B. Vice President: Gareth Smythe s1

I. Call to Order A. President: Mariah Watson B. Vice President: Gareth Smythe C. Senate President Pro Tempore: Miguel Guerrero D. Senator: Mikaela Tenner E. Senator: Tiffany Lung F. Senator: Parteek Singh G. Senator: Sevan Nahabedian H. Senator: Joshua Dalavai I. Senator: Danielle Santiago J. Senator: Kamaal Thomas K. Senator: Georgia Savage L. Senator: Puneet Dhindsa M. Senator: Adilla Jamaludin N. Senator: Anas Tresh O. ECAC Chair Sean Guerra P. EPPC Chair Brent Rosenwald Q. IAC Chair Abhay Sandhu R. EAC Chair Joe Nazzal S. AAC Chair Ritesh Mishra T. GASC Chair Ivon Garcia U. B&F Joe DeAngelo V. Outreach Assembly Jade Wolanski W. Controller: Francisco Lara II. Quorum Roll Call

III. Appointments and Confirmations

A. IAC – 8:09

a. Simran Grewal

a.i. Santiago: Why did you choose IAC?

a.i.1. Grewal: Originally applied for B&F. Realized I was interested in that in high school, but I realized that wasn’t something I wasn’t well-equipped for. With IAC, I was ASB President. Something I wanted to do was change our ASB Constitution. That was something I worked on, that was a passion and experience I thought I could bring forward to ASUCD.

a.ii. Smythe: Have you taken a look at the governing documents?

a.ii.1. Grewal: Yes, some of them paralleled what I looked at in high school. Also familiar with Parli-Pro

a.iii. Smythe: Most intriguing part? a.iii.1. Grewal: Learned that during a report, senator can’t speak on someone else’s project.

b. Confirmed

IV. Unit Director Reports

A. Picnic Day – 7:59

a. Grace: Picnic Day is on April 16th, Cultivating our Authenticity. We have some big changes since last time I presented. Changed Multi-cultural Children’s Day changed to Children’s Museum due to fears of cultural appropriation. Using Aggie Feed. Student involvement is over 2 times compared to last year. Sponsorships also going pretty well. Our deadline for sponsorships is actually next week. Still below, but $5,000 below where we need to be, which is about one and a half sponsorships. No non-profit fair this year. Instead, Battle of the Bands will be moving to where non- profit fair was. Battle of the Bands will be moving to behind Mrak. It’s exciting but scary because it’s been at Lake Spafford for the past 50 years. Have a gender-neutral restroom map.

b. Tresh: Where behind Mrak is it going to be?

c. Grace: Behind library.

d. Smythe: Why do you think sponsorships were difficult this year?

e. Grace: They’re difficult every year. We changed our package this year. We’ve made more money quicker than we did last year. It’s a challenge every year, Davis is saturated with a lot of people asking for money for events. Another thing is people want package deals, want to be at the Buzz and other events, not just Picnic Day.

f. Smythe: Benefits of sponsorship?

g. Grace: We need money. Gets outside businesses engaged in community. Building relationships.

h. Smythe: Benefit for sponsor?

i. Grace: To be on campus. Outreach. Positive exposure. On a normal day, need $1800 to table on campus. Picnic Day, $2000.

B. WEF

a. WEF is a 3-day arts and education and music festival. Big on promoting sustainability, non-violence, non-estrangement. One of the first events to start composting. Project Compost actually came out of WEF. Environmental and financial sustainability.

b. Yuusef: There are a couple of ASUCD units that don’t get subsidized, we’re one of them. We feel obliged to use every cent very wisely. Past directors haven’t had much initiatives regarding that, but directors last year and this year are really trying to work on that. Actually made more money than expected last year, hope to do so again this year. Important to not rely on student fees. We want to sustain ourselves and be environmentally sound. c. Where we are now. Got staff hired, meeting with admin, police and fire department. Putting up postings for events and shows. Looking for volunteers. d. Yuusef: Also trying to look into working with other units. Want to increase collaborations. Big part of that is working with EcoHub. Aggie Reuse booth. Looking to give Cal Aggie Camp a booth. Thinking about renting stage out to EC, keeping money within association. If you have any suggestions about involving other units, contact us. e. Questions

e.i. Lara: How are you partnering with CM?

