Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Board of Directors met for its biweekly meeting last night, Nov. 30. Topics discussed included:
ASI Chief of Staff Katie Morrow said the ASI Executive Cabinet is working on bringing the athletics department’s Mustang Way to the rest of campus. Morrow said they have “added a couple things” to the document and plan on bringing it the to the rest of ASI and student groups next quarter.
ASI Executive Director Rick Johnson said the Recreation Center is “not done yet, but they say it will be open on time.” However, he also said “we will not open when it’s done, we will open when it’s ready to be opened.” Johnson said to be “on the safe side” that time will be “a couple of weeks into January,” but added that it could be sooner.
Johnson also said the fee for the Recreation Center for four quarters is $36 per month for students and $40.67 per month for non-students interested in using the facility. “We’re doing the best we can to provide a consistent rate.”
Cal Poly Corporation Representative Bonnie Murphy said that the Cal Poly Corporation is looking at building a new campus Starbucks location for the next fiscal year. She said the Corporation is looking at putting the new location in the Campus Market area.
Murphy also said they are pushing to install digital monitors in the window of El Corral Bookstore to communicate information about events to students. Murphy said they hope to have it done by January, but added that it’s “not 100 percent.”
President Jeffrey Armstrong was a special guest at the meeting, and said the proposed Student Success fee is in the “starting phase” of discussion. That discussion will “cut across” how the fee would affect academic factors like hiring faculty and how it would affect student life.
Armstrong also said that, throughout the process, there will be “multiple opportunities for multiple students groups to provide feedback” on the fee, and that there are “more details that need to come out later.”
The fee proposal is around $780 per student for three quarters — that’s when the fee is fully phased, Armstrong said. The fee is expected to generate $14.5 to $15 million dollars. Student Success fees have already been successfully implemented on other California State University campuses.
Armstrong said that he thinks a Student Success fee is a “better way to go” than a College-Based Fee. “That’s why we channeled our discussion toward this,” he said.
Solomon Reda, filling in for University Union Advisory Board chair Katie Mesrobian, said a board subcommittee is having meetings to discuss the feasibility of bringing Brita Hydration Station water dispensers to the University Union.