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ASUCD SENATE AGENDA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 6:10, Mee Room April 05, 2012

I. Call to Order

Meeting is called to order at 6:12 PM.

II. Quorum Roll Call

(Lu arrived late and Alday absent)

III. Presentations A. Office of the President

Sterling: I wanted to come in, this is pretty informal but I just wanted to make some initial contact with you all so that you know what I’ve been working on, what we’re looking at for the next quarter, my office is completely open to everyone one of you. I really want you to know that I am very open to working together, especially with a lot of what we’re being faced with right now. We need to collaborate. It just shows that much more when we’re up against pressing issues. I want everyone to take that to heart and take that very genuinely. I wanted to first introduce some of my staff to you who can be some contacts to getting information into my office.

Eddie: I’m a third year communications/sociology major and I’m the new director of policy management.

Daniel: I’m a first year and I was in OA since fall and now I’m one of the new interns.

Judy: I’m a first year and I’m in EAC, I’m really excited to meet everyone.

Lauren: Third year IR major and I’m an intern for the president.

Sterling: There’s two members who couldn’t be here yet but they’ll drop in later to say hi. I know Adam presented in his last state of association address the cuts the association is facing and to give you some really great news: we will not be joining shared services! That is a huge weight off our shoulders and a huge improvement in the cuts we’ll be seeing. That means that every other department on campus is joining the shared service center but ASUCD will be partnering with others. we’re still faced with the budgets cuts though and will be working against those. Right now you should be counting on budget hearings being the third weekend of May. If anything changes, I’ll be in contact. That should be the 18th, 19th, and 20th. That’s all pretty tentative but that’s what we’ll be shooting for. Your units’ budgets are all due to the Controller’s office by tomorrow so I hope you’ve been working on that. If not, there’s still time for it. as far as Picnic Day goes, I hope you’re aware our safety enhancement zones are zero tolerance. A significant difference is that on campus, the police will be on campus, which is a pretty huge portion of the cops that will be on campus at all. The Handle Your Shit campaign will be up and running, please boost that up. Something that I’ll go into a bit more of detail is what ASUCD will be doing and the presence we’ll have. I’ve reserved a spot for us to wear “our fees are hella high” t-shirts and holding signs to be healthy advocates. A couple other points: 2020 Initiative will be talked about a lot, I have made some new appointments so now I’ll be working on the board as well as my Chief of Staff, Sabrina Dias. We have appointed Annemarie to work on the academic resource task force. Sabrina will be coming in to share that Ted Adams who worked very closely with ASUCD and CSI and he passed away last week. He really cared about his work and Sabrina will be coming in with a resolution to honor him and I hope the table can get on behind it. For anyone who knew him and was close to him, the service is this weekend. Also, Matt Haney will be visiting our campus next Tuesday the 26th from 9 am-2 pm. If anyone is interested in the work that UCSA does or how we can benefit from their services, Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

please feel free to sign up. Know that I’ll be coming back during public discussion so questions can be asked then.

Miguel: How do we get involved with the 2020 initiative?

Sterling: I told you the four members on the task force you could get in contact with or if you want to give a specific presentation, give me that information and I could make an appointment. They don’t want an entire group to come in since it’s a small room but they would love a representative.

IV. Status of Legislation Previously Passed

V. Introduction of New Legislation

VI. Public Discussion

Sterling: I came back because I knew I threw a lot of information at you guys earlier and if you do have any questions or issues, please let me know. We’re still being affected by the budget cuts, how shared services will be affecting student life all over. Other things I mentioned were for picnic day and things leading up to it and picnic day specifically. I would like to see this body be represented and the whole pepper spray event is what Davis is kind of being coined as. After that, we’ll be having a table on the quad. It is ideally a four part table. Feel free to work with me. We’ll be selling my fees are hella high shirts while tabling for students to where when they visit the capitol during spring. We’ll also be transporting students with buses to the capital and letters they can sign right there and hand back to us. Ideally, we want at least one ASUCD representative per hour. You can draw from all of your interns and what not.

Gilbert: What kinds of questions should we prepare with our units for budget hearings?

Sterling: If there’s differences in their budgets, know why there are differences and really understand their unit so you can be their advocate.

Cano: I’m a little confused how the budgets will be run this time. Will it be online only or paper?

Sterling: Paper, you will have a hard copy.

VII. Public Announcements

Han: Decision Day is tomorrow, just to remind you all so if you could check the times you signed up for.

Anguiano: Next week is Trans Safe Zone Training and Pride Week so go to LGBTRC! The SRC is also hosting a group of 150 or so students coming to decide if they want to attend UC Davis or not.

Bottoms: Sabrina and I noticed a lot of issues in the last bill that there were many people not too happy about certain things so we’ll talk about Chapter 4 in a little more detail and figure out other amendments we’d like to make so yeah, come talk to me. It’ll be Wednesday the 11th in AMC at 3.

Zokaie: I have a final tomorrow from a year ago because I got mono and got an incomplete but I’m scheduled for Decision Day tomorrow, hopefully I get out in time.

