ASUWB Open Public Meeting
DATE: December 8th, 2015
TIME: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
LOCATION: ARC 121
I.
Call Meeting to Order
8:00AM
Meeting called to order at 8.00am.
II.
Attendance/Roll Call
Dominick Juarez
Zynia Chapman
Aretha Basu
Umar Sayed
Jesse Trinh
Vacant
Vacant
Daniel Schmidt
Evan Gilbert
Dain Williams
Vacant
Dion Thompson
Crhistian Cuellar
Anchala Krishnan
Leah Shin
III.
Confirm Agenda
8:01AM
President
Vice President
Director of Student Advocacy Absent
Director of Public Relations
Director of Business Operations
Director of Governmental Relations
Graduate Senator
Senior Senator Late
Senior Senator
Junior Senator
Junior Senator
Sophomore Senator
Sophomore Senator
First Year Senator
First Year Senator
8:03AM
Zynia: Moves to Approve the 12/8/15 agenda
Crhistian: Seconds the motion
Umar makes a friendly amendment to include review of ARC policy and procedures
Motion Passes 9-0-0
IV.
Approval of December 1st, 2015 Meeting Minutes
8:04AM
Zynia: Motions to approve meeting minutes 12/01/15
Dion: Seconds the motion
Motion passes 9-0-0
V.
Security & Campus Safety
 Escort Services
 Escort Programs run 24/7
 Case by case basis on how far the escort can be given
 Faculty can also requests escort
 Not responsible for parking services
 Help to jump start people’s car when needed
8:05AM
VI.
Housing and Residential Life
8:20AM
 Annual Housing Budget
 Coming back in mid or late January with more updated information
 It is s a part of the University
 Receive no state or University funds for operation
 Ensure Housing physical facilities are being maintained and cared for to best
accommodate the residents
Dom: is it possible to see the specific budget? How much is charged to the student and where
are the money going?
-Yes, it is possible
VII.
Committee Interest Form
 Appointing students to Committees that applied
8:35AM
Umar: move to approve Laura Pantoja for Student Diversity Council
Jesse: seconds the motion
Motion passes 9-0-0
VIII. SAEF Proposal
 None
IX.
Old Business
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8:40AM
Student Academic & Budgetary Council
- Zynia
o Council based on representation from Academic Schools
Z: I am working on this with Aretha and I need one more person’s help
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Imagining America
o Recommendation to the committee or questions
-Dom
Dom: is there anything anyone have
Z: what’s the vide
Valery: there is a number of staff and faculty who were in involved and it goes with the campus
community in community based learning
Daniel: the main thing is money and space issue on campus, and we need to be inclusive and
Dom: people from imagine America will be placed through out the campus and they would cost
$200,000 annually
Crhistian: where is the $200,000 coming from and how will they get the money
Valery: there isn’t a firm answer to that
Dom: as far as ASUWB supporting the program, how do you all feel?
Daniel: No
Dain: I want more concrete detail on how the program would benefit the student, to make a
decision
Dom: the answer I got from them is that, there is no feedback on how this would benefit students,
I think the benefit is that to make UWB to make nationally known, national publicity
Daniel: I feel like its more for staff and faculty, would students want to jump on board and want
to get involved?
Evan: it is important that a lot students feel like they want to outlet for Art students, and it gives
a wider range for undergraduate research opportunity
Dom: the IA, if it comes here, mutual benefit for both parties, it can be we can use, it is up to us
to form and mold, and they have their own agenda
Valery: you could put in recommendation to have the IA put the undergraduate’s involvement
more
Daniel: moves to approve Imagine America with caviar to having undergraduate research at
UWB
Umar: seconds the motion
Motion failed 4-5-1
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Student of the Month Award
o Voting on Candidates
Crhistian: moves to approve Becky Warfield for November student of the month
Umar: seconds the motion
Daniel: why did you choose her
Crhistian: I found interesting the research she has done in the past and what she is
planning to do in the future
Motion fails 2-5-2
X.
