Student Initiated University Centers Expansion
and Renovation Fee Referendum
This referendum was approved by UCSD Students in Spring 2003
As recommended by the student initiated Associated Students University Centers Expansion Task Force the following is proposed:
Do you support a $39 per student, per quarter fee, to be collected upon completion and opening projected for Fall 2007, for an expanded and renovated University Centers?
The student population at UCSD is growing by approximately 1,000 students per year to approximately 30,000 in 2010. The current University Centers facilities (the Price Center, Student Center, and Che Café) were not designed to accommodate the needs of 30,000 students. The State of California does not pay for non-academic facilities. To accommodate this growth the new facilities would include:
- 24-hour study lounge with a computer lab, group-study rooms, and commuter student resources (including lockers, commuter kitchen, etc.)
- Late-night restaurants and cafes including a restaurant connected
to a 24-hour study lounge - More diverse food offerings including healthy low-cost places to eat
- Interior dining seating at the Grove Café
- Additional indoor and outdoor dining seating
- Grocery store in the Price Center
- Expanded General Store at the Student Center
- Convenient retail services (such as a full-service bank, hair stylist, etc.)
- Expansion of Soft Reserves and Lecture Notes
- Expanded full-service post office
- 84 additional student organization offices and a student organization
resource center - Renovation of student organization offices at the Student Center
- Additional student event and programming space
- More social lounge spaces
- Face lift to the exterior of the Student Center including more and improved lighting
- Student-run Recruitment & Retention Center
Statement of Conditions:
- The fee will not be collected until the facilities are completed and open to students, and is estimated to begin 2007.
- The fee will be an addition to the existing University Centers fee, and shall cover the costs associated with constructing, operating, and maintaining the facilities.
- A Building Advisory Committee, overseeing the planning, design, and construction of the expanded facility, shall have at least 2/3 students and shall be co-chaired by a student.
- Final design of the expansion/renovation shall be approved by the Building Advisory Committee. AS, GSA and the University Centers Advisory Board (UCAB) shall have the opportunity to comment on the final design.
- UCAB, which is comprised of a majority of student voting members, shall oversee the space allocation, general use policy, rent assessments, custodial standards, capital improvements, maintenance, purchase of equipment, and hours of operation for the facility.
- The Chancellor has committed all the funds necessary for the relocation of the UCSD police station to make room for an expanded Price Center.
- The Chancellor has committed all the funds necessary for the construction of a new and permanent Cross Cultural Center to be incorporated into the Price Center expansion site.
- Student Affairs has committed all the funds necessary for the relocation of the Office of Religious Affairs to an expanded Price Center.
- Any fundraising specific to the University Centers beyond the commitment of campus funds may be applied to the reduction of the fee subject to approval by UCAB.
- Expansion of the Price Center will be approximately 60,000 to 85,000 gross square feet of indoor space (about half the size of the current Price Center).
- Expansion of the Student Center will be approximately 10,000 to 15,000 gross square feet of indoor space.
- The University Centers fee shall be assessed to summer students beginning in Fall 2007.
- Increase of the fee shall not be made without an affirmative vote by a student fee referendum held in accordance with the policy on Procedures for Student Consultation, in the Planning, Construction and Operation of Student Fee-Funded Facilities (section 18.14 of the Policies and Procedures Applying to Student Activities).
