General Meeting Information
Date: February 18,
2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Student Council Chambers (SCC) and Zoom
Zoom Information
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Agenda
Time Topic Purpose Discussion Leader 4:00 PM
Call to Order
A
- Jayven Huang
4:00 PM
Roll Call
A
- Amy Huang (DASG Secretary)
4:02 PM
Approval of Minutes
- February 11, 2026
I/D/A
- Senators
4:05 PM
Public Comments
I
- All
4:10 PM
Budgeter Comments
Please Note: This segment of the meeting is reserved for 2026-2027 DASG Budget Requestors to comment on their own requests. Each Program or DASG Account, not individual person, will be allowed up to two (2) minutes maximum to speak on their own funding request.
2026-2027 DASG Budgeter Comments Sign-up Form
The Sign-up form will open at 3:45 PM the day of the meeting. Programs or DASG Accounts will be called in order of signing-in.
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- 2026-2027 Budgeters
5:10 PM
Advisor Announcements
I
- Advisors
5:15 PM
Senate Announcements
I
- Senators
5:20 PM
Student Trustee Announcements
I
- Vacant
5:25 PM
External Shared Governance Committee Reports
I
- Senators
5:30 PM
Internal DASG Committee Reports
I
- Senators
5:35 PM
Consent Calendar
D/A
- Senators
5:35 PM Business Item # 1
Call for Proposals: De Anza Partners in Learning Conference 2026
This item is to discuss De Anza Partner in Learning Conference 2026.
Time: 15 minutes
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- Sal Breiter
5:50 PM Business Item # 2
2026-2027 DASG Budget – Fund 46 (DASG Student Representation Fund) - Second (2nd) Vote
This item is to discuss and approve the allocations for the 2026-2027 DASG Budget for Fund 46 (DASG Student Representation Fund) totaling $81,778.71.
2026-2027 DASG Student Rep Fee Budget Expense (Fund 46) - DRAFT
Time: 30 minutes
I/D/A
- DASG Finance Committee
6:20 PM Business Item # 3
2026-2027 DASG Budget – Fund 41 (DASG General Fund) - First (1st) Vote
This item is to discuss and approve the allocations for the 2026-2027 DASG Budget for Fund 41 (DASG General Fund) totaling $1,855,708.30.
2026-2027 DASG General Budget Expense (Fund 41) - DRAFT
Time: 120 minutes
I/D/A
- DASG Finance Committee
8:20 PM Public Comments
I
- All
8:25 PM Advisor Announcements
I
- Advisors
8:30 PM Introduction of Prospective Senators and Executive Election Candidates
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- Prospective Senators
- Executive Election Candidates
8:35 PM Adjournment
A
- Jayven Huang
A = Action
D = Discussion
I = Information -
Minutes
Call to Order
- Jayven called the meeting to order at 4:07PM.
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 x 6:15 5 Tran Hoang Anh Thu x x 6:15 6 Hua Joey x x 4:50 7 Vongnakhone Myles x 6:15 8 Pyae Min x x 6:30 9 Cacchione Francesca Pia x 10 Manglona Gabe x 11 Jevaria Suyash x 12 Lam Caitlin x 13 Brignetti Ethan x 14 Tai Audrey x x 6:15 15 Vahidi Ben x 16 Saini Lakshya x x 6:15 17 Yi Ryan x 18 Krawez Kyle x 19 Kao Jacob x 20 Soe Thin Thida x 21 Faisal Aisyah x 22 Chen Jacob x x 6:15 23 Lieng Tram x x 6:15 24 Guerrero Fernandez Dali x 25 Pedroza Salvador x 26 Ashebr Blen x 27 Serrano Brandon x 28 Blackman Zander x
Approval of Minutes
February 11, 2026
- Jacob C. motioned to approve, Ryan seconded, no objection, motion passed.
Public Comments
- None
Budgeter Comments
- None
Advisor Announcements
- Dayna: The De Anza Student Government will be hosting its first-ever “Lights Out” event this Friday, Feb. 20, from 6-8 p.m., in Conference Rooms A&B. There will be games, a DJ, free food and a giveaway where students have the chance to win DASG swag and other popular items. We are still accepting RSVPs.
