CENTRAL BOARD

CENTRAL BOARD MEETING

Date: November 21, 2014

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Venue: MVP 217-218

Time: 6:00pm 9:00pm

AGENDA (underlined = to be continued, italics = postponed/deferred):

1) Committee Reports
2) Communications Technology Resolution
3) SSS Resolution for 2nd Semester
4) SAP
5) Constitutional Review
ATTENDANCE (underlined = absent, italics = late/early departure, * = nonvoting):
Daniel Antonio S. Remo
President

Redentor John R. Dimla

SOH Chairperson

Jose Javier V. Poe IV

JGSOM Chairperson

Ryan Carl Y. Yu
Vice-President

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4 SOH Central Board Rep

Larisse Jem H. Mondok

4 JGSOM Central Board
Rep

Antonio Rafael N.
Elicao
Secretary-General

Jose Norberto V. Reyes

3 SOH Central Board Rep

Luis Miguel D. De Jesus

3 JGSOM Central Board
Rep

Kristine Mae B.
Andujare
Finance Officer

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2 SOH Central Board Rep

Ray Cristofer C. Gomez

2 JGSOM Central Board
Rep

Michaella Paula M.
Aldea
COA President

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1 SOH Central Board Rep

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1 JGSOM Central Board
Rep

Von Vincent Rene A.

Cruz
ARSA President

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SOSE Chairperson

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SOSS Chairperson

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4 SOSE Central Board
Rep

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4 SOSS Central Board
Rep

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3 SOSE Central Board
Rep

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3 SOSS Central Board
Rep

Pamela Anne M.
Gaerlan
2 SOSE Central Board
Rep

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2 SOSS Central Board
Rep

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1 SOSE Central Board
Rep

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1 SOSS Central Board
Rep

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MINUTES
Motion to approve agenda: Polo Martinez
Objection by Mawe Duque: For the benefit of my reps so they can leave after the resolution, switch ComTech resolution and SSS
resolution
Second: CJ Leong
Motion to approve agenda: Polo Martinez
Second: Mawe Duque
Agenda is approved
COMMITTEE REPORTS
1) Student Rights (Regis Andanar)
a. Last week I wasnt able to get back to you guys regarding the name of the promos person (Princess Flores)
b. Regarding the grievance desk, Andreas gonna finish it tonight
c. SJC will be the primary post-er, they have a calendar for the posts so were going to be following that
2)

Advocacy-Building (Mikee Defensor)

a. Next week Monday, were going to have the Teach for the Philippines exhibit (no need for much PR)
b. They want a blank Philippine map, then youre gonna mark your thumbprint and eventually youre gonna know
why you have to leave a mark
i. Ryan Yu: doesnt want us to promote Teach for the Philippines lang, our advocacy should be how education
should be a right
c. IACAT Caravan might push through this December
i.
Polo Martinez: I couldnt reserve the venue. Until now SCAP hasnt given me the speakers. They want to
step it up a notch because that week is the same week when the International Day against Traffic is gonna
happen. On December 12, theyre gonna have a culminating activity and they want to have a mob gather in
the Bel field or SEC field in support of the movement. All that I promised them is that Im gonna reserve the
lib for the exhibit and Im gonna have a meeting. Were gonna have a meeting this sunday sa UP. The forum
will be in Escaler
ii. Ryan Yu: If its really difficult for us to push through with it, we might have to stop the Caravan

3)

Basic Services (Mawe Duque)

a. OAS - I met with the Committee on Administrative Relations from COA this week. Currently, were getting
complaints from organizations regarding OSA. However, the study conducted last year was limited and
interviewed only 8 organizations. Right now, the Department of Research and Statistics is commissioned right
now to create a study and theyre going to present to me the design on Tuesday to engage the organizations on
their issues with OAS. December 1 is the original date for the general meeting with OAS. Hindi siya rant session.
Were moving it to December 5 to give time to the study. On December 5, were going to present the results of
the study. After December 5, there will be petition signing para gumalaw ang OAS.
b. FMO - I was able to meet them kanina. For trike fare, they released a new trike fare system where they increased
the trike fare kaso hindi ni-release to the public and yung ibang trikes walang copy. Next week, were gonna meet
with LS TODA and FMO to release the new trike fare system to the students. The other issue is the bicycle lane.
Our plan is to gather bicycle drivers inside Ateneo and to pool them to create regulations para pati Katipunan
road, bike-friendly rin. There will be a resolution sponsored by Jared and me to make a bicycle club as in
monitoring of how the bicycle drivers will progress until next year.
i. Karlo Abandines: Theres Ateneo Bike Society, but its mostly professors.
ii. Ga-el Mendoza: Originally dapat e-jeeps lang but inisip namin idagdag nalang ang bikes. Ayusin natin yung
e-jeeps and yung bikes then make one reso. May pwede akong idagdag like bike stations, locks, lockers.
Kinausap ko si sir Mendoza and sabi ko sa kanya may mga taong di marunong magbike, but willing naman
matuto so sabi niya what if magkaroon kayo ng Sanggu Bike Tutor Workshop. Theyre willing to open up
future meetings with students
c. Career Series Integration - Kanina nagmeet to gather concerns kung pwede i-open up ang Career Fair sa Feb like
mag-open government departments, small to medium scale enterprises, but iffloat pa namin ang idea sa head ng
LSOP student arm. Basically the objective is to expand the Career Fair.
i. Polo Martinez: Anong pinagbago mismo sa trike fare? How much was increased? (Ibibigay pa lang ang file,
but there will be some clarifications.) What day exactly? (Tuesday, Thursday yung meeting natin.)
ii. Ray Gomez: Is this implemented? (Not yet.)
iii. Polo Martinez: Post it on the Facebook page as soon as you get it. Well be meeting with Sir Von on
Monday regarding the Matteo issue kung pwede bang tanggalin ang SOM offices sa baba to provide

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4)

Financial Transparancy (Ray Gomez)

a. Nasa akin na ledger natin. Right now, agreed na yung COP members pati si TJ part of it. Im kinda behind
schedule, but next week iproprocess ko na ang data. Next week, sana nasa akin na ang mas brokendown version
ng breakdown and hopefully I can schedule a meeting with TJ.

5)

Constitutional Review (Polo Martinez)

a. Ill discuss the consti review later. Weve rejected the parliamentary system because of pragmatic reasons. Given
the time we have, its not feasible for us to continue with a parliamentary structure. What were gonna do instead
is were gonna stick with the subcommittee structure and were gonna pick if were gonna push through with the
commission. You are able to propose an amendment by 3 ways:
3/4 vote of the CB (Makes the CB a constituent assembly)
Students initiative (Petitions by the student body)
2/3 vote of the CB will convene for a commision outside
i.
Were gonna pick two.
b. OSG matters: Last week, due to certain issues coming out of the budget proposal of OSG. You can consider us
going over the capcost which is 100/person. I guess out of this, the need for the release of attendace was called
for by a CB rep and OSGs currently working on it, but well be posting it in Scribd and Sanggu page by the end
of the week. That comes along with the minutes and the agenda for the next CB meetings.

6)

Public Relations (TJ Santos)

a. Polo Martinez: They want each committee to release 3 questions for us to scatter around campus. What we want
to do is make the issue of our relevance a very pertinent thing.

Motion to move to next item on the agenda: Polo Martinez

Second: Ga-el Mendoza
Motion is approved
1)

Communications Technology Resolution (Mawe Duque) {15}

a. This is headed by the initiative by Alex Tanjanco. Some of you may ask, this is a course specific issue and
some of you might wonder, is it more of a CB level? All of the course-specific concerns, I have evaluated
them one by one and I have chosen resolutions that are part of systemic problems. This isnt just a problem of
ComTech. One of the last provisions is to forward this to CJ and Madel. I invite you to view the reso as a
systemic problem that can be solved by the Committee on Student Rights.
i.
Ray Gomez: I think it woulyd be better if you clarified the story in a less formal way.
b. Mawe Duque (?): What happened was the ComTech majors were required to take their tracks third year
second sem. Sir Rhem sent sign-ups through Facebook. What happened is some people answered it late but
according to Sir Rhem, he fixed the IPS of those who were late/switched tracks. Come enlistment time, those
in batch one, who signed up for Comm., they got a slot, but also in batch one, there were some who didnt
sign up for the Comm. track instead CS and according to Sir Rhem, yung lumabas doon sa AISIS is the three
tracks so they could choose among the three kasi for those who signed up, yung lumabas is the one they
chose. Pag dating ng second batch, those who signed up for Comm., werent able to get the slots that the
people from the first batch got already so they started complaining to the SOM department. SOM department
said sorry that the Comm. department only gave 30 slots. Sir Rhem said that there were 20 who signed up
during the release of sign-ups and 10 who switched tracks so dapat sakto ang 30. Our resolution is for the
sign-ups to be directly coursed to the students from the SOM department and di na dadaan sa course reps.
i. Louis De Jesus: Its the departments job.
ii. Mawe Duque: Sir Rhem told us to either wait for free-for-all or do manreg
iii. Alex Tanjanco: Sir Rhem is like our SOM secretary. But for a concern this big, it should be coursed
through your department first. Malakas din yung hatak ng director. Anyone is allowed to set
appointments with him naman
iv. CJ Leong: May figures ba kayo kung gaano karami yung may clash ng majors
v. Mawe Duque: 13~
vi. Kosh Descallar: I wanted to address the fact that you said it was something internal with the SOM
department. I think maybe the its that the Comm. department is under SOSS. Maybe its not necessarily
a problem inside SOM, but maybe communications between SOSS and SOM
vii. Louis De Jesus: If its an inter-department thing, pwede naman ma-solusyonan yun
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Motion to extend for 2 minutes: Ray Gomez

