February 4, 2026

Call to Order

• Jayven called the meeting to order at 4:13PM. 

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Roll Call

#	Last	First	Present	Late	Absent	Online	Left Early	Excused
1	Huang	Jayven	x
2	Nguyen	James	x
3	Ma	Alan	x
4	Ho	Chrissy	x
5	Tran	Hoang Anh Thu	x
6	Hua	Joey	x
7	Vongnakhone	Myles	x
8	Pyae	Min	x
9	Zhu	Elora	x
10	Cacchione	Francesca Pia	x
11	Manglona	Gabe	x
12	Jevaria	Suyash	x				x (6:00pm for class)
13	Lam	Caitlin	x
14	Brignetti	Ethan	x
15	Tai	Audrey	x
16	Vahidi	Ben	x
17	Saini	Lakshya	x
18	Yi	Ryan	x
19	Krawez	Kyle	x
20	Kao	Jacob	x
21	Soe	Thin Thida	x
22	Faisal	Aisyah						x (out sick)
23	Chen	Jacob	x
24	Lieng	Tram	x
25	Guerrero Fernandez	Dali	x
26	Pedroza	Salvador	x
27	Ashebr	Blen	x
28	Serrano	Brandon	x
29	Blackman	Zander	x

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Approval of Minutes

January 28, 2025

• Suyash motioned to approve, Caitlin seconded, no objection, motion passed.

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Public Comments

• Suyash: happy birthday to Ryan!
• Ben: Flea market is this Saturday, please come!
• Gavin Rust: I am here on behalf of La Voz. La Voz has won the most awards of any publication at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges for 3 years in a row. We set the standard for journalism in the entire state. And in order to continue qualifying for our General Excellence Award, we now need to print our paper at least 8 times a week. We do not exist on institutional funds alone. In 1991 through 1994, La Voz went under, because your predecessors tried that experiment by cutting our funding. We can't let that happen again. I would also like to remind everyone that our newspaper was there to report on the Elevate scandal. We were there to serve as watchdogs and make sure that those of you in your positions today were rightfully elected in a fair election. Without our journalism, DASG would look much different. I mentioned that example because democracy requires accountability. Let's do the right thing, and fund the legacy that is La Voz.

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Advisor Announcements

• Dennis: Student elections are coming up, keep an eye out for more information. Campaigning begins Monday 2/23 at 6am, the Presidential Debate and Candidate Introductions is on 2/23 at 11:30am. Voting period is from 2/25 to 3/4. You can find the full election timeline and schedule at: https://www.deanza.edu/dasg/elections/
• Maritza: Please follow along the election process and training. We will give senators more information on what you are expected in terms of your role with training in the coming weeks. Some of you will be invited to be a part of a panel for training. Now would be a great time to build your transition documents, debrief on major projects, etc.

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Senate Announcements

• Min: Is the minutes to January 21st minutes out yet?
• Dennis: That meeting was during the transition period, we will work on getting that out as soon as possible.

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Student Trustee Announcements

• Elora: De Anza College will notify all students, faculty, staff, and the campus community when the presence of immigration enforcement is confirmed on campus. Once immigration enforcement is confirmed to be off campus, a subsequent communication will also be sent. Posters have been placed around the college to help ensure that students and employees know what to do in the unlikely event that immigration agents come to the De Anza campus. For more information, you can visit https://deanza.edu/students/undocumented.

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External Shared Governance Committee Reports

• Jacob: College President Update (President Torres) -Revised poster for ICE on campus Protocol
  • Defined what is considered a “non-public” area -Ex: Classrooms, lecture halls, offices
  • Ensure that the Educational Master Plan aligns with the district’s strategic plan
  • Hiring new instructional/non-instructional staff, so they’re very busy
  • 100 Days of Listening are posted on the President’s website

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Internal DASG Committee Reports

• James: Administration meeting was cancelled this week to prepare for the mandatory candidate orientation. Applications has closed and we have 57 candidates runnning in the elections.
• Jacob: we are still doing promotions for elections, we have been advertising flea market, working on promoting lights out dance.

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Consent Calendar

• None.

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Business Item 1

Know your rights presentation

• Dali and Brandon presented the item. 

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Business Item 2

Reducing GHG Emissions at De Anza

• Daisy, Blen, and Shreya presented the item.

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Business Item 3

Funding Request for Past Mentors@De Anza Reimbursement

• Maritza: We had a student from the 2024 academic year who had made large purchases in primarily food and supplies to support Mentors @ De Anza operations, which were submitted in June before the deadline. They were not received by student accounts due to an email issue. Funding was approved in the mentors budget, but because it wasn’t reimbursed, it went to special allocations. We have worked with student accounts to ensure that this issue doesn’t happen again. We are kindly asking DASG to re-approve the funding so we can reimburse this student.
• Salvadore moves to approve $1,427 in funding, $664 for Supplies (4010) and $763 for Food (4015), to reimburse a student for 2023-2024 Mentors@De Anza expenses. Seconded by Kyle, no objections, motion passed.

