January 28, 2026

Call to Order

• Jayven called the meeting to order at 4:08 PM. 

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Roll Call

#	Last	First	Present	Late	Absent	Online	Left Early	Excused
1	Huang	Jayven	X
2	Nguyen	James	X
3	Ma	Alan	X
4	Ho	Chrissy	X
5	Tran	Hoang Anh Thu	X
6	Hua	Joey	X
7	Vongnakhone	Myles	X
8	Pyae	Min	X
9	Zhu	Elora	X
10	Cacchione	Francesca Pia	X
11	Manglona	Gabe	X
12	Jevaria	Suyash			X
13	Lam	Caitlin	X
14	Brignetti	Ethan						X (out sick)
15	Tai	Audrey	X
16	Vahidi	Ben	X
17	Saini	Lakshya	X
18	Yi	Ryan	X
19	Krawez	Kyle	X
20	Kao	Jacob	X
21	Soe	Thin Thida	X
22	Faisal	Aisyah	X
23	Chen	Jacob	X
24	Lieng	Tram	X
25	Guerrero Fernandez	Dali	X
26	Pedroza	Salvador	X
27	Ashebr	Blen	X
28	Serrano	Brandon	X
29	Blackman	Zander	X

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Approval of Minutes

• No minutes to be approved from the week of 1/21/2026.

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Public Comments

• None

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Advisor Announcements

• Hyon Chu: 
  • Amy Huang to join the team as the College Life administrative assistant.
  • Outreach office is looking for student leaders to serve as campus tour guides. Students will get paid for these positions and will be trained. If interested, please respond to Hyon Chu directly to let her know that you are interested. 
  • OCL has reached out to HEFAS for a “know your rights” presentation at senate. We are working out the details and expecting HEFAS to make this presentation at next week’s senate meeting.
• Amy
  • Excited to work with the team.
• Maritza
  • If you are trying to book space for your events, please use the special event request form to ensure that your requests do not get lost.
• Dennis
  • Please make sure to promote student elections and get the word out.
  • Will be attending a meeting about student printing with ETS next week. If any of you have feedback about the current e-printer system or its location, please let me know so I can forward them.

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Senate Announcements

• Jacob: If you are interested in running in the elections, please make sure you go up to the podium to introduce yourself at the end of the meeting.
• Min: Club day was a success, thank you to all DASG senate and interns. Dayna and Maritza are working very hard to get the student assistant position filled. There are 33 applications and we are currently working on interviewing eligible applicants.

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Student Trustee Announcements

• Elora: Attended conference last week, brought up the potential of getting Gemini AI access to De Anza Students.

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External Shared Governance Committee Reports

• Jacob: Academic senate met on Wednesday, gave feedback about AI integration in classrooms, pros and cons. Talked about time block schedule that stays consistent from quarter to quarter. 
• Thin Thida: Shared FY 2026-27 Governor’s proposed budget updates. Measure G team is currently working with architects on preliminary drawings of the new Creative Arts Building. Architects plan on meeting with the departments that will be in the building to discuss details of how they want the layout. After these details have been decided, the building will be built around mid 2027.
• Zander: Resource Allocation and Program Planning (RAPP) has started the process of program reviews and recommending to hire a pride counselor for a year.

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Internal DASG Committee Reports

• Jacob: Marketing is continuing to advertise elections, starting to think about promotion for winter ball, doing promotion for flea market coming up.
• Ryan: Winter ball event coming up Friday, February 20th from 11am-6pm, if you would like to volunteer, there will be a pre-registration form for all senators sent through discord. Please reach out to me for more information or if you would like to volunteer.
• Kyle: Finance approved budget deliberation drafts. 

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Consent Calendar

• None

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Business Item 1

Honors Program Funding Request

• John Francis presented about the honors program and the usage of the funding. 
  • Q: has DASG funded honors in the past?
    A: DASG has been supporting the honors program for many years. Honors program has budget requests for 24-25, but not the current fiscal year. Honors had a period of of time when they did not have a coordinator, that may explain some of the gaps in funding requests. 
  • Q: Will Honors have the symposium at Stanford, and how will that be funded?
    A: Yes we will have the honors symposium at Stanford, and that will be funded using alternative sources outside of DASG. We want to expand the program to include more opportunities for students, which is why we are asking for assistance from DASG.
• Salvadore motions to approve $700 for the De Anza Honors Program from Special Allocations, with $150 for Supplies (4010), $300 for Promotional Items (4013), and $250 for Printing (4060). 
• Zander seconds, No objections. Senate unanimously approved. 

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Public Comments

• None

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Advisor Announcement

• None

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Introduction of prospective senators and executive elections candidates

• Allissa Lo
• Madhumitha Balaji
• Ravi Purnama
• Yejin Ahn, 
• Benn Nguyen
• Caleb Man
• Leo Chao

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Adjournment

• Jayven adjourned the meeting at  4:41 PM.