ASUC SENATE MEETING
January 22, 2014
First Week
This regular meeting of the ASUC Senate, commencing the Spring Session, was called to order by Nolan
Pack at 7:10 p.m. in the Assembly Room, Anna Head Alumnae Hall.
Roll call was taken for attendance:
MEMBERS LEGALLY PRESENT:
Courtney Chow
Katherine Chung
Grant Fineman
Destiny Iwuoma
Justin Kong
Karen Lee
Naweed Mohabbat
Briana Mullen
Solomon Nwoche
Wendy Pacheco
Sahil Pandya
Caitlin Quinn
Liza Raffi
Sevly Snguon
Sean Tan
Emily Truax
Pavan Upadhyayula
Lauren Week
Eric Wu
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Quinn Z. Shen
Mr. Pack said that because it was the first meeting of the new Spring Session of the Senate, he was
instructed by the By-laws to lead a voluntary Pledge of Allegiance. There was a flag on the screen, and
he would ask Attorney General Sabo to lead the Senate in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. [The Pledge
of Allegiance was recited.] Mr. Pack said he would like to thank people for indulging them in that procedural matter.
REPORTS FROM REPRESENTATIVES TO THE ASUC
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary
Robert Jittrikawiphol said he had a lot of updates for them.
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary (cont'd)
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Welcome back, all! Trust you had a restful and/or productive winter break!
Staffing & Hiring Updates
LEAD Center/ Fraternity and Sorority Advising - Dustin Page is no longer with the LEAD Center.
Dustin’s last day is tomorrow. Amber Bundy-Davis has joined us temporarily through May and is advising NPHC groups and GAMMA. For now, AD Tsubaki will be advising IFC, Christina will stay with
Panhellenic, but is adding MCGC groups to her portfolio. Christina also received the Gayle Webb New
Professional Award. Phi Sigma Rho Engineering Sorority was accepted to the Multi-Cultural Greek
Council and will be colonizing this semester.
LEAD Center/ Student Government Advising- We are currently in the process of filling the position of
Coordinator for Student Government Advising and Leadership Development, ASUC Programs and
Archives. The search committee conducted phone interviews last week and we hope to bring candidates
to campus the week of January 27th. Please join us for the candidate presentation and student forums.
Once dates and locations are finalized, Rob will provide you with the information.
In addition, we are in the process of recruiting for the position of Coordinator for Student Government
Advising and Leadership Development, Graduate Assembly working with the GA Project Coordinators,
Delegates and Business Office. The search committee is meeting tomorrow, Thursday, to go over the process of conducting phone interviews. Talk to Rob for more info.
LEAD Center/Student Organization Advising-We are hosting interview candidates for LEAD Center
Coordinator for Recreation, Arts, and Performing Arts organizations January 21, 23, 24.
Event Services posted an Event Coordinator position! Gabby McGrath is the search committee chair.
Targeted start date is mid March.
Event Services is looking for student staff for our Scheduling Assistant and Audio Visual Staff positions.
Scheduling Assistants are the first point of contact for clients and are responsible for booking events. To
apply for the Scheduling Assistant position please email Matt Sabouri at msabouri@berkeley.edu. To
apply for the Audio Visual Staff position please email your resume to Monica Duran at
moduran@berkeley.edu.
The Art Studio has hired a new Ceramics Tech: Vanessa DiTullio. Vanessa has been working with us as a
temp for almost a year and has now been installed as a career staffer. Along with tech’ing at the Berkeley
Art Studio she also teaches ceramics classes and maintains her own sculpture and drawing studio.
Katherine Walsh update - new Director of SERC, come by and congratulate her.
Office Manager Update - Jordan last day is Friday, Mariel Redlin is stepping in as interim. The job is
now reposted and will close February 5.
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary (cont'd)
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Construction/Facilities Updates
1. F.Y.I. Only: For the duration of the Hellman Tennis Complex Upgrades construction, access to
Edwards Track and Goldman Field will ONLY be via Bancroft Way; the entrance is under the
Edwards Track bleachers just west of the RSF Garage driveway. (During specific Track and Field
events access will be coordinated to include a path from Schlessinger Way.) Access to Evans Diamond will be maintained via the gates near Haas Pavilion. Circulation on Schlessinger Way will also
be impacted during construction and the roadway will be narrowed to one traffic lane at times. Flaggers will assist with traffic control.
2. The stair is now closed from the east side of Ludwig’s Fountain to the east edge of the Chavez
breezeway. The major demolition of the stair was completed last week. The new stairs are scheduled
to be completed by May 2014. Noise and disruption from concrete removal at the basement level of
the stairs will continue through to the end of January, mostly affecting the Art Studio and the Band
areas.
3. Be sure to notify the Secretariat and/or the Lead Center if your Cal ID access to approved areas is not
working so we can get your ID card activated. You will need to be reprogrammed if you have lost
your Cal ID.
Program/Service Updates
LEAD Center/ Student Government Advising- May 27-30, Anna Head Alumnae Hall. We are conducting
an assessment of past Executive Officer Leadership Institutes (EOLI) to improve the quality and
effectiveness of the program. We have begun inviting campus officials to meet with incoming officers.
We will provide more information following the assessment.
LEAD Center/Student Organization Advising-Walk in Hours will begin on Monday, January 27 and
occur Monday through Friday from 2:00 -4:00. They're working with the EVP to secure a location in
112/114. Agent/Signatory Trainings start this week for student organizations. Check the LEAD Center
Web site (lead.berkeley.edu) for days/times.
ASUC Auxiliary Marketing is happy to announce that our senior Graphic Designer–Joel Felix has completed the ASUC logo & branding refresh! Joel has updated the ASUC Seal, color palette, and has
cleaned up all other ASUC logo variations to stay in line with UC Berkeley branding standards. We will
update you soon on where you can download the latest seal & logos. We think you all will love it! We
also have begun planning for Cal Day! We will keep you updated on Auxiliary & ASUC joint marketing
efforts as plans come into fruition. (Tiffany)
Art Studio winter class registration is well under way and doing very well. All ceramics classes have been
sold out and more classes are being added by popular demand. Financial goals for the session have
already been met, with still some time to go before classes start on February 1st. The Studio is also
installing a small exhibition, The Teapot, running from February 4th-March 21st.
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary (cont'd)
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Upcoming Events
Event Services and the LEAD Center are hosting Event Planning 101 for students! Please get the word
out! Dates and sign up are on the Event Services website: eventservices.berkeley.edu.
The application for the 2015-16 Student Regent position is now available online. Please encourage students to apply. Students may access the application through the Regents' homepage at
http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/. To apply, students must complete, sign and submit the application form along with a current resume and an essay (per the application) by February 20, 2014.
Complete applications and supporting documents should be submitted via email to the following two (2)
addresses:
Anne.Shaw@ucop.edu, Associate Secretary of the Regents
deanofstudents@berkeley.edu, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Berkeley Student Regent Coordinator
The current Student Regent-designate and former ASUC Senator(!), Sadia Saifuddin, will host an information session Friday January 24th at Anthony Hall from 2-4 p.m. to discuss her experience as Student
Regent-designate and to provide details on the application process. Food and drinks will be provided.
Other Updates
-Tabling Pod hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. for the Spring Semester.
End written report from the ASUC Auxiliary
--------------Mr. Jittrikawiphol said that Dustin Page will be going back to Georgia, and Thursday was his last day at
the LEAD Center. So if people wanted to say good-bye, they should stop by the LEAD Center.
Candidate presentations and student forums for the ASUC Programs and Archives position will be from
2:00 to 3:30 on Wednesday, the 29th, Thursday the 30th, and Tuesday, February 4.
Since Jordan Tauber was leaving, the Office Manager position is open. Unfortunately, they didn't get a
whole bunch of candidates, less than five. So the post of the position will be re-opened. People could
find that on Callisto. If any of their friends were interested in the position, the number is 854346.
Mr. Pack said that if they were going to take questions, he could call for a motion to extend speaking
time. A motion to extend speaking time by three minutes was made and seconded by Mr. Fineman and
Ms. Pacheco and passed with no objection.
Mr. Fineman said it was mentioned that the Office Manager was changing hands, and asked if, in the
interim, the Office Manager e-mail address was changing as well. Mr. Jittrikawiphol said it wasn't, and
was still manager@asuc.org.
Report from the ASUC Auxiliary (cont'd)
Report from the Finance Officer
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Mr. Fineman said that at one of the last meetings last semester, Mr. Jittrikawiphol reported on some
Greek organizations that were being removed from the campus, a few of them, and that there might be
more. Mr. Fineman asked if there was an update yet on that. Mr. Jittrikawiphol said he would check with
Brandon Tsubaki to see if there was anything new on that and would get back to Mr. Fineman next week.
Mr. Nwoche asked when the first session was for student organization agent/signatory training. Mr.
Jittrikawiphol said he didn't have that information at that time. It was on the LEAD Center Web site, the
very first item at the very top. The date will be right there.
Ms. Week said she didn't know if Mr. Jittrikawiphol would be familiar with this, but she heard there were
plans for construction of Maxwell Field, which would force it to be closed. She asked if he knew how
long it would be closed. Mr. Jittrikawiphol said he didn't have that information at that time and could get
back to her about that next week.
Mr. Pack called for any other questions for Mr. Jittrikawiphol, and seeing none, said he would like to
thank him. (Applause)
Regarding the report from the Commercial and Student Services Board representatives, Mr. Pack said the
meeting was coming up, and he didn't know if there were any updates. He didn't receive a written report
from the reps.
Report from the Finance Officer
Dennis Lee said his report should be in people’s binders. Over the break he sent out a bunch of e-mails
about various things. He updated the ASUC budget per the budget realignment bill, so everything that
was amended should be shown in the current ASUC budget. He would apologize for one e-mail he sent
out, with the wrong link for the Senate sponsorship and funding application. But people should be able to
find the actual application on the CalLink Web site.
Mr. Lee said he was currently working on the spring budgeting application and was still working on the
details. It will be available starting on February 14. There will be exactly one month for all the student
groups to complete the application and submit it, from February 14 to March 14. He would ask Senators
to please mark those dates down and to tell their student groups about this.
Mr. Lee said that this year’s mid-year report will be incorporated in the spring budgeting application.
Some Senators e-mailed him about that.
Also, Mr. Lee said that he was taking the ASUC DE-Cal, and it was pretty fun. That was it for his report.
Mr. Pack called for any questions for Mr. Lee, and seeing none, said he would like to thank him. Mr. Lee
said he would like to thank them. (Applause)
Report from the Finance Officer (cont'd)
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Date Submitted: 1/20/2014 12:54 p.m.
