Associated Students of Cabrillo College
Aptos Campus, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
Watsonville Center: 318 Union St., Watsonville, CA 95076
Scotts Valley Center: 104 Whispering Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Voice: 831.477.5677
Fax: 831.479.6172
http://www.cabrillo.edu/ascc
Total on Roster: 13
Votes needed for simple
majority vote: 50% + 1 = 7
Votes needed for 2/3 majority: 9
Location:
Watsonville Center
Outside in Plaza
Date and Time:
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Student Senate Minutes
The Cabrillo College Student Senate held a meeting on Thursday February16th, 2012.
These are the minutes reflective of that meeting.
Item
IX B
Motion
Motion to approve $1000 from the Programs account to purchase food for the March in
March on March 5th.
Item
Motion
IX C
Yeas
Nays
Abstains
Result
9
0
0
Passed
Yeas
Nays
Abstains
Result
6
1
1
Passed
Yeas
Nays
Abstains
Result
5
3
0
Passed
Motion to approve $100 from the Programs account to purchase a gift for Rebecca Garcia in
recognition for her 20 years as Cabrillo’s Trustee for District Five.
Item
Motion
IX G
Motion to approve $19,000 from the ASCC Student Senate checking account to purchase
500 Metro passes.
I.
Call to Order at 3:07pm
A. Roll Call
Executive Officers
Vice President: Oleksii Chuiko-Present (left at 4:41pm)
Treasurer: Joseph Gomez-Present
Legislative Representative: Gaby Avila-Tardy at 3:29pm
ICC Chair: Ivan Sumano-Vargas-Present
President: Charlotte Achen-Present
Trustee: Joseph Watkins-Tardy at 3:34pm
Watsonville Representative: vacant
Scotts Valley Representative: vacant
Senators-At-Large
Stephanie Petrillo-Present
Darwin Constantino-Present
Chris Steele-Absent
Sage Goncharoff- Absent
Sharon O’Connor-Present
James Williams-Absent
Laura Hunerberg- Present
Advisors
Sesario Escoto-Present
Flor Chacon- Present
II.
Adoption of the Agenda
3 minutes
New Business item B has been moved to the end of agenda; Special Item A will be presented as the candidates arrive;
New business item D is moved to the second item of New Business (now item B). Vice President Chuiko moves to
approve the agenda as edited, and Senator Constantino seconded the motion. This motion was passed by a unanimous
approval of 7 yeas.
III.
Approval of the Minutes
A. February 9th, 2012
3 minutes
Student Senate MINUTES 2.16.12-1
Associated Students of Cabrillo College
Aptos Campus, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
Watsonville Center: 318 Union St., Watsonville, CA 95076
Scotts Valley Center: 104 Whispering Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Voice: 831.477.5677
Fax: 831.479.6172
http://www.cabrillo.edu/ascc
Treasurer Gomez moves to approve the minutes with edits, and Senator Constantino seconded the motion.
This motion was passed by a unanimous approval of 7 yeas.
IV.
Public Comments
This time is reserved for members of the public to address the Senate on issues not already appearing on the agenda.
There will be a limit of five (5) minutes per speaker.
Alaina, a student from the Watsonville campus is present at this meeting. She is from Mexico and here for 6 years and is
interested in what is going on in the senate
V.
Announcements
VI.
Special Items
A. Board of Trustee Candidates
Info. / Discuss.
5 Minutes Presentation. 10 Min. for Questions
Pedro Castio- Pedro currently lives in Watsonville and has been a professor of history at UCSC for the past 25
years. He is interested in higher education, transferable courses and transfers, and additional community college
funding. He mentioned an initiative the students at UCSC incorporated to tax the students a nominal fee each
semester, and using that money for tutoring funding. He thinks something similar may prove affective at Cabrillo.
5 Minutes
Margarita Cortez- Margarita is currently an Executive Director of a food pantry. She was born and raised in
Watsonville and is the youngest in her family of 10 children. Education has been critical in her family which motivates
her interest in education. She went to UCSB and has conflict resolution skills and a background in HR. She has sat
on campus and observed and also worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer for the Red Cross in Colorado. The first thing
she would like to do is be available to hear the concerns of the students.
