s only 6 grads back in the day.

Wonders: excluding last year, the previous years, 2000 and then 3000. This year we’re currently already giving 4000. I can’t vote yes on good conscious because I want B&F to sign off on these bills. It is true

Evans: 50%. Sending to B&F has no jurisdiction to seeing this bill

Wonder: B&F stamp of approval would put the ease on a lot of people

Schaeffer: I want to bring this up because this is unfair and dishonest. By the bylaws, this bill failed. Before that there was a vote on the bill, it did not pass. I will overlook that vote to continue discussion.

Evans: no question that referring to B&F will take out doubts. This could pass in 30 seconds with B&F stamp

Nonga: I just wanted to make this point the fact that someone just admitted to being able to bend the rules makes me uncomfortable to run it back to B&F. I haven’t broken a law in order to advantage one side and I plan on not doing that. This makes me uncomfortable. I don’t see how you guys would be comfortable with bringing it back to B&F.

Thomas: Urgency of the bill, I’m fairly confident it’ll pass within this week. All these people are here for the sake of people getting passed is not a good argument. We have this every week.

Burke: The money is already there

Carly: ASUCD doesn’t have to worry about any more money this year. We don’t need to be worried about it. I will get it in writing tomorrow.

Burke: is this bill necessary if the fund is given to us already?

Carly: no, no. there’s no need for this because it’s all taken care of for this year. I don’t understand where the issue is. Just table it for a week

Evans: there’s no reason for us to pay this money if admin will take that and run with it

Public: we do not need to allocate this money

Diaz-Ordez: the money would return

Someone: admin are all snakes

Burke: admin is giving us money

Nonga: if we give them the money tonight? If there was no admin backing, would this pass? What if something goes wrong in this process?

Burke: then we need to send this administration to B&F also

Carly: this is why I want to table because I don’t want to allocate already low reserves.

Elaine: can we get it in writing. We’re asking for 1300 for student fees for student government

Xiong: I feel like I eat more than I talk here on the table but I’ll give it to Jared

Jared: someone here believed that these events should be receiving ASUCD funds. For Filipino grad, its student run and student initiated. It looks like it’s a student org, but it’s not. It’s an independent allocation ASUCD can make if it decides to make. Technically it’s an amendment of the budget. That’s just not done. At the discretion the senate can amend the grants budget to an appropriate amount. And also argument goes two ways. If we don’t need the money, then ….it doesn’t really matter. You just need one more vote.

Xiong: I feel like if you all morally support this, what’s wrong with giving us more money. How many of yall have gone to an ethnic/lavender grad? Isn’t it lovely? Even if we have this magic money, what if we didn’t have that? Would yall still support this bill and would you pass this. I know Carly worked really hard to get the funding but would y’all pass this if we don’t have the money.

Nonga: either the money from admin is guaranteed or not. Then the bill we pass today will be returned to us. So is this money coming or not? You will get your funds but we

need more info, so don’t worry about it. Wait one week. And why not give it to them now and the money will come back to us.

Jared: show some solidarity for solidarity’s sake

Cano: what’s there more to say? We’re talking about planning the event? They’re all backed up on orders. AMY hectic so get them the money asap. We’ve done it before, we’ve purchased things before and admin stepped up and gave them back their money. I’m on her time but I would urge the next senator …

Xiong: motion to call this bill into question

Thomas: this bill will fail. But I want it to pass. We should just vote yes.

Wonders: In your best interest I would divide the house first

Xiong: divide the house

Question: they made a loan to 6000 I don’t understand why you can’t give the money to them just a week early. I don’t understand why you’re giving other groups loans but not them. It’s not even 6000 its 1300

Public: 1300 that after the magic money has come out.

Schaeffer: we gave a loan to one organization. If we give the money I’m hesitant still because anything under grants is not under our units. We don’t have any control just what you give us. When we debated this last year, B&F as well as senate felt hesitant to fund an org…..ASUCD will work with Steven bison to make sure B&F will have access to those numbers. That didn’t happen. There’s no enforcement that we will get our money back. Many are unwilling to take this leap of faith

Sahota: if admin does pay in full this year …… make an amendment. Basically by adding this, so if admin doesn’t fulfill the 1300 that you are asking for us. Then you can use it. Then that money is required to go back to reserves.

Carly: I don’t get that. Who’s proctoring that? You allocate this 1300 with this stipulation that they’re giving us money. I don’t get it.

Nonga: Carly’s concern is that the numbers aren’t accurate. If admin is guaranteeing to to fund this, it depends on admin giving ….

Wonders: there’s nothing binding about that. Amendment or not

Schaeffer: we have no way of reversing that transaction; I just want to make that clear

Evans: It’s not worth it to tread in murky financial waters for just one week

Kabir: they won’t run away with the money because that’ll jeopardize the money in the future

Schaeffer: budget hearings precede when money will be spent. Your argument would be correct

Jackson: I just don’t get if there’s no mechanism for enforcing that it’ll work then what enforces the other one?

