Minutes will be added to this agenda following the conclusion of the meeting.
This meeting shall take place in Humanities 516 and shall run from 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM. Attendees are highly encouraged to come in-person; however, those who are unable can join on Zoom.
- Call to Order
Jack called the meeting to order at 7:06 P.M. Jack designates Saffa as the Chair for this meeting. - Roll Call (1 min)
Present: Jack, Amy, Aiden, Khoi, Saffa, Ajax, Mario, Liam, Bella - Approval of the Agenda (1 min)
Amy moves to approve the agenda. Mario seconds. No objections, motion passes. - Membership Drive (5 min)
In addition to normal membership action work, we will be trying to get people registered on TitanLink, make sure they have their dues paid/waived, and their affiliation set.
Aiden will contact Amy afterwards to finalize membership.t - General Secretary’s Announcements (5 min)
Election Update: Presidency, Senate, House, State Assembly, State Senate, CA ballot measures, RCV/Weed/Abortion in other states, Fullerton, Irvine, Santa Ana, Orange (defeat of cop ballot measure)
December 4: Election Town Hall (Aiden)
Rochon Meeting Update
Recruiting Organizing Committee Members
Suggest things for the agenda! Suggest events! Get involved!
Anyone interested in spearheading Bell RCV?
Orange County DSA Sponsored/Endorsed Events:
Gaza Benefit Dinner: From Crisis to Compassion. Delta Hotels by Marriott (12021 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove, CA 92840), Saturday, November 16, 5:30pm. Table sponsored by OCDSA.
Palestine and Global Capitalism. El Centro Cultural de México (837 N Ross St, Santa Ana, CA 92701) - President/Vice President’s Announcements (5 min)
YDSA National Call (Saffa)
University Hour Campaign (Jack)
Saffa: YDSA National wants a Day of Action for Palestine on November 21. Will be nationally covered for every chapter to enact something for the day of action. Two seats left for the Gaza Benefit Dinner. We will be going over the Chief Event Planner Amendment and other amendments today.
Jack: No updates on the University Hour campaign yet.
Saffa: YDSA National will highlight chapters that participate in the NDoA for Palestine on the YDSA National Instagram. - Organizing Committee Announcements (5 min)
November 13: Tabling Art Build (Mario)
Moved to November 20, same time (2:30 PM). Room will be available in Gordon Hall, haven’t specified which room yet. Will update on TitanLink once the remove is approved.
Polling Update (Simon)
Simon was not here.
Tabling Report (Bella)
Haven’t tabled since the election. Nothing significant has happened, same as always. Hope people will be more interested post-election; results have motivated more people to get invovled.
Amy: DSA chapters have seen 40-50% membership increases post-election, digging DSA national out of its budget hole.
Call for Interested ASI Board of Directors Candidates (Bella/Simon) - Treasurer’s Announcements (2 min)
Fundraiser Update
Annette was not here to give a report. - Constitutional Amendment Announcement (1 min)
Proposed by Vice President Saffa Nahi, the following will be agendized on November 19:
Single Office Amendment
SECTION 1. Section 2 of Article IV is amended, with subdivisions preserved, to read:
2. The members of the Steering Committee shall, along with all other officers designated in the subdivisions of this section, constitute the elected officers of this Chapter. Their terms of office shall be one year beginning on the last day of the Spring semester. No individual may hold more than one office at any given time, and upon accepting a new position shall automatically resign their previous position.
SEC. 2. An unenumerated exception is deemed applied to Section 1 of this amendment by the membership, in override of the Constitution’s provisions as determined by the General Secretary, such that the provisions of Section 1 do not apply until such time as a Special Election for the position of Social Media Coordinator, which is currently held by Treasurer Annette Sorensen, can be held. This amendment terminates her term of office as Social Media Coordinator, and does not affect her position as Treasurer. The termination of such term shall not apply until the election results are certified by the President and the General Secretary, at which point it shall be immediate upon the accession to office of the newly elected Social Media Coordinator.
SEC. 3. An unenumerated exception is deemed applied to the Titan YDSA Constitution by the membership, in override of the Constitution’s provisions as determined by the General Secretary, such that the provisions of Article IV, Section 6 (excluding subdivisions) do not apply to the Special Election for the Social Media Coordinator established by Section 2 of this amendment. The Special Election for the Social Media Coordinator shall take place on November 26, 2024, and candidates may nominate themselves at any time prior to the Call to Order of the meeting. Floor nominations will still be permitted.