Second: Alecs Reasonda
ix. Mawe Duque: If its more of a technical concern, as far as I know you can send it through me, but if
there are debates on principles, then were gonna have to amend
Motion to divide the house: Ray Gomez
Second: Miguel Hamoy
Resolution is approved
c.

Mawe duque: Two things, Im asking the CAA to review this so that come next enrolment, our objective is to
make it more smooth than the previous semesters, so this issue might lead to another issue in another school.
Another concern, Committee on Rules, request lang if we can have the stricter implementation to motions of
amendments.

Motion to move to next item on the agenda: Polo Martinez

Second: Ray Gomez
Motion is approved
1)

SSS Resolution for 2nd Semester (Madel Callanta) {15}

a. Resolution was made in order to set SSS structure through a committee system established during OSA EvSem.
There were major changes made in the branches
i.
Ray Gomez: When do we use 2/3 vote or simple majority? (Ans: Pag importante 2/3)
ii.
Mawe Duque: As far as Im concerned, yung pag deliberate kung super or important ang resolution, si CJ ang
magdedecide pero pwede namin ikaw i-override.
iii.
Miguel Hamoy: This is your need to redo the SSS resolution mainly because we started the committee thing?
(Ans: Yes)
iv.
Ray Gomez: SSS was created kasi theres a stipulation in the Magna Carta that all students should be able to
request money, so we made this to streamline efforts for those students who actually have causes
v.
Mikee Defensor: Basta pag advocacy, the Advocacy Committee will approve? Is there a limit to how much
money we can give? (Ans: Were gonna set a cap cost) Im just concerned because if youre gonna leave it to
the Advocacy Committee without it going through the CB, the money might get out of hand. How can you
assure that the money that will go out will really be for something important?
vi.
Ray Gomez: Making this SSS gives us flexibiltiy, its very discretionary depending on the committee
involved. The trade of having fast money is di dadaan sa CB. Both the Committee on Academics and
Advocacy should be very competent. I dont think it would be unconstitutional because this is what weve
been doing for the past SSS. May Advocacy Committee that will make sure na walang party na lulusot given
we have a limited supply of money. We have to choose which of those projects will be the best. I can be held
responsible kung magkaka-party. May system of auditing and report at the end of the year
vii.
Mawe Duque: How was last sems SSS?
Ans: We received around 22 applications and then all of them coming from SOSS and SOSE. We
accepted 8 applicants to receive 100% grant, another 2 received 80% and rest received 60%. Isa palang
ang natatapos and all are still in the process of getting their thesis done. We werent able to accept
applications for conferences
So this SSS resolution, pag may pop up conference, approve na?
Idedeliberate
viii.
Madel Callanta: For academics may fixed, for conferences, it can be any time within the semester

Motion to extend for 5 minutes: Alecs Reasonda

Second: Mawe Duque
ix.
x.
xi.
xii.

Miguel Hamoy: When you say conferences? I get subsidized to go to one or to make one?
Join
Regis Andanar: If youre part of Sanggu, is it a conflict of interest to ask for a subsidy?
It allows all undergraduates
Karlo Abadines: Is there a set alloted budget for this?
500k for the whole year. 1/3 of it was spent in the first sem, 2/3 will be spent here
I will set the rubrics for conferences as SSS head and consult with CB
Mawe Duque: Is it mentioned in the resolution for example may nagpop-up na conference tas iibigay ko
sa inyo ang receipts, when does the SSS committee convene for that one?

