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The Associated Students of Las Positas College
Senate Meeting
May 8th, 2015
1:00 pm – Adjournment
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Workshops
“The Art of Icebreakers” by Ciera Soliz
“Enhancing Creativity in the 21st Century” by Rafi Ansari
“Emotional Intelligence” by Alejandra Garcia
IV. Adoption of the Agenda
V. Approval of the Minutes
VI. Officer Reports
A. President
B. Vice President
C. Director of Legislation
D. Director of Communications
E. Director of Events
F. ICC Chair
G. Senators
H. Committee Reports
I. ASLPC Advisor
J. Student Trustee
VII. Guest Speakers
Richard Dry
VIII. Public Forum
IX. Old Business
A. Campfire Debrief
B. Group 2
X. New Business
A. Senate Spring Dinner
B. RAW Center Donation
C. Conferences
XI. Announcements
XII. Adjournment
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The Associated Students of Las Positas College
Senate Meeting
May 8th, 2015
1:00 pm – Adjournment
I.
Mr. Ansari called the meeting to order at 1:08 p.m.
II.
Roll Call
Officers:
Rafi Ansari
Olga Salgado
Ashley Landicho (EXCUSED LATE)
Ciera Soliz
Eric Pineda
Senators:
Alejandra Garcia
Alexander Ivanov
Alexandre Nguyen
Antonio Aguilar (EXCUSED ABSENT)
Brandon Byrne
Claire Huestis
Fatima Elgarguri
Jose Gutierrez
Luis Perez
Mateo Garcia
Nancy Kang
Omar Elgarguri
III. Workshops
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Mr. Elgarguri moved to suspend the orders of the day at 1:09 p.m.
Mr. Nguyen seconded.
Motion passed unanimously.
“The Art of Icebreakers” by Ciera Soliz
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“Emotional Intelligence” by Alejandra Garcia
Emotional intelligence – we don’t always choose it
Managing emotions, perceiving, using, understanding them
Psychology 101: right emotional, left logical
o Self-awareness
o Social-awareness
o Self-management
o Relational-management
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Ms. Garcia proceeded to have a meditation exercise. Afterwards we shared ideas on what
makes a good leader personally and relationally.
“Enhancing Creativity in the 21st Century” by Rafi Ansari
Fold your piece of paper into 4. Draw anything on the 4 pieces of paper. Mr. Ansari then
collected everyone’s paper and chose 5 random drawings. We had to create a story with
the 5 pieces of paper. It’s about redefining creativity. Creativity has not been fostered too
well in schools.
Idea synthesis: 1st idea takes qualities of the 2nd idea. Silence the critic. This creates
uniqueness and advancing thoughts
Mr. Elgarguri moved to reinstate the orders of the day at 2:56 p.m.
Ms. Salgado seconded.
Motion passed with 2 opposed.
IV. Adoption of the Agenda
 Mr. Garcia moved to approve the agenda for May 8th, 2015 with the following changes:
o Add New Business: B. RAW Center Donation / C. Conferences
o Strike Old Business: C. Group 4 / D. Group 6 / E. Workstation Remodeling
o Strike New Business: B. Officer Retreat
 Mr. Ivanov seconded.
 Motion passed unanimously.
V. Approval of the Minutes
 Mr. Garcia moved to approve the minutes from May 1st, 2015.
 Mr. Byrne seconded.
 Motion passed unanimously.
VI. Officer Reports
A. President
Mr. Ansari said that regarding scholarships, you should have received an email on
May 4th confirming they received one but many students didn’t receive one. It
will be on May 12th instead. Town Hall presented projects we’ve been working
on. Ms. Elgarguri is running graduation, so she’ll be needing help. He and Mr.
Bolin presented on what we’ve accomplished this year at the Board of Trustees.
The ICC Chair officer position is still open, so the officers for next year will meet
on Wednesday (time to be decided) and decide how they want to choose the next
ICC Chair – either open it to everyone outside of senate special elections or
choose someone in senate (i.e. interviews, letters of intent, ask them if you’re
interested).
B. Vice President
 NONE
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C. Director of Legislation
Ms. Salgado went to the last ICC meeting and worked on workshop flyers and
worked on her own workshop and committee report.
D. Director of Communications
Ms. Landicho helped with the Campus Campfire, helped on Club Day with the
voting polls, and is going to meet up with the cafeteria group and Jeff Kingston to
gather statistics.