Executive Board and Senator Reports
9:00AM
Dom
President
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Zynia
No Update
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Vice President
Attended AVCEM presentation
SABC drafting emails
Overview Document finishing
Director of Student Advocacy
Tabled for ASUWB
Met with ACA about cultural competency concerns
Met with MSA officers about reflection space
Met with SDC officers about agenda and bylaws
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Director of Public Relations
Put Holly the Husky hiring Posters up
Put ASUWB student of the month Posters up
Senior Senator marketing
Holly the Husky Events and uploading images to social media
Smores for future marketing
Updated website with ASUWB info and pictures
Update ASUWB senator office hours
Club Council on Thursday
Holly the Husky event pictures
Holly the Husky event on W Day
SAF smore posters
ASUWB Team Meeting Smore
Committee Interest Form Smore
Hot Chocolate Social
Spooktacular Photos
Holly the Husky Interviews
Presentation for intercultural global welcome
Meet with Dion and Crhistian for class outreach event
Smore for Student of the Month
Website Update
Brochure turned into marketing assistants
Smores advertisement
ASUWB presentation
Holly the Husky Event
Global Student Welcome Preperation
Smores
Put up posters
Food truck survey
Met with Laura about the Snapchat Geotag
Hot Chocolate Social Event
Trained Cody (New Holly Hiree) in one on one meeting
Put up Advertisement posters
government relations advertisement
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Aretha
Umar
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Met with Chelsea to talk about food services
Met with Missy to talk about club council
Talked with students at large about concerns
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Director of Business Operations
Refilled Supply tables
Met Chelsea and Umar to go over food trucks
Met with Zynia for ASUWB rules
Attended meet the team event
Jesse
Horacio
Rodriguez
Director of Government Relations
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Vacant
Graduate Senator
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Daniel
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Evan
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Vacant
Senior Senator
Did more recruiting for STF
Worked on Bylaw team Restructure
Senior Senator
Helped Aretha brainstorm questions for a student interest survey
Met with a student at large interested in fielding ideas for queer
advocacy.
Junior Senator
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Dain
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Crhistian
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Dion
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Continued correspondence on Health Services
Met with students on Health Services
established new point of contact for health services
met with director of public relations
found more interested students for health services committee
began drafting charge for healthcare services committee
Sophomore Senator
Tabled for sophomores talk to their sophomore senators
Spoke to Laura and got an update on SnapChat
Sophomore Senator
Tabled with Crhistian and gathered information on different issues
here on campus (mostly parking and food)
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Leah Shin
Also did research on food services
Met with Zynia
First-Year Senator
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Anchala
Krishnah
First-Year Senator
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XI.
New Business
9:20AM
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MLK Week of Service
- Zynia
o ASUWB Representation
Z: I am trying to get a representative for ASUWB
Kelly: For the last 3 years, ASUWB did neighborhoods clean up, that’s what we did, if any of
you are interested
Umar: having a side project, in addition to being present in the event
Crhistian: what’s the date for doing the day of service?
Andrea: We do the UWB observant the Saturday before the MLK day
Kelly: on the Monday, usually the Government Relations person will go to Olympia with
students and volunteer
 Schedule Training Dates
-Dom
Dom: Please give me the final exam dates, so we can decide on the training day
Daniel: why don’t we do a one day all day training
Dom: those days are told to be reserved before, so training should be priorities
Andrea: in march, your training is going to be on 17,18 and 19th
 Finals Week Meeting
-Dom
Dion: I don’t think we should have meeting because some people might have busy final
schedule
Dain:
Umar: having a meeting in final week is going to be a lot of stress
Dion: moves to cancel December 15ht 2015 ASUWB meeting
Dain: seconds the motion
Motion passes 8-1-0
 STF Bylaws
Daniel: we need to approve the bylaws and annual funding
-Daniel
We want to update the wording in the bylaw from executive board to student government in
Article 10 section 5 Section 10 and add require line items in proposal
Daniel: moves to change STF Bylaw Article 10 Section 5ii to update the from executive board
to student government
Umar: seconds the motion
Motion passes 9-0-0
Daniel: moves to change Article 8 section AIV 1 and 2, to add to STF Bylaw to “require line
items in proposal”
Umar: seconds the motion
Motion passes 9-0-0
XII.
