MINUTES

Date: 09.30.15

Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Location:Building 9 Room 257A

1. Call to Order

1. Time Keeper: Xinyi (Magnolia) Huang
2. AV Assistant: Alondra Quiles

President Evelyn Valenzuela calls the meeting to order at 3:30 PM.

2. Roll Call (Quorum: 9)                                                                   President Valenzuela / 2 minutes

3. Adoption of The Agenda                                                                                                                    President Valenzuela

 Only changes in the order of the agenda or removal of items from the agenda are allowed. Additions must be in compliance with The Brown Act.

Commissioner of Finances James Ford, Senator Ann Amir and Senator Alexander Tucker-Boyd enters the room at 3:32 PM.

Commissioner of Public Records Cindy Streitenberger moves to adopt the agenda for September 30th 2015.
Senator Eli Agkelos-Solari seconds the motion.
Motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

4. Approval of the Minutes

1. September 16th, 2015

Commissioner of Publicity Dominic Franchi moves to approve the minutes for September 16th, 2015.
Commissioner of Publicity Dominique Franceschi seconds the motion.
Motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

2. September 23rd, 2015

Vice President Alexandra Wildman moves to approve the minutes for September 16th, 2015.
Senator Eli Agkelos-Solari seconds the motion.
Motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

5. Reports
   Vice- President of Instruction: Dr. Gregory Anderson                                                      5 minutes

Absent.
Student Trustee: Rupinder Bajwa                                                                              5 minutes

Absent.
Inter-Club Council                                                                                      5 minutes

Meeting will take place next week, a few clubs will be involved in Pride Day. Asks if anyone wants to talk about Halloween.

Programming Board                                                                              5 minutes per item

• Pride Day

        Jasper will be the chair for Pride Day. We will be looking for nametags where we can have our names and preferred pronouns. Thinking of panel of students who are in LGBTQIA community and ask appropriate questions for the panel. They will share stories of their lives and how the LGBTQIA has affected them. Q cards will be given to have sexuality, names, gender, and hand them cards to give to teachers/friends/etc. Misha asked about Cotton Candy machine and Dominique asks about skittles for rainbows. Alexandra asked if we could do a survey or a suggestion box on how we can make campus more LGBTQIA friendly. Andee says we will have a chart for different colored charts and we can paint people’s faces with sexual orientation correspondant. The events will be next Thursday so we can have sign ups next week.

President Evelyn Valenzuela leaves the room at 3:37 PM.

• Classic Halloween

        Evy will be the chair along with Dominic and Magnolia as committee members. Magnolia is choosing games and food for the booths so she asks for ideas for the food and games. Themes will be superheroes and villains that AREN’T marvel or DC. Possible food idea is grilled cheese and have superman logos branded on the sandwiches. We had clubs come and volunteer at Halloween so we are looking for clubs to join. Alexandra will be talking about Halloween during the ICC meeting, there are already some clubs that are interested. Alondra suggests the apple bobbing but Andee says it will be a sanitation problem. They are coming up with options. Domi asks if there are any themes for AS. Ann asks if there will be a best costume award - Andee says there will be a costume contest.

President Evelyn Valenzuela returns at 3:42 PM.

Leader of the Week - Jasper Nguyen

Jasper recognizes Jovani for attending all the meetings and the events.

Student Life and Leadership Manager: Misha Maggi

No reports.  

Executive Officers:

1. President: Evelyn Valenzuela - Attended DFS with Eli and Becky - talked about recommendations of raising student body fee and the wifi problem. Rest of items will be on next agenda. Attended e-board meeting last wednesday (09.23.15).
2. Vice President: Alexandra Wildman - Attended curriculum committee last friday - approved some courses and specialized topic courses (study abroad, courses that aren’t in permanent course booklet) and what our policy should be about renewing them and how much time we should have. Goals for semester and different programs like multiple measures and how they work together. Attended e-board meeting last Wednesday (09.23.15).
3. Commissioner of Public Records:  Cindy Streitenberger - Attended e-board meeting last wednesday (09.23.15).
4. Commissioner of Finances: James Ford - Attended e-board meeting last Wednesday (09.23.15).
5. Commissioner of Activities:  Andee Liljegren - Attended e-board meeting last Wednesday (09.23.15).
6. Commissioner of Publicity:  Dominic Franchi - Attended e-board meeting last Wednesday (09.23.15).
7. Commissioner of Publicity: Dominique Franceschi - International ed week on Friday. Attended e-board meeting last Wednesday (09.23.15).

Senators:

6. Hearing of The Public                                                                                                                      Vice-President Wildman

This time is reserved for the members of the public who wish to address the Associated Students of Cañada College on non-agenda items. If time is limited, discussion will be restricted to 5 minutes per speaker and 5 minutes per topic.

