I've gone to most of the boards that we represent in our office to line up communication with most of the vice chancellors and the chancellor. I've built a rapport with the administration as well by working with the Irvine City Council this past year.
City council is a large administrative force and very similar to the administration on campus.
I had to deal with all the politics to create a good line of communication and get what the students want across. This year, we were supposed to concentrate on creating a communication line with the city government, but a lot of students came to me with off-campus housing issues, which fell under my jurisdiction because I was the only one in A.S. who dealt with that. So this year, I've had to concentrate a large portion of my time on housing and haven't had enough time to deal with the city politics as much as I want to. So, next year we'll definitely have an Irvine Civic Outreach commissioner, and I was hoping to create a different commissionership called the Housing and Health Commissionership. We've already had a guest speaker at legislative council from the UCI police department.