e.ii. Yuusef: Haven’t really built up as much of a relationship as we like. But we are working with them on the website, banner.

e.iii. Lara: Concrete ways to increase relationship with CM?

e.iv. Yuusef: Possibly, input on production of poster, anything like that. Still not really sure, hard to get in contact with CM because they’re super swamped.

e.v. Also, we’ve been working with them on our official logo. Didn’t work out too well last year, but trying again this year.

e.vi. Lara: Poster last year didn’t say ASUCD, how are you going to address that?

e.vii. Yuusef: Didn’t have an official logo to put on our poster, so we didn’t put ASUCD logo on the poster, lots of things slipped through the cracks. Last year they sent us, no offense, 15 very sub-par logos. This year, to ensure ASUCD is on the poster, will get our official logo set with WEF first.

e.viii. Wolanski: Deadline for having a booth?

e.ix. Yuusef: Depends on the booth. Food booths, end of March. Education, a little later. Crafts, first come first served.

e.x. Dalavai: Musical act?

e.xi. Yuusef: Looking to build a better relationship with EC. Don’t have any big acts, looking at maybe Michael Franti. Besides that, mainly local bands.

e.xii. Smythe: What can we do to help foster CM relationship?

e.xiii. Yuusef: Greg has helped out a lot with that. Is there any adopted senator for CM? We can go through Parteek and start working on that.

e.xiv. Smythe: What stage of planning are you in now? e.xv. Yuusef: Applications for booths coming through. Staff set. Going through different meetings; met with risk management, fire department, setting up meeting with TAPS. Once applications close, ball-game will really start picking up. Once things settle in early April, we’ll have all the approvals and start working on the nitty-gritty.

e.xvi. Singh: How much for booth space?

e.xvii. Yuusef: Depends on what the booth is for, and within that, size variations. Looking to generate around $68,000 in revenue, around where we were last year.

e.xviii. Singh: Planning on increasing booth fee this year?

e.xix. Yuusef: Potentially next year. These are all handmade items, so they’re small-scale family type of production. Don’t really want to increase price of booths too much. Really want to work with vendors. WEF isn’t just about making money, it’s also about giving back to the community.

e.xx. Singh: Noticed talk about lack of volunteers. Maybe reach to different environmental clubs for volunteers.

e.xxi. Yuusef: Have been reaching out to clubs, units, fraternities and sororities, even different high school clubs. We’ve tried different avenues of volunteers. If any of you have any ideas on how to get more volunteers, would love to hear them. If any of you are free, come out.

e.xxii. Savage: On Vacancy right now?

e.xxiii. Yuusef: No, on our website, can email us.

e.xxiv. Singh: Maybe send us the application for us to post?

e.xxv. Yuusef: Yeah, and maybe we can tap into Vacancy.

e.xxvi. Tenner: Anything you’d like us to do to help with EC?

e.xxvii. Yuusef: Mostly need to get the ball rolling. One of the nice things is our Entertainment staff person is on EC. The next step is really just scheduling a meeting. e.xxviii. Tenner: A lot of us have staff who are really eager to get involved. If you want to all tell your staff about it, would probably be helpful.

e.xxix. Yuusef: One of the big issues of getting Senate involvement is it’s right around budget time. But let your staff know, will be when Mother’s Day is. If all of you bring out your staff and they each put in 4 hours, that would be really helpful. This year we’ll be bringing back reusable dishes, to do that, we’ll need a lot of volunteers. e.xxx. Nahabedian: For WEF, a 3-day festival. What would a booth at a similar festival cost?

e.xxxi. Yuusef: Depends on where they are and what they accept. Handcraft-only festivals have booths just around our prices. Depends on what the restrictions are. Lots of requirements for handcrafted goods, makes price difficult to raise. Lots of regulations for being on a college campus.

e.xxxii. If we increase booth prices, prices of food and crafts will go up. Students can’t afford all the time, don’t want to limit our audience.

e.xxxiii. Yuusef: Also, food at festival is organic and vegetarian.

e.xxxiv. Lara: % of visitors who actually buy crafts?

e.xxxv. Yuusef: Hard to tell, but a big part of the craft sales is Mother’s Day. We brought in $68,000 from crafts, and the person who was in charge of that was paid $150. The investment is not bad.

