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ASUCD SENATE AGENDAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

6:10, ARC Meeting Room November 7, 2013

I. Call to Order

II. Quorum Roll Call

KappesWondersBurkeThomasOngTopfTorresBrown - AXiongNongaSahota - AFigueroa Sandstrom - ABottoms McManusGargSeverAsheMoed - AWoosterWren

III. Appointments and Confirmations

IV. Unit Director ReportsA. Unitrans

Unitrans guy: I haven’t been here with the new set up yet. I’m all about PowerPoint. We’ll be ready next time though. We got Scott Winetrough and Terri Sheets? The reason we come in early November is that we have lots of things happening in November. After our first month of full service, we can compare and see trends on all our lines. So coming up this month, some big things is the Causeway classic. Unitrans will operate 7 busses to carry people to sac. For 14 years, we run service between Yolobus runs to the airport. Now for the 2nd year, we have a double decker leading the parade. It’s now a new tradition. About our stats, the things we look at most closely are ridership, crowding and realiability. Ridership went up 4 times due to higher service. There’s not much change over the weekday ridership. But there’s shifting around of where people are. The heaviest bus lines are the J and G is third. The W is second heaviest. Now we have a new line, the V line at number 4. Those are the heaviest lines. They carry about half of all our riders. The other couple changes are the new F line, that’s picked up about 100 new riders. And some of them are shifting to the E line. Overall, crowding’s not worse. Still very crowded and 6% are uncomfortably crowded. Reliability has actually gone down. The P and Q lines are quite slow this year. They’ve shown a decline. So those are things we’re looking at to change for next year. And obviously any new input. And in the spring, some of you will approve the changes for next year. So other projects happening, I’ll turn over to Scott.Scott: This is something we’ve brought up on other times we’ve come up to discuss the modernization project. It continues to move forward on time and numbers are around the same they’ve been. We’re working out details of the design, but the main framework is consistent. If there are questions, we’re happy to answer that. We want to begin construction as soon as finals are over in June. All the work will be done during the summer time and the MU terminal would be closed. That’s the big project on the horizon. Other things we have going

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on lately is the commercial Luanne was talking about, they included Unitrans for that. It was great to be part of. It was very professional; I understand why she’s so excited. Over the summer, we have a lot of hiring and training with the goal of bringing more drivers to the system. We had some challenges with the construction on Hutchinson especially with the new freshman and new drivers, but we’re moving right along.Terri: we currently moved into production of 3 new busses to replace old ones. There’re pretty old. The new busses are top of the line. Course, low floor for accessibility, the sustainability element. We’re looking at different video monitoring system on the bus. So we can download the video from the web server. It’ll make it a lot simpler. Something else we’re looking at is a new feature coming out for busses that help enhance safety, especially for pedestrians and bicyclist. It’s something like a mud flap, if someone gets under the bus somehow, they trip they fall and rolls under the bus, it pushes the person out of the way instead of rolling over them. So we’ll see if that’s something that works, and if we can maintain it. Some of you might have heard about the fatal accident in Sacramento with the bike and bus accident. So that’s something we need to avoid. Also 80% of the costs are paid for via government. Unitrans got a 1.3 million grant back in 2012 and student fees are matching it by 20%. So that’s the C and D busses. We’re hoping to get them by the March time frame. Another is traffic signal priority. Having technology implemented that will extend a green light. It’s already been implemented at La Rue and Hutchinson. The next step is the Russell Blvd. P and Q! That’s a big issue and it looks like it’s getting worse. That comes to us courtesy of a state grant that Anthony and others procured like 3 years ago. Basically on our operating program, travel training. Agencies throughout Davis, and Yolobus get together to get various members of the community who’s not familiar with transit to do that training and bring them to a workshop so they can ask questions. Another feature we want to implement is having individualized assistance to those who need that hand holding. Right now we’re focusing on seniors and disabled. It gives them a sense that they can go where they need to go when they need to go. We’re excited about that. And we have a person on our staffed dedicated to that effort. Hopefully we can bring info to you sometime in the summer about how that programs doing. Short range transit plan is another thing we’re working on. It looks between 5-10 years and look at everything. Performance, service objectives, status quo, potential decreases, we also take a look at financials as well and do a forecast. At what point does that number start going negative? We’re in the beginning process of that economic forecast. We probably need to come back to the students for the fee referendum by 2018. We also need to go to Davis and talk about fare increase. Over the next 6-8 years, we need to replace approximately 14. We’re talking about a pretty good chunk of change. Luckily, Unitrans has been majorly blessed. Student fees have not been the sole source. In order to keep this funding, we need to match that. Also factoring in the university’s 20-20 challenge. I think that’s it.Figueroa: hello. I have a question with La Rue and Hutchinson. Were there rerouting around the dorms?Horton: No. There was the W line was going around Old Davis and La Rue. It was going by Tercero.Figueroa: Did you get feedback…it seems unique. I’ve heard a few oh it’s more convenient that I’m at the dorms and still could be picked upI never even knew they were picking up at the dorms. Now we have an H Line.Horton: you mentioned one of the three things was reliability. Could you expand on the things you’re doing regularly to address reliability?Unitrans guy: Few standard things are we run extra busses called trippers that will help out high crowding. So they’ll begin halfway or pick up every other stop. We did that, eliminated stemps around the city. Another thing we can do is running the J express or G express. Those are some things we’ve done. And this traffic signal com is another step. That’s the type of batteries out here right now. We’re trying to get a double decker battery powered bus. That’d solve a lot of problems. That’s something we’ve been limited by. So be really excited with... Then ITS department can review it and run out the bugs.Bottoms: you were talking about the referendum…?Scott: there’s no funding except student feels. But that’s another…There’s a same footprint…the capacity we need without expanding our cost…Sign: I’m a proud Unitrans family member. Travel training. A lot of seniors I talk to are really apprehensive because they feel like drivers aren’t helpful enough. They’re losing this personal touch. Is there a plan on training them differently?Unitrans guy: My quick answer to that is their experience with other drivers where they are fromScott: we have our new travelers….empathy training…have passengers that have mobility issues. Yield busses. We are making efforts to do that. We’re also sometimes are able to contacting campus ….so that’s something we can make new discoveries to train employees in areas we don’t even realize have issues.Unitrans guy: Issue perception is something I want to address….there has been so many times when I see excellent customer service. I’ve heard a lot of senior citizens say positive things. Something else we’ve been doing is we procured a scooter for training drivers. How to secure scooter to the bond(?) then we found seat belts, so we procured that. We hope to go furtherSign: How will you….Wren: just wanted to say it was very 3013 presentations. I’m excited to see where you and Francis are going. Okay so are people complaining about efficiency and P and the Q. So what’s going on with that? It’s supposed to be for those who are at the end of the lines. And they understand is get a long way…..