Bae: Fred Wood’s second part of his OH will be tomorrow from 5-6 trying to get cookies and lemonade for us to munch on. Please try to make it out. They’re making an effort to get to know us. Also, please update your OH on the SGAO wall so they can start putting it online.

Cano: BRSC will finally be meeting next Wednesday at 6 in the AMC room! So if you want that room when I’m not using it, talk to me.

Padgett: With the general manager interviews, they wanted to thank the exec office for being so accommodating and they’ve really liked learning more about the student government and how we function because normally it’s been the general manager that’s been responsible for a bunch of that. Once the whole interview process is done, they want to schedule for a tour for anyone interested. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Cano: I’ve been working with Brett about remodeling the senate office. There’s been emails snet out about the fourth floor coming to visit to see the quality of the rooms. Basically, we’ll be getting our carpets redone free of charge but the Champagne room, I wanted to get a white board. We’re going to take a trip to the bargain barn to find a conference table. Unfortunately, none of this will be happening until Summer.

VIII. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

IX. Appointments and Confirmations A. ASUCD Controller

Melanie: Hi everybody, I’m a third year economics major. I interviewed for the position, I got it, and I accepted 

Sterling: For anyone that don’t know, Melanie has served for the past year as the chief of staff for the outgoing Controller and she’s been serving on IAC for two years now. She is very knowledgeable and well-informed as our campus as a whole. On top of that, she really has the ability to balance the different issues we’re faced with and how to do that different type of outreach. One of the things we joked with her about in her interviews is that she has such an ability to hear groups through but she still has a beautiful vision. Yena and I would love to have her in our office.

Cano: [chuckles] I’m sorry I can’t just sit here with no one asking a question. Um… You’re really qualified.

Padgett: What projects do you hope to work on this quarter?

Melanie: For fall and winter quarter, I have many projects I’d like to pursue. One is to create a campus website with information regarding UC Davis’ budget.

Goss: How do you view the relationship between the Controller’s office and B&F?

Melanie: I’d like to work on coordinating the duties of B&F and the Controller’s office. Both parties have the same responsibilities and I think a lot of energy could be saved by working together on audits.

Kapur: What’s your favorite budget-related bylaw?

Melanie: I like the bylaw that establishes the break that has to happen every hour. That will come in handy for budget hearings.

Barnett: If you had to cut one unit, which would it be and why?

Melanie: I wouldn’t cut a particular unit. That’s not fair because some students are very invested and dedicated but if possible, I would spread the cut.

Sandstrom: Hey. You established a bill re-establishing the entrepreneurship fund. What steps will you take as the Controller?

Melanie: We’re working on the website right now and the Controller is in charge of putting together the assembly so for this quarter, I would just work on having everything fall in place.

Han: Will we be seeing you on Thursdays?

Melanie: Yes, but if I’m not sitting at this table, I’ll be in the office.

B. STS Unit Director

Sebastian: Jessica comes to the table extremely qualified. She’s served the Tipsy Taxi director for the past year and has served as a sales manager so she comes to the table with a whole host of experience Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

in making money, specifically for making money for busses. She also has many years with customer service, a skill I think is very important for this position.

Padgett: What future projects do you plan on working on?

Jessica: I’m trying to cut the subsidy by increasing the charter rates. Currently, they’re about half of the private companies so we do have room to raise prices. Sebastian implemented some really great features this past year, the website and the advanced pick-up form, but not many people know about these features. One of the things I’d like to do is heavily advertise Tipsy Taxi and let students know how to get home safely when they go out partying and fun times.

Han: Some people have talking about potentially having a bus pass to use for the quarter?

Jessica: I’ve never really thought about it but that makes a lot of sense, I’ll definitely look into it.

Crisologo-Smith: We always get the PediCab people coming in here to do a partnership with Tipsy Taxi, what are your thoughts on it?

Jessica: Personally, I don’t think it’s a good idea. if we do partner, they wouldn’t be benefiting us. Sebastian told me that they would be having some of our passengers. They would call in and request a pedicab or a taxi so they would just have a reason to take our customers.

Crisologo-Smith: My only thing is that we should look less at them as customers but as students we want to get home safely.

Jessica: I understand but pedicab is a private company and he doesn’t do background checks of his employees so that’s something to take into consideration.

Miles: Have you thought about putting Tipsy Taxi phone numbers on the back of student IDs?

Jessica: I haven’t but that would be a good idea, like I said, I want to up the advertising.

Kimball: During your interview, you mentioned having a texting service so students wouldn’t miss when Tipsy Taxi comes?

Jessica: That’s a feature I’m trying to look into. I don’t have tangible information I can give you guys now but I will be working on it a lot more in the future.

Barnett: How do you plan to reduce the subsidies?

Jessica: One side of it was increasing the rates on the charters by the hour. By increasing the revenue that STS generates, it could in effect ask for less subsidy from ASUCD.

C. ECAC

Montelongo: These candidates are all very qualified and they’re all very diverse. They’re all really good. Let’s confirm them, go!

Bottoms: What do you think ECAC’s role is and how will you pursue that as commissioner?

