Agenda
1. Intro
2. Officer reports
3. grad appeals procedure
4. UCSA regent rally
5. funding requests
6. committee assignments
7. travel grant criteria
8. committee reports
9. adjourn

Introductions
- brief what is GSA
- folks present say who they are (27 total people)
Officer reports
- External vice president
 i. UCSA meeting last weekend: the fee situation in the UC system
1. “Return to Aid” the percentage of what gets given in grad fees for future financial aid has gone up for undergrads but not grads, though ours is also threatened.
2. Our fees are likely to increase in the November vote.  Arnold wants the UC to “pay for itself” potential privitization?
3. Fee increase protest on November 17th at Berkeley!  Get vans & drivers!  
 ii. Get faculty and students amped about making their voices heard on this by sharing letter sent by email and getting faculty signatures!  Get these back to Chanda!  Do this by November 7th!
- Meet with the Chancellor
 i. Make transportation changes to compensate for bus strike, such as decrease in day parking pass costs
 ii. Fee hikes coming discretionary fund for grads who have no other funding?
 iii. Ethical treatment of grad students in agreement with chancellor that we need a manual for handling this
Ethical Treatment of Graduate Students
- Appeal document (modeled on UC Berkeley and others) meant to cover issues pertaining obstruction of progress towards degree (see UC Grad. Appeal Process)
 i. Concern over time length- 30 days too short
 ii. Some confusion about the language regarding the informal processes for resolution versus formal processes
- Committee will draft a letter with which to present the appeal draft that would include the things we’re not willing to compromise on
- Concern about how you deal with life post-appeal.
- Chanda reports that Chancellor says grads need to go through “chain of command”.  The first person to contact would be Lisa Sloan.
- Academic Dept. feel like they don’t owe anything to grads so even if post an appeal we are not guaranteed support afterword
- Chanda moves to approve draft and send it to grad council
 i. 25 vote to approve new appeals document, 2 don’t approve

Funding Requests
- they’re not here
Committee’s to be filled
- Tent University Committee
 i. Emily, Nick
- Academic Freedom
- Advisory committee for Facilities
- Travel Grants
 i. Tamara
 ii. Alex
- Committee on Affirmative Action
 i. Joanna
- Information Technology
- Quarry Plaza
 i. Kimberley
- Student Union Governance Board
- UCSA
- Hate/Bias Incident Advisory Committee
- Tax Seminar
 i. Kristen Williams
- Ethical Treatment of Graduate Students
 i. Berra
 ii. Sean
 iii. Jesse
 iv. Alex
Travel Grant Criteria
- The situation: We’ve got $3,000 total or $1,000 per quarter (usually get money from SFAC but…).  We got 30 apps per quarter last year from 03-04 to 04-05 the number of applicants went up 20%
 i.
- Questions for voting:
 i. Lower number of students funded vs. less money per applicant?
1. Sean moves to make funding more selective, less awards for more money
a. Berra friendly amendment of capping it at $200
b. 20 vote for selective over less money per applicant, 7 against
- Approve selection priorities?
 i. Proposed categories for funding:
1. ot applied before, no other funding
2. yes applied before, no other funding
3. not applied before, other funding
4. yes applied before, other funding
a. move to collapse 2 & 3
b. move to add presenting as a criteria
c. move to include research travel
d. move to leave criteria (loosely) up to committee 15, against 2
 ii. Selection processes per year or per quarter?
1. move to do it per quarter rather than per year
2. yes unanimous
 iii. Continue funding food in addition to other costs of travel?
1. Sean moves to not cover food
2. 24 not cover food, 1 cover food, 2 abstain
Committee reports
    TAPS
- Night parking
 i. The details are not clear to students or staff.  After the last meeting they are clear to staff and now online too.
 ii. Concern about whether this is working financially as they thought it would.  If it doesn’t work then we should continue.  This is part of TAPS agenda to move towards 24 hr enforcement.  
- Strike stuff
 i. Metro loosing tons of money and TAPS is spending money to accommodate the strike through more shuttles etc.
 ii. We want them to be more proactive in negotiations of metro
- More student fees
 i. Cutting some of the services that had been covered by our transportation fees ‘cause gas prices etc. have gone up
- Attempting to dissolve differences between A & B permits
 i. Wes Scott (head of TAPS) asks if we had to choose between access to lots and price of permit what would we want.
 ii. Move to go for cheaper 6 yes cheaper, 4 no
Adjourn 8pm