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Scott: talking about the buses we’re purchasing. We’re hoping to get the modern double deck buses.Bottoms: Big fan of the F line. I’ve heard rumors about electric busses? Is that on prospect?Scott: we want to be as environmentally friendly as possible. We don’t want the leading edge because we’re small and we’ll suffer a lot. We hope to be right behind them though. We run operation that would work perfectlyUnitrans guy: So yeah it’s a problem, but it doesn’t generate twice as much as the G line…We do get complaints, and we log them in. There seems to be more reliability when the bus leaves. It takes us around Davis high school while kids are getting to school. Those are all issues we want to look at and look around that.Wren: also the F line, I want to know what prompted the change. I’m curious to know why was the stop moved?Unitrans guy: It’s a fairly long story, but basically low income folks that live up on Anderson and F. We came up with an idea. And they didn’t like it…..went back to the drawing board….Wren: So I would like to say again I’m from Fresno. There are no busses. You have to drive where you have to go. And this is one of the big reasons I came. Everyone knows if your homie is a Unitrans driver, that’s pretty cool. Nonga: a lot of my questions were answered. Do you do anything during freshman orientation?Unitrans guy: Oh yeah. We have them all covered. We wanted to let them know that this is available. We also want to recruit people when they’re freshman and they’ll have 3 years to drive for us.Nonga: …for the replacement of the new busses?Unitrans guy: Yeah you can extend life for 12 years, we kept ours 25 years. Our London double ducker busses 60 years old. Nonga: G and J doesn’t run at 11 pm anymore. Why?Unitrans guy: We wanted to beef up early morning service. And weekend services. We thought we won’t have enough drivers and such. It presents extra cost because there are regulations when they start and stop. Late night service does cost some issues.Nonga: and you’re hoping for double decker busses?Unitrans guy: Yeah that’s the thing. We just don’t know alternative fuel doesn’t exists, so we’re constrained by how many we can buy as desial prices.Thomas: I’ve only heard wonderful things. Last year I had complaints that were addressed last year. I’m really happy to see that you’re good at discovering efficiencies. What’s the deal with the lost and found? Unitrans guy: They said they don’t have much success. The difficulty might be timing. We collect those things and the supervisor will have. So another thing we try to do is let people know where that bus is. WE try to help them get to it, but once it’s in the system we…..it depends on how quickly the police can process it. Thomas: it’s just campus policy?Unitrans guy: Yeah..it does take time to do that. Thomas: Note of the fee referendum? No later than 2018. when it’s later…?Unitrans guy: What happened was we built up some reserves. We thought we’d dip into them sooner. But what could speed it up is the minimum wage change next year would boost up the costThomas: so when would you be most comfortable with a fee referendum. Unitrans guy: Right now 16 +/- a year. Thomas: if we were able to pass one in 2015, would that give you more confidenceUnitrans guy: We want to put it off as long as possible, but if we can package it with other things. Ong: just thanks for coming out and thanks for letting us tour the pad. When the busses are exhausted, you give it over to the bike barn and...that goes back to Unitrans?Unitrans: Yeah that goes back to UnitransSahota: with this whole talk about purchasing new busses. I think the G line in the morning is the oldest double decker. What’s the status on that?Unitrans guy: There are 4 of the vintage double deckers in our possession. 2 of them run every day. One of them was converted to natural gas and will be in service. The third one is …there are things about them that don’t make them attractive, but they’re the icon for Davis. We want to keep them running.Sahota: my one fear is that they can no longer run. Is it possible to donate them into the university and make it an artwork on campus?Unitrans guy: We sent one to the museum in London, but the rest will be here. Sahota: there are a lot of random art installments on campusKapur: Correct me if I’m wrong, they actually ran the streets of London?Unitrans guy: YeahKapur: what years were they in London?Unitrans guy: Post war. Maybe 64-75. Kapur: what if the Beetles rode on that bus?Wren: recently I lost my phone. I lost it last Thursday and didn’t know where I put it. Thanks to find my iphone, I knew my phone was going everywhere. I make the assumption that my phone was stuck on the bus. I called Unitrans and asked how to find and locate my phone. And because I had a way of not only making sure my


phone was lost, but also because I was down to help. Obviously if the phones moving, the bus is still going. The reason why I had to go to a retreat that weekend and was leaving my sister and still haven’t called my mom. I like to make sure certain ties are taken care of. I was just really unimpressed with the way... But find my iphone told me where it is. When I just want….is it slow during the process or when the police get it, are they lagging. I don’t understand. All in all, I did get my phone. But I want more details.Unitrans guy: I mean this is good feedback/something unusual most be going on there. Anything that’s there at night should have returned the next day. I don’t know if they quite grasp what they were telling you. Every item picked up is turned into the business office or the police office. What happens is if the item is on the bus, we don’t have the ability to call the bus driver just because they can’t use phone on the bus. In addition, when you’re behind a bus, very loud... The driver probably won’t hear it. I didn’t mean to be so dramatic. Sing: I want to apologize for what happened. Sometimes we make mistakes but I do know we do our best. That’s all I wanted to say.

