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RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED TO THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA FALL 2012

ASUC Senate

Finance CommitteeMonday November 25, 2012

I. Call to Order 9:10II. Approval of the MinutesIII. Guest Announcements

a. Jessica uploaded grants update to dropbox folder. IV. Form Appeals

a. NoneV. Finance Rule Waivers

a. Grace not presentb. Raymond not presentc. Jennifer Ng

i. Decal board is applying for fee waiver. Facilitator banquet at the end of the semester. Money comes from 10% budget allocated. Having it throughout the semester. Facilitator banquet is to award the services of the facilitators who have been serving the decal community.

ii. Klein: MOTION TO APPROVE THIS WAIVER1. NONE OPPOSED2. WAIVER PASSED

d. Anish Davei. Printed budget to explain what’s going on. Currently director for the ASUC

student legal clinic. Asking for to get allocation for sweatshirts for a clinic. Mockup for sweatshirts. Sweatshirts play an important role in the clinic. The role they play is that they’re doing community outreach because they are a volunteer income tax assistance site. Go to a lot of outreach events. Used as identification factor. Have clients come in and they know who to look for based on apparel. Plays important role in clinic. Funding them every year. Asking for permission an already allocated sum of money that they have in the budget.

ii. Deo: Would you ever have to come back to the Finance Committee for any other expenditures?

iii. Guest: No, we already have all expenditures laid out. We carry mots of the sum. A lot of events we put on our own tab. We don’t want to spend your money if we can. This will be the only time. We’re subsidizing this and asking for money from each intern.

iv. Sadia: MOTION TO APPROVE WAIVERv. SID: SECONDS

1. WAIVER PASSESe. Timofey Semenov

i. At the end of the semester we put on an event where we greet students coming into Moffit with donut holes, hot chocolate, and coffee. Outreach to the


community and publicize our office and our services. Asking that the money in our budget be used for food.

ii. HUA MOTIONS TO PASS THIS FOOD WAIVERiii. SID SECONDS

1. WAIVER PASSES

VI. Facility Waiversa. Emily Chen: OASIS. Non profit organization that ututors kids K-5. Tutor force is entirely

bolunteer based. Hold a banquet dinner for these volunteers. Strongly believes that this banquet has a high returning rate for this student. OASIS has cut a lot of funding for this dinner. Requesting a fee waiver for renting East Pauley Ballroom for this event.

i. Amir: Full waiver for East Pauley ($200)ii. Amir: Curious, you got $800 for spring budgeting; could any of that money be

used to pay for some prats of the facilityiii. Jojo: Majority of budget goes to reimbursements throughout the semester for

recruitment and mid semester and end semester gifts for our tutors. Reimbursements for drivers and buses to Oakland. Other events are volunteer social.

iv. Guest: Usually have a higher budget, but it was cut. The funding goes to other committees.

v. Jojo: Started a fundraising committee, but still starting it out and hopefully it’ll help them out with budget cuts.

vi. Amir: With all the groups, they’ve only given half waivers unless there is a reason why. Asks the chamber why not full waiver.

vii. Lieu: I used to be a mentee in Oasis. Anyway, the line item budget equates to over $1,800 and I feel like if they cut something or shrink line-items to get the other $100, I think that’s totally doable.

viii. Sadia: Recommendation is to give a half waiver because that’s what we typically done. It’s not that we don’t want to give you a full waiver but Pauley is going down for the next 3-4 years and we won’t get any income from that.

ix. Sadia MOTION TO AMEND EAST PAULEY WAIVER TO HALF OF EAST PAULEY WAIVER (so.. MOTION TO PASS HALF WAIVER)

x. LIEU SECONDSxi. MOTION PASSES

b. Shahryar: For k-college. A group that started at UC Berkeley and started a nonprofit. Provide over $10 million of school supplies to the Bay Area. They’ve been doing this every year except last year there was supposed to be an assembly drive for the school supplies. Usually assemble them with students from different campus communities and to do it on campus, and traditionally they’ve done it in Pauley Ballroom ever since they’ve started. School supply kits get distributed across the Bay Area to over 100,000


underpriviledged school children. Waiver is for an event they want to hold in Pauley Ballroom. Non profit so not much funding. Student group links communities to students.