VII.
Committee Reports
3 minutes per committee
Elections committee held a meeting on Tuesday and discussed details about this year’s election. More people are
encouraged to run and participate. It was proposed not to have open senator-at-large positions following the election until
the following semester. Applications will begin being taken on March 1 st for those interested in running.
Bylaws committee met and discussed issues with filling positions and ICC changes, and will be taking a vote on these
items next week. Oleksii will send the information prior to the meeting, no later than Monday.
VIII.
Old Business
IX.
New Business.
A. Appointment of New Senators
3 min. for Speech, 3 min. for Questions
1. Scotts Valley Representative
2. Watsonville Representative
3. 5 Senator-at-Large Positions
At this time, only 2 senator-at-large positions are available. Due to not having the appropriate documentation at
the Watsonville campus, any person voted into the senate will not be able to be sworn in today and will therefore
not be eligible to place a vote at today’s meeting. There are two candidates interested in the open positions,
Sarah Davies and Steven Culver. Sarah Davies has been the student senate secretary since the beginning of
the fall semester and is interested in becoming more involved with the senate. The senate votes to elect Sarah
Davies as Senator-At-Large, and welcomes her to the senate with a unanimous vote of 9 yeas. Steven Culver is
starting his first semester in college, at age 23. He was in the Navy for 5 years and left the Navy as 3 rd Class
Petty Officer. He is taking 15 credits but has fit them into a Monday/Wednesday schedule and has much open
time to offer for senate activities. The senate votes to elect Steven Culver as Senator-At-Large and welcomes
him to the senate with a unanimous vote of 9 yeas.
B.
Food for March in March
Info. / Action
G. Avila
5 Minutes
This item is up for discussion and possible action regarding the approval of $1,000.00 from the ___ Account to
purchase food for the March in March on March 5 th.
Last year $675 was spent with Taher, but there was also a lot of items bought at Costco too. Keep in mind there will
be leftover money if we don’t take two buses, and only take one. Legislative Representative Avila moves to
approve $1000 from the Programs account to purchase food for the March in March on March 5 th, and ICC Chair
Sumano-Vargas seconded the motion. This will cover food for 25 people. This item is unanimously approved with a
vote of 9 yeas.
C.
Recognition for Rebecca Garcia
Info. / Action
J. Gomez
5 Minutes
This item is up for discussion and possible action regarding the approval of $100.00 from the ___ Account to
purchase a gift for Rebecca Garcia in recognition for her 20 years as Cabrillo’s Trustee for District Five.
Student Senate MINUTES 2.16.12-2
Associated Students of Cabrillo College
Aptos Campus, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
Watsonville Center: 318 Union St., Watsonville, CA 95076
Scotts Valley Center: 104 Whispering Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Voice: 831.477.5677
Fax: 831.479.6172
http://www.cabrillo.edu/ascc
This funding would be coming from the Programs account. Rebecca is one of the trustees for the Governing Board,
and the senate believes it necessary to show their thanks for the support she has provided over the years at Cabrillo.
Joseph Gomez and Joseph Watkins will be in charge of purchasing the gift and contacting Rebecca to be present at
a future meeting. Treasurer Gomez moves to approve $100 from the Programs account to purchase a gift for
Rebecca Garcia in recognition for her 20 years as Cabrillo’s Trustee for District Five, and Trustee Watkins seconded
the motion. It was decided to present this item to Rebecca on March 15th at the next Watsonville campus meeting.
The senate votes on this motion, and the motion is passed by a vote of 6 yeas, 1 nay, 1 abstains.
D.
Online Voting System
Info. / Action
O. Chuiko
5 Minutes
This item is up for discussion and possible action regarding the approval of $1800.00 from the ___ Account for the
online voting system used for the Student Senate Elections.
The amount to actually purchase an online voting system is much pricier than originally expected. The total price is
$2196.05 per year for 5 years, with unlimited elections. This is the cheapest and most professional option available.