Senate Announcements
- James: New Student Trustee will be Francesca for 1 board meeting in March. The newly elected trustee will start early on their term and attend the April meetings and onwards.
- Dali: Happy Lunar New Year, happy Ash Wendesday, and happy Ramadan!
Student Trustee Announcements
- Vacant.
External Shared Governance Committee Reports
- None.
Internal DASG Committee reports
- Jacob Chen: Marketing is pushing out information for the lights out event
- James: The Presidential Debate and Candidate Introductions will be happening on Monday, February 23rd 11:30am-2:30pm. We are taking any debate question suggestions from senators, a Microsoft forms will be sent out from elections to senators.
- Min: On the topic of the Presidential Debate, immediately after the Presidential Debate, We will have our ICC rep meeting from 1:30pm-2:30pm. We will allow all candidates for the Chair of ICC to campaign at this meeting. Additionally, all other ICC Chair applications are open for next year.
- Jayven: Executive Advisory discussed potential town halls and themes.
Consent Calendar
- None.
Business Item 1
Call for Proposals: De Anza Partners in Learning Conference 2026
- Min move to table this item indefinitely, Salvador seconds. All in favor, motion passes.
Business Item 2
2026-2027 DASG Budget – Fund 46 (DASG Student Representation Fund) - Second (2nd) Vote
- The Finance Committee presented an overview of the Fund 46 budget.
- Jacob K motions to approve Fund 46, Ethan seconds. Moved into discussion.
- Dali: Appreciate the work that Finance did.
- Jacob K moves to end discussion, Blen seconds, all in favor. discussion ends
- Votes called: motion to approve fund 46
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen Yes Alan Ma Yes Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Yes Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Yes Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Yes Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Yes Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Yes Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Yes Audrey Tai Yes Ben Vahidi Yes Ryan Yi Yes - 24 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain, 4 not present
- Motion passes.
Business Item 3
2026-2027 DASG Budget – Fund 41 (DASG General Fund) - First (1st) Vote
- Blen motions to increase the 41-51173 DASG environmental sustainability supplies by $150, Salvador seconds. moved into discussion.
- Blen: Environmental sustainability is working on projects such as clothing drive, and they do need supplies such as pick up bins. This budget increase would be good for the committee.
- Thin motions to end discussion, Ryan seconds. All in favor.
- Votes called: Motions to increase the DASG environmental sustinability supplies by $150
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen Yes Alan Ma Yes Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Yes Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Yes Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen No Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Yes Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Yes Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Yes Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi Yes Ryan Yi Yes - 22 yes, 1 no, 0 abstain, 5 not present
- Motion passes.
- Min moves to increase 41-53100 ICC food budget by $3000 to a total of $4000. Salvador seconds. Moved into discussion.
- Min: we spent $850 so far and that’s only club day without without taking into account of cultural day. In addition, we also have spring carnival planned. Our finance team currently splits the food budget into each quarter to stay on track. Increasing this budget would give us more flexibility for better events.
- Jacob Chen motions to end discussion, Salvador seconds.
- Votes called: Motion increase the ICC budget to $4000 for food
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma Yes Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Yes Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Yes Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Yes Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini No Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Yes Audrey Tai Yes Ben Vahidi Yes Ryan Yi No - 20 yes, 3 no, 0 abstain, 5 not present
- Motion passes.
- Min motions to increase the 41-53100 ICC supplies budget to $3000, Jacob Chen seconds. Moved into discussion
- Min: We would like to make new tri-fold storage, we looked into it and the stroage solution was expensive. It would be a one-time purchase.
- Jacob K.: The $2000 that was approved by finance should be sufficient, the estimated $500 would only be 1/4 of your current supplies budget. What other uses does this fund have?
- Dennis: ICC supplies are used for all their events, meetings, such as decorations, clipboards, etc.
- Min: So far, we have expensed money on club storage room containers, A-frames, dry erase markers, stickers and photocards for welcome day, tabling items for club day.
- Salvador: Would it be easier if you can just request for special allocation for this year instead of putting it towards next year’s budget. You would be able to use it sooner, and it would be a one time allocation instead of recurring.
- Jacob K: You should be able to push a $500 request through Finance for this year.
