April 16, 2024

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Meeting Minutes

Associated Students of the University of Utah

2023-2024 ASUU Assembly, Cycle 7

General Assembly Meeting Minutes

4.16.2024 6PM

Call to Order
1. Assembly Chair will call the meeting to order to convene the General Assembly session.

Roll Call

Faith and Emily, Antonio Chicas and Kennon Buss, Crockett, Joseph,
1. The Parliamentarian will take and document roll call.
  1. Affinity & Inclusion
  2. Sports & Recreation

Academics & Research

Advocacy & Awareness
Rules

Land Acknowledgement

“We acknowledge that this land, which is named for the Ute Tribe, is the traditional and ancestral homeland of the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute Tribes. The University of Utah recognizes and respects the enduring relationship that exists between many Indigenous peoples and their traditional homelands. We respect the sovereign relationship between tribes, states, and the federal government, and we affirm the University of Utah’s commitment to a partnership with Native Nations and Urban Indian communities through research, education, and community outreach activities.”

Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
1. Time for the Assembly to formally vote to approve the previous General Assembly’s Meeting Minutes as transcribed by the Assembly Secretary.
2. Cycle 6 Meeting Minutes

Public Forum
1. Opportunity for members of the public (i.e. any non-Assembly community members) to spend time talking with and/or presenting to the Assembly.
2. Law School Admissions Presentation – Reyes Aguilar

General Announcements
1. Time for any ASUU Assembly Representatives to share out any important announcements with the group.

Rules Committee Reports
1. Members of the Assembly Rules Committee will have time to share out updates from their areas (i.e. what they and their teams are working on.)
2. Chair Dong
  1. Assembly Revision Committee
  2. Please pay attention, please be timely

Vote individually, vote about what you care about

Recognize that we need to make cuts, but don’t nitpick
Viewing: $62,989.74; Remaining: $42K; Assuming CC is passed: $35K

AR Subcommittee Chair Altamiranda
ACI Subcommittee Chair Burnett
SRM Subcommittee Chair Crockett
AAS Subcommittee Chair Locke
Parliamentarian Maughan
Treasurer Johnson
Vice Chair Bayard

Ex-Officio Reports
1. Ex-Officio members of the Assembly will have time to share out updates from their areas (i.e. what they and their teams are working on.)
2. Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Director Estorpe
3. Finance Director Subotic
4. Academic Affairs Director Carson
5. Attorney General Ho
6. President O’Leary

Old Business
1. Time updates on any legislation that was introduced during previous sessions.

New Business
1. Time to introduce all new legislation to the Assembly floor.
2. Assembly Allocation Spreadsheet: https://1drv.ms/x/c/5e5ca2fb489fedab/EZ2mwFliU_ZMnBz5z5oVBZIBLIMnCLnWU1S80VixAZd9wA
3. Consent Calendar ($8,303.53)
  1. AB 302 - Rep. Brown, Student Council for Exceptional Children ($500.00)
  2. AB 303 - Rep. Brown, Students for the Wasatch ($340.89)

AB 304 - Rep. Johnson, Invisible ($200.00)

AB 305 - Rep. Kotter, Graduate Student Public Health Group ($81.18)
AB 306 - Rep. 3Kotter, Red Cross Club ($225.00)
AB 307 - Rep. Locke, HOSA ($550.00)

AB 308 - Rep. Altamiranda, American Medical Women's Association - Premed Chapter ($56.00)
AB 309 - Rep. Dutton, Infectious Diseases Group ($350.87)

AB 310 - Rep. Dutton, Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter ($241.73)
AB 311 - Rep. Nielsen, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Club ($38.01)
AB 312 - Rep. Dong, Baking Club ($376.13)

AB 313 - Rep. Dong, Food For Me ($653.05)
AB 314 - Rep. Burke, Arab Student Association ($220.00)
AB 315 - Rep. Burke, Hydroponics Club ($484.53)

AB 316 - Rep. Parra, Japanese American Student Association ($118.99)

AB 318 - Rep. Thomas, Utah Students Studying Russian ($305.00)
AB 319 - Rep. Joseph, Crimson Gaming ($913.60)
AB 320 - Rep. Joseph, Disc Golf Club ($253.88)
AB 334 - Rep. Bond, Storytime Improv Club ($186.94)

AB 336 - Rep. Parra, Student Academy of Audiology ($845.00)

AB 337 - Rep. Spratling, Anthropomorphic Society ($70.00)
AB 338 - Rep. Spratling, Fly Fishing Club ($132.04)
AB 340 - Rep. Crockett, Women's Club Soccer ($800.00)

Bills ($20,565.07)
1. AB 321 - Rep. Alba, Engineers Without Borders ($1878.75)
2. AB 322 - Rep. Kotter, Dream Campus Ministry ($2202.20)

AB 325 - Rep. Buss, Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration ($3983.50)

AB 327 - Rep. Burnett, Pakistani Student Association ($1820.00)
AB 330 - Rep. Joseph, Club Swim ($3398.00)
AB 332 - Rep. Reese, Men's Lacrosse Club ($3932.62)

AB 333 - Rep. Reese, U Marksmanship Club ($1400.00)
AB 339 - Rep. Crockett, Women's Ultimate ($1950.00)

Supermajority Bills ($34,121.14)
1. AB 317 - Rep. Buss, Persian Student Association ($375.30)
2. AB 323 - Rep. Parra, Indian Students Association ($7892.37)

AB 324 - Rep. Buss, Music in Medicine ($4561.00)

AB 326 - Rep. Thomas, AASA ($1854.88)
AB 328 - Rep. Burnett, Samoan Club ($1200.00)
AB 329 - Rep. Bond, American Society for Civil Engineers ($9080.26)

AB 331 - Rep. Joseph, Men's Ultimate ($4577.75)
AB 335 - Rep. Bond, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers ($79.58)

AB 341 - Rep. Crockett, Ballroom Dance Company ($4500.00)

Joint Legislation
1. JB 15.1 - Legislation to Redesign the CSC System at the University of Utah
2. JB 15.2 - Legislation to Redesign the CSC System at the University of Utah
Presentation
Israelsen: Refer to whereas clauses
Questions
Kotter: The first is to make sure I know what is going on, student governments are able to govern their own college? The reapplication gets you to do it every year?
Israelsen: yes
Cernyar: Why does the dean have to sign off on it?
Israelsen: The csc model doesn’t work because some deans do not allow it
O’Leary: If a dean doesn’t support it can they not be registered?
Israelsen: That is up to the senate's discretion
Johnson: If there is no ASUU leadership then how are they supposed to know how to write legislation or how to get this started?
Israelsen: If they know it exists then they know how to start it. Look at Business student government. They put themselves together.
O’Leary: Why can student governments write legislation and have them serve as ex-officios? Isn’t that the senates job?
Israelsen: That is the sentors job but this is so the senator doens’t have to be involved for it to be able to function.
Cernyar: Why is someone required from every department?
Israelsen: That is up to the Senates discretion
Kotter: If there is a college that isn’t interested in filing for recognition then they will never be on the list?
Israelsen: If they never speak to us then we won’t know they exist
Johnson: Will they be invited to our trainings so they can learn how to write legislation?
Israelsen: No we don’t invite RSOs so why would we invite them
Subotic: What is the point of Senate then, they are supposed to fund CSCs?
Israelsen: The point of Senate is to be a second pair of eyes and they look at everything.
O’Leary: Why are they called college student governments?
Israelsen: They are like the states, no one knows what a csc is
Debate
Johnson: People know what a csc is, they know what my csc is
Thomas: I think this is a lot of work and great job, but I do have my concerns because this is hard and it is hard because there are 20 people in one department in our college
Cernyar: I think this is great but I have concerns
Johnson: I think this is great work however I don’t see anyone sitting in as an ex-officio for free so I would want to amend that because I don’t want to pass this as is
O’Leary: Senators should be involved in this because that is one of their main roles and we should be the ones who decide who is an ex-officio
1. Ff Locke: Senators should be involved in the process
2. O’Leary: The power is ours and I would encourage everyone that when they are voting to look at what they are giving away and who the power is being given to
3. Subotic: I don’t think changing the name to an RSG is going to be helpful. No one will know what it means and that doesn't change anything
4. Thomas: I have concerns over losing an advisor. We lost ours and under these rules we would have to lose our registration when it is out of our control
5. Johnson: This is something for the senators to handle and it takes pwer away from them
6. Cernyar: Students should be allowed to organize how they want
7. Thomas: I don’t think they should be allowed to endorse candidates, I ran for the presidency and was in my csc leadership. It gets messy
8. O’Leary: the point is ASUU should be involved
Vote

8 – Y

4 – N

4 – A

JB 16 - Legislation to Overhaul ECAB Organizations Funding Regulation

Pulled
1. JB 17 - Legislation to Streamline Student Organization Funding Regulation

Presentation
Sanjot: refer to whereas clauses
Questions
Kotter: The point of this is to give more power to legislatures but will it have to go to COSA?
O’Leary: COSA has to approve everything that changes bylaws
Debate
Kotter: The wording of this is very enthusiastic. I offer to amend the wording to make the whereas clauses more reflective of reality
Sanjot: Accepted. The whereas clauses do not matter
O’Leary: I would argue it does because everyone reads this and the board of trustees will have questions
Vote

15 – Y - Goes to reconciliation

0 – N

0 – A

JB 18 - Bill to Increase the Efficiency of Assembly

Presentation
Dong: refer to whereas clauses
Questions
Locke: What changes would this make to bills and stuff that are on the calander?
Dong: We would be able to pull things off review
Kotter: Would the bills be seen as full?
Maughan: Anyone could pull bills out for individual review. This is would allow the process to go faster and put more work into subcommittees first
Vote

11 – Y

0 – N

4 – A

JB 19 - Bill to Increase to Scope of Assembly Committees
Presentation
Dong: refer to whereas clauses
Vote

11 – Y

0 – N

4 – A

JB 20 - 2024 Class Gift Funding
Presentation
O’Leary: refer to whereas clauses. This will be a mobile feed U pantry
Questions
Kotter: Is there a fear that with increased accessibility to the food pantry that students that don’t need it will take advantage of it? Is there a system to prevent people from overusing it?
O’Leary: There is a stigma because that means that people that may not need it will probably not use it. They will not deny food to people whether they need it or not. This will also be more efficient because it allows them to pick up food donations and drop off to people in need that can’t go themselves.
Ethan: Is there a way for ASUU to build a collaborative effort with the pantry to get people involved with ASUU? Is there going to be ASUU branding on this van?
O’Leary: There will be ASUU branding as it is a class gift and it will be visible. Follow up questions need to be discussed with ASUU marketing. That will also be up to ASUU because they can build that relationship with the pantry.
Debate
Johnson: The feed U pantry is open for all volunteers and is open for everyone who can get food. They don’t ask questions because there are a dozen reasons to go to the feed U pantry.
Kotter: This is a great bill and my question was for clarification
Cernyar: I had accessibility issues and this will make it so much easier to access food on this campus
Vote

14 – Y

0 – N

JB 21: Ticket and Voting Representation

- Tabled by Senate

JR 07 - Resolution in Support of the Elimination of the Sale of Plastic Bottled Drink Products

Presentation
Bond: Refer to whereas clauses
Questions
O’Leary: Did you meet with the sustainability and contracts office?
Bond: This took so long because we had so many meetings, so the whereas clauses reflect that
Debate
Kotter: I would recommend you add a therefore be it resolved that adds to get rid of aluminum cans to something that is beneficial
Cernyar: Is there a resolve of sell of water bottles somewhere?
Bond: This used to be a lot more strict, but it has to deal with the actual contracting process. I would love for it to do that but due to the nature of politics we cannot
Dong: This will be hard to meet with these people because Anika is graduating but Erik will still be here so he can work on this further next year
Vote

14 – Y

0 - N

JR 08 - Resolution in Support of Increasing the ASUU Activity Fee

Presentation
Bond: refer to whereas clauses. We over allocate $100,000 every year and have no rollover this year
Questions
Dong: The state of CEB, we allocated $30,000 and the state is that they are breaking even, so the bill was failed in COSA. How did you conduct this analysis?
Bond: I was given a spreadsheet by O’Leary
O’Leary: We looked at sitting it at $30 per inflation. If you want to fund every club a certain amount, pay a living wage, and then have programming there needs to be a look at the financial situation. I sent it to Erik as these are some projections. That was a draft because we never decided to make that proposal
Bond: The biggest change in the spreadsheet is our income so we did it based off the change in our income. In the current state we over allocate $100,000. Because of roll over we are over allocating $70,000
Burke: Does this show up as student fees in your tuition?
O’Leary: It does but it is not part of your tuition
Oguz: Scholarships do cover it
Subotic: $70,000 isn’t the accurate number right now because it does not reflect where we are at and funding will decrease based on the fact of allocation
Cernyar: What would you say to students that think this is just more money they have to pay?
Bond: This is necessary for the state of ASUU because we are at risk of getting our money cut if we can’t provide for students
Dong: Who sees this?
O’Leary: The board of student fees and board of trustees
Debate
O’Leary: If we didn’t need this bill I would tell you and we need to be able to keep providing for students and this is the way to do it.
Vote

14 – Y

0 – N

JR 09 - Resolution in Support of Water Conservation and Landscape Intentionality
JR 10 - Legislation in Support of Mandatory Mental Health Skills Training for Staff and Faculty
Presentation
Maughan: refer to whereas clauses
Questions
1. Locke: Is the training virtual?
2. Maughan: Yes, it will be online
3. Cernyar: Is it mandatory for students?
4. Maughan: It is not but any student can take it
5. Debate
6. Vote

14 – Y

0 – N

JR 11 - Legislation in Support of Requiring University of Utah Students to Complete Firearm Education Training

Representative Forum
1. Time for Assembly Representatives to share out with the group regarding any initiatives, programs, or projects of interest. This is a great opportunity to recruit fellow Reps for support.
2. Chair Dong
  1. Overall: 21 JBs, 11 JRs, 341 ABs, 176 Student Organizations
  2. Thank you!

Adjournment