El Camino College
Associated Students Organization
Senate Meeting Minutes
April 4, 2013
West Conference Room
1:00pm
I.
Call to Order
 Dillan Horton called the meeting to order at 1:04pm.
II. Roll Call
Voting Members of the Senate – Present:
Dillan Horton (Chairperson), Brooke Matson, Derrick Moon, Simone Montague-Jackson , Nathan Wofford, Sarah
Hafiz, Jasmine Hormati, Luis Mendez, Marisa Tam, Aysha Shaikh, Gustavo Garcia, Emma Robertson, Rachel
Tamashiro
Voting Members of the Senate – Excused:
Sarah Rednour, Sean Borden, Alejandro Ventura, Kelly Ng
Voting Members of the Senate – Absent:
Tiffany Tran, Daniel Carvalho, Valencia Clark, Felix Chan, Priscilla Young
Advisors
Rebecca Cobb, Breanna von Stein
III. Approval of the Minutes
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Motion to postpone the approval of the minutes of March 28th as is made by Derrick Moon.
Seconded by Sarah Hafiz. Motion passed.
IV. Approval of the Agenda
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Motion to approve the agenda of April 4th as is by Jasmine Hormati. Seconded by Brooke
Matson. Motion passed.
V. Old Business
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None.
VI. New Business
6.1 – Appointment Items – Brooke Matson
6.1.1 Sarah Hafiz – Public Relations Committee Co-Chair
 Motion to approve Sarah Hafiz as Public Relations Committee Co-Chair made by Brooke
Matson. Seconded by Emma Robertson. Motion passed.
6.2 – Elections Approvals – Brooke Matson
6.2.1 Establishment of ASO Elections Committee
 An Elections Committee needs to be created to run ASO Elections. After the committee is
approved, the calendar must be approved after. It is an Ad Hoc committee because it ends after
the process of elections is over.
 Motion to approve the establishment of ASO Elections Committee made by Brooke Matson.
She amended her motion with the addition of Derrick Moon and Tiffany Tran as Co-Chairs of
the committee and Sarah Hafiz as a member of the committee. Seconded by Jasmine Hormati.
Motion passed.
6.2.2 Ratification of Election Calendar
 Motion to suspend the orders of the day and move onto Item 6.3 made by Brooke Matson.
Seconded by Sarah Hafiz. Motion passed.
 The Election Calendar is the process that elections will go through. Candidate petitions are
available on April 5th because is mandated that they have five weeks to have petitions. There
will be a Candidates Meeting on May 3rd. Campaigning beings on May 6th. There will be a
Candidates Rally on May 14th. Voting is held on May 13th and 14th.
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Motion to approve the Elections Calendar for Spring 2013 made by Brooke Matson. Seconded
by Nathan Wofford. Motion passed.
6.3 – 2013 SSCCC Spring General Assembly Resolutions – Dillan Horton
6.3.1 CSU Local Admissions & Service Areas Resolution
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Originally in the resolution that passed, we advocated for not using the CSU Local Admissions & Service
Areas. Since approved, they met with representatives from Long Beach and spoke over the phone with
representatives from CSULA. Though we are not providing local services to students, public schools for
California are supposed to provide services to California students. There are some CSUs that have a
statewide designation for local admissions and service areas. CSU’s are more likely to agree to it that
asking for the resolution to be banned.
Motion to adopt the CSU Local Admissions & Services Areas Resolution made by Jasmine
Hormati. Seconded by Sarah Hafiz. Motion passed.
6.3.2 Lead Green Associates Program
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This is a program in which students can have a curriculum where they can take an 8-week course, take a
test at the end, and receive a certificate certifying them as being competent in sustainable infrastructure.
Architecture and engineering students can use this as far as getting a job or transferring. The goal is to
have this at various community colleges. Nathan suggested replacing “since” with “that.”
Motion to adopt the Lead Green Associates Program made by Nathan Wofford. Seconded by
Derrick Moon. Motion passed.
 Motion to return to the order of the day back to Item 6.2.2 Ratification of Election Calendar
made by Jasmine Hormati. Seconded by Nathan Wofford. Motion passed.
6.3.3 Satisfactory Academic Progress
 This was an item to be discussed with Policy committee but could not meet with them. Since the
organization has not discussed it and information was not found, this resolution should not be
taken to the SSCCC.
6.4 – Finance Items – Derrick Moon
6.4.1 Elections Budget
 Motion to approve $500 for preparation and promotion of ASO Elections through AS Elections
(71-836102) made by Derrick Moon. Seconded by Sarah Hafiz. Motion passed.
6.5 – Activity Fee – Dillan Horton
 ASO gets a good amount of funding from ASB, as well as funding from the Student
Representation Fee (50₵). ASB is not in the best financial position and will not have enough
money to fund programs within the next few years. Along with ASO, they also fund other
programs on campus either completely or partially. There is a need for alternative sources of
funding. There are a number of schools that have an Activities Fee and like those schools, ASO
would take responsibility of ASB. The proposed amount would be $10. Portions of the fee
would be allocated to various programs and the rest would be used for ASO.