E. Director of Events
Ms. Soliz worked on the Campus Campfire and worked on her workshop.
F. ICC Chair
Mr. Pineda helped out with the Campus Campfire, tour to incoming high school
students, working on ICC event and getting ready for it soon.
G. Senators / H. Committee Reports
 Mr. Ivanov helped out with the campfire and attended District Enrollment
Management. They talked about the district and community and they’re not
reaching their targets. They’re trying to get more PE classes. The state doesn’t
want us to do more PE classes.
 Mr. Byrne did his office hour and helped out with the campfire. He worked on
sports taskforce stuff for ICC. He went to Basic Skills and they want to do
surveys to know why students are retaking their classes.
 Mr. Garcia went shopping for the campfire event. He is looking for food
alternatives for Prep-to-Pass. He went to the Town Hall meeting. They want
input on classes needed for the next five years. Chabot and Las Po are
supposed to have their FLEX days together.
 Ms. Kang helped with the campfire event, attended the trustee meeting with
Mr. Ansari and Mr. Bolin, and put flyers for prep-to-pass on the boards.
 Ms. Huestis worked on her office hour, helped with the campus campfire,
attended the Resource Allocation committee and attended the Budget planning
committee.
 Mr. Perez worked with Mr. Ansari on roundtable, did his office hour, and took
pictures of club meetings online.
 Ms. Garcia helped out with Club Day, worked on the campus campfire and
attended NCSL.
 Mr. Gutierrez said that he’s working with Cathy, who’s in charge of middle
college, to see what to do with high school students on using TLP.
 Mr. Elgarguri worked on Club Day, the campus campfire event, and talked to
students about the survey.
 Ms. Landicho said that Facilities meets next week. She will work with the
cafeteria group to gather statistics.
 Mr. Ansari went to the Town Hall meeting. There were awards presented to
members who have worked in the LPC-CCD for 20+ years and 1 member for
30+ years.
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I. ASLPC Advisor
Mr. Miner thanked those of us who have helped with the Livermore Wine
Auction. Campus Campfire went pretty well. He set up a trip about going to
Sacramento on June 1st and meeting with Assembly member Catherine Baker for
student government people to meet with her. She will take us to the assembly
floor and introduce the Las Positas group, if you can attend that would be great.
The Officer Retreat is June 4th through June 6th. We’ll leave on Friday morning at
9:00 a.m. and get back around 7:00 p.m. Sunday evening. Help is needed for
graduation on Friday and Saturday morning. For the people on the cafeteria
taskforce – we’ve been set up to have a meeting this Wednesday at 2:00 p.m..
They’re asking for us to compile our survey results and give that to them to be
prepared for the meeting. He wants to see the results. Anyone who received an
ASLPC scholarship received a paper in the mail (scholarships sent through
financial aid).
J. Student Trustee
Mr. Bolin said that the KTVU anchor Gasia Mikaelian was there. Ms. Kang came
along to see what the meeting was like. They presented the Tom Jackson award to
Ms. Huestis. He and Mr. Ansari presented to the Board what we’ve done this
semester. They were able to present but they had to do it on the spot. We’ve been
working on surveys and extra programs this semester. Chabot gave presentations
over 2 hours long. Las Positas gave awards to AGS members but also the diving
team. 16 divers won the State Championships and won it by 800 points. There
will be a water polo tournament coming up and it will be hosted here. Chabot had
3 main presentations: Nursing, Dental Hygiene, Photography, and Puente. Both
presidents of the college were able to present as well. If you guys want to
encourage her when she’s sworn in, Ms. Kang will be sworn in at the next
meeting on Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30 p.m.
VII. Guest Speakers
 Richard Dry was not present at this time.
VIII. Public Forum
 NONE
IX. Old Business
A. Campfire Debrief
 Ms. Soliz said that the Campus Campfire was chill and students liked it too. It
wasn’t too much money. One effective way was to walk around and tell people
about it. There was a big rush in the middle and a half-hour in. We told people
every half-hour to get a new crowd in. There was good music and people were
playing the games. A few people didn’t show up for their shifts again. For next
time, we should do something where you actually want to be there, not like you
have to go to work.
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Mr. Garcia said that next time he goes shopping he’ll buy enough for 75 to 80
people. We ran out of hot dogs. People liked the throwing game, so he’ll try to
find a sturdier one with the balls.
