December 4th, 2017
Student Fee Advisory Committee December 4, 2017 Meeting Minutes
Members Present: Suini Torres, Amanda Kazden, Kiryl Karpiuk, Ian Thad Gregorio, Cathy Thomas, Regina Gomez, John Steele, Lisa Bishop, Ashley John, Gina Tu, Aaron Manzano, Alice Malmberg, Bryna Haugen, Jaye Padgett, Alan Christy
- Approval of Agenda, Minutes, Announcements
a. Motion to approve agenda by John, second by Gina, no objections b. Motion to approve minutes by John, second by Gina, no objections c. Announcements:
i. Suini: meeting time next quarter will be Monday 12-1:30 ii. Suini discusses possibility of Friday evening meeting at CSF and says we are flying there
and asks members to tell by by the end of the day if they are interested in attending CSF
iii. Suini says paychecks on the 13th, says ask Lucy and specific questions and that date is
different for grad reps iv. John discusses food drive
- Summer Fees
a. Lisa: summer fees: Jan 17 is new due date for summer fees being finalized; she read statement in
email explaining deadline and asked SFAC for input.
b. Bryna says they definitely should not go up and says we should wait to solidify this until we
have more student input. Lisa responds with explanation that specific percents will be distributed to each fee group “avoiding the machinations” of her office c. Lisa explains she needs “a date, not a whole discussion” for now d. Gina says we are not meeting until week 3; Suini says we could meet before then; Gina suggests
1 meeting refresher then another for giving student input
e. Lisa suggests we continue with current methodology then go more in-depth later on because she
needs Chancellor’s support
f. Bryna agrees we should have more in-depth and informed decision later on g. Aaron motions to meet January 8 to discuss summer fees, no objections, motion passes
- Visit with Jaye Padgett
introductions around the room
a. b. Jaye says that he wants to talk about his division and SFAC. He discusses an organization chart
he sent to committee in email
c. Bryna asks why does STARS include both transfer and re-entry students? Jaye responds that different populations are all in one group but works well because it’s important to provide resources for both and reason is largely historical (personnel changes, unique organization due in part to coincidence)
d. Alice asks when Alma left, office of the Dean got split so when we recruit a new dean will the
two parts of the position come back together? Jaye says yes
Jaye says CAPS recently split- counselors and licensed psychiatrists now split Jaye says he wants to partner with faculty and department heads through the SSERC
e. f. g. Suini asks Jaye to comment on his goals with SFAC. Jaye asks if the SFAC charge letter has
been posted yet. Suini checks and it has not. Jaye thinks Lucy might want us to finalize this draft. Jaye reads bullet-points out loud to get committee’s input/opinions on individual parts
h. Jaye asks if groups come to SFAC to get input on budgets. John discusses our role i.
Jaye asks the committee if it thinks it does enough to review campus based fees and invites the committee to have bigger role in the oversight of fees
j. Bryna responds that she would love to consider other fees and expand SFAC’s current function
with longer meetings starting next year
k. Alice suggests appointing SFAC reps/leadership to group Lisa discussed l. Amanda informs committee that she and Kiryl are working on compiling information on all of
the SFAC’s/equivalents to see the roles of each on their campuses and says she will share it with Jaye when it is finished. He says he is very interested in seeing that
m. committee thanks Jaye for coming in and he leaves
- Alice presentation on commencement:
a. Alice says she wants to clarify language in Measure B of what is “acceptable use practices” b. Alice says the 15th is the deadline for referendum language c. Bryna says she had a meeting with Abigail from the DRC which wants funding for end of the
year ceremony from us and was requesting our feedback
d. Alice responds that CSF Commencement Resolution says identity orgs can be funded e. Alice wants to clarify what is and what is not appropriate for commencement funding; goes over her edits and additions in response to admin dipping into college governments’ prior accounts last year
f. Aaron says that they should ask for student response but they should get the funding if no response because summer means a response is unlikely but things still need to be paid for
g. Ashley says it’s in her college government’s constitution that the president must be available for matters like this because C10 dealt with admin dipping into their government account last year
h. Aaron agrees that is a good first step i. Alan says that the Council of Provosts don’t support this because it’s not a core academic
function, is a celebration. He says colleges themselves do not have adequate funding for this j. Cathy asks total cost of commencement. Alice says around $165,000, big increase over what the
projected cost had been
k. Alice says Sue Matthews (CHES) is not asking SFAC for money for commencement this year l. Alan says that last year campus police had us cancel college celebrations that take place after
commencements
m. Alice discusses possibility of using Quarry Amphitheater but not likely to be big enough and
would not help with costs because other colleges still have to pay for stage, etc
n. Alice asks for more feedback in future so we have time for gift exchange o. committee exchanges gifts
- Aaron motions to adjourn, Gina seconds, no objections