Last year we used a free site and there were issues, but some senators believe we have learned from the mistakes
made last year and that the 3-4% discrepancy that was present is not large enough to deem this high of a fee
necessary. The senate decided they would like to see a presentation on this voting system and become more
informed on it before making a decision as to whether it would be necessary to upgrade to the new service.
E.
Senate Upkeep
Info. / Discuss.
J. Watkins
20 Minutes
This item is up for discussion on how we can make our senate more efficient and effective this semester.
It is important to be careful with informal voting. Last week, we threw out the meeting norms, but that was an informal
vote. Our meeting norms are not gone! Consider that we tossed out the meeting norms during a discussion about
efficiency. It is unprofessional to be playing games on your laptop or phone, or to be using other disruptive behavior.
We need to all take accountability for our own actions. Take initiative if people are talking out of turn, and say
something. Refrain from having an attitude when discussing something, and have respect for all members of the
senate. Stephanie has begun keeping track of some disruptive behaviors, and this tool can be used to monitor our
own behavior during meetings. It is important that we are all aware of what is going on during the meetings;
whispering and side conversations are disruptive. You cannot change a person, you can only change yourself.
F.
Guest Speakers
Info. / Discuss.
C. Achen
15 Minutes
This item is up for discussion regarding the guest speakers we would like to see come speak at the Senate Meetings.
The senate had an informal vote to see the interest of having guest speakers present at future meetings, and only 2
senators were interested in this, so the discussion was ended.
G. Purchasing Metro Passes
Info. / Action
L. Hunerberg
5 Minutes
This item is up for discussion and possible action regarding the approval of $26,000.00 from the ASCC Student
Senate savings or checking account to purchase 500 Metro passes. This purchase will provide for a more efficient
operation of the current sale of Metro passes. These monthly Metro passes are sold to Cabrillo students for $52.00.
This is a 20% discount as the full price is $65. These Metro passes are sold only to Cabrillo students registered for 6
or more units.
Currently we have allocated $6000 and it purchases 150 bus passes, which are sold to the students at with a $10
discount. With this additional money, we would only need to purchase these passes approximately one time per
semester, instead of the many multiple times that currently is happening. This would increase efficiency and have
more passes available. There is $150,000 in the checking account, which the business office is suggesting we use to
purchase these passes. In the past, a bus program was offered that provided semester-long bus passes to students
at a discounted rate, and it may be considered to return this program to the school in the fall. However, at this time
we do not have that program in place. Legislative Representative Avila moves to amend the item for approval of
$19,000 from the ASCC Student Senate checking account to purchase 500 Metro passes, and Treasurer Gomez
seconded the motion. This motion is passed by a vote of 5 yeas, 3 nays.
X.
Reports (Every other name is Bold for Easy Reading)
Executive Officers, Senators, Advisers report on Senate Activities.
A.
3 minutes ea.
Executive Officers
President: Charlotte Achen There was food ordered today, but Chris was supposed to pick it up and he is not here.
Great job at Welcome Week!
Vice President: Oleksii Chuiko absent at this time
Treasurer: Joseph Gomez no report
Legislative Representative: Gaby Avila Legislative Committee will meet next week, and the March in March
committee will also meet next week. See me if you would like to go to the workshops this weekend in San Jose.
Student Trustee: Joseph Watkins no report
Student Senate MINUTES 2.16.12-3
Associated Students of Cabrillo College
Aptos Campus, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
Watsonville Center: 318 Union St., Watsonville, CA 95076
Scotts Valley Center: 104 Whispering Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Voice: 831.477.5677
Fax: 831.479.6172
http://www.cabrillo.edu/ascc
Inter-Club Council Chair: Ivan Sumano-Vargas The first ICC meeting was held this semester, and 11 clubs are
chartered. The ICC does not like catering from Taher, so every other week they will be having Bhakti Yoga provide
the food. I love all of you!
Watsonville Representative: (Vacant)
Scotts Valley Representative: (Vacant)
B.
Senators-at-Large
Stephanie Petrillo I am the new ICC secretary, and Ivan does a great job! We shouldn’t put words in other people’s
mouths. I saw a lot of senators at Welcome Week and that was great. Have a good weekend!