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Ray Gomez: You have to have a conference coming, give us a few weeks. Thats my concern. May
conferences na parang next week biglaan tas mag-aattend ka ta's baka matagalan ang pera sa
sanggu. Pwede ba yung retro?
Karlo Abadines: Natatakot ako kung retro. Recommendation ko is icap siya. Just put 50k for all
retro activities then the other 300 will be for others, baka mahirap pag hindi icap
Ray Gomez: We have like 5 working days before we have a disbursement, assuming that your
budget was approved.
A different person: Okay lang, punta ako bukas, may pera ako, pero sana gumawa ang sanggu
ng kultura na susuportahan natin sila. Parang kulang lang ng support
Ray Gomez: For me putting a retro stipulation is too risky, but maybe we can work on a mechanism
for that

Motion to extend for 5 minutes: Mawe Duque

Second: Regis Andanar
Motion is approved
5.

Mawe Duque: Youre treating the retroactive system as risky? For me, that is treating your
standards SSS committee na parang walang guidelines. As far as I know, dadaan pa to sa
deliberation, so whats the risk there?
6. Regis Andanar: The provision sa conferences, for subsidies sa thesis and stuff like that, I think very
well-publicized, pero yung conferences, di natin alam. Ang daming fields na di na-ppublicize.
7. Karlo Abadines: Cap it
8. Mawe Duque: Kung hindi pa nagawa before ang retro system, then we do it with caution. Dadaan
sa committee, may guidelines, may cap. Lets try it. The students will feel the support.
9. Ray Gomez: Papag-usapan pa natin ang procedure. We can remove the stipulation na bawal ang
retro.
10. Louis De Jesus: You can add retroactive proposals will not be accepted, except for sporadic
conferences
11. Mawe Duque: Still following the cap cost
Motion for a 5 minute caucus: Ray Gomez
Second: Karlo Abadines
Motion is approved
xiii.

Ray Gomez: We make the resolution silent on the retroactive system. We should release the kits this
week.

Motion to remove the statement saying "retro proposals for expenses will not be accepted: Mawe Duque
Second: Regis Andanar
Statement is omitted
Motion to approve the resolution: Mawe Duque
Second: Ray Gomez
Resolution is approved
Motion to move to next item on the agenda: Polo Martinez
Second: Regis Andanar
1)

SAP (Miguel Hamoy) {15}

a. A lot of positions were left vacant and we need to know why this happened. I went to profs to find out whats been
going on inside the student body. Any change that should be made in Sanggu should come directly from the
students
Methodology for SAP:
i. Quantitative Comprehensive: Survey the students about what they think about sanggu and have them rate us
from a scale of 1-10. OSA said its comprehensive as long as you coordinate properly with INTACT, NSTP,
JEEP and integration. The problem is that theres way too many students. YOu can misconstrue this data
ii. Quantitative Representative: Divide how many people there are per batch per school. Get a sample from that,
then you question them. The problem my Psych prof said, Bat ka magqquantity nanaman? If you want to
get to know why theyre saying what theyre saying, do something qualitative."
iii. Qualitative Comprehensive: The Qualitative Comprehensive survey was the hardest to figure out. Get 7
questions that you could ask the entire student body and are open-ended. We had to go through a whole bunch

