February 7, 2024

Call to Order 

• Lydia called the meeting to order at  4:03 PM. 

Roll Call 

#	Last	First	Present	Late	Absent	Online	Left Early	Excused	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	x
2	Tsang	Isaac	x
3	Rasyad	Izat	x
4	Rabbani	Hannah	x
5	Khieu	Katelyn	x
6	Shaikh	Asiya	x
7	Ng	Joel	x (4:15pm)
8	Gomez Tagle	Javier						x
9	Aguilar	Arianna	x
10	Ang	Ian	x
11	Naung	Ted	x
12	Cheng	Megan	x
14	Furagganan	Benjamin	x
15	Kuppa	Virinchi	x
16	Lee	Leondre	x
18	Lopez	Christopher Blu	x				x (8:30pm)
19	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	x
21	Randhawa	Reeya	x
22	Sedgwick	Adrian	x
23	Sheriff	Jannah	x
24	Tandiary	Jason			x
25	Turangan	Nicholas	x
26	Wang	Kate	x
27	Fernandes	Matthew	x
28	Rios	Daniela			x
29	Ulloa	Jennifer			x

Approval of Minutes

• January 31, 2024
• Moved by Katelyn. 
• Seconded by Virinchi, no objections. 

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Public Comments

• Lake Benson: SJCC > Working to transfer
  • Volunterring to run for city council; endorsed by planned parenthood, fire fighters and South Bay Allegiance
  • Campaigining to local community and ultimately get to give back to the community. 
  • Volunteer interest form and brochures. 
• Reeya: Mentors at De Anza, Applications for 
• Matthew: Helping to sponsor ballot event, next month conference room A and B. 

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Budgeters Comments

• This segment of the meeting is reserved for DASG budget requestors to comment on their requests. Each program/account, not individual person, will be allowed up to two (2) minutes maximum to speak on their own funding request.

• In Person 

Name - Program 

1. 1.  Diana Agabrite - Euphrates Museum of Art 
   2. Diana Alves de Lima & Melissa Aguilar - Student Success Center (Tutorial) 
   3. Jason B. - Marine Biology 
   4. Farideh Dada Amit - Journalism/ La Voz Advisor, Lion - De Anza La Voz 
   5. Matthew Fernandes - VIDA 
   6. Ron A. - DA Athletics
   7. Reeya Randhawa & Maria - Mentors @ De Anza
   8. Adriana Garcia - Office of Equity
   9. Maurice C. - Umoja SSRS
   10. Amy Wang - Impact AAPI
   11. Liliana Rivera - Puente Project
   12. Joel Ng - ICC

Online

Name - Program 

1. Dayna Swanson - Flea Market
2. Jamie Pelusi - Pride Center
3. Dayna Swanson - Mascot Program
4. Shaila Ramos-Garcia - HEFAS

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Advisor Announcements

• Hyon Chu: Food and beverages for senate members. It will be a working meeting. 
• Dennis: DASG Election application deadline has been extended to February 12th by 4pm. Please get the word out by doing presentations in your classes to let all your classmates know about the student elections. 
• Dayna: Mini Flea Market happening at the Main Quad at 4pm. 
• Maritza: Get the word out about ICC elections, work with Joel if you would like to. 

Senate Announcements

• Asiya: Mini Flea Market, sign up to volunteer.
  • Valentine Event on the 2/13 & 2/14, please sign up!
• Arianna: Resource Fair is next week on Thursday in the conference rooms A&B from 12-3pm. 

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Student Trustee Announcements

• None

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External Shared Governance Committee Reports

• Curriculum: Some courses to be dropped for 2025-2026 course catalog,
  • Published first newsletter, Approved course sunset policy, proposal forms for new 
• Guided Pathways: Discussed plans for the villages anniversary celebration, weekly village hangouts
• RAPP: Conducted a poll for the next top 5 rankings, possibly at least $900,000 to allocate. 
• Lydia: Academic Senate: Approved resolution honoring the environmental studies faculty. Discussed curriculum committee updates, membership drive updates, student leanring outcomes and readability website and availability updates. Encourage students to advocate for DASG at the board meeting taking place on 2/12. 