Laura Hunerberg Welcome Week at Watsonville was fun, and it was great to be on this campus. I want to stress
again that this is a professional setting; please leave personal things away from the table.
Sharon O’Connor no report
Darwin Constantino Welcome new senators! I have taken the initiative to make your binders and will give them to
you soon. Also, please pick out your desks! As for today’s food; if we paid for it and it is still there, maybe we could
give it out or donate it?
Chris Steele absent
James Williams absent
Sage Goncharoff absent
Steven Culver Every person I talked to didn’t know there were open positions in the senate; it is not common
knowledge.
Sarah Davies Thank you!
C.
Advisors
5 minutes ea.
Sesario Escoto This is excellent training to be here. Welcome new senators! The metro fund- I am not sure why you
did it the way you did it, but thank you. I am short on the funds now. March 2 nd is a very important date- the RFP,
Food and Beverage interviews, will be taking place. Let’s have a student representative there. The student voice is
really important. I hear all the time complaints about terrible food service; remember you will never please everyone. I
like the tally that Stephanie is doing. I think you will be most effective if you come up with two or three things to focus
on. Start on just giving the information back to each other; when we learn about ourselves, we might change our
behaviors. Nobody liked the banging of the gavel in past senates, and people don’t like to be told they are out of
order. If you are professional, fewer things will be a bother. You must be modeling the behaviors you agree upon.
You are doing great work despite of the conflicts.
Flor Chacòn absent at this time
D.
Delta Representative Report absent
5 minutes
XI.
Agenda Building
3 minutes
XII.
Adjournment
5:08 pm
Student Senate Executive Meeting Agenda
(To be held after the Student Senate Meeting)
XIII.
Call to Order
A. Roll Call
5:15pm
Executive Officers
President: Charlotte Achen- Present
Vice President: Oleksii Chuiko- Absent
Treasurer: Joseph Gomez- Present
Trustee: Joseph Watkins- Present
Legislative Representative: Gaby Avila-Present
Watsonville Representative: vacant
ICC Chair: Ivan Sumano-Vargas- Present
Scotts Valley Representative: vacant
Advisors
Sesario-Absent
Flor-Absent
XIV.
Adoption of the Executive Agenda
Student Senate MINUTES 2.16.12-4
Associated Students of Cabrillo College
Aptos Campus, 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
Watsonville Center: 318 Union St., Watsonville, CA 95076
Scotts Valley Center: 104 Whispering Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Voice: 831.477.5677
Fax: 831.479.6172
http://www.cabrillo.edu/ascc
XV.
XVI.
Approval of the Executive Minutes
Regular Business
A.
Attendance from Last Meeting
5 Minutes
Sage Goncharoff was absent due to working. His absence was not excused by a vote of 0 yeas, 4 nays.
James Williams was tardy. His tardy was not excused by a vote of 0 yeas, 4 nays
B.
Discussion of Meeting
30 Minutes
Due to weather, the executive board meetings will now be held inside, but the senate meetings will still be held
outside. It is the President’s responsibility to manage the meeting. People need to speak up, even more than before
since we are outdoors and there is an additional sound disturbance. Accusing people shouldn’t happen, and
remember to be accountable and take responsibility for your own actions. We should consider reviewing out
parliament procedures and holding people accountable for following them. What about when our leaders are not
following the procedures? How will we hold them accountable? Legislative Representative Avila believes Joseph
Watkins, Stephanie, and Oleksii should have a mandatory heart-to-heart with Flor regarding meeting behaviors. The
President will speak with the advisors regarding this. It is noted that Joseph Watkins disagrees with this, and that
there was no vote to require this action to be mandatory. A backup food person should be required for all Watsonville
meetings to ensure we do not run into the same situation as today’s meeting, when the person responsible for food
pick up does not show up to the meeting.
XVII.
Advisors Reports
Sesario Escoto absent at this time
Flor Chacòn absent at this time
XVIII.
XIX.
Executive Agenda Requests
Adjournment
5 Minutes ea.
5:35 pm
Student Senate MINUTES 2.16.12-5