Mr. Elgarguri said that we weren’t allowed to use the main fire. We do need to
have a bigger fire; he ended up holding 4 students’ sticks.
Mr. Miner suggested smaller marshmallows.
Mr. Soliz said we lost the cup for one of the games.
B. Group 2
 Mr. Elgarguri and Mr. Gutierrez presented on internships and volunteer
opportunities in Programs and Services. They were thinking about taking the
appropriate ones related to their majors and using the 37 clubs we have on
campus. Clubs have club mail but they rarely check it; they can give it to the ICC
Chair and the ICC Chair can hand them out during the meeting.
 Mr. Ansari said Mike Alvarez said that the Career Center is not in touch with the
students and suggested Mr. Gutierrez can be the middle man.
X. New Business
A. Senate Spring Dinner
 Ms. Landicho presented the power point for the Spring Senate Dinner. The
possible dates are Friday May 15th, Saturday, May 16th or Friday, May 22nd. The
majority want to vote the 15th. Casa Orozco in Livermore is the first option.
Hana Japan in Dublin is the 2nd option. But they don’t do reservations for
nineteen people. BJ’s in Dublin was the 3rd option. The last option was Strizzi’s
in Livermore. People asked if we can have more options for sushi places. Mr.
Garcia said we need to vote for the place by the end of this meeting. Ms. Soliz
said that we should just pick from the options being presented right now. Mr.
Elgarguri suggested Kawa Sushi as one of the options. Ms. Kang works at a sushi
place in Livermore called Sumo Sushi and suggested we should go there. Sumo
was the consensus decision.
 Ms. Landicho moved to approve an up-to-amount of $1000 for the Senate Spring
Dinner.
 Ms. Soliz seconded.
 Motion passed with 1 opposed. (ROLL CALL VOTE SEE ATTACHED)
B. RAW Center Donation
 Mr. Ansari presented on what the RAW Center provides.
o 20-min drop-in tutoring sessions with an English or ESL instructor
o Reading and writing help for any subject for all Las Positas students
o Workshops: (Transfer statement)
o Provides online lessons in essay structure, grammar and style, and reading
strategies
 We’re voting on this next week. We donated last fall $2,000. They ask for $2,000
each semester to keep their program running.
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C. Conferences
 Mr. Ivanov said that for the next ASGA conference, the schedule is exactly the
same as last year’s conference. We are trying to decide if it is effective to go. We
also have the option of CCCSA.
 Mr. Nguyen said we’re already members of ASGA.
 Ms. Salgado said that if workshops were different then she’s for ASGA, and we
could perhaps visit other workshops if we didn’t get the chance to; otherwise
she’s for CCCSA.
 Ms. Soliz said that a lot of us didn’t like NCSL.
 Mr. Garcia said there should be a way for the new officers to have a say.
 Mr. Ivanov said that the sooner you buy the plane tickets the cheaper they are.
The CCCSA conference doesn’t conflict with too many people’s schedules; we
have all the officers already. Holding a student conference here could be an idea
also.
 Our options are ASGA, NCSL, CCCSA, or holding our own conference. He will
investigate further to see what our best option will be.
XI. Announcements
 Mr. Pineda is asking for Lip Sync Battle sign-ups.
 Mr. Miner passed around the sign-up sheet for visiting Catherine Baker.
 Mr. Pineda announced the Club Day Winners:
1. Club Days Blues Dancing Club
2. The Way and the Truth
3. Public Safety
 Leadership workshop flyers will be by Ms. Soliz’s desk.
 Mr. Garcia said we need more senator packets.
 Mr. Byrne announced that senator packets will be in Ms. Landicho’s desk in my folders.
 Mr. Ansari has a personal message for all of the officers after the meeting.
XII. Adjournment
 Ms. Huestis moved to adjourn the meeting at 4:03 p.m.
 Ms. Garcia seconded.
 Motion passed unanimously.
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Roll Call Vote:
New Business: A. Senate Spring Dinner
Motion: To approve an up-to-amount of $1000 for the Senate Spring Dinner.
Officers:
Olga Salgado
Ashley Landicho
Ciera Soliz
Eric Pineda
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Senators:
Alejandra Garcia
Alexandre Nguyen
Brandon Byrne
Claire Huestis
Fatima Elgarguri
Jose Gutierrez
Luis Perez
Mateo Garcia
Nancy Kang
Omar Elgarguri
Aye
Aye
Nay
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye