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October 27th, 2025

3:30 – 5:00 pm

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Present: Marshall, Mel, Sofia, Arielle, Laila, Lisa, Sezona, Lucy, Cheryl, Aims, Trey, Wahaj

Quorum is established.

  1. [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
  2. [3:33 - 3:35] Approval of Agenda & Minutes
    1. Approval of Agenda
    2. Approval of October 20, 2025 Minutes and approval of October 20, 2025 Closed Session Minutes.
      1. Marshall added two sentences to the minutes to capture some of the information regarding what occurred in the closed session.
      2. Laila motions to approve the agenda and minutes; Arielle seconds the motions. No objections, motions carries.
  3. [3:35 - 3:40] Public Comment
  4. [3:40 - 3:45] Announcements & Updates
    1. CSF Executive Board Meeting Updates:
      1. CSF Fall 2025 Exec Notes
      2. This past Friday CSF held the executive board meeting. There was a discussion regarding the cohort based tuition model.
      3. Every year tuition is based on the year that you enter and the amount is set for a student’s term they are enrolled.
      4. At the November Regent’s meeting, an increase of 5% is being proposed to connect the increase to the HDPI (Higher Education Inflationary Index); the reason is that this index is more aligned with the actual costs of education. There would be a 1% increase each year.
    2. CSF Fall
      1. For those who are going to the meeting at UC San Diego, please make sure you completed the RSVP form.
    3. Oakes-O-Ween debrief
      1. The event went well. It was a busy event.
    4. SFAC merch
      1. Sweaters are ordered.
    5. Oakes Rep
    6. Measure 86
      1. Lucy will contact the Measure 86 folks (they did not respond to the invitation to attend yet).
      2. What will we do if they do not respond? It’s possible we recommend that we not fund summer.
    7. 1st SFAC Funding Call Workshop
      1. 10/31 10am to 11am on Zoom
      2. Presentation: Funding_Call_Workshop_2023
      3. Marshall moves, Vir seconds to extend the time for this item
  5. [3:45 - 3:50] SFAC Chair/Vice Chair Updates
    1. Chair:
      1. Reached out to Travis regarding moving from an opinion statement to a pro/con statement for the ballot.
      2. Tabled at Oakes-o-Ween
      3. Attended CSF executive board meeting
      4. Worked on brainstorming proposal language for SFAC pro/con statements
      5. Setting up meeting with VCSAS Akirah
      6. Vir asks about Marshall’s favorite thing about SFAC; Marshall responds that it’s travel for CSF.
      7. Sofia asks about how the role fits into Marshall’s goals and future goals. Marshall says that writing, policy writing, speaking with upper admin.
      8. Arielle asks who Marshall interacts with in administration; Marshall says that it’s mostly DSAS because that’s where SSF goes but there will be some time to speak to folks outside of DSAS.
    2. Vice-Chair
      1. Updated the Oakes flier for the recruitment.
      2. Coordinated supplies for Oakes-o-Ween
      3. Planning agenda for outreach committee (this Thursday)
      4. Role as Vice Chair is different from the Chair.
      5. Mel’s favorite part of the role is these meetings and the annual funding call.
      6. Mel says that she is very interested in educational policy; she enjoys talking about where funding goes. Mel is also the Treasurer for Merrill Student Government so there are intersections.
  6. [3:50 - 3:55] Subcommittee reports
    1. Audit:
      1. Time/Dates: Every Wednesdays 6pm - 7pm
      2. Location: Zoom/Maybe in person
    2. Outreach:
      1. Time/Dates: Every Other Thursday 12pm - 1pm
      2. Location: Zoom (Only in person when planning tabling)
  7. [3:55 - 4:20] Review of Important Policies - This section of the agenda is meant as training for members. We will review the following important policies.
    1. UC State Compact
      1. https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/j1.pdf
      2. Every year the UC has to present to the Governor and the State Legislature on its progress on the Compact goals.
    2. Introduction to Cohort Based Tuition/Tuition Stability Plan
      1. https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/fees-and-enrollments/policies-and-resources/cohort_implementation_guidelines_final_sept_2021.pdf
      2. Yearly cost - https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/fees/202526/2025-26.pdf
      3. Regent report on cohort - https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july25/b2.pdf \
      4. Cohort based tuition applies only to undergraduate students.
      5. This model brings stability for in-state students, but out-of state students did see an out of -cycle increase for non-resident tuition.
    3. UCOP Guidelines on Implementing the SSF -
      1. https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/fees/documents/stuservicesfeeguide.pdf
    4. PACAOS 80 - Policy on Compulsory Fees
      1. https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/2710528/PACAOS-80
    5. Other important regent actions
      1. https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/sept25/f2.pdf
  8. [4:20 - 4:35] SFAC Vice-Chair
    1. Student Fee Summit
    2. Mel reminds the group that a few weeks ago we talked about the possibility of a Cornucopia-like event to focus on student fees.
    3. The purpose is to educate students on where their fees are going.
    4. This would be a fun and inclusive event.
    5. Spring quarter would be the target - Week 3 or 4.
    6. We will discuss this further at the Outreach Meeting
    7. We could have performances with student groups. We could do this at the Quarry Amphitheater or the Plaza.
    8. The outreach committee will be focused on this for discussion.
    9. Lucy suggests that we could ask for co-sponsorship from groups that receive referendum since this is an educational event.
  9. [4:35 - 5:00] Small group orientation
    1. Assigning groups
      1. Group leaders will be Marshall, Mel, Cheryl and Trey
      2. Groups will be assigned and may be the groups for the funding call.
    2. Campus fee referenda: https://web.archive.org/web/20240811021718/https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/enacted-fees.html#expand
    3. Group 1:
      1. Cheryl, Sezona, Arielle
    4. Group 2:
      1. Trey, Laila, Sofia
    5. Group 3:
      1. Mel, Wahaj, Angelina
    6. Group 4:
      1. Marshall, Vir, Nicholas
    7. Groups meet in small groups and review currently enacted referendum fees.
  10. [5:00] Adjournment

Upcoming Guests/Topics:.

  1. November 17th, 3:30 - 4:00 pm: Amber Blakeslee, Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget, Analysis, and Planning
  2. SSF/M7 Annual Report + Overview of Measure 7 (Requested by Lisa)
  3. SFAC SSF Annual Report: https://cosaf.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk1561/files/inline-files/COSAF_Annual_Report_2024-25.pdf
  4. Student Media Council Summer Fee/Student Voice and Empowerment Fee Review
  5. November 3rd: Student Voice and Empowerment Fee Summer 26 Review (SCOC)
  6. Measure 86: Theater Arts - establishing summer fee level for new fee.

Meeting and Committee Member Resources:

  1. SFAC Roster
  2. Orientation Materials
  3. Agendas and Minutes
  4. Tracking Sheet for Campus Based Fees ongoing discussion
  5. Google Folder
  6. Summer 26 Fee Levels