Associated Students has agreed to up their budget for the spring 2026 semester by $351,000 for various ASI and Titan Student Union run programs.<\/p>\n
While the budget for both the fall 2025 and spring 2026 semesters was approved in March 2025, the projected headcount for fall 2025 was significantly lower than the recorded headcount.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This indicates ASI fee waiver did not accurately reflect the student population according to ASI’s Chief Financial Officer Kathleen Postal, who presented the proposal at the board of directors meeting last Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The projected fall budget headcount was 43,779, which is almost 1,400 lower than the recorded headcount of 45,147.<\/p>\n
“In this particular year, because the change was so dramatic on the number of students that we weren’t anticipating, it created additional fees,” Postal said.<\/p>\n
The money for this budget adjustment will come from the additional student fees that have already been collected.<\/p>\n
For ASI, the proposed increase was $87,391, which drew from a total of $332,052 available in student fees.<\/p>\n
$30,000 of these funds will be allocated toward a student employee training and appreciation program, while the rest will be allocated toward scholarships for student athletes.<\/p>\n
The proposal for Titan Student Centers requested an additional $55,000 for ASI’s 50-year celebration, $75,000 in funding for the Food Pantry, as well as $30,000 in-house sticker machine for marketing purposes.<\/p>\n
Student events such as the Beyond the Conversation series and the Fall Concert received additional funding of $50,000 and $100,000 respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Funds for student wages at the Student Recreation Center increased by $11,000 and $30,000 was allocated toward funding additional custodial hours in the TSU for maintenance.<\/p>\n
“The SRC has seen record numbers this year than they’ve ever had before and they’re on a trajectory to have a banner year just in terms of who’s using the facility,” Postal said.<\/p>\n
The proposal passed with 11 yes votes, one no and three abstentions.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the meeting, Interim Provost Amir Dabirian, who recently formalized his retirement, made a presentation about student employment, construction updates and made an announcement regarding his retirement to the board of directors.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been coming to this meeting for 21 years,” Dabirian said. “Working along each of you has been one of the most meaningful experiences of my journey and none of it would be possible without all of you.”<\/p>\n
The board of directors then presented Dabirian with a resolution “recognizing and thanking” him, detailing his work throughout various offices in the university, which passed unanimously.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Additionally, the board of directors appointed Keoni Guerrero as the Director for the College of Engineering and Computer Science for the remainder of the semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Students has agreed to up their budget for the spring 2026 semester by $351,000 for various ASI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[41608,163,165,164,13009,3005,39052,13008],"class_list":["post-211675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-budget-increase","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-asi","tag-csuf","tag-student-fees","tag-tsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}