c. Guest: Here are the forms. This Saturday, will load up supplies. On Sunday is the actual event from 10-4 and it’s the first 5,000 kits. We give backpacks full of school supplies to underpriviledged students who are homeless children who can’t afford back to school supplies. They have white boards, dry erase markers, and even play-toh. Quality backpacks. $70 worth of supplies. Buy it in bulk, so it undercuts the cost, so it’s only about $22. By having the fee reduced, it would really help us which would contribute to another 55 backpacks for students.

d. Shahryar: it would mean a lot to the groupe. Chini: Thank you for coming. I genuinely think this is awesome. Usually student

fees are used towards Berkeley students. These kids aren’t Berkeley students right?

f. Guest: The students are around this Berkeley area. Shahryar: A lot of these students do end up going to Berkeley.

g. Amir: Except in 3 instances, we’ve only given a half waiver. I think a fair compromise is if we give a half waiver so we’re still subsidizing half the cost instead of the full cost.

h. Shahryar: The event has 500-600 Cal students that volunteer at it. We’ve had volunteers from RAZA and Greek communities. College students are the ones volunteering to make it. The chancellor comes, the mayor comes. It’s a start up that has been started by Berkeley students.

i. Hua: j. Sadia: I also like that this is not a profit generating thing. We do a lot of work

with recruitment and retention.k. Kang: I think I’m very against given no money or even a half waiver because how

many Berkeley students are you expecting to volunteer?l. Guest: 500. It’s the biggest thing that has happened with Berkeley students and

the local community. m. Kang: I think we should fund this either half or full because it’s giving Berkeley

students that don’t have a chance to be together with other communities to be together. Instead of focusing on the kids that these packages will go to, we should focus on the packaging and community.

n. Lieu: I’m looking at their budget and it’s quite extensive. $100,000 budget. Are there any areas that you could feasibly scale down to pay for half a waiver?

o. Chini: If you give a half waiver, 50 kids don’t get supplies?p. Guest: 55q. Chini: But the event would still go on right?r. Guest: If you take away from the money from that it’s the possibilities it would

bring. It just goes to other funds and different resources we need to continue this project.


s. Shahryar: Funding originally came from the Obama stimulus package but that money has gone away. It’s hard to get kids to donate. That’s why they partner with Universities. In the past, the ASUC has always given them a full waiver, but I understand the situation isn’t the same as it is in the past. It brings together 500-1000 students every year.

t. Lieu: Just to clarify, if we fund half, because it says the soruce of funding for the preschool kit supplies are coming from Kaiser and Alameda County? Regardless of how we fund this venue, we won’t affect the kids that they serve.

u. Guest: It’s not just about the kids. It’s also about having the facility getting the support from Cal

v. Deo: So you stated that this has been done before?w. Shahryar: Last year we got double full Pauley, year before same. It brings

together all of the media and it’s a very cool hit.x. Chini: I’m genuinely proud to go to a school that has this event and I do want to

support it but we have a huge deficit running so I can’t fathom giving $1250 of full waiver. I’m happy to get a half waiver which is $625 from the students.

y. Sadia: I want to move it to a consensus to make a decision. From the temperature, half waiver is down for everyone?

z. Lieu: Half waiver for both days? 625 both days? aa. Sadia: Yes.bb. Hua: I want to fund a full waiver.cc. Sadia: Their budget is quite large, and a lot of budgets are quite smaller. I know

donations are a lot smaller. We want to gain money for event services.dd. Deo: When we’re looking at waivers, are we looking at the impact on the

community? We’ve done that in the past, based on numbers of groups that show up. When we looked MSA, they did have big budgets, but there were a large amount of members from the community that came out. When we’re looking towards that it would make sense for a full waiver.

ee. Hua: I think their budget will be very different because they are a nonprofit and it’s probably not a budget that we’re used to.

ff. Shahryar: this is a nonprofit that has a huge operation in CA, but they traditionally rely on spaces being donated which is why they come to UC Berkeley. That’s what their notion is based on.

gg. Deo: So this is an event for 2 days. So we’d be requesting a full waiver for both days.

