Minutes of the Student Coordinating Committee Meeting, Jan. 29, 1994

Attending: Jodi, Krista, Ryan, Sara, Jeremy, Jon, Scott

1.  Treasurer's report:  The biggest expenses of the past several
months have been subsidies of retreats.  Can we reduce the subsidies?
Fewer students may attend retreats, but the saved money could support
other activities for more people.  We also noted the possibility of
giving individual, need-based subsidies on retreats.

2.  To whom shall we donate offerings?  We decided that the January and
February offerings will be given to Grace Episcopal homeless shelter;
the offerings from March and the first two weeks of April will go to
ELCA disaster relief.  The rest of the semester's offering will be given
to a local community center; which one will be decided later.

3.  Committee structure:  Fine Arts and Education committees are
currently inactive.  However, many Fine Arts events (e.g. visits to
museums) fit under Social Activities.  We will keep only the four big
committees (Worship, Outreach, Social Ministries, and Social
Activities) and form ad hoc groups to plan other events; the ad hoc
committees will be groups meeting once or