SEC. 4. Following this amendment, and in combination with any other amendments passed in the same meeting, the President shall submit to Student Life and Leadership a copy of the new Constitution, as certified by the General Secretary, with these changes applied, within five days of passage. - Constitutional Amendments (20 min)
Notice: the notice for these amendments was given in the October 29 meeting instead of the November 5 meeting. No meeting was held on November 5, but had the meeting been held, notice would have been maintained through the meeting. Postponement of Amendments I-III were unanimous, while postponement of Amendment IV was 4-3-2.
Four Constitutional Amendments are up for consideration: the Corporations Code Compliance Amendment, the Quorum Change Amendment, the Acting President Clarification Amendment, and the Chief Event Planner Amendment. The original texts of these amendments can be found on the October 29 minutes.
Amendments must pass with a two-thirds majority. Amendments to the amendments can be applied with a majority vote, unless the amendments override Constitutional procedural rules, in which case they require a two-thirds vote. Floor amendments are permitted.
Amendment A to the Chief Event Planner Amendment (proposed by: Amy)
This amendment requires a two-thirds vote to apply.
SECTION 1. Section 3 is added, to read:
SEC. 3. An unenumerated exception is deemed applied to the Titan YDSA Constitution by the membership, in override of the Constitution’s provisions as determined by the General Secretary, such that the provisions of Article IV, Section 6 (excluding subdivisions) do not apply to the first election of the Chief Event Planner. The first election of the Chief Event Planner shall take place on November 19, 2024, and candidates may nominate themselves at any time prior to the Call to Order of the meeting. Floor nominations will still be permitted.
Amendment B to the Chief Event Planner Amendment (proposed by: Saffa)
This amendment requires a majority vote to apply.
SECTION 1. Section 1 is amended, to read:
2. The Chief Event Planner (also known as the CEP) shall coordinate Chapter events, including interfacing with the Office of Student Life and Leadership and building coalitions and partnerships with other organizations. The CEP shall coordinate event planning done by Steering Committee and Organizing Committee members, and shall attend all Event Planning meetings. They shall answer to the Steering Committee at large, with the General Secretary being their direct report. They shall assist the Social Media Coordinator in the creation of flyers, and shall be primarily responsible for flyer distribution. They shall work with the President, General Secretary, and Social Media Coordinator to disseminate mass communications pertaining to the events, including through Instagram and the Discord Events feature of the Titan YDSA Discord.
Amy moves to approve Amendment B. Saffa seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Amy moves to approve Amendment A by roll call vote. Mario seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Yeas: Ajax, Mario, Aiden, Saffa, Jack, Bella, Khoi, Amy
Nays:
Abstain:
With 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 abstentions, Amendment A is approved.
Amy moves to approve the Chief Event Planner Amendment by roll call vote. Mario seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Yeas: Ajax, Mario, Aiden, Saffa, Jack, Khoi, Amy
Nays: Bella
Abstain:
With 7 ayes, 1 nay, 0 abstentions, the Chief Event Planner Amendment is approved.
Amy moves to approve the Corporations Code Compliance Amendment by roll call vote. Mario seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Yeas: Ajax, Mario, Aiden, Saffa, Jack, Bella, Khoi, Amy
Nays:
Abstain:
With 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 abstentions, the Corporations Code Compliance Amendment is approved.
Saffa moves for a roll call vote on approval of the Quorum Change Amendment. Mario seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Yeas: Mario, Aiden, Saffa, Ajax (en español)
Nays: Bella
Abstain: Jack, Khoi, Amy
With 4 ayes, 1 nay, 3 abstentions, the Quorum Change Amendment is approved.
Amy moves to approve the Acting President Clarification Amendment by roll call vote. Aiden seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Yeas: Mario, Aiden, Ajax, Bella, Jack, Khoi, Amy
Nays:
Abstain: Saffa
With 7 ayes, 0 nays, 1 abstention, the Acting President Clarification Amendment is approved.
Jack moves to declare anarchy. Ajax seconds. Jack clarifies that this motion has no effect; the General Secretary rules that the motion is in order and must stand. Aiden objects. Two-thirds vote required.
Yeas: Mario, Ajax, Bella
Nays: Aiden, Jack, Saffa, Khoi
Abstain: Amy
With 3 ayes, 4 nays, 1 abstention, the motion to declare anarchy fails. - Resolution to Call on the Fullerton, Irvine and Santa Ana City Councils to Divest and Demilitarize
The following is the resolution text, which will be formatted and engrossed by the General Secretary upon passage.