B. Project Compost

Hi everyone. I’m Noelle. I’m the project compost director. Project compost always give 2 workshops every quarter. We had our worm composting and pile composting workshop. We’re trying to increase education. We’ve been reached out to a garden in Sacramento, so that’s exciting. We’ve added a fraternity to our compost pick up positions. And we have some work to do with that still. I went to meeting and told them what compost is, but more education can be followed up with that... We’ve made a presence at 3 events tabling. We’ve had a field trip where we went to the biodigestor plant in Sacramento. Checking out composting on a large scale. In the future, we want to rent a garden plot at the experimental garden plots. We plan to increase advertising effectiveness. Better pamphlets. I just met with them. But I want more volunteers. Free t-shirt at the end of the quarter as a thank you. So that’s just the brief description of what’s going on so farMoed: I just wanted to ask you to elaborate……fiscal support or any programmatic thing we can give them. We discussed the ….Neolle: we’ve taken some IAC members for a small tour. Just thanks for bringing that up. Especially as the quarter goes on, and as we deal with the new changes. I forgot to mention our new vehicle which is super reliable and great. I’m really excited to work with you guys. People keep telling us about more places we can compost. But there’s only so many things we can do.Topf: Hi, he touched on it a bit about partnering with EPPC. I see Tanzi all the time. We often table at similar events and one of her employees had reached out to different environmental groups about establishing connections. We don’t have anything tangible, but we’re always in contactTopf: In terms of advertising about diff volunteer position, have you been in touch with different people on campus?Noelle: We’re in contact with some list serves. For the ECM major and sustainable agg culture. I think we can have implement both posters and flyers as well as online. The website will be updated. Nonga: how many people do you directly work with?Noelle: there are 4 directors including myself. And then there’s a core of really depending…..we have about 8 volunteers in addition to directors who do compost runs. Then we have maybe 5 or so volunteers who just come to meetings and hang out. We get to reach out more people at our workshops though. 20 people all together, and we went to a classroom, so there is a lot of room for grownNonga: where were they held?Noelle: the student farm, the worm workshop was at the student co-ops. It’s a nice spot. And the one for the classroom was help at the mondavi center. The equestrian (?) campusNonga: the people who attended those workshops, what kind of demographic, like majors, involvement of campus wise?Noelle: list serves that are aimed at environmental studies. We had some grad students as well. We had some community members who came. So people see those too. Mostly undergrads thoughNonga: so will you say you target those people rather than people who haven’t heard beforeNoelle: that’s something I want to work on. I want to continue education with the frat we’re working with. And hopefully more in the futureNonga: do you do anything with freshmen?Noelle: We tabled at farm to college. We haven’t for a couple years have done an actual in dorm presentation. But that’s something in the back of my mind.Nonga: thank youSahota: Hi I just have a quick clarification. Dumpster diving at the football games….Noelle: That’s CCESahota: I just started working at the farm. But we have a center, so I know student farm, and I really like that idea. So we have a weekend of service. You can put a project online and we recruit students to actually do that work. Community Service Resource Center


Thomas: so the lion truck is just dead?Noelle: the lion is at the coops right now. We haven’t touched it much this year. Our relationship with the….it’s kind of holding kite there for now. We haven’t needed it because the new one is so reliable.Noelle: we have a vehicle painting party planned in November. We’re thinking of putting some microbes on the side. So the old vehicle is a situation that’s on our radar but we haven’t directly addressed yet.Thomas:…. Noelle: yeah it’s really unreliable.Thomas Can’t we sell it for consignment…Noelle: I’ve talked to a person interested in buying it but isn’t interested in paying much money in it. I’m sort of at the point of hearing these opinions and gauging what’s going onThomas: just want to clarify that it’d be fantastic if you talk to senate and the controller.Noelle: Carly Janice and I are supposed to talk to the vehicle. Thomas: well thank you. Would your flyers be compostable?Noelle: well paper is recyclable and paper is also compostable.Noelle: I will make sure when I talk to CM that it’s something compostable or recyclable. Thomas: ThanksBottoms: if you sell property, it has to go through bargain barn. Where are you storing the new vehicle?Noelle: it’s at sleet services. The disadvantage is they’re not allowing us to take the compost bins in there. But it’ll suffice for nowOng: thanks, I just have a quick question. What about EC teaching a compost class?Noelle: it’s something we’d talk about this quarter. We’re in the process of communicating about it but I’m offering to do an inhouse.

C. Aggie TV

V. Committee Reports

VI. PresentationsA. Business Manager

ASUCD Financial Update Motion to extent time to 40 min.Janice: I just want to give you a financial update. How bad, is the sky falling? I’ll dispel myths. And show you all the numbers and so you guys can come to your own conclusion. The pieces you all need to understand. The financial sate (historical, assets, current). So from a historical perspective, there was a controller report. Working on a budget to actuals for income and expense (Nov 21) hopefully by then that’s the historical perspective

Assets (5 year trend)o Reserves reporto I brought real time data and will share with you. Some of that data hasn’t been posted yet.

Cause they usually get posted 30 days after the fact ASUCD Reserves

o 5 year horizon including current totalso Fixed reserve allocations

Can’t move aroundo 16 of 24 units have some type of reserveo Self-sufficient Units*; in the event of an end of year profit or loss to the unit, the gain or loss is

posted to and/or taken from their specific reserves and not…. ASUCD Net Revenue Fund

o Currently, there is $495,453 in the reserveso Accounts is used by 19 units

Can be a plus or a minus depending how units doo Income generated from these units goes back to the fundo Income lost from these units gets taken from this fund (ex. Bike Barn)o Fund has depleted over the yearso Where did the money go??

2010-2011: Coho Renovation Creative Media has been overdrawn by about $50,000


Bike Barn last year Renovations project MOU has potential of scooping 250,000 We’re running a 12 million dollar business on a $500,000 reserve

ASUCD Capital Reserveo Currently there is $56, 179 in reserveso Per the ASUCD Bylaws page 84 funds were transferred from the Unrestricted Reserves to the

capital reserveso Decline due to Senate bills passed over the last 5 years ($100,000 Concert fund)

* ASUCD Cal Aggie Camp Reserveo Currently there is 15847 in reserveso ….

COHO To Go Equipment Reserveo Currently 172,287 in reserveso Funds were put into the Aggie Student Store line item until the description was changed in 2013

to the Coho to go… *Experiemntal College Reserve

o Currently 15357 reserveso Funds have diminished since 2009

Bike Barn Equipment Reserveo 4556 in reserveso 2009-2010 purchased equipmento Current use-for equipment purchase (Not a self-sufficient unit)

ASUCD Post Office Equipment Reserveo 1310 in reserveso Relatively consistent

Cal Aggie News Equipment Reserveo 17,144 in reserveso Self-sufficient unit-utilizing reserves to cover operational deficits

Classical Noteso 56365 in reserves

ASUCD CoHo Equipment Reserveo 507424 in reserveso Budgeted the increase in 2012-2013 to the reserves

CoHo South Reserveo 500 in reserveso Fund was established in 2013 to support this new venture

Campus Cinema Equipment Reserveo Currently there is 5734 in serverso Stayed the same since 2009o Rolled over to ECo Can write a bill to roll this money. EC can still access it.

General Equipment Reserveo 120397 in reserveso Remained flat over the past 5 yearso Specifically used for printers, accounting equipment purchases, scanners, copiers, ect

KDVSo 40467 in reserveso Decrease from 2012-2013 to purchase the tower

Creative Media Reserveo 11956 in reserveso Remained flat over the past 5 yearso Since 2005 they had a reserve of 1000, in 2008 in AS Publications and Graphics went to Creative

Media


ASUCD Papers Reserveo 0o Per SB 89 passed in 2012 it was moved to Senate reserves

EC Equipment Reserveo 101200 in reserveso Large show fund reserve added in 2011

It was a bill ASUCD Pantry Reserve

o 12,430 in reserveso Reserve account started in 2011

Refrigerator Services Reserveo Currently there is 95,016 in reserveso Remained relatively stable

*ASUCD Whole Earth Reserveo Currently 50,111 in reserveso Slow growth over the last five years

Need sufficient money in reserves in case of lawsuit? *ASUCD Specialized Transport SVS Reserve

o 56,910 in reserveso Build up a capital reserve to purchase vehicleso Should retain minimum reserve amount at least equal to insurance deductible (50,000)

*ASUCD Unitrans Transit Reserveo Currently there is 2619359 in reserveso Need to build up a reserve to absorb future increases in operating costso Reserve funds are used to provide matching funds for Federal grants for major capital project

(MU terminal and new buses) CEI Funds

o Not included in slide showo Fund a specific CoHo, student fees, and gets appropriated, Unitrans. o I can do that at a follow up meetingo CEI funds generally cannot be touched. It’s like Cal Aggie Camp allocations. Constution vs

Bylaws Nest Steps

o Short term Senate Representatives on all specific unit DAFIS reports each month (Next Week) Print out of year to date DAFIS Reports

Controller and BnF Chair Kathy and Janice OH on Thursdays from 4-5 pm Email Kathy and/or Janice to have reports pulled

o Long term Creative Media is working with DAFIS to pull information in real time into budget on the

web (Priority 3)

Wren: I’ve been hearing numbers, but that graph made it poignant.Janice: close to 12 million. Between Unitrans, CoHo, we’re running a 12 million combined business, and our bank account to support those units are diminishingWren: Where do you see along the lines how much longer should these funds diminish before cuts are made? This is so much more than I imagined. What are our goals to get more money or cut?Janice: program unit…EC the Cali Aggie, Refrigerator services. There are units that we are seriously concerned about. We are meeting and working with them to find out the length of time. That’s the biggest fire burning. And then there’s what do we do? This table this year is kind of a perfect storm. The numbers are scary. We’re going to work on a vision 20/20. Hopefully it’s a document so it’s like here’s a vision for the next 7 years. It’s going to be the big picture. Enhance the health of ASUCD. Let’s hang it on the wall and we’ll do it until we’re healthy again.


Wren: that helps a lot. So CM there’s too much on their table? Does ASUCD do any type of contracting?Janice: we don’t have any funds to do thatSandstrom: we’ll pay you to do this work, but this hurts AS. How much income can we take versus…Wren: they’d be down to use money to have a cool website. GASC banner is made by creative media. Us queers are very critical when it comes to art, and the banner was great. Everyone kept asking where’d you get it, where was it made? So maybe branching out and creating that help. The disconnect is affecting us monetarily, you know?Thomas: thank you so much for coming. This is what I wanted. I’m so glad to see all this happening now. This is transparency. Cause senate and exec are equal and separate branches. And BnF is having DAFIS access. I appreciate all the answers you’re giving us the monthlys. We need to be more informed from the backside. We need to know how much reserves our units have. We need to have more eyes on the budget so we can catch a bike barn fiasco before it happens. Thanks for coming out here. I’m really glad senate candidates are in the room too. This is a good first step team. Hill: Representing BnF. What can we do to help progress this forward? The 20/20 initiative. What does that entail? Obviously there are the short term fires, and we can put those out. But how are we going back to the million dollars.Sandstrom: some things that we’re working on is me Janice Bradley and Eric want a 3 hour meeting to go over what the heck we’re working on. We want to prioritize before we come out to you. We’re trying to absorb all that information. We’re trying to grasp what everyone’s doing. But 20/20 is one and that hasn’t started. We just floated the idea that we need some consistency. Another thing is a market study about what our consumers know about AS. What is an outside person, either a business or marketing club, going to see what our strength and weaknesses are? If you have any suggestions, please let us know. We want some outside person looking in to do the market analysis. Janice: I think another part is getting everyone in the room. Freshmen, career staff, mothers, senate, exec, and really have some guided facilitation around what does AS want to look like in 2020. I’d like to see the health enhanced. My passion is keeping it at a high enough level and hang it on the wall so the next exec can be like I can do that. High level visioning statements so every president and senate can make a mark on that. I want it high level enough so people can leave their thumbprints and say this is how I helped.Kapur: first of all, thank you Janice. You all have cool opportunities in this room that I never got. Janice is doing a really good job. And then Carly said we should keep the trains running, but we should keep the busses running too.Sandstrom: as a FYI when we were looking at the net reserve, what we saw on the reserves was we had 900,000 and then okay 250,000 that’ll make our association okay. And then now we’re here. That’s because at the end of the year everything piled up.Bottoms: and the CoHo just hit the books even though it happened our freshman yearJanice: Mark actually came back and helped me analyze this.Nonga: handle senate reserves…?Janice: from my professional opinion, we need to be really conservative with what we’re doing this year. They were supposed to make 60,000. So we’re already short 11,000 this year. So I think my professional opinion for everything is that we need to be really conservative. You guys need to make really tough decisions about this renovation. Is it okay for student affairs to pick up the bill? A lot of this stuff you all need to struggle though. It’s good you all have different ideas and perspective so we can get the best decisionOng: Thank you so much. Moving forward, you haven’t really met with Carly and Bradley, but in terms of growth, are we increasing income or are we looking at a broader scale like ASUCD scholarshipsJanice: Could I go out and do fundraising? Yes. But will it put money in ASUCD….Ong: I know in high school we had to physically fundraise for AS itself. So are we growing in that way?Janice: there are two ways. We need to be conservative. For these student opportunities. Can we make it volunteer? We can’t continue to pay people if we don’t have the money to pay people. It’s like your budget. You have to buy ramen, not sirloin anymore. But you also think what can I do to grow the pot of money? Get another job? So we need to look at both sides of that. Can we get someone from graduate management…they’re buying a sign on Unitrans, but also too I know how conservative and protective of the table saying we don’t want a certain company supporting us…. I think we need to make assets. Make a list of 20 or 30, employ a sales team, and grow the bank account back up. And with the minimum wage coming up, the CoHo…if you look through the statements there, just the AggieCash in the CoHo alone, 88,000. Is that turning opportunity? We need the CoHo to break even and grow more. Is it worth it to raise prices a bit more? There are a lot of decisions you guys need to weigh in on and decide. Thomas: first of all from a philosophical perspective, we are a government. We’re about student services and not profit. I have found 100,000 in our budget. There’s wasteful spending. Maybe now can we come around and do some of the cuts that I found and can argue and defend until 6 in the morning. I did not hear anything from exec, so I need to be more proactive in seeking them out. Something the president said was that she’ll have a 3 hour meeting with the business manager and Eric and VP. And then come to senate. That’s the kind of attitude we need to dispel. It can’t be exec and then senate. Democracy isn’t the most efficient, but it’s the only


