General Meeting Information

Date: March 20, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Student Council Chambers and Zoom

  • Agenda

    Time Topic Purpose Discussion Leader

    4:00 PM

    Call to Order

    I/D

    • Lydia Wong

    4:00 PM

    Roll Call

    I/D/A

    • Maliah Kenoly

    4:01 PM

    Approval of Minutes

      • March 13, 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

    • Javier Gomez Tagle

    4:24 PM

    External Shared Governance Committee Reports

    I

    • Senators

    4:29 PM

    Internal DASG Committee Reports

    • Senators

    Consent Calendar

    1. Appoint Anish Shamarao as the DASG Bike Program Coordinator. 
    2. Appoint Chun Ho Li as the DASG Events Coordinator. 
    3. Appoint Javin Ku as the DASG Social Media Officer. 
    4. Appoint Audrey Lee as Intern on the Marketing Committee.
    5. Appoint Peter Chen as Intern on the Marketing Committee.
    6. Appoint Alan Flores as Intern on the Marketing Committee.
    7. Appoint Aitenir Kanatbekov as Intern on the Finance Committee.
    8. Remove Hongming (Arvin) Liu as Intern from the Finance Committee.

    D/A

    • Senators

    4:29 PM

    Business Item 1

    Affirm Anish Shamarao, Chun Ho Li, and Javin Ku as DASG Senators 

    This item is to appoint Anish Shamarao, Chun Ho Li, and Javin Ku as Senators of the DASG Senate. 

    DASG Oath of Office

    Time: 5 minutes

    A

    • Lydia Wong

    4:34 PM

    Business Item 2

    Appeal of the Election Committee’s Decision on Jennifer Kava 

    This item is to hear candidate Jennifer Kava’s (Ballot #6) appeal of the Election Committee’s decision to disqualify this candidate, and to act if necessary.  

    Student Election Complaint Form - Jennifer Kava - 1

    Student Election Complaint Form - Jennifer Kava - 2

    Student Election Complaint Form - Jennifer Kava - 3

    Student Election Complaint Form - Jennifer Kava - 4

    Time: 25 Minutes 

    I/D/A

    • Jennifer Kava 

    4:59 PM

    Business Item 3

    Appeal of the Election Committee’s Decision on Cecilia Ji  

    This item is to hear candidate Cecilia Ji’s (Ballot #23) appeal of the Election Committee’s decision to disqualify this candidate, and to act if necessary.  

    Student Election Complaint Form - Cecillia Ji - 1

    Student Election Complaint Form - Cecillia Ji - 2

    Student Election Complaint Form - Cecillia Ji - 3

    Time: 25 Minutes 

    I/D/A

    • Cecilia Ji 

    5:24 PM

    Business Item 4

    Proposed Internal Officer Senate Structural Changes  

    This item is to present, discuss, and possibly approve Senate changes regarding Internal Officer positions. The proposal is to eliminate all Internal Officer Vice Chair positions and have an Internal Officer within the Committee appointed within the Committee as Vice Chair. This item is also to allow approval of additions or removals of any other Internal Officer positions as necessary to allow Committees to continue functioning at the same level.  

    Time: 30 Minutes 

    I/D/A

    • Lydia Wong

    5:54 PM

    Business Item 5

    DASG Environmental Sustainability Code 

    This item is to review and discuss the revised DASG Environmental Sustainability Code.

    DASG Environmental Sustainability Code - Proposed Changes | Winter-Spring 2024

    DASG Environmental Sustainability Code - Proposed Changes | Winter-Spring 2024

    Time: 10 minutes

    I/D

    • Adrian Sedgwick
    • Dennis Shannakian 
    6:04 PM

    Public Comments

    I

    • All

    6:09 PM

    Advisor Announcements 

    I

    • Advisors

    6:14 PM

    Adjournment

    A

    • Lydia Wong

    A = Action
    D = Discussion
    I = Information

  • Minutes

    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 (4:07)            
    4 Rabbani Hannah x            
    5 Khieu Katelyn x            
    6 Shaikh Asiya x            
    7 Ng Joel   x (4:20)          
    8 Gomez Tagle Javier            
    9 Aguilar Arianna   x (4:12) x        
    10 Ang Ian x            
    11 Naung Ted x            
    12 Cheng Megan x            
    14 Furagganan Benjamin            
    15 Kuppa Virinchi x            
    16 Lee Leondre x            
    18 Lopez Christopher Blu x            
    19 Mundanilkunathil Aaron   x (4:12)          
    21 Randhawa Reeya x            
    22 Sedgwick Adrian x            
    23 Sheriff Jannah x (4:07)            
    24 Tandiary Jason            
    25 Turangan Nicholas x (4:07)            
    26 Wang Kate x (4:07)            
    27 Fernandes Matthew x            
    28 Rios Daniela     x        
    29 Estrada-Nakamatsu Matsuko x            
    30 Nam Eddie  x            
      Shamarao Anish x            
      Ku Javin x            
      Ho Li Chun x            

    Approval of Minutes

    • Moved by Virinchi, seconded by Katelyn. 
    • No objections. 


    Public Comments

    • Reeya: Mental Health Dog Event. 

