Ass sociated Stu udents of Cab brillo College e A Aptos Campus, 6 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 Watsonvville Center: 318 Union St., Watso onville, CA 95076 Scotts V Valley Center: 10 04 Whispering P Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Voice: 831.477.5677 Fax: 831.479.6172 cabrillo.edu/ascc http://www.c Total on Roster: R 20 Votes needed for simple e majority vote: v 50% + 1 = 11 Votes needed for 2/3 ma ajority: 13 Location: L Apto os Campus 6500 Soqu uel Dr., Aptos, CA SAC East, Room 225 5 Date a and Time: Thursday, O October 6th, 201 11 3:00 pm m – 6:00 pm Stu udent Se enate M Minutees The C Cabrillo College e Student Sena ate held a meeting on Thursday, October 6thh, 2011, at 3:00 0pm. These are e the minutes rreflective of that m meeting. Item Motion XB Yea as Nays A Abstains Re esult 9 6 0 passed Yea as Nays A Abstains Re esult 6 7 2 Not N passed Motion to su upport the Gam mes club to mov ve to a space under u the cafete eria, next to the Bike B Co-op. Item Motion XE Motion to ap pprove the tapin ng of one meetting so that students will be a ble to view thiss meeting, pos ssibly for promotional purpose es and use for our own obserrvation. I. Call to o Order at 3:00 0pm A. Roll R Call Executive Officers Vice President: Oleksii O Chuiko--Tardy (3:04pm m) Trreasurer: Joseph Gomez-Abs sent Le egislative Reprresentative: Ga aby Avila-Prese ent IC CC Chair: Ivan Sumano-Varga as-Present Senato ors-At-Large Sttephanie Petrillo-Present Sharon O’Conno or-Present Present Arthur O’Reilly-P Chris Steele-Pre esent Sage Goncharofff- Absent La aura Hunerberg g- Present (lefft at 3:41pm) Presiident: Charlotte e Achen-Prese ent Trusttee: Joseph Wa atkins-Present (left at 3:41pm m) Watssonville Repressentative: Joshua Riparetti-Prresent Scottts Valley Repre esentative: Ste ephen Venegass-Present Kathyybelle Barlow-P Present Darw win Constantino o-Present Jenn ifer Venegas-P Present Jesse e Collins-Prese ent Jame es Williams-Pre esent Summ mer Maiorino- Present Advisorrs Sesario Escoto-Present Fllor Chacon- Present II. Positive Mindset Ex xercise 2 Minutes III. Adopttion of the Age 3 minutes enda Specia al Items B, C, and a D are table ed; New Busine ess Item F is ta abled. Interclub Council Cha air Sumano-Va argas moves to o approve the a agenda and Legislative Repre esentative Avila a seconds the motion n. The agenda is approved by y a vote of 16 yeas, y 0 nays, 0 abstain. IV V. Appro oval of the Min nutes 3 minutes A. September 29th, 2011 tth Legislative Representative e Avila moves to t approve the minutes from S enator September 29 , 2011 and Se s the motion. m The minutes are appro oved by a vote of 16 yeas, 0 n nays, 1 abstain n. Hunerberg seconds V V. Public c Comments Sttudent Senate MINUTES 1 1 Ass sociated Stu udents of Cab brillo College e A Aptos Campus, 6 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 Watsonvville Center: 318 Union St., Watso onville, CA 95076 Scotts V Valley Center: 10 04 Whispering P Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Voice: 831.477.5677 Fax: 831.479.6172 cabrillo.edu/ascc http://www.c This tiime is reserved d for members of the public to o address the S Senate on issue es not already appearing on tthe agenda. There will be a limit of o five (5) minu utes per speake er. Center. The He ealth Center is very appreciattive of the Sesariio spoke on behalf of Martha Orr from the Student Health C Senate e and your ass sistance at the Health Fair. Ma artha has discu ussed with the groups about h hosting the eve ent outdoors he apologizes for the use of tthe helium ballo next year and looks forward f to doin ng that, weathe er permitting. Sh oons, as they n aware of the ban on them. Martha sent Sesario S with pe ens and cookie es to distribute to the Senate. were not V VI. Annou uncements 5 Minutes If you have not filled out your business card form you need to se ee Jesse very q quickly. Charlotte has passed d out her feedba ack form and asks that you please fill them out o and either p put them in her mailbox or lea ave them on he er desk when she is not around. Th hese forms sho ould be comple eted before nexxt week’s meeting. Items that are labeled inffo/action mean that th here will be info ormation given and during tha at time you are not to ask questions. Once a an action has be een placed the e item will w be opened