January 18th, 2024

Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93456796050?pwd=Wjg3M0lIMXF4eXFrYm1BQ3BrVnA0dz09

1. Welcome and Introductions
   1. Members introductions: Name, Pronouns, Year, Major, and Space.
   2. Order: Cowell, Crown, Kresge, Merrill, Porter, C9, JRL, GSA, SAB, Provost, Jade, Lisa, Lydia, Lucy.
   3. Oakes Rep - still vacant
      1. Marshal, Andy, Trey, Mel, Gabrielle, Katie, Tanisha, Diana, Lauren, Jade Lydia, Lisa, Fernanda, Jhertau
2. Approval of Agenda and Minutes (1/11/24)
   1. Marshall motions
   2. Mel seconds
   3. No objections
3. Announcements & Updates
   1. TAPS will visit with SFAC in Winter Quarter regarding referendum
      1. Scheduled for February 8th, 2024 at 1:30pm
      2. Additional Questions?
         1. If there are an questions SFAC wants to ask, email them to Andy for them to be asked
   2. Winter quarter CSF meeting: February 23-24
      1. CSF will be at UC santa barbara
      2. Let andy know if you are able to join as soon as possible
   3. Subcommittee updates
      1. Weekly meeting on Tuesday at 10:30am - 11:30am over Zoom.
      2. Future plans for tabling and information sessions.
      3. If you wanted to join the subcommittee, let Andy, Jhertau, or Mel know
   4. Other announcements
      1. There is a Miscellaneous Fees budget meeting that Lisa has invited students to attend next week , just let her know if you are interested
4. Funding call
   1. Proposal reading and discussion:

We are going to split the committee into groups and take time to discuss the proposals individually 1-5 for zoom 6-10 in person

Talk about what the initial thoughts and ideas were for the proposals assigned, and if there is an amount that is wanted to fund

• • 1. Grad Slam Funding - $10,000
       1. Catering, speaker, and award money for students - $6000
       2. Everything except for the student employees
    2. Fall Overdose Prevention Campaign - $12,303
       1. $7000 for fentanyl test strips, pamphlets, and one bus full of items
       2. There are ideas for full funding for this proposal
    3. Quarry Amphitheater Production Academy 2023-2024 Funding Proposal - $6,000
       1. 0 for this proposal
       2. Very few students affected and poorly written proposal
       3. There are ideas for them to get funding elsewhere
       4. They have a lot of miscellaneous fees that they can use to pay student workers
       5. There are a lot of events that do not get charged the misc fees
       6. Theres people that are okay with not funding
    4. SOMeCA Peer-to-Peer Program - $26,538
       1. $8846 just to bring up minimum wage just for one year
       2. There is a very large carryforward from someca
       3. This program continues to comeback and ask sfac for money
       4. We can ask to see if they can use their carryforward for this project or something else
    5. The Dolores Huerta Research Center Youth Activist Research (YAR) Lab - $108,354
       1. A good program this is just to get them started, not just for projects
       2. $55,450
       3. 25% staff support and 2 student researchers one work study, one not
    6. NSBE 50th convention - $3,450
       1. Full amount
       2. Providing networking
       3. Amount is low enough to fully fund
       4. The formatting of the budget sheets is not formatted properly
       5. Our precedent from last year is that reduced funding if not formatted using our budget sheet
       6. We can fully fund them, but in our letter we can say to use our budget sheets
    7. Academic or Personal use Loaner Laptops & Chargers funding proposal - $23,191.59
       1. Students need computers for everything they do on campus, they should not have funding coming from SFAC
       2. Possibly discussing this at CSF
       3. Tabling this discussion for later discussion
    8. Renaissance Scholars Year-Round Housing Program - 2024-2025 - $125,820
       1. Housing over winter or summer break
       2. This might be better supported during slug support
       3. Lucy is probably a better person to talk to about this
       4. They do partner with slug support and outsourcing resources
       5. Table this discussion
    9. CAPS Peer Education Program - $16,000
       1. 10,000
       2. Mel suggests that we give them $15,000 and cutting them off
       3. They have been coming to us these past few years and they are relying on sfac for funding
       4. We have said we don’t fund long term, only year by year
    10. International Programs - Global Mentorship Program - $24,249
  1. Discussion: 2023-2024 Rating Worksheet
     1. 1. Motion for catering,speaker, award money 6,000 grad slam funding
        2. Jhertau motions, - general funding for now
     2. 2. fentanyl test strips, pamphlets, and one bus full of items
        3. Marshall motions and Trey seconds to fully fund
     3. 3. Motions to not fund this proposal
        4. Jhertau motions and Marshall seconds
     4. 5. $8846 Extra funding for minimum wage
        6. Gabrielle motions
        7. Diana seconds
     5. 6. $55,450
        7. 25% staff support and 2 student researchers one work study, one not
        8. Trey motions
        9. Katie seconds
        10. No objections
     6. 7. $3,450
        8. Marshall motions to fully fund proposal seven
        9. Jhertau seconds
     7. Jhertau motions to table the rest Marshall seconds

1. Other Business
   1. Request from students to attend SFAC meetings and possibly make comments - should we add a public comment to our meetings?
   2. Meeting Timeline (captures our goals for each meeting and prospective topics for meetings)
   3. Member Notes (any members who will be absent from a meeting may add topics for discussion, questions, feedback for items on the agenda, etc. in this running document).
2. Adjournment

Marshall motions to adjourn

Jhertau seconds

Upcoming Guests/Topics:

1. TAPS Director Dan Henderson Annual SFAC Meeting on February 8th, 2024.
2. Student representation for Misc Fee Committee in Feb/March.