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: 20
Votes needed for simple
majority vote: 50% + 1 = 11
Votes needed for 2/3 majority: 13
Location:
Aptos Campus
6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA
SAC East, Room 225
Date and Time:
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Thursday, November 17 , 2011
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Student Senate Minutes
The Cabrillo College Student Senate held a meeting on Thursday, November 17, 2011, at 3:00pm. This meeting was held at the Aptos
Campus. These are the minutes reflective of that meeting.
Item
VI A
Motion
Motion to approve $1250 from the Conferences account and $1250 from the Lecture Series
account in order to help fund the Social Justice Conference this spring
Item
Motion
VI B
Yeas
Nays
Abstains
Result
15
0
0
Passed
Yeas
Nays
Abstains
Result
16
0
0
Passed
Motion to approve $ $150.00 from the ____ account so that students who’s money gets
eaten by the copy machines on all three campuses, which we receive the income from, can
get refunded.
I.
Call to Order at 3:00pm
A. Roll Call
Executive Officers
Vice President: Oleksii Chuiko-Present
Treasurer: Joseph Gomez-Present
Legislative Representative: Gaby Avila-Present
ICC Chair: Ivan Sumano-Vargas-Present
President: Charlotte Achen-Present
Trustee: Joseph Watkins-Present
Watsonville Representative: Joshua Riparetti-Present
Scotts Valley Representative:Stephen Venegas-Absent
Senators-At-Large
Stephanie Petrillo-Present
Sharon O’Connor-Present
Arthur O’Reilly-Present
Chris Steele-Present
Sage Goncharoff- Absent
Laura Hunerberg- Present
Kathybelle Barlow-Absent
Darwin Constantino-Present
Jennifer Venegas-Absent
Jesse Collins-Present
James Williams-Present
Summer Maiorino- Present (tardy 3:04pm)
Advisors
Sesario Escoto-Present
Flor Chacon- Present
II.
Adoption of the Agenda
3 minutes
Treasurer Gomez moves to approve the agenda and Senator Hunerberg seconds the motion. The agenda is approved by
a unanimous vote of 15 yeas.
III.
Approval of the Minutes
3 minutes
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A. November 10 , 2011
One edit is made to the motions from last week. Senator Constatino moves to approve the minutes as edited and
Treasurer Gomez seconds the motion. The minutes are approved by a unanimous vote of 16 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 three (3) minutes per speaker.
No public comments.
V.
Announcements
5 Minutes
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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
Reminder: we are requiring next semester that you are available from 3-6pm on Thursdays in order to hold a seat on the
senate. There is a checklist going around also determining how many people would be available from 2:30-5:30pm as
well, as there is already one senator who will not be able to hold their seat due to the time of the meetings. This form will
also be at the meeting next week, so please check the catalog if you have not already done so to determine your
schedule for the Spring semester. The Watsonville meeting will be held at the same time as the Aptos meeting, ie; if we
host Aptos meetings at 3pm, Watsonville meetings will begin at 3pm also. Charlotte brought in cupcakes. Happy Birthday
Charlotte!
VI.
VII.
New Business
A. Social Justice Conference
Info. / Action
L. Hunerberg
10 Minutes
This item is up for discussion / possible action regarding the approval of $2500.00 from the ____ Account in order to
help fund the Social Justice Conference this Spring.
The speakers have not been decided yet, as they are waiting on funding to determine who they are able to ask to
come to the event. The theme is based on shaping the future. There is going to be a post-conference publication and
they will have a cover-design-contest also with a prize that will be rewarded from this fund. In addition, the fund will
cover paying for the printing of the publication. There is a meeting for people interested in helping tomorrow at 10am.
Around 200 people showed up for the event last year, but there have been as many as 350 in the past and we are
aiming for a high attendance like that this year as well. There will be advertising done in the community, and one of
the performance groups they are interested in having are from the UC, so hopefully those things combined can bring
in more attendance from the community. There is only about $3500 remaining in the conferences account, and we
need to keep in mind that there is still an entire semester to fund. Senator Hunerberg moves to approve $1250 from
the Conferences account and $1250 from the Lecture Series account in order to help fund the Social Justice
Conference this spring, and Treasurer Gomez seconds the motion and the discussion continues. The standard
honorary for a keynote speaker is $1000 and then we also need to consider travel expenses that may or may not be
necessary to cover. This motion goes to vote and is approved unanimously by a vote of 15 yeas.
B.
Reimbursing Money Lost to Copy Machines
Info. / Action
F. Chacòn
10 Minutes
This item is up for discussion / possible action regarding the approval of $150.00 from the ____ Account so that
students who’s money gets eaten by the copy machines on all three campuses, which we receive the income from,
can get refunded.
This could be taken from the 73 account for only half of the machines; not for the ISC and not at the CTC. Trustee
Watkins moves to approve $150 from the _______account so that students who’s money gets eaten by the copy
machines on all three campuses, which we receive the income from, can get refunded, and Treasurer Gomez
seconds the motion and discussion continues. This would be like a pool of money similar to how our vending machine
refunds work. It will be for future use, and there would be a log at the student affairs desk to track the refunds.
Trustee Watkins calls this item to question and Senator Steele seconds the motion and it goes to vote. This item is
approved unanimously by a vote of 16 yeas.
C.