Committee Reports
Alumni Council
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CACES
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Chancellor's Cabinet
9:25 AM
Daniel Schmidt
Went to Alumni Gathering on 11/3/15
Met on 11/4/15
Upcoming Event
o Veterans Reception 11/10/15
o Lend a Paw 11/21/15 and Husky Game Party
Women in Powerment Tentative 3/3/15
Vacant
No Update
Aretha & Dain
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Club Council
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Umar
Club Council Banquet with incoming members
Club Coucil approved Bothell Women in Science Engineering,
Mexican Student Union, Association for computing machinery
UWB Chapeter, Japanese Student Association
JSA officer Shirts approved
Pre-Med Club Shirt approved
VSA Officer Jerseys approved
Clubs that were approved (Circle K, CLAMOR, CSA, Hope
Heart Committee, UX Club, Mathematics Society, Students
affecting change)
LSU’s Dia de Los Muertos Approved
JSA Horror movie night Approved and moved
VSA’s Leadership summit
Chemistry Club’s Mole Day Not Approved
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Commuter Task
Force
Produce yourself, Dance club, Gender Equity, Consciousness
club, Pre-Pharmacy Club, MBAA, MSA, FMA Approved
Clubs.
 BSU Bowling Bonding Event Approved
 Dance Club T-Shirts Approved
 Club Council Bonding Approved
 Clubs approved Pride Alliance
 MSA’S paintballing budget approved
 Tau Sigma Budget Approved
 IOS Developer budget approved
 Western LEAD conference budget approved
 Brochure printing budget Denied
 AIDS quilt budget Denied
 MBAA Budget Approved
 Open Mic Event (ACSA) Approved
 Clubs approved: The CROW, Christian Student Union, Parent
union, SPEP, Uwave Radio, Physics Club, Mexican Student
Assosecation, WL
 Approved budgets: Consciousness club’s whidbey winter
gathering, VSA’s marketing supplies and TET Lunar new year,
FMA’s G.A.M.E. forum, Students affecting change’s T-shirts,
Hope Heart guest speaker event.
Dion
 Meeting on Dec 4. cancelled, rescheduled to Dec. 1th1 9:3011am.
 Here are all the notes from the meeting 11/6/15
 Announcements:
 Summary over summer:
 Installed new pay stations on UWB and CCC
 Installed a new sidewalk lighting system at CCC
 Safety: Might want to put flashing lights at the ARC crossing
(estimate 64.000$ for installation)Also talked about crossing
lights where you push a button, then it turns green and red for
crossing)
 For safety, adding the button would be better
 Permit sales: “Doing okay,”,
 Students numbers: Annual permit doubled from last year,
overall numbers seem to be going up, but not too much
 Upass sales are down 19 passes, up 8 on staff side
 No mention of daily passes
 Smart parking app
 Lots of inventory
 Initial cost 275,000
 iPark system, finding one that does both
 Safety issues with app, can’t force people to NOT use phones
 More spaces are being added
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Diversity Council
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Downtown Bothell
Action Committee
Elections Committee
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General Faculty
Organization
General Staff
Organization
Graduate Advisory
Committee
Graduate Student
Council
Living Learning
Community Task
Force
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More visitor spaces by chase house
Getting a better hold of visitor
More motorcycle spots
EV chargers
2 extra at North Garage
2 spots at new lot
Skateboard racks
UW1, CC1,2,3 UW2, LB1, ARC
Covered bike racks
Solar panels produced 39.52 MWh, reduced GHG emissions by
44 tons, just like 5000 gallons of gas
Purchased skateboard racks
Covered bike racks
Construction projects
Surface parking under construction until December, plan to
open for winter quarter, 143 spots.