12:05 am call to order

Carly: really urge table to table bill because if our association is who knows if we even need this 1300. Why is someone telling me something and Alyson another. I really urge you to table this so we can figure this all out. I want to figure it out. Let’s just please. I tried to work my magic, just let me work it even more. I’m not asking for a decision, just table so we can get the right information

Diaz Ordaz: We wouldn’t be out here if we don’t need this money. We really do need it and that’s why we were fighting it. They’re not out here willy nilly asking, they’re fighting cause they need it

Thomas: it’ll pass if we have an amendment. I don’t want to compromise that, but

Sahota: I will like to table this. I want to give the option to see if admin can do it. And then we can add the wording in

Schaeffer: I have been working with Manny and Jannan to come up with a bible solution. The problem right now is that ASUCD is all that money gets extracted at once. For all others they have expense reports. External organization it pulls all our money out and we can’t see it. Rather the diff communities would give budget accounts and expense reports. What this does do that you’ll get money up to that amount and ASUCD can verify that money is being spent on viable amounts.

Evans: isn’t why we have the grants set up? We can do this right. Asucd doesn’t play a part in how it’s spent. And do something proper and form the financial standpoint

Sagala: I try to be as considerate as possible. It seems like everything’s coming from distrust. It comes down to oh you don’t trust us and that’s a bad premise when I should be mending that problem and it just exacerbated that issue. You don’t trust the students you present who are coming to you. That’s my position, that’s what I have taken from this conversation. Why ask for proof when they’re asking way less. I understand, but I don’t agree

Jared: discriminatory. In ASUCD budget this becomes …. We think we should have discretional thing over that, but not other grants ASUCD is giving out right now. If you

want to do that then you have to do that to the whole budget. Otherwise it’s just discriminatory

Diaz-Ordez: it’ll come back to us according to the last line. Can you just support these people?

Topf: I don’t think its trust between people in this room, its administration.

Figueroa: so I was talking to Tanzi, but it came from Mani who is also a genius. What we do with this money is we put it in a line item which is a grant fund which already has 4000 in it. What we can do is two people have access to those funds.

Schaeffer: if we do make this account, the admin would put it in. We want oversight of everything, it doesn’t seem discriminatory.

Evans: so to that point, if we want to see expenditure of grants, that’s a whole different thing. Working under the current model, we can’t say that’s just not what we allow and that’s not how it’s structured for this reason. We do not play a part of that so we don’t have any impact and the current table isn’t changing how money is spent. It rally would have to be all or nothing

Figueroa: what needs to be repeated why the hell would we not pay back the money? You all talk about how….you make a mile out of an inch. There’s no way you should hold us accountable. I don’t know what kind of security you want. Just showing investment into these graduations. We give them money and trust them to give it back. That’s investment. I know how this table likes money, but these events needs money now. I know what it’s like to fund a conference…. These people are invested to come, and they will be invested enough not to come again.

Public: even if we do take the money and everything, whatever reason, we’re going to come back to you to get more money anyway. So we won’t take advantage of you. If we don’t make the right changes, we’ll have to come back. We’re really dependent on you.

Motion to divide the house

Lily: Aggie reporter. So I’ll be participating on the Latino grad as well. This is the third time we’ve been divided. 11:03, 7-4-1, 7-5-0…..if it’s called into question it’s going to fail. If it’s tabled senators would change their mind and it’ll pass. I want this money; I’m the first to graduate. It’s going to have to be reintroduced. If this bill is tabled, would anyone change their mind and next week.

Topf: I am doing this cause what the previous speaker say. If we call this into question, I do think it will fail.

He’s been working really hard to support and if the amendment were made…….if it goes to vote right now, it’s going to fail so reconsider listening to his final suggestion

Schaeffer: option 1: certain senators don’t feel comfy because it doesn’t give a guarantee. You can table it and people in the audience would be unsatisfied. Option 3: you can give them a compromise. Idk if my option is viable, but we can work on a compromise that continues to work on this people.

Topf: I don’t remember the particular amendment was. Before, it was we’ll give you the money and then there’s no accountability. So now the bank thing

Schaeffer: there has to be some sort of amendment. If you table it, it will come back, the amendment was set aside the money for them, there’s an exception. Rather than giving them the money they need to submit expense reports. I don’t think anyone will object, it’s an issue of trust.

Topf: can you write language for this

Evans: can we check if we’re not violating a bylaw

Topf: I don’t complete understand. If it still makes people uncomfortable, I really urge people to table this. I’m so hesitant to give up on time.

Public: by getting it in writing, the funds…..

Topf: this table tables it if the amendment is in. I still don’t completely understand

Ong: #1 Admin needs to do it part #2 we already funded it and then you can get the money back. Admin you have nothing better but to give us the money. We need to hold them accountable.

Nonga: does that mean we have the right to say no? so you’re not guaranteeing anything.

Figueroa: there was even a vote that was ignored. I don’t think we should reference it.

Withdraw, table

Public Discussion Thomas: we’ll probably pass this next week after a lot of heartache. I’m putting a convention in two days, I know what you have and don’t have

Cano: you referred it but they’re seeing divestment and then they’ll table the bill. It makes absolutely no sense. There were no recommendations. Omg let’s have this all over again. Please please please undo the damage that you have done.

Shaeffer: divestment because we won’t have time to see the bill. B&F is having an emergency meeting and we’ll discuss those bills then and there.