for f discussion. Charlotte will be b giving peoplle who have no ot spoken in the e meeting priorrity over other Senate e members wh ho have spoken n. Please reme ember to speakk up at the mee etings, and thatt if you need to leave the table e to say “Point of Privilege” before ex xcusing yoursellf. In addition, a an executive bo oard member w will be chairing two items in each meeting. m Laura and Joseph Watkins W will be leaving today’ss meeting earlyy to attend the SCCC meeting g, and Joseph Gomez is absent due e to a family em mergency, and Sage is also a absent. V VII. Comm mittee Reports s 3 minutes s per committtee The Fa aculty Senate is i still continuin ng their discuss sion on program m reduction ve ersus program e elimination. Cu urrently the faculty y is in favor of reduction r as op pposed to elimination. The accademic calend dar for next yea ar has been decided upon. In additio on, the print-on-demand idea was discussed d but due to the e comments fro om a survey do one by the interrim bookstore manag ger, the propos sal does not sound like sometthing the schoo ol will implemen nt. The PR Committee has h met and be egun preliminarry planning for the BBQ happ pening next wee ek. y is the last day y for the SAC challenge, so please get your contracts into C Chris today! Today The Trransfer Commiittee has transffer application essay e assistan nce available. D Deadlines for trransfer applications are approa aching quickly. Remember it could take a month m to see a ccounselor so plan accordinglyy! The Halloween Committee met lastt Friday and me eets tomorrow at 4pm to startt decorating. O Ola will be hand dling an event taking place at the Watsonville W cam mpus as well. V VIII. Special Items er Info. / Discussion A. A Guest Spea aker: Dennis Bailey-Fougni B 30 Minu utes This year, th he budget will stay s where it is s unless the Go overnor puts in place addition nal budget cuts. The Legislature passed a bill to o postpone the e tuition increasses until Summ mer 2012, when n the tuition will raise to $46 per unit. Ou ur current estim mate state that we w have a $6 m million budget ffor 2012-2013, and that we cu urrently have about $2.5 million in reserrves. As members of the Sena ate, you are en ncouraged to get involved and d attend your local budget committee meetings as well as contact yo ur Legislators a at the state levvel, as the tuitio on for community colleges are se et at the Legislature level in C California. Tellin ng the Legislattors your story and explaining g your hardsh hips will have an a impact and is s encouraged. IX X. B. Governing Board This item ha as been TABLE ED. Info. / Discussion J. Wattkins 10 Minutes C. ation Teleconference Presenta This item ha as been TABLE ED. n Info . / Discussion G. Aviila 10 Minutes D. Resolution ns Presentation This item ha as been TABLE ED. Info. / Discussion G. Aviila 10 Minutes Old Business A. O. Chuiko Bylaws Revisio ons 10 0 Minutes Info. / Action Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding the e approval of several bylaws change. Discussion on adding a $50 returnable depos sit for students planning to atttend events ma ay enforce an incentive to e to attend afte er reserving the eir spot. It is possible the atttend or to find a replacementt should a student not be able su ubscribers may y decrease due e to this fee, bu ut in addition to cash or checkk a hold could b be placed on th he account of th he student shou uld they not hav ve available ne ecessary fundss. This would no ot interefere with the current article which ho olds a senate member m respon nsible for their attendance at events by givin ng them two ab bsences if they fail to be Sttudent Senate MINUTES 2 2 Ass sociated Stu udents of Cab brillo College e A Aptos Campus, 6 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 Watsonvville Center: 318 Union St., Watso onville, CA 95076 Scotts V Valley Center: 10 04 Whispering P Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Voice: 831.477.5677 Fax: 831.479.6172 cabrillo.edu/ascc http://www.c prresent when they have alread dy signed up. Consider C the im mpact this fee w will have, as we e may have lesss people signing up and we w need to con nsider whether this would app ply to mandatorry events as we ell. Due to time e restrictions, his item has bee en tabled to the e next meeting g and discussio on