hh. Chini: Want to emphasize that this event will happen regardless of a full waiver or half waiver. Yes, granting a full waiver will not impact our contingency. We’ll be $625 less in our Contingency. If this event would not happen without a full waiver, I would be all for it. In 5 years, that’s the direction that the ASUC could head. MOTION FOR A HALF WAIVER

ii. JACOBO SECONDS


jj. HUA OPPOSESkk. VOTE TO CHANGE IT TO HALF WAIVER:

i. THOSE OPPOSED1. KANG2. HUA3. DEO

ii. IN FAVOR1. KLEIN

ll. Deo: want to discuss it more. mm. Sadia I just want the convo to go towards a consensus. nn. Deo: I just want to discuss it a little bit more. I just want to go through the

justifications for each vote. So we can fully understand. Are we measuring by impact of event, or by budget? For MSA and Indus, we would still do the event, but it would impact them in the future.

oo. Sadia: It’s a mixture of both. K to college is a student group and non profit. If it were only a student group we could evaluate based on just Spring Budgeting. This is a specific case so we’re looking at every avenue. Officer Chini was saying that we do have a deficit. I also do understand that it is a non profit. Looking at the budget, I agree with officer Chini. It seems to have enough funding and strength to make it happen.

pp. Jacobo: Applying for sponsorship. Just looking at budget for last two years they would be a 1st year SISG.

qq. Shahryar: Jan will clarify this. They were sponsored last year. They didn’t go through Spring Budgeting. As a result, lost their sponsorship.

rr. Lieu: They weren’t even on 2011 – 2012.ss. Shahryar: For two cycles. They didn’t need to go through Spring Budgeting

because they didn’t need any money. When they tried to appeal. tt. Deo: I understand the event can still happen if there’s a half waiver, but can you

describe the impact if there’s a half waiver instead of a full one. uu. Shahryar: It’s serviving off of community donations and state and local funding

which is always influx. Generally something this big wouldn’t come to student government. They started in Berkeley and everyone who works there are UC Berkeley graduates. They have an event every year which affects 500,000 people. Comes down to their total budget or student group budget. The impact the student group has is less.

vv. Guest: Parts why a lot of people feel like we don’t need a waiver is because it’s a large scale event. But it’s a large scale event because it’s great. That shouldn’t impact the amount of money we need. We just want support and we need this but it will affect us in the future.


ww. Lieu: If you could help me out in the logic of one needing a full waiver and yet in the budget I see misplaced priorities in quaker oatmeal bars, in cheese and pepperoni pizzas. Why were those funds given to tshirts?

xx. Hua: They probably don’t account for venues because usually non profits are given venues for free, whereas food and tshirts aren’t as easily canvassed for.

yy. Shahryar: as they were budgeting, they might have been assuming the venue would have been accounted for

zz. Guest: Part of the sponsorship program we have with Kaiser is that they require their employees to volunteer at service events. Kaiser wanted us to have that budget to make sure that their employees and students have enough food and tshirts and incentives to come. It wasn’t under our discretion because first and foremost we would of course budget for the venue.

aaa. Chini: I understand Senator Deo’s point that we funded groups that would’ve funded the event regardless of our full or half waiver. I’d like to say that this committee has set $785 for GOF and brought that down. I really think our ASUC deficit and Cal Lodge, we really can’t afford to give full waivers. Especially when it’s 2 full waivers for the most expensive facility we have on campus. I’d like to propose the philosophy that a full waiver is only granted when the event cannot happen.

bbb. Sadia: does anyone want to say anything? ccc. Tom just came in. ddd. Sadia summarizing: giving the choice of full waiver or half waiver. Chini

says it’s more of a better idea to grant a half waiver because of current financial situation. Summary.

eee. FAVOR OF GRANTING HALF WAIVER FOR K TO COLLEGE1. LIEU2. JACOBO

ii. OPPOSED1. HUA2. KANG3. DEO4. LEE

iii. MOTION FAILSfff. Sadia: We have to have a specific reason for doing that.ggg. Shahryar: We would have to do Saturday full waiver and Sunday half

waiverhhh. Sadia: Either way it’s money. It doesn’t matter how many people are

coming each day.iii. SADIA MOTIONS TO GRANT A FULL WAIVER FOR SATURDAY AND

HALF WAIVER FOR SUNDAYi. KANG SECONDS


ii. MOTION PASSESsVII. Brenda Lee:

a. Guest: Want a full waiver. A lot of models spent money from their own pocket. This fashion show’s purpose is to display all of the hard work that designers have put in. Rented Tan Oak Room and other rooms so we really need a fee waiver for Pauley Ballroom.