Location was selected because it was a future building site
Retiring the Plan and Unit Development (PUD), pre-designing
for housing,
The UW4 building will be built next to the new parking lot
Parking rates, have not changed for a few years, (they are
considering raising prices) Everything is coming from parking
rates
Also looking at shuttling options
Aretha and Umar
Diversity Open Forum was on May 28th and June 1st to collect
feedback
Next meeting June 11th @ Rose Room
Jesse
No update
Horacio
Elections for First-Year Senators are over
No Update until winter quarter
Zynia
Review of Operating Budget
Zynia
No Update
Vacant- Graduate Student Senator
N/A
Vacant- Graduate Student Senator
N/A
2 students at large
Meeting updated with information regarding a facilitated
learning environment for students within the LLC while
bridging the communities of commuter and students in the
residential halls.
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Future Dining
Services Task Force
Provost Advisory
Committee
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Residential Hall
Association
SFAC
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Suggested of employing faculty to live in housing
Crhistian
(next meeting Dec 9, 2015) Aretha has update 2
Dom
Presentation from Office of External Affairs
o no fund.from higher ed on citly/county level
o positive/negative community relations
o Homelessness + Community Parking Tax
State relations
o Get Money from the state
o Prioritize demands
o Equality amongst Campuses
o Olympia-wants to create jobs
Building Relationships w/ Local Relationships
Crhistian
(next meeting Dec 10, 2015) No Report.
Jesse
12.4.15 SFAC Meeting
Student Update
 new CSG member; Eric Ammons as Director of Public Relations and Technology
 1st STF funding cycle starts Dec. 14; proposals due January 13
 141 people at last CAB/CEB event (Pixels) last night
o all events have had over 100 people in attendance last night
 ASUWB giving Food truck survey to students next week
 SAF starting hearings next week for contingency funds
Signage Update
 will be installed (allegedly) next Friday
o had been rescheduled a second time due to high wind warning
 In January the Cascadia digital signage vendor will come and present to the group
ILO Update
 Sam & Shandy are in the process of distributing a survey and collecting feedback to
determine how the space is working well and what may need to be addressed
 stay tuned for potential recommendations to come from the feedback to make changes
in Winter quarter
 need to make sure that advisors are distributing the feedback form to all student
groups utilizing the space
Art Update
 previously discussions about permanent vs. rotating
 Evan made list of potential locations for rotating artwork
o look at potential to add digital art once the digital signage is installed
 previous conversation about reaching out to both literary mags and art faculty from
both institutions
o Evan will reach out to them with information about what sizes, parameters,
spaces, etc.
o option to have students vote to pick what gets hung
 what if CAB/CEB want to do a collaborative piece of art?
o definitely an option
 want to set up a schedule where groups/faculty know which quarter/space they will be
responsible for providing art for
 HEROs artwork from annual Body Gala also an option
 Evan will put together plan and start coordinating in the next few weeks
Budget
 Compiling information for budget needs starting; will tackle some areas each week at
SFAC
 Building Hours
o current - M-F 7a - 12a; Sat - 10a - 6p; Sun 12p - 6p
o suggestions to look at budget if:
o reduced or closed Saturday and/or Sunday hours
o can also look at closing specific days (i.e. day after Thanksgiving)
 Custodial
o lower level - APPA level 2; rest of the building APPA level 3
o costs this year were much higher because of start up costs
o if we keep everything the same, next year cost is $89,010.66
 this was M-F daytime coverage
 currently they are providing evening and weekend coverage as
well
o Evan meeting with custodial staff next week to talk about next steps
o How do students feel about current custodial support
 feel it is really clean and well taken care of
 lower level tables are never cleaned
 what should students be doing vs. custodial staff
 lower level floors are dirty
 garbage attended to very often; could use some of the time spent
on garbage for other cleaning tasks
 locker rooms attended to often
 studio floor needs special attention; dripping sweat on floor
o have asked for locker room deep cleans to happen during non-peak hours so
students are not denied access to their things in the lockers
o would like to have cleaning wipes available in several places in ILO so
students can clean/disinfect their work stations
o students would like access to another vacuum to help clean
 currently only one available
Rest of Quarter SFAC Meetings
 next meeting December 11 (next Friday)
 following week is December 18 (after classes for CSG); no meeting
 no meeting December 25 or January 1
 January 8 - first week of Winter quarter, first meeting of Winter quarter
Next Meeting - talk about potential new reps for some groups for Winter quarter
Alison's last meeting - Betsy Brown will be stepping in as the representative on the committee
for Recreation & Wellness. Thank you Alison!
