CSSA Minutes: May 5, 2002

California State University, Dominguez Hills
CSSA Board of Directors Meeting
May 5, 2002, 9:00 am - noon

CALL TO ORDER 9:10 a.m., Chair Robert Garcia.
ROLL CALL Present: Bakersfield, Chico, Dominguez Hills, Fresno, Fullerton, Hayward, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, Stanislaus. Humboldt and San Marcos a few minutes late.
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA with the change that there will be no closed session and that all New Business be moved to the start of the meeting. PASSED.
NEW BUSINESS
1. Action Item - Code of Ethics and Constitutional Changes (Ron Williams and Natoya Blaylock). Motion to approve, San Diego; second, Sacramento. The Code of Ethics is all encompassing and will apply to board members, executives and staff. PASSED. Motion to approve changes to CSSA Constitution, Sacramento; second, Stanislaus. Brandon Kline asked about deletion of Section D 2) h) (page 9), "[Legislative Affairs Chair s]hall direct Governmental Staff on behalf of the Committee." Ron said the Board holds the executive director accountable for staff; Brandon said ok, but the Constitution should so state. Emily Foster pointed out that "core themes" ought to be changed throughout to "policy agenda"-this was a change voted at April's conference. There is an important change in Article IV, Section D, 1), "Duties of the Chair," at n), "The chair or individual acting in his or her behalf shall enjoy all the same parliamentary rights as any other member of the board, including the power to make and second motions and the power to vote on all business and action items presented to the board, without vacating the chair." Emily asked what happens in the case of a tie; Ron responded the motion would fail. Motion PASSED.
2. Awards - Action Item. Motion to award Lori Erdman CSSA Administrator of the Year and Laurence K. Gould, Jr., CSSA Trustee of the Year, Stanislaus; second, Sacramento. Awards will also be presented to Stanley Wang, outgoing Trustee and Dr. Alistair McCrone, outgoing president at Humboldt State University. PASSED.
3. California Student Aid Commission nominations - action item. Motion to accept nominations of Emilia Patrick, Matt Martinez, Yulil Alonso-Garza, Cindi Newbold, Ayanna Bledsoe, and Joe Salas, Sacramento; second, Stanislaus. Emilia voiced discomfort with the process of simply accepting names to submit to the governor's office without having a committee review the candidates, especially as it sets a precedent. Motion to form a committee to consider nominations for California Student Aid Commission to forward to the governor's office, with Emily Foster as chair, Humboldt; second, Fresno. PASSED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
1. Executive Committee. Susana Gonzalez explained that CSSA received 3 proposals for design and hosting of our webpage. The most comprehensive services are offered by the Chancellor's Office; in addition, 1 student and 1 private company submitted proposals. The private company would charge $300 for each additional webpage we wanted, whereas the Chancellor's Office would launch unlimited additional webpages at no charge. Joe Salas noted that our website is our most important communication tool. Emily Foster said the Chancellor's Office bid of $3600 per year is excessive; that may be reasonable to design and launch the webpage, but for servicing it in years thereafter, it's too much. Manuel Cardoza asked who would determine content-the response was, CSSA, with the Chancellor's Office having no control over our content. Our key documents would be posted, including our Constitution. Motion to contract with the Chancellor's Office for design and maintenance of CSSA website, Sacramento; second, Humboldt. PASSED.
2. University Affairs, Haleemon Anderson. The Committee will watch two Executive Orders, 792 re grade appeals and 393 re academic probation-both will be on next month's agenda. There was discussion of how to improve the Committee and Transition. With regard to action items, motion to approve Resolution on Equitable Student Parking and Transportation, Dominguez Hills, with the change that shared governance be cited within the resolution as a reference (in the 1st resolve, CSSA calls upon the Chancellor to invoke [the Resolution on Student Participation in Policy Development (REP 07/01/04), adopted by the CSU Board of Trustees at its July 10-11, 2001, meeting], San Francisco; second, San Bernardino. PASSED.
3. Legislative Affairs, Brandon Kline. Motion to adopt legislative positions as follows: Oppose AB 1756 on higher education/noncitizen students/reporting; support AB 2153 on admission recruitment retention and remediation policies; support AB 2277 on elections reapportionment and constitutional amendment; support AB 2533 on campus crime statistics; support AB 2583 on sexual assault; support ACR 159 on student housing; watch ACR 189 on San Bernardino campus Chicano Studies Dept; watch SB 1266 on student financial aid/Cal Grant; watch SB 1339 on admissions; support SB 1412 on voter registration on campuses; and support SB 1820 on CPEC clearinghouse. Motion made by Sacramento; second, Stanislaus. Motion to recommend WACUHO resolution for approval FAILED.
4. Multicultural Caucus. Motion to adopt the Resolution in Support for the Quality and Preservation of the Native American Studies Department, with the change to the 9th "whereas," so that that whereas would read, "having faculty from other disciplines without having intimate knowledge of Native American studies teach Native American Studies curriculum would short change and devalue the academic experience for all students," Humboldt; second, Stanislaus. PASSED. Motion by Los Angeles, seconded by Stanislaus, to support the boycott of Abercrombie & Fitch. There was discussion as to whether CSSA ought to entertain issues other than those centered in education. Susana Gonzalez said she should research whether taking a stand on a boycott such as the one presented jeopardizes CSSA's tax status; Bruce countered that not being an auxiliary, CSSA actually has more freedom in that regard. Ronda Newt-Scott, San Francisco, said this is another instance of CSSA sitting on the fence, and Abercrombie & Fitch was selling racist t-shirts and objecting to that is clearly the business of MCC. Brandon said MCC was created to address education issues. Ron Williams, San Diego, said a pro position wouldn't compromise our status and that it is appropriate to use our power to advocate social issues. Lorrie Unruh, Northridge, asked if signing on to the boycott means no students present can buy any Abercrombie & Fitch products; Ron responded it only means that the organization endorses the boycott. Christy Zamani said MCC was created to end should we/shouldn't we questions. Motion PASSED (8 yes/1 no/2 abstentions).
5. Administrative Affairs. Motion to accept the 2002-2003 budget, Los Angeles; second, Sacramento. Emily noted that the entire deficit will be paid off this year. The executive travel budget will be increased by $5000 to accommodate expenses of the 2 liaisons. If 80 percent of dues are received, we will have a $17,910.35 surplus; if 100 percent, a $64,387.62 surplus. PASSED. Motion to approve reimbursement in amount not to exceed $2300 of student liaison to Alumni council, Stanislaus; second, Los Angeles. PASSED. Motion to approve revised Travel Policy (that will supercede the staff and executive travel policies), with the following changes: text under "Mileage Reimbursement" to read "The CSSA's reimbursement for mileage will be the at the California State University's rate of $.345/mile"; and add text under first paragraph of "Lodging" as follows: The Executive Committee is authorized to grant exceptions to lodging policies for staff and executives. Motion made by Stanislaus; second, Humboldt. PASSED. Motion to adopt Authorized Signatures policy, Stanislaus; second, Humboldt.
6. Communications Committee. Motion to declare design D logo contest winner, Long Beach; second, Hayward. FAILED (4 in favor/7 opposed). Board members then chose their top 3 designs; then from the top 3, they chose 1 favorite. The result that design O won with 12 votes; the next closest design was F with 3 votes.
EXECUTIVE REPORTS
1. Robert Garcia, Chair. Robert thanked Dominguez Hills for a great conference and said he was looking forward to having the website up by Transition 1.
2. Emily Foster, Internal Vice Chair. No report.
3. Joe Salas, External Vice Chair. No report, except to commend Brandon for all his no student fee increase work.
4. Brandon Kline, Legislative Affairs Committee Chair. Brandon distributed a written report. He commented that the Legislative Analyst's Office is a thorn in our side and that Dr. Reed has signed on to Youth Vote. Bill Simon's campaign is hinting Simon will sign on, too. Brandon was pleased with the discussion in Legislative Affairs yesterday. Next Thursday is the Starving Student Luncheon, an opportunity to demonstrate that students are already poor and hungry and don't need to have their fees increased.
5. Haleemon Anderson, University Affairs Committee Chair. Haleemon noted the first reading of a housing resolution, the fact that University Affairs is looking at two Executive Orders, 792 on grade appeals and 393 on academic probation. CSU's standard for declaring someone a sophomore is being raised from 56 units to 60. University Affairs had a roundtable discussion on improving its function and accounts from various campuses of their Cal State Cares experiences.
6. Natoya Blaylock, Multi Cultural Caucus Speaker. Natoya introduced the chair of the Retention Summit, Rosa Hernandez, who explained that the event was cancelled due to failure of the program to come together and poor communication between students and staff. Rosa stated that speakers who had committed to the May date would like to be involved again. The proposal is to hold the event earlier in the school year. Susana said that in future staff will do the actual event planning, after students have made the key decisions. Natoya is drafting changes to the MCC bylaws. She thanked everyone for their commitment to MCC; she also thanked Tanya from San Francisco, who was the only Latino/a to respond to the call issued in January for a May Latino/a presentation at MCC.
CLOSING COMMENTS
Bruce Wolfe, San Francisco, noted SB 1520 would ban soda from public schools. He reported the San Francisco Academic Senate has approved a joint Ed.D. in urban education, K-12, to be offered by San Francisco/Hayward/Berkeley as a 3-year program that would cost around $10,000/year. The question is whether this is really affordable. The cost comparison is to a doctorate offered by a private school, which seems wide of the mark. California Student Aid Commission applications are due this coming Friday. James Nguyen, San Marcos, thanked the board for listening to information on the boycott of Abercrombie & Fitch. Manuel Cardoza, San Bernardino, thanked Dominguez Hills and all nonreturning board members. Angie Hacker, San Luis Obispo, said she would distribute via email SLO's resolution on the campus budget once that resolution is passed. José Solache thanked his ASI staff and student volunteers for working so hard on the conference.

Adjourn 11:38 a.m., San Bernardino; second, Sacramento. PASSED.