Discussion:
Jasmine asked that the Student Rep Fee is 50₵ and the Activities Fee will be $10 that students can opt-out
of and Dillan confirmed.
Dillan stated it will come back to Senate. There is a drafted Board Policy on next agenda.
Rebecca Cobb asked what ASO will do if the student body doesn’t agree to it. Dillan stated they must be
convinced that it is worthwhile. Rebecca Cobb stated that it will take a great deal of education if ASO
chooses to move this forward and to inform the student population. ASO will have to be proactive.
6.6 – Office Hours Finalization – Brooke Matson
 She appreciated those who emailed her concerning office hours and it will be implemented after
Spring Break. For the time being, there will be a sign-in sheet at the Info Desk and within the
next few weeks, there will be a better process.
VII. Reports
7.1 ASO Member Reports
 Derrick: He suggested that if you are not running for elections to join the Elections Committee because members
are needed.
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Brooke: The Making Decisions document was revised again. When the time comes to vote on it, she will bring the
document to Senate. She stated that she sits on the Foundation Board and they have picked the scholarships. Those
that received a scholarship should have already received an email and will be getting a letter in the mail. The
Scholarship Awards Ceremony will take place on April 18 th and they highly encourage those who received
scholarships to attend. Active Shooter Training will be held on April 10 th from 1pm – 6pm. Luis asked if any El
Camino students are allowed and Brooke confirmed. Those wanting to attend should contact Rachel. She also
wished everyone a great Spring Break.
 Gus: The Health & Safety Fair went well and he thanked those that volunteered. Aysha stated that they are on
Channel 22 and that it is already rumored that it is an annual event. The Fair will continue to expand.
 Jasmine: There will be a Board meeting on April 15th. Emails for academic awards will be sent for updates.
 Simone: She met with Dr. Arce two weeks ago concerning implementation of Study Abroad Program and that he
said he would like to bring it back, but it will not be back until 2016 or later. …Santa Monica College, West LA,
and Southwest all have Study Abroad Programs. The only way the program will come back to El Camino is with
funding. ASO was asked to help persuade the Board with a resolution for it to come back sooner than later. At
Academic Senate, it was controversial because of repeatability issues. The Fine Arts was fighting against
administration concerning inactive classes and repeatability. College Curriculum approved an AAT degree for
Journalism and an AA degree for Welding. She will find out and confirm that the AAT and AST degrees are not
completely replacing the AA and AS degrees with transfer degrees. She is still moving forward with the Rental
Survey with Tiffany, Ariel, and Sarah.
 Nathan: Met with Carlos, the Vice President of Compton, and he was interested in bringing a group of students to
speak at the Open Mic. There is a Region meeting tomorrow and the resolutions deadline is tomorrow. Joseph
Tucker, one of elected Senators that represent Region VII, was removed from the position of Communications
Officer and as President of LA Trade Tech College. He was unable to be removed as a Senator at the Region
meeting. He asked if anyone else is interested in hosting Open Mic with him. Flyers will be distributed to different
Division offices.
 Dillan: He, along with Nathan, Alejandro, and Aysha, met with representatives from CSU Long Beach after the
passage of the resolution. He also met with the President of CSU Los Angeles, Hector Escobar, last Friday. The
proposal went to a vote at ICC on Monday and did not pass. The deal that faculty and students got from the
administration about the cancelation of winter session would be two back-to-back summer sessions. There will
most likely not be a second summer session. He reminded those that attended March in March and ASACC to
follow up with Legislatures they have met with. At the Washington DC trip, they received briefings of a number of
federal issues. They talked about Pell Grants and there was a surplus in the program and will not happen next year.
There are currently two budgets being proposed in each house of the Legislature.
7.2 ICC Reports
 Luis: The proposal was not passed. ICC wants ASO take part in Warrior Games on April 26th.
7.3 AGS Reports
 Simone: Applications were due this past Tuesday. Committees are being set up for Cabinet. They are participating
in the World Tour.
7.4 Committee Report
7.4.1 Activities Committee
 Simone: ASO Open Mic went well and the next one will take place on April 16 th at 1pm – 2pm.
 Quorum was lost.
7.4.2 Fundraising Committee
7.4.3 Policy Committee
7.4.5 Public Relations Committee
7.4.6 Sustainability Committee
7.5 Adviser Reports
7.5.1 Rebecca Cobb
7.5.2 Breanna von Stein
VIII.
IX.
Public Comment on Non-Agenda Items
Adjournment
 Due to a lack of quorum, the meeting was adjourned at 1:51pm.
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Brooke Matson, ASO President
Rebecca Cobb, ASO Adviser