Submitted by: Dennis Lee
Name: Dennis Lee
Date: 1/20/2014
Position or Affiliated Group: Finance Officer
List Administrative or ASUC Committee Meetings attended: N/A
List campus-wide committee meetings attended, including a summary of actions and decisions made by
the committee: N/A
List of accomplishments and fulfilled duties:
Worked with EVP staff, Senator Mohabbat, and the LEAD Center on the details of
spring budgeting. Came up with a rough spring budgeting timeline.
Updated the ASUC budget, with the new budget realignment. Currently working on the spring budgeting application on CalLink Assisted Senator Iwuoma on his project.
List of proposed goals for the upcoming week:
Come up with a complete spring budgeting application.
Meet with LEAD Center, ASUC Auxiliary, to discuss more about spring budgeting.
Work on spring budgeting video with Melissa, EVP Student Resources Director, and
Senator Mohabbat Follow-up on the Cal Lodge proposal.
List any expenditures and allocations made from any account or fund overseen by your office:
N/A
Budget/ Expenses
Uploaded File: <em>No Response</em>
List any other relevant information:
N/A
End written report from the Finance Officer
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Guest Announcements / Public Comment
Approval of the Minutes
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GUEST ANNOUNCEMENTS / PUBLIC COMMENT
Mr. Pack said the only public comment they had was from Sofie Karasek, on the UC Regents meeting, on
sexual assault.
Sofie Karasek introduced herself and said she’s come to Senate meetings a couple of times before. She’s
the President of the Cal Berkeley Democrats, and is an activist and a sexual assault survivor. She filed a
federal complaint against Berkeley last year. She wanted to let the Senate know that the UC Regents met
that day, as Senators probably knew. She and some other students attended and urged the Regents to
update their UC-wide policies on sexual assaults and to include students’ concerns in the updated policy.
So Senators should keep an eye out for those recommendations. She believed some other folks will be
talking about that as well. Basically, the gist is that the Regents were listening to the students and it was
really a powerful moment, and people should stay tuned. She wanted to thank them. (Applause)
Mr. Pack said that if there were no other Guest Announcements or public comments, they'd move on with
the agenda.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Mr. Pack said that Title I, Article II, Part 1 of the By-laws defines when the first and last meetings of an
ASUC Senate session happens. So the Senate didn't have any confusion this semester about that, he put
together a By-law-compliant list of Senate meetings that were displayed on the screen, cross-referenced
with the start date that the By-laws give them. He’s given them Spring Break off, so unless they'd like to
reverse that, the Senate would have that break. Even though it will be Dead Week, the By-laws require
that the Senate have a regular meeting that week, as the other bookend of the Senate session.
The previous Senate class gave this class an agenda for September 11 as the Senate’s first meeting, while
the By-laws require that the Senate’s first meeting should be on September 4, to coincide with the beginning of the first week on instruction. Instruction started on Thursday, August 29, so obviously the Senate
couldn't meet that immediately previous Wednesday, the 28th.
This was essentially a clerical error that created a problem of special meetings versus regular meetings.
Mr. Pack said he would argue that that was in violation of the By-laws and resulted in arbitrarily labeling
meetings that were “special” that were designated as part of the regular Senate calendar. So for the
minutes from December 11, if there were no other suggestions for amendments, he would suggest that the
meetings of December 11 and September 4 be labeled as regular meetings, and not as Special Meetings,
as the minutes indicate, because that’s what the By-laws require. In terms of the meeting calendar, the
last meeting before the end of instruction, which was not, in fact, December 4, but was December 11, and
the first regular meeting was September 4, which was also part of the Senate’s regular calendar. Mr. Pack
called for any questions about that.
Approval of the Minutes (cont'd)
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Ms. Raffi asked changing the two meetings to be regular meetings would affect Senators’ absences. Mr.
Pack said he ran the numbers for attendance, and adding those two meetings, the first and the last, as regular meetings, would not put anyone in jeopardy of being removed from the Senate, if that was the concern Ms. Raffi was bringing up. Many Senators e-mailed him throughout the semester asking what the
threshold for absences was, and both he and Ms. Hennes were consistent in telling people that Senators
could miss up to four meetings, with removal upon five absences. That was based on the calendar that
was required by the By-laws. Because of the clerical error of a special versus a regular meeting, and
because of the confusion around that, it could change that proportion. But he thought that in the interest
of being transparent and forthright with them about the numbers that he and Ms. Hennes have been saying
that whole semester about the threshold, it made the most sense to have the calendar the way it was
shown on the screen, where they have the whole semester in front of them. That was more transparent.
Also, the Senate could cancel meetings if need be. He would apologize for not providing last semester
the same type of calendar that was on the screen. The calendar being shown would put them at 15 regular
meetings.
Mr. Fineman asked if absences roll over or if they start the semester fresh. Mr. Pack said that each Senate
session is a fresh set of absences. So they start over that semester.
Mr. Nwoche said that even though the original calendar would be corrected, and they'd have the first
meeting last semester designated as a regular meeting, because Senators understood that to be a Special
Meeting, he asked if that would still count against Senators’ absences for that entire period.
Mr. Pack said that if the Senate approves the amendment he was suggesting, nobody would reach the
threshold of absences to be removed from the Senate. That was one thing he wanted to clarify. The other
thing was that correcting this was only to have the Senate comply with the calendar that’s specified in
Title I, Article 2, Part 1 of the By-laws.
Mr. Pack called for any other questions. Hearing none, he said he would first like to entertain a motion to
approve the minutes from the December 11, 2013 meeting, again with the understanding that the meeting
should not have been labeled as a Special Meeting in the minutes. He was suggesting they correct that.
Mr. Fineman moved to approve the minutes of December 11, as amended. The motion was seconded
Mr. Pack said that if he understood the motion correctly, it was a motion to approve the minutes from the
December 11 meeting, as a regular meeting, based on the conversation the Senate just had. Mr. Fineman
said that was correct. The motion was seconded by Ms. Raffi.
THE MOTION TO APPROVE MINUTES OF THE DECEMBER 11, 2013 MEETING, AS AMENDED,
PASSED WITH NO OBJECTION.
Mr. Pack said that in the interests of keeping the discussion neat, they would move on to the September 4
minutes. This was the same situation they just corrected in the December 11 minutes. The By-laws
require the calendar to start the first week of September. Their previous Senate class generously left them
with an agenda that started the second week of September, in violation of the By-laws. He would apologize for whatever role he played in that as a member of the previous Senate class. But again, this was just
a calendar issue.
Approval of the Minutes (cont'd)
New Business
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Mr. Pack called for a motion to bring the September 4 minutes in line with the required Senate calendar,
and to make it a regular meeting as opposed to a Special Meeting.
Mr. Nwoche said that he knew that no Senator was in jeopardy of being removed, but for the purpose of
records, he asked if there was a way the first meeting last semester wouldn't count for attendance, considering the fact that Senators had to notify constituents of their attendance.
Mr. Pack said he would defer to Attorney General Sabo on this, but Mr. Pack said he vetted this with Mr.
Sabo, and he’s been assured by Mr. Sabo that this change would not put anyone at the threshold to be
removed and wouldn't jeopardize anyone in the Senate.
Mr. Nwoche said he understood that, but since Senators initially thought it was a Special Meeting, he was
asking if there was a way, if they weren’t there that night, that it wouldn't count against them, because of
this clarification, and changing the meeting from a Special Meeting to a regular meeting. Mr. Pack said
that to be real with Mr. Nwoche, once they got this out of the way, it wouldn't matter anymore, because
they start with a fresh slate in the spring. Their absences in the fall wouldn't matter anymore. Mr.
Nwoche said he was asking just for record purposes.
Mr. Sabo said that the two absences were also excused for religious reasons, so regardless, the absences
would still be excused, whether the meeting was a regular meeting or a special meeting. There was still a
religious holiday involved, if he remembered correctly. Mr. Pack said he took that into account.
Mr. Fineman moved to approve the September 4, 2013 minutes, with the understanding that it should
have been a regular meeting. The motion was seconded by Mr. Tan. THE MOTION TO APPROVE
THE MINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 SENATE MEETING, AS AMENDED, PASSED
WITH NO OBJECTION.
Mr. Pack said that before they move from approval of the minutes, he wanted to note that the Senate
didn't exactly have a mechanism for approving a calendar of meetings at that time. If Con-Review would
like to take that on as something to do, he would welcome them to do that. But for now, in lieu of a formal process, what he put on the screen was the meeting calendar he was proposing. He hasn't shared it
with everyone because they don't have all the meeting venues locked down yet for the Finance Committee. He wanted to touch base with Committee Chairs about scheduling after the meeting that evening, so
he would ask Committee Chairs to please stick around after the Senate adjourned. He wanted to touch
base with them on the calendar and venue scheduling to make sure committees were all in spaces they're
comfortable with and that meet their needs. But once this was done, they will have for the first time, and
for the entire semester, the start times and the locations reserved for every meeting of the ASUC for that
semester, until May. He’d share that with the Senate. If there was nothing else under Approval of the
Minutes, they would move on.
NEW BUSINESS
Mr. Pack referred the following bills to committee:
New Business (cont'd)
Approval of the Agenda
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SB 1, To Amend Title 1, Article VI: Authorizing Standing Orders for ASUC Senate Meetings, to the
Constitutional and Procedural Review Committee
SB 2, On the Spring 2014 Week 1 Budget Bill, to the Finance Committee
Mr. Pack called for a motion to delegate those bills to as stated. It was so moved and seconded by Ms.
Week and Mr. Fineman. THE MOTION TO APPROVE NEW BUSINESS PASSED WITH NO
OBJECTION.
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA (Jan. 29)
Mr. Pack called for a motion to approve the agenda for their next meeting. It was so moved and seconded
by Mr. Fineman and Ms. Truax.
Mr. Fineman said that since they're starting with Senate Bill 1, he asked how, if they're speaking about
bills, or writing about them, they would distinguish between bills with the same number that were considered by the Senate last semester and that will be considered this semester. He asked if they'd call bills
that semester, e.g., “SB 2, 2014.” Mr. Pack said they didn’t have a formal way of doing that. The EVP
Legislative Department, the AG, and others have worked together apparently to create a new template, if
he understood that correctly. The new template for the bills that ideally the Senate will be using for that
semester will distinguish and clearly label that. And in terms of the way Senators label bills or communicate about past bills, that would probably be something for Con-Review to take up. The only thing that’s
required of them in terms of labeling the bills is that they start over each session and that they start numbering bills at 1. If people wanted to integrate a change with this, and call a bill “Senate Bill 1, 2014,” or
however they wanted to label them, that would be a procedural change. But there really wasn't a mechanism for what Mr. Fineman was asking about.
