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May 18th, 2023

3:00 – 4:30pmKerr Hall 212

AgendaMinutes

Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/99731613774?pwd=WDdMZm9DaE02QlphQ3JiVk14WGRwQT09

  1. Welcome & Check-In ( ~5 minutes)
    1. Check-In Prompt:
      1. Name, Space, Year, Pronouns and Major (if comfortable/applicable)
        1. Cowell, Crown, Merrill, Porter, Kresge, Oakes, RCC, C9, JRL, GSC, GSA, Provost, SUA, Lisa, Lucy, Lydia, Jade, Liz Moya (SAB)

Andy

Marshall

Mel

Gabrielle

Bara

Charlene

Tanisha

Katie

Jhertau

Lydia

Jade

Liz

  1. Approval of Agenda and Minutes: SFAC_Minutes_051123

Motion to approve - Bara

Second - Marshall

  1. Overview:
    1. Chair & Vice Chair Election
    2. SFAC Operation Budget Review
    3. Subcommittee Interview Question Draft

Today is the elections for Chair and vice chair

  1. Announcements & Updates:
    1. Flyer for vacancies
      1. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ShKma0SxtddPVQsslQWfj4JaCJFag4QA?usp=sharing
    2. Meeting with Jackie Brummett for May 25th: 3-3:45pm
        1. Discuss SSF
        2. Please prepare questions.

Charlene created fliers to put up around the colleges with vacancies.

  1. Chair and Vice Chair Election ( ~20 minutes)
    1. Chair nominations:
      1. Marshall

Running for the chair position. In a similar role in own college senate. Usually makes agendas and run meetings, as well as encourages people who normally don’t speak to talk more in the meetings. Is able to bring new talking points to various meetings to stop stagnancy within meetings. Recently came into contact with a problem about fixing money problems when overspendign occurs. Worked on a committee where there is encouragement for students to get together. Asked the Student Medical Council questions about their spending and to get their funding for the fees. Wants more transparency withing the SFAC space and increase fee literacy. Get people to take a survey and get students to show us where the spending needs to happen. One of the main things he wants to do is stop people coming back for temp funding as well as work with these groups to help their spending.

What is your time commitment looking like next year.

It will be enough to take on the job of chair.

How are you going to switch people to permanent funding?

Creating fee referendas and working with these units to help

How are you going to get people to vote?

Outreach and social media

How are you going to do more transparency?

Create graphs and update the website to show more digestible information that would be easier

      1. Andy

As having served as a co-chair, he has gained experiences and insight for thespace and the innerworkings. Andy has worked to create a more inclusive and creative space to share ideas and create new ways to implement ideas. Working with Lucy and Lydia to prepare and create the agendas and structures of meetings. He has been in charge of funding calls and running the meetings. He wants to contribute to the well being of all meetings. Andy has become close with the people inside the meeting space and creating different conversations to advocate for these different groups of people as well as representing all of the colleges and who they represent. Having students and their needs at the forefront is something that he wants to showcase and create different ways to support students. Openness and transparency is a way to bridge gaps and create positive change through out the funding call. If reelected this would continue.

Whats one insight that you have gained from this committee.

Running these meetings and getting people involved and trying to get people more engaged and not just the chairs involved and communicating at the meetings. Making sure to compromise and make sure everyone is comfortable with the solutions.

Whats one thing that SFAC could do better next year

Streamlining our processes and how we create these changes. Standardizing processes

Chair for next year is Andy

    1. Vice Chair nominations:
      1. Jhertau (accepts nom)

End of first year as a SFAC member. Finding the middle ground of funding requests. Follow the space values as well as the stipulations of funding. Worked with student government for 5 years. Recently works with JRL student government. Mainly a social media manager and creating more engagement with the space. As a student advocate as we continue to audit the different units, creating a space for students to give feedback and help with the different spaces. Push for a neutral and non political student body to have a voice.

How do you talk with other students?

Worked with students that worked with the lead water situation. Worked with SUA to get this message out without trying to take over but instead,

Would raising awareness about SFAC itself be a goal of yours?

She really wants to interact with students in a social media presence that feels like youre talking to them instead of at them.

What would your social media outreach look like?

Having larger accounts repost and working in collaboration with other accounts to share your message.

      1. Gabrille deny nomination
      2. Katie deny nomination
      3. Tanisha (accepts nom)

Been apart of SFAC for almost 3 quarters. Gain experiences from students themselves. Monthly social media survey for each college and the students that attend. Assess and discuss the fee measured efficiently. Works as vice president of professional development within a fraternity. Present these opportunities and benefits of SFAC for these students, as well as budgeting. Every college has its own proposals and then there would be joint proposals with SFAC.

How would each colleges own proposals work?

Combine all proposals into one single proposal

Goals for the space in general or funding call?

Mainly goals for the space in general but hopefully funding call later.

What would your social media outreach look like?

Sending out surveys and make sure that what the majority of people are seeing as issues as things that can be updated within the space and how students would like to see the future of SFAC to be.

Jhertau is going to be the vice-chair

  1. SFAC Operational Budget Review: ( ~10 minutes)
    1. Documents:
      1. Budget
    2. Reflection on Stipend Increases (Resource Document):
    3. Further discussion with Lucy about increasing the Operational Budget

All of SFACs funding comes from M7.

Paying for Council on Fees, CSF, and other different things that might be needed

There might be a way to change this through budgeting or pulling money through measure 7

As far as changing how you spend fees, there are no internal restrictions

Taking from the funding call might not be the most ideal since it is not consistent, and we might need to use it for funding the orgs

General consensus is to not take money from the funding call

There can be more brainstorming for different ways to modify the budget to create more ways to give money to the SFAC members

Take money from CSF travel costs, or change it to Zoom modality to make room for funding.

  1. Review Subcommittees ( ~30 minutes)
    1. Break out groups:
      1. Campus Programs Fee: 743.7% (DOS)
        1. Passed in 1965/1972
        2. $6 Annual, $2 quarter (FWS), Summer language
        3. “Support for EOP and related community services such as tutorial programs, including EOP scholarships, EOP recruitment as well as tutorial and community services”
      2. Student Media Voice Fee: 438.4% (SOMeCa)
        1. Measure 34 passed in 2008
        2. $12.42 annual, $4.14 quarter (FWS), Summer language
        3. “Provides funding to support and strengthen then diversity of the student voice in television, print, radio, and intermedia by ensuring training and advising for student-run media”
      3. Student Media Council Fee: 357.2% (SOMeCa)
        1. Measure 50 passed in 2011
        2. $9.60 annual, $3.20 quarter (FWS), Summer language
        3. “Provides funding to the Student Media Council for equipment, software, and facilities improvements to support registered campus student media (television, print, and radio), including technical workshops, advising and other media operating costs”
      4. Cultural Arts & Diversity Fee: 233.1%
        1. Measure 49 passed in 2011
        2. $15.75 annual, $5.25 quarter (FWS), No Summer language
        3. “Provides funding that will bring nationally known cultural arts performers and speakers to UCSC and will foster the growth of student-directed cultural organizations such as UCSC’s award-winning Rainbow Theater and the African American Theater Arts Troupe, as well as student-directed cultural arts performances. Fee will fund performances outside the Theater Arts Department.
      5. Student Governed Spaces Fee: 223.0% (SUGB/SOMeCa)
        1. Measure 66 passed in 2016
        2. $30 annual, $10 quarter (FWS), Summer language
        3. “ Provide funding to maintain the Student Union, Student Media Center and Redwood Building. Will continue to keep these facilities open and operating for all students, including the design of all services, furnishings, access, hours, operations and improvement”
        4. Additional Capital Reserve Balance - $1.796M
      6. Student Fitness Center Facility Fee: -20% (A&R)
        1. Measure B passed in 1996
        2. $45 annual, $15 quarter (FWS), Summer language
        3. “Provides funds for the payment of financing costs to build various new OPERS facilities including a weight training and fitness center, upper east field renovation, pool lights and storage building.”
        4. Capital Reserve Balance $2.851M

Vii. Student Government fee: Cowell (226.2%), Stevenson (314.1%), Porter (919.6%), and Kresge (367.1%)

Tuesday noon - 1 is the one that most people can make to meet.

  1. If time permits: Brainstorm future guests and topics
    1. Plan SFAC Meeting with the Chancellor Cynthia Larive.
    2. Plan SFAC Meeting with Vice Chancellor Akirah Bradley-Armstrong
  2. Adjournment

Andy Motions to adjourn

Jhertau Seconds