SUFAC Meeting 11/22/10
Members Present:
Laura Lauderdale
Reece Rykal
Carly Cappozzo
Tiep Nguyen
Derek Nelson
Hoang Vo
Bonnie Jo Bratina
John Palmer
Larry Ringgenberg
Brianne Rogers
Not Present:
Bill Doering
Madisson Heinze
Ben Knutson
Brock Bennett
Meeting called to order 5:30 pm
I. Committee Field Trip to the Health Care Center
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Requested increase of $1.03 per student in segregated fee support next year making the
total cost per student $106.00 which is an increase of .98%.
This will account for $21,355.90 to be sent to the reserve to fund health care center
updates in equipment, accommodations, and to serve as a back-up if any unforeseen
costs arise.
II. Committee Field Trip to the Counseling and Testing Center
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Increase of $3.04 per student for segregated fee next year making the total cost per
student $71.50 – 4.4% change
On-call hours increased to 8am-4pm Monday through Friday and these hours have been
utilized very heavily this year but this means that there is less time to schedule follow up
appointments because the clinicians are much busier.
Requesting a 33% increase for one clinician for next year to accommodate the higher
utilization of the counseling and testing center.
Technically this center should have one clinician for every 1,500 students and they are
currently way under-staffed according to these requirements.
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Also requesting an increase in annual pay for Post Doc staff from $18,000 to $19,000.
Counseling and Testing Center is not a high revenue producing entity and next year they
will start charging $125 for an ADHD assessment and $75 for a drug and alcohol
screening.
This budget will not be able to survive with this amount of money in the coming years
and will be looking into charging students per session after 4 or 5 sessions and for noshows because there is a large portion of time being spent treating these clients and not
available for other students.
III. Veteran Memorial Field Sports Complex Budget
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No proposed change in student segregated fee support rate for next year. Current and proposed
rates stand at $37.02 per student.
Expected revenue is $369,984 for next year. Total expected expenditure is $358,961 for next
year.
Balance to reserve next year will be $11,021
IV. Athletics Budget
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Three goals related to the growth and sustainability of the Athletics programs for the 2011-2012
academic year: To create new assistant coaching opportunities in football and women’s track
and field, both high-participation, high-specialization sports, to increase coaching FTE for select
head coaches, thereby moving closer toward Athletics’ long-term goal of having all of its head
coaches as full-time University employees whose duties are at least 50% coaching and to grow
Athletics’ budget through increased revenue generation, with such revenues later used to hire
more coaches, supplement team operating budgets, and enhance recruiting efforts.
Request the addition of one FTE position to Athletics through the University’s Growth, Quality
and Access initiative which would cost $42,000 in GQA dollars and would increase the head
women’s tennis coach’s coaching FTE from 25% to 50%, create 40% coaching FTE for a new
assistant football coach and create 20% coaching FTE for an assistant women’s track and field
coach. Nine teams and over one half of UW-L’s 600 student athletes would directly benefit.
Athletics intends to begin utilizing net proceeds derived annually from the WIAA high school
track and field championships – generally $20,000 to $30,000 - to provide increased funding to
select teams for the hiring and/or retention of assistant coaches.
They will also launch a development and corporate sponsorship plan before the start of the
2011 fall sports season, with hopes of increasing receipt of private monies.
Finally, they ask for an increase in the non-allocated segregated student fee earmarked for
Athletics to be used to fund a marketing position and/or select coaching positions. Proposed
increase of $5.44 per student which is an 8.0% increase from this year.
Two proposals both with a requested student segregated fee increase of $5.44. Proposal A) 50%
marketing position, assistant football salary pool, benefits upgrade (GA to FT), marketing budget
and misc. assumed operational increases. Proposal B) 40% assistant football coach, assistant
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football salary pool, 10% head women’s tennis, assistant women’s track salary pool and misc.
assumed operational increases.
Athletics is looking into an Athletics participation fee of about $50 to $100 to help serve coaches
and an Athletic Training director position. This will be considered very heavily however, because
student athletes are already paying about $600 per athlete per year.
It is not expected that GQA monies will be funded this year and if this is true, Proposal A will not
be an option. If Proposal B goes through this year, the monies received through student
segregated fee support may not be necessary next year or will be spent on furthering the
growth plan for Athletics by funding theirs three main goals.
No requested increase for each individual sport for next year which emphasizes the importance
that Athletics is placing on these new positions.
Working to provide equitable expenditures per student athlete in each sport to create a similar
experience for each student athlete in each of their respective sports.
(Bratina/Rykal)Motion to adjourn Motion Passes 7:0:0 8:45 pm