Kriti: I think ECAC’s role is to help represent underrepresented groups on campus especially ethnic and cultural groups so I hope I can help bring certain groups more awareness and resources and let student bodies know about their existence.

Joyce: The first thing is to help students respect diversity because of discrimination. I hope by putting in more effort we can improve this problem.

Bree: I think that ECAC has a lot of roles on campus and off campus. It’s also celebrating diversity which is a lot of which is lost in ASUCD and on campus. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Olivia: I also think advocacy is really important and we need to provide a voice and voice our opinions to the masses.

Gilbert: So ECAC was actually the first commission I ever attended and I loved it. when it comes to this commission, I think it’s so important to place emphasis on the members involved so understand the difference between racism and stereotypes. Can each of you give me a response for what’s the difference between race and culture?

Olivia: There’s no difference between races. We’re all humans so we’re all one race. Culture and ethnicity is what makes us different but race is like, hey we’re all humans.

Bree: I don’t think she could’ve put it better.

Kriti: I totally agree but I want to make sure that culture doesn’t become the next race and start discriminating by culture.

Joyce: I also totally agree. Culture is created by races because one race can have many cultures.

Link: What do you view as your most important experience in preparing you for ECAC?

Olivia: Right now I’m the administrator for cultural affairs, yes I am second after Tatiana.

Bree: I think being apart of ASUCD for so long gives me the idea and realities of how commissions work and also being so passionate and being able to motivate others will help me be the most committed, at least for this quarter because of cultural weeks.

Kriti: I’m a freshman and I really loved cultural events in high school and I’m also looking to become a peace trainer for the cross cultural center.

Joyce: I worked for student government in high school and I worked for the leadership center last year and our group was so diverse, we were all from different countries but we all get along so well.

Sheehan: Something that’s also plagued me is cultural relativism. No matter how different, they cannot be ranked. Do you buy that?

Kriti: They can’t be ranked.

Bree: I didn’t understand your question because it was in the negative, but no they can’t be ranked.

X. Unit Director Reports A. Lobby Corps

Bihter: I wanted to come in as early as possible in the quarter because starting next week I’ll have a conflict with senate meetings. We have a few weeks of preparation, you’ll see our bill package next week and also if anyone at the table would like to learn more about the bills, we’ll be having a bill training next week. Then every week during lobby month, we’ll be having a bill training. I highly encourage everyone at the table and anyone in the public to come to our meetings. We would really love to have more commissions come and lobby with us but we would like you all to know what the bills are about before you come. We finish our lobby month with a legislator of the year award and we’re hoping to hold it May 31st. I’m hoping for it to be before Senate meeting so you can all come as well. We’ll also be hiring interns that will be paid which will hopefully solidify our volunteers. It’s an open until fill position so we have the ability to hire as many as we’d like. And as a heads up for budget hearings, I realized towards the end of Winter quarter that our transportation line item was a little strange. Students were only being reimbursed for parking but not for gas and what not.

Bottoms: Can we get a sneak preview of what bills we’re supporting?

Bihter: It’s almost set but we’re still deciding on some bills. SB #69 was brought to you last year but Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

new ones regard pepper spraying and SB #73, AB #21, SB #1539 and that is all for now.

Barnett: What metrics does your unit have for success and how would you evaluate it?

Bihter: I think because Lobby Corps main goal is our legislation loving effort, for me, for the first half of the year our success were based on the relationships we were able to build and for spring quarter it should be measured in getting the word out and how our lobby month goes.

B. STS Tipsy Taxi

Sebastian: Our unit’s been doing pretty tremendously. We’ve reduced our subsidy by 30%. My first year and so far this year, we’ve picked up about 150% of our expected revenue so obviously with that, some of the budget has gone up but that’s why Jessica and I have been going over the actuals. Jessica has come to the table with a bunch of great ideas such as advertising and we’re also potentially going to be working with IT to let customers know when they’ll be picked up. Our charter sales are up and to clear up a previous question about pedicab, we in no way are against partnering with pedicab but the problem is how it would work operationally.

Barnett: What metrics do you guys have for success and where do you see yourself currently standing?

Sebastian: We’ve had outstanding success in the past few years and our ridership, despite the fact that we raised it to $3, we’re still doing really well and our charter revenue is doing fantastically. We get clients on a regular basis and they keep coming back because we’re the cheapest guys in town and we’re pretty friendly.

Sandstrom: on the Tipsy Taxi app, is there a link to Tipsy Taxi?

Sebastian: The Unitrans app, not to be confused with the ucdavis app, is in the process of received an actual approval by Unitrans but it was created by an independent third party so we have no control over the content.

Padgett: Is there anything specific you are looking for in the coming year for the applicants for the new general manager?

Sebastian: I’ll be serving on the panel and I’ll be really looking for it. with Geoff Straw vacating his position, that was obviously a huge fall, he was a great general manager and we have very big shoes to fill.

Lu: In terms of the prepaid idea of a swipe system, is that something that could be applicable?