b. Tom: How many students will be attending?c. Guest: Expecting 250 – 300 students. Fashion show is a really big fashion show. Holds a

bi-annual fashion show and usually we sell out tickets and so we rent out Pauley Ballroom.

d. Sadia: Half of Pauley holds 250? Runway?e. Guest: Yes.f. Chini: External Funding?g. Guest: We don’t get external funding so we’re trying to waive this cost.h. Chini: Profits from last year were a little over 1,000. i. Sadia: It would negatively impact the student group and event if they don’t get the full

waiver.j. Kang: Agree. With the Tan Oak and other room, you are paying for that right?k. Guest: Yes.l. Kang: We should give them the full waiver because it seems like it would really be

detrimental to them if we don’t. $300 is a lot.m. Chini: Point of information: on the application, the group stated if they don’t receive

funding, they have to use proceeds from last year. There were more than $1,000 of proceeds.

n. Sadia: Have you use the $1,000?o. Guest: We are still in the process of printing materials. A lot of proceeds go towards

printing materials and other services.p. Deo: There’s no other sources of funding other than Senate contingency?q. Sadia: SOF?r. Deo: If we give a half waiver, what happens?s. Guest: We’ll still continue event but it will negatively hurt our financials.t. Jacobo: How would it impact?u. Guest: We would have to spend extra money when we have other things to do to benefit

the fashion show. DJ, cloths, press packets, printing, tickets, banner, v. Lee: Proceeds from last year?w. Sadia: Is all of the proceeds covering that?x. Guest: we might collect model dues, but yes.y. Sadia: How many people are coming?z. Guest: 250 – 300. aa. Sadia: I think they’re making money from ticket sales, profits from last year.


bb. Hua: This is a really expensive event. They need to buy DJ, cloths, press packets, printing, tickets, banner, and even if they get max capacity times $5 is only $1500. That’s definitely not enough to pay for everything, even adding past profits.

cc. Guest: We have to buy make up artists and lighting.dd. Chini: In the long run, this hurts all student groups. Asking the body to not be short

sighted and think of the long term. Broken record.ee. Sadia: Are we going to start funding $800 for just I-House?ff. Guest: FAST is a unique student org. It’s the only fashion student org on campus. I’m a

first year and the only club I saw was FAST because it was something I was interested in. I worked at Nordstrom and there wasn’t any other club that truly appealed to me like FAST did. Going to a fashion show can show community that Berkeley is not always about academics.

gg. Sadia: It’s been really tough and we’re in this project deficit. We want to help you out. We’re trying to figure out the best way to service your needs.

hh. SADIA MOTION TO PASS HALF WAIVERi. SECOND

1. LEEii. OPPOSED

1. HUA2. JACOBO

iii. MOTION DOES NOT PASSii. Jacobo: Is this the last time you will come in for funding?jj. Guest: We come every semester for a fashion show.kk. Hua: You won’t be able to come in next semester because it’s being renovated.ll. Sadia: Subsidizing the cost of IHouse venue. We don’t own that space but we’re trying to

subsidize the cost of half of that for what we’re going to be giving. We want student groups to have same access. For future, that might be where you want to start having your event.

mm. MOTION TO PASS FULL WAIVERi. IN FAVOR

1. LIEU2. LEE3. DEO

ii. OPPOSED1. JACOBO2. KANG3. HUA4. SAIFFUDIN

VIII. Old Business


IX. New BusinessSB 169 - A Bill in Support of the Mixed Student Union’s Annual Fall Conference

1. Tia Weinberg: Finance Coord for MSU. Core member of bridges. Had event on November 17th. MSU’s annual fall conference. Facilitating workshops focusing on mixed identity and mixed race issues. 100 students came out and it was across campus. Requesting money for parking permits and printing programs.