Mr. Tan objected to the motion to approve the agenda and said he would like to change the time the
meeting starts to 7:20, to accommodate all Senators attendance.
Mr. Pack said that if may offer a suggestion, and Con-Review could correct him if he was mistaken, but
the Committee designated the start time of Senate meetings at 7 o'clock. He asked if that was correct.
Ms. Mullen said they didn't decide on that.
Mr. Pack asked what was written in the By-laws regarding the start time for Senate meetings. Mr.
Upadhyayula said there was no time that the By-laws set. What they were doing, as Mr. Tan has mentioned, was to create standing orders. Right now the By-laws state that the Senate would vote on this. So
the Senate would have to vote on the time the meeting would start, and would have to vote on Mr. Tan’s
suggestion to start the meeting at 7:20.
Mr. Pack said they were rolling into the Approval of the Agenda, with the understanding that the meeting
would actually start at 7:20. The agenda would be amended correctly and posted accordingly. He called
for any objection to the motion, as amended.
Approval of the Agenda (cont'd)
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Ms. Lee said that if the meeting started at 7:20, she asked when the roll call would be. Mr. Pack said the
roll call for attendance would be at 7:20, when the meeting started. Ms. Lee asked if Senators were supposed to still be there at 7:00, with roll call at 7:20. Mr. Pack said the meeting would start at 7:20, and
that’s when Senators had to be there.
Mr. Pack said he would yield time to Attorney General Sabo to clarify. Mr. Sabo said the problem used
to be that the By-laws stated that the time for the meeting to start had to be at 7:00. So if anything happened, there was sort of nothing that could be done to change that, unless people anticipated something
happening the week before and changed the meeting time on the agenda, by a two-thirds vote. The new
By-laws the Senate amended last semester state that at the first meeting, the EVP sets the meeting time,
which was determined to be 7:10. And then if the Senate needed to change that, they could do so. But
regardless of whatever time the meeting starts, roll call was set to occur at the beginning of the meeting.
So if the Senate chose to start the meeting at 7:00, roll call would occur at 7:00, or at 7:10 or 7:19, if
that’s when the Senate chose to start the meeting. Whenever the meeting comes to order is when roll call
would occur.
Ms. Pacheco asked if the time that was just mentioned by Sen. Tan was just for next week or for the rest
of the semester. Mr. Tan said it would be for the rest of the semester. The Senate would have to hold a
vote in order to meet at another time. So the meeting time would now be 7:20 unless another time was
voted on.
Mr. Pack said this was ambiguous to him at that time. He would prefer if the Senate could clarify this
through whatever Con-Review produces going forward with its standing orders project. He could produce every agenda with the starting time at 7:20 by default, if that was the will of the Senate. He asked if
that, in fact, was the start time that people wanted. He asked if there was consensus that Senators wanted
the meeting to start at 7:20.
Mr. Fineman said that just for clarity purposes, when they talked about this in Con-Review, the reason
why “Berkeley time” happens is because if somebody had something that ended at 7:00, they’d need time
to walk from wherever they are to the Senate meeting. That’s why roll was taken at 7:20, and not exactly
at 7:00. The point was that people actually needed that buffer time, and should be given that buffer time.
The point of what Con-Review was trying to do was for people who needed time to get to the Senate
meeting. The meeting would start the meeting at 7:20 and they'd have roll call at 7:20. That would mean
that Sgt. Williams would speak to all 20 Senators, not to just four or five.
Ms. Pacheco asked if people wanted 10 minutes of buffer time as opposed to 20 minutes. Mr. Fineman
said the point was that if somebody was at Northside, or someplace far from campus, ten minutes
wouldn't always be enough time. If people lived a couple of blocks off-campus, 7:20 would be a buffer
time. It was just a judgment call.
Mr. Pack said that if there was no objection to starting meetings at 7:20, they’d move forward with that.
Mr. Snguon objected to 7:20, and said that starting at 7:15 would be a compromise.
Mr. Shen he would like the meetings to start at 7:20 because he had classes until 7:00 on the Northside, at
Soda. He knew how late Senate meetings could go, and starting 20 minutes later wouldn't help. But that
evening he biked to the Senate meeting, and got there at 7:18.
Approval of the Agenda (cont'd)
Report from the President
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Mr. Pack said this conversation should be drawing to a close at that time. They'll approve the meeting
agenda for January 29, with a start time of 7:20, with the understanding that he would instruct the Office
Manager to produce future agendas with 7:20 as the start time. He noted that the motion to change the
time was made and seconded quite some time ago.
THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA, AND TO START SENATE MEETINGS AT 7:20,
PASSED WITH NO OBJECTION.
EXECUTIVE OFFICER REPORTS
Report from the President
DeeJay Pepito said she would like to welcome them back to the Senate session. She hoped they all had a
great break. She had a lot to report. She would apologize that none of the Execs really turned in a report
on Monday because they didn't know the Senate would be in session that evening, and by the time they
did it was too late to submit something.
Ms. Pepito said the Higher Education Summit that the office was planning to have that semester ended up
being canceled at the end of last semester. So they won't be able to have it any more. At the last minute,
what ended up happening was that their venue, a hotel, doubled the fees for the conference, to almost
$100,000. In order to keep the costs low, Ms. Pepito said the organizers had agreed on what travel costs
should be for the students they were inviting to come, and as a result of the change, the costs were going
to exceed that amount. So the office decided that the final cost wouldn't be accessible enough to attract
student leaders from other campuses to be able to come. Ms. Pepito said they're looking into alternative
programming that could still have the same purpose, and to do that later on that semester.
Ms. Pepito said they've done a lot of restructuring in the office. There's been some turnover with interns
and Coordinators in the office, so they'll restructure job titles and what not. If Senators wanted to talk to
her more about this, they were welcome to do so. They'll be planning for the spring and re-prioritizing
issues to be more effective.
Ms. Pepito said the office staff retreat will be on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition, the Sexual
Assault Task Force was also restructured, and is moving forward really well. They now have six new
community members on board. She believed that committee members last semester took in applications
and were able to bring in new folks. The Task Force had its retreat on Tuesday night, from 7:00 to 10
p.m., and it looks like they're moving along really well with programming. The office will also probably
collaborate with the Sexual Assault Task Force and the Empowering Women of Color Conference, a
Graduate Assembly program that happens in March, in order to increase publicity and also bring the
resources of the Sexual Assault Task Force to the Conference, since it was centered around the theme of
domestic violence this year.
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Regarding fireside chats, Ms. Pepito said they're scheduled for that semester. She didn't have the dates in
front of her. There will be one in February, two in March, and one in April. One will happen next Tuesday, the 8th, but because it was so close into the start of the semester, it was kind of like a special chat,
and wasn't really considered to be a fireside chat. Rather, it's more of a small mixer. Harry LeGrande
and Vice Chancellor Cathy Koshland have invited the committees that their areas have. They each have
their own separate student committees for their divisions, and they're inviting those students to mingle
with the Chancellor.
Ms. Pepito said fireside chats weren't really under her purview, but she and Max Gee, the GA President,
have been planning for them off of requests from the Chancellor’s office, as well as things they thought
would be a good idea to discuss. So she believed the communities they'll invite will most likely be students that are very dependent on financial aid and who receive Pell Grants and other forms of financial
aid. Ms. Pepito said she also believed the MEMSA community was invited, based on the Chancellor’s
request, along with students receiving financial aid. They'll have a woman’s chat in March, to go along
with the theme of March being in recognition of women and the Empowering Women of Color Conference. And then the last one will be students chosen by a lottery. She believed they'll be collaborating
with the Division of Student Affairs to have a randomized pool of students invited to a chat. If people
have any questions they should ask her and let her know.
Regarding the Dean of Students selection, the Search Committee is moving forward, and she had over
100 pages of applicant profiles to read over in the next few days. They’re meeting on Friday and will
select the next candidates to move forward with interviews, which will occur over Skype. She’d keep
Senators updated. Obviously she couldn't share that much, since it was a job search.
Regarding the Janet Napolitano visit, Ms. Pepito said she gave the Senate the dates from last semester.
But just to remind them, Napolitano will be there on February 12 for a welcome reception. Ms. Pepito
said she didn't know if she was invited, but should she and the GA President be invited, they'd apparently
be the only students there. She was still waiting for that confirmation. Ms. Napolitano’s actual day visit
will be the next day, on the 13th. Ms. Pepito said she didn't know how much of the agenda for that day
she could actually share and didn't know if there were plans to publicize it. But she could say that for the
student portion, undergrads will meet Napolitano between 3:00 and 4:00, and for grads, from 4:00 to
5:00. Ms. Pepito said she’ll send an e-mail that evening pushing back on that, because the way the time
has been structured, Ms. Napalitano will only be quote “listening” for 30 minutes, between 3:00 and 3:30,
and then from 3:30 to 3:45, was supposed to answer questions and do a Q&A. Ms. Pepito said she didn't
think that 45 minutes for the undergrad student population, or a total of an hour and a half for a population of 35,000 students, sufficed. They'd see how that goes.
As for an update on the Senate Advocacy Agenda, Ms. Pepito said she will now sit on a committee that
Harry LeGrande will start that will work on student financial literacy. That was a conversation that she
and the GA will also have, about how to really work on this issue and increase information on this.
Regarding space, Ms. Pepito said one thing she was working on, and something she was still waiting for
confirmation about, was for Hearst Gym cages to be secured under the ASUC’s name, even after the
ASUC moves out of Hearst Gym and back into Eshleman. She was also still trying to negotiate securing
the rest of room in Sproul where ASUC Auxiliary staff is currently located, 112, 114, and 102 Sproul.
She’d let the Senate know how that works.
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Ms. Pepito said that last semester Event Services staff worked with her to collaborate more with the
Berkeley Art Museum, and to have Museum venue space be more accessible and affordable for student
groups to rent out, somewhat like, e.g., how the I-House and Clark Kerr are used. She’d let the Senate
know how that conversation goes and if that’s been confirmed. This was looking pretty positive last
semester, and they just have to double check and pick things up again for this semester.
Ms. Pepito said that for the last Advocacy Agenda plank, she was still thinking about how to execute that,
with volunteer work outside of what was going on with ACES last semester. If people have any ideas of
how they believe they should go about that volunteer work unit requirement plank, she would ask them to
talk to her about their ideas.
Regarding CACSSF, Ms. Pepito said that Mr. Semenov will give an update in his report. A committee
meeting was coming up soon. CACSSF proposals are due on January 31, just to let everyone know. If
people have any ideas for proposals, or were thinking of putting anything through, she would ask them to
please, please talk to her, Ms. Jameson, and Mr. Semenov, before the end of the week, in order to just
give them a heads-up that they're planning on something. They have a really quick deadline coming up
and they need to be able to start strategizing about how to go about it.
