After hours of debating, the Student Required Fee Advisory Committee decided on two recommendations to increase student fees for the Student Health Center and University Recreation.The first recommendation is to increase the Student Health Center fee by $17 for each academic year and $12 for summer semesters each year for the next three years.The second recommendation is to make a one-time fee increase for University Recreation to $15 for the summer and $25 for the fall and spring semesters.The recommendations will go to the Student Government Senate, which will adopt a resolution either supporting or opposing the committee’s choice.Art Goulas, Student Health Center director, said he understands any kind of increase will be difficult for students.”I will always put your money into direct services first,” Goulas said. “We want to make sure everything we do is accurate.”The current fees for the Health Center are $72 for the summer and $120 for the fall and spring. If the fee increases are approved, students will pay $137 for the fall and spring beginning the 2009 fall semester.After three years, Health Center fees will be $171 for the fall and spring and $96 for the summer.With the fee increase for the Health Center, Goulas said he hopes to add new employees to improve student services. Employees include a psychiatric nurse practitioner, a physician and a nurse.SG President and committee chair Colorado Robertson said the $17 increase — which is a decrease from the proposed $20 increase made to last year’s committee — will save students about $900,000 over the next three years.University Recreation fees are currently $20 for the summer and $45 for the fall and spring. If the one-time fee increase is approved, students will pay $35 for the summer and $70 for the fall and spring.With University Recreation facing an almost million dollar debt, the $15 and $25 fee increases are not enough to help pay it off. University Recreation will need to acquire a three-year loan from another auxiliary service.”They’re paying off a mortgage debt from capital improvements,” Robertson said. “It’s a short term solution that’s needed to get over this hump.”Bob Kuhn, associate vice chancellor of Budget and Planning and ex-officio member of the committee, said the problem with University Recreation is action was not taken last year to help with the debt.”Now we’re in this situation,” Kuhn said. “Something we’ve all learned is we need to do this every year for exactly these types of reasons.”The SG Senate is meeting Wednesday to propose resolutions for the fee increases.The committee is meeting Dec. 1 to make a final recommendation to the chancellor.—-Contact J.J. Alcantara at [email protected]