V. Committee Reports

VI. Presentations

A. TRAVC – 7:19

a. Nolan: Met on Wednesday. Before that, had a meeting with Aggie Studios. We’re supposed to do a creation of 5 different videos. We’re in the planning phase, trying to get candidates. Looking for TRAV students interested in getting involved. I wanted to set up an official email, was wondering how I would go about that.

b. Lara: You can talk to CM about setting up something like that.

c. Nolan: I’ll try to do that tomorrow so we can post and get it set up. Hopefully by spring we’ll have some videos to post. Set up an FB page, working on graphics for it, hopefully will be up by next week. We’re with our survival guide, working on survey, meeting with TRAVC next week to talk about those things.

d. Tenner: While you’re waiting for email to get going, you could also do a Google doc that can link back, don’t need to use your personal email.

e. Dalavai: What are you committee members… how are they doing?

f. Nolan: Have been sending them tasks to do throughout the week. We’re working on the survival guide. Going around on campus looking for helpful resources. Victor from TRAV Center, hoping to plan on events with them. Having members talk to students around campus. Just applied for a job at TRAVC, if I become a peer advisor, that would strengthen my knowledge so much more. Have been trying to get committee members involved.

g. Garcia: Reached out to student community centers? h. Nolan: Not yet, waiting to hear back from student housing because they’re the ones handling the handbook. If you have any suggestions, would love to sit down and talk to you. We’re in the planning phase still, we want this to be informative but informal.

i. Garcia: You might want to consider making a map for gender neutral restroom locations, LGBTQIARC has a list but not a map. Connecting and trying to find out what people at student community centers need. A lot of people didn’t know about the community centers.

j. Nolan: Anyone that can come and talk to us at our meetings?

k. Garcia: Best thing to do is send them and email about it. AB540 Center is doing allyship training, might be a good opportunity to get to know.

B. Health Fee Oversight Committee 7:46

a. Caitlyn: Committee started around 1983. Health fee is at $133 per year. That’s not enough to keep it running, we’ll soon be running into debt. We’ve reduced hours. The SHCS is used by students every day, last year we had 76k visits. If you’ve visited lately, you’ll notice that we don’t have enough counseling services for all the students who needed. Fee hasn’t changed for the last 10 years. This year we’ll be going into debt, which is hard because then we’ll have to lay off faculty. We voted to increase fee by $3 per quarter.

b. Nahabedian: Last time I talked to someone in SHCS, said it was paid for by Division I Athletics. Heard Student Health and Wellness is intertwined with Athletics.

c. Caitlyn: Can’t really feel I can comment on Athletics.

d. Smythe: Think you’re talking about Campus Expansion Initiative. That connects the physical buildings, this fills those buildings with programs. So they’re not really related.

e. Caitlyn: Our budget is $133 million, can’t continue with current income.

f. Tresh: This fee increase, will it go on the ballot?

g. Caitlyn: This is a proposal, will go in front of Chancellor, approved by admin and Chancellor’s office.

h. Singh: Would it go SFAC before it goes to the Chancellor?

i. Smythe: This is the SFAC before it goes to the Chancellor. This isn’t part of ASUCD, won’t go on the ballot. It’s part of your tuition.

j. Caitlyn: Next Tuesday, I’m working on, I’m trying to put together a student health group working on mental health. Anyone interested, contact me.