Regarding the CSSB, they have a retreat on the 5th. The Organization and Governance Committee met
that day to plan the retreat agenda and to go over the CAA again and some LEAD Center staffing models
that the staff from the Auxiliary and the LEAD Center will talk to the Senate about later on. If people
have any questions about CSSB stuff, Ms. Pepito said they could talk to her about it offline, because she
couldn't really talk about staff publicity too much. That was all for her report. She called for any
questions.
Mr. Fineman asked if she could give them a progress report on the Perspectives showcase and asked if
Darrin Wallace could maybe talk to the Senate about in a Special Order, on what was happening with it,
what his ideas were, and how that was progressing. Ms. Pepito said that EVP Pack will have an update
on that since his office was doing that.
Mr. Nwoche said that for the fireside chats, Ms. Pepito has mentioned that about Senators having some of
their community members attend, and he asked about the process for that. Ms. Pepito said he should talk
to her.
Seeing no other questions for Ms. Pepito, Mr. Pack said he would like to thank her. (Applause)
Report from the Academic Affairs Vice President
Valerie Jameson said she hoped people had a great first and second day of class. As of two weeks ago,
the new EVCP was finally announced. If Senators didn't already know, his name is Claude Steele, who
will be joining them from Stanford University. Mr. Steele has a previous relationship with Chancellor
Dirks from their work at Columbia, so Ms. Jameson said the hope is that through the relationship they
already have, that they have great rapport and will be a great team, and that Mr. Steele will be an asset in
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addition to the support services that students already have on campus. He’ll start at a really odd time and
will be on the campus officially as of April 1. Ms. Jameson said that meant that she and John Ready, the
GA Campus Affairs Vice President, will still have two standing meetings with George Breslauer, but
they'll be transitioning meeting with and working with Claude Steele as of April 1. Before that they’ll
have transitional meetings with him and will show him around campus. She was sure Senators will have
an opportunity to meet him as well. But the timing was very unheard of. Mr. Breslauer was gracious
enough to extend his stay there and delay his retirement. Senators will be hearing more about this.
Ms. Jameson said that day both she and John Ready had a meeting with Anna Yee, one of the execute
assistants under Phyllis Hoffman and George Breslauer. Ms. Yee has been tasked with helping them that
semester to streamline and make more effective the process for making appointments to administrative
committees. The problem they've had is not only consistency with student representative appointments to
administrative committees, but also trying to align those with Academic Senate committee appointments.
From their conversation, Ms. Jameson said they will further the work that was done this semester. For the
next appointment process in the appointment cycle, they'll continue with the establishment of a Google
Doc, and have executive officials that transition in meet with the other Executive Assistants of various
different departments. They also hope to a ten-year old policy that has caused a little backlog in issues.
That was just in five of the committees, but that was still a huge margin of error. So they hope to revamp
this policy so as to allow the ASUC and the GA to be able to have the same clout in terms of appointments within the administrative committees as they have with Academic Senate committees. Currently
there are some administrative committees that take precedent in appointing student representatives
because it wasn't equated in terms the ASUC being able to nominate and recommend appointments, since
so can the EAs and the chairs of different administrative committees. Ms. Jameson said that the students
were hoping to be able to vet any student representatives, whether they're undergrads or graduates,
through the ASUC and through the GA. That was their hope, to be able to build this transition policy
memo and provide it to Claude Steele, and hope that he could do this sometime before June.
Ms. Jameson said that grants in the office have opened as of Tuesday, so she would ask Senators to please
advertise those to everyone. Tom Lee will solidify a date for an info session, likely in the first or second
week of February. So people should look out for that. Along with that, at the end of last semester, Ms.
Jameson said the office developed an internal manual that was meant to help streamline the allocation
process and develop best practices and guidelines for how they made allocations through the five grants.
In conjunction with that, they also started to rework the five By-laws that were associated with the grants.
They recognize that there could be more fluidity. The grants By-laws were really thin and didn't really
give a thorough explanation regarding the process behind them. Ms. Jameson asked they want to make
sure to complement them and develop this holistically. They're pretty much done with those changes to
the five existing By-laws, but considering the budget realignment, they also want to give time to finish the
development of the sixth grant By-law and submit them all at once. Ideally, that should be coming in
mid-February, depending on what the development of the sixth grant.
In terms of other projects, Ms. Jameson said they have a set deadline and a timeline for March 1 for both
the Textbook Scholarship and the RISE Scholarship, given the influx in the budget. That was a good
thing, but having to work with the additional funds also meant a delay in the timeline for those. As Ms.
Pepito mentioned, SACUE, the Student Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Education, will have a
fireside chat with the Chancellor on the 28th. It will be from 5:30 to 7:00, to discuss various issues that
students on the Committee and other students feel, as they pertain to different academic-related issues the
Committee will discuss with the Chancellor.
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Ms. Jameson said that her next item was news that was a little old, but will continue to be relevant. During finals week, at their last standing meeting with Betty Deakin, Chair of the Academic Senate, they discussed a potential leverage point in partnering with SACUE to try to fund a pilot program for a 24-hour
Moffitt for a month. That’s something that would have to be in collaboration with George Breslauer’s
office. And given that Mr. Breslauer is transitioning out, they hope to gain momentum for this with the
new EVCP. That will be in further updates. Ms. Jameson said that concluded her report, and she wanted
to thank them.
Mr. Pack called for any questions.
Ms. Chung asked if Ms. Jameson could give updates on the Student Learning Center. A lot of people
have been complaining about how the Center isn't open 24-hours and closed really early. She asked if
there was any information on that. Ms. Jameson said she knew towards the end of the semester, she and
an intern were in conversation with Cara Stanley, the Director of the SLC, in terms of discussing various
different issues, like adjunct courses and having 24-hour access for this location. Ms. Jameson said she
knew that they've been scaling back. That was partly from previous conversations. Ms. Stanley has
mentioned that it's because she gets her funding via Cathy Koshland’s office. So Ms. Jameson said she
needed to be able to assess whether that was under Ms. Stanley’s purview to actually change, or if it will
have to be under Ms. Koshland’s directive. Ms. Jameson said she could follow-up with that.
Mr. Pack called for any other questions for Ms. Jameson, and seeing none, said he would like to thank
her. (Applause)
Report from the External Affairs Vice President
Ms. Mecklai said it was nice to see them all again, and she wanted to wish them a happy New Year. She
had quite a few updates but would try to be succinct. The UCSA had a Board meeting just a couple of
weeks ago, at UC Santa Cruz. It was also their executive retreat, so they did a lot of re-visioning on what
the UCSA will be working on. Ms. Mecklai said she wanted to briefly update the Senate on UCSA stuff.
First of all, Disha Banik, in the office, is the new State Deputy. Morgan Prentice, who’s been involved in
the State Department forever and ever, was abroad that semester. The office misses her, but she’s having
the time of her life. So Ms. Banik will be taking over. So if Senators have big State questions, Ms. Banik
was the new State person to talk to.
As far as broad, Statewide things that have happened, the Governor appointed four new Regents, meaning
that he reappointed three Regents and then appointed one new one. If Senators have questions about what
that meant, Ms. Mecklai said she would send out the official UCSA statement on that. Obviously, they
hope that in the future, the Governor will look to new and innovative ways to make the Board of Regents
move in a better direction for students.
Ms. Mecklai said the Governor released his budget for the year. The UC also released its budget for the
year, and requested an increase of 10% from the State. The budget that was released by the Governor
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allocated about a 4.6% increased in funding to the UC. So there was some discrepancy there. What was
interesting was the fact that students essentially agree with what UCOP requested from the State, a 10%
increase to do some good things for the UC. So the UCSA was standing in solidarity with UC’s budget
request to the State, something that happens only rarely. The process will be going on for a while, and
Ms. Mecklai said she would keep the Senate updated on how to get involved in conversations around the
budget.
As for campaigns the office has moving forward, they’re still working on a Fossil-Free UC, CMED, the
California Modernization and Economic Development Act, and IGNITE. As for kind of new directions
for each of those campaigns, Fossil-Free UC had an organizer retreat recently, and she’d update the Senate once she heard more on that. For CMED, they're looking to really target the Office of the President
and ask that Janet Napolitano come out in support of an oil severance tax. With IGNITE (Invest in Graduations, Not Incarceration. Transform Education), they're looking towards new legislative goals and having a UC-wide call-in that will occur, as well as a possible retreat for IGNITE organizers on the campus.
At the UCSA Board meeting at Santa Cruz, Ms. Mecklai said she introduced the Resolution the Senate
passed dealing with San Jose State. It was adopted by the UCSA Board unanimously. They had folks
from San Jose State come to the meeting and speak to the Board about it, which was a really great thing
to happen. Also, the President of the CSSA, the Cal State University body, was also there, and it was a
nice moment to show solidarity on this. The Senate’s Resolution asking to look at the price tag of the
UC, and new ways to fund the UC, was also introduced to the Board, and people will take that back to
their individual campuses. Lastly regarding the UCSA, the Regents meeting was that day and Thursday,
and the biggest update probably was that the President outlined her priorities once again for this year,
including tuition reform, support for graduate and professional students, and for undocumented students,
as well as improving efficiency at the UC and looking at sustainability in the UC.
As for updates from the office, Ms. Mecklai said they have a few events coming up that week. First, they
have a Porch Light Campaign kickoff happening on Saturday. They're really excited about this and
they're inviting a bunch of members of neighborhood associations, elected officials in the City of Berkeley, and students, to all come together to discuss safety. They'll kick off a campaign to encouraging people to keep their porch lights on and will give them free CFL light bulbs to do that, which they got
donated. She’d be sure to report back. The event is co-sponsored by some Greek associations, some res
hall associations, and the Co-ops, and was a big student initiative.
For the Legislative Conference, Ms. Mecklai said the application for that has been released. It will be
March 14-17. The application is due January 31. The url is on her Facebook, and she’d e-mail it to Senators. For clarification, this is an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C., with the exception of some
food. She would ask Senators to really encourage their constituencies to apply. Ms. Mecklai said they
could only take a really small number of students. She believed Ms. Mullen went last year, and she could
talk more about it. It was a really good experience.
Regarding the UC Caucus, Ms. Mecklai said this was something she’s talked about before. This is at the
federal level and is a caucus of congressional and Senate representatives who have a UC in their districts
or who are supportive of the UC. Ms. Mecklai said they have finally drafted the official letter and it's
been sent in to create the Caucus. They were really excited about that. It meant that at the federal level
there will be a group of Senators and Representatives who are dedicated to furthering the goals of the UC.
