SUFAC Meeting 4/11/11
Members Present:
Laura Lauderdale
Reece Rykal
Carly Cappozzo
Katie Johnson
Katie Pointer
Hoang Vo
Madisson Heinze
Bonnie Jo Bratina
Larry Ringgenberg
Not Present:
Derek Nelson
Tiep Nguyen
John Palmer
Meeting called to order 5:33 pm
I. Theater Carryover Agreement Renewal Presentation by Theater Reps





Currently we have an agreement with the Theater department: they can keep their carryover
every year and they may not apply for one-shots. This was approved on a three year basis and
was renewed.
This allows them to run like a real theater production. They can plan well in advance for their
shows and they can base the repertoire on their students year to year and estimates about
community interest. Keeping their carryover also allows them to put on shows based on what
their students will gain from it rather than based on the shows that will make the most money.
Theater would like to renew this agreement for another 5 years or possibly indefinitely. They
project that the benefits of this agreement will continue indefinitely for them and do not feel
that their loss of the ability to request one-shots has compromised the way they manage their
funds.
With the new one-shots budget (fall one-shots and year round contingency requests) will the
Theater department be able to request money from the contingency fund?
o The Theater department would like the ability to request money from the contingency
fund but they would not choose this ability over their carryover agreement.
Without this carryover agreement the Theater department would have to have smaller casts,
drop at least one production per year, change the way they sell tickets, they would not be able
to put on as many musicals because they need to request the rights about 6 months in advance,
etc. This would compromise the student experience and the campus community experience.


The cost of living increase to the Theater budget has been adequate so far and likely will be in
the future.
It will probably not be feasible to continue this agreement permanently based on the fact that
there is very high turn-over on SUFAC and a lot could change over time. In our by-laws it says
that our ending balances policy may be superseded by an agreement that may stand no longer
than 4 years and may be renewed by a majority vote of the committee. Therefore, we may
approve this agreement for a maximum of 4 years.
o (Cappozzo/Bratina) Motion to approve the Theater Carryover Agreement for another 4
years. MOTION PASSES 7:0:0
II. Meeting Next Week: Monday, April 18th




We will meet next week to discuss with Paula and Bob the changes to the REC fitness center
There will be no fee for students to use the fitness center next year and the cost will be
absorbed by the REC fee.
There is a proposal to increase salaries for graduate assistants which will adjust many entities’
budgets next year
This will be our last meeting of the year
Meeting adjourned at 6:15pm