democratic. I would really like at least 2 branches of government.Sandstrom: that’s just so we can get our heads wrapped aroundThomas: what’s traditionally happened is that there’s a misrepresentation of facts. So I would like a senator or a BnF chair in every single conversation. That’s reasonable. Yes the president is the CEO and the senate is just as powerful. I would like a branch in any conversation about the budget. I think I’m a fairly good analyst. I’d like to be an analyst for ASUCD in the initial run through. Wonders: I want you to be wrong, but you’re not. That’s a discussion to be had but that’s something we should do.Thomas: this is what I live for. I look for the invitation. Let’s do this togetherJanice: I want to get back to Carly’s points. We’re not looking at numbers. It’s not even about adding the list of fires up. it’s more on whose working on what fires. It’s not a numbers meetingThomas: so that being said, I still want senate or the legislative branch to be involved. Even if it’s watching and listening. I think we struggled when senate is being told what’s going on rather than know what’s going on. I want a part of senate, if nothing else, a representative, or a symbolic person in the room. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. There should always have been a senator involved with those meetings with renovations. Separate but equal branches. And hopefully have a new chief justice soonHill: I want to reverberate that opinion. Miles, I agree with you for once. I agree with you a lot actually. It’d be really nice if BnF is included. I feel it is one sided. Even this year, we aren’t seeing a lot of money allocations. We’re just playing with our hands during meeting and we’d love to help. It’s extra brain power to yall. The second thing is 12,000 in senate reserves. That’s what people come to BnF to spend. I want to know before we spend any of it. Would there be any benefit retaining that capital for the year? What expenses or any mini-fires that might erupt in the near foreseeable future that might dip in to senate reservesJanice: so let’s take refrigerator services. A lot of it is supply and demand. We can’t make up. It is what it is. We’ve gone through and asked if they can sell more fridges. But we’ll never know how much of a loss they’ll take at the end of the year. But given the time frame we’re in, we need to conserve.Hill: do you know any numbers with the projected salary cost with the minimum wage?Anthony: it’s going to be close to 200,000 the first year and 400,000 the second year for UnitransHill: are there key opportunities for growth in the association? Just off the top of your head?Janice: I really think this business development is important. There’s a lot of alumni out there who care about your place. A lot of people don’t want to give money to a building but maybe to students and student programming. I think this training is another thing we can look into. Sometimes we don’t give them the proper training. How do we make that process better and educate students and promote the fact that they could turn it into a profitable business?Kapur: let’s try to get Janice out of here. To Mile’s point, it’s important to have it as a two way street. But a lot of time senate doesn’t give two fucks. You guys need to assume responsibility and demand the accountability. It’s not all their fault. Topf: I was going to mention something similar. There’s always more meetings we can be part of. Let’s start with program reviews. Obviously there’s always room for progress, but let’s make use for the progress that was made. I got on a list way ago. Something was said about posting positions as volunteer positions. I don’t know if this was talked about, but if we can do internships and students can at least get school credit, that can be really helpful.Carly: we have a meeting with ICC an out transcriptTopf: I just want to make sure if a position can be for credit, that’s a good way so that we’re not just taking away money from studentsSandstrom: one last thing, I want to let you know, you asked about reaching out to donors. I have my staff going through each yearbook and tracking every person related to ASUCD. After that I’m going to have them go through every aggie article. We’re talking about having an ASUCD Picnic event. Reaching out to alumni. We are fighting a lot of fires, and I’m trying to delegate as much to keep the busses moving.Hill: I asked about opportunities for growth? So I want to ask the contrast. What areas are not going to be growing in the next few years? I want to say refrigerator services but I want your professional opinionJanice: that’s a hard question. It comes down to what we want to see as well. For example, the newspaper. What’s happening with newspapers across the US? So we need to figure out how we look at it in a different form. I don’t know if refrigerator services would go away. And then you think about it if there’s a lot of international students. If they get a package, we make it easier for them. Opportunities are endless. But the marketing piece is critical. I think that will tell us what students value. Do they want a bus service? Maybe they want a student service. Post office is another piece you guys might want to talk about. Post office is kind of dying across the nation. But it’s a valuable resource. Hill: what about the time frame to meet that operating whatever? Vice chair should know things but they don’t, so what’s the time frame so we can use these funds and …Janice: I can make an educated guess, but I don’t you guys to hold me to something. I don’t know. That’s the right answer


B. Associate Chancellor for Strategic Communications Trying to create a contemporary image of the University. Alumni are both an asset and a problem – they may not understand the modern University. We want to punctuate our leadership in health and our contributions from the UC Davis Health System. We also want to attract more resources. We have both internal and statewide focuses. We want our schools and colleges to talk to each other. Once we strengthen ourselves internally, we will expand to a statewide and national campaign. Frequently used words: Bold, genuine, creative, curious, united, diverse The ONE campaign. We wanted to recognize that people are transformed by their experience at UC Davis, but you could say that about any institution. We wanted to talk about how you shaped UC Davis. We tested this idea out, but Senate didn’t like it and focus groups didn’t like it either. We tried to highlight individuals and recognize talent, but it was too casual and too elementary. It was painful feedback, but we revised our approach. We tested the “We believe in” element, but it wasn’t well-received either. We tried a “We’re all for...” approach, but it wasn’t liked either. We wanted to keep the hand-written “one” because it symbolized an individual experience. We went back and received more feedback, and the students wanted us to recognize the global nature of the University. “ONE WORLD” came out of the focus groups.

This is the test board that won. If you really look at it, it’s a really bad picture. They cut the young man off, the second girl making a face. But the word ONE with a group shot meant more to people. They wanted ONE to mean team work, something deeper than individuals. The circles work. The mix of the casual type and formal type works. So that’s the focus of the campaign. This is monumental for our university. The health system is using the same branding as we are, and they launched our campaign. And for the first time, it always said UC Davis Health System, and they’re self-identifying with UC Davis. Here’s where we ended up. We have so many banners going up. You’ll see the banner guys when you leave tonight. They’re marking campus borders. The one UC Davis are the backs. So these are the banners going on the interior of campus celebrating great people. You get to hear their stories. Here are some of the student banners. Then we have rows for mentors, great professors. And we also have student athletes. And then we have a great staff section. We have alumni and donors, centennial walk, and banners that says one of a kind to UC Davis. Double-deckers, bikes, all these banners are starting. The best thing about a branding campaign is people putting money into it. Then I wanted to show you how a campaign follows through. Carolina is my test subject. These are posters. They’re in the residence halls, the silo, as you go into the dining commons, we are celebrating students who aren’t on the banners. Carolina is on a poster, she’s also a homepage story. And some of us know, she’s actually the closing scene. So all of you in the TV shoots. Just to make you feel proud, the company doing TV shoot is a Hollywood production company. They’re leaving us to produce the next movie in the hunger games series. So you can see how Carolina followed through in all the things she’s doing. And then yes, I did bring the t-shirts. We also have buttons, tattoos, leaving some swag for you. And then I wanted to point out this, if you go to ucdavis.edu/one. At the corner is to nominate people in the campaign. If they are outstanding, if there’s someone you love and respect, please consider honoring them. We’re serious about honoring students in this campaign. If you go on marketing toolbox.ucdavis.edu, we have brochures fliers information sheets, templates. So you can make your own materials, and we can personalize the logo to ASUCD whatever. You can pick which one you like and drop on your copy. There’s also a one section. We’re not holding anything back you can use anything. You’ll start to see results shortly. Questions and thoughts?Bradley: I love your choice of students. We’ll push some stories to you.Wonders: Hi, I’m really glad to see the direction the campaign is going. There were some glaring issues at first. We had a chance to voice it, and it was fixed. I don’t like the ONE. That handwriting just hurts my soul:But you’ll remember it because it hurt your soulWonders: I see other big universities going in other directions, but this is good. Marketing in one way or another is really needed. So you said one of your posters had a group of people, and they responded very positively to that? How come the posters you showed later was just one person?:Okay we produced these over the summer. It’s so hard to get more than one person shot in the summer. That’s the real truthKapur: can we go to the slide, the one with all the words describing Davis. What’s that? Is that going to be used for anything?:That’s just a word cloud that tested similarly. We had to stay true to these words when we were creating things.Kapur: I’m really glad you guys came back with a much better project. So thanks a lot for thatBurke: could you go to the slide with all the titles on it. The website with the stories. My only real comment, the


One text below it looks like Who are who are. :People actually loved it because it said you is we……Burke: they look clean. I can’t wait to see the commercial.McManus: I agree with a lot of what’s been said. I personally like the hand written one. It brings out the personal aspect. And it’s definitely a lot more toned and targeted than what it was before. The first time I saw it was when they were handing out the calendars. I like how it’s coordinating between all the systems in UC Davis. You mentioned the health system. And thanks for listening to our feedback. It doesn’t happen as much as you shouldWren: first of all, I don’t know much about it before. But the information was spectacular. I like the O. it goes so well with the touchscreen thing. It’s so personalized and interesting. I want to bring out some things so we can break this down. I thought you had to add the word united and diverse because that’s not what the focus groups saw was part of Davis. That’s an interesting question. Why aren’t those words included? Just understanding those things will help benefit campus. I’m so excited to see everything. Thank you so much.Kappes: I love the hand-drawn one. I was the only person here last time who wasn’t cringing.Thomas: first of all, thanks for coming back and getting back to my email. Like I said at the last presentation. I really like the handwritten one but I’m so, so glad it highlights futura of UC Davis. I’m glad it’s still incorporated. It makes us look like our university has an identity. It’s distinct and still elevates usNonga: you mentioned you wanted nominations? Do you have a process?You can do it on the website. If you could nominate, please do it from the heart. If you nominate a student with straight A’s is involved in all the sororities that doesn’t tell us about her. So we get away from the labels. :No we’ll follow up on all of them. The maintenance guy is there, alums who just graduated. They’re just true heroes.Kappes: Thanks for the time, mostly the free stuff. Motion into unit director reports

VII. Public Announcements

VIII. Status of Legislation Previously Passed

IX. Introduction of New Legislation

SB for 10 minute break IACSB Thomas, Kappes, Thomas, to consolidate funding BnF IACSB Burke, Wonders, Wonders, allocate time for voluntary recital of the pledge of allegiance IAC ECACKappes: motion into any other businessKappes: motion into ex offio reports

X. Consideration of Old Legislation

XI. Ex-Officio Reports A. Commission Chairs

McManuso Friday: met with Garetho Saturday: practice LSATo Monday OH, IAC, o Wednesday OH, met with peopleo Thursday, here I amo CCFIT meeting was canceled so nothing to reporto Get in touch with me about giving feedback for my.ucdavis

Severo Monday: met with Bradley and Janice

Wants to do mentorship program. Went over some logistics and how we would do that Meeting on Monday night talked about that Tabled resource discussion Will try to collaborate, Lecture series

o Talked with university affairs


o Scholarship applications are being reado Hoping to hear about my.ucdaviso Went to the advisory board

Griffithso Monday: INC

Website. Prioritize creative media Elections and getting website out TRS thing for DAFIS they’re trying to set up

o BnF Almost no leg that comes through Commission codes that Kabir found. No one knows of them, and they’re really in depth.