    Advisor Announcements

    • Hyon Chu: Have a safe Spring Break!
    • Dennis: If you have not already submitted the link for the scholarship rubric; 10pm at the latest. If not in by tonight, some of the distribution items will receive a zero otherwise we cannot do the evaluation. 


    Senate Announcements

    • None


    Student Trustee Announcements

    • Javier: Board of Trustees met, promotion of district level were nominated for classified employee of the year at the California College Chancellor's Office. Student Health Fee will increase from $17 to $20 as a result of inflation and to cover costs of goods/labor, two academic advisors as well as one faculty & equipment position. 

    External Shared Governance Committee Reports

    • Curriculum: Discussed deadlines; 60 courses initialized. Read through ASCCC; want to know student opinions on new De Anza GE Patterns and/or existing requirements. 
    • RAPP: Approved emergency request criteria, group work. 
    • Chancellor's Advisory Council: Met on 3/15 and discussed HEFAS campus policy; Immigration enforcement officials; limiting ICE officials to the full extent. Discussed AP guidelines; collecting information on students' immigration status; discussed AP 2410. 
    • De Anza Academic Senate: Met on 3/18, discussed Measure G allocations; board meeting on 4/01.


    Internal DASG Committee Reports

    • None

    Consent Calendar

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


    Business Item 1

    Affirm Anish Shamarao, Javin Ku and Chun Ho Li as DASG Senator. 

    • Eddie took the oath for DASG Senate for the term of June 14, 2023 - June 12, 2024. 
    • Lydia presented the item to the new DASG Senators. 

    Business Item 2

    Appeal of Jennifer Kava

    • Candidate declined to move forward with the appeal. 


    Business Item 3

    Appeal of the Election Committee's Decision on Cecillia Ji 

    • Ted Naung and Isaac Tsang presented the item. 
    • Cecillia provided a statement. 
    • Aaron motions to extend by 10 minutes.
    • Seconded by Asiya. 
    # 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 Yes
    7 Ng Joel No
    8 Gomez Tagle Javier No
    9 Aguilar Arianna Yes
    10 Ang Ian No
    11 Naung Ted Yes
    12 Cheng Megan Yes
    14 Furagganan Benjamin No
    15 Kuppa Virinchi Yes
    16 Lee Leondre No
    18 Lopez Christopher Blu No
    19 Mundanilkunathil Aaron Yes
    21 Randhawa Reeya No
    22 Sedgwick Adrian Yes
    23 Sheriff Jannah Yes
    24 Tandiary Jason No
    25 Turangan Nicholas No
    26 Wang Kate No
    27 Fernandes Matthew Yes
    28 Rios Daniela
    29 Estrada-Nakamatsu Matsuko Yes
    30 Nam Eddie  Yes
      Shamarao Anish No
      Ku Javin No
      Ho Li Chun No
    Yes - 13 No - 15
    Cecillia Ji remains disqualified from the 24-25 DASG Elections. 

    Notes:

    • Candidate cannot be present while students are voting. 

    Business Item 4

    Proposed Internal Officer Senate Structural Changes

    • Lydia presented the item. 
    • Izat motioned to approve the removal of the Vice Chair position from DASG for the 24-25 year for the committee. 
    • Seconded by Virinchi, no objections. 
    • Katelyn Motion to add a social media officer position to the Martketing Committee for the DASG 2024-2025 year. 
    • Seconded by Isaac, no objections. 
    • Discussion over ES Coordinator as well as additonal committees took place. 

    Business Item 5

    DASG Environmental Sustainability Code 

    • Adrian and Dennis presented the item. 
    • Adrian recommended that the name for the Environmental and Sustainability Title is changed. 
      • Change the name of vice chair to an outreach officer. 
    • Suggestion to consider removing one of the ES coordinators present. 


    Poll taken below: 

    • 2 Internal Officer positions for ES next year. Total: 21
    • 3 ES Internal Officer positions for ES next year. Total: 5

    Public Comments 

    • Aaron: Bringing up the tone used with the public as well as Cecillia during the appeal. Aaron feels that everyone represents DASG. 
    • Hannah: Student Election Complaint Forms: As student leaders, we are representing students and forget that we are also students as well. 
    • Jannah: Change the system of how we work with students; felt like students were being humiliated and interegated. 
    • Matthew: Adjust the code to outline how the appeal process should look like. 
    • Dennis: Review your codes to see what needs to be adjusted; we will be looking at the codes as well as the ByLaws. Last Senate meeting, was very noisy and we need to be professional as well as not having side conversations. 
    • Arianna: For the DASG Special Meeting, Brian was spoken to in a negative way and ultimately does not represent DASG in a positive light. 
    • Asiya: When people are coming to speak, we need to have decorum when students are speaking. Try to pay attention to the speakers, look at them, show them that we are actually speaking. 
    • Virinchi: Limited input from the advisors; make decisions based on what is in front of us. 

    Advisor Announcements

    • Hyon Chu:  Thanks to everyone for making their comments. Please show up on time! Submit senator feedback on time, tonight before midnight. 
    • Maliah: Appreciates everyone's comments regarding the candidate process and maintaining that level of integrity and holding each other accountable; it's not always easy to do when it's your fellow peers. 


    Adjournment 

    • Lydia adjourned the meeting at  5:47 PM. 

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