Consideration of old legislation SB 84Author’s comments: so the banner that we wanted to get from cal aggie camp will be used for all sorts of events to the community. Fundraising and other services. Want to maintain with the children throughout the year. Bring to one central. Cal aggie camp virtually has no presence on campus. First of all the way the staff is set up. It’s just staff and staff director. Not required to do outreach, and I’m trying to fix this. It’d be really beneficial to use this. The price is more expensive than previously because we had to go through a company that’s licensed to print the UC Davis logo. Options were limited. Like I mentioned it’s important to connect back to UC Davis as a whole which is why we want that logo on it.

B&F: we agree fully with the aim of the bill. Centered about whether or not we want to pay for this much for the banner. We want to know if it’s worth the added expense. Majority think so. We just thought it was worth it

Thomas: it costs more? I don’t think that this is worth. I think $40 is too much for an average banner. That being said, this is 4 times as much as the other unit. And how much we spend on a unit’s publicity does say how much we about each unit. This is awful! This is a lot of money. I’m looking forward to another quote and I will yield

Lara: main argument for the cost is that this is their official banner. By having the official banner of UC Davis, it’s more formal and this is UC Davis. Better than writing UC Davis in comic sans.

Schaeffer: emphasize it’s more legitimate. But when little kids come and say wtf is ASUCD, they see the logo, and its extra umph. Cal aggie does a lot of off campus

Cano: I think having UC Davis logo is needed. You’re dealing with children. Subconsciously we shared a room and there was a bumper sticker that says UC DAVIS, and look at me I’m at UC Davis. Maybe this works? I didn’t even notice it until 11 years later

Anni: along the same vein, it promotes not only UC Davis but also higher education. We’re pulling from foster kids and it’s really important that we advocate this through something they really care about it and this is camp

Jared: I’ll say what I want to say. The reason I came to UC Davis I because in the car seat when. Goals kids set when they’re kids have a great impact. If this can make one kid say I can go to UC Davis then it’s worth it. I would dare to say this bill would have enough yes. Push it just push it real good. I want to cry for her. She’s been here for 7 hours.

Anni: just want to address another comment, when it tried to work with the publicity or whatever person to swallow some of the cost. They said it sounds like an interesting project, but haven’t heard back from them. Just wanted to address that as well.

Senate Discussion:

Topf: call to question

Kappes: expensive for a banner. When I was a kid I wanted to be a game show host look at me now.

SB91For Cal aggie camp. Previous Budget Hearings, we were under the impression that we could do the background checks for the staff outside of UC Davis. But under the UC protection mandate and regulations are changing so everything is in house. So it’s a little more expensive and there wasn’t enough money for the line up in that. This is what we’re requesting. There’s also discussion about my unit over drafting. Because I want to center this discussion about what this is going towards. Then afterwards we should tackle the second beast of the bill just so everything is more streamlined

B&F: just to reiterate, Cal aggie unit will need to have an expense. We have no way of avoiding and these background checks are a necessity. We need to pass this bill if we want to support this unit. There was one no vote.

Public DiscussionEvans: It’s a fundamental part and it’s all or nothing for the camp running this summer. No question in doing these checks. This is a textbook example of what senate reserves are used for and what they’re allocated for. All rounded a good bill. We will be having the line item reflect the higher costs so were going forward.

Jared: I was a proponent of unit overdraft….given the scarcity with senate reserves that this ….. A couple senators are opposed not to this bill but to the overall unit. They have bigger objections. Hopefully you can get the objections out real quick. So we can push it real good again. Spend the money. It’s for the children. I believe the children are the future.

Burke: May I see a spending breakdown?

Cano: question about alum staff.

Anni: people who did enter as undergrads. And it wouldn’t work without some real adult figures there. So these people generally do not accept any of the stipend but they were there when they were in undergrad. Most of them are the medics, on site social worker, teachers, and solidified experience in this friend. Honestly if it were a bunch of undergrads then there might be a liability in my opinion.

Cano: okay so I was just wondering cause students jobs and non-students

Anni: yeah they’re volunteers

Figueroa: I’m the adopted senator. There are some misconceptions of what or well we saw B&F go on about how something about camp and we don’t want that to happen. There are certain concerns. …. Want to thank Anni because these are beneficial things that really happen. But moving on to my next point, I was perhaps contemplating writing a resolution for having an Aggiecamp funding.

Anni: Speaking for my unit at large, greater partnership would only be beneficial. Lack of presence on campus. So partnership would really help that

Senate Discussion

Call bill into question

Topf: I haven’t heard any objections yet. So if there are I would like to hear them.

Sagala: point to make, did some research about the floating fairy magic fund. Also looking about issues and over enrollment. And I did the research and found that there’s a $66000 surplus. But it’s not exactly a surplus……we received a 50 cent subsidy. And with that in mind, that could be a reduced cost. It’s something to look at. It’s just good to keep up with that.

Evans: shouldn’t be a role in passing this. But we should look into that

Committee Reports

Ong: The scholarship committee would appreciate in getting the word out. Applications are due Sunday night. GPA isn’t important.

Cano: INC met on Monday and we discuss

Sagala: INC talked about a bill I passed and that went well. We talked about other updates like lobby corps and other websites that needed to be done. We gave the pantry hand-me-downs so they don’t have to buy new computers. Given out computers left and right but not really. But it was a good meeting and Carly’s going to be a voting member again.

Thomas: CURR is on Wednesday at 10 AM. It was scheduled yesterday. Campus unions interact.

Sahota: where’s it at?

Thomas: lemme look that up.