John Espy - UWB student; new STF chair; espj@uw.edu
Carla Sanchez SAF chair at UWB
SAF Committee
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Student Conduct
Code Committee
Student Technology
Fee Committee
SAFE Campus
Working Committee
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Jesse
Reviewed SAF contingency applications
Dain
Meeting set for friday 10am
Daniel Schmidt
No meeting last Friday on 11/6/15
Next meeting 11/13/15
Zynia
Followed up on the status of the report with Vice Chancellor
Karaman-
Technology Advisory
Committee
Washington Students
Association
Campus Garden
Committee
Board of Regents
Daniel Schmidt and Dion
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No Report
First Meeting in November (meeting time and place TBD)
Otherwise STILL no update
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Horacio Rodriguez, Dain, Crhistian
Next meeting: WWU 12/12/15 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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City of Bothell
Meetings
CSG
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GPSS
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Vacant
Working on bylaws before the committee experiences turnover
Dom
Next meeting is in January 8th
Zynia
No Update
Dom & Dain
No Update
Horacio
11/23/15 GPSS held a panel with Congresswoman Suzan
DelBene and privacy policy experts for a discussion about the
importance of protecting individuals from mass aerial
surveillance. 14th amendment.
Food Truck Focus
Group
Enrollment
Management
Committee
UW BIG
Community
Engagement Task
Force
Health and Safety
Committee
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11/23/15 Race & Equality Initiative Student Roundtable
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No Updates
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No Update
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No Update
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Vacant
Sub group meetings/ updates
Dom
Dom
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Student Diversity
Council
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Legislative
Update
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Dain and Umar
No new information next meeting scheduled November 10,
2015
Aretha
Meeting with student interested in becoming chair on
Wednesday
Horacio
Working towards completing
-Made a list of Speaker Options
Commencement
Speaker Committee -Gave a timetable for getting 2015-2016 and 2016-2017
Commencement Speaker
Umar: ARC 2ND floor was used by the Chancellors office and in the ARC event policy it says
that staff/faculty are the primary users
George: Jesse needs the support from everyone before going with recommendation to SFAC, so
it will be stronger and building that coalition and response from others who shared the space
Kelly: the third priority, are we allowed to used this space during break? Have faculty to use it
during low peak versus high peak
Andrea: invite Evan or SFAC to come and talk about how they come to this decision, and
thinking about the community impact as well. And we haven’t been here for a year, so give it
time before making any decision on how everything works
Daniel: my recommendation is to have staff/faculty invite students to the event, be inclusive
George: there are revenue coming up, and it have opportunities for discussion and dialogue, lets
utilize it as learning opportunity
Umar: Moves to extend the meeting by 15 minute
Dain: seconds the motion
Motion passes 6-3-0
XIII. Break Out Session Updates
9:40AM
XIV. Announcement
9:55AM
Umar: Today from 5.30-7.30pm to meet legislator in Bellevue
Kelly: would provide ride, email me if interested
XV.
Adjournment
Umar: Moves to adjourn the meeting
Dain: Seconds the motion
Motion passes 9-0-0
10:00AM