- Salvador motions to end discussion, Ryan seconds.
- Votes called:
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae No Blen Ashebr No Zander Blackman No Ethan Brignetti No Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen No Aisyah Faisal No Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao No Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam No Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza No Lakshya Saini Yes Brandon Serrano No Thin Thida Soe No Audrey Tai No Ben Vahidi No Ryan Yi No - 7 yes (30.43%), 16 no (69.56%), 0 abstain, 5 not present
- Motion fails.
- Min motions to increase the ICC supplies by $500. Jacob Chen seconds. moved into discussion.
- Salvador moves to end discussion, Thin seconds.
- Votes called:
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen Yes Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Yes Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman No Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Yes Aisyah Faisal No Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao No Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Yes Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza No Lakshya Saini Yes Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe No Audrey Tai No Ben Vahidi No Ryan Yi Yes - 15 yes (65.22%), 8 no (34.78%), 0 abstain, 5 not present
- Motion fails.
- Min motions to increase the ICC student assistant payroll by $4000, seconded by Jacob
Chen. Moved into discussions.
- Min: It's essential that we fund the ICC student assistant position. They review agendas and minutes of 90+ clubs, at least 3 meetings per quarter. Track attendance for all ICC rep meetings. Manage the quarterly check-in form. They have club day duties, and help review club constitutions, financial rosters, officer eligibility. Many of these tasks include manually putting in the CWID and making sure they're eligible. Manage event request forms and meeting room booking requests, budget requests. They also communicate with active clubs prospective clubs and inactive clubs that are seeking reinstatement. And currently, everything is managed manually using Excel. Which is pretty time-consuming. There is no centralized system across 90+ club for status updates. ICC officers lack access to the club list website and are unable to see financial rosters, so we cannot help out the advisor and secretary. The ICC student assistant would be filling in those gaps to help the operations run smoothly.
- Thin moves to end discussion, Min seconds.
- Votes called: Motion increase the ICC student assistant payroll by $4000, from $12,000 to $16,000.
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Yes Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Yes Aisyah Faisal Not Present Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao No Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Yes Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Yes Brandon Serrano No Thin Thida Soe No Audrey Tai Yes Ben Vahidi No Ryan Yi Yes - 16 yes (72.73%), 6 no (27.27%), 0 abstain, 6 not present
- Motion passes.
- Dali motions to add $3000 to professional services to the Office of Equity account, Salvador seconds. Moved to Discussions.
- Dali: Office of Equity is looking into having one "know your rights" training every quarter, so having a budget increase would benefit the entire campus population. We can use the increased amount to cover the legal counsel, speaker, etc.
- Dali moves to end discussion, Salvador seconds.
- Votes called: add $3,000 to Prof Serv for Equity
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Yes Hoang Anh Thu Tran Yes Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Yes Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Yes Tram Lieng Yes Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Yes Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe No Audrey Tai Yes Ben Vahidi Not Present Ryan Yi No - 17 yes (80.95%), 4 no (19.05%), 0 abstain, 7 not present.
- Motion passes.
- Salvador motions to move the introduction of prospective senators and election candidates to before item 3, Thin seconds.
- Jayven recesses meeting at 6:12 until 6:45.
- Jayven calls the meeting back into order at 6:50pm.
- Roll call:
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# Last First Present 1 Huang Jayven x 2 Nguyen James x 3 Ma Alan x 4 Ho Chrissy 5 Tran Hoang Anh Thu 6 Hua Joey 7 Vongnakhone Myles x 8 Pyae Min 9 Cacchione Francesca Pia 10 Manglona Gabe x 11 Jevaria Suyash 12 Lam Caitlin 13 Brignetti Ethan x 14 Tai Audrey 15 Vahidi Ben x 16 Saini Lakshya 17 Yi Ryan x 18 Krawez Kyle 19 Kao Jacob x 20 Soe Thin Thida x 21 Faisal Aisyah x 22 Chen Jacob 23 Lieng Tram 24 Guerrero Fernandez Dali x 25 Pedroza Salvador x 26 Ashebr Blen x 27 Serrano Brandon x 28 Blackman Zander x - Quorum Met. Meeting proceeds.
- Salvador motions to increase the La Voz printing budget to $8000, seconded by James. Moved into discussion.