Cano: internal affairs is hiring

Watson: I want to reiterate black family day may 18th. Have some good food and music at the quad. Cool new additions to kid academy. Check me out on Facebook

Sagala: PCA is this weekend. Come eat cookie dough there’s a showing tomorrow at 6:30. Join Sergio at 6:30 on Saturday. Tickets are $10 at door or presale… it’s going to be really fun and I’m going to be in the front a lot.

Thomas: So it’s not tomorrow which is now a terrible notion. Daicon Anime is here in MU and freeborn all. We have voice actors, lots of fun things to do. You can go hit up the quad and check out …..

Public: de renta alrada? It’s free at the quad

Figueroa: …. Cuauhtemol run May 4th

Diaz-Ordaz: I yield

Bottoms: Cinco de Drinco

Burke: the following Sunday is mother’s day. Call your mother. Let her know you appreciate her.

Diaz-Ordaz: Cinco de Drinco is extremely racist, not condemning you just the event. But I’m still going

Lewis: Queer People of color ball and mini conference

Introduction of New introduction

Bottoms: Hackney introduced by Ong. Support assembly bill 166. Statewide policy plan teaching literacy. EAC and ECACHackney, ongs, California assembly built 285. Calgrant B recipients EAC IAC. Kind of complex one about calgrant B recipients very small amount see this.Kappes, Kappes, resolution for Berkeley EAC

Diaz Ordaz: the culture of UC Berkeley is very elitist so in that sense I would like to put this into place.

Bottoms: do not accept but if a senate has to motion

Hackney, Ong, bill 1287. Also with calgrant EAC and IACHersokvitz, topf longrange plan for campus copies IAC BnF EppcMcmanus, Topf add oath of office to court justices IACMcmanus, Topf remove oath of offices from bylaws IACMcmanus, Sagala allow commission to table ….IACHackney, Ong support CA assembly bill 141 about calgrants EAC IAC

Public Discussion

Cano: I just want to put it out there I was really upset cal aggie host as going to come to our meetings and monitor occupancy. I understand that there’s no harm intended but we don’t want barriers and want to have uncomfortable environment. First time I’ve seen “security” please let’s not do that again, but I’m just going to yield.

Sagala: just repeat sentiments. I understand enforcing fire codes. We didn’t need that there we don’t need aggie host there. I think as much as Sergio’s against it, and I’m pretty against it. We can regulate our own meetings. Notify 24 hour in advance if you are doing it. It changes how students feel about coming to the meeting. What kind of environment are we creating?

Kappes: divestment. There have been other campuses where there have been violence. So I can see the reasoning for having hosts

Cano: I understand that. But at least for my meeting, I don’t have the budget and its fine we have the money to do this. But I don’t think we should spend the money. But as aggies, we should hold each other at a higher standard. We don’t need a host at my meeting. There’re no hostile sentiments that were said. Everyone was considerate of each other

Kapur: How much did it cost?

Wonders: $17/host and $23/supervisor

Thomas: I wouldn’t have called them, but I was happy to have them here. I mean they were students. If they were real cops, then it would have been too real. The thing is the reason they’re here in the first place is because they’re in an environment where people don’t feel safe

Sagala: obviously it was a divide and students on one side of the argument were friends with the hosts there. Seeing that showed bias. Bias from student gov all the time already. And like I’m not calling people out already and I have to express that some people felt like they had preferential treatment about who gets to come inside

Thomas: they didn’t go into an ordeal. If we had aggie host in senate, I would vote them to get out of there. These are commissioners and I want their opinion. I don’t want them to be in a…..if it takes having aggie host there then I can appreciate that. I want to defend the presiding officer for having aggie host.

Sagala: that’s fair

Jared: I’ve been at the table, and I understand having people yelling at you. This was not something to do. This is not how senate to be. It turned this room into an authoritative

environment. I had to be told where to stand, my entrance and exiting. That’s not how to begin a debate on equal levels. But there’s no violence in any senate meetings. If you’re going to call aggie host. First thing is to hold a meeting not in this tiny ass room. Get one of the lounges where you put the freshman. The dorms. Because then the aggie host can take a more passive role and not an active role that they took that night

Bottoms: that was a question I was going to have. We’re going to have larger spaces, and they require aggie host being there. Is this something comfortable if occupancy is not an issue?

Jared: it’s like a natural occurrence there in the SCC. Here they were very obtrusive and active. I think if you have it in a larger space then it’ll get rid of a lot of conflict

Burke: I was told they felt much safer knowing aggie host was present. That being said, it should be more planned, I feel a lot safer that something has got my back when I’m giving a speech

Wonders: aggie host is a student just like you. They get paid shit. They get paid peanuts. And they don’t want to be here more than you guys want to. They don’t carry guns, knives or pepper spray. If you were in the meeting at IAC, it was hostile…it was in the bounds to use aggie host. Aggie host being there absolutely a good call. And while overbearing at times, it was beneficial

Figuera: I respectfully disagree and I’ll explain to you why. I’ll give you two anecdotes. I come from a high school that’s very militarized. There’re cops patrolling in and out. But literally there were corners of my school that were covered by cages. I felt like a prisoner. There have been studies on this and this is a violent environment to begin with. You have people feel that it feels more hostile with their presence. Try to see the influence they had in their life. It’s sometimes just doesn’t work out that way because it’s so authoritative and obtrusive and the people you may have talked to have not had that type of bias

Shaeffer: I’m not sure if that’ll be seen as divestment….I want to make the table aware that BnF is considering activating a session. Want the table to know if they have a particular stance about location, aggie host, or…. I would appreciate you guys telling me. I want BnF to be a respectful forum and if you can help me with that then I’ll really appreciate that.

