ASCC Agenda 3:30 PM, Student Senate Chambers, SAC East 20th December, 2007 While this location is considered accessible to those with ambulatory difficulties, the Associated Students of Cabrillo College hope to encourage full participation in student government and advocacy. If we can provide you with disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services than would facilitate your attendance at our meetings, please call Nicki or Alta at Disabled Student Program and Services, at 479-6379. Requests should be made as early as possible, though on-campus transportation can be called for at any time I. II. ORGANIZATIONAL ITEMS 1. Call to Order/Roll call Voting members: Voting members needed for quorum (1/2 +1): Votes needed to pass budgets/bylaws (2/3): 2. Approval of the Minutes (Benjamin/Elowyn) Approval of the Agenda (Katie/Ian) 3:31 18 10 12 PUBLIC COMMENTS 5 Minutes 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. III. SPECIAL PRESENTATION—SECRET SANTA GIFTS!!!!! 10 Minutes IV. PRESIDENT MARKO’S REPORT Thanked Sen. Barak for his leadership. Thanked Lisette for doing a great job. Thanked Ian—who he couldn’t have done his job without. 10 Minutes V. SPRING SEMESTER COMMITMENT FOR SENATE MEMBERS 1 Minute VI. INFO/ACTION 5 Minutes 1. Sen. Rebeca—Info. Regarding Social Justice Rebeca introduced Adela Najarro to senators. From handout entitled “Second Annual Social Justice Conference 2008—Student Senate Appeal for Funding”—The Steering Committee requests $1050 to fund a student centered conference…spring 2008. The funds requested will be used to cover costs as outlined in the enclosed budget. This conference is already scheduled with the date set and rooms allocated…keynote speaker, Ms. Banafsheh Akhalghi, Attorney at Law: National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement. The main goal of this conference is to create a forum where Cabrillo College students can present their original work and artistic endeavors. 2. VP Ian and Sen. Ben—voting on even more new bylaws. 3. Sen. Katie—$2000 from programs for Spring welcome Week. Katie would like the next welcome week to be a peace rally. She has spoken with local activitist groups like Grannies for Peace and Code Pink. Benjamin—good idea to make welcome week something more than simply welcoming students. Eric—if the student senate funds this, basically it is making a political statement. I think this could be made into two events. Ian— Prop 92 directly affects students, this rally isn’t community college specific. Elowyn—we are students, we are not administrators—we are allowed to demonstrate and to express our views. Benjamin—institutions that are not directly affected by things take roles. Steven—is there an established meeting time and place for the committee. Katie—there will be lots of meetings during wintersession. Sesario—the motion is for funding activities for welcome week—wording is fine—maybe consider tours of complex. Martin Luther King Day is close to the date. Barak—liked the idea—think it would be more powerful if few issues are addressed instead of many. He suggested that Katie focus on a few ideas. Be careful about sounding preachy. (Ryan/Lisette) 18/0 Approved. 4. Leg. Ryan—Augmentation of Annual League conference budget— additional $500 from Student rep. (18/0) Approved. 5. Sen. Timmie—$1500 from Student Center to build wall for bike co op. President’s cabinet decided that space will not be granted. Bike co op may be allocated space in fall when space planners arrive. Sesario—cabinet decided that in fairness to other departments who wanted space, they wouldn’t give the students the space at this time. Ian—if the only reason for not giving students space is the future allocation. Marko—doesn’t think that the cabinet’s choice was the real reason. Timmie—former senate office was made a temporary space—our request is also for the cafeteria space as temporary. Eric—perhaps it wouldn’t be a prudent use of funds to buy tools if the bike co op only lasted a month. Marko—part of Taher’s contract was that they would receive the student café space. Timmie—I don’t think this is an act of good faith. He hasn’t received responses to messages. The choice was made at the end of the semester. Barak, Will, Ian and Timmie spoke with Pres. King about reasons for not releasing space. 1. Liability issues. 2. Would the senate leave after space allocation? 3. Could the bike co op be sustainable? Ian—this isn’t about this semester, or waiting about this or that. The cabinet considers this bike co op a risk. It’s best for the senate to receive the space temporarily instead of permanently. There’s a greater risk now. Jon—where are we going to go if we get pushed out of space? Jon—it doesn’t make sense to approve something that won’t be going through anytime soon. Benjamin—it doesn’t hurt us to approve it, it hurts us not to approve it. Dr. May Chen is 100% behind the bike co op. She would like the cabinet to look into insurance information about bike co op. She wants to make sure that the cafeteria location is secure for the co op. Timmie—I am hearing the president’s cabinet is worried about liability. Timmie—was sure that the senate would know during the last week of the semester the go ahead or not. The decisions not made, it’s being fought for. President’s cabinet is looking into security and safety of location. The SAC building has been insured, secured and okayed. Ian—do you have any advice on how we can improve our communications? Dr. Chen—happy to receive minutes. Sesario—the students are most concerned with the timeline. (Barak/Elowyn) 18/1 Approved. 6. Pres. Marko—$13,000 From Student Center for soft seating in SAC east. Benjamin—do the love seats or sofas have any weird dividors that would make them uncomfortable? Sesario—Marko repeatedly reminded senators if anyone wanted to help select the furniture. Ian—there must be some sort of middle ground. Katie—there was a committee—if you were concerned with the price—then you should have been there. (Rebeca/Katie) 16/2 Approved. 7. Ruth—Compost program Couple years ago, a small bin was used, but it was stolen. Angel—spoke with head chef and director of culinary arts. Both are backing the compost idea for sustainability. 8. By-laws Sesario—over the years, the vice president hasn’t had anything to do. What does the vice president do? The president doesn’t always rely the vice president to substitute for him during meetings. Elowyn—thinks it’s important to have as many points in the chain as possible. We want the ICC chair to be someone who represents the clubs. Jon—the responsibilities of all these positions go beyond what the by-laws say. Marko—would feel comfortable if any senator substituted for him. Benjamin—the constitution and bylaws committee has met about this issue many times. Ian—this isn’t coming from personal experience as vice president—feels passionately about the change--has observed that the ICC progressed—the most important thing for that position is someone who can chair meetings. First vote: merging of the ICC chair and VP position (Katie/Timmie) Second vote: Early departure should be defined as leaving the meeting more than 10 minutes prior. (Timmie/Benjamin) 4/8 Not approved. Grammatical change to Scott’s Valley representative. (Katie/Elowyn) 13/0 VII. EVENT UPDATES/REVIEW 5 Minutes 1. Second Harvest—Jon and Ian—today’s totals $$ 2. MLK day—Steven X. ADVISOR REPORTS 6 Minutes XI. AGENDA BUILDING XII. ADJOURNMENT 5:28pm XIII. EXECUTIVE MEETING 6:05- 7:00pm