We seek to stop the planned fee increase for non-subsidized student families. We plan to act on the two separate plains: out highest priority is to hold back the change for families currently in the program, while raising campus-wide and public awareness to the situation and its implications on the lives of these families; in parallel, we pursue longer-term solutions to bring sustainable and affordable childcare to the whole community of UC Berkeley student families.

• Meet relevant officials, in particular Laura Kealy-Seldana (ECEP director)
  • Goal #1: Get more time by freezing the increase for families in the program
  • Goal #2: See how existing and immediately allocatable funds can be used to sponsor non-subsidized continuing families
  • General: Demand full disclosure, including access to budget and available funds
  • Possible dates: Fri 4/18, either 9-10 or 11-12; scheduling/agenda responsibility: Gilad, (others?)

• Present our case in the upcoming CACDC meeting with Steve Lustig on May 8
  • organize a small team of representatives; prepare a briefing for the meeting
  • scheduling/agenda responsibility: Joanna, Gilad, (others?)

• Get the graduate student association / union involved; possibly through ISAC
  • Possible contact through Josh Daniels; to be checked by Sarah
  • Possible contact through ISAC (Ahmed Antebly, Yasmeen Daifallah); to be checked by Gilad, Yael

• Get academic advisers / chairs to communicate the problem
  • possible solution: release discretionary funds for sponsoring student parents (more than what is already being provided by departments); is there a way to regulate this?
  • assignment for academic departments: EECS (Gilad); (others?)

• Goal: fill the void between state subsidy eligibility and market-rate childcare cost; make UC childcare affordable to all student families based on a fair and sustainable budget policy.

• Proposed policy: sliding fee scale for non-subsidized student families; how to do that?

• Media connection; currently run in the background but prepare for loud protest
  • briefing responsibility: Frank, Yael

• Is this situation legally actionable, e.g. as in being against good faith, etc?
  • to be checked by Yael, Frank