Thursday, April 16, 2026 SFAC Minutes
Student Fee Committee: April 16th 2026
Members in attendance:
Sam Ferguson
Rick McGill
Hayden Burns
John Sprenkle
Victoria Okafor
Leah Veladre
Daniel Yezak
Bayleigh Govea
Collin Campbel
Sidney Wilson
Guests in attendance:
Dalton Johnson
Katie Hutto
Mike Reed
Joshua Neaves
Katie Hutto presented for the Cheer and Dance team, celebrating a recent national championship at Daytona. A proposed 90,000 is requested to the fully fund the cheer team. The approximate cost for each member of the team is around 2500 dollars each. Our dance and cheer teams has grown 165% in the past year. The program is seeking additional funding to continue to foster excellence.
Dalton Johnson with Sports information at UT Tyler is here to broadcast all sports at UT Tyler. We partner with a broadcast partner per the LSC to ensure compliance. We are required in all sports besides soccer to have 2 cameras in all sports. The group is asking for a slight increase to accommodate purchasing new cameras for these games. This budget also accommodates funding for the video boards at the athletic fields.
Rick McGill in Intramural Sports presented a budget to remain relatively flat to only increase about 1300 dollars. This is intended to cover some raises for professional staff. Club sports has been developed within the past few years and is supplemented by Rec Sports. The Rec Sports program works to ensure a positive environment on campus to give students opportunities to grow as athletes and people.
Joshua Neaves presented for Campus Activities the budget stayed flat for this year. This budget is changing to adhere to a change that will require the student workers who were previously on scholarship to receive student wages. They employ three students. Campus activities has had over 7900 check-ins and 72 campus events this semester.
Joshua Neaves presented for Leadership and Service for a flat budget to fund The East Texas Big Event and the Leadership and Service Awards. An increase will be needed for the future to continue the growth of on-campus leadership and service opportunities. This will ensure that the East Texas Big Event continues to grow. Looking for the future to bring back a leadership summit for student org leaders.
The Student Government is proposing a flat budget for next year. This funding funds the SGAC committee that is maxing out the funding. The finals bags for students and Midnight Breakfast. This budget has been close to hitting zero for the past few years.
Greek Life is proposing a flat budget to ensure that students on campus can be involved in Greek Life. Students are finding their community and their second home in Greek Life at UT Tyler.
Student Engagement at UT Tyler is proposing a flat budget. This budget supplements the ESports team at UT Tyler and offset any overages other accounts have. Student Engagement creates many opportunities on campus, including funding Patriots Engage for our students on campus.