C. E-Fund – 8:13 a. Larry: This has been an awesome year for E-Fund. Got quite a budget cut, were allocated around 500% less than what we usually get. We’ve been able to manage. It’s really important for student entrepreneurs to get funding for their projects. Successful entrepreneurs are known for their colleges. I believe UCD can build stronger entrepreneurs. There’s a network here that’s strong for entrepreneurs that doesn’t really focus on undergrads yet, that’s where we come in. We’re the only source for undergrads to get money from, as far as I know. Green Initiative Fund is still not there yet. This year, we got 26 unique applications. We awarded 4 grants this year. Able to get $1500 donation from Davis Roots. Got donation from Venture Catalyst. Able to fund a team called Cumulus. Agg for Hire, connects farm contractors with farm laborers. REN, birth control company. Discourse, web application you can upload your transcript to. The ideas that were awarded money for can actually benefit the student body. Really in the best interest of ASUCD to keep supporting E-Fund. Beyond just money, we have a network of mentors and other organizations both on and off campus. Connected with Davis Groups, Graduate School of Management, Venture Catalyst. We’re not just about money, we’re about providing value to our students. Event right now called Hack Nights, allows students to get together and listen to a company that sponsors our event. They present a topic, students work together for the rest of the night about it. Zillo is coming next week. The reason we’re able to get these companies to come in, this is the first year E-Fund has an open bank account and a donation portal. It’s nice to get support from ASUCD financially, but we’re moving in the direction where companies will be able support us, and alumni donors. Would like to make ASUCD aware of what we do, have you all behind us in the future, encourage students to be a part of our board. A lot of people think you need a technology or business background to be an entrepreneur, that’s not true. It’s something everyone can do. It’s of best interest to student body.

a.i. Dalavai: You were talking about applications and board member process. Does Gareth have access to info about that we can spread?

a.ii. Larry: Information on website, all up to date. Will be posting chair positions next week on Vacancy.

a.iii. Akhbar: You’ve mentioned that other orgs fund entrepreneurs, but you’re the only one that’s specifically for undergrads. How do you market that to undergrads?

a.iv. Larry: Primarily through listservs and advertising. Hack Night is our biggest event, previously had speakers come in.

a.v. Mishra: Are you an incubator? A seed investor?

a.vi. Larry: I would define us as an incubator. We give grants, take no equity. Similar to Davis Roots downtown. A lot of the power in entrepreneur orgs like us, not about money, about the connections. a.vii. Mishra: Relevance vs organization?

a.viii. Larry: We look for both, but mainly we’re looking at strength of market. We did receive some strong applications that were focused on social media and networking, but we are in a day and age where those aren’t really compelling. Even a strongly organized social media app has less draw than others we give money for.

a.ix. Rosenwald: How do you make sure that the knives of E-Fund are properly sharpened?

a.x. Larry: We’re really focusing on coming up with more ideas for how we can grow our programming, make us more attractive as an organization for people to donate to. We’re modeling on similar organizations at other campuses. Now that we’ve given out all the grant money we actually have to give out, going to be developing plans for additional programming next year. For example, job fair or field trips to companies.

a.xi. Smythe: What strings are attached to the money?

a.xii. Larry: As of now, they have to go through 5 of our mentorships and office hours. We give them a spreadsheet to break down their costs, submitted to us to review and we submit to Financial Aid. Some of the companies are actually pretty far along. A lot is play-by-ear.

a.xiii. Smythe: What do you think the implications are of an alumni/company funded company vs. an ASUCD funded company?

a.xiv. Larry: We’ll get a lot more money from companies, but in the short-term it’s important for ASUCD to keep on supporting us. Haven’t really developed the alumni network necessary to drive the E-Fund yet. Still need support to maintain momentum, but in the future we’ll be able to show up.

a.xv. Smythe: Something that I would appreciate you communicating to your next chair, is to come to a meeting like this and present on what you’re doing. Once we know the effort is there and you are awarding them money, we’ll know it’s worth putting money into.

VII. Public Announcements

A. Hannah: We have our quarterly worm composting workshop next Saturday at 11 AM. Completely free, lots of worm bins available. Good way of reducing food waste.

a. Nahabedian: Worm bins dorm safe?

b. Hannah: No, they are not due to health and safety issues. But we are working with them, giving small bins to transport food waste to compost bins.

c. Smythe: Is Wormy going to be out there? d. Hannah: It’s Mrs. Wiggler actually. Look for us on the quad, will be doing some advertising next week.

VIII. Status of Legislation Previously Passed – 8:57

A. Smythe: I don’t believe Mariah has gotten to the legislation yet, it’s been an eventful week for exec.

IX. Introduction of New Legislation – 8:35

A. SB to create the Board of Unit Directing Students

B. SB to allocate $5000 to pay for the one-time cost of UCSA.

C. SB to increase communication between ASUCD Senate and CFC.

X. Consideration of Old Legislation

A. SB #41 – 8:36

a. Author’s Comments

a.i. Lara: DREAM Committee Chair asked if DREAM Committee had their own line item. They didn’t have one, didn’t exist. They couldn’t really accept funds. This creates the line item, doesn’t put any money in it to begin with, but it creates it so they can ask for money.

b. Commission Recommendations

b.i. B&F: Only thing commissioner had a problem with is it opens up the opportunity for Senate to give it funding.

c. Questions in Text

d. Public Discussion

d.i. Guerrero: I was just wondering. Were the 2 abstentions absences?

d.ii. Marcos: Not sure why they abstained, they didn’t give reasons. Probably because they didn’t know enough about DREAM committee.

e. Senate Discussion

e.i. Dalavai: Could you give me a rundown on the DREAM committee?

e.ii. Smythe: DREAMer is a federal term for students given federal money to go to school. DREAM Committee supports those students, AB540 students.

f. Call to Question

g. Passed

B. SB #43 – 8:41

a. Author’s Comments a.i. Lara: The point of this bill was to amend Bike Barn’s budget because it was unrealistic at this point, given how they were doing. The numbers you see are a product of a lot of work between me, Janice, Bike Barn, and consulting team we hired. Wouldn’t change the negative subsidy in the budget. Some of the bigger changes include part sales, labor, repair and maintenance, merchandise. One of the things brought up in B&F, why was publicity being decreased? Didn’t make sense to give them money when they didn’t have a plan. CM planning on revamping Bike Barn in the summer, makes sense to wait for then. b. Commission Recommendations

b.i. B&F: The explanation Lara just gave us was what won us all over. c. Questions in Text d. Public Discussion

d.i. Guerrero: Clarification on line item 54000?

d.ii. Lara: It’s like, conferences the Bike Barn manager would go to in order to… like trainings you would go to. Those funds haven’t really been used at all this year and years prior. One of the first line items we struck.

d.iii. Nahabedian: I think last time, the manager was talking about how he went to, he got a cool deal out of a bike company at one of those seminars.

d.iv. Smythe: Net loss or gain to their budget?

d.v. Lara: Most of this is just spreading around funds to cover subsidy.

d.vi. Sandhu: I think they’re projected to lose another $15,000.

d.vii. Lara: I didn’t include all the line items. Some of them weren’t changed. Some other income line items weren’t changed. It would be the same.

d.viii. Smythe: That would be interesting to know, the total effect on the unit.

d.ix. Lung: Explain why merchandise for resale is an expense?

d.x. Lara: Think about a bike seat that’s purchased. That’s an expense in itself.

d.xi. Lung: For salaries, are they being cut from weekly pay or a stipend?

d.xii. Lara: These are all hourlies. Some slots wouldn’t be refilled, some are taking cuts in their hours. Depends on how much time they’ve spent at the Bike Barn.

d.xiii. Jamaludin: In regards to projected increases, where is that coming from?

d.xiv. Lara: Working to increase their rentals. A lot of people don’t really know about the Bike Barn. d.xv. Jamaludin: Same thing with bike sales?

d.xvi. Lara: Yes… I wasn’t really involved in those discussions, that was more Janice.

d.xvii. Guerrero: Labor line item. Bike Barn charging more for labor and being more efficient. That decreased, wouldn’t that be more?

d.xviii. Lara: Yes, prices are increasing, but they aren’t outweighed by what they’ve already made.

e. Senate Discussion

e.i. Akhbar: UD said he was asked not to make a profit. Is it supposed to profitable now, and was this taken into account?

e.ii. Lara: Bike Barn was asked not to make a profit, doesn’t really make sense to me. That has changed now. Same with CoHo. This does take it into account.

f. Call to Question

g. Passed

XI. Ex-Officio Reports – 8:57

A. GASC

a. Reviewed prison divestment resolution

b. Provided resource bags to CARE for Healthy Relationship Bingo

c. Fri: Attended GenSex Week events

d. Talked to Greg about athletics and mandatory training on gender, sexuality, sexual assault and general allyship

e. GASC was awarded a grant from the LGBTQIARC

B. EAC

a. Aired grievances

b. Discussed food trucks to bring to campus for winter quarter event

c. Discussed Table Awards for the quarter, could have a new prize awarded (yet to be named)

d. Made sure all commissioners voted in the elections

e. Ex-officio assignments

C. B&F a. Discussions of how to improve our auditing process and present it in a way that is “easy to read” for budget hearings now that we have access to real time information of expenditures and income

D. Controller

a. This week, I have written several bills and attended multiple meetings regarding several topics. I’ve been really focused on elections and have been monitoring voter turnout daily. In addition, I attended B&F in order to have my bills seen.

XII. Elected Officer Reports – 9:06

A. Jamaludin

a. IUSC meeting was canceled on Fri

b. Wed: meeting with Janice

c. Thurs: staff meeting

d. Started writing proposal for space for international students

B. Santiago

a. Tues: CoHo exec debate, Filipino Grad meeting, AXꭥ Sisterhood event

b. Wed: arranged meetings with Fraternity President for consent workshop, CoHo debate senate candidates

c. Thurs: office hours, keys to success with Caliph Assagi

C. Nahabedian

a. Fri: Parteek & I had an interview with Her Campus about our Plan B Project; IAC interview

b. Tues: Meeting with IFC rep. about tailgating & picked up flyers

c. Wed: CoHo debate

d. All week: campaigning and elections

e. Thurs: Caliph’s talk got me #inspired

D. Thomas

a. Fri-Mon: Attended the African Black Coalition Conference at UCSB

b. Tues: Attended emergency meeting regarding hate crime incident

c. Wed: Met with Administration regarding services for the survivor; shot promo video with UCEAP; held #BlackUnderAttack demonstration during ASUCD Senate Canddiate Debate; had staff meeting

d. Thurs: met with a few candidates, attended Black Leadership Council meeting E. Savage

a. Meeting with Joaquin (Title IX officer) regarding “Let’s Talk About Sex”

b. Denim Day meeting

c. “Save My Seoul” screening meeting

d. Title IX workshop forms complete

e. Sam (OASR), legislation for tonight

f. Helping with elections

g. Parteek -> STP/STI party

F. Singh

a. Follow up meeting with director of CCC

b. Interview with Her Campus regarding Plan B vending machine

c. Interview with HerCampus regarding Formal Without Border

d. Fall Welcome Planning Committee Meeting

e. Meeting with Ryndie from the International House

f. Held office hours at CoHo

g. Follow up meeting with Merril from Student Health and Wellness Center

h. One on one meeting with Janice

i. Keys to Success event

G. Dhindsa

a. Met with Heather WRRC

b. Office hours

c. Met with Mind Spa Coordinators for platform

d. Met with Janice to talk about reserves

e. Staff meeting

f. Went to LGBTQIARC event Fri

g. Met with Lyndon to talk about platform

h. Keys to Success events

i. Went to senate debate

j. Helped senate candidates k. Lunch with Miguel

H. Dalavi

a. Attended Student Appreciation Week events

b. Publicized Media Board vacancy

c. Held office hours/staff meeting

d. Bought a Formal without Borders ticket

I. Guerrero

a. 2/12: OA/CCE; Love an Aggie

b. Weekend: Valentine’s Dinner courtesy of Chef Larry, went sailing

c. 2/16: Had lunch with Puneet; IFC meeting re: tailgating with Sevan, Joe, Ritesh; exec debate; boxing match; Fil-Grad event

d. 2/17: E-Fund; Gareth; Senate Candidate Debate; Athletics Advisory Committee; CFC meeting with Gareth re: bill

e. 2/18: Lunch with Gareth re: elections; staff meeting; SAW event

f. 2/19: Bike Tour Meeting; COSAF; OH; scholarship apps

J. Tresh

a. 2/16: Meeting with TPMP; MAPS board meeting; tabled at ASUCD appreciation week

b. 2/17: ASU Board Meeting; TRAVC committee meeting

c. 2/18: Met with Ben McNully from UCDPD; attended Keys to Success

d. 2/19: Volunteer at the VA hospital

K. Tenner

a. Thurs: Met with student regent about concerns of Jewish community

b. Fri: Met with a candidate; went to advisory

c. Weekend: write bills; met with Safeba

d. Tues: debate

e. Wed: watch debate; research project, marketing meeting, TRV staff

f. Thurs: Got table for voter registration

L. Smythe

a. 2/12: EAC/Miguel OH b. 2/16: Library Website Meeting; Cal Aggie Camp

c. 2/17: Pro-temp meeting; CFC; voted

d. 2/18: Scholarship work; lots of elections freaking out; Caliph inspirational speech