Wonders: I’m not saying we should do it for part of the time and kick everyone out but…..

Public: I know that it was supposed to they were unbiased presence there. As a student who felt unsafe there. One of the aggie hosts showed a bias the next night. We felt disadvantage in line because…..if you are to bring aggie host make sure they are in fact unbiased.

Smith: I understand the role of the aggie host they are students and they don’t mean harm, but from the perspective of a member walk into this room has a public. I felt policed and that was my experience. So I think if you want aggie host that’s fine. I don’t think it’s good or bad either way. Just put it in a bigger venue so we have less of an role

Cano: made an excellent compromise. I know people are expected a packed room for budget hearings.

Entering and exciting without being stopped. With a bill or resolution, they should be prepped or who should be in the room. For example author. Just prep aggie host who needs to be in the room. That’s all I ask for just prep them when I come.

Public Discussion

Sagala: Motion a question to the court, but no one from the court is here. Wednesday 7:45. BnF meeting is Tuesday.

Cano: If they rule it then we have to redo the meeting

Sagala: I want to know by Monday.

Thomas: 24 hour advance for closed sessions.

Sagala: we’re interpreting the bylaws differently

Sahota: I suggest putting down a time

Is it within constitutional rights for BnF to hold a closed meeting?

Shaeffer: BnF is justifying. Let’s ask the real question and judge whether or not it’s a legitimate justification. Regarding the UC Davis investments.

Question will be sent into court

Jared: I just think a closed session would be a bad idea. It’d be an offense with the transparency. I understand commissioners aren’t senators and we shouldn’t expect them to be senators, but they do represent our entire organization. I would say it’s an unfortunate necessity to have the vote take place in a public meeting. I would say the closed session defeats the purpose of causing less of an uproar. I would have an open meeting, I also don’t think that the resolution would fall under …. It’s ASUCD stating its senatorial opinion. Also another thing is the court’s opinion is unofficial and not binding. I know things that you all don’t know because I’m so old

Thomas: unrelated, for me actually, when you get your reports can we do them as fast as possible.

Shaeffer: clarifying question with Jared. Do you think it’d breach transparency if the discussion took place publicly?

Jarren: I would say yes. There will be nothing conveyed….a vote…I think the names would be on there anyway.

Shaeffer: what I’m trying to seek right now is trying to protect my commissioners and the public and having both cases heard. Does a closed session at all cross the line?

Public: can you also change the location of the place with the closed session? Casue kicking people out with piss people off.

Shaeffer: it’s a logistical concern.

Diaz-Ordaz: I haven’t gotten clarification. Is the recommendation of the ethic of cultural affairs on the bill? I will take the legislation to court. If you’re going to be nonbiased, going to court

Bottoms: there is precedent for this. When we did referring during senate meeting, and then the vote would have counted from there. Did this in …..

Diaz-Ordaz: did not give recommendation for it. Just wrote it and introduced it. I did it because I didn’t know I could know. I made a legal mistake, so I got an email saying how to process a bill introduced to commission. I need to go to SGAO. It was your job to send it whenever. What I did this time is apparently illegal. But neither has are you following me? In order for a bill to be recommended somewhere it has to have approval by senate. 21 odes not have an ECAC rec on it because at the time that bill was written, I didn’t know I had to go to SGAO and get a referral sheet. But I was under the impression that I had to go get it myself. In the bylaws it states that it has to be referred by the senate. We wrote the Islamophobio bill but had no rec. The divestment bill we did have a rec for it. And apparently that is a legality right? That bill wasn’t seen at senate to be sent to my commission.

Bottoms: in order to introduce it we need a vote….

Diaz-Ordaz: so why was my rec taken away?

Wonders: Read article. Which it was sent…... Section 1 paragraph 2.

Bottoms: it would have to be sent by the senate. But it’s the same thing with the divestment. No one at the table said they want to send it to ECAC

Figueroa: if this table fails to send it to ECAC then I would like to withdraw it from BnF.

Cano: It would exhaust……

Shaeffer: it would come to BnF without having it come to Senate. There will be a heated debate over nothing. On other had if ECAC gets a vote in it then I want BnF to see it

Carly: I see it both ways. It was authored by IAC and it was sent to senate.

It’ll just elongate the whole process. And we don’t want to go through this process.

Bottoms: I did have a reasoning. But I want to read article 3 section 5 paragraph 12.

Sagala: just let it give students a chance. You’re just trying to stop students. It’s free speech for us to talk about it and you’re trying to shut people up. you can think were wrong but we have the right to talk about it. If you disagree that’s fine, but you don’t need to shut them up or cut their resources. It hurts us too. You can’t make everyone happy. Motion to go into ECAC

Thomas: I hit up IAC and ECAC and this isn’t about Israel and Palestine it’s about the human rights. That’s the thesis of the bill and therefore ethnic and cultural affairs I don’t see it.

3-6-3 it fails.