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Internal DASG Committee Reports

• Marketing: Posted for Instagram, Reels, TikTok Account.
• Programs Committee: Met and approved the committee code for this year and discussed the Wildflower planting - Environmental Sustainability channel for more information, Mini Flea Market, discussing having a talent show, Valentine's event coming up. 
• SRE: Planned for Resource Fair, Senators please sign up for shifts (at least 3 senators at all times) Work with ICC to promote the student concerns form to clubs. 
• Administration: Presidential Elections, SSC Updates, Class Scheduling
• Finance Commitee: Discussed improvements of budget deliberation process, Will present what can be improved on next week. 
• ICC: Info sessions to sign up, Discussed having a moderator for the server on Discord

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Consent Calendar

• Ian moved to approve the consent calendar.
• Seconded by Ted, no objections. 

Business Item 1

Proposed Changes to DASG Administration Code

• Isaac presented the code revisions. 

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Business Item 2

• Isaac presented the code revisions to the Elections Code. 

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Business Item 3

• Dennis presented the item. 

Fund 46 Budget 

• Isaac moved to approve the 2024-2025 Fund 46 DASG Budget. 
• Joel seconded the motion, no objections. 

#	Last	First	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	Yes
2	Tsang	Isaac	Yes
3	Rasyad	Izat	Yes
4	Rabbani	Hannah	Yes
5	Khieu	Katelyn	Yes
6	Shaikh	Asiya	Yes
7	Ng	Joel	Yes
9	Aguilar	Arianna	Yes
10	Ang	Ian	Yes
11	Naung	Ted	Yes
12	Cheng	Megan	Yes
13	Furagganan	Benjamin	Yes
14	Kuppa	Virinchi	Yes
15	Lee	Leondre	Yes
16	Lopez	Christopher Blu	Yes
17	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	Yes
18	Randhawa	Reeya	Yes
19	Sedgwick	Adrian	Yes
20	Sheriff	Jannah	Yes
21	Turangan	Nicholas	Yes
22	Wang	Kate	Yes
23	Fernandes	Matthew	Yes

Total: Unanimous, All 23 senators voted yes to pass the motion. 

1st Vote: Passed, No changes. 

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Business Item 4

Fund 41 Budget 

• Dennis, Izat and Nicholas presented the item. 
• Discussion over specific accounts and their reasoning for designated funds. 

Special Allocations [Motion]

• Adrian moves to cut $50,000 from special allocations.
• Seconded by Arianna, no objections. 

Honors Program Payroll [Various Motions] 

• Isaac moves to cut the Honors Program payroll from $5,787 to $0.00 and the hours span to 0. 
• Discussion over reasoning took place. 
• Katelyn seconded the motion, 3 objections. 
• Discussion took place over the Honors Programs plans for the new year. 
• Arianna moved amend the main motion to cut $1,000 instead of $5,787 for the Honors Program.
• Aaron seconded the motion, objections present. 

Motion to amend the main motion to cut $1,000 instead of $5,787 for the Honors Program.
#	Last	First	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	-
2	Tsang	Isaac	No
3	Rasyad	Izat	Yes
4	Rabbani	Hannah	Yes
5	Khieu	Katelyn	No
6	Shaikh	Asiya	No
7	Ng	Joel	No
9	Aguilar	Arianna	Yes
10	Ang	Ian	No
11	Naung	Ted	Yes
12	Cheng	Megan	Yes
13	Furagganan	Benjamin	No
14	Kuppa	Virinchi	No
15	Lee	Leondre	No
16	Lopez	Christopher Blu	Yes
17	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	Yes
18	Randhawa	Reeya	Yes
19	Sedgwick	Adrian	-
20	Sheriff	Jannah	Yes
21	Turangan	Nicholas	No
22	Wang	Kate	No
23	Fernandes	Matthew	Yes
Total Yes: 10		Total No: 10
MOTION FAILED

• Main Motion: to cut the Honors Program payroll from $5,787 to $0.00 and the hours span to 0.
• Isaac moved to amend the main motion (based on general senate consensus) from cutting $5,787 from the Honors Program payroll to $2,500. 
• Katelyn seconded the motion, Ted Naung objected the motion. 
• Isaac and Katelyn retracted their motion. 
• Ted moved to amend the cut from $5,787 to $2,893. 
• Matthew seconded the amendment. 
• Amendment passed, no objections. 

• Motion to cut  $2,893 from the Honors Program payroll passed with no objections. 

ICC, Scholarships etc.

Motion 

• Isaac moved to cut $3,750 from the DASG/ICC Scholarship. 
• Katelyn seconded the motion, no objections. 

