Comments on: Familiar feud lies within student fee referendum http://www.kwantlenchronicle.ca/2009/09/familiar-feud-lies-within-student-fee-referendum/ Produced by Kwantlen Polytechnic University journalism students Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Steve http://www.kwantlenchronicle.ca/2009/09/familiar-feud-lies-within-student-fee-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-22102 Steve Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:06:28 +0000 http://www.kwantlenchronicle.ca/?p=1233#comment-22102 QUOTE >>> “The premise of the question that’s being asked is that the CFS has directed the KSA to do ‘X,’ when in fact the student unions resolved to do this at a federation meeting.” MY RESPONSE >>> The fact is that the KSA believes that the CFS has no power to raise fees at any federation meeting. The University Act of BC dictates that fees can only be approved through referendum as follows: Student society fees 27.1 (1) Subject to subsection (2), on annual notice from a student society, the board must collect student society fees and remit them to the student society if (a) the board collected fees on behalf of the student society between June 1, 1998 and June 1, 1999, or (b) the student society has been designated by regulation and the amount of the student society fees has been approved by a majority of the members of the student society who voted in a referendum of that student society. QUOTE >>> Molenhuis said that this year’s fee is equal to last year’s, and the adjustment for inflation doesn’t equal $1.78. MY RESPONSE >>> I am not 100% for sure but the $1.78 may have been an adding up of the various increases the CFS has been demanding over the past few years... so not just one or two years but more than that. QUOTE >>> “The premise of the question that’s being asked is that the CFS has directed the KSA to do ‘X,’ when in fact the student unions resolved to do this at a federation meeting.”

MY RESPONSE >>> The fact is that the KSA believes that the CFS has no power to raise fees at any federation meeting. The University Act of BC dictates that fees can only be approved through referendum as follows:

Student society fees

27.1 (1) Subject to subsection (2), on annual notice from a student society, the board must collect student society fees and remit them to the student society if

(a) the board collected fees on behalf of the student society between June 1, 1998 and June 1, 1999, or

(b) the student society has been designated by regulation and the amount of the student society fees has been approved by a majority of the members of the student society who voted in a referendum of that student society.

QUOTE >>> Molenhuis said that this year’s fee is equal to last year’s, and the adjustment for inflation doesn’t equal $1.78.

MY RESPONSE >>> I am not 100% for sure but the $1.78 may have been an adding up of the various increases the CFS has been demanding over the past few years… so not just one or two years but more than that.

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