will continue e at that time. th B. X X. 10 Min Fa ax Machine fo or the Library Info. / Action n J. C Collins nutes Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding the e approval of $ $2,000.00 from the ____ Acco ount to pu urchase a fax machine m for the e Library. This would be for sttudent’s use. Th he Library currently gets abou ut a dozen requ uests a week fo or a student-usse fax machine e. It is currentlyy being diiscussed as to where this fax machine would d be placed an nd whether we should also co onsider purchassing a pay machine m to acco ompany it. The main reason fo or student use of the fax macchine is for financial aid and sscholarship ap pplications, transfer applicatio ons, as well as communicatin g with Higher O One (the servicce that provides our Cabrillo College Financia al Aid MasterCards.) Currently the Library D Director does no ot believe the llibrary staff can n handle the emand and ma aintenance of th he fax machine e, and would ho ope we would ffind another loccation for it. Otther de po ossibilities inclu ude placing the e fax machine in the Student S Senate area an nd allowing the e Senate to mo onitor use du uring their norm mal office hours s. New Business B A. Info. / Actio Reusable R Bag Initiative I on G. Avila 5 Minutes Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding the e approval of $ $500.00 from th he ____ Accou unt to support th he reusable bag g initiative bein ng started by the bookstore to o sell reusable b bags at a disco ounted rate, witth the senate lo ogo on the bags s. Le egislative Reprresentative Avila motions to approve a a decre eased amount of $300 from tthe Programs a account to su upport the reus sable bag initiattive begin startted by the bookkstore to sell re eusable bags a at a discounted rate, with the se enate logo on the t bags. Vice President Chuiko seconds th he motion and it moves to disccussion. The details of the re eusable bags have not been laid out yet, as they would like e approval on tthe funds prior to determining g the details. It was w discussed whether w the bag gs would be strong enough to o support carryying textbooks, and also whatt the cost of d. Due to these prrinting the logo o on the bags would w be, which h has not yet be een determined e reasons, with h an approval of o 16 6 yeas and 1 nay, this item ha as been tabled until next wee ek for further disscussion. B. J. Gome Supporting Gam mes Club use of area Under Cafeteria I nfo. / Action ez 5M Minutes Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding the e support of the e Senate for th he Games club to move to a sp pace under the e cafeteria, nex xt to the Bike Co o-op. The spacce is currently n not being used d and the move e has been su upported by the e I.C.C. Th he Games club b would like the e Senate’s support to move to o a location und der the cafeterria, next to the Bike Co-op. Th he club feels th hat their current location does s not provide a safe place for them to store ttheir things, an nd also re equests a separate area away y from the cafe eteria, so as to diffuse confusiion as to who iss actually in the e club and who o is just a student using the cafeteria. Sesario advised a the Se enate that this is not an area tthat we have ow wnership of, an nd the Senate discussed thatt this was not a motion to actu ually ‘move’ the e group but mo ore a statementt of support fro om the Senate e when the club b approaches advisors a to movve. Sesario advvised the Game es club to mee et with him to ge et more details s on the approp priate steps to take t to make th his happen. It w was discussed that supporting g this would make m it more like ely for the club bs move to be approved. a It wa as decided to vvote upon the ssupport, and the e senate pa assed the motion to support the t Games club b to move to a space under th he cafeteria, ne ext to the Bike Co-op by a vo ote of 9 yeas and 6 nays. C. Sustainability Resolution R Info. / Discuss. / Action J J. Watkins s 10 Minutes Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding revviewing and po ossibly amendin ng the sustaina ability re esolution that we w adopted ove er the summer. Th his item has be een tabled nextt week, as Trus stee Watkins iss no longer pre esent. D. Info. / Action n S. M Maiorino 10 Minutes Different Food Option Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding ch anging the ven ndor which we receive our foo od from Taher, to o Bhakti Yoga. It was discussed d about possibly switching foo od distribution ccompanies for our Senate me eetings. Taher is our current prrovider, and Bh hakti Yoga is th he suggested provider p for the future. In the ssummer, the Se enate discusse ed switching ve endors and dec cided against itt considering th hat Taher has o offered a substtantial deal for us. Bhatki Yog ga has offered to o keep the price e the same, $50 per meeting for 30 servingss, and they pro ovide hot food. In addition, Bh hatki Yoga is a club that has been on campus for 5 years. It was w discussed d whether we s hould considerr breaking our ccontract with Ta aher until we are certain we would w like to dis scontinue theirr use, as they h have new mana agement and m may not co ontinue to offerr this deal to us s in the future iff we break our contract now. One considera ation is that Tah her provides Sttudent Senate MINUTES 3 3 Ass sociated Stu udents of Cab brillo College e A Aptos Campus, 6 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 Watsonvville Center: 318 Union St., Watso onville, CA 95076 Scotts V Valley Center: 10 04 Whispering P Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Voice: 831.477.5677 Fax: 831.479.6172 cabrillo.edu/ascc http://www.c co old meals that are a easily trans sportable for th he monthly mee eting in Watson nville, and conccern whether B Bhatki Yoga ca an provide thatt as well was de ebated. Discus ssion concluded d with the conssideration of tryying out Bhatki Yoga for one meeting m to deterrmine if the Sen nate enjoys the e meal. X XI. E. Videotaping On ne of Our Meetings Info. / Action S. Maiorino 5 Minu utes Th his item is up fo or discussion / possible action regarding ha aving one our m meetings videottaped so that sstudent’s will be e ab ble to view this s meeting, poss sibly use for pro omotional purp poses, and use for our own ob bservation. It was discussed d about videota aping one of the e Senate meettings to provide e the senators a an opportunity to view hemselves as others o see them m. Sesario has volunteered to o do the recording. Senator M Maiorino movess to approve the e th ta aping of one me eeting so that students s will be e able to view tthis meeting, po ossibly for prom motional purpo oses and use fo or our own obse ervation. Senattor Steele seco onds the motion n and it goes to o discussion. Itt was discussed how this may y no ot be preannou unced as it will be determined d based on the availability of tthe equipment, and also that this item does no ot require actio on. It was move ed to extend tim me, but was de nied based on a vote of 6 yea as, 7 nays. The e motion goes to o vote, and is not passed by a vote of 6 yeas s, 7 nays, 2 absstains. F. J. Watkins nds Info.. / Discussion 10 Min nutes Emergency Fun Th his item is up fo or discussion on o the Emergen ncy Fund for ecconomically dissadvantaged sstudents. Th his item has be een TABLED. Reporrts (Every othe er name is Bold d for Easy Read ding) Execu utive Officers, Senators, S Advis sers report on Senate S Activitie es. A. B. 3 min nutes ea. Ex xecutive Offic cers President: Charlotte Achen- Come to the SCCC S meeting Vice President:: Oleksii Chuik ko- We should attend the bud dget meetings and help come e up with new w ways to be crreative with the e budget we alrready have. Ne ext week we wi ll have a bylaw ws committee m meeting and yo ou are en ncouraged to attend! a Trreasurer: Josp peh Gomez- not present Le egislative Rep presentative: Gaby G Avila - We W need to part rticipate in CPC C; what we exp press will help d determine whatt will w be cut or elim minated. I did go g to the Goverrnors Board me eeting and enccourage you to attend if you ccan. Remember, R you don’t need to stay the whole e time if you can n’t. I got 6 conttracts and hope e more people are turning th hem in! Sttudent Trustee: Joseph Wa atkins In nter-Club Cou uncil Chair: Iva an Sumano-Va argas- ICC; a sstudent alliance e brought up a conflict with th he ba ank…apparenttly receipts aren n’t given for the e clubs. We are e going to try to o get some acttion out of a pro oposal on this. Th he Sustainability club asked for f the funds fo or the purchase e of the plastic bags, but then said they will u use their own money so that Taher can putt the