General Meeting Information

Date: March 12, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Student Council Chambers and Zoom

Zoom Information

  • Meeting ID: 826 0620 3899
  • Passcode: 680968
  • Meeting URL: https://fhda-edu.zoom.us/j/82606203899?pwd=FbLAn0Pymu3Uc5awenpx4yO4HsUGVe.1
  • Link: Click Here for the Zoom Meeting

  • Agenda

    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

    • March 5, 2025
    • Amended minutes: 3/5, 1/22

    I/D/A
    • Senators

    4:02 PM

    Public Comments

    I
    • All

    4:07 PM

    Advisor Announcements

    I
    • Advisors

    4:12 PM

    Senate Announcements

    I
    • Senators

    4:17 PM

    Student Trustee Announcements

    I
    • Iris Li

    4:22 PM

    External Shared Governance Committee Reports

    I
    • Senators

    4:27 PM

    Internal DASG Committee Reports

    I 
    • Senators

    4:32 PM

    Consent Calendar

    1. Remove Shiqi Wang as the Chair of Events starting Spring Quarter

    2. Appoint Anish Shamarao as the Chair of Events starting Spring Quarter

    D/A
    • Senators

    4:34 PM

    Business Item 1

    Campus-Wide Equity Rubric Endorsement

    This item is to discuss the Equity Rubric created by the Office of Equity and potentially endorse its use.

    Link to document

    Time: 30 minutes

    		 I/D/A
    • Adriana Garcia

    5:04 PM

    Business Item 2

    Farewell and Appreciation from Shiqi

    Shiqi will share reflections on her time in DASG Senate, express gratitude to fellow senators and advisors, and give a very short farewell speech before departing at the end of the quarter.

    Time: 10 minutes

    		 I
    • Shiqi Wang
    5:14 PM

    Public Comments

    I
    • All
    5:19 PM

    Advisor Announcements 

    I
    • Advisors
    5:24 PM

    Introduction of Prospective Senators

    I
    • Prospective Senators
    5:29 PM

    Adjournment

    A
    • Luca Paliska

    A = Action
    D = Discussion
    I = Information

  • Minutes

    Call to Order

    • Luca called the meeting to order at 4:03 PM. 

    Roll Call

    # Last  First Present Late Absent Online Left Early Excused
    1 Paliska Luca X          
          X          
    3 Sharma Aditya X          
    4 Bravo Katia X          
    5 Hon Veronica X          
    6 Wang  Shiqi X          
    7 Ozaki  Michi X          
    8 Huang Jin X          
    9 Li Iris X          
    10 Abukhater Rami X          
    11 Burkhanova Dariga X          
    12 Chu Ryan X           
    14 Hartono Lauren X (4:13)          
    16 Kim Minseo X          
    18 Ku Javin X          
    19 Lei Wadi Lin X          
    21 Madrid Joshua X          
    22 Min Jin Gi X (4:13)          
    24 Nguyen Van Loc X          
    25 Pham Victor X           
    26 Shaikh Fatima Zehra X          
    27 Shamarao Anish X           
    28 Teng Yan Ming X          
    29 Van Hoa X          
    30 Estrada Nakamatsu Matsuko X          
    31 Aklilu Mahder X          
    32 Washington  Lia            X
    33 Truong Nhi X          
    34 Yung Yin Wa X          
    35 Krawez Kyle X          
    36 Chang Tracy X          

    Approval of Minutes

    • 3/5: Nhi Truong, VIDA's stand-in rep for Lia was feeling sick and couldn't make it. Rami was also sick and could not attend. (Excused) 
    • 1/22: Matsuko should be marked as excused.
    •  Aditya motioned to approve the minutes for March 5, 2025. 
    •  Joshua seconded the motion, motion passed. 
    • Aditya motioned to approve the minutes for January 22, 2025. 
    • Joshua seconded the motion, motion passed.

    Public Comments

    • Xitlaly: On behalf of La Voz, wanted to highlight Lauren for advertising at the national level' 3 day experience in long beach and the networking was amazing. The conferences are beneficial for professional growth. 
    • Victor: Senate bonding rsvp; join link on Discord. 
    • Shiqi: Last senate meeting for me this quarter! Please sign my DASG sweater if you'd like. 

    Advisor Announcements

    • Maritza: All senators will be getting an email about winter compensation forms today, the deadline we set is for next Sunday so we have the opportunity to check in on materials we may not have received. Every single senator should be submitting at least 1 evaluation for all of your internal officers. Internal officers should be submitting the evaluations for the chairs. President please submit evals for the chairs and vice versa. We want to be able to give feedback to the chairs. Program reps/liaisons do not need to complete these but we do encourage you to give feedback to your respective chairs. We will do our best to get it ready and submitted to you for early spring. Maritza will not be available during spring break; if you sent an email to me please resend it so I can respond to it. 
    • Dayna: Will be out of town next week, you may submit emails to me but will get back to you the following week. 
    • Dennis: None
    • Maliah: None

    Senate Announcements

    • Katia: VTA Strike, professors are not being very accomodating; SRE will be starting a project to form an ad-hoc committee to speak up about this; urging professors to provide those accomdations. We would appreciate your support; we can chat after senate. 
    • Jin: ICC Chairperson elections
    • Javin: Will be resigning next quarter. 


    Student Trustee Announcements

    • Iris: Signed a non binding letter of intent for student housing/shuttle (project starts on july 15 2025), Sanctuary District Resolution
      • students have been afraid to come to campus such as when the students came to the career fair and ICE attended.
      • Student Financial Aid is at risk; could also affect the accreditation; can possibly face lawsuits in the future. Sanctuary district item will be presented at the next meeting. 

    External Shared Governance Committee Reports

    • Veronica: VPAC met today; updates on construction projects; classroom renovations; converting the faciltiy to a beach volleyball court; phase 2 of the wifi expansion project; first cc to have a full partnership with Adobe; plan on doing a tech survey. 
    • Kyle: RAPP met and discussed program reviews. 
    • Joshua: DEI, myths surrounding the topics of DEI; discussed the sanctuary resolution
    • Victor: Academic Senate met on Monday; went over DEI policy; approved equity rubric
    • Rami: Affordable housing tasks (meeting on april 18) 

    Internal DASG Committee Reports

    • None

    Consent Calendar

    • Aditya motioned to approve the consent calendar; Wadi seconded the motion, no objections. 

    Business Item 1

    Campus-Wide Equity Rubric Endorsement

    • Adriana presented the item. 
    • Border Patrol attended the De Anza Career Fair in 2023; this assessment is in response to this event. 
    • It's an opportunity to promote a culture of equity for De Anza campus students. 
    • The rubric would be a voluntary implementation tool to be used when planning events to ensure that the culture of equity is being applied. 
    • Aditya moved to approve the Equity rubric; Matsuko seconded the motion, no objections. 

    Business Item 2

    Farewell and Appreciation from Shiqi

    • Shiqi shared pictures of time throughout DASG and discussed her journey with DASG. 

    Public Comments

    • Yan Ming: ESL Club will have a 
    • Iris: Appreciate all of the work that you've done. 
    • Wadi: Certification complaint meeting in this 
    • Ryan: Appreciation to all of the senators
    • Luca: Thank you everyone for all of the work that you all have been doing for those that plan to stay as well. 
    • Javin: Thank you for everyone that gave feedback; good luck. 

    Advisor Announcements

    • Maritza: Been awesome to see the growth of this group; please keep us posted on the things you continue to do moving forward. I look forward to having one more quarter with you all; be sure to stop by. 

    Adjournment

    • Luca adjourned the meeting at 5:03 PM. 

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