- Salvador moves to end discussion, seconded by james. votes called: motions to increase the La Voz printing budget to $8000
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Not Present Hoang Anh Thu Tran Not Present Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone No Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Not Present Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao No Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Not Present Tram Lieng Not Present Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Not Present Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Not Present Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi No Ryan Yi No - 9 yes (60%), 6 no (40%), 0 abstain, 13 not present.
- Motion fails.
- Dali motions to add $2100 to professional services, up to $8600, Salvador seconds. Moved into discussion
- Jacob Kao moves to end discussion, Ryan seconds.
- Votes called: Add $2100 to professional services, up to 8600
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Not Present Hoang Anh Thu Tran Not Present Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone No Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Not Present Aisyah Faisal No Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao No Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Not Present Tram Lieng Not Present Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Not Present Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe No Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi No Ryan Yi No - 8 yes, 8 no, 0 abstain, 12 not present
- Motion fails.
- Dali moves to fund the promise program $1000 in refreshments, Thin seconds. Moved into discussion.
- Thin moves to end discussion, Salvador seconds.
- Votes called: fund the promise program $1000 in food and refreshments
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma Yes Chrissy Ho Not Present Hoang Anh Thu Tran Not Present Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Yes Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Not Present Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Not Present Tram Lieng Not Present Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Not Present Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Yes Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi Yes Ryan Yi Yes - 15 yes, 1 no, 0 abstain, 12 not present.
- Dali moves to increase the women’s center food/refreshments by $1500 to $3300. Moved into discussion.
- Thin moves to end discussion, Brandon seconds.
- Votes called: increase the women’s center food/refreshments by 1500 to 3300
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Not Present Hoang Anh Thu Tran Not Present Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Not Present Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Not Present Aisyah Faisal No Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao No Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Not Present Tram Lieng Not Present Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Not Present Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe No Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi No Ryan Yi Yes - 9 yes (60%), 6 no (30%), 0 abstain, 13 not present
- Motion fails.
- Dali moves to increase the women’s center food/refreshments by $1000 to $2800. Moved into discussion.
- Ryan moves to end discussion, Blen seconds.
- Votes called: increase the women’s center food/refreshments by 1000 to 2800
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen No Alan Ma No Chrissy Ho Not Present Hoang Anh Thu Tran Not Present Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Yes Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Not Present Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Not Present Tram Lieng Not Present Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Not Present Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Yes Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi Yes Ryan Yi Yes - 14 yes, 2 no, 0 abstain, 12 not present
- Motion passes.
- James motion to approve the Fund 41, Blen seconds.
- Votes called: Approve fund 41 for first vote
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First Last Vote Jayven Huang Yes James Nguyen Yes Alan Ma Yes Chrissy Ho Not Present Hoang Anh Thu Tran Not Present Joey Hua Not Present Myles Vongnakhone Yes Min Pyae Not Present Blen Ashebr Yes Zander Blackman Yes Ethan Brignetti Yes Francesca Pia Cacchione Not Present Jacob Chen Not Present Aisyah Faisal Yes Dali Guerrero Fernandez Yes Suyash Jevaria Not Present Sing (Jacob) Kao Yes Kyle Krawez Not Present Caitlin Lam Not Present Tram Lieng Not Present Gabe Manglona Yes Salvador Pedroza Yes Lakshya Saini Not Present Brandon Serrano Yes Thin Thida Soe Yes Audrey Tai Not Present Ben Vahidi Yes Ryan Yi Yes - 16 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain, 12 not present.
- Motion passed. 1st vote complete.
Public Comments
- Thin: thank you so much for staying until the end, we appreciate you guys.
Advisor Announcement
- Amy: The Women's Resource and Advocacy Center is having its grand opening on March 4, 2026 from 1-:30am-3pm. It's going to be an all day open house, so please feel free to stop by whenever you are free.
- Hyon Chu: Thank you for your excellent leadership and commitment through this budget deliberation.
Introduction of prospective senators and executive elections candidates
- Arin Kumar
- Allissa Lo
- James Yoshida
- Eaint Nay Chi Khin
- christina asegedom
- Ha Le
- Vincent Galdamez
Adjournment
- Jayven adjourned the meeting at 8:34PM.