Sagala: support who to support but let them talk about what they want to talk about. You have no right to shut them up

Watson: I am beyond sick and tired of my commission which I love to death being mistreated. We had a commissioner on IAC…but I’m tired of my commission being seen as the whiny colored kids. I don’t think the senate understands what we do because you guys don’t come to our meetings. We had Asian films that don’t highlight …we funded that. Minority premeds association who bring these people to start a mentorship. We made that possible. To say that this isn’t an ethnic cultural issue is wrong. This is what we do. It’s in our mission statement. Underrepresented students and give them a right to speak. To silence both sides who have a lot of grief. This is a huge issue. And we silence it because we don’t want to sit at another meeting….I don’t understand I’m frustrated. I never tried to yell at you all. I am disappointed to my core. I’ve never silenced you. I’ve always said please give me language. Compromise. I’m really disappointed it didn’t get sent back to our commission. I felt the need to be voice that.

Cano: it makes me mad that indigenous genocide isn’t coming to my people. This is important. This is so blatantly, so obvious that this is a tactic to silence us. It’s so obvious. The undermining of my commission for this. We are experts of race and culture, why are we being denied our right to talk about our expertise. This is tactical silencing.

Thomas: this was based on what I heard on IAC and EAC. Every time racial issues were brought up they were dismissed. The impression I got I that whenever there was a racial

issue, I think both sides are wrong. So the anti-divestment side brought up a issue the divestment side tore it down.

Cano: …….

Thomas: but that undermines

Cano: when we were at IAC and external affairs we didn’t talk about race. So we kept it to that. But external affairs, we talked about how

Public: ……

Watson: even if we don’t look at the inside…it’s divestment culture. Culture is a set of values that goes with something. Go to your peace training. It’s not inherently about race

Wonders: I went to both meetings. And I too head numerous times from pro-divestment side more that this is not an issue of race.

Watson: It’s not about race. It’s a culture.

Elaine: I just want to express my discomfort with going behind the commissioners back.

Cano: so first off this rec, this doesn’t have an introducing senator. I sent an angry email about this. So all those 3 bills. The senate ….. those computers are def going back. I understand what the discussion was about, but we don’t look into the future. It talked about the Jewish community. So if you don’t think Jewish community is an ethnic community then I ask you to check yourself.

Cano: I feel like that was mentioned at internal and external affairs. And why weren’t they discussed?

Thomas: I just mostly based my presumptions on what I heard. Ill refer it back to EAC if I get the floor.

Kapur: I don’t think I can say it better than how Mariah said that

Watson: there was a member of the Jewish community and said that we need a forum where members can talk about this together. Even if it’s in divestment form there talking about it. The public wants to talk about it. We filled the room and we filled Gheit. We’re not just silencing the people against and also for you. Of course they want to see it die. Both sides get to speak. It kills me that you’re silencing people for supporting me. Give them a change to speak and air it out

Public: this is fucked up. They have silenced us…I don’t understand that’s happening and how that’s legal. It’s bullshit.

Bottoms: what incident were you talking about? Kapur: Mariah made a very good point about culture. And ethnic and cultural affairs commission. Listen to the commissioners. They’re there for a reason. The cultural aspects of….look at the whole name of the issue. This is an accountability issue. It’s not easy. It’s a tough job, but you have to have some accountability. We criticize Sac and Washington and we aren’t that bad, but we’re supposed to promote education and free speech. We are the people who have the ability to change the world. If we disagree how we do it. Always willing to come to the table and have the discussion. Roadblock won’t do anything

Bottoms: want to read both their charge of ECAC AND IAC. Read it. So what I was saying it’s only concerning ethnic cultures of this university. This cultural part is IAC….basically that’s about quality of student life

Jackson: the bill mention Jewish students. Its minority. That’s a fact

Kapur: If you want to kill this bill in this fashion, that’s your decision. Do you want to handle it this way? It’ll divide the campus even more than it is now. The way we’re doing it is important and to do it for technical reasons….if I had introduced the bill, are you telling me that this must not sent to EAAC. Then you must be thinking I’m wearing dodger blue right now.

Shaeffer: I have my own thoughts, but I do think I have this once concern “crazy brown cry-babies” Read the definition of what ECAC does, clear as day. If this resolution is passed, it would affect you. Then we have to retrieve report….and other UCs are off campus bodies…I’m not arguing about the content. There’s just two clear as day arguments of why it should be go to ECAC. For better or worse these people will come back. I want to see it end one way or another then have it come back 4 weeks later.

Given the definitions, for IAC and ECAC, from what I got, that ethnic and cultural affairs doesn’t have a say in quality of life is …the fact you’re seperating the two we have a problem because you don’t understand your ASUCD

Krissy: I just wanted to say that this issue also affects are community Filipino. Colonialism and just wanted to put that out there that it’s an ethnic and cultural issue that affects many communities.

Catala: I just wanted to say this is not an ethnic issue is obviously wrong, but saying because we’re trying to divest ….this is a wrong statement this is not a divestment from the Israeli people

Jared: I’ll holla from the constitutional basis. First of all, the two of us can say with a definiteness that if this was seen by my table or another table before that it would have been seen in the ECAC. ……*read something* “semicolon”. Separates two independent clauses. Needs to be proven two things. That it concerns a policy and pertains to ethnic.

*Defined policy* That kind of sounds like what we’re trying to divest from. From constitutional groundings, you don’t have any right to do so. Avoid going to senate. Allow the students to speak and allow conversation, don’t block it this way. It’s cowardly.