Sebastian: The technicality of that is that we’d need an on-board swiper, which is pretty expensive and that would have to come from capital reserves. We did a ten pass or a one pass tickets but we’ve never considered a quarter of tickets. I don’t know what the problem of a ten pass ride is, it saves paper.

Bottoms: A quarterly, a monthly, or heck, even a weekend pass would be great. If so, we would love to work with you on that.

X. Ex-Officio Reports A. Commissioner Chairs

Link: held all of my OH on Wednesday, worked lots, had a fantastic commission meeting Tuesday night, during which we discussed Earth Week plans, crafting, and of course, environmental issues! Hope everyone had a fantastic spring break!

Barnett: held meeting on Tuesday and went to class because it’s the first week and I’m a student.

Stone: Our meeting was cancelled this week but I’ve filled my time with event prep for 39 2.0. Also, I had meetings for the ASUCD Award Endowment, WEF, the ASUCD Scholarship and the 2020 Initiative. I Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

also attended an office hour for Chancellor Katehi and another for UC Dr. Fred Wood. AAC alternate apps close today, so interviews will be next week. I held OH on Monday and Thursday. 39 2.0 is next Wednesday at 7:10 PM; location is unfortunately TBA!

Sandstrom: read bylaws and constitution, had meeting with Lauren about Music on the Green, cleaned exec office, went through old EAC stuff, worked on Davis Volunteer and Service fair, figured out budget, waste and insurance for Music on the Green, sent out survey to businesses, got pictures for Decision UC Davis, reviewed solutions posed at Jobs Summit and found a couple of new ones, had meeting with Alex to put up site for California Jobs Summit, went to OA week of competition (cupcake eating and musical chairs), met with Karl to follow up with Jobs Summit, went to Farmer’s Market to figure out the waste component of Music on the Green, made tri-fold for Decision UC Davis, printed brochures for Decision UC Davis, Davis Volunteer and Service Fair meeting, went to Bike Barn for opening day

B. Outreach Assembly Speaker

Lu: Thanks to everyone who came out to observe OA’s week of competition. We’ve had over 80 clubs compete in the past four days and almost all our events, everyone who registered showed up. Today’s obstacle course was really fun. Sorry Joyce, you got owned. It was really fun and you can definitely tell people were more responsive. I’ve also been working on the Davis Volunteer and Service Fair and we’ve been also getting shipments of catalogs. My internship just launched Florence and the Machine ticket giveaways. I’m not picking them. We’re giving away two pairs of tickets. We’ve been working on updating the resource manual. I’m also going to start bugging you guys for ASUCD events in the dorms, which will be the 4th and 5th weeks of this quarter. We’re trying to orchestrate this huge affair where we can get senate, commissions, and units to all come out and table to the freshmen of how to get involved. These events in the past have not done well and that is because we have not done our job. Everyone can take part in publicizing and how great it is in getting involved with our association.

C. ASUCD Controller

Maemura: I got confirmed today 

XI. Elected Officer Reports A. President

B. Vice President

Bae: Ken Burtis 2020 meeting, Ken Burtis, Karl Marl and Rebecca 2020 meeting, went to my 2020 initiative, coffee with Conucil member Wolk, met with our new office Rebecca and Melanie, scheduled and interviewed my staff, went to my 2020 iniative, had a meeting with Adam, had a meeting with Dr. Fred Wood with Rebecca, met up with AnneMarie and caught up on 2020, sat on STS Tipsy Taxi Interviews, met with Carly for budget, met with Alex about Scholarship portal, Bike Barn opening and also checked out Aggie Threads

C. ASUCD Senators

Crisologo-Smith: had a great Spring Break, attended IAC, authored new Ethnic/Lav grad bill, enjoyed the weather

Zokaie: spoke about donating to Scholarship, mobile munchies-unit I’m trying to start, Davis for a better tomorrow, tomorrow-club I’m starting, mostly to get Stephen Colbert on campus! Held OH, met with interns, registered for 22 units, sat on Controller interviews

Han: M: held OH 4-6 PM, T: attended EAC, B&F and EPPC, competed in WOC for Senate in Musical Chairs; W: Bike Barn tour, met with my first intern!! First Farmer’s Market—so cool! Held OH 4-5 PM, R: competed in WOC (obstacle course), met with 2 more interns! CA Aggie tour, held OH 3-5, went to Fred Wood’s OH

Kimball: STS/Tipsy Taxi Director Interview, Bike Hub, EAC, B&F, Bike Barn, Davis Volunteer and Service Fair meeting, met with interns, met with Rebecca and Brett Burns about Cal Aggie Camp, Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

held OH

Sheehan: break, bikes, OH, cupcakin’

Kabur: went to regents meeting during spring break, read the entire bylaws and constitution, T: had meeting with Chief of staff, went on Bike Barn tour, had public OH with Senator Bottoms, went to Lobby Corps, had lunch with the Chancellor, rallied, went to Fred Wood’s OH

