Wednesday under the warm sunshine and amidst the afternoon campus commotion, Associate Students, Inc. held their board meeting outside in the library quad.

The brief meeting began at 2 p.m. and ended at 2:35 p.m. and included the introduction of ASI’s newest appointments, most recent legislation, and latest resignations.

Executive Vice President James Shelby and Vice President of Finance Julio Velasquez both resigned before the meeting. The two former ASI members were not present at the outside congregation to comment on their decisions to resign.

Christine Hopkins, vice president of university affairs, said that Shelby’s resignation had to do with “personal reasons.”

The outdoor meeting began with the announcement of the ASI board appointments. Lizette Tovar is the new director of undeclared, Garret Aquino is filling the director of health and human services position and Curtis Grima was named secretary of state affairs.

“I’m really excited to be involved,” Grima said.

Grima’s position will have him flying to CSU campuses to meet and discuss important issues with other campus California State Student Association representatives.

The first piece of legislation up for vote was the motion to earmark $100,000 in funds for the Regional Transit renegotiation. The Regional Contract ends on June 30, 2006. After ASI President Angel Barajas tagged on an Oct. 12 deadline for the RT contract committee to report to the ASI board of directors, they passed the legislation unanimously.

Legislation creating an election task force committee also passed unanimously.

The $530,000 surplus allocation was the only legislation that sparked debate among board members. Barajas added amendments to the legislation that will take away some allotments to the Capital Replacement Fund, internal travel expenditures and added funds to the ASI core program KSSU and DOC/SEL funds, which supplies money for clubs and organizations.

Bonnie Sugiyama, director of education, refused to vote in favor of the legislation and voiced concerns about increasing funds for student life and service employees from the and not increasing funds for any other areas of student employment.

“I’m concerned about uneven distribution,” Sugiyama said.

Sugiyama emphasized that ASI needs to make sure to do a thorough evaluation of the fund allotment before it is finalized.

Patricia Worley, ASI executive director said that the passage of the legislation is not the final say in how the extra money will be allocated. After the Finance and Budget committee reviews the allocation requests and views board member concerns, the board will hold the final say in whether to further amend the document, Worley said.

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