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of methodology. A prof asked, Miguel, do you even have a research team? You do realize this isnt for
undergrads. You need people and you need time and you need stuff that you dont have right now. So his
suggestion was to keep it really simple
iv. Qualitative Representative: Aim for theoretical significance. What we have to do is get a variety. and when
you get a variety, youve done the best that you could.
After finalizing the methodology, the next step is to present it to the stakeholders. Sir Rem approves of the
methodology, VP Vergara expressed his interest in the endeavor. Ryan has condoned it and asked me to do the
students side, while he did the student leaders side. I need your help getting students that we can interview. I
would like it if some of you can help me in doing interviews. I think weve come up with something really good
so far.
i. Polo Martinez: Primary objective?
ii. Hamoy: I wanna figure out why the failure happened. A prof corrected me - What is the relevance of student
government?
iii. Ryan Yu: further corrected that - What is the value of student government?
iv. Ray Gomez: We have two options: create another team or we get one of the existing teams to absorb this.
v. Mikee Defensor: How can you assure that this reaserch will be beneficial to us
vi. Hamoy: Im not reassuring anything
vii. Parang nung start hindi tayo nakakagalaw then all of a sudden, its just for the value pala
viii. Ray Gomez: Is this still worth it?
ix. Polo Martinez: Personally, I wish to push through with this, but Im not exactly sure how were gonna do this
given where were at at the calendar of activities. On top of that, we already have a Commitee on
Constitutional Review.
x. Karlo Abadines: What if we make it a long term thing? The info we can get for this research is for the long
run talga
1. Miguel Hamoy: Sorry kung may ma-ooffend. Tatagal pa ang institution than our own term. I think we
can afford to think past our own term.
2. Polo Martinez: Everything weve been doing in the committee system has been in view of the long term
plans. The way I see it right now, Im thinking of how we can do this simultaneously with constitutional
review. We can always calendar, mahirap, but then we can always calendar is. My problem is manpower
3. Karlo Abadines: Can we trust you to give us a time line?
4. Hamoy: Yes, I wont be self-important to this project
xi. Ray Gomez: All of these couldve been talked about if you wouldve been more transparent in the first place.
All of our initiatives are Sanggu initiatives. We make space for each other, we work on this together, we build
the institution again together. Its not your work, its our work. Please be more transparent with it
xii. Mawe Duque: How will you put SAP to what we can do with the constitutional review?
1. Polo Martinez: I guess what this project could do is support the constitutional review
xiii. CJ Leong: Is DRS still on board with this?
1. Ryan said the DRS will handle quantitative side
xiv. Whos going to craft the core questions?
1. Its been done na

Motion to suspend parliamentary procedures for the rest of the session: Polo Martinez
Second: Regis Andanar
1)

PHASE 0 - CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW (Polo Martinez) {40}

a. My personal objective is to consolidate the decision making process, to have a stronger focus on policy and
legislations.
b. Karlo Abadines: Its a bargaining thing. At some point in time, I think Sanggu has to say we promise well do this,
we will focus on something else, but thats a negotiation thing. I dont want to see the student government backing
off just because civil society has taken everything. See it as we will make the mechanisms so that academic
concerns are addressed. Purely on the level of practice. Its informal. What Im trying to do with this is try to
legitimatize that informality.
c. Martinez: Assuming were sticking with the structural model, ang problema ko lang doon is we wont have
enough people to join the committee. In the Constitutional Review Committee, theres Ray, me and Ryan. Thats
why at this point in time I need help. If were not pushing through with parliamentary system in this institution, we
could at least provide explicit provisions to facilitate the future.
d. Do we dissolve or streamline the executive board?
i. Karlo Abadines: For example Im a course rep of ComTech, Ill just handle the administrative function that
the central governments telling me and that all ComTech related stuff will go to ACTM?
1. I dont want to reduce what is a government mandate to what is administrative lang.
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Im open to changing the function, to lessening the number of course reps, maybe even removing the EOs, as
long as I see the rationale. I think that depending too much on the organizations to fulfil the functions that the
executive board has been handling will not be sufficient. For one, not all courses have their respective home
orgs and there are a lot of course-specific concerns that the organizations do not directly address.
iii. Karlo Abadines: I want to support that in a sense that what Im pushing the council towards is moving
beyond their home orgs. If student government has to handle acads and the organizations are complementary
mechanisms to develop that in other spheres, Im leaning towards what Alex said. You have to convince
organizations like MEA to let go, but thats going to be a different level of problem. Theres a challenge for
home organizations to go beyond being home organizations because the mandate of the council is social
impact. Being home org is killing that very definition of our council.
iv. Alex Tanjanco: I think the only way that will be possible is if they trust us enough to do that because we
havent given them enough reason to trust our initiatives.
v. Karlo Abadines: But thats why you have to prove the mechanisms. Thats part of the restructuring, the whole
reimagining your Sanggunian to be able to do that. Thats the exact reason why orgs never give it up, because
they know that theyre already distrusted the whole Sanggunian the past few years. Its a negotiation table
e.
i.

Mawe Duque: One of the cons lang is parang magiging labanan siya ng course.
Karlo Abadines: It forces lobbying. This system is going to be slower, but its going to be more democratic in
a sense na it forces people to convince each other that this is what we need to do.

Caucus

PREPARED BY:
Neicy Pilarca
Secretariat Member
Office of the Secretary-General
Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral ng
mga
Paaralang Loyola ng Ateneo de Manila

Kathleen Ferrer
Secretariat Member
Office of the Secretary-General
Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral ng
mga
Paaralang Loyola ng Ateneo de Manila