05/15/2024 - Agenda and Minutes

General Meeting Information

Date: May 15, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Student Council Chambers and Zoom

Time	Topic	Purpose	Discussion Leader
4:00 PM	Call to Order	I/D	Luca Paliska
4:00 PM	Roll Call	I/D/A	Maliah Kenoly
4:01 PM	Approval of Minutes May 8, 2024	I/D/A	Senators
4:02 PM	Public Comments	I	All
4:09 PM	Advisor Announcements	I	Advisors
4:14 PM	Senate Announcements	I	Senators
4:19 PM	Student Trustee Announcements	I	Iris Li
4:24 PM	External Shared Governance Committee Reports	I	Senators
4:29 PM	Internal DASG Committee Reports	I	Senators
	Consent Calendar Appoint Nicholas Turangan to Committee of Online Learning.	D/A	Senators
4:30 PM	Business Item 1 Affordable Student Housing Decision This item is to present the upcoming site decision for affordable student/employee housing and to collect thoughts, comments, questions from DASG. Time: 15 minutes	I/D	Antonio Facio
4:45 PM	Business Item 2 Police Department Use of Tasers This item is to present and discuss the Police department's consideration of adding tasers as a less lethal tool for de-escalation. Time: 20 minutes	I/D	Daniel Acosta
5:05 PM	Business Item 3 2024–2025 La Voz News Budget Stipulation Revisions This item is to discuss and possibly approve revised 2024-2025 DASG Budget Stipulations for La Voz News (Stipulation # 31 and # 32). La Voz Budget Stipulation - Proposed Changes La Voz Budget Stipulation - Proposed Changes Time: 15 minutes	I/D/A	Izat Rasyad Ann Penalosa
5:15 PM	Introduction and Approval of Prospective Senators	I	Prospective Senators
5:20 PM	Public Comments	I	All
5:25 PM	Advisor Announcements	I	Advisors
5:30 PM	Adjournment	A	Luca Paliska

A = Action
D = Discussion
I = Information

Hyon Chu: Welcome Luca to 1st senate meeting; Raffle off squishmellows and giftcards.

Maritza: Calendar invite sent out to the newly elected DASG executive senators; need your RSVP form for the Student Leadership Recognition Gala - need dietary needs and where you're going next for college transfer.
- To note for Student Accounts, coming to the end of the fiscal year - submit any forms for expenses that are overdue asap! Funds are not carrying over to the new year. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. If you have questions on how to submit these forms, ask us! After June 30th, there's no option to submit. Club funds do rollover.
- Gentle reminder: DASG Discord is considered an official communication channel and is representing all committees including the joking channel. If anyone looks in it, how would you feel about it representing you. Thank you very much.
Dayna: Mini Flea Market next Tuesday in the Main Quad: 11am - 4pm. Vendors and fun activites taking place with clubs.
Dennis: Admin is working on ByLaw and elections changes, working on the draft versions for the editable files; I will be sending thos eoit to all chairs (23-24 & 24-25). If listed, vice chairs will be updated. Duties for each position will also be updated.

Matthew: Nominations for Student Leadership Awards are due May 19th, you can find the link to the information in the Discord.
Matsuko: HEFAS having 10th Annual Summit on June 7th. Next week, Undocusign Conference will be in conference rooms A&B along with a panel of undocumented professionals.
Ian: Mini Flea Market from 12PM - 2PM; performances taking place. Volunteer link will be dropped in the senate discord chat.
Chris: DASG and ASFC Bonding; want to see what day would be best. Senate vote, food, drinks etc. See senate chat for the voting link.
Asiya: Link sent for the sign up sheet + transfer center for DASG on June 5th. Need people from DASG to sign up for field hours!

Equity Action Council: Diversity Seats - better to include every group than to not; Suggestions such as student as a chair for shared governance.
Curriculum Committee: CSLOs proposed courses; justificiation on the GE Form and essential student materials.
RAPP: Personal hiring and groups; once starting reconcilliation a certain number of positions.
Academic Senate: Met on Monday, zero textbook cost by fall 2025; one for kinesiology. Report from the GE Commitee that is needed to graduate from De Anza.

Programs: Went over Committee Code - bringing to senate next week. Mini Flea Market next week! Be sure to check it out. Carnival Event planning.
Marketing: Reminder that there are free scantrons in the Office of College Life.
Finance: Met on Monday, reviewing the timeline of budget deliberations, interview the students served.

Affordable Student Housing Decision

Leila Salam presented the item.
Working to advocate that the district use the funds to allocate for affordable student housing.
The Board of Student Trustees officially recommended that housing become available for employees; and student housing for De Anza (look into).

Police Department Use of Tasers

Motion to extend discussion by 5 minutes.
#	Last	First	Vote
1	Wong	Lydia	yes
2	Tsang	Isaac	no
3	Rasyad	Izat	-
4	Rabbani	Hannah	-
5	Khieu	Katelyn	no
6	Shaikh	Asiya	yes
7	Ng	Joel	-
8	Gomez Tagle	Javier	-
9	Aguilar	Arianna	yes
10	Ang	Ian	no
11	Naung	Ted	no
12	Cheng	Megan	no
14	Furagganan	Benjamin	yes
15	Kuppa	Virinchi	no
16	Lee	Leondre	-
18	Lopez	Christopher Blu	yes
19	Mundanilkunathil	Aaron	yes
20	Randhawa	Reeya	yes
21	Sedgwick	Adrian	yes
22	Sheriff	Jannah	yes
23	Tandiary	Jason	no
24	Turangan	Nicholas	no
25	Wang	Kate	no
26	Fernandes	Matthew	yes
27	Rios	Daniela	-
28	Estrada-Nakamatsu	Matsuko	no
29	Nam	Eddie	yes
30	Shamarao	Anish	no
31	Ku	Javin	no
32	Li	Chun Ho	yes
No - 12, Yes - 12		Motion failed

Katelyn motioned to approve the revised version of #31 with the changes Maritza sent [“Individual student clubs will work with La Voz directly for their own advertisements and must complete a College Life Pre-Authorization form to verify the availability of funds.”]
Seconded by Virinchi, no objections.
Matthew motioned to approve the revised version of #32 with student access instead of student subscription.
Seconded by Kate, no objections.

Chris: Recently printed newspaper [La Voz] mentioned Ted's Windex, this is not an approved drink. Disappointed in La Voz and the advisor for allowing this to be in the paper without confirmation.
Asiya: Report with integrity and utilize ethical practices in regards to being misquoted by La Voz and past articles written by others. If anyone else has encountered this, please reach out to myself and/or Chris.