March 11, 2026

Call to Order

• Jayven called the meeting to order at 4:02PM. 

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Roll Call

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

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Approval of Minutes

March 4th, 2026

• Salvador motioned to approve, Ryan seconded, no objection, motion passed.

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Public Comments

• Jayven: James and Francesca on leave until further notice 

• Gavin Rust: La Voz won awards at San Francisco national contest. Thanking DASG for funding. 46 awards in 3 contests. 

• Gabe Manglona: My name is Gabe Maglona, I am the current Public Policy Liaison, and I want to be heard loud and clear on this. About one hour ago, I was informed by former Chair of Administration James Nguyen that he was unexpectedly removed from his position as Chair of Admin and will not be coming back as part of the Senate. Shortly afterwards, I heard from a fellow senator that both Nguyen and Election Commissioner Francesca Cacchione were put on leave. I would like to inquire as to why the entire administration committee, consisting of Chair of Administration James Nguyen and Election Commissioner Francesca Cacchione, were removed without my knowledge. As a fellow senator belonging to the Administration Committee, I believe it would have been not just reasonable but absolutely expected that I be brought into the loop sooner. I believe it is simply unacceptable that I was not informed of such a drastic update to my entire committee being removed until nearly an hour before the Senate meeting, and not even by any advisors, but by my fellow senators. Moreover, I would appreciate information as to why the decision to remove the entire administration committee was made ahead of the Senate reviewing an election-related appeal, and why it was made before the elections could be certified. Not only is it rude and unreasonable that a member of the administration committee was left in the dark as the rest of his committee was removed; I also find it very unreasonable that this happened right before the certification of elections. The most important role of the Administration Committee. Unless proven otherwise, I will consider this to be a miscommunication at best, and blatant exclusion at worst. I yield my time.
• Daisy Castillo: next week 10:00pm-3:00pm Vida and Chill event at east cottage, near flint garage.

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Advisor Announcements

• Hyon Chu: this is our last meeting of winter quarter, thank you for your passion. Some of your peers may be on leave, as senators, it’s important to know that there are processes on campus that are confidential. Just because it’s not done in the way you hope to have recieved the messages, doesn’t mean there’s any kind of wrongful intent behind it. As leaders of this group, please uphold our standards of student conduct, and the integrity of this association, and not gossip. If you have questions, you can come to me directly. I cannot share everything, but before we come to a judgement, please be reflective.

• Dayna: Thank you for everyone’s hard work today at the mini flea market. Thanks, the senate for all of their participation.

• Dennis: Anytime students ask for advice, please make sure you give out accurate information. Talk to your advisors to clarify. 

• Maritza: Reminder for everyone, if you made any purchases, please make sure you submit your requisitions asap, no later than the end of the quarter. Maritza will be out of office next week. Please email if there is a time-sensitive matter.

• Amy: Departing from my role, thank you for the quarter.

• Melissa: Will be taking over the Admin I role, happy to work with senate!

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Senate Announcements

• None

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Student Trustee Announcements

• Vacant

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External Shared Governance Committee Reports

• Jacob Chen: Academic Senate talked about parking lots issues.

• Gabe: Classified Senate had a discussion about the De Anza Ride program, which is a way for students who don’t have a ride can ride with students who have extra seats. Similar to carpool Uber.

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Internal DASG Committee reports

• Thu: Marketing is working on 2026-2027 DASG intern application; executive elections results will be posted when the results are out. Internal application post is ready, waiting on external election result. Marketing requests we received one from ES and Two from SRE: clothing drives, spring resource fair and wellness check-in.

• Chrissy- Spring Resource Fair will take place on the 14th of April, Volunteer forms to be sent out. On Friday the 20th, SRE's having a community wellness check-in.

• ICC and DASG events are holding Spring Carnival next quarter on May 18th.

• Contact Ryan Yi for field hours.

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Consent Calendar

• Salvador motion to approve, Thin seconds. All in favor, Consent calendar approved.

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Business Item # 1

Recognition of Retiree: Lisa Kirk

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Business Item # 2

Oath of Office

• Jasmine Bremner, Kaitlynn Chen, and Lisa Qian sworn in as Senators.