2. Pepito: MOTION TO AMEND THE BUDGET TO CUT FUNDING FOR FLYERS. THEY ENDED UP NOT DOING FLYERS SO CUT $15.

a. LEE SECONDSb. PASSED

3. SADIA MOTION TO AMEND TOTAL REQUESTED AMOUNT TO $119

a. JACOBO SECONDSb. MOTION PASSES

4. Jacobo: Was this a mistake on your part or is it a necessity for you to have this money? The $70 that were cut off.

5. Guest: Programs not as big of a deal. The big event for fall is fall conference and for Spring, it’s the Senior Weekend. Trying to focus on allocating more money towards senior weekend and spring events because that’s our big event. Programs aren’t as big of a deal since we applied for a lot of grants so I can probably figure out somewhere else to get that money from. More so the parking. We can’t get that from any other sources of funding.

6. SADIA MOTIONS TO PASS THE BILLa. HUA SECONDSb. BILL PASSES

7. JACOBO, SADIA ADDED AS COSPONSOR,

SB 170 - A Bill in Support of the East Asian Union/Asian-American Association’s Night Market

TOM MOTIONS TO TABLE THIS BILL BECAUSE ONE OF THE INVOICES FROM THE BUDGET HASN’T COME IN FOR ELECTRICIAN.Klein: if you table this bill, it will be heard before recess for winter?Sadia: We have a meeting next week.

SECOND MOTIONTABLED

SB 171 - A Bill In Support of the Delta House of PancakesSadia: Requesting $500 from GOF. Jacobo: Where are you getting funding from? I know this event happened already so I had some questions. Do you want to table it?Tom: If you have a question, considering this already happened and we do have another week to consider, I mean..Sadia: We can table it but I’d rather not (Kang agrees). I don’t want anyone to feel silenced. If there’s an issue we can talk about it.


Chini: The bill is going to pass, it just seems unconscionable that we’re funding $380 for photobooth.Lieu: How much in the GOF do we have left?Chini: $4,600.Lieu: That’s out of $8,000?Chini: Yes.Sadia: I want to come to some decision about this. That’s a conversation worth having for ATDF.SADIA MOVES TO PSAS SB 171

HUA SECONDSTom: To address Chini’s concern, it might be that they requested $380 for photobooth and they spent money on everything else. Chini: It’s just a loophole to get food money.Jacobo: Concern is that we’re funding an event for the total amount without the group being here. Would we do this for another group? It’s the full amount. For them not to be here and for us to pass it easily. Sadia: If you are down, we can table it for next week and have Sahana come in. I was in communication with her and she had me look at the budget. I knew the bill was coming and I made sure everything was in the soft caps. I told her we don’t fund food. If you want to table it, we can table. If you want to pass, we can pass. Especially for our Senators not to take advantage of our personal relationships. What do you think?SADIA MOTIONS TO TABLE SB 171.Klein: I want to table it knowing that we’ll come to a decision. Sadia: Yeah, just for them to come in and talk to us.

SB 173 - A Bill in Support of K to College

Klein: In the resolution clause it says to recognize it as a 4th year SISG and from what EAVP Abbassi told us, it seems like they’ve missed Spring Budgeting. Chini: If they apply every year, 2 years did elapse. Hua: There was a Ski Team bill that was passed for sponsorship but isn’t in Spring Budgeting. Deo and Lieu: We found the bill.Klein: I’d like to make a note that if you could talk to the auxiliary to make sure that the bills are included in Spring Budgeting.SADIA MOTIONS TO AMEND THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED CLAUSE TO SAY “THAT THE ASUC RECOGNIZE K TO COLLEGE AS A 4TH YEAR SISG”

LIEU SECONDSPASSES

SADIA MOTIONS TO PASS SB 173HUA SECONDS

SB 176 - A Bill in Support of Bay Area Social Justice HackersKlein: I want to create a new club. Pair programmers with nonprofits. Programmers can use their skills for the common good. Berkeley should have something like this. Need to fix some line items.Rose: Is this group registered under the LEAD center?Klein: No, wasn’t aware. Etc.SADIA MOTIONS TO TABLE


JACOBO SECONDSMOTION PASSED

X. Elected Official Announcement

XI. Adjournment


SB 169-A Bill in Support of the Mixed Student Union’s Annual Fall Conference-PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS

Authored By Tia Weinberg and Jason HuynhSponsored By Senator Pepito and Senator Majd

WHEREAS, MSU is a 16th year Student Activity Group (SAG) that is a core member of Bridges that promotes the interaction and expression of ethnic identities and establishes unity by building an inclusive community that explores mixed “race” experiences; and,

WHEREAS, MSU initiates partnerships with campus organizations and other marginalized communities; and,

WHEREAS, MSU increases awareness and education through dialogue of multiethnic issues, ultimately fostering personal growth and empowerment; and,

WHEREAS, MSU is the only student organization on the UC Berkeley campus devoted to the mixed race, multiethnic/multicultural, and transracial adoptee community, providing a fun, safe, and comfortable environment for people of mixed heritage or those who are interested; and,

WHEREAS, MSU was allocated $877.49 during Spring Budgeting for the 2012-2013 year; and,

WHEREAS, MSU’s allocated budget is spent on other programs and events that happen throughout the year such as:

REVENUES FUNDING SPECIFICATIONS COST Occurrence CurrentExpected Total

Fundraisers Parent’s Weekend Bake Sale $15 1 $75 $75

Halloween Bake Sale $15 1 $75 $75

Bingo Fundraiser $0 1 $500 $500

Spring Fundraisers $15 2 $75 To be determined

Programming Related

ASUC Spring Budgeting ASUC Spring Budgeting $877.49

TOTAL REVENUES: $650


Annual Fall Conference Publicity Flyers (250) 60

Fall Event Hospitality Food and Drink 1012

Gifts and Supplies 1200

TOTAL ESTIMATED EVENT EXPENSE: $2272

Bridges Senior Weekend/Cal Day Transportation BART tickets 600

Spring Event (Projected) Supplies Folders, Pens, Name Tags, Balloons 90

Hospitality Food and Drink 310


6 general meetings; 6 social meetings Publicity Flyers/copies 40

(3 Fall, 3 Spring); (3 Fall, 3 Spring) Materials and supplies Posters, pens, paper 30

Hospitality Food and Drink 360


2 Bridges Study Jams

(1 Fall, 1 Spring) Hospitality Food and Drink 300


WHEREAS, The Fall Conference is an annual event sponsored by MSU that invites speakers to facilitate workshops revolving around issues about mixed race and identity for students from universities across California; and,


WHEREAS, The Fall Conference creates a safe space for college students to begin conversations that they bring back to their campuses and respective Mixed Student Unions; and,

WHEREAS, The Fall Conference is in its 6th year and has continuously evolved, touching and

bringing together a myriad of people by utilizing and engaging in common interest in the mixed community; and,

WHEREAS, This year MSU’s Fall Conference includes speakers from universities across California as well as graduate students; and,

WHEREAS, Volunteers and artists support the Conference and its cause by performing free of charge,

except for our Keynote Speaker who participates with honorarium; and,

WHEREAS, The projected expenses for the Annual Fall Conference are outlined in the following line item budget:

Category Item Purpose Price/unit Quantity Total Total requested

Venue Parking For speakers outside the Berkeley area.

$16/permit 7 permits $112 $112

Publicity Flyers Advertising. $.05/flyer 300 flyers $15 $0

Posters Publicity. $2/poster 3 posters $6 [5th Account]

Name Tags For students to get to know each other.

$.05/name tag 100 name tags

$5 [5th Account]

Programs Outlines times of workshops.

$1.5/program (black/white)

100 programs

$150 $7

Hospitality Breakfast Food in the morning.

$1.75/person 90 people $300 [5th Account]

Lunch Food in the afternoon.

$4.75/person 90 people $600 Lisa Walker and MSD Office

Speaker and Sponsor Gifts

Thank you to those who helped.

$10/gift 15 gifts (1 gift/person)

$150 Multicultural Community Fund


Beverages For during the meals.

$1.25/beverage 90 beverages

$112 [5th Account]

Paper Plates For food. $0.14/plate 100 plates $14 [5th Account]

Napkins For cleanliness. $0.04/napkin 100 napkins $4 [5th Account]

Cups For drinks. $0.10/cup 100 cups $10 [5th Account]

Honorarium For Devin Hughes, the keynote speaker.