food directly into that to fu unds to do that.. Sonia bought a wooden tray y with her own m be e more sustainable. I am also o the blood driv ve chair and assk for you to support that. It is being held No ovember 8 and 9 in the cafeteria a from 10am-3p pm. I am doing g a volunteer evvent this weeke end at Roaring g Camp to supp port a local nimal shelter. There T is a dog costume party and it will be a lot of fun. an Watsonville W Representative: Joshua Riparretti- no report Scotts Valley Representative R e: Stephan Venegas- no repo ort Senators-at-Large Sttephanie Petrillo- no report Jennifer J Veneg gas- no report Sharon O’Conn nor- no report Arthur A O’Reilly- I will be in contact with the people p who sig gned up for the BBQ. The PR committee me eets tomorrow an nd you are all welcome w to com me. Kathybelle K Barlow- no report Darwin Constantino - I made a few flyers fo or the events we e are doing an d put copies in n everyone’s mailboxes. If you u want w to make co opies, please do so. I want to get in the habiit of commendiing at least one e person each week and this week w I commend d Joseph Gom mez for his hard work on the T Thanksgiving co ommittee. Chris Steele- To oday is the dea adline for the contracts! Prize es next week! Je esse Collins- If I haven’t gottten your info fo or the business cards, come ssee me today! Sage Goncharo off- absent Ja ames Williams s- no report La aura Hunerberg- absent Summer Maioriino- I have bee en cleaning outt our garbage b because people e have been th hrowing away rrecycling into th he garbage. Ple ease be mindfu ul and recycle, as we are sena ators and need d to lead by exa ample Sttudent Senate MINUTES 4 4 Ass sociated Stu udents of Cab brillo College e A Aptos Campus, 6 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 Watsonvville Center: 318 Union St., Watso onville, CA 95076 Scotts V Valley Center: 10 04 Whispering P Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Voice: 831.477.5677 Fax: 831.479.6172 cabrillo.edu/ascc http://www.c C. Advisors A 5 minutes s ea. Sesario Escoto o- For the Gen neral Assembly y, it is my turn tto supervise. T The fax machine e idea is simple e- put it in the sttudent senate office o and you can c monitor it; you can do it yyourselves. Seccond Harvest ffood bank: our initial ap pplication was rejected and I referred to Cab brillo College F Foundation and d now the application will prob bably be ap pproved in nex xt few days. I na aively thought that t we could g go over there a and just get the e food, but theyy charge for the e fo ood. Because of o this, I am going to ask you for f $1000 and I might be able e to contribute a little myself a and Dennis will fin nd some contribution in the bu udget. You can n discuss it nexxt week. The fe eedback form iss commendable and this is ve ery good leade ership activity to o ask your cons stituents to eva aluate you. As for the helium use at the Hea alth Fair- it is my m fault we did thatt I figured we w would use the existing inve entory and the n not buy anym more. I guess they got in tro ouble and that was my fault as a there is still helium h here an nd if you don’t w want me to use e the remainder of it let me kn now, otherwise e I will figure yo ou don’t want to o waste what iss there. As for tthe 800 building- Arthur is you ur rep for FP PAC but you should all go if you y can. The president and viice president n need to relocate e their offices a and other grroups too. Whe ere will they go? All Cabrillo emails: e the last one that went out from the sp paghetti dinnerr; the flyer was re eally cute and done d profession nally but the am mount of memo ory the attachm ment took up ja ammed the com mputers. Please, no more e attachments-- all your conte ent must be in tthe actual ema il and not attacched- they tookk up so much memory m that tem mporarily it took k up all usage on o the compute er. All Cabrillo announcements are encoura aged but without w announc cements. Fllor Chacòn- Committee C mee etings: there is a lot going on a and Sesario an nd I cannot atte end all of them. Sometimes we w don’t know about a it and som metimes we can’t attend so if you want one of us to be pre esent you need d to get it on our ca alendars. You don’t d have to have h advisors th here, but you d do need to checck in with us to o verify you follo ow the college po olicies. Senate