Goss: Return from break older, wiser, stronger Invigorated, ready to do work Winter over, now Spring, days grow longer Same old senate, love it for all its quirks The table’s resolve by Dragon was beat Shocked was I, agony did I weather As I watched with shame, the sting of defeat Three cupcakes Sheehan, you can do better OH, IAC, Bicycle Barn Tour Compost, CCE, show red cups the door Major events and CalPIRG voter reg Finished with UA Ambassador leg Hey it’s 3 AM and this is crazy So bang the gavel and adjourn maybe

Bottoms: Spring break: read the bylaws and constitution, saw a lot of grammar mistakes, who’s ready for corrections? Started dialogue with TAPs and student housing about bike safety, met with my Assembly person Hill over coffee about college funding and student advocacy. Nice to speak with a legislator outside of Sac. This week: held way too many OH #liveonthirdfloor, organized a focus group for 2020 with Professor Burtis, met with my wonderful staff, get ready for some great things from them, went to EAC meeting, met with my adopted unit director, Bike Hub opening, bunch of student housing outreach

Min: held OH, attended EAC, Fred Wood’s OH and Brett Burns’ OH

Padgett: 12 unit spring quarter—aww yea! Held OH, emails and documents, worked on Unitrans General Manager Interviews preparation, met with Rosa Gonzalez about Pantry projects and their budget, met with Andy Weintraub to discuss GM interviews, IAC, B&F, EAC, tour of the Bike Barn, met with intern at Black Bear Diner (mmm), STS Tipsy Taxi Director interviews, Handle Your Shit campaign, Fred Wood’s OH, volunteered at the Pantry, checked out the new Bike Hub! Bought a U- lock, bike light, and a bike pump FINALLY! (holla Sheehan!)

Gilbert: Week of Competition, held OH, hired Interns, met with Josh Flushman “special Olympics in June” here! Unit director campus copies and AggieTV, grand opening of the Bike Hub, attended Committee for student fees and services for Prez, planning on going to Trans Safe Zone Training this Tuesday, Rush week! Spring Workass! (2 platforms)

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

XIII. Consideration of Old Legislation A. SB #72 Hsu

Aaron: This is the LRP for University Affairs, we started around the usual half year ago. The first version of the LRP was a few years back, this is a revision of that. Some has been deleted, some has been updated and some has been preserved. All the usual sections are here, I added an internal relations here because apparently, we’re supposed to do that now. This is the old format, the one that people have grown to be fond of.

Cano: IAC saw this last quarter. It’s fairly detailed. It’s the third update, I encourage you do read it. this is the spine of the unit. It’s a really great read of what the unit does and what its goals are. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

Barnett: This was seen back when we were in talks with the Controller and Sergio of possibly restructuring LRPs.

Sandstrom: We saw this bill last quarter. We liked a lot about it. we wished UA worked with us more, hopefully the next director will do so.

B. SB #73 Cano

Cano: This is the last long-range plan for all the units so after this, all the units will have them. IAC saw this bill last quarter. There’s a lot of turn-over and last senate meeting we passed a bill for donations manager. In commissions, it was amended to reflect that change but overall, we did like this plan. It’s very feasible.

Barnett: This is a very great bill, the unit is definitely exceeding our expectations.

Link: This unit is the baby of former EPPC chair Darwin Moosavi so we were biased towards it. We added a lot and loved it.

Sandstrom: Externally, we tried figuring out ways for them to collaborate more but we loved it overall.

C. SB #75 Pascual

Cano: This is the first revision of the long range plan that was writing 3 ½ years ago. We loved it, it seemed feasible.

Barnett: Solid, bold long-range plan.

Link: Great bill, printed double-sided. They had a nice little section on environmental sustainability, which we loved.

Sandstrom: One of my qualms was more communication with EAC but that’s something outside of the long-range plan.

D. SB #83 Goss

Goss: This is an ASUCD senate bill to require senators to attend lobby corps once a quarter. It’s not that big of a requirement. We’re required to do it for commissions already. Bhitir came in to talk earlier and wanted us to really really really come in. IAC liked this bill, Chair Cano as Sergio Cano will have some other comments to air when he gives his own personal thoughts.

Cano: The five members of IAC liked the bill and thought it was an effective use of senators’ time. And they would like to urge for a speedy passage.

Padgett: I don’t like that we’re doing this to give more preference to a unit. It’s a unit, not a commission or the assembly. It doesn’t have to do with the actual legislative process. They still do resolutions so we can make it mandatory to go to different meetings for units and I’m just wondering where do we stop on this? And not everyone is super focused on advocacy so everyone has their own focus. We have some senators that are very invested in advocacy and others that do lots of green initiatives. I do like making it mandatory to go to the training, which would be a more effective use of time.

Gilbert: I do see the benefit in going to lobby corps but like Erica said, that’s not some of senators’ priority and it should be left up to the individual’s choice.

Padgett: Those are my biggest concerns because this just opens the flood gates for us to make it mandatory for senators to also start attending other meetings. I’m not saying a senator shouldn’t go to those things but it shouldn’t be mandatory.

