Fee Transparency Project

Present: Marshall, Vir, Trey, Mel, Arielle, Angelina, Lyra, John, Lisa, Sezona, Nicholas, Lucy, Aims.

[3:30 - 3:33] Welcome and Introductions
1. Members' introductions: Name, Pronouns, Year, Major, and Space.
2. Order: Cowell, Stevenson, Crown, Merrill, Kresge, Porter, Oakes, RCC, C9, JRL, Graduate Students, SAB, Provost, SUA, Lisa, Sezona, Lucy
[3:33 - 3:35] Approval of the Agenda and Minutes
1. Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of March 31, 2026 Minutes
  1. Unanimously approved.
[3:35 - 3:40] Public Comment
1. Attend CSF!
[3:40 - 3:45] Announcements
1. CSF April 11-12 @ Merrill Cultural Center
2. Absentee comment form
3. Request from Stevenson Cowell College community garden regarding an extension of their 25-26 SFAC award
  1. Lucy explains that the Associate Director for Student life at Stevenson and Cowell contacted her earlier this year to explain that organizational changes at the college may make it difficult to implement a project that was funded last year. The award was for $7479.95 for supplies and payroll for a student intern at the garden. The college anticipates they will be able to get up and going for summer and requests consideration for extending the award implementation timeline so they can use the funds beyond June 2026. (see item #10 below for outcome).
SFAC Chair/Vice-Chair Reports
1. Chair
  1. TODO
2. Vice-Chair
  1. Happy Week 2
  2. If you are interested in the Vice Chair role, reach out to me! Let’s Chat
  3. CSF REMINDER:
    1. Saturday: Meeting 9 am-3 pm (paid for half the hours of total meeting time), then dinner at Woodstock's
    2. Sunday: 9 am-3 pm, more than welcome to observe (Meeting time not paid).
Subcommittee Reports
1. Audit
  1. Audit Reports for Round 1 should be finalized by Friday, April 10th.
    1. Vir will give feedback on Friday, and each group will incorporate changes by Monday, April 13th.
  2. Round 2 will begin from next week onwards.
  3. Audit members who go to CSF – please talk to other campuses about how they run audits! Some highlights:
    1. UCLA notably audits every division on campus that receives SSF (a model we will want to move towards)
    2. Irvine is reviewing all permanent allocations
    3. Berkeley is the model we use (temperature check emails, etc.)
2. Outreach
  1. We will be meeting from 11 am to 12 pm every Friday this quarter!
    1. Do we want to meet in person? If so, where?
  2. The Fee Summit is happening! More planning info to come on Friday!
[3:45 - 3:55] Discussion/Vote - Referenda Pro/Con Statement Approval
1. Summary: Finalizing pro/con statements after feedback from the campus elections coordinator and discussion of next steps. Voting on final approval of pro/con statements.
  1. Marshall, Mel and Lucy met with Travis, and he’s provisionally approved the pro-con statement with no adjustments and changes.
2. Items:
  1. Copy of Final Pro-Con Statements
  2. Fee Referendum
3. Vote: Approval of Pro/Con Statements
[3:55 - 4:20] Discussion - Planning a fee summit
1. Summary: Planning an event to inform students about the kinds of fees they pay, the activities these groups do, and ways to be involved in them. Topics will entail information on new and existing fees, election information, and types of fees (compulsory, opt-out, opt-in). But it will primarily focus on the Current Referendum on the ballot. Discussion will focus on preliminary planning and selecting members to help plan it.
  1. This will be mainly an Outreach Committee Project, but we would like everyone's input in this planning stage
2. Items:
  1. Campus Fee Summit
[4:20 - 5:00] Discussion/Vote: TAPS: Discussion on Measure 73 Recommendation
1. Background: At the February 23rd SFAC meeting, Executive Director of TAPS, Dan Henderson, visited with SFAC for the annual presentation that is required by Measure 73. Measure 73 states that each winter quarter, TAPS will present information to SFAC (ridership data, budget, etc.). After this presentation, the SFAC developed a recommendation for the chancellor related to whether the fee escalation that was voted in by students in Measure 73 should be implemented for the following year. For 2026-2027, the fee increase would be $3.00 per student per quarter, or a total of $9.00.
2. Summary: Finalizing goals we want TAPS to meet from the last meeting's discussions. Previous goals will be amended based on responses from the Director of TAPS. These goals are intended to be finalized to give enough time to discuss with TAPS. Vote will be on approving the proposed goals and allowing SFAC leadership to start discussions with TAPS.
3. Items:
  1. TAPS Materials
  2. Metrics For TAPS
    1. Combined metrics for increased ridership, increased service hours, and increased staffing.
    2. Operationalize electric buses.
    3. Increase Flexigo outreach —-> or pivot to a new app like transit to be determined, based on further information and data.
  3. SFAC_Minutes_020926
  4. 2019-measures-all.pdf
  5. TAPS Question Responses - TODO
    1. Dan will be getting back to SFAC very soon with the response needed to form proper metrics.
4. Vote: Initial proposed Measure 73 Recommendation
Cowell-Stevenson Garden: Extension of funding into the summer quarter.
1. Angelina motions to see the revised proposal, Arielle Seconds. No objections were raised with unanimous consent.
2. Lucy will notify them that SFAC is happy to receive a revised proposal, hopefully to vote on it at next week's meeting.
[5:00] Adjournment

Upcoming Guests/Topics:

University Registrar Tchad Sange and Finance Manager Ken Maranta: Records Fee - April 14th @ 4:00 - 4:30 pm
Tour of Kresge College Renovation Project: May 12th @ 3:30 (Meet at Kresge by parking lot 143/145, closest to R12 and R13). Must wear pants and closed-toe, hard-toe shoes. Tennis shoes are ok, but hiking boots are better.

Meeting and Committee Member Resources:

SFAC Roster
Orientation Materials
Agendas and Minutes
Tracking Sheet for Campus-Based Fees ongoing discussion
Google Folder
Summer 26 Fee Levels