Associated Students of Cabrillo College
Minutes
Student Senate Chamber
SAC EAST Room 225
Thursday, October 23, 2008
3:00 PM
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I.
ORGANIZATIONAL ITEMS
1.
Call to Order/Roll Call
Voting Members:
17
President: Rebeca Villafana
Voting Members:
16
Aleana Zaldana
present
Anthony Garza
present
Christina Carolus
present
David Duhl
present
Dorothea Arnold
present
Elowyn Corby
present
Eric Barbour
present
Fenix Bedoya
present
Gary Meyer
present
Geoffrey Stanfield
present
Leo Cruz
present
Lupe Ortiz
absent
Maxwell Bay
present
Michelle Giovannari
present
Rebecca Fortune
present
Sophia Forde
present
Advisors:
1.Gabe Gutierrez
present
2.Sesario Escoto
present
Liaisons:
Ryan Kaplan
Tully Gibney
absent
present
2.
Voting members needed for quorum (1/2 + 1):
9
Votes needed to pass budgets/bylaws (2/3):
12
Approval of Agenda for 10/16/08
Action item 2 stricken
Action item 5 moved to info item
Action item 7 move to sustainability committee
Paul add info item for day of the dead
Anthony Moves to approve agenda
Elowyn 2nd
Approved 17/0
3.
Approval of Minutes from 10/9/08
Anthony moves to approve minutes
David 2nd
Approved 15/1
II.
III.
REVIEW NEW SENATOR APPLICATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS (10 minutes)
PUBLIC COMMENTS
minutes each)
(5
This portion of the meeting is reserved for those wishing to address the Student Senate on
any matter. No action will be taken. If needed, the item will be placed on the agenda of a
future meeting.
Elizabeth Thorn: I would like to invite every one to the blood drive kick off 28th and 29th
IV.
PRESIDENT’S
minutes
REPORT
(5
I would like to thank to those of you who turned in your evaluations of the president. The
deadline to turn them in is tomorrow. The master plan goal A I would like to have more
students on these committees. Senators who were interested in helping Cabrillo’s website
V.
PROCEDURAL ITEMS
minutes)
(5
VI.
ACTION ITEMS
minutes each)
(5
1.
Senator Elowyn Corby – Motion to approve $520 from Programs for 1000 wristbands
in support of the ‘Lowering Textbook’ prices campaign.
There were questions about the number and the price. If we purchase 1000 wristbands
we get a better price.
Elowyn moves to allocate $520
2nd by Anthony
Approved 15/2
Geoffrey: A wrist band can be worn all the time and taken off any time, so it’s a good
idea.
Anthony: These wristbands are good if we can get the teachers to believe that they can
play a part in lowing textbook prices
2.
Senator Maxwell Bay – Motion to approve a $200 Donation from the Student Senate
Programs CSSC (California Student Sustainability Coalition) Fall Convergence 2008
Conference, Oct. 24th-26th, FREE TO STUDENTS!
Stricken
3.
Watsonville Rep. Paul Carrillo – Motion to approve $450 from Cultural Events for the
Halloween event in Watsonville campus.
Paul moves to have $450 for the Halloween Watsonville event
2nd by Lupe
Approved 15/0
Michelle moves to amend the amount from $450 to $600
2nd Fenix
Approved 16/0
Geoffrey: We should plan to implement the SAC card
4.
Legislative Rep. Anthony Garza – Motion to approve $1000 from Student Rep Fee
account to send 3 students to the SSCCC General Assembly Conference on October
24th through the 26th.
Anthony: I’m going to need an additional $500 for hotels I would like to know how you
feel about adding additional money
Can I see a straw vote?
Ok, I would like to add as an action item for next week
5.
Senator Geoffrey Stanfield – Motion to approve $90 from Equipment account to
purchase a coffee maker.
Action item 5 moved to info item
Geoffrey: I would like to bring to every ones attention the costs of coffee. It’s less then a
$1000 a year in order to bring students to our office for coffee and chatting.
MG: I personally don’t like coffee, but the clubs would like a refreshment.
Fenix: I am definitely against promoting coffee and sugar
Becka: I disagree with Fenix and I don’t think we are going to be getting people addicted
to coffee.
Geoffrey: This coffee maker can also be used to make hot water for tea
Michelle: I think the senators should go out and meet people. I am strongly opposed to
this coffee machine
Moved by Sophia to extend time 2 min
2nd by Geoffrey
Motion failed
6.
Senator Geoffrey Stanfield – Motion to approve $70 from Programs account to
purchase 2 CPR kits.
Moved by Geoffrey
2nd by Becka
Gary: Have you contacted health services?
Geoffrey: I personally still feel that we should take a leadership role to put money into
this.
Geoffrey: We have CPR Manikins already these are the latest video for CPR training and
manikins.
MG: It seems that we should keep these CPR kits in the right departments where are we
going to keep these kits.
Fenix moves this item to an info item next week
2nd by Paul
Approved 11/4/1
7.
Senator Fenix Bedoya – Would like to propose the allocation of funds for the
Sustainability committee members to attend the "This Way to Sustainability IV, Nov
6-9, 2008, hosted by CSUC.
Moved to sustainability committee.
VII.
INFO ITEMS
minutes each)
1.
(5
Legislative Rep. Anthony Garza – Request the Student Senate approve $________ for
the Third Social Justice Conference on May 2 nd, 2009.
Anthony: This is a big effort by all of the organizations to get the message out there
about racism, globalization, discrimination, this is something that the school every year is
try to get more people to attend.
