May 20th, 2025
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98559266028?pwd=XOXI1eAbHbfVmdgNNgEAcBZ9mM86JT.1
- Welcome and Introductions
- Members introductions: Name, Pronouns, Year, Major, and Space.
- Order: Cowell, Stevenson, Crown, Merrill, Kresge, Porter, Oakes, RCC, C9, JRL, GSA, GSC, SAB, Provost, SUA, Lisa, Lucy
- Approval of Agenda & Minutes
- Approval of Agenda and May 13th Minutes
- Public Comment
- Announcements & Updates
- Sweatshirts are here!
- SFAC Member Survey FY 26
- Fill out by 5/23
- https://forms.gle/LZ6Hyz1onSLP5jDb9
- Campus Elections Update (Lucy)
- Voter Party
- Unofficial voter turnout
- End of the year SFAC dinner
- Saturday, May 31st, 5:30 - 7:00 pm: Location TBD
UCSC Opera: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
- Funding Call
- Tracking Sheet
- Additional available funds - $30,970
- #33 ABC SS Initiative: $17,275 (DSAS will be providing funding)
- #41 ABC SS Academy: $13,495 (DSAS will be providing funding)
- SFAC Operating Budget
- Budget
- We have approximately $33K left for this year.
- Resource Centers and Grad Student Commons - if referendum passes, how SFAC will move into next steps during funding allocation notifications.
- FYI: updates on funding that RCs project that they would not need next year if the referendum passes. See this Sheet.
- Discussion on SFAC Appointments/Hiring
- Recommendation to VC Student Affairs - New recruiting and appointment process for SFAC members
- Discussion on Office Hours and Member Engagement
- Bylaw Draft: SFAC Bylaw Changes May 25
- LSS Summer Fee Review (4:00 - 4:30 pm)
- Visit with Sharon Castro, Director of Learning Support Services
- Fee language: https://deanofstudents.ucsc.edu/elections/pdf/2015/measure-63.pdf
- Fee is currently fully charged in summer
- Questions for Sharon:
- LSS activities in summer quarters vs fall/winter/spring quarters,
- Expenditures over the last 3 summer quarters,
- Planned future summer expenditures,
- Impacts of the campus structural deficit on summer quarter activities,
- The kinds of students who take advantage of LSS over the summer (visiting, year-round, etc.),
- Student utilization rates of LSS tutors,
- LSS carryforward information and future plans for it.
- Adjournment
Upcoming Guests/Topics:.
- Cornucopia - swag purchase to prepare for next year.
- Invitation sent to AVC Amber Blakeslee with invitation to present on current budget updates
- Next year - Lisa would like to discuss SFAC being involved in developing policy around pausing or reducing fees.
- Planning for Next Year’s Funding Call
- Multiple different pools of money for different initiatives (i.e. money only for programs affecting off campus students, etc.)