All these requirements. We’re going to try to amend the bylaws. We also want a manual or welcome orientation thing. My first meeting was about the radio tower. I know some commissioners don’t feel comfortable speaking at first

Talked about t-shirts. Naftali have a great idea having t-shirts saying we can’t help you we have no money

Moedo Bradley Felicia Ian about Scholarshipso Cal Aggie Camp meetingo EPPC almost done with revisions of chapter 17 bylawso Working on assigning 2 units…waste audit (?)o Update about SB20. It was about divestment of fossil fuels. People are moving forward with

Davis fossil free. That’s something yall be hearing a lot more. The senate did pass it so that’s where I’m basing the opinion of ASUCD. If you like to express these opinions, I’d love to talk to you about them. I want to reflect an accurate view. And the resolution is on our website.

Gargo Three orientations for student of color conference

150 students turn out. That was sweet. o Met with Vicky Gomez

Woostero I had to schedule sleep into google calendar.o Pass time

History minoro ….flyer….Cal Aggie Campo Amelia has been awesomeo Tried to do yogao Flyering like crazy for Gareth

Vote for himo People keep putting me in charge of thingso A lot of meetingso November 20th.

Will be outreaching this weekend, Monday and Tuesday

B. Outreach Assembly Speaker

Asheo We had a full assembly this week! Our hiring is up now for winter/alternateso At meeting we reviewed OA expectations and talked about the pros/cons of our event last weeko Talked with student housing about upcoming Dorm Fair. Talked with Heather from CSI about

setting up and meetingo Reminder that all commissions should have their hiring up now


C. ASUCD Controller

XII. Elected Officer Reports A. President

Sandstromo Update meeting with Janiceo Interview with Chinese Magazine

Gave brochure of ASUCD It will be in Chinese

o LobbyCorpo Meetings about renewalso Meeting with Daniel o Project Compost reviewo Felicia for job initiativeo Had an hour with cabinet and advocacy groupo Campus council meeting

Talk about AggieThreads MOU Pub

o Met Janice about reply for Adela for an emailo Interview with heather o Meeting with Milt to touch base about diff projectso ASUCD financial history meetingo Jobs initiative meetingo Student services meetingo Meeting with Carol from bookstore

Aggie pride Fridays T-shirts with AggiePride pass it on

o Welcome receptiono Laura Joe meeting

Calfresho Meeting with Elizabeth the editor in chief with the aggie

Developing an alumni chapter Cocktail event. Pre picnic day.

o Resources for student funding orgo KDVS touro Meeting with Kabiro Sent emailso Took a midterm

B. Vice PresidentC. ASUCD Senators

Burkeo OHo Swore my oath of enlistment into the United States Armyo ACE committee meetingo Had my first tutoring session, and we both learned a lot- she about high desert alkali scrub

grass, and me about teaching so we’ll see if a career as a teacher is ahead of meo Elections next weeko Introduced pledge leg

Armando


o Successfully came up with my argument against the pledge Please talk to me

o Set up a meeting with admin about residency requirements A lot of ways that they verify students as residents is that they check their parent’s

status as residence. Students can’t get financial aid because their parents green card expired or aren’t citizens. But we have undocumented students here at Davis. Let me know if you’re interested. I don’t know if we can legally change this, but its residency policy.

o Held OHo Final interviewso IAC

Saw lots of lego Worked on undocumented students handbook

Topfo Met with Paul Cody

Platforms Sync Orgsync with my.ucdavis

o Met with freshmen Always at the CoHo

o Spent all day in Senate Office Had interesting conversations

o Aggie something meetingo IAC meetingo Candidate o Pi Phi ticketso Called paid services about paychecksir

Ongo Scholarship applicationo Zip car meeting with Lobby Corps, Carly, and Janiceo Interview with UCD magazine for promise o OH Monday and Wednesday 10-12 (met with AVC Milt)o One UC Davis Commercial shootingo Jobs initiative meeting with Carly and Pamo Jobs initiative meeting with ICCo Met with Dr. Terry Smith from med centero ASUCD scholarship meetingo Picnic Day welcome receptiono Touch based with Dylan at UAo Picnic day board meetingo ASUCD funding and scholarship meeting with Janice, Carly, and Erico KDVS tour with Carly and Milt in Bee costume!o Met with first years that want to join commissionso Designed jobs showcase marketing materials

Sahotao Some kid wrote a grant proposal about tutor tutee program

Has it down to PTA numberso Noble hour

UCSD has been doing this. Log in hours you did towards community service. Kind of like a google circle. As you calculate hours, it will chug out your economic impact. The monetary difference through all the work. I highly suggest them make an account with noble hour. The university is paying to have it.

o Will be going part time next quarter


o Picnic day welcome celebration Revealed theme

o Picnic day meeting Doing a bunch of cool stuff Wednesday 6-7 Anyone can come

Nongao Shot commercial

Torreso Met with experimental college directoro IACo Tuesday: watched debateo Wednesday: OHo Thursday: here

Brown: o Monday IACo Tuesday EAC

Some great commissioners. Amazed at what’s going ono OH, take back application for workshop facilitator o Student housing getting ready to hire RAo Real California Senate shot down my bill

Wonders:o OHo Fluo Meetingso Pledge bill!

Kappes: o no one cares about these o helped write a billo talked about California Avenue Lecture hall…super informativeo went to the debate or whatever “debate”

Thomaso President Sandstrom, VP Bottoms, Senator Wonders, and I met with Assistant Vice Chancellor Dr.