That has not happened before, so this was great.
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Ms. Mecklai said the other event that the office had coming up was on Thursday evening, at 6 p.m. at the
I-House, a symposium on educational inequality. The office is co-sponsoring the event with Teach for
America. Understanding that it was important to be critical of organizations like TFA, the purpose of the
symposium is not to be an advertisement for TFA, but to bring together three leaders in education, from
the Berkeley Unified School District, the professor on campus who sent out the viral e-mail about education, and the founder of Teach for America. They'll discuss why it was important to look at inequality in
their K through 12 education system. Ms. Mecklai said she would ask Senators to please attend, and to
encourage their constituents to attend. Wendy Kopp, the founder of TFA, only visits one campus every
year. So it was really exciting that she was coming to Cal.
Ms. Mecklai said she was going to remind people about the Student Regent visit, 2:00 to 4 p.m. at
Anthony Hall on Friday.
Another big event that was coming up was a Google hang out with Janet Napolitano on January 28, from
2:00 to 3 p.m. Ms. Mecklai said she’ll be in her office hanging out with the UC President, some other
students, and one of the Student Regents. She would ask people to please log on and hang out with them.
The best part about the hang out is that they'll accept questions and comments from anyone who Googles
during the hang out. Ms. Mecklai said she’ll be moderating the session.
UCSA leadership will meet with the President on February 12. If Senators have items that they'd like to
bring up to Napolitano on the Systemwide level, Ms. Mecklai said she would ask them to please let her
know. Ms. Napalitano will also meet with veteran students and transfer students. So it was a big week of
outreach for Napolitano and for students. This was kind of a different direction that Napolitano was taking this. The last President didn't make it a priority to really meet with transfer students or student veterans. So it was exciting that Ms. Napalitano was doing that. And they'll see what comes out of those
meetings.
Ms. Mecklai said there's a BART Plaza redesign open house on February 3 from 4:30 to 7:30. The hope
was to do a big overhaul and redesign of the BART Plaza, and there are some mock-ups of designs, as
well as the ability for comments. It will be at the Berkeley Public Library.
Lastly, Ms. Mecklai said the SSCCC, the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, has
approached her and Ms. Pepito about helping co-sponsor the March on March. This is a huge event, with
students from generally all three branches of California public schools. They'll come together, march to
the Capitol, hold a big press conference, and lobby their legislators on various issues, especially those
related to the budget, which she thought would be a big issue for lobbying.
Ms. Mecklai said there were a couple of things to mention regarding the March on March. Organizers
have approached the ASUC to co-sponsor the March, because the organizers don't have the proper insurance policies to actually reserve a lot of the public spaces in Sacramento that they need. Ms. Mecklai said
she has talked to Ms. Pepito a lot about this and about what that means. The organizers were asking for
the ASUC to take on some of that liability. Ms. Mecklai said she wasn't sure that was a great idea.
They're running this by some of their advisors and will talk to their lawyer sometime that week about
what he thought that would look like. She worked with the organizers to draft a preliminary memorandum of understanding, where the March would pay for all the permits, and on paper, with the City, they’d
be liable for any damages that occur during the march, with the ASUC. With that said, Ms. Mecklai said
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people weren't sure how binding that would be. She just wanted to let the Senate know that this was
coming up. Pending what happens with their conversations with the lawyer, if there were any decisions
to be made about this, she’ll probably submit a bill so the Senate could make that decision, or whatever
the best way to go about that was. Ms. Mecklai said she just wanted to put this on Senators’ radar, and to
let them know that she and Ms. Pepito were discussing this. If Senators have questions or comments they
should talk to her. She would apologize for her report being so long.
Mr. Pack said that to answer questions, they'd need a motion to extend speaking time. Mr. Snguon moved
to extend time by three minutes. The motion was seconded by Mr. Fineman and passed with no
objection.
Ms. Mullen said that the Governor reappointed three Regents, and it was under the purview of the Governor to make these appointments. She asked what the process looked like. Obviously, with Ms.
Napalitano, there were actually students on the committee, and she knew John and Cynthia were
included. Ms. Mullen asked if there was a similar process for other Regents, or if it was just kind of like
just the EAVP.
Ms. Mecklai said that for the UC President, they involve some student input. But as far as the Regents
go, they're exclusively Gov. Brown, who could do what he wanted. With that said, she thought there was
an opportunity for students to make it known that they don't appreciate the way that this was done. But as
far as actual control they have to allow for student input, it was very minimal.
Ms. Quinn said that for the March on March, she recalled that the Student Lobby Conference usually
overlaps with the March. She asked what reasons they weren't doing that this year. Ms. Mecklai said that
was a great question. She believed it because of a weird communication thing between SSCCC and the
UCSA. There was a problem with reserving the dates for the hotel that they usually use for Conference.
It was logistical thing, not an intentional separation. But they'll still have a Lobby Day with the SSCCC
and invite both the SSCCC and the CSSA to participate.
Mr. Pack called for any other questions for Ms. Mecklai, and seeing none, said he would like to thank her.
(Applause)
Report from the Student Advocate
Timofey Semenov said that as Ms. Karasek mentioned earlier during public comment, there is a new,
revised UC policy on sexual harassment and sexual violence. It was circulated sometime in December.
Senators should have received an e-mail about this via their Berkeley e-mail account. If they search for
mail sent by Harry LeGrande, that new policy should be the first thing that comes up. In response to the
new policy, which was largely a result of the UC System trying to gain compliance with federal legislation was passed last year called the Violence Against Women Act, the Student Advocate Office, consulting with a number of people, has come up with a statement and a number of recommendations on the new
policy. They'll circulate it to the Senate right after the Senate meeting. If Senators were interested, he
would ask them to please have a look at it and to send the office any feedback they may have. The office
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would love to hear their input and see if they could incorporate it into what they've written up. Also, if
Senators were interested in signing it or showing their support in some way, they should let the office
know as well. The SAO would love to talk to them about that.
Also, as Ms. Pepito mentioned, CACSSF proposals for the spring cycle will be due on January 31.
Before that time the students on the Committee, who have a majority vote, will meet one more, next
Wednesday. If Senators were interested in applying for funding, he would ask them to please consult
with him, Ms. Jameson, or Ms. Pepito sometime before next Wednesday, and maybe send them a draft, or
what they have ready. The way the funding works for this cycle, there's $1 million of one-time funding
available and there’s $550,000 of recurring funding. So if a proposal creates a staff position that would
be funded for a couple of years at a time, that would be the $550K pot, and for a one-time thing, that
would be from the $1 million. Ideally, he would ask people to please have any draft proposals or any
conversations they need to have with student members of the Committee before next Wednesday, because
that’s when they'll have to think about how they'll vote as a student body, if they want to block vote.
Lastly, Mr. Semenov said the Student Advocate Office will recruit around ten new caseworkers that
semester, which was a ballpark number. If Senators know of people who might be interested in that, he
would ask them to please let them know about this opening. The application will be due on February 5.
There will be two information sessions, and information about them will be sent out after the meeting that
evening as well. He would ask Senators to please forward it to anyone who might be interested.
Mr. Pack called for any questions for Mr. Semenov.
Mr. Nwoche said he had a question regarding the explosion that happened on campus last semester. He
knew the office had cases about that, and asked how they worked out. Mr. Semenov said they got a very
favorable resolution for the main case they were handling with regard to that. It was hard for him to go
into the specific details of what happened. The people were taken care of and were very satisfied with the
outcome that they got.
Seeing no other questions for Mr. Semenov, Mr. Pack said he would like to thank him. (Applause)
Report from the Executive Vice President
Nolan Pack said he would try to breeze through his report as quickly as possible. A lot of stuff has been
happening over the winter, and he had nine categories of things for the Senate.
The first item dealt with finance-related stuff. The good news is that the EVP finance team has put
together and finished the RFP for the Cal Lodge, the Request for Proposal. Once they get that vetted by
the Auxiliary, the Executive Director and the Finance Director, the goal was to start promoting the RFP
and to start to solicit proposals from groups on campus. For example, he has one undergraduate consulting group that has been very persistent in asking him when this will be out. The process was now completely open to groups, and restrictions on having graduate students only have been removed. Undergraduate consulting groups are welcome to apply and compete in the process. The process will be
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competitive, and at the end of the day, whoever produces the best proposal, combined with what the
review committee saw as a track record, and that had the ability to actually be able to complete the
proposal, that was the factor they're looking at in making the choice.
On the darker side of the Cal Lodge situation, Mr. Pack said he’d guess that in defiance of the bill that the
Finance Committee produced and that the Senate passed, the Cal Lodge Manager, who shall remain
nameless for the time being, was insisting, for some reason, that he be able to occupy the Cal Lodge
indefinitely. Mr. Pack said he didn't exactly know what the rationale was for that. Their attorney, Steve
Ellenberg, has assured the ASUC that he’s pursuing legal recourse to make sure that it was very clear that
that there was no legal basis for doing that, and that the Cal Lodge will basically be dealt with, with the
Manager moved out by the date that was specified, February 20, as he recalled.
As for what will happen with the Cal Lodge after that, Mr. Pack said the current plan is that the RFP process will continue to move forward until they have a solid business plan for the Cal Lodge, an idea of how
much it will cost to renovate it, if the ASUC chooses to do that, what the most financially viable option
was, etc. In the meantime they'll probably hire a local, Tahoe-based property management firm to quote
“manage” the property. Mr. Ellenberg basically relayed that what that would basically look like was
probably to put up a temporary chain link fence around the property and drive by maybe every couple of
days, to make sure that the doors were still locked. So it would be nothing that was intensive and would
be very cheap, certainly much less expensive than having their current management structure.
Mr. Pack said the office Finance Department has also produced a study on student group spending. He’s
mentioned this before. It goes back several years and charts what students spent versus what they receive
in the financial allocation process. He’s working at that time on the best way to deliver that to the
Finance Committee so that it can be used in its deliberation process and how they allocate spring funding
that year.
Regarding programs and events, Mr. Pack said that regarding the ASUC DE-Cal, he talked with Shawn
earlier and about 140 people are in it. That would be the biggest ASUC DE-Cal they've had, at least in
the time he’s been there. They had to request a larger classroom to accommodate the demand. They've
been advertising the class and doing outreach. They got a really great turnout so far. And as far as he
knew, people could still add the DE-Cal, if Senators were interested, or if they had friends who might be
interested. He believed the classroom maxes out at 200 people.