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

XIV. Closed Session

XV. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

A. Approved

XVI. Public Discussion

A. Savage: Send SB about UCSA to GASC and ECAC

B. Lara: Wanted to address something I keep on seeing at Senate. When a bill is referred to commissions. Take the UCSA bill. I don’t see why you have to add other commissions. I don’t think it’s wise to skew the system to bring about the outcome you want. Commissions are there to advise you. Even if they fail it, Senate can revive it. This is the same for the prison divestment bill. It’s frustrating when you have the process and you distort the way the system is run.

a. Savage: I understand what you’re saying, but B&F’s role is to look at the bill from a purely monetary point of view. UCSA isn’t just about the money, it comes with certain privileges. That’s why we thought GASC and ECAC could evaluate it not just for the monetary value but also what we’re getting. Also, this is purely and advisory decision as well. Even if B&F doesn’t vote for and pass it, it’s something other senators are going to consider it. The potential outcome is just advisory, it’s worth getting input from not just a monetary point of view, but other communities.

b. Lara: My response would be why were those two commissions chosen specifically? Why not IAC? My frustration is that those commissions were chosen with a goal in mind. Senate, when you are deciding where it’s going to be sent, don’t just send it without discussing it.

c. Savage: I definitely think even EAC should see it. Why we sent it to GASC specifically is that one of the main campaigns is a sexual assault campaign. Why we sent it to ECAC was that a lot of campaigns deal with marginalized communities as well. Those were our reasoning.

d. Smythe: I’m just going to read the bill.

e. Savage: We’re the only university that’s still on a partial fee waiver, they’re making a specific exception for UCD.

f. Sandhu: How much was the fee waiver? g. Savage: I’ll check in on that. h. Savage: We need to pay more as a totality. OASR is only requesting $5000 from Senate, thinking about going to admin. i. Sandhu: Gareth, you sent to B&F, please elaborate. j. Smythe: The way this was written specifically was about the monetary implications of the fee. With the prison divestment bill, it reflected the opinion the Senate was going to give. With this bill, it was an agreement with the association to give. In fact, it’s owed to OASR, not the association directly. k. Sandhu: I think Gareth you’re right that the bill language doesn’t imply involvement with other commissions. Would urge others to move to refer only to B&F. l. Nahabedian: Let’s say we wanted spend $5,000 on, I don’t know, condoms, even if it were allocated to OASR to buy it I think we would still want the bill to go to GASC. What you’re paying for matters. Given the subject matter that UCSA deals with, I wouldn’t urge other senators to un-refer. m. Smythe: I agree, that’s my original intention. B&F would decide whether it was worth it or not. n. Nahabedian: Commissions are tasked to go over certain issues. UCSA goes over those issues, I think those commissions should have a say.