$200/speaker 1 speaker $200 Student Opportunity Fund

T-shirts For the participants.

$6/shirt 100 people $600 Community Fund, Jonathan Poullard, Student Opportunity Fund

Total Amount: Total Requested:

$2,272 $119.00

WHEREAS, The Fall Conference theme for this year is Mapping Out Mixed Identity, exploring how individual mixed identity is influenced by the individual’s origin, ethnically as well as physically, and how their identity has grown; and,

WHEREAS, MSU received $250 from the Multicultural Fund for the Fall Conference; and,

WHEREAS, MSU received $326 from the Co-Curricular Category of the Student Opportunity Fund for the Fall Conference; and,

WHEREAS, MSU received $300 from the Bridges Community Fund for the Fall Conference, $150 from RAZA and $150 from REACH; and,

WHEREAS, MSU received $200 from Jonathan Poullard, the Dean of Students, for the Fall Conference; and,

WHEREAS, MSU expects to receive $600 from Lisa Walker and the Multicultural Student Development Office for the Fall Conference; and,


WHEREAS, MSU expects to receive $511 from the Ethnic Studies 5th Account for the Fall Conference;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the ASUC recognize MSU’s Fall Conference as an ASUC-sponsored event; and,

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the ASUC Senate allocate $119.00 to MSU from the Senate Contingency fund for the Fall Conference.


SB 170-A Bill in Support of the East Asian Union/Asian-American Association’s Night Market-TABLED

Authored by Joey Lam, Senator Lee, Senator Kang, and Senator ChenSponsored by Senator Lee, Senator Kang, and Senator Chen

WHEREAS, the East Asian Union is a coalition of Asian cultural groups, serving to provide unity and resources for these constituent organizations; and,

WHEREAS, the EAU is a four-year ASUC-Sponsored Student Activity Group; and,

WHEREAS, the Night Market is EAU’s biggest event of the year, and has a very large campus impact; and,

WHEREAS, EAU is collaborating with AAA, the largest Asian-interest organization on campus in order to provide further unity in the Asian/API community at Cal; and,

WHEREAS, this year’s market includes food, drink, and performances; and,

WHEREAS, the event will be held on Thursday, November 15th, 2012, 7pm-9pm; and,

WHEREAS, the event also serves the purpose of uniting various cultural groups both within and outside of the East Asian Union; and,

WHEREAS, the budget for the EAU/AAA Night Market is as follows:

Item Name

Source (Optional)

Price/Unit Unit Count

Quantity Total

Requeste

d

Source of Funding (Optional)

Publicity

Flyers

0.19 (0.04 cap) 1 1000

$191.32

$40.00 ASUC

Posters

0.6 (0.10 cap) 1 100 $60.00

$10.00 ASUC

Event Use

Ticket Rolls 500 2 $10.00 $10 ASUC

Audio/Visual Equipment

$200.00 1 1 $20.00

$200.00 ASUC

Lighting $100.0

0 1 1 $100.0

0 $100.00 ASUC


Food $450.00 500 1 $450.0

0 $0 Misc. Group Fees

Event Total:

$831.32 $360

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Senate allocate $360 from the Senate Contingency Fund to the East Asian Union to fund the expenses for their event.


SB 171-A Bill In Support of the Delta House of Pancakes-TABLED

Authored by Senator Rajasekar Sponsored by Senator Rajasekar, Senator White

WHEREAS, Delta House of Pancakes is an all you can eat pancake buffet on November 18th; and,

WHEREAS, Delta House of Pancakes is an annual fundraiser to raise money for Delta Delta Delta’s philanthropy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; and,

WHEREAS, St. Jude is ranked as the number one pediatric cancer research hospital in the United States; and,

WHEREAS, The mission of St. Jude is to advance cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment; and,.