On Perspectives, Mr. Pack said that it's not technically an EVP thing. Perspectives is a freestanding
ASUC program. But he’s gotten involved in the Perspectives conversation over Winter Break to make
sure things were moving forward. He thought the biggest change in the way that the Perspectives conversation was happening at that time is that he has requested that their primary ASUC advisor, Amanda
Ridel, be involved in facilitating the process of moving Perspectives forward. And Ms. Ridel has been
very helpful in this. They have also brought in Chris Wong to help facilitate the process. He has a wealth
of ASUC-related information and knew a lot about ASUC programs. So currently they have Zellerbach
reserved. But there's a conversation at that time on whether the date it's reserved was the best date in the
semester for it. The date they have is March 1 at that time. They're considering Zellerbach and other
venues to see if they could do a bigger and better show at a different time in the semester. That’s a conversation that was moving forward in that sort of working group. There will be more to come as this
group starts meeting. They're meeting weekly at that time. Mr. Pack said he wasn't actually in the group
and was just relaying information that was given to him. Perspectives will be starting auditions and calls
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for performances and things of that nature. There will be weekly, recurring meetings to make sure things
were moving forward. People were aware of the budget constraints of the show and are apparently
working within that. Mr. Pack said that was all he had on Perspectives at that time.
Regarding EVP projects and development stuff, Mr. Pack said they have a trailer of a little mini-documentary that was produced by Students of the World about some of the activism around Keystone during
the Fall Semester. There were a bunch of things that culminated in the big Keystone rally at Sather Gate.
The group produced a sort of documentary about that, which was really cool. He hasn’t seen the actual
documentary, and just saw the trailer. He’d share the documentary with them as soon as it was ready.
In Student Resources, Mr. Pack said they apparently have new funding software for the spring budgeting
process and/or for Finance Committee allocations. He’ll connect with Finance Chair Mohabbat and
Finance Officer Lee. They'll begin to test the software and determine whether it was ready for the ASUC
to roll out in the spring. The intention was that the ASUC would use it in the spring, although he didn't
know if it's been vetted by the Finance Committee. That was an important step in the process to determine whether or not they actually want to use it. The long and short of this was that the software was
meant to integrate the process of the finance application as well as the back-end account balances, and
build them into CalLink, and to make them connected rather than separate. Right now it was sort of a
disaster.
Mr. Pack said there are conversations on room reservations that were going forward. He should probably
save this update to the Senate about this for another time. But he’d mention that he’s part of a weekly
working group that had the end goal of creating one, unified event management system on campus so that
students could reserve any room on campus from one PC, online, rather than going to a set of places.
Based on the research of other universities that have implemented this process, he’d be real about this and
tell the Senate that it will probably take several years. There will be more to come on this as it moves
forward.
On communication, as mentioned earlier, they have a new ASUC logo. They'll print it on swag-related
things, and when they replace ASUC stationery, it will have the ASUC’s fabulous new logo. He believed
Mon-Shane Chau sent it out in a group text, so Senators got to see it. The idea would be that for future
ASUC classes, rather than having completely stylistically different Executive Office logos that make it so
people couldn't distinguish they were from the same entity, they'll move forward with a sort of internal
brand cohesion that will make them more like a unified organization.
On sustainability stuff, Mr. Pack said there was a divestment conference held that day. For those who
were able to attend, that was awesome. He personally was not because of hella stuff going on that day. It
was mainly intended for administrators, and not so much for students. It was for people who were interested in the mechanics of how to do fossil fuel divestment on a campus and what that ended up looking
like. He didn't know if it would have been terribly entertaining for students, but a lot of people who work
in institutions of higher education want to see what the mechanics would look like for that.
Mr. Pack said he wanted to give a brief shout out to Con-Review on legislative related stuff. The office
has legislative interns who were really interested in helping out. If Senators just need people to do typing
and things of that nature, all these interns have been trained on the structure of bills and that sort thing.
They've been briefed on the project that Con-Review was going through. Based on the Committee’s
retreat, if Con-Review could give a more thorough idea of the new structure and direction, the interns can
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begin to do simple things such as rearranging things. But Mr. Pack said they don't want to have the
interns rewriting substantive stuff. That was something Senators could do. But if there's stuff like
rearranging or altering sections, or that sort thing, that’s what interns were for.
Mr. Pack said the Associate Vice Chancellor/Chief Financial Officer search has ended. Mr. Pack said he
didn't believe he was allowed to announce the name yet. He thought the selection was a good choice.
The person was his second choice out of the selection process, which was highly competitive and really
interesting. He believed the person will start on February 1, so he was sure people could expect an e-mail
from their campus-wide e-mail system telling them who this person is.
Lastly, on the Berkeley Student Foundation, Mr. Pack said that for those on the BSF Board, he needed to
have a conversation with some of them about moving forward. The ASUC’s new lawyer, Steve
Ellenberg, who is amazing, has had a difficult time transitioning the BSF with the ASUC’s former lawyer,
Greg Brock. They asked him to do a lot of emergency stuff over the break to make sure the BSF could
maintain its 501(c)(3) status, such as by filing paperwork, and things like that. The instructions and the
paperwork that Mr. Brock left behind were difficult to work with. So they have some open questions at
that time.
Mr. Pack said that what he’s asked Mr. Ellenberg to do is to have his office come up with a proposed new
governance structure for the BSF that centers power less on Mr. Brock, or the attorney, which was how it
was before, and sort of distributes that power more, so the Committee and the Board have more of an
active role in the governance process, and so there's someone more like a secretary, someone playing that
role, rather than the ASUC attorney doing too many different things and centralizing power in one person.
Mr. Pack said that was everything he had to report and called for any questions.
Ms. Raffi asked if Mr. Ellenberg will get in contact with the BSF Board to write something out, because
she thought they had applications to consider immediately. Mr. Pack said that Mr. Ellenberg is aware of
the February 5 meeting that was coming up. That meeting will probably proceed as normal within the
existing governance structure they have. But hopefully, by February 5, there will be a new proposal. If
not, they'll discuss at the following meeting ways they could tweak the governance structure.
Mr. Pack said he’d need a motion to extend speaking time to answer other questions. A motion to extend
by three minutes was made and seconded by Mr. Snguon and Mr. Fineman and passed with no objection.
Ms. Lee said she had a question about the undergraduate consulting group for the Cal Lodge. She asked
how he would reach out to groups for that work and how much work on the RFP will be done within the
timeframe of that semester, and if he’s already contacted groups, and what the process was.
Mr. Pack said the RFP had to be finished and finalized. He wanted to make sure that they haven't left
anything out that the Auxiliary needs in the RFP in order for it to work. The RFP is basically done, from
his perspective. Once it’s done they'll send it out to different listserves and things like that. And it will
probably occupy a page on the ASUC’s Web site, asuc.org/callodgerfp, or something like that. And then
they'll blast that link and send it to as many people as possible. As for sending it to specific groups, Mr.
Pack said he was going to send it to listserves, and things like that. If Senators had specific groups in
mind that they think should submit a proposal, they were more than willing to forward the link to them
and explain to them the background of the situation. As to whether this will take a semester, that was sort
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of an open question at that time in terms of whether this was a task that could be accomplished within a
semester. It was possible that what the ASUC will be looking for is somebody who could start the process in the spring, work through the summer and fall, and deliver a report in the fall, in advance of next
year’s spring budgeting process, to give the ASUC an idea of what to do. It was actually a pretty exhaustive project that will probably involve things like engineering reports and things like that.
Ms. Chung said that in terms of Perspectives, Mr. Pack mentioned he was just relaying information and
didn't know the actual details, because he hasn't been to meetings. She asked if it was possible for Darrin
Wallace to actually come in to the Senate and confirm most of what Mr. Pack has mentioned, so the
Senate had a first-hand account of what was going on. Mr. Pack said he could ask Mr. Wallace to come
in and deliver a report at the next Senate meeting.
Ms. Mullen said that over the retreat she actually looked at the By-laws, which say that the Perspectives
Director should give constant reports during the Spring Semester. She asked if they could hear reports,
probably on a monthly basis, and sooner rather than later, because if they wait before starting to hear
reports, they'll have lost updates by then.
Mr. Pack said they'd need to extend speaking time for more questions. A motion to extend by three
minutes was made and seconded by Mr. Nwoche and Ms. Mullen and passed with no objection.
Mr. Nwoche said he had two questions. He knew Mr. Pack was trying to get groups to work on the Cal
Lodge project, and his question was whether the same group that’s chosen to develop a plan for the Lodge
could also look that an analysis of the current budget the ASUC has, to see how future student groups
would be able to get funding. As he looked at the current budget, some student groups coming in will not
be able to receive the same amount that other student groups receive.
Mr. Pack said that would be a totally separate RFP. The report that his finance team put together would
probably take care of that. He wasn't going to presume to tell the Senate how cuts should be made, or if
cuts should be made at all. What they're doing is giving the Senate the information to see how spending
has looked from several years back, and who has spent over and who has spent under what was budgeted.
It will be up to the Finance Committee to determine that. The grant for this research that they got was
around $8,000 per semester, and he didn't see this as something that would require an $8,000 grant to figure out. It could be done with an Excel spreadsheet, and could probably be done by the Finance Committee. Mr. Nwoche said that’s what he was trying to say.
Mr. Nwoche said that he knew Mr. Pack sits on the committee that was concerned with vending machines
and where they're located. He asked what the progress was on that. Mr. Pack said it wasn't actually a
committee that just deals with that only, but was the CSSB broadly, which deals with commercial and
student services matters, broadly speaking. That was the group that Ms. Pepito said the retreat was coming up for. The CSSB will be meeting soon. He could ask Suzi Halpin what the status report is at the
next CSSB meeting. She could probably let him know.
Mr. Pack said that if there were no other questions, he would like to thank them. (Applause)
Mr. Pack said he didn't believe there were any appointments to be made at that time. As a brief aside on
that, there will probably be appointments made in the next couple of weeks that the Senate will have to
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start to consider, just to make sure that they're following the new appointments process from Con-Review.
No Special Orders were approved for the meeting.
LEGISLATIVE OFFICER REPORTS
Report from the Attorney General
Kevin Sabo said he would like to welcome them back from Winter Break. He hoped it was great for
them. First, while some of them were enjoying Winter Break, Con-Review was hard at work. On Monday they worked on the reorganization of the By-laws and the new type of system they’d have in place,
which he was sure that Sen. Tan will go over more in his Standing Committee report. A lot of work was
done. Mr. Sabo said he knew that this wasn't the most glorious kind of work to do, so he really wanted to
thank the members of Con-Review who might not be as interested in this as he was, for really buckling
down for those five hours and getting to work on that.
Most of this semester in terms of his responsibilities, will be based on the elections. That was why he
was glad that the overhaul of the By-laws was sort of being handled at that time, as the elections will be
based on them. He has a meeting with the Elections Council Chair on Thursday and they'll figure out
how the relevant parties could start to meet regularly, including the Attorney General, the Solicitor General, and Elections Council members, so they're all on the same page about what was going on, so they're
not running around during elections season.
