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February 23rd, 2026

2:30 – 4:00 pmJoin Zoom (opens in new tab)

AgendaMinutes
  1. [2:30 - 2:33] 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. [2:33 - 2:35] Approval of the Agenda and Minutes
    1. Approval of 2/9/26 Agenda and 2/23/26 Agenda
    2. Approval of February 2, 2026 Minutes and February 9, 2026 Minutes
  3. [2:35 - 2:40] Announcements & Updates
    1. Debrief CSF Meeting
      1. Agenda
      2. CSF Notes
      3. CSF Notes
      4. CSF Notes
      5. CSF Post
    2. Assignments for review of campus based fees
      1. Basic Needs Fee: Nicholas, Trey, Sezona
      2. Learning Support Services Fee Increase: Angelina, Arielle, Lyra, Cheryl
      3. Right Livelihood Fee: Sofia, Laila, Vir
      4. Floating and Supporting: Marshall and Mel
    3. Review results of student survey
      1. Discussion on next steps and who will work on generating a summary of the findings
      2. Marshall will put out
  4. SFAC Chair/Vice-Chair Reports
    1. Chair
      1. CSF
      2. Research on Consolidated Shared Services Assessment
      3. Worked on Funding Call processes
      4. Attended Athletics and Rec RFAC
        1. Notes - Will be added later
    2. Vice-Chair
      1. We have started the planning for Spring CSF
        1. Our request to use the Cultural Center at Merrill has been Approved for April 11th & 12th
        2. We attended CSF and have decided the Spring Meeting will be a summit and every campus will lead a break out session
  5. Subcommittee Reports
    1. Audit
      1. Drafted framework on pausing / reducing fees, reflecting SFAC’s stance
      2. Began unit interviews
      3. Accessed and identified concerning trends in budgets
      4. Starting to draft unit reports now, identifying new units to interview
      5. Goal: reach UCLA level of auditing every unit, every year (especially considering we’re not running the funding call next year)
        1. We’re figuring out what works this year as we streamline that process
    2. Outreach
      1. We presented at the SUA on the SFAC Student Survey on Campus Values
      2. Continued to post SFAC Member Mondays when appropriate to post (Agelina)
      3. Continuing to post Fee of The Week Posts to educate students about fee measures (Sophia)
      4. Find projects for those in the committee
        1. Nick- will contact student clubs for SFAC to present and introduce ourselves
        2. Cheryl- will contact organizations/departments that have been previously funded by SFAC to see how the event/program we funded went
      5. I believe we have successfully rebranded the SFAC instagram
      6. Outreach has only met a couple of times this quarter due to scheduling conflicts and there being 0 available times for the entire committee to meet
      7. Next quarter we have big plans!
    3. Appeals
  6. [2:40 - 2:45] Summer 2026 Campus Based Fees
    1. Proposed Fees
  7. [2:45 - 2:55] SSF role in funding academic research
    1. https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/fees/documents/stuservicesfeeguide.pdf
      1. States SSF should be used on things endorsed by a campus SFAC and should not be used to support units traditionally relying on state funds
      2. Could open the door to future research labs augmenting state and federal funds by relying on SSF if we continue to endorse it
    2. Academic Senate Committee on Planning and Budget Report
      1. https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/wordpress.ucsc.edu/dist/2/115/files/2026/01/CPB-Annual-Report-2024-25_SCP2138.pdf
      2. States cuts were backloaded and so while many others have implemented major cuts, academic divisions are just starting to
      3. States future costs are expected to go up
    3. Summary and recommendation
    4. Voting on appeal
  8. [2:55 - 3:10] Discussion: Consolidated Shared Services Assessment
    1. https://planning.ucsc.edu/models-assessments/administration-service-assessments/
    2. SFAC Response
  9. [3:10 - 3:20] Debrief Visit with Executive Director Dan Henderson, TAPS
    1. FOLDER with materials provided by Dan, including slide deck
    2. Develop recommendation for the Chancellor
  10. [3:20 - 3:30] Debrief Visit with Chancellor Larive
    1. Discuss proposed policy on reducing campus based fees
  11. [3:30 - 4:00] Proposed Campus Based Fee Presentations
    1. Learning Support Services Fee Increase
      1. Guest: Lexie Tapke, Assistant Director of Learning Support Services
      2. https://www.canva.com/design/DAG-nvP7IX8/-bPp4PRk59sqeYS70DFKeg/view?utm_content=DAG-nvP7IX8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer
      3. Ballot Statement
      4. Budget for Fee Increase
      5. LSS Operating Budget
      6. Link to questions

Upcoming Guests/Topics:

  1. Presentations from Referenda Authors - March 2nd (Basic Needs and Right Livelihood)
  2. Potentially SFAC Attending a UC Regents Meeting: March 17th, 2026 @UCSF
  3. Spring CSF Meeting: April 11th -12th
  4. University Registrar Tchad Sanger: Records Fee (late spring 2026)

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