Joseph Carter: I have a hand out. This is a hand out about more info about the Social
Justice Conference. This is a student centered event it is not just for faculty.
Anthony: This is a forum for students to do research and get the message out and to
learn as well.
Joseph Carter: I can go on and on I really encourage you to participate.
Ivan: As a student I worked in the social conference for 2 years I have enjoyed working
for this conference and its good to see people giving there time to get the word out.
Anthony: This is coming up again as an information item.
Anthony extended for 2min
2nd by Paul
Motion fails 9/8
2.
VP Lupe Ortiz – Request the Student Senate approve $________ to purchase Window
Shades for the Watsonville Campus Student Senate/Club office area.
Lupe: Gary and I have gone to measure the windows in our office. I wanted to discuss
the prices on the footage and would like to bring this back as an informational items next
week. This would come out of the student center fee fund.
3.
President Rebeca – Request the Student Senate look into getting our website
organized through OrgSync, an expert in Student Government Websites.
If the student senate will allow I would like to move this till later in the meeting
4.
Senator Eric Barbour – Concept Adz, Photocopiers and Photocopies at no charge to the
students, staff, faculty or staff.
Eric: This organization uses advertising to give collage free stuff. They will give us a free
photo copier and they will give us paper and toner. The benefit they get from doing all of
this is that they will put their advertisements on the back of every paper.
Elowyn: Committed to senate’s use of recycled paper. Thinks the senate would waste
paper using Concept Adz.
Geoffrey: What is the quality of the photo copier? Would advertising for inter-office
paper ..
Gabe: Are they going to give any of the profits to the student senate?
Max: I think that I like the idea of free paper I think this would be detrimental because
we cannot print on both sides of the paper
VIII.
SENATOR REPORTS
minutes each)
(3
This portion of the agenda is reserved for senators who have information to report from
internal and external committees. Additionally, if there is a personal accomplishment or
challenge you are facing, feel free to include it in this report.
Geoffrey: I would like to organize a spiritual religious awareness week. I think it would help
promote unity and understanding in out community.
Gary: I also went to the student leadership conference and we have a little card & gift for
Sesario.
Eric: I would like to give a brown act report. All student senate organization is bound by the
brown act. Every Club or committee is required to post and Agenda 72 hours in advance in a
public area. We can’t add items to the agenda during the meeting. Even guests has to have
information packets minutes the agenda and so on.
Sophia: Elowyn and I presented our workshop. One thing I learned a lot about was
parliamentary procedure. We have information regarding the rules we learned there and
there are a lot of differences in what we are doing and what we learned there.
David: I would like to say the most important thing I learned there was picking up ideas
from other colleges especially De Anza’s budget. I was very impressed how they support a
lot of different committees.
Max: I’m going to print up a copy of all of the rules in parliamentary procedures.
Anthony: I would like to see a written report on the conference. Hopefully we will be able to
write a report next Thursday of our findings at the conference
Fenix: I was asked by Rocio of the LLN I would like to pass out information about el dia de
los muertos. As a new senator I haven’t been able to connect with every one in the group in
the student senate. Please meet with me about anything I am active and proactive.
Elowyn: I would like to give you a copy of my report about the conference even though
MG: I attended all of the work shops and I have some humor to present. If any of you have
any questions please see me.
Becka: I went to the Lobbying workshop and I was very informative as well as the budget
workshop.
There was also an opportunities to get some entertainment events here
Aleana: I will briefly say that I went to a lot of our all of the work shops this week.
JUST MAKE SURE TO STICK TO THE 5 MINUTE ALLOTMENT SO EVERYONE CAN
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH THE GROUP.
IX.
ASCC STUDENT SENATE ’08-’09 GOALS
minutes)
(10
Rebeca: I think that it is really important that we keep on top of what we said we were going
to do.
What I want to do is that I am going to ask several people to read each goal internal and
external and I would like to brain storm and here from you if you think we are fulfilling these
goals.
Fenix: I would like to see more participation from the students to beautify the space like put
up murals and art from the students
Eric: I think we are actually doing better at making our space good than we thought.
Rebeca: We are going to just read these in the favor of time
X.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
minutes each)
(5
XI.
ICC REPORT
minutes)
(5
MG: The ICC is a wonderful way to use the student activities center.
XII.
EVENT REPORTS
minutes)
(5
David: The Halloween committee is meeting after this meeting and every one is welcome to
attend
XIII.
ADVISOR REPORTS
minutes each)
(5
Sesario: I would like to say that I am very proud of the students we sent. I saw the
enthusiasm of the students at lunch discussing all of the things we learned. I felt that seeing
this enthusiasm that we were meeting our goals in learning about leadership. A good thing I
saw that you had made your notes and summarized them automatically that is leadership. I
see you coming back to your goals and I encourage you to keep talking about them. Also I
like the idea of getting out there in the quad and making some juice and meeting the students
yourselves.
Gabe: Halloween. Please everyone stay and help after this meeting. We have to send out a
college wide invitation to the Halloween event. Other than that I’m glad you guys had fun at
your conference.
XIV.
AGENDA BUILDING
minutes)
(5
Geoffrey: I need to make my actions again because they were moved down to info items. I
would also like to make a spiritual and religious awareness week info item.
Gary: I would like a action item the Lobby TV. The second info item to buy a computer to see
if we can configure it to the way Gabe wants it, in the lobby.
Anthony Garza: I would like to make an action item for the same one this week
Lupe: I would like to have an action items for window shades
Fenix: Action item #7 to be put again on the action items list
Meeting called to close 5:28
XV.
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING