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February 28th, 2022

2:00 – 3:30 pm

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Present: Brynna Downey, Maryann Godje, Gloria Qiu, Mathew Sarti, Stephanie Herrera, Alvin Ho, Kayla Gomez, Vivan Pham, Lucy Rojas, Lydia Jenkins-Sleczkwoski, Emily Montano, Lisa Bishop

  1. Welcome and Introductions
    1. SFAC Community Agreements
  2. Approval of Agenda, 2/14/2022 Minutes and 2/15/2022 Minutes
    1. Alvin motions to approve the agenda, Gloria seconds. No objections, motion passes.
    2. Mathew motions to approve the February 14th minutes, Andy seconds. No objections, motion passes.
    3. Stephanie motions to approve the February 15th minutes, Andy seconds. No objections, motion passes.
  3. Announcements & Updates
    1. Extra Winter Meeting Times canceled
    2. CSF Debrief
      1. Brynna debriefs meeting and important topics that came up such as what happens with software with Graduate Student Research, which she brought up to the Council of Student Fees
    3. Other announcements
      1. Brynna will not be able to attend the SFAC meeting next week and Alvin can only attend the first half of the meeting. Ask who would like to be chair next week.
      2. Andy can take over first half and Gloria will take over second half
      3. Lydia sent an email recently and goes over the event of Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success and Health Community Forum
  4. Summer Campus Based Fee Levels
    1. Past levels & survey results
    2. Brynna goes over the context of why SFAC approves the summer campus based fees
    3. Lisa comments how every year SFAC votes to approve the rate and it has not been changed in several years
    4. Brynna thought for this year SFAC would like to ask units what they would need
    5. Lisa comments how they translation fee has raised to $151 and all the increases are to go to purchasing electric vehicles
  5. Spring 2022 Referendum Discussion
  6. Funding Call Deliberations
    1. Ratings worksheet
    2. Discussion
      1. Appropriate uses of SSF and M7 funds
      2. Inappropriate for SSF funds
      3. Finalizing 1-22
      4. Proposals 23-43
    3. Group one: Stpehanie states how none of the group had experience or any background in student fees and trusted their judgment. Referenced notes as well grom groups 2 and 3
      1. Brynna sks if any fees spent longer talking about
      2. Stepanie states if they didn't say same we talked about them
    4. Group two: Vivan says her group followed the survey request and discussed the student faculty fees mostly and decided to keep the same
    5. Group three: Alvin said mainly just followed the same ones and group decided increase of 75% and student life fee of increase of 67%
    6. Brynna comments how it sounds like collectively the group decides that if past summer fee levels were aduate, the fees will be kept the same
    7. Alvin suggests same if they don’t respond
      1. Mathew agrees with Alvin’s approach, there are no objections
    8. Mathew comments at 50% they are only finding 25% of their necessity if this is accurate
    9. Brynna answers yes this is what she read from their response
    10. Lisa comments as far as tuition policies from UCOP or summer state that you can reduce fees but cannot increase them, LIsa suggests to leave the same policy form the campus based fees
    11. Alvin suggests 50% for student facilities fees, Mathew seconds
    12. Alvin asks for 50% for campus child care fee, Vivian seconds. no objections
    13. Mathew asks if it is reasonable to think if program is year round, if it would make sense to increase the fee
      1. Lucy answers that it is very logical and with childcare, they are multi funded and may be coming up short in this fund source. Important to note if their entire department goes deficit, the unit gets charged something. Might be the referda part is coming up short
      2. Brynna says that it says for the large fee there is a carryforward
      3. Brynna says it sounds like all other revenue fee are at need
      4. Vivan motions to keep it at 67% for campus child care, Andy seconds. No objections
    14. Chalrne motions for 67%
    15. Mathew comments how he is okay with 50% for the Student life facilities fee
    16. Charlene commetms how she was thinking for those resources during the summer would be useful to raise to 67%
    17. Lisa responds raises the rate to non-student is what happens during the miscellaneous fees discussion
    18. Charlene comets how she believes they would also charge for additional fees is they want full access
    19. Mathew adds another reason was that they didn't increase a campus childcare fee. He is fine with keeping both as is. Charleen, Alvin, and Vivan agrees with that
    20. Vivan motions to keep the fee the same, Mathew seconds. No objections
  7. Alvin things to keep as 50% is fine for graduate students for the Sustainable Food, Health, Wellness
  8. Alvin motions to keep the graduate student fee the same, Stpehanie seconds. No objections
  9. Vivian motions to keep the same fee for Renewable Energy Fee
  10. Mathew comments how increasing to 100 would be adding an extra dollar. Therefore, he is closer to increasing this and suggests 100% because it is only a dollar increase. Is compelled for this fee, because he is more sustainable and tries to have this mentality of sustainability. Think’s the dollar is worth it in the end.
  11. Alvin goes either or and Alvin thinks the dollar is too much of an increase. Alivn advocates for the 75%
  12. Lisa comments they can go with any percentage
  13. Charlne asks how many they increased
    1. Brynna answers none
  14. Charlene thinks she agrees with Mathews point and is more comfortable with increasing one
  15. Andy is leaning with 100% as well
  16. Mathew comments how he thinks what Charlene was getting at, by increasing this one and not the others, it would be not favorable in this situation.
    1. Charlene adds it would be a little biased but would be unethical. If we are keeping it at the same level and chose one, feels they should have a really good reason for doing that
    2. Mathew adds that his bias is to increase childcare and then sustainability fee and everything else would be the same. Mathew’s issue was increasing student life and not that ones he cared about
  17. Lisa comments how she looked at their fiances last year and they had a carryforward and does not see any deficents in the renewable energy fee
  18. Bryann adds that the renewable energy fee is not the one operating at a loss, it is the childcare fee
  19. Charlene would like to revisit childcare fee.
  20. Charlene motions for campus child care to be at 100%, Mathew seconds. No objections.
  21. Charlene’s reasoning is that she thinks that it is clear that they need more and it is an important resource used throughout the summer and rest of the year and thinks that the increase would be justificable for those reasons.
  22. Lisa comments that they are at a deficit in the actual fee but had a 1.4 million carryforward. Overall the center is not in deicent just what they are using the actual fee for
  23. Mathew comments how he would like to change it back to 67% with that in mind of what Lisa had just stated
  24. Lisa shows the Campus Child Care Fees financials
  25. Brynan asks what actually does the fee go to the program?
  26. Lisa sees that it goes to students, office supplies, can’t say exactly but reads where the expenses are coming in based off the chart
  27. Brynna understands the part of the fee allows the students to the center for a much lower rate
  28. Charlene comments on how all the fees we are looking at, some of them claim how they are in a loss but at the end of the day all of those programs are not in loss?
    1. Lisa responds no
    2. Lucy adds an example for this.
    3. Brynna would personally like some guidance and help with understanding.
    4. Lisa comments how they must be funding something specific but sometimes certain fund sources can sometimes be used for certain things.
  29. Mathew comments how he does not think the group has enough information to make a decision.
  30. Brynna suggests inviting them to talk to the group in the Spring. Can encourage them to post a fee referendum for their fee
  31. Charlene is still comfortable meeting that fee
  32. Mathew motions to comprise in the middle at 75% and invites them to talk to the group in the Spring quarter ,Charlene seconds.
  33. Lisa needs an actual number
    1. Brynna will do the number
  34. Alvin motions to increase 75% for the Renewable energy fee, a couple of seconds. No objections.
  35. Charlene motions to approve this slate of percentages, Alvin seconds, No objections, motion passes.
  36. Lisa comments how she got a note that anyone taking 2 units or less the will not be paying for these fees
  37. Adjournment
    1. Alvin motions to adjourn, Charlene seconds. No objections, motion passes.

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