Thanksgiving van update
- Transportation needs survey results
- Charter leaves at 2pm Friday because most popular flight time out of Portland is 5pm Friday
- Only 3 van departure times with spots left
TFC Spending and Guideline Amendments Presentation
- Chase presenting data that he has collected over the past few months that details how money is being spent by the TFC for clubs, and introducing the TFC guideline amendments
- Funding sources
- 2024-2025 budget: $840,000
- 2025-2026 $880,000
- Money does not roll over
- Much higher than comparable schools
- You might not know that the TFC funds
- Entertainment Board
- Student Governance
- BOC
- McKeen Center
- Rowing
- College Houses
- Craft Center
- BOG
- 120 chartered groups
- 17 fixed budget
- What does the TFC buy?
- Campus services
- Speakers
- Events
- Concerts and performers
- Food
- Travel
- Conferences, tournaments, retreats
- Club bonding
- Equipment and gear
- Publications and media
- Expert instruction and coaches
- TFC Allocation by category 2024-2025
- Club sports 27% of budget
- Arts and performing arts: 20%
- Weekly funding decision
- 2024-2025: $75,000 left after November 12
- 2025-2026: An additional $50,000 left after same date
- Existing guidelines
- Campus wide events: up to $200
- Special events (family weekend, homecoming, etc): up to $300
- New guidelines
- Reframing Club Bonding
- Cut and dissolved into Supplemental Food and Supplies Budget
- Special events & events where food is auxiliary to core purpose
- Ordering restaurant food as a club no longer funded (only under once yearly banquet allocation)
- Can still cook meals together
- Other proposed guideline changes
- Cuts
- Kickoff event budget went from $1500 to $1000
- Amtrak and buses are explicitly denied so that clubs must get van-certified
- $100 of stickers per year instead of per semester
- Other clarifying edits
- Club categorizations: new definition of “competitive clubs”
- Competitive conferences: “The TFC may only fund enough competitors to have a complete team and a reasonable number of substitutes, or to be competitive in their league”
- Banquets: competitive clubs may have banquets
- Cuts
- Reframing Club Bonding
- Questions/comments:
- Is the goal reducing student activities fee or redistribution of funds?
- Redistribution
- Concerns with transportation cut: harder for international students to get van-certified. Would want the language to be careful with that
- TFC can act with discretion and make exceptions. Goal of the guidelines is to make clear the expectation to a club versus enforcing a law
- Would appreciate a club breakdown for the sake of transparency
- Is the goal reducing student activities fee or redistribution of funds?
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