De Anza College hosted the first ever Region IV Pre-General Assembly Summit in Conference rooms A and B on April 17. The assembly prepared students for the Student Senate for California Community Colleges Spring General Assembly 2010 in Los Angeles.

Region IV of the SSCCC is comprised of community colleges from the Bay Area and surrounding counties. At the summit, Regional Chair Hannah Grace Kempis, 21, of Gavilan College welcomed student senates before workshop sessions.

Kempis lead the workshop titled, “New Meets Old: Transitioning Your AS After Elections.” The associated students attending the workshop learned optimal ways to smooth the transition of previous AS executives and senators to the colleges’s newly elected AS members.

“I got to see the different perspectives of other schools that attended, like about the Brown Act and club organization. It makes me see that De Anza is pretty legit and on track with things,” said Thoa Hoang, 19, junior senator for the De Anza Associated Student Body Senate.

The second workshop commenced, led by Sarab Sarabi, regional senator from region IV and a Cabrillo College student. The workshop, “History of Student Government in California,” taught the summit about the progression of different California student government coalitions and where the future of California student senates are headed.

DASB vice president of Administration, Wayne Spalding, the De Anza delegate in the SSCCC Region IV, joined delegates and executives in the region from Las Positas, Chabot, Gavilan and Cabrillo. The group discussed meeting with local lawmakers to talk about a higher educational fund that would be funded by a 9.9 percent oil severance tax titled AB656.

To learn more about region IV, visit the website at http://www.SSCCC-Region-IV.org.