WHEREAS, there is new leadership in the Fullerton, Irvine, and Santa Ana City Councils as a result of the 2024 elections; and
WHEREAS, the priorities and needs of the students and residents of Orange County have not changed; and
WHEREAS, police departments continue to ravage our communities, with Santa Ana PD using excessive force against the unhoused, Fullerton PD continuing to employ murderers, and Irvine PD actively infiltrating popular movements and supporting the violent and illegal response by the UCPD to the UCI encampment; and
WHEREAS, through investments and partnerships, most cities – including Santa Ana, Fullerton, and Irvine – continue to fund and be complicit in the genocide in Gaza and occupation of Palestine; let it be
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the City Councils of Fullerton, Santa Ana, and Irvine (collectively the “City Councils”) to demilitarize by revoking their AB 481 policies and not passing new policies under AB 481, which automatically denies police departments the ability to acquire or use military equipment; and let it be further
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the City Councils to work toward lessening the number of police in the Cities’ respective police departments, replacing them with professionals trained to handle specific categories of incidents; and let it be further
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the City Councils to refuse to renew, and not to enter into, any future “mutual aid” agreements with other city or university police departments, or with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department or California Highway Patrol; and let it be further
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the City Councils to require their police departments to immediately cease the sweeping of unhoused encampments; and let it be further
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the Irvine City Council to require the Irvine Police Department not to deploy in response to any nonviolent protest, or any protest on a university campus; and let it be further
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the City Councils to immediately divest from all companies that financially and materially support the genocide in and occupation of Palestine; and
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the Irvine and Fullerton City Councils to immediately pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Palestine.
Jack moves to approve this Resolution. Aiden seconds. No objections, motion passes; the resolution is approved. - Resolution to Call on the City of Orange to Reduce and Demilitarize its Police
The following is the resolution text, which will be formatted and engrossed by the General Secretary upon passage.
WHEREAS, the City of Orange is heavily overpoliced, having roughly 160 sworn officers for a population of less than 140,000, a rate of under 1,000 residents per police officer; and
WHEREAS, the City of Orange is facing a budget crisis which may lead it to cancel many of the events that give Orange its distinct character as a city; and
WHEREAS, as expressed in previous Orange City Council meetings, Orange residents do not support the overpolicing and overmilitarization of Orange as a city, particularly when it creates a large strain on the City’s budget; and
WHEREAS, Orange residents affirmed this by rejecting Measure Z, which if passed would have created a sales tax to further fund the Orange Police Department; and
WHEREAS, Orange spends $60 million per year on police, which is 41.2% of the City’s budget; let it be
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA calls on the Orange City Council to preserve Orange’s special events and resolve the Orange budget crisis by listening to the people of Orange and reducing the size of the Orange Police Department by 50 percent, which would give the City up to $11 million in extra flexibility to account for future increases in expenditures; and let it be further
RESOLVED, that Titan YDSA further calls on the Orange City Council to look at other measures to cut police spending, including transitioning services away from the Police Department and into other departments, as well as through demilitarizing the Police Department by revoking the department’s AB 481 authorization.
Mario moves to vote on this Resolution. Jack seconds. No objections, motion passes.
Yeas: Mario, Aiden, Ajax, Bella, Khoi, Saffa, Jack
Nays:
Abstains:
With 8 ayes, 0 nays, 0 abstentions, motion passes. This Resolution is adopted. - Discussion Forum and Member’s Privilege
Members will discuss any issues of concern to them and work on planning how Titan YDSA should respond to recent events.
Six motions were made. One (Ajax) failed 3-3-2. One (Ajax) failed 2-3-3. Two (Saffa) were made and withdrawn prior to a second on advice and threat of an out-of-order ruling from the General Secretary. One (Saffa) was made and ruled out of order by the General Secretary as unconstitutional, without objection. One (Ajax) was made and withdrawn. Per the Adjournment, the details of these motions have been struck from the record. - Adjournment
Ajax moves to adjourn. Motion withdrawn.
Ajax moves to strike the motions in Member’s Privilege, which all failed, from the record. Jack seconds. This motion requires a two-thirds vote, but can be done by acclimation. Mario provides the necessary reconsideration for striking. No objections, motion passes.
Ajax moves to adjourn. Mario seconds. No objections, motion passes. The meeting was adjourned at 8:27 PM.
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