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Business Item 4

Funding Request for the SSCCC General Assembly (GA)

• Dennis: This is to send students to the General Assembly conference.
• Salvadore: If the funding is not used, where would it go?
• Dennis: It would go back into special allocations.
• Zayn moves to approve $2,500 in funding for the SSCCC General Assembly (GA), seconded by Jacob. objected by Kyle, votes called:

Name	Yes	No	Abstain	Not Present
Jayven
James			x
Alan		x
Chrissy		x
Hoang Anh Thu			x
Joey	x
Myles		x
Min	x
Elora	x
Francesca Pia				x
Gabe		x
Suyash			x
Caitlin	x
Ethan	x
Audrey	x
Ben		x
Lakshya	x
Ryan	x
Kyle		x
Jacob	x
Thin Thida	x
Aisyah				x
Jacob	x
Tram	x
Dali	x
Salvador	x
Blen	x
Brandon	x
Zander	x
	17	6	3	2

17 yes, 6 no, 3 abstains, 2 not present

Motion passes. 

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Business Item 5

2026-2027 DASG Budget – Fund 46 (DASG Student Representation Fund)

• Alan presented the budget guiding principles and the budget rubric
  • Q: what is the food budget and who does it go to?
  • A: the food purchased using DASG funds needs to be open and accessible to the whole student body.
  • Q: What’s the rule with the DASG logo?
  • All promotional materials and capital items for all programs funded by the DASG must print “Sponsored by De Anza Student Government (DASG)” or “Funded by De Anza Student Government (DASG)” or use the DASG logo either in place of the text “De Anza Student Government (DASG)” or the DASG logo by itself on them. The logo can be found online at https://www.deanza.edu/dasg/dasg-logo.html.
  • A: Funding allocated to promotional materials must be clear that it’s for promotional purposes, with the De Anza logo or DASG logo.
  • Q: Can any program on campus come and ask for money, or is it only programs with existing accounts?
  • A: Any program. New programs will receive a new account number.
  • Q: How is the budget number decided? Is it arbitrary
  • A: we are limited by the amount that we are able to allocate. All other decisions are referred to with the guiding principles and evaluated
  • Q: For the SSCCC account, can fund 41 be used?
  • A: It could, but none are currently allocated from fund 41 for SSCCC general assembly.
  • Q: Is fund 46 only for conferences within California, or outside of the state as well?
  • A: It can be used for any conferences, although in the past, we’ve done mostly SSCCC conferences such as CCCSAA and GA.
  • Q: Why was Public Policy School given an increase in budget?
  • A: Due to payroll increase from last year to this year.
  • Q: What is hourly benefits?
  • A: The hourly benefits comes with any line that has payroll. It is required.

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Jayven entertains motion to move the introduction of responsibilities and executive candidates before Business Item 6.

Salvadore moves to move the introduction of responsibilities and executive candidates before Business Item 6. Seconded by Blen, no objections, motion passed.

Salvadore moves to have a 5 minute recess at 6:08, Seconded by James. No objections, motion passed.

Meeting called back at 6:17pm.

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Business Item 6

2026-2027 DASG Budget – Fund 41 (DASG General Fund)

• Q: Would the DASG, ICC, and Mentors@De Anza Student Leader Scholarship take into account program liaisons?
• A: Yes, it would.
• Q: Does the green buget from 2025-2026 include the special allocation if requested?
• A: No, it doesn’t.
• Q: Why was there nothing allocated to DASG events this year?
• A: We are moving away from the 41-51164 committee operations account which covers all committees to separating committee accounts since it’s been confusing in the past. Going forward, all DASG committees will have separate accounts.
• Q: SSCCC has discussed raising the student representation funding from $2 to $6. Would that impact either fund 41 or 46?
• A: All decisions regarding student representation funding would impact only Fund 46. That decision has not been made yet, so we will not account that difference until it is passed by the state. 

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Public Comments

• Jacob: Thank you to the Finance committee for putting in all your hard work. 

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Advisor Announcement

• Dennis: I will be adding additional information such as rubrics, ranking, and the finance notes to the page.

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Introduction of prospective senators and executive elections candidates

• Shreya J. SIngh
• Allissa Lo
• Arin Kumar
• James Yoshida
• Nam Khanh Le
• Ka Chun Wong
• Jovia Tran
• Roman Averin
• Kanykei Burkhanova
• Leyan Naboulsi
• Michael Katsnelson
• Ha Le
• Ashritha Chand
• Arnav Junday
• Timothy Nguyen
• Ashwika Agarwal

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Adjournment

• Jayven adjourned the meeting at 7:11 PM.