The Community College Governance, Funding Stabilization, and Student Fee Reduction Act will help college students across California lowering tuition costs, providing opportunities for higher education and also provide skills for California’s workforce. On Wednesday, April 27, “election officials certified an initiative that would established specific funding and student fees for community colleges in the California constitution,” said Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers for KQED’s The California Report. The initiative will appear in the voting polls on February 5, 2008. According to instructor Mary Donahue’s De Anza webs site, the act will impact the DASB in many ways. It will help lowers student fees from the current $13 to $10 per quarter unit, and the revenue the schools generate will be used for improvements, instead of other state programs. The measure will also prevent the fees from increasing mid-semester and gives students a 60-day advanced notice in case the fees change. The De Anza Foothill District can expect $5.2 million during the 2008 – 2009 school years and increasing to $34.3 million during the 2012-2013 school years, all without increasing taxes.