HEFAS

• Chris B motioned to add $5,266 to HEFAS for Student Payroll, Technical Professional Services and Domestic Conference/Travel. 
• Seconded by Jannah, objections present. 

Motion to add $5,266 to HEFAS for Student Payroll, Technical Professional Services and Domestic Conference/Travel
#	Last	First	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	-
2	Tsang	Isaac	Yes
3	Rasyad	Izat	Yes
4	Rabbani	Hannah	Yes
5	Khieu	Katelyn	Yes
6	Shaikh	Asiya	Yes
7	Ng	Joel	Yes
9	Aguilar	Arianna	Yes
10	Ang	Ian	Yes
11	Naung	Ted	Yes
12	Cheng	Megan	Yes
13	Furagganan	Benjamin	Yes
14	Kuppa	Virinchi	Yes
15	Lee	Leondre	Yes
16	Lopez	Christopher Blu	Yes
17	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	No
18	Randhawa	Reeya	Yes
19	Sedgwick	Adrian	-
20	Sheriff	Jannah	Yes
21	Turangan	Nicholas	Yes
22	Wang	Kate	Yes
23	Fernandes	Matthew	Yes
Total Yes: 19		Total No: 1
MOTION PASSED

LA VOZ

Motion 

• Matthew moved to add $1,000 to the domestic conference/travel line item for La Voz. 
• Katelyn seconded the motion, no objections. 
• Motion passed. 

ICC

Motion 

• Joel Ng moved to allocate $4,000 to the following line items for ICC: 
  • Motion to add $1,000 to food 
  • Motion $1,000 supplies
  • Motion $2,000 technical and professional services
• Seconded by Nicholas. 
• Jannah objected to the motion. 

Motion to allocate $4,000 to the following line items for ICC: $1,000 to food, $1,000 supplies, $2,000 technical and professional services
#	Last	First	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	-
2	Tsang	Isaac	Yes
3	Rasyad	Izat	Yes
4	Rabbani	Hannah	Yes
5	Khieu	Katelyn	Yes
6	Shaikh	Asiya	Yes
7	Ng	Joel	Yes
9	Aguilar	Arianna	Yes
10	Ang	Ian	Yes
11	Naung	Ted	Yes
12	Cheng	Megan	Yes
13	Furagganan	Benjamin	Yes
14	Kuppa	Virinchi	Yes
15	Lee	Leondre	Yes
16	Lopez	Christopher Blu	Yes
17	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	No
18	Randhawa	Reeya	Yes
19	Sedgwick	Adrian	-
20	Sheriff	Jannah	No
21	Turangan	Nicholas	Yes
22	Wang	Kate	Yes
23	Fernandes	Matthew	Yes
Total: Yes - 18		Total: No - 2
MOTION PASSED

Office of Equity 

Motion 

• Hannah motioned to add $1,000 to student payroll and $15 to benefits for the Office of Equity.
• Seconded by Megan. 
• Virinchi objected to the motion. 
• Motion passed without a vote. 

UMOJA

Motion to add $8,125 to UMOJA Program ($8,000 for payroll and $125 for benefits)
#	Last	First	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	-
2	Tsang	Isaac	No
3	Rasyad	Izat	No
4	Rabbani	Hannah	Yes
5	Khieu	Katelyn	No
6	Shaikh	Asiya	No
7	Ng	Joel	-
9	Aguilar	Arianna	Yes
10	Ang	Ian	No
11	Naung	Ted	Yes
12	Cheng	Megan	Yes
13	Furagganan	Benjamin	No
14	Kuppa	Virinchi	No
15	Lee	Leondre	No
16	Lopez	Christopher Blu	Yes
17	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	Yes
18	Randhawa	Reeya	No
19	Sedgwick	Adrian	-
20	Sheriff	Jannah	Yes
21	Turangan	Nicholas	No
22	Wang	Kate	No
23	Fernandes	Matthew	Yes
Total: Yes - 8		Total: No - 11
MOTION FAILED

Motion 

• Asiya motioned to add $2,000 to payroll, $30 for benefits and $2,000 for tech and professional services.
• Jannah seconded the motion, no objections. 
• Motion passed. 

Adjournment 

• Isaac moves to recess the meeting until 4pm February 14, 2024 on Wednesday.
• Asiya seconded the motion, no objections.