• Michelle Marquez - Here to give a presentation on budget
• Tori Sazio - Wants to join ASCC

7. Special Presentations

1. College Budget Vision for 2016                                                              VPA Michelle Marquez / 10 minutes

Michelle gave a presentation on the budget updates for campus. When budget is good, we don’t hear about it - when budget is bad, we have to cut programs and people start talking about it. When rough times come around it will not be a surprise. Reflection of 2014 of unrestricted funds (how we operate our college) included over 20 million total. Allocation was $20million and total was $21million.

2 things - 50% law (state law that says half of unrestricted funds will be spent on classroom instruction) and faculty obligation (ratio of faculty to students) must be taken into account.

Budget vision of 2016 - Everyone who works here are here for the students. 2015/2016 unrestricted funds: our college budget is a tool to take what our plans are and put them to action.

We are currently in a shortage of $868,672. Prop 30 is Sales tax and income tax combined. Hourly teaching budget is the biggest and one thing that can make/break our budget. Contingency fund on college - 4 million dollars for the campus.

2. How to Fill Out a Stipend                                    Commissioner of Finances James Ford / 4 minutes

James goes over how to fill out a stipend form. When you attend a committee meeting, you can fill out a stipend form and earn $18 for each meeting. Follow the guidelines. Name of committee, notes, and date of attendance as well as agenda.

Commissioner of Activities Andee Liljegren moves to allocate 2 minutes to this discussion.
Commissioner of Publicity Dominique Franceschi seconds the motion.
Motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

Crucial part of form is what you learned. Come back to meeting and present what you learned and what they presented. After the end of the month.  During reports is when you present.

8. Old Business

1. NCSL Delegation                                                                                               Advisor Misha Maggi / 3 minutes

Misha announces that 4 people turned in their packets - Ann, Alexandra, Andee and James will be attending the conference. Misha will buy flight tickets tonight.  

9. New Business         

1. New Student Body Fee                                                   Advisor Misha Maggi / 5 minutes

Skyline college wants to raise the fee - between 2=7 dollars more than it is now. It is $8 student body fee currently, in 2001 they raised from $5 to $8 ($3 increase). Time before that they had it at $5 which was $45 now. Skyline college tried to hit $15 which is almost an 100% increase. We are lowest in region 3. SRJC at $15 and charge a service fee of $3 for student services. We need to vote if we should increase and how much to increase. It will have to be the same amount for all colleges. Skyline says enrollment is most out of 3 colleges and have 10,000 total - almost double and said during welcome week they had a lot of food and wants to raise it to make more events on campus.

Commissioner of Activities Andee Liljegren leaves the room at 4:23 PM.

President Evelyn Valenzuela moves to allocate 2 minutes to this discussion.
So-moved by Vice President Alexandra Wildman.
Senator Eli Agkelos-Solari seconds the motion.
Motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

Misha says students say that the body fee is a lot. Almost 100% cooperated.

Commissioner of Activities Andee Liljegren returns at 4:28 PM.

Vice President Alexandra Wildman moves to increase the student body fee from $8 to $10.
Senator Eli Agkelos-Solar seconds the motion.
Alexandra explains she chose $10 because it is a good medium. Evy adds we can increase the amount but only every few decades.
Vice President Alexandra Wildman moves to amend her motion to increase the student body fee to $15.
Senator Eli Agkelos-Solari seconds the motion.
Magnolia points out if we go from $8 to $10 it’s not a sudden increase, but if we raise it to $15 it’s a drastic jump. Evy explains that $15 is only a suggestion and we will come back to this item to vote one more time. Andee adds that students might get angry with the increase to $15 so going to $12 would be a good median. Eli asks how the low income students will think.

Amendment fails.
Senator Xinyi (Magnolia) Huang moves to amend the previous motion to reduce the student body fee from $15 to $12.
Commissioner of Activities Andee Liljegren seconds the motion.
Commissioner of Publicity Dominic Franchi, Senator Ann Amir, and Senator Eli Agkelos-Solari abstain.
Amendment passes.
Dominique points out that a good way to advertise the $12 body fee would be saying it’s like paying $2 a month.
Original motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

2. Wifi Problem                                                                             Rupinder Bajwa / 5 minutes

In Rupinder’s absence, Evy led the open discussion about wifi on campus. There are dead spots under the grove. Becky says it would be good to have wifi at parking spots. Misha discusses that safety committee that people could come overnight and use the free wifi.  Dominic says having wifi and parking lots could be dangerous. Andee says this might pose a public safety issue because people should not be on campus after 10.

10. Open Forum and Feedback

An opportunity for members of the board or the audience to discuss any items and give feedback they have received from fellow students. Additional items for next meeting agenda.

Andee asks if Alondra can come to the Pride day meeting tomorrow at 3 PM.
Becky says her last name is spelled incorrectly.
Misha says CCCSAA attendees will meet afterwards to discuss the conference.

Commissioner of Activities Andee Liljegren moves to adjourn the meeting at 4:41 PM.
Commissioner of Publicity Dominique Franceschi seconds the motion.
Motion passes unanimously with consent of those present.

11. Adjournment

1. Next meeting is October 7th, 2015 at 3:30PM.