Lewis: as a student, I want to express extreme discomfort with VP by changing the rec without telling anyone. And I think we need to hold that officer accountable.

Public: …

Jared: I’ll remake my point. I think this should be referred to ECAC. Semicolon. Is that number one it concerns an ethnic community and that it’s a policy or program in management of affairs. Divestment would fall under that. Allow the resolution to go through ECAC. Why not? What’s going to happen?

Sagala: you have every right to vote no on the resolution. You have every right to disagree. So we have every right to push this forward and not have it silenced for political reasons. I don’t see any other reason except you’re trying to silence students. Of course I’m on a side, but taking it out of the equation; I would still think this is fucked up. You can’t silent students

I just wanted to let you all know that we’re coming back at you for all the bullshit you’ve down

Xiong: it doesn’t hurt to have this conversation. If I were on the opposition team I want to have all the time in the world to kill it at the commission meeting. I don’t understand why we can’t have conversation. The benefits of having this meeting is so much more than anything. What’s wrong with having the conversation? So please tell me

Burke: to say that it doesn’t hurt is absurd

Wonders: this stuff hurts and I don’t comfortably support it. There has been a lot of negativity pointed at the VP but this is also a decision of the senate.

Xiong: honestly if it hurts, then talk about it. It helps to relieve your pain. Honestly to let others know how you’re feeling and create that dialogue. To dismiss ECAC as a commission how disrespectful. I’m really disappointed. To have a healthy dialogue that’s all we want.

Watson: just getting back to how healthy dialogue and how progressive it would be. I know someone early on called for dialogue. I listed and researched what the companies have been doing wrong and looked up info. If anyone every introduced language, but no one did. We need to understand each other struggles. That’s a problem wherever it is. And we won’t fix it unless we fix it and air our grievances and compromise

Francisco: I’m really disappointed in ASUCD today. Always talk about bringing in freshman into ASUCD. My first ear hasn’t even gone by, I question myself what am I doing in ASUCD. Look at this shit show. It’s almost 3:30 in the morning because I want to make ASUCD better. That’s what I want to do and I look at this. I don’t think this org really deserves my time. I had so much respect for you, and to be on the quad and here about how you guys are going to go behind or go around the commissions and kill this bill on a procedural matter it’s really disheartening.

Kapur: they’ve heard our concerns let them vote

Burke: for the record it’s not my pain I’m worried about.

Kapur: I think this serves……

Public: I don’t think I’m ashamed of ASUCD. You guys care and I respected every single position. I respect all of you guys. It’s a fucking school night. I’m really not trying to offend any of you. I honestly just want to be represented because I’m not white I’m not dark, race shouldn’t matter. I just think it’s not respected that the ethnic group did not get to be heard from. It really should be taken into account; they should be accounted for.

Public: Haja I’m a freshman here and lived here all my life. Seeing the group of diverse people here on campus made me want to be part of this campus. Now that I see that people would be hurt if we brought it is out into convo, I’d feel hurt if people’s voices weren’t heard. That we should still be friends who have diff political. I supported her and I still talk to her and I’m just as close with her as I was in high school. If they want to divide, then it’s up to them but it’s still possible to make friends from other groups.

Bradley: I’m a little confused because now we want a separate commission meeting for ECAC.

Cano: you went to her and say take ECAC rec off. So I told her to put it back on and we can talk about the rec on Thursday if its valid or not. So my questions still not answered. I’m assuming the rec isn’t there, so first question: Is the rec there, and if it’s not, can someone motion it to go on?

Bottoms: if it were on….

Sagala: …hierarchy oppression. Don’t say one student’s pain is worse than another….

Figueroa: The person who looked at this flag and jack off to it, fuck you. You’re disrupting democracy; this is people’s pain at risk. To the person who said, “People are idiots and they have to right to be idiots” are you worried about a biased facilitation. It’s not like we’ve seen this twice already. This doesn’t deserve …. Fuck you it’s un-American. I’m allowing democracy and free speech to happen. You want to disrupt something when it’s not your turn to be right. If you want to be American, be like me. Don’t say you’re American if you just like the flag. Motion this to refer to ECAC.

Diaz-Ordez: Is the rec going to be put back on? I prefer to refer this to the commission so we can discuss this. I want to hear multiple people and I want to hear this discussion. If the rec is on, just put on anyway. That’s fine too. We’re still going to facilitate the meeting because this is important.

Figueroa: move to rerefer the bill to ECAC

Ong: Robert’s Law of order in order to …rerefer….. you must change the legislation.

Motion to refer the bill to ECAC

8-4 goes back to ECAC

Public: so regardless of what I think of the bill, one thing that did hit home was something you were saying about ECAC not feeling respected or making dialogue. I think that’s an option would be if there would be a public forum. Make it a huge event and just make a public debate regardless of legislation

Sandstrom: honestly I like can’t believe this table. I can’t believe the comments directed at the presiding officer. It’s your job to make sure that the rec was on. Second of all I don’t understand is the islamophobia bill is valid if it weren’t recommended? Do I sign it or do I not sign it? Why are we writing a resolution that’s making anyone feel uncomfortable. That makes me feel uncomfortable. I can’t even believe this that it’s a conversation. If this promotes dialouge, I see hatred. You can cut the air with all the unhappiness and I just can’t believe this table is going to push this along.