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Business Item # 3 

Resource Allocation and Program Planning (RAPP) Subcommittee Proposals

• RAPP presented their Presentation 
• Discussion occured
  • Q: Blen - number of student representatives going up or down
  • A: More of a recommendation that the 5 students- 1 student per subcommittee and 3 students on RAPP. 
  • Q: The senators currently in RAPP will be in the sub committees? A: It could be we would find a way to lessen the work load and make more efficient 
  • Q: If students are taking different subcommittee positions what would the meetings look like? Multiple meetings? Would cause more workload?
  • A: RAPP is every Tuesday 10am – strategically the subcommittees would meet at the same time every other week maybe. We would structure it strategically

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Business Item # 4

Elections Appeal: Allissa Lo 

• Jayven - I would like Senator to motion this item to be tabled or to be referred back to the committee due to Brown act violation. Brown Act explicitly prohibits the use of direct communication, personal intermediaries, or technological device that is employed by a majority of the members of the legislative body to develop a collective coherence as to action to be taken on an item by the member of the legislative body.
• Jacob C. motions to refer this item back to committee. No seconds motion failed. 
• Clarification: There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, advisors cannot discuss everything per FERPA. We do not have the majority of administration committee Here and therefore not ready to discuss this item as a senate. 

• Jayven called for 5 Minute recess.
• Jayven called meeting into order 5:34pm
• Kyle motions to table item until March 18 at 4pm, Dali seconds. nays observed, blind votes called:
• Motion: Table item until March 18 at 4pm

First	Last	Vote
Jayven	Huang	No
Alan	Ma	Yes
Chrissy	Ho	Not Present
Hoang Anh Thu	Tran	No
Myles	Vongnakhone	No
Min	Pyae	Yes
Blen	Ashebr	Yes
Zander	Blackman	No
Ethan	Brignetti	No
Kaitlynn	Chen	Abstain
Jacob	Chen	Yes
Aisyah	Faisal	Abstain
Dali	Guerrero Fernandez	Yes
Sing (Jacob)	Kao	Yes
Kyle	Krawez	Yes
Caitlin	Lam	Yes
Tram	Lieng	No
Gabe	Manglona	No
Salvador	Pedroza	Yes
Brandon	Serrano	Yes
Thin Thida	Soe	No
Audrey	Tai	No
Ryan	Yi	No
Lisa	Qian	Yes
Jasmine	Bremner	Abstain

Total Tally:

Yes	11	52.38%
No	10	47.62%
Abstain	3
Not Present	1	96.43% Present

• Kyle motions to “table the meeting until the next senate meeting”, Dali seconded
• Salvador motions to amend the motion on the floor “table the meeting until the next senate meeting before the end of winter quarter”, Dali seconded
• Ethan moves to end discussion, Jacob C. seconds. all in favor, motion passed
• motion on floor "table the meeting until the next senate meeting before the end of winter quarter”, blind votes called

First	Last	Vote
Jayven	Huang	Yes
Alan	Ma	No
Chrissy	Ho	Not Present
Hoang Anh Thu	Tran	No
Myles	Vongnakhone	No
Min	Pyae	Yes
Blen	Ashebr	Yes
Zander	Blackman	No
Ethan	Brignetti	Yes
Kaitlynn	Chen	No
Jacob	Chen	yes
Aisyah	Faisal	Yes
Dali	Guerrero Fernandez	No
Sing (Jacob)	Kao	No
Kyle	Krawez	No
Caitlin	Lam	No
Tram	Lieng	Yes
Gabe	Manglona	No
Salvador	Pedroza	No
Brandon	Serrano	Yes
Thin Thida	Soe	Not Present
Audrey	Tai	No
Ryan	Yi	No
Lisa	Qian	No
Jasmine	Bremner	No

Total Tally

Yes	8	38.10%
No	13	61.90%
Abstain	0
Not Present	2	92.86% Present

• Motion failed.
• Alan motions to reconsider “table item until March 18th until 4pm”, Min seconds. All in favor said aye. no nays observed.
• Kyle motions to end discussion, Ethan seconds.
• motion: “table item until March 18 until 4pm”, all in favor, motion passes.
• Item postponed to next week’s special meeting.
• Jayven: We will let everyone know once we get the special meeting Agenda out. 

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Public Comments

• None.

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Advisor Announcements

• Maritza: Appreciate the engaged senate.

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Adjournment

• Jayven adjourns the meeting at 6:56pm.