Goss: Senator Padgett: I’m going to ask you a series of rhetorical questions. A member of the table Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

yesterday had just said that the senate is kind of an advocacy unit, just like Lobby Corps. I want to know what other units like Lobby Corps meet regularly once a week and are more vital to our campus as a whole and I just wanted to point out that I just sat down with Fred Wood and he said the only way we ever see an increase in state funding again is if we’re constantly in the legislators’ faces. As representatives of UC Davis, it is our job to protect the welfare of students within this university. Our fees are hella high aren’t just a slogan, they’re not just a shirt we parade around in, but it is very true.

Sheehan: What I did like was switching it from mandatory to a advocacy training. What if we made those mandatory because I really like bikes, but not every senator likes bikes as much as I do. So let’s change this slightly to say mandatory advocacy training.

Link: I love the edit to advocacy training, that way it’s enforceable. Right now, senators are required to attend every unit and OA but ya still don’t. I think Lobby Corps is very important but if we’re saying it’s more important then we’re on precarious ground. I think everyone should go to CCE meetings and my meetings, y’know.

Kabur: The training usually happens once a quarter though.

Sheehan: Teeth? What if we cut pay once a week for every meeting they don’t go to.

Link: I don’t like making attendance at a meeting mandatory.

Repicky: I would recommend not getting overly testy on this bill because it’s not the end of the world if they do or don’t attend that one mandatory meeting because what will really be accomplished.

Bottoms: I used to volunteer for Lobby Corps and I noticed that a lot of lobbying happens fall quarter so it might be awkward when we’re there fall and winter quarter during internal business. And I kinda like our separation, it allows us to work on different fronts.

Bihter: I’m not quite sure what’s been discussed so far but the way our training works for Lobby Corps is we have initial training in the fall for new volunteers but it’s not extremely comprehensive. We’re establishing contacts, meeting with higher education committee offices and it’s spring when we have our big lobbying effort. Our weekly trainings during lobby month are on the lobbying itself where you learn the numbers and details about the bills, learning how to speak about the bill.

Bottoms: Do you think it’d be okay to have all twelve of us in there?

Bihter: I don’t think that would be an issue. Right now we’re in AMC so it’s a small space but maybe if we got a different room. Justin did talk to me about this bill quite a while ago and I said from our standpoint, there’s nothing wrong with it. I’d like senators to be more aware with what Lobby Corps is doing but issues with other units, obviously that’s a decision the senator has to make. If a senator has a specific interest then I’d like them to take the initiative and come in to our meetings.

Cano: This whole discussion about the training came up at IAC and the author did say he wanted that as an addition so to me, having that as an alternative is not the same. if we’re going to do a separate training, that’s something lobby corps could prepare for us but that’s a discussion for another day. I would rather senators to focus on if they want it to be mandatory or not. During spring quarter, history has showed that senators do go to the capital so I think this is just a bit excessive.

Bihter: I think right now is just too late for us to do something like that. We really do need to focus on lobby month and our bill package but I would love to do that, or whoever the next director is, I would highly encourage them. That is something we would do in the future and I can’t see us fitting it into this quarter.

Kimball: It’s more the responsibility of the individual senator. For example, I’m not going to try passing a bill saying you all need to go to CCE just because that’s what I’m passionate about and that’s what I’m efficient at doing.

Zokaie: I kinda like this. For right now, lobby corps is more important than other units because of tuition hikes. I don’t think it necessarily opens flood gates unless there’s an environmental crisis, then Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

we might consider everyone attending CCE. I liked a lot of Senator Goss’ comments, where is this coming from! I don’t know how much training would do. It might be a good compromise but I don’t think it does the same thing. What I would like to do is divide the house on how you feel on this right now.

Han: I don’t think people are against going to lobby corps but they’re just against it being mandatory. And Sergio, why did your three commissioners vote no?

Cano: They thought it was pointless and a waste of time.

Goss: It shouldn’t be a problem if you already say you really want to go to lobby corps because then you meet your requirement. I am sensitive to the concerns that it’s over legislation but I’m not sensitive to the idea that units will get jealous because we pick favorites. If unit directors suddenly want us to come see them more, come tell me and I will whether that storm. Unit directors hate seeing us!

Padgett: I don’t like the idea of the bullying politics going on.

Sandstrom: One thing I really do want to address is people need to continue being respectful. We all have our own things, try to smile. I wanted to suggest making ti mandatory once per quarter. It’s not something of substance to advocate on behalf of students. this bill just doesn’t make sense to me to have a senator attend a lobby meeting per quarter. Another thing is that you are ex-officios of the lobby corps meeting so all senators can go to meetings. I think the time is easily displayed. I hope I brought up good points.

Bihter: We do have a smartsite and we put a lot of resources on there. I don’t think the senators that were elected at the end of winter weren’t added onto the listserv, so I’ll add you guys.

Padgett: When I said Senate is kinda like an advocacy unit, I meant that by sitting at the table, we have a job in advocating but not every single one of us need to focus on that. I do applaud you Justin in taking the initiative but not everyone wants to make advocacy their priority. If we don’t have people with a diverse range of priorities, we’re doing a disservice to the students to make sure things are getting better. We should have an unofficial consensus that students should be going to lobby corps more this quarter but it doesn’t need to be a mandatory thing to ask for from senators. And everything that’s going on right now, we need to do everything possible to get in their faces. I’m glad we have a lot of people at this table who are so passionate about it, which is awesome.

