January 9 2022

ASCIT Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes for January 9, 2022. Taken by Nicole Heflin.

Officers Present: Ayooluwa Odemuyiwa, Mohini Misra, Katherine Chang, Matthew Hajjar, Kavya Rajagopalan, Aditi Venkatesh

Call to Order: 9:17pm PST

President’s Report (Ayooluwa):

  • COVID Response/Support → Try to get outside time for people in isolation; making isolation care packages (will try to send them out this week); reach out to admin to try and open up the gym (possibly using the appointment system)

  • Clarifying Dining → we will send out concrete dining hours

  • Survey Responses:

Can we get a bike share program started? - There is a program that exists that is organized by the library, but due to Covid, it was put on hold.

Officer’s Reports:

V.P. of Academic Affairs (Mohini):

  • “Return to In-Person Learning” Survey results and plans to support students → ARC will reach out to the Deans/Provost to share the results of the survey and see if we can make any accommodations/changes to help students

V.P. of Non-Academic Affairs (Katherine):

  • Covid response in houses →
  • concerns about time between being flagged and being moved to isolation; in response, houses have been setting aside a bathroom in the houses for people with Covid still living in the houses
  • picking up more than one meal from dining for flagged people will be communicated with CDS
  • bring up dining costs concerns in food comm meeting this week
  • Rotation algorithm discussions → propose rotation algorithm committee that will write, run, and review the algorithm
  • Interhouse schedule will be changed/updated

Director of Operations (Aditi):

  • Registering new clubs & handling event funding
  • Future cleaning of storage rooms in SAC → possibly use appointment system

Treasurer (Matthew):

  • Nothing to Report

Social Director (Kavya):

  • Finalizing list of ASCIT venues

Secretary (Nicole):

  • ASCIT Mentorship Program → Communicating with YWCA & Young Legends to begin mentoring/tutoring for winter term

If anyone has any questions or concerns about a section of the minutes please email the appropriate officer. We are happy to answer any questions.

Meeting Adjourned: 10:03 pm PST