SUFAC Meeting 10/25/10
Members Present:
Laura Lauderdale
Reece Rykal
Madisson Heinze
Carly Cappozzo
Derek Nelson
John Palmer
Ben Knutson
Tiep Nguyen
Hoang Vo
Brock Bennett
Bonnie Jo Bratina
Larry Ringgenberg
Not Present:
Bill Doering
Meeting called to order 5:33 pm
I. Discussion on Budget Considerations for Allocable Segregated Fee – Scenarios for 2011-12
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Assuming we will need the same total allocable funding level for next fiscal year
2012, the student segregated fee will go up, depending on how much money we
supply from the reserve.
There was a -$4,251 revenue variance from summer 2010 BUT due to the
increase in Full Time Equivalent (FTE) students this year, there will be a variance
that will add $5,800 so the estimated total reserve moneys as of 6/30/12 will be
$101,872.
So, what should we do as far as supplying money from the reserve to offset
student segregated fee support? We could freeze the Supplies and Equipment
Fund Budget (fka one-shots) for a year or two. This model that we have started
isn’t sustainable.
We should determine a plan about what we’re going to do in the next few years
because then we can gradually increase student segregated fees yearly instead
of sharp increases or decreases.
We will table this discussion until we get an idea about non-allocable and
allocable budgets. Hearings for non-allocable budgets start on November 15th.
II. Contingency Fund Budget
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Sample budget for the Contingency Fund Requests for 2011-2012
$2,000 for Travel-NonEmpl, Student, Job App, $3,000 for Supplies, $2,000
Conference/Workshop Expenses, $7,000 Equipment &Furniture – Not
Capitalized Equip for a total of $14,000
Should we lower the amounts for the first few years to see what happens?
Committee consensus that we will leave the budget without a specific dollar
amount and will make a goal of how much money we want to come out of the
reserve. This way, we won’t have to predict where our budget will be next fall
and won’t have to set precedent about how much will be allocated to this each
year.
III. Supplies and Equipment Fund Budget
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Should we freeze this account for a year or two to fix the budget problems?
How to we differentiate between needs and wants for different committees?
We should first decide where we want the reserve to be to determine whether
we should freeze this account or not.
We should wait until we determine all of our other budgets for fiscal year 20112012.
IV. Student Association Budget
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We are looking at this budget now because there is no sub-committee that
oversees it.
Requesting a budget of $21,180 for fiscal year 2011-2012
There are several line items which SUFAC members feels should be edited. We
will ask the Student Association President about these line items.
How we deal with this budget will set a precedent for how we deal with the next
budgets we see for fiscal year 2011-12. Should we be editing these budgets line
by line or as a whole?
We should make recommendations to the group and they can decide what to do
with that as far as budget cuts go.
SUFAC will talk with the Student Association President about this before deciding
to recommend a cut. There is talk about a possible 3% cut due to the projected
3% increase due to the added housing resource center student help.
Increase in travel budget for next year because of the sharp decrease that was
allocated for fiscal year 2010-2011. This money will be used to attend Board of
Reagent meetings and other meetings.
V. Planning and Process Committee meeting
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They would be interested in combining with SUFAC on a survey of students
about how they would like their money spent and what programming they
would like to see on campus. Many of the questions that Planning and Process
Committee would like to see on the survey overlap with SUFAC’s survey which
has already been developed.
Maybe we can form a small group of students who would be interested in
working on this project outside of committee meetings. A qualtrics survey will be
sent out to all students via email.
Meeting adjourned 7:15 pm