May 2010 FiCom Opinion Poll

FiCom is in the process of creating an opinion poll that will be sent out to all students, in order to gain a deeper understanding of how they feel the limited funds available next year should be budgeted. Here we are compiling virtually every idea we have ever been given regarding how to cut costs/generate more revenue. Please feel free to contribute your ideas.

Things to Cut

 * Meeting food amount/person
 * ~$9,372.5 SAVINGS with $3 per person food caps
 * ~$18,745 SAVINGS with $2 per person food caps
 * Cut meeting food entirely, except for food-based groups
 * $37490 Additional food funding SAVINGS
 * $17160 Initial food funding SAVINGS
 * cut trip funding to $50 per person (save $16866 for entire year)
 * cut trip funding completely (save $46,769 for entire year)
 * ask COCA about cutting event stuff
 * cut Hamp Halloween/Spring Jam significantly?
 * cutting stipends to council and subcommittee officers
 * $3,800 Spring, $4,600 Fall
 * cutting permanent funding obligations by 10% (Took numbers from FiCom December 12 2009 Retreat)

Ways to Create Additional Revenue

 * across the board, for $500 and above, have to fundraise 10% of cost
 * Full amount given for all requests exceeding $500:


 * 1) Miscellaneous: 21438 (excluding transfers to COCA, $5000 for Hampshire Independent Project, $14505 for Sports Coop)
 * 2) Trip: 36351
 * 3) Equipment: 10916
 * 4) Publications: 16727


 * If we require 10% fund raising, that will save SAF $8543. If we include HIP and Sports Coop, then it will save $10,494
 * Council/subcommittee-based fundraising efforts
 * across the board, fundraise 10% of cost
 * incentive-based fundraising, matching funds raised? (we give 50% of total amount when they fundraise the other 50%)
 * charge tickets for non-Hampshire attendees' events
 * advertising in the Reader, Climax, Omen, and other campus publications (even running ads from intra-Hampshire offices)