n.i. Divide the House: unrefer ECAC and GASC

n.i.1. 7-5-0 o. Guerrero: It’s mainly just the monetary allocation towards participation of membership. We could write resolutions in favor of certain campaigns for UCSA. I understand that we need to look into where the money is going, but that’s what resolutions are for. p. Tresh: Continuing what Lara said, if we can make the case for GASC and ECAC, we could do it for EPPC… q. Savage: They don’t have an environmental campaign. r. Tresh: …no comment. s. Guerrero: For relevant programming, you can make resolutions, but this is just a membership thing. t. Dalavai: I’m not sure we’re grasping what UCSA does, and what the lion’s share of their programs are. There’s no environmental program adopted by the association right now. There are SVSA prevention programs, student of color programs. I think what Sevan referred to about where the money is going to, that’s different from writing a resolution. u. Nahabedian: I just wanted to ask the commission chairs whether or not UCSA’s campaigns are affecting the work that GASC does. v. Garcia: It does affect us, and yes GASC has dialogues on what we want to see from UCSA. We have to review whether or not GASC will do a grant for the fee anyway. w. Nahabedian: UCSA’s work does influence GASC. And the purpose of the money is relevant. x. Dalavai: You heard it from Ivon that it is pertinent to what their commission does. y. Lara: Just going off of what your resolution and what happened with it, I think there’s a bias for what commission it’s sent to and there’s a trend. z. Dalavai: I would say those are two bills that are pertinent to those commissions. aa. Tenner: I think it should only go to B&F, it’s only concerned with finances. ab. Savage: This is finances for the upcoming year, and the campaigns have been decided. This is what the membership is for, we’ve already determined the campaigns, which is why we’re sending to those specific commissions. Those commissions are specifically trained and have knowledge about those particular issues that B&F might not have. I certainly know more about monetary issues, but when it comes down to it, when it comes to sexual assault prevention and other such campaigns, B&F might not know. A quick presentation isn’t the equivalent of what those commissions know. ac. Dalavai: When I motioned for B&F to be taken off the original divestment bill, and Joe asserted he wanted to see it, the conversation stopped right there because the commission chair wanted to see it. I don’t know why the same courtesy isn’t being extended. ad. Akhbar: I do think that what the association chooses to spend money on shows what the association wants to do. When Gareth looks at the language, he can send it directly to ECAC and GASC specifically because of the language that’s in the bill. ae. Smythe: Please also send it to EAC in addition, because if we’re going to send it to all the commissions it deals with, it should also go to EAC. The intentions of the bill should be made clear. In this case it looked purely monetary, but if it was written that the campaigns UCSA have are related to GASC and ECAC, he would have sent it. af. Jamaludin: Looking at the language at the tagline, it was just to OASR. That’s the question of the integrity of OASR. Just this bill, this bill’s language looks like B&F only. ag. Guerrero: If we were to recommend them to the commissions we’re proposing, we’re in a sense limiting the membership because UCSA will have others in the future. There’s an argument that could be made that all commissions could technically see it besides the commission recommended. ah. Sandhu: Strictly from IAC’s perspective, the language of the bill is clearly for B&F. If you wanted it to go to other commissions, I would recommend changing the language of the bill. I don’t want it to become a slippery slope of “I don’t want this to go to this commission so it’ll go to Senate faster.” But really looking at the language of the bill, technically IAC is about student life, this affects IAC. You could make an argument for every commission on this table.

ai. Garcia: If this bill was changed to condoms, if hypothetically B&F would pass it, GASC wouldn’t pass it, because we would want to know what kind of condoms. It’s the culture of commissions. B&F doesn’t traditionally ask questions of allyship. B&F would see “condoms,” but GASC would ask what kind, who it’s for. Maybe B&F doesn’t have the allyship training to think about those aspects.

aj. Motion to refer this bill to EAC and IAC

ak. Savage: I just want to re-emphasize what Ivon said. You said you had problems with UCSA about inclusivity, I didn’t know you felt that way. GASC can talk about that and hold us accountable. B&F can’t.

al. Garcia: I know for a couple candidates for the elections have presented in front of others, some of my friends, who have misgendered me. So just making it clear that my pronouns are they/them. Two, the Aggie has been continually appropriating black culture. It’s really problematic. That piece on jungle fever, a piece that was nearly not published (letter to the editor) was published with a disclaimer. The fact that they are using all these images of Drake while not thinking about how problematic it is, I hope you all can hold them accountable for the fat they don’t do any training.

am.Marcos: I stayed quiet throughout the whole discussion earlier… Just make it clear in your language about how your bill affects other commissions. We’re not that heartless in B&F. A lot of us care.

an. Garcia: Multiple candidates have said problematic things, and have problematic things said to them. It’s really concerning that someone from ASUCD who left was willing to make problematic comments about pronouns publically. There are hardly any queer/trans people in the community who run for Senate and participate.

ao. Guerrero: It really is explicit in the language of the bill that it’s about membership. That’s what resolutions are for, in terms of discussing our views. For us to refer to specific commissions. For us to implicitly refer to other commissions for reasons not explicitly stated.

ap. Sandhu: Look at the specific language of the bill, I recommend unreferring it from the other commissions.

C. Smythe: Event tomorrow is cancelled due to rain, moved to next week. Next week at Senate, we’re going to be doing a segment for the Future Game. That will be towards the middle of the meeting. XVII. Any Other Business

XVIII. Adjournment – 10:05