El Camino College
Associated Students Organization
Senate Meeting Minutes
November 26th, 2013
Admin 131
1:00 PM
I.
Call to Order
 Meeting called to order at 1:08 by Derrick
II.
Roll Call
Voting Members of the Senate
Derrick Moon (Chair), Alejandro Ventura, Brooke Matson, Nick Awakuni, Luis Mendez , Macielle
Osterling, Stefan Ecklund, Liliana Lopez, Joy De Guzman, Ramon Esquivel, Anjeannette Aguilar,
Brianne O’Donoghue, Sean Bonyadlou, Sean Borden, Faizan Mehmood, Elizabeth Salinger,
Sharda Jones, Juan Daniel Lopez, Garret Lopez, Candice Reynolds, Mehreen Ahmed, Jacob
Friedlander, Kinza Malik
Voting Members of the Senate – Excused
Voting Members of the Senate – Absent
Advisors
Breanna von Stein
III.
Approval of the Minutes
 Motion to table past minutes until December 5th moved by Alex Ventura.
Seconded by Brooke Matson.
 Motion passed
IV.
Approval of the Agenda
 Motion to approve agenda by Brooke Matson. Seconded by Alex Ventura.
 Motion passed.
V.
Old Business
 None
VI.
New Business
6.1 – Appointments
 6.1.1 Brooke Matson motioned for Jasir Soomro for Senator of Health
Sciences & Athletics. Seconded by Garret Lopez.
 Motion passed.
6.4 – Activities fee

An electronic copy of the new draft of the procedure and policy of the
Activites Fee and the petition was emailed yesterday. (11/25)

Brooke Matson approved the Ad Hocs decisions to present the draft to Dr.
Fallo on December 3rd at 2:00. The petition needs to be signed with a goal of
5000 signatures. Each member will need 25 signatures each.
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The drafted document allows 40% to be allocated to ASO.
Tomorrow an Ad Hoc activities fee committee meeting will be held at 4:30

Motion to approve draft of policy and petition motioned by Sharda Jones,
seconded by Macielle Osterling.
Motion passed and the documents are ratified.
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VII.
Reports
7.1 – ASO Member Reports
Nick: Mobile ASO tomorrow at science quad 10:00 to 1:00 pm.
Every member needs to sign up and complete their hours.
Brooke: A board meeting is being held on November 18th. Two new trustees will be
present at December meeting. Members should attend board meetings to
understand how board meetings work.
A foundation meeting was held last Thursday. A lease was approved for
international students. The rooms could possibly open up for in state El Camino
college students. If the rooms are not filled, other college students could rent out the
rooms
Scholarship application ends December 6th.
Macielle: Regent 7 meeting. New director of external affairs for region 7 was elected.
At next meeting will elect new Vice President
Stefan: At the academic senate meeting, changes were made to the by laws.
Alex: No changes have been made to the division council members. Each division
will be contacted individually to solve for issues.
During the spring semester, you will be allowed one unexcused absence for the
division committee.
7.2 ICC Reports
An Ad Hoc committee was made. The club has an accessible loan account.
AGS has a meeting currently
7.4 Committee Reports
7.4.1 Activities Committee
A special meeting was to be held today, but is to be canceled due to not meeting
quorum.
Canned food drive ends tomorrow November 27th.
7.4.2 Fundraising Committee
Meeting on Monday at 11:00 AM
7.4.3 Policy Committee
Not meeting for the rest of semester. Derrick will email the agenda.
7.4.5 Public Relations Committee
An email was sent in the morning for the next PR committee member meeting next
Thursday at 3:30.
In class introduction. Going into professor’s classrooms to introduce ASO and
discuss what issues are currently occurring.
Get as many signatures as possible for the student activities fee.
7.4.6 Sustainability Committee
A retreat/meeting is being held at the Madrona Marsh on Saturday.
Ad hoc committee will meet tomorrow. Projected deadline march.
VIII.
IX.
Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items
 None
Adjournment
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Meeting adjourned at 1:29
X
Chair
X
Advisor