Goss: So you think we should be doing everything in our power to advocate, yet you are against going to lobby corps and passing a bill to go to lobby corps.

Sheehan: A payback on that, I have a really low sense of political advocacy as a student so my focus has always been on the campus. You can force me to do this and I’ll do it but it will be out of my head by the next day. It’s a selfish thing. I don’t want to require myself to do something that I’m not fully passionate about.

Goss: I think Patrick put it really well when he said he’s voting no for personal reasons but I just can’t understand when you say you completely support lobbying and student government lobbying yet you are against what this bill encompasses.

Kapur: I’m going to speak on the idea that we recognize that advocacy is important so can we make it a tradition to speak about this in a formal setting.

Sheehan: The reason we have lobby corps is the reason we have bike barn. I can say we don’t do enough to build bikes but that’s ridiculous because we have a bike shop. We’re a governing body.

E. SB #84 Cano

Cano: I wrote this bill a while back to restructure the bylaws. It gives LRPs a better purpose. Unit directors are supposed to submit a written report to SGAO and SGAO hands them to senate. This chapter really improves LRPs and clearly defines the roles of each body, senate, and commissions. IAC Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

really loves writing LRPs. I’m going with that and I’m sticking with it. The only discussion that we really had was that originally this bill was introduced as an administrative plan but we changed it to long- range since it’s more catchy.

Barnett: I do not recognize the bill before me, so no comment. LRPs in no way carry out action which is why former controller Ho renamed them to administrative plans.

Cano: I don’t understand the point in arguing about what a long-range plan is when it is a long-range plan. B&F commissions attend these conferences and if they feel there’s inadequate plans to guide the commission in the future, by all means, they should tell IAC so those questions can be written down so we can have consistent rules and I don’t feel that’s IAC’s fault. We’re writing the document by definition. This bill addresses different things. We’re making it better by including audit reports. Just like today, asking Tipsy Taxi if they’re looking into swipe cards, yeah they are, those are long-range.

Goss: Commission warfare shouldn’t happen in Senate. It should happen in commissions or racquetball.

F. SB #90 Cano

Cano: IAC loved this bill, they thought it was an okay purchase and we urge for a speedy passage.

Barnett: B&F also unanimously loved this bill. They faced the same arguments over and over again and when it comes down to it, these are investments that we need to put forward to meet security requirements. These computers are old and they are a security risk so we need to do it now. It’s going to happen.

Sheehan: I was on the fence leaning no then people got even more mad so I was gonna say no, then Sergio talked and I’m going to revert back to arguments I had before in support of this. This is a protocol thing and we have standards. Even though this looks like senate spending on itself technology masturbation, the only difference between spending now and later is that we’ll have missed a year of having better equipment.

Ricardo: It looks like it is necessary to buy a computer or manage the hardware better and it says there’s a problem with running non-native products so why not just buy a Microsoft operating system?

Sheehan: I’m going to put this really bluntly: apple computers are senate-proof. Microsoft is a lot cheaper but it’s also a lot worse. You get what you pay for.

Ricardo: Today on Scene It, there was an article today about half a million computers have SpyWare that targets Macs so they’re not a clean or safe system so it would make sense to go towards Microsoft.

Cano: That’s a great point but we have invested in PCs in the past but people tend to be not tech savvy and there’s a lot of turnover so when there’s a virus or something, our creative media director has to waste his time to fix the virus. When we purchased these computers, that’s when Apple didn’t have a large share of the market so they were dependent on power PCs but they changed the processor to Intel so the architecture was not available.

Ricardo: I would rather that the cost be lower. Period.

Kimball: To speak to that point, it is a large sum of money, I agree. I have a PC and I don’t see a problem with it. the person who oversees all of our computers deals with Macs. We go to him if we have a problem. If we have PCs, he doesn’t have that expertise.

Barnett: We sat on many Mac-PC debates and now we’ve realized there’s a trade-off between cost and value. PCs are cheaper but then we have Alex Park running around fixing our computer problems and his time is extremely valuable since he is so busy dealing with our computer needs. He told us that its our decision whatever we choose he will work with, but to know that costs will come with it.

Aaron: Being a non-computer science major, I probably know more about computers. $1300 for a computer seems fairly luxurious to me. I understand the security and supportability. The majority of the Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

world, like it or not, uses windows. I’m not an IT expert but I don’t see why a Mac would be better than a PC in that regard. I have no objection of Mac versus PC besides the price tag. It seems quite a bit more expensive than for what I envision its purpose in the senate office. Sergio told me this is the cheapest Mac you can buy but $1300 for a computer seems like quite a bit of money to spend.

Padgett: I believe that all the past computers Sergio mentioned were all Macs. It’s at the request of Alex Park for them to be Macs just to keep it consistent. I also understand that you’re good with computers and good at preventing bugs from getting on your computer but Macs are better at preventing them from getting in. This isn’t going to be something where we buy something and two years down the road we have to replace it. we’ve had our current computer for 6 years.

