The Undergraduate Students Association Council is the official student government of UCLA’s undergraduate students. Council meetings are Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Kerckhoff 417 and are open to all students.

Agenda

• Maggie Thornton and Jacob Ferrari, undergraduate student members from the Associated Students UCLA Board of Directors, followed up with the council about the recent $76,000 from the board and said ASUCLA will be there as a resource to help the council in the future as it decides how to spend the money. The council voted to table discussion of how to spend the additional funds until next week’s meeting.
• The Cultural Affairs Mini-Grant and this week’s contingency allocations were approved unanimously.
• The Student Organizations Operational Fund allocations were approved unanimously.
The council unanimously approved a $7,000 transfer from capital contingency funds to contingency programming funds and will re-evaluate if further transfers are needed at the start of spring quarter.

Officer reports

• President Emily Resnick said her office officially launched the Bruin Places to Crash website with the help of the Economic Crisis Response Team and the Center for Student Programming.
• Academic Affairs Commissioner Raquel Saxe said Political Science 30 “Politics and Strategy” will be offered online starting next quarter, and her office is still working with UCLA faculty members to instate the syllabus preview program.
• Financial Support Commissioner Andrea Hester said her office is planning a Financial Aid Fair on Feb. 27 to inform students before the FAFSA deadline on March 2.

Appointments

• Dimitra Kuruppu, a fourth-year anthropology student, was unanimously appointed to the John Wooden Center Board of Governors.
• Jeremy Reynard, a second-year business economics student, was appointed to the Information Technology Planning Board with a vote of 10-0-1. Facilities Commissioner Michael Starr abstained because Reynard is his chief of staff.

Special Presentations

• Tommy Le, the field organizer for the University of California Student Association, said the association is working on a draft of a bylaw change which would create two more student regent positions in order to have one professional student, one graduate student and one undergraduate student on the board.