Lang about the next steps for the MU remodelo Went to INC to get DAFIS access and get the budget live online (to not be corrupt)o Talked with Business Manager about transparencyo Talked with Kathy about DAFIS access o Aggie stuffo Discussed the club calendar program with CES (Campus and Event Services)o Pantry has phone and interact!o Worked with Anna Oh of AggieTV on the option of getting the modern cameraso Met with controller to get AggieTV historical datao Attended external affairs and discussed Art in the Airo Met with CFC managers (both student and faculty) about new legislationo Talked with John Campbello Met with CSI leadership on relationships with ASUCDo Attended California Hall presentation that I found out about less than 12 hours before the event,

networked, hopefully got on committeeo Assembled an action squad dedicated to renovationso Held office hours to discuss renovationso Considered Meyer Hall and graduate student association with the chair of the chancellor’s

graduate committeeo Attended the ASUCD Senate Candidate debate


o Flyered for Gareth Smythe, #1o Read the Aggieo Picnic Day welcome receptiono Attended DACo Wrote leg

Kappes: motion into closed sessionWith a 7-2-3

XIII. New Student Court Cases/Prior Weeks Verdicts/ASUCD Court Announcements

XIV. Approval of Past Meeting Minutes

XV. Public Discussion (Unscheduled)

Calpirg: Hi everybody. I’m Rachel. So Calpirg we’re a statewide student run nonprofit organization. We’re in the middle of our pledge drive. At Calpirg we do a lot of work protecting environment, hunger, affording education. We’ve done stuff on local, statewide, and international level. We’re working to ban fracking. We’re working to fight local property. Donna is the chair of our statewide nonprofit. So we are deeply invested in UC Davis. How we do this is tens of thousands of UC students pledge to pay 10 per quarter. Teach students to be organizers, research solutions to poverty student tuition, we’re doing a two week pledge drive. In order to stay on campus, we need to have 10% over the course of the year. It allows us to stay here and allows us to keep doing what I’m doing. I’ll be here until the bus. If you haven’t pledged yet please pledge. Have a great eveningWatson: Hi, I actually pledged yesterday and I heard you’re at 6%Calpirg: we’re at 7% with the pledges this weekThomas: so as many of you know, AggieTV does not have any HD cameras of their own. Staffers provide their own cameras for AggieTV use. It’s a lot of wear, people could drop it, it’s not just the people who own them using them. I think it’s a big problem. It stops them from having enough cameras to be as crazy as they can be. But basically AggieTV has a lot of potential to make a lot of money but they don’t have the tools. They’re homecoming video was fantastic. I know we’re in dire straits. That being said, AggieTV has a line item for…they’re spending 1250 on this on a new camera. We can suspend bylaws and match their support for their own unit. I think that’s a great idea. I’ll present a bill about it next week. I just want to put it on the tableTopf: just a question to ask Miles, about services rendered. Them taking that money out, what does it entail?Thomas: I went to Eric’s office, they went through most of it last year and didn’t buy any cameras. Ideally I’d love to buy them both cameras. But they did factor in they wanted to purchase cameras this year. They could potentially afford it; it’d just be really hard. As I explained to you in senate office, they can always allocate to other parts of the budget. Specific line items are relevant but not a ruleTopf: if we did give them the money, would they prefer the money to be in services rendered? Thomas: they did discuss it at the staff meeting, but she didn’t give me an answerWren: so students are using their own cameras to shoot their projects. So they want a new cameraBottoms: they currently use tape. When really they should use DSLRs. They tend to provide the digital ones.Wren: so students use their own? So would they stop their use of their own cameras if we provide them?Thomas: she said at the very least, it would lessen the usage. But they have such a desperate need, they’d probably use all of them and work on getting another oneWren: is it not possible to get the ones they’re using insured? Shouldn’t there be a way their cameras can be insured through ASUCD? Would that be as much as getting a new camera?Thomas: having their own cameras are not sustainable especially since most of them were graduating.Wren: If they’re going to use them anyway, maybe it’s a good idea to insured. How exactly does AggieTV make money? Are they making a substantial profit?Kappes: they do ad videos for clubs and such. We estimated $5000 in revenue. We cut it down because they weren’t confident. It’s not a huge amount, but it’s something.Wren: so getting a new camera will ensure getting more revenue?Kappes: getting a new camera will ensure they have a camera to access now and a year from now. That means they don’t have to rely on people donating cameras. And they don’t have to worry about well I love to make this video, but there’s no cameraThomas: I have another issue to bring up Ong: so it says under unit director reports that AggieTV is comingBottoms: she’s not coming this weekOng: I feel the same sentiment. But I’m kind of surprised hearing that AggieTV is using is such better than the university is using. I just wanted to put that out there.


Thomas: they have been using the DSLR videos. Not the tape videosOng: we did a tour and compared to their equipment. I know if we do get new equipment, I don’t want to just throw their old stuff awayBottoms: just to talk on that as well. They use the tape still. They never use the DSLR.Thomas: it’s just for their high profile stuff.Thomas: I have right now an ASUCD resolution. ASUCB bill. It’s in support of the union. They probably will go on strike in two weeks. If we want to speak or support their strike, it’d be to pass it next week. That didn’t give me too much time to give to Bradley. I crossed out the bill and put ASUCD Resolution. We can’t really intro it, but we can have External Affairs intro it if they’re willing toWooster: I want to read itThomas: or we can introduce it urgently today and then table it.Wooster: yeah EAC’s name isn’t going on this without me referring to them.Kappes: I still have something to say about cameras. With AggieTV, this is the bottom of the barrel with what they need. They’re short on computers and programs as well. This is definitely a cut already. I motion to urgently introduce that resolutionOng: I want to know what this is aboutKappes: It’s a bill that’s we’re with solidarity with the union and the strikeLiam: Be it finally resolve, …[started reading bill]Bottoms: I suggest we take a break so people can read itKappes: we introduce bills all the time that we don’t read. I again motion to urgently introduce that resolution. Withdraw. What has come up?Moed: I’ve been talking to a rep. with the union….it’s definitely something as far as the urgent goes..it was authorized recently….Kappes: I wish my union goes on strike. I again motion to introduce this resolution urgently.Kappes: I motion to table and refer ASUCD RESOLUTION #X to EACMotion to refer ASUCD X to ECAC; withdrawWatson: we will call an emergency meeting.Bottoms: make sure Kriti gets in contact with meMotion to refer ASUCD X to ECAC.Will send to ECACKappes: motion into status of legislation previously passedKappes: motion into intro to new leg

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