Aaron: If it lasts 6-7 years, then it doesn’t sound so bad. I do agree it’s harder to mess up a Mac, generally. If it was an IET thing, I’d just say to put up firewalls so people aren’t downloading pornography in the senate office. I’d like to point out though that buying the cheapest Mac might not be the most cost efficient then. Again, $1300 is more than the maximum that a student I know would generally spend on a computer so I would just like the table to think about a random student who sees an expenditure of $2600 on only two computers.

Anguiano: At first I thought it was a lot of money and I still do. I know they’re really needed but do we need two? I haven’t gotten on the computer yet so I don’t know but if I did, I’d be like fuck man.

Padgett: Originally we wanted three computers but because of the cost, we’re just going for two.

Anguiano: Doesn’t campus also sell computers?

Sheehan: Apple doesn’t do discounts, period. Besides their educational discount but even school discounts, they’ve removed.

Rahel: The traditional bind of the student body is Mac bound so is there a way to reconstruct the Macs? Instead of being amazed by the luxurious Mac that is brand new, we all have to face budget cuts and unfortunately, what it sounds to me is that you don’t have the money. Maybe buy them used or off eBay? And Macs are breakable like iPhone jailbreaking.

Sheehan: About the budget cut idea, we’re facing variable cost of like $50/month rather than $10/day. Something I’m doing is building my own computer. It saves a crap ton of money and you get a really good computer. We’re paying more and it looks really greedy but the cost over a period of time will be lower just because we’re going with a more reliable machine.

Rahel: As far as I’m concerned, I don’t think the student body would use all this downloading that you would receive these viruses from. We’re not doing heavy duty downloading of damaged files.

Goss: About security and jailbreaking and iOS, jailbreaking is something the user does to their own iPhone. No one is going to do that to these machines. And I just wanted to applaud you as a high school student from Alameda coming here as a member of the public. You are a really good public speaker.

Sheehan: We have someone that manages all of our technology and he’s like our parent who manages all of our technology. It’s like if you’re a BMW dealer, you don’t want to touch a Ferrari. I watch Top Gear sometimes! If the marginal cost of this computer is less than the cost of Alex spending time working on this computer, it’s less money spent over time.

G. SB #91 IAC

Cano: This was the residue after my massive strikes. IAC liked it.

H. SB #92 IAC

Cano: This is a brand new chapter. It’s special. Sections 1-8 remove things that were in the bylaws but in various locations of what SGAO has to do so it makes more sense to have it in one area of what they have to do. IAC saw this Monday, it was fairly straightforward. Everyone loved the ASUCD Website rules of one location. Senate Meeting May 24th, 2007 Page 2

I. SB #93 IAC

Cano: Over spring break, I did a lot. And this is one of the things that I did. On line 293, the ASUCD Excellence and Education Award, I talked to Annemarie about moving into a close session to discuss the winner of the award recipients. It’s also better that it’s outlined than in just a random place. That’s mainly why I wrote this chapter in the bylaws. IAC had a fairly lengthy discussion with the senators that attended the meeting. One particular senator did bring up the concern that we ask a question to the director but they’re too far down on the list to respond so we decided to turn it into a dialogue format where it goes back and forth back and forth for 3 minutes. Discussion of action can be used as a deferment. That’s the compromise we came up with. In theory, it works. Dialogues happen, deferments of actions. We passed it unanimously.

Goss: Really like this bill. It points out that we were calling close sessions wrong in the past. Before, we didn’t have to have a majority vote, someone could just call one if they felt it. Now it changes it to the need for a majority vote, which we already do. We’ve been having enough close sessions.

Cano: I think the Controller works very closely with unit directors so it’s their prerogative to call a close session. There could be a situation in the future if the senate table really knows nothing and the Controller really wants them fired because they aren’t being smart with money, they can do it.

Stone: I just wanted to speak to the portion about the Excellence and Education Award because there’s nothing more frustrating than a senator in the room when you don’t want them in there. We want it to be a surprise so we want them to get out, but they won’t so I like that part. you all should.

Cano: The Controller already has the ability to call a close session on an individual and so does senate.

Crislogo-Smith: The original way I had envisioned it was based on the close sessions we’ve had, the dialogue wasn’t facilitated very easily by parliamentary procedures. That should just be a regular senate discussion and have the regular rules apply. No? We can add on it will alternate in public discussion. Now I’m happy with this bill.

Cano: If there’s a personnel issue, they don’t have to be motioned in because they’re already a relevant party.

[applauds]

J. SR #X—CONSIDERED URGENT

Dias: This resolution is to honor Ted Adams who was heavily involved in ASUCD and just passed last weekend.

Bottoms: I just counted four his’, I know this is a resolution but how do people feel about gender neutrality?

Goss: But this refers to a specific person who is a man.

Bottoms: I know, just askin’ a question.

XIV. Other Business

XV. Public Discussion

XVI. Any Other Business

XVII. Adjournment

Meeting is adjourned at 1:09 AM.