The UTRGV Student Fee Advisory Committee (SFAC) has postponed its deliberations on 68 Fiscal Year 2020 funding requests until 1 p.m. today.
Emilia Treviño, financial manager for the Office of Student Success and SFAC co-chair, said the committee did not meet on April 5, as originally scheduled, because it did not have the projected student fee revenue total for next academic year.
“I mean, that’s where we’re at, like, we can’t continue any further if we don’t know how much budget we have,” Treviño said.
The projected revenue will be provided by the Planning and Analysis office, in the division of Finance and Administration.
Submitted funding requests from different organizations total $13,748,826.96.
Programs funded through the student services fee are based on recommendations of the SFAC.
The SFAC makes recommendations on the allocations of projected fees to UTRGV President Guy Bailey. Projected fees are based on enrollment.
The SFAC had 57 funding requests for FY 2019, compared with 77 requests for FY 2020.
Funding requests are divided into two sections: ongoing and one-time requests. Ongoing are proposals that must be funded with incoming revenue so that they are sustained by the student services fee budget. For Fiscal Year 2020, a total of $13,588,174.96 was solicited for ongoing requests.
A total of $160,652 was solicited for one-time requests.
For next academic year, Athletics requested $8,734,530. This academic year, SFAC recommended $7,546,602.71.
Leadership & Mentoring requested $668,006.88 for FY 2020; Chess, $441,778; Student Activities, $305,963.11; and Student Media, $305,442.64.
As reported by The Rider on April 8, Treviño said Bailey will respond to the recommendations by early May or June.
The Texas Education Code, Section 54.503, requires that recommendations made by a student fee advisory committee must be recorded and made public.