Public: so um I can’t believe you were just saying that ASUCD can’t vote on device issue. Ethnic tads are a divisive issue. And can ASUCD make a statement on that? They’re supposed to make an issue. Have that discussion and that forum. It’s so inherently flawed that ASUCD can’t make a stand on a divisive issue. Listen to the students and what they’re telling you and basing off those facts, you make the decision

Laura: I really want senate to take it in, Not doing the divestment is a one sided thing. Cooperation that are funding that one side. That’s in itself is divisive. I respect both sides, but if we got through with the divestment, not everyone would be completely happy. Right now if we go through with it, we will be uniting and we will be fair. We’re not funding that side; we’re going to be neutral. We are just asking for fairness.

Topf: I don’t know how it’s fair that the EAC wrote a bill that attacks …

Laura: both sides are represented in the bill

Kapur: this isn’t going anywhere it’s 3:45

Public: I just wanted to point out I felt personally offended that someone said IAC was biased. I respect the member but I do love him and they said it before but just wanted to point it out

Sagala: The students are not wrong. I support what I support and I also respect what others choose to support but I’m not okay with using inherent power structures.

Orders of the Day

Ex Officio Report:

B&F: INC, IAC, B&F, EAC, authored B&F recommendation for CAC and CSG, posting hirings today

EAC: It was a hell of a weekFriday: picked up co-op pins/bottle openers, ordered chairs and tables for Mo+GSaturday: ignored all responsibilities and went to the Arboretum, watched mad men, called and talked to my mammaSunday: Music on the Green!!! Thanks to all who came; I was very proud of our outcome. Also Jordan’s Beard is the shit so shout out to EC for introducing them to me. Also thanks to all our other units who supported-KDVS, Project compost, CLE, EPPC, as well as the Davis Flea & the city of Davis. Seems like it was about two weeks ago. Improvements for next year include better on-campus advertisement and earlier communication with potential food vendorsMon: attended IAC, had an informed meeting with my commissioners, also sent them lengthy email after IAC sort of bracing them. Don’t know how effective that was…but I guess I’ll never know that.Tues: tried my ass off to have my EAC meeting; we rescheduled for WednesdayWednesday: gathered many opinions, had many discussions and even more phone calls, made what I felt was the best decision I couldToday: went to the doctor and got an x-ray…prognosis is still waiting from radiology, but doc says it’s a radial head fracture.

Max: my friends give me attention during office hours, wrote an awesome bill. It is the shit, going to commissions, people have been emailing me about this thing called divestment…, I’m a real senator…I swear! Fuck Miles!

Miles Thomas: held office hours, attended IAC and EAC, stuck my head in B&F, midterms everyday!, Daicon, Daicon, Daicon, Daicon, was called Max a bunch, learned TONS about KDVS! Go fundraiser!, two weeks in a row of being in hostile environment with the executive, attended ASUCD showcase, tent made me cry privilege tears

Evans: held INC, budgeted. Commercial activities advisory group, CCFIT subcommittee meeting, budget hearings schedule soon

Nonga: Music on the green, IAC, EAC, B&F, Aggie Reuse Kristie Wu

Wonders: held OH, went to IAC, went to EAC (twice), held first intern meeting

Ong: went to IAC, went to EAC, held OH on mon and wed 12-2, trying to figure out ASUCD scholarship matching fund, set up meeting with experimental college, been communicating with lobby cops about upcoming events, was going to UA meeting but it got cancelled, set up meeting with Kaplan for ASUCD scholarship

Tal: EAC, IAC, met with Serg, met with Gareth, met with Spencer, held OH, spent all day everyday talking about divestment

Armando: went to 39.2.0 last week, lobbied on behalf of SB130, held OH, EAC, BnF, LRCD, facilitated a workshop “The Chican@/Latin@ Voice in Politics”, went to ASUCD showcase, hugged Herkovitz

EPPC: holding all the office hours tomorrow, next week EPPC’s meeting will be held at the Davis City Council Mtg. where banning plastic bags will be discussed.I sent out an email about it SEVERAL of you have not been to EPPC yet. This would be a good meeting to attendLast week was a great Earth Week. Thank you to the very few of you who attended Earth week activities.Confirmed as CCE director!!!So I put up with EPPC chair + members-tell your friends to apply!!

OA: our event lunch with ASUCD is going on this month in May. All of the student positions have been filled and we are very excited. If you have fliers for an event, please put them in the OA box so we can put them up at the DC. OA will be reviewing our bylaws and looking at a marketing bill next meeting.

Armit: IAC, EAC, office hours, meeting with ICE

Officer Report (no name): Friday: held OH, E-fund Chair interviewMonday: BYLC training, homework and studyingTuesday: Midterm, studyingWednesday: Midterm, studying, work day for BYLCThursday: Senate

Officer Report Burke: office hours, IAC, EAC, explained Max’s “joke senator” placard to two bewildered members of the public

Diaz Ordaz: 5 hour IC meeting, half were at the meeting, another half was at ECAC, did a fantastic job, Tuesday: didn’t do anything. Cried a little Wednesday: EAC for lengthy meeting. Lots of mini meetings. Have to have a lot more for those.

Tanzi (I think…or someone else I forgot): IAC Mtg, B&F Mtg, OH-twas fun

Meeting Adjourned at 3:54