office has bee en really noisy- sometimes I ssee senators co ome out and th hey are leaving to do senate work w in other pla aces because they t aren’t goin ng to tell you to o quiet down. P Please be considerate- if you are in the se enate office you are here to work w or do homework- if you ju ust want to han ng out- hang ou ut on the couch hes you bought orr use one of the e rooms. You can c play cards and watch movvies in the room ms and not in tthe office. The senate office sh hould not be yo our hang out sp pot- this is what your policies are. Be aware when you are talking on the phoneso ometimes peop ple don’t want to t hear what is going on in yo our personal life e. Be careful w what you say on n the phone. Be e co onsiderate. In two t weeks we are a going to Se eesaw so if you u haven’t gotten the days off a at work, do so and get caught up p on your home ework as you won’t w be doing much when we e’re there! We leave on that F Friday so be prrepared and ge et ca aught up. X XII. Agend da Building 3 minutes s Secon nd harvest food d bank; bylaws; back on table the discussion n of videotaping g; occupy wall street at Cabrillo discussion; time fo or SAC challenge awards; X XIII. Adjou urnment 4:48 pm E Mee eting Agenda Student Senate Executive b held after th he Student Se enate Meeting)) (To be X XIV. Call to o Order at 5:00 0pm A. Roll R Call Ex xecutive Office ers President: Charllotte Achen- Prresent O Chuiko-- Present Vice President: Oleksii Trreasurer: Joseph Gomez- Absent Trrustee: Joseph h Watkins- Pres sent Le egislative Reprresentative: Ga aby Avila- Present Watsonville W Rep presentative: Jo oshua Riparettii- Present IC CC Chair: Ivan Sumano-Varga as- Present Scotts Valley Re epresentative: Stephan S Veneg gas- Present Advisors Sesario-Presentt Fllor-Present X XV. Adopttion of the Exe ecutive Agend da X XVI. Appro oval of the Exe ecutive Minute es Sttudent Senate MINUTES 5 5 Ass sociated Stu udents of Cab brillo College e A Aptos Campus, 6 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 Watsonvville Center: 318 Union St., Watso onville, CA 95076 Scotts V Valley Center: 10 04 Whispering P Pines Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Voice: 831.477.5677 Fax: 831.479.6172 cabrillo.edu/ascc http://www.c X XVII. Regullar Business A. Attendance A from Last Meetin ng 10 Minutes Alex was absentt last meeting. He was on Eas st Coast helpin ng out extended d family and lo ooking at colleg ges. h unanimous ap pproval. His absence was excused with B. M 30 0 Minutes Discussion of Meeting t get the reusa able bags, we should s be sure e they are stron ng enough to ho old textbooks. It would be If we are going to elpful if no one spoke until the eir name has been b called on. More items sh hould be brought up during se enate meetings s he an nd everyone sh hould be certain to actively pa articipate and n not just show up and vote. Briinging informattion from co ommittee meettings to the sen nate needs to happen h more. W We should enccourage other m members of the e committees to o members shou sp peak when the presenters are e reporting. Exe ecutive Board m uld help naviga ate the senatorss to push them to o fulfill more. Th he majority of your y work on th he senate shou uld be done outtside of this me eeting room. W We need to hearr more m discussion ns about what people p are actu ually ‘doing’ outtside the meet ings. We should consider a re eport that can monitor m senators s’ success and also consider self-evaluation n. It’s nice that senators are fa athering and so ocializing but itt is getting to a po oint where it is a bit excessive e and a bit mucch when people e are trying to w work on schoollwork and enate work. It is s reaching a po oint where it ne eeds to be add ressed and we e need to discuss the boundaries and se pu urpose of the senate s office en nvironment. X XVIII. 5 Min Advisors Reports nutes ea. Sesarrio Escoto- no report Flor ChacònC There are a lot of are eas in the Stud dent Activity Ce enter; use the rrooms if you wa ant if they are n not being used. Have your y study grou ups in the room m and not in the e senate office . Look for the a appropriate pla aces to do thing gs. X XIX. Execu utive Agenda Requests R Self-evaluation; ree establishing purpose of sen nate office; co mmittee assig gnments Adjou urned 5:38pm Sttudent Senate MINUTES 6 6