Senate: Unused football tickets a 'red flag'
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said many students who receive in
cidental fee-funded tickets for foot
ball games, which are free to stu
dents, do not actually use their
tickets, costing the student body
about $37,000 a game and more
than $100,000 a year. Quiroz called
the no-show problem a “huge red
flag we need to look into.”
“I think it is an urgent problem
that needs to be addressed,” he said.
“We have the power to make sure we
work on that problem.”
Day agreed that only 4,500
to 5,000 of more than 6,000 student
tickets are routinely redeemed
at games and said the ADFC is
looking into the problem. But Day
emphasized that the “no-show fac
tor” is a complicated problem, hing
ing on weather and game time
changes, that requires further re
search and study during the ongo
ing budget process.
“We didn’t really want to attack it
quite yet,” he said.
Senators discussed possible op
tions for decreasing the money
needed by the ADFC for tickets,
such as reducing the number of
tickets offered and charging a mini
mal fee for tickets.
But Day said charging students
for tickets is not fair and would
raise questions about how to handle
the money.
Day said if the 7 percent increase
wasn’t approved, the Athletic Depart
ment might not take it as a “good
faith effort” to pay as stipulated by
the contract.
“They’ve been nice enough not to
act out on us,” he said. “They’re kind
of getting restless.”
He added that the increase would
translate to less than a dollar
per student.
“Again, we’re looking for current
service level, not growth,” he said.
Day said senators should take
into account the actual amount of
monetary increase rather than the
percentage change because the
ADFC has a smaller budget than the
other programs.
Senator Khanh Le said he support
ed a 5.3 percent increase because
“right now, all I’m saying is that stu
dents’ money is being (wasted).”
Senator Toby Hill-Meyer said tick
et availability to everyone is impor
tant, but priority for funding should
be spread out among student groups
because funding for athletics takes
money away from other programs.
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“It makes me think, why do we
have this disparity?” he asked.
Programs Finance
Committee
The Senate also voted 12-1-2 to
approve a benchmark of a 5.62 per
cent increase of $275,000 for the
PFC, which allocates money to stu
dent groups.
PFC Chairwoman Persis Pohowal
la said the increase was partly due
to the need to bolster reserve funds,
which have decreased over the past
five years. Pohowalla emphasized
that the PFC intends to allocate
money so that it comes in under the
5.62 benchmark.
ASUO Accounting Coordinator
Jennifer Creighton-Neiwert said the
increase is also necessary to accom
modate a 20-cent raise in Oregon
minimum wage, and because the
program is expecting a two-year
salary freeze for classified staff and
Officers of Administration to end,
the PFC budgeted a 2 percent salary
increase for those employees.
Yet some senators disagreed with
the initial benchmark, which was
also approved by the executive.
Day said stipends for some student
groups may be too high, proposing a
2 percent funding increase of about
$97,000 to be “consistent with what’s
gone on tonight.”
“I don’t think $200,000 growth is
needed for the program,” he said.
Senator Lisa Lam agreed, saying
she hoped all the budgets would be
equally scrutinized despite lower ini
tial benchmark projections.
Pohowalla said 2 percent would
not be enough to fund the 140
groups to which the committee allo
cates money.
Senator Rodrigo Moreno-Villamar
questioned the motivation behind the
2 percent motion.
“We should not make these
amendments based on how we felt
about the last decision,” he said.
Senator Austin Shaw-Phillips said
the PFC request was acceptable,
saying “everything on here is pretty
reasonable. ”
“Decreasing the stipend model is
not the stupidest thing I’ve ever
heard, but it’s out there,” Shaw
Phillips said.
EMU Board
of Directors
Senators voted 14-1-1 to pass an
executive-approved 7 percent in
crease for the EMU Board of
Directors, which oversees finances
for the EMU.
Chairwoman Aryn Clark said
because the EMU is a state auxil
iary, about 82 percent of the board’s
budget is mandated by programs
to which it allocates money. She
said increased labor costs and
the need to repair the aging EMU,
parts of which are 50 years old,
leave only 18 percent to work with
for potential cuts.
Ravassipour and Representatives
of the board agreed the benchmark is
not a long-term solution for EMU
funding problems, but some senators
spoke out in favor of using some or
all of the board’s $130,000 surplus to
buy down this year’s budget.
EMU board member Ethan Firpo
said the EMU can go into debt to the
state, as it has in the past. But he said
it has an opportunity to get out of
debt, adding that using the surplus is
“not a valid paradigm.”
“It’s more like suturing with a
fish hook with the express purposes
of pulling out that fishhook later,”
he said.
Firpo added that many parts of the
EMU are in need of repair, saying a
“colony of sewer cockroaches” is
feeding off a broken sewer main in
the tunnels beneath the building.
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