WHEREAS, No one is ever denied treatment at St. Jude based on race, religion, or family's inability to pay; and,

WHEREAS, Each year UC Berkeley Tridelta raises over $3,000 for St. Jude from this event alone; and,

WHEREAS, Delta House of Pancake’s budget is as follows

Category Item Purpose Price/Unit

Quantity Total Cost

Total Requesting

Food Butter Toppings 28.5 1 28.5 0Food Whipped

CreamToppings 32.5 1 32.5 0

Food Blueberries Toppings 37 1 37 0Food Strawberries Toppings 50.5 1 50.5 0Food Almonds Toppings 45 1 45 0Food Chocolate

chipsToppings 61 1 61 0

Food Coconut shreds

Toppings 30.5 1 30.5 0

Food Chocolate syrup

Toppings 11 1 11 0

Food Syrup Toppings 15 2 30 0Food Powdered

sugarToppings 2 2 4 0

Food Orange juice Drinks 71 1 71 0Food Apple juice Drinks 71 1 71 0Food Cups For food 100 1 100 0Food Paper plates For food 50 1 50 0Food Forks/ For food 80 1 80 0


knivesPR/Materials

Fliers (color) Advertisement 0.20 200 40 0

Decorations

Balloons Decorating 4 3 12 0

Decorations

Helium Inflating balloons

23.5 2 47 0

Decorations

Flowers Centerpieces 10 15 150 0

Prizes $20 Giftcard Pancake eating contest

20 1 20 0

Miscellaneous

Photobooth Raise $$ for St. Jude (charging $1/use)

380 1 380 380

Miscellaneous

Fire permit Safety 87 1 87 87

Miscellaneous

DJ To provide music

80 1 80 33

Total 1518 500

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the ASUC allocate $500 from the Greek Opportunity Fund for event costs.


SB 173-A Bill in Support of K to College-PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS

Authored by Senator Emily White and David Blanchard

Sponsored by Senator White

WHEREAS, K to College was founded in 2008 by a handful of UC Berkeley students and alumni; and,

WHEREAS, K to College started distributing school supplies at the South Berkeley YMCA, and have since expanded to deliver supplies throughout the Bay Area; and,

WHEREAS, K to College is now is a CA nonprofit public benefit corporation that provides tangible resources to low-income students in need. In 2010 K to College distributed $12,000,000 of school and dental supplies to more than 170,000 students; and,

WHEREAS, the student group K to College has supported the efforts of the nonprofit; and,

WHEREAS, the student group has organized many school assembly supply drives and united multiple campus communities by doing so; and,

WHEREAS, K to College has an assembly drive planned for December 1st and 2nd in Pauley Ballroom; and,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that K to College be recognized as a 4th year SISG.


SB 176-A Bill in Support of Bay Area Social Justice Hackers-TABLED

Authored by Senator Klein LieuSponsored by Senator Klein Lieu

WHEREAS, Bay Area Social Justice Hackers (BASH) is a Student Activity Group that will paid talented students in the fields of software and graphical design with nonprofit organizations invested in nurturing technical skills alongside enacting their various visions of social justice; and,

WHEREAS, BASH intends to develop a year long program that is divided into two stages: meaningful consultation and the Spring BASH; and,

WHEREAS, Meaningful consultation is a phase of BASH’s program that intends to equip two outstanding student leaders with the resources and mentorship support essential to identifying graphic design and/or software development project topics that will address pressing needs in the field of social justice; and,

WHEREAS, Spring BASH will be a two day event featuring teams of individuals from top research universities competing for two grand prizes of $1,000 to implement software development and graphic design project areas identified through meaningful consultation; and,

WHEREAS, the organization shall further enrich the thriving student body of UC Berkeley by providing a forum for programmers and graphic designers to take leadership roles in both social justice and on campus at large; and,

WHEREAS, the line-item start up budget for BASH is as follows; and,

Category Item Purpose Price/Unit Quantity Total Total Requested

Publicity Banner Publicity $40 1 $40 $40

Publicity Flyers Publicity $0.05 900 $45 $45

Operations Sharpies For Meetings $0.48 5 $2.38 $2.38

Operations Pens For Meetings $0.08 60 $4.99 $4.99

Operations Name badge holders For Meetings $0.25 24 $6.00 $6.00

Operations Name inserts For Meetings $0.06 400 $25.99

$25.99

Total Amount: Total Requested:


$124.36 $124.36

THEREFORE IT BE RESOLVED, that BASH be sponsored as a first year ASUC Student Activity Group; and,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that $124.36 be transferred from the ASUC contingency fund to fund BASH.

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