Governing Board Report
Info. / Discussion
J. Watkins
10 Minutes
Joseph Watkins emailed to everyone the grants that the governing board approved. There was a virtual lab initiative
which provides a virtual environment for the computers. This virtual environment would help with computer repairs,
electricity uses and many other positive benefits. Cabrillo is participating in mitigating climate change and put forth
initiatives for clean energy, which was passed by student senates across California. The redistricting update is out
and is available to view at Cabrillo.edu/association/governingboard. The Census report is also available and includes
the reports from the first two weeks of the semester. Steve Hodges sent an email document that Joseph Watkins will
forward to you regarding the budget and the SB1445 student success taskforce legislation. See Joseph Watkins if
you are curious about this.
D.
Having last Meeting of Semester After Finals
Info. / Discussion
C. Achen
10 Minutes
This item is up for discussion regarding the possibility of having a last meeting of the semester on December 22nd so
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that we can have a small celebration. Currently, our last meeting is on Dec. 8 in Watsonville.
Charlotte wanted to leave it up to the senate to decide if a meeting should be held after finals. Some people will be
out of town and it would be after the last day of the semester so it doesn’t have to be mandatory. It was discussed
that this could be a time to do an overview of the semester and look at the budget for next semester, but the idea was
opposed since many others were not going to be present at this meeting. It was then decided that these topics would
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be discussed at a different date. It was asked if we could move the December 8 meeting to the Aptos campus but
was declined by President Achen. More questions arose about the purpose of this meeting and whether people could
attend. A handful of senators stated they were able to attend, so a non-mandatory meeting has been scheduled for
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Friday, December 16 , at 3pm.
Reports (Every other name is Bold for Easy Reading)
Executive Officers, Senators, Advisers report on Senate Activities.
2 minutes ea.
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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
A.
Executive Officers
President: Charlotte Achen Thank you Carter for putting together the holiday tree- it’s a “every holiday” tree. We’re
looking for a replacement for CPC next year. Fill up your piggy’s and collect food. Second Harvest meeting tomorrow
at 11am.
Vice President: Oleksii Chuiko Reports are not being received from everyone. I brought an example of a good one
done by Charlotte. Maybe next year we could do it better- we could have an archive of submitted reports for the
student senators in the future so they are able to become more aware. Please send electronic versions of the reports
so I am able to put them in the dropbox
Treasurer: Joseph Gomez The budget committee met today and we advised a college wide reports letter
Legislative Representative: Gaby Avila no report
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Student Trustee: Joseph Watkins SCCCC is meeting again on December 9 - please let me know if you are
interested in attending.
Inter-Club Council Chair: Ivan Sumano-Vargas The ICC approved $1000 for outdoor clubs annual roadtrip
Watsonville Representative: Joshua Riparetti no report
Scotts Valley Representative: Stephan Venegas absent
B.
Senators-at-Large
Stephanie Petrillo no report
Jennifer Venegas absent
Sharon O’Connor There is a meeting tomorrow at 11. If you can do the farmers markets please see me after the
meeting
Arthur O’Reilly everyone in PR committee- we meet tomorrow at 2pm but I want to move it up a half hour if possible
Kathybelle Barlow absent
Darwin Constantino I went to faculty senate meeting- they are hiring four new faculty members for rad. tech,
biology, technology, and political science. The student success task force- the next bookstore committee meeting
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Dec 6 3pm room 804a- There’s a lot of overlap between two committees so they are thinking of combining them. On
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behalf of AGS, the teacher-staff appreciation dinner is Dec 1 and we could use some help. The computers in the
senate office have a lot of problems-they are constantly resetting- we want to work with IT on getting that fixed
Chris Steele I double checked our fax machine number for our cards and the manual faxing is not working so we
sent an email to the IT department to get it fixed. Also, I have been trying to go to different places on campus and I
went to the art museum- it’s called “Without Art” and is geared towards a life without art
Jesse Collins no report
Sage Goncharoff no report
James Williams no report
Laura Hunerberg The furniture committee met- we will soon have samples to check out
Cynthia Maiorino “Summer” We can actually have our own laptops that we use on the hard lines but we need to
get it approved by an advisor
C.
Advisors
5 minutes ea.
Sesario Escoto – The all-Cabrillo emails do not work. If you need to send something you need to use the all-campus
newsletter. It’s important that the ICC is aware of this too so that we can notify people of things in advance. The staff
wants to know about things too so please include them. Reminder to the students and the ICC: you do not have the
authority to hire contractors. Those people are going to come in here and do the work and they are not going to get
paid. Please don’t split funds in one motion- these split motions have never gone well and have always caused
problems. If you want to defecit spend, send it to the budget committee to do a budget transfer, which is much easier.
As for the copy refunds, we think $150 will last the whole year. It’s not about making money in this case but about
providing a service to your constituents, and giving them their money back if they didn’t get their copies.
Flor Chacòn- Did you see the thermometer? It is for the Second Harvest drive. We have 1000 pounds and our goal
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is 40,000 so we have a lot to go until December 14 . Its faculty and us- so the push comes from us! Keep your
piggy’s with you and collect!.The thermometer is a good way to monitor ourselves. Don’t forget about Thanksgiving
dinner: Monday at Watsonville 5pm setup, Tuesday at Aptos 5pm setup- food served from 6-8pm- we need your help
at this!
VIII.
Agenda Building
Next week we have enough items
IX.
Adjournment
3 minutes
3:54 pm
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