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that was held in Ontario, Calif.

The requested money was used to attend the conference and cover food, transportation and hotel expenses. Not all of the money was spent, and the remainder was returned to the representative account.

McGee said that a new policy called “negative check-off” includes the $7 ASO fee in the cost to register for classes unless a student opts out. This will take effect in fall 2015.

ASO members voiced their dissatisfaction about the voting mechanisms of the recent ASO election and heard funding requests from Pierce organizations at this week’s ASO meeting.

During the public requests portion of the meeting, students voiced their displeasure about the confusing voting instructions and the resulting ASO election outcomes.

ASO sent out an email blast to Pierce students on March 30, announcing that the election would be by electronic vote. However, numerous students stated that they did not receive this email.

“It is unfair to assume that everyone has a smartphone, or has Internet access when they aren’t on campus,” Albert Thakur, Student Senator, said.

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Despite the presence of recycling bins throughout the Pierce College campus, the process remains unclear to certain people on campus.

People throw trash into the recycling bins on occasion, but according to associate professor Denise Robb, Pierce’s custodians don’t actually recycle the contents of the bins.

its recycling system to Pierce’s.

“At Moorpark, we have bins and there is a paper bin and it has a slot for the paper and it says clean paper only, then for the cans and bottles there’s a round bin that says cans and bottles only so they don’t get mixed up,” Ahlstrom said. “It’s all over campus, so everyone is now trained that the paper goes in the narrow paper slot and the cans go in the circle, whereas [at Pierce] they haven’t gotten that system down yet, so that might be something they want to update too.”

Though an account was made, no funds were placed in the account as it remains unknown how much it will cost to hire the new employee. McGee said the ASO is not in charge of the hiring process.

The ASO also has a large fund called the representative account, which is typically used for conferences the ASO and clubs attend.

The representative account contains about $250,000 which can not be spent without approval to designate where the money is going to be allocated to.

McGee said that the ASO requested $37,000 from the representative account so the ASO could attend the conference for the Student Senate for California Community Colleges

One concern regarding the election was that voting facilities to accommodate ESL students and disabled students were not available. Several students who did vote electronically had problems with the system crashing and were forced to repeat the voting process before their vote was submitted. Candidates also said that they had been instructed that there would be paper ballots and voting stations set up around the campus.

“ASO’s elections have always been about fairness,” Thakur said. “By taking away the opportunity for students to vote when and how they preferred was a real disadvantage. It was us failing the system.”

The next ASO meeting is scheduled for May 19, 2015.