Tentatively, the By-laws say two weeks after Spring Break, the election dates are, tentatively, April 7
through April 11. However, the Senate has the power to move elections dates due to unusual circumstances. She knew that in the past, the dates of the elections have been moved due to religious holidays.
He wasn't very well versed in religious holidays, so if anyone saw any problems in the dates, April 7-11,
he would ask them to let him know and he could bring that upon with the Elections Council. Otherwise,
as per the By-laws, it looked like the elections will be April 7-11.
Mr. Sabo said his next item was really, really important. He had party registration forms. In case people
didn't believe him, according to the notes he wrote, Title IV, Article V, Section 5, Subsection 3, states that
existing parties had to submit a party registration form by the end of the first meeting of the spring. So
that meant that by that evening, in a little while, they had to submit the registration if they wanted to
reserve their party name. Otherwise, if they don't submit it, someone could steal their name and run in the
elections under their party name, which would be kind of funny.
Basically, there are only four parties at that time. The way the By-laws are worded is that they had to
have an elected official who was currently in office do the registration. So people didn't have to worry if
they weren't the party signatory. They just had to be an elected official to register. People should send
him an e-mail if they needed to transfer signatory authority, and he had the forms for that.
Any elected official from Cal-SERVE, the Independent Party for Common Sense, Squelch, or Student
Action, just one person from the party, anyone, should come up to him at the end of the meeting and he’d
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give them the form. He wrote in the names, because this was for existing parties. He knew that certain
parties had unusual capitalization and special punctuation. If that applied to their party, they should cross
out what he wrote and write the party name underneath. As he said, it had to be turned in, and he had to
sign it, by the end of the meeting. Mr. Sabo said he would hand out the party registration forms to people
at that time, before the end of the meeting. He didn't want to mess this up, and have some party not
represented.
Mr. Sabo said that as EVP Pack has brought up, the timeline for the Senate to appoint officials has been
moved up to the spring. That way the Senate wouldn't appoint people late, like the Attorney General,
forcing the ASUC would to be shut down otherwise at the end of October, but rather, appoint an Attorney
General, a Finance Officer, and Solicitor General before elections, before spring budgeting, so the new
appointees have an opportunity to go through the processes that they'll manage the next year. If people
look through the appointed officials roster in the new By-laws that will be updated as soon as the new
Manager gets them to him, he would ask Senators to start to reach out to people and let them know about
these openings. The EVP’s office, under the By-laws, is charged with advertising the openings. He’s
already responsible to EVP Pack about that. Senators should keep in mind that they are the lucky class
that gets to appoint two groups of appointed officials. He could see the excitement on all of their faces.
If people have any questions about appointed officials they should let him know. He would ask them to
please note that some of the positions that exist now will, with the new roster, no longer exist in the
future, and that some positions sunset. He called for any questions.
Seeing no questions for Mr. Sabo, Mr. Pack said he would like to thank him. (Applause)
Mr. Pack said that moving down the list, if the following people were present they should come up and
deliver a report: Solicitor General, J-Council representatives, Elections Council Chair, Director of CAL
Housing.
Report from the Marketing and Communications Director
Joe Wilson said that as has been said already, they've updated the seals for the ASUC. They've also created new logos for the specific Executive offices, and there are new logos for, e.g., Academic Affairs and
External Affairs. The idea was to use them across the board, everywhere. As soon as there's a link for
where they have them stored online, where people could get access to those, he or someone with access to
it will send it out.
Mr. Wilson said that last semester getting the YouTube Senate videos up online didn't always happen on
time and perfectly. He only came into the office halfway through the semester and wasn't entirely sure
what to do. But starting this semester, YouTube Senate videos will be done the night of every single Senate meeting. He’s also been sitting in the back and writing down the times during the Senate meeting that
every person goes up to speak. So if somebody wanted to link anybody to a certain point in the YouTube
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video, it would be easy to just click on it and go straight to that point. So if Senators ever needed to share
the meeting video, with a specific point in the video, they should feel free to do that. He called for any
questions. Seeing no questions for Mr. Wilson, Mr. Pack said he would like to thank him. (Applause)
Mr. Pack said that continuing to move down the list, he said any of the following could give their report
at that time: Greek Affairs Officer, SUPERB representative, Services Board Director, Director of Environmental Sustainability.
STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS
Report from the Constitutional and Procedural Review Committee
Mr. Tan said that as promised, Con-Review had its retreat on Monday, and it was very productive.
Before reporting on the retreat, he wanted to inform Con-Review that he reached out to Judicial Council
member Nicolette Rogers. The J-Council has two appointments to be made, an undergraduate and a
graduate position that they want to fill. Also, he will invite the J-Council to the Con-Review meeting to
talk about the new By-law renumbering, so the J-Council doesn't cite old By-laws, and so they transition
to the new changes, for the Justices that will be serving for the following two years.
As for what happened at Con-Review’s retreat, Mr. Tan read the following:
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Report
● What went on the retreat?
○ We established the format for Senate Bills going through the committee
○ We resolved the concerns raised over Senate Bill #68 (A Bill to Remove Section 6 from
Title 1, Article 4.1 of the ASUC Bylaws) and #74 (A Bill Amending Title 1, Article III,
and V: Reforming Meeting of the ASUC Senate)
■ Under SB #68 which established a new timeline for the recruitment and selection
of appointed officials, the Committee would like to inform the rest of the Senate
that recruitment and selection will occur during the spring semester. This means
that as a Senate class, we must facilitate the recruitment process starting in February and have appointed officials for the new Senate session by March. The selection committee structure is laid out on SB #68. There are a few alterations that the
committee is still looking over such as the selection and appointment of CSSB representatives and restoring the appointment powers of Executive Officers.
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--------------Written report from the Con-Review Chair (cont'd)
■ We also had a discussion over ASUC representatives that were listed under the old
agenda. The Committee has decided (SB #20) that ASUC representatives will be
provided as requested by umbrella organizations rather than individual student
groups. Umbrella organizations will also be considered as “Organizational Partners
to the ASUC”. These representatives will also come as individuals from these
umbrella organizations rather than Senators or from the ASUC. One of the issues
that ConRev is still looking over and would like the opinion of the Senate is
reaching out to these umbrella organizations to facilitate actually having ASUC
representatives, which we currently do not have.
■ Under SB#74, which created a new agenda for the ASUC Senate meetings and was
debated last semester on the Senate floor, the committee has written a Senate Bill
mandating standing orders for the ASUC meetings. Standing orders will provide
suggestions on the facilitation of senate meetings
○ Over the whole Spring Semester, the Committee will be introducing several changes to the
ASUC By-laws such as the renumbering of the ASUC By-laws and amendments for specific titles of the By-laws. In order to maintain transparency to our process, the Committee
will be requesting several special orders and possibly a town hall to educate the rest of the
Senate and members of the student community about what these changes will mean for our
student government.
○ The Committee has initiated into three subcommittees that will review administration and
internal operations, sponsorship and finance, programs, funds, scholarships and awards,
and general items in the ASUC. These subcommittees are not restricted to Senators or
appointed officials in ConRev. All elected and appointed officials can be a part of these
subcommittees.
End written report from the Con-Review Chair
--------------Mr. Pack called for any questions for Mr. Tan, and seeing none, said he would like to thank him.
(Applause)
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ASUC By-laws (Renumbered)
1000 - Administration and Operations (by Category)
1100 - Administration (by Title)
1105 - Definitions (by Article)
1110 - Senate Sessions
1115 - Senate Meetings
1120 - Main Motions
1125 - Agenda
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1130 - General Rules and Procedures
1135 - Senate Committees
1140 - Executive Officer Vacancies
1145 - Appointed Officials
1150 - (Unnamed)
1155 - Minutes of Senate Proceedings
1160 - Senate Leadership Network Training
1165 - Senate Continuity
1170 - Graduate Assembly
1175 - Facilities and Access
1180 - Membership in the ASUC
1185 - Officers Student Status
1190 - Remuneration and Oath of Government Officials
1200 - Space Allocation
1210 - Definitions
1220 - Criteria for Assignment
● Remove “extent of group activity”
● Add a line in 2.2 that reads “the form should be on the ASUC Website”
● In 2.6 add race, religion, gender, etc to list of groups not to be discriminated against.
1230 - Conditions for Space Allocation
● Remove “Heller Lounge” and all name specific language
1240 - Appeals Process
1250 - Student Group Mailboxes
● Remove name specific “Eshleman Hall”
1300 - Archives
1310 - Purpose
Add clause about digital copy
1320 - Contents
● Add a line under “Supplementary Documents” that reads: “End of year summary report
from Executive officers and Senate
1330 - Collection, Organization, and Maintenance of Materials
1400 - Communications
1410 - Administration
● If webmaster does not update the ASUC Web pg within this time period on two or more
occasions, they must report to the ASUC detailing why. If ASUC does not find reasons
justified, they may remove Webmaster by a two thirds vote of the senate.
1420 - Temporary Committee
1500 - Bookstore
1510 - Name and Purpose
● Under “jurisdiction” move the last sentence “The Bookstore Development Director shall
be dismissed for blatant disregard to fulfill their duties by a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the Senate” under “Responsibilities”. and make 3.4 “removal”
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--------------By-law renumbering from Con-Review (cont'd)
1520 - Appointment
● Add a clause that the Bookstore Development manager must be confirmed by (⅔) of Senate after being appointed by President.
1530 - Responsibilities
1600 - Campus Appointments
1610 - Intent
1620 - Appointment
2000 - Sponsorship and Finance
2010 - Definitions
2100 - Sponsorship
2110 - Criteria for Sponsorship
2120 - Granting Sponsorship
2130 - Benefits of Sponsorship
2140 - Revoking Sponsorship
2150 - Requirements of ASUC Sponsored Groups
2200 - Finance
3000 - Programs
3100 - External Affairs Commission
3110- Cal Housing Commission
3120- Berkeley Cribs Director
3130- Lobby Corps Commission
3140 - Temporary Committee on the Democratic Overview of the Academic Senate
3200 - From All Perspectives Show
3210 - Goals
3220 - Appointment
3300 - Green Certification Program
3310 - Name and Purpose
3320 - Appointing ASUC Green Certification Program Leadership
3330 - Management
3340 - Budget
3350 - Spending Restrictions
3400 - Innovative Design
3410 - Name and Purpose
3420 - Management
3430 - Design Teams
3440 - Senior Advisory Board
3450 - Dissolution
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3500 - Outreach Program
3510 - Name and Purpose
3520 - Senate Outreach
3530 - ASUC Executive Officer Outreach
3540 - ASUC Public Relations
3550 - Student Group Outreach Program
3560 - Daily Californian Advertisement
3570 - ASUC Resources Workshop
3600- Student Union Program Entertainment and Recreation Board (SUPERB)
3610 - Name and Purpose
3620 - Management
3630 - Committees
3640 - Oversight Board
3700- Open Computing Facility [Proposed Amendment]
3710 - Name and Purpose
3720 - Management
3730 - Committees
3740 - Oversight Board
4000 - ASUC Funds
4010 - Purpose/Mission Statement
4020 - Operations
4100 - Management
4110 - Duties of the AAVP
4120 - Duties of Fund Directors
4200 - Criteria for Funding (Budget)
4300 - Spending Restrictions
4400 - Specific Funds
4410 - Academic Opportunities Fund
4420 - Cal Lodge Fund***
4430 - Disability Accommodation Fund
4440 - Educational Enhancement Fund
4450 - Intellectual Community Fund
4460 - Multicultural Fund
4470 - Public Service Fund
5000 - Scholarships and Awards
5100 - Student Recognition Program - Quinn
5110- Name and Purpose
5130- Eligibility
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5140- Criteria for Awards
5150- Application
5160- Evaluation Committee
5170- Funding
5200 - Removing Impediments to Students Education (RISE) Scholarship - Sean
5210 - Name and Purpose
5220 - Eligibility
5230 - Criteria for Awards
5240 - Application
5250 - Evaluation Committee
5260 - Funding
5300 - Recognition Awards for the Oski Leadership Award - Briana
5310 - Name and Purpose
5320 - Eligibility
5330 - Criteria for Awards
5340 - Voting and Nomination Process
5350 - Funding
6000 - General
6100 - Judicial Council
6110 - Intent
6120 - Grounds for Removal
6130 - Procedure for Removal
6140 - Suspension
6150 - Appointment
6160 - Elections
6200 - Elections
6205 - Purpose and Intent
6210 - Elections Council
6215 - Mechanics of the Election
6220 - Voters’ Guide
6225 - Party Status
6230 - Candidates
6235 - Propositions
6240 - Initiative
6245 - Referenda
6250 - Informal Session
6255 - Candidates Meeting
6260 - Campaign Rules
6265 - Ballot
6270 - Tallying of Votes
6275 - Qualifications and Conduct of Voters
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--------------By-law renumbering from Con-Review (cont'd)
6280 - Safeguards and Election Protests
6285 - Campaign Finance Rules and Regulations
6290 - Party Spending
6295 - Elections Finance Commission
6300 - Graduate Assembly
6310 - General
6320 - Financial
6330 - Administrative
6340 - Communication with the Senate
6350 - Graduate Participation in ASUC Elections
6400 - Advocacy Agenda
6410 - General
6420 - Collection and Submission of Advocacy Agenda Items
6430 - Formation of the Advocacy Agenda
6440 - Issues/Advocacy Committees
End By-law renumbering from Con-Review
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Reporting for the Finance Committee, Mr. Mohabbat said that as he understood it, they were on Winter
Break, so they didn't have a meeting. And Monday was also MLK Day. He was looking forward to seeing Fi-Comm that coming Monday.
Reporting for the University and External Affairs Committee, Ms. Truax said “Go Bears!”
Mr. Pack said there were no bills to be considered under the Consent Calendar, and thus no bills under
Immediate Consideration. It was the first meeting of the semester so there was no Old Business. There
shouldn't be any Special Committee reports unless any met over the break.
Regarding ASUC Representatives Reports, per Sen. Tan’s clarification, Mr. Pack said he didn't believe
there were any reports under this category. And it was ambiguous as to whether or not this should even
be under the agenda.
Elected Officials Announcements
Mr. Fineman said that just for a quick reminder, per a bill that passed last semester, authored by, he
believed, Sens. Truax and Quinn, the lobbying appointments and lobby sessions that Senators were all
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highly recommended to do, the Attorney General will be reminding Senators soon that they all need to do
that. There's a report due back by April, he believed. But if they didn't do that during Dead Week, which
he did, and was awesome, and he had a great time, then Senators should keep this on their radar that this
was something Senators will be held accountable for.
Mr. Iwuoma said he hoped people stay blessed.
Ms. Mullen said that last semester her office put together the Mental Health Coalition, which was part
student groups working on mental health, and general student body members. For Spring Semester,
they're especially reaching out to try to add more people to the Coalition. So if Senators have members of
their communities they would like to sit on the Coalition, it will meet every other week. They'll be moving forward the report that she put together and try to spread it around campus. So she would ask Senators to please let her know if they know of community members they think would be interested in this,
especially people in health organizations. Ms. Mullen said she’s also been working with Comptroller
General Kang to develop a reporting system for Senators much like Executive Officers have, with the
idea that it would be codified in the By-laws within the next couple of weeks. If people wanted to be
really gung ho about it, they could start doing reports early. She was going to. She’ll send out an e-mail
later. This was just to keep more records on what Senators were doing, how their office were working,
and to create an institutional memory that future Senators members of the public could read to see what
Senators were doing, because a lot of times that wasn't clear. And it would also help Senators reflect on
what they've done in office and what they could do better. The wording was a draft, so if people have
suggestions, they should let her know.
Ms. Quinn said that Queer Au Lait will be on Thursday at the MCC, at from 6:00 to 8:00, she believed.
All 30 queer organizations will be there, and there will be other campus resources, like HIV testing, and
Tang has some good resources for queer and trans students. So she would ask Senators to tell their community members, and Senators should stop by themselves. There will be a lot of awesome people there,
and free coffee and drinks. They could get some free Welcome Week food. And for another update, Ms.
Quinn said they'll be having what she believed was their fourth USSA Board meeting that weekend, and
she’ll be going to Phoenix for that. The USSA really wants Berkeley to become a direct member. So she
was looking at whether or not that was a good idea. She personally really loved the USSA. But one of
the USSA’s campaigns is always student government autonomy, and the ASUC is already the most
autonomous student government. So she didn't know how beneficial it would be for the ASUC to join.
She would ask Senators to talk to their communities about this. Generally, Berkeley didn't seem to be
very willing to tax itself, and it would cost money to join. So she didn't foresee it happening anytime in
the near future. And Berkeley was still kind of a member through the UCSA. So she would ask people to
put this on their radar. If they had anything they wanted her to bring to the USSA, they should let her
know before she leaves and drives to Phoenix on Thursday at 6:00.
Mr. Snguon said his office was holding a Asian Pacific Islander Welcome Day on February 8. They
pushed the date back to accommodate the Lunar New Year, which is next week. People should make
sure they come out. He’s also been working with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and he had
them contact roughly 500 spring admits that are API. Hopefully they'll come out. They're also looking
for workshop facilitators. If people were interested in facilitating a workshop, there are general topics,
such as API affinity, cultural groups, how navigate, things people wished they knew before they came to
Cal, and stuff like that. If people were interested in facilitating, he would ask them to please do so. Also,
Mr. Snguon said they're having the API Palooza, right after Welcome Day, the same thing he had last
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time for API groups, from 4:00 to 6:00. There will be free food. Also, Mr. Snguon said he talked about
this earlier before, and he will be holding Asian community training, an activism conference for API
folks. If Senators were interested in signing up for that, the application was due on Tuesday, but if they
were interested, they should talk to him. They could submit an application before Saturday. If they really
wanted to do it, and they should, it was free, and it will be dope. They're working with the Chinese Progressive Association of Stanford, and other colleges, UCs, and CSUs around California.
Mr. Tan said that as requested by members of Con-Review, they're going to schedule people going to see
the Cal basketball team play sometime in February. He talked to Ms. Week about this already. Hopefully, everybody can make it to one of the games, and support them as the ASUC Senate, and get a shout
out. This was something they were still talking about.
Ms. Truax said she hoped people had a wonderful break. She believed she mentioned this last semester,
but her office, along with Sens. Kong, Mullen, and Nwoche, and other student organizations, are organizing an Educate the Bay Summit Conference. This was originally done body the UC Berkeley Public
Service Center before 2009, when it stopped for some years. It was happening again, so if Senators or
anyone they knew would be interested in facilitating a workshop that focuses on K-through-12 education,
like reforming inequality or tutoring, which Ms. Mullen was doing, or anything in general, it would be
great, and to give the audience different perspectives on K through 12 education. It will be February 22,
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Mr. Upadhyayula said that on March 18 they're hosting a graduate/undergraduate research fair. They're
working with the MCB and the Bioengineering Department. But because he’s been getting some feedback from certain student groups, who want to expand this to math, as well as outside the sciences.
They're trying to see if later in the year they could also have more than just one. If Senators knew of anyone in any science field looking for research, the Research Fair will be from 6:00 to 9 p.m. The location
was still to be decided.
Ms. Week said she wanted to follow-up SB 16 from last semester, To Censure the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) for the Appropriation of Latin@/Xican@ Culture. On Tuesday the IFC, Panhellenic, and the
Cal Greeks advisors from the LEAD Center held training that included cultural sensitivity training, which
she thought was an awesome step forward. Also, kind of following on what Mr. Tan said, if they haven't
seen it, on Facebook she created an event for the ASUC for recognition programming. If Senators could
share that with their communities and get more people signed up, they could get all the games filled. In
addition, Ms. Week said that Pres. Pepito was having her sit on a committee to figure out how to get students to go to the football game next year, which will be at Levi’s Stadium, in Santa Clara. If Senators
have any ideas on what their student communities would want, and what they need to get to that game,
they should let her know. Finally, Ms. Week said that former ASUC President Landgraf appointed her to
a committee focusing on alcohol policy at sporting events, such as football games. If Senators had any
ideas on that, she would ask them to let her know.
Mr. Wu said the DE-Cal Expo will take place at Chavez on Friday from 4:30 to 6:30. If any of their
friends were interested in taking a DE-Cal, they should tell them about the DE-Cal expo.
Mr. Pack said that seeing no further announcements, they would take the final roll call.
Roll call was taken for attendance.
- 36 Members present were:
Courtney Chow
Katherine Chung
Grant Fineman
Destiny Iwuoma
Justin Kong
Karen Lee
Naweed Mohabbat
Briana Mullen
Solomon Nwoche
Wendy Pacheco
Sahil Pandya
Caitlin Quinn
Liza Raffi
Quinn Z. Shen
This meeting adjourned at 8:54 p.m.
These minutes respectfully submitted by,
Steven I. Litwak
Recording Secretary
Sevly Snguon
Sean Tan
Emily Truax
Pavan Upadhyayula
Lauren Week
Eric Wu