October 17, 2024

Call to Order 

• Michi calls the meeting to order at 11:02 AM 

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Roll Call 

Senators	Present	Absent	Late	Excused
Michi Ozaki (Chair)	X
Minseo Kim	X
Dariga Burkhanova	X

Interns	Present	Absent	Late	Excused
(No interns yet since this is the 3rd meeting of the quarter)

Advisors	Present	Absent	Late	Excused
Dayna Swanson	X

Guests
Myles Vongnankhone
Hamza Moharram
Genesis Mailangi
Fiona Chang
Yoon Po Po Aung
Haoru Wang-Max
Bella Eydel
Aroush Fatima
Julia Kuznian
Mia Lin
Yewon Kim
Elisha Wjaya
Zoe Koswara
Mark Manansala
Caitlin Lam

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Approval of Minutes 

• October 10th, 2024

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Public Comments 

• None

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Advisor Announcements 

• None

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Business Item 1

Title: Check-in

Presenters: All

Prompt: What is on your bucket list?

Business Item 2

Title: Eco-fund Project Presentation and Discussion

Presenters: : Environmental Monitoring Club (EMC), Dariga

• Environmental Monitoring Club:
  
          - The environmental monitoring club focuses on environmental monitoring, and improvement efforts. The club aims to better understand the ecological value the surrounding environment provides.
  
          - The club was reactivated, designated new officers, set goals and plans, got new members, and volunteer work.
• MAIN PROJECTS: The Tree Map and Volunteer work
  
  o Volunteer Work; partnership with Grassroots Ecology, a nonprofit focusing on habitat restoration with 13 sites around Silicon Valley Area. Next volunteer work will be November 17th
  
  o Tree Map; is the main project, a map that will display tree data(species, height, diameter, and location). Will help to provide information and raise awareness of the environmental benefit of trees on campus. Planning on expanding beyond campus, to the entire Bay Area. T this concept in itself has been approved by NYC Park, Global Forest Watch. Currently our campus has 2,500 trees on campus according to the Tree Inventory (2022)
  
  
  - Tree Map Plan divided into 2 parts, one is web development, and the second is data collection. o Web development: create a prototype tree map o Data collecting: biweekly on Friday 2pm-2pm, at De Anza College. Starting this Friday, October 18th. Club is seeking funds for technical support, providing supplies for volunteers, and online/offline promotional items

Business Item 3

Title: Bike Program Updates

Presenters: Minseo

• Minseo: Had a meeting with Dennis: where he contacted the Community Cycles ( the organization in charge of the bike maintenance) for the all bike maintenance for the next quarter. Besides that, the bike program that was yearly last year, is now quarterly so more students get more chances to have a bike. As of right now the bike request form is closed.
• Updated Bike Distribution Process: The bike request form will open on the 9th or 10th week of the quarter, and the next quarter we will already distribute the 2/3 of our bikes in the first 2 weeks. We will keep the leftover 1/3 bikes for new students who apply, and the form will remain open for them until the 3rd week of the quarter.
• 4 missing e-bikes, 8 e-bikes need maintenance, the organization that provided the e-bikes will do the maintenance, and they have been contacted. Those with missing e-bikes have been contacted by OCL. The fine for not returning the bike will be 30$, and the replacement fee costs about 1000$.
• Currently 66 applicants interested in borrowing regular bikes, and we will start distributing them from next week. Since we do not have corral keys, we haven’t been able to distribute them yet. Bike distribution process should be changed in order to make it more efficient and smooth.

Business Item 4

Title: Eco Fund Updates

Presenters: Dariga

• Dariga: An interest form has been created, but Dennis has yet to post it on the website. A marketing request for the EcoFund was submitted, and the designs will be shared at the next meeting. We also have access to last year’s flyer, which we can use to create new flyers for the interest form and post them around campus. After meeting with Cynthia, we found that the only old project we know of is the wildflower planting area
  
  

Business Item 5

Title: VIDA meeting reports

Presenters: Dariga

Dariga: Our first meeting was last Friday, and the regular meeting time is now 1 p.m. This is a coalition between Environmental Studies (ES) and VIDA, focusing on sustainability issues at De Anza. We identified two major projects (committees): improving De Anza’s recycling system, which is currently out of compliance with state regulations, and advocating for a pool cover for the swimming pool to reduce gas usage. We’ll be discussing the recycling initiative further and meeting with the Dean of Athletics and the facilities team to push for the pool cover. Interns are welcome to join and contribute to these important efforts!

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Introduction and Approval of Prospective Interns 

• None

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Public Comments 

• Minseo: We need help for regular bike distributions next week. If you are interested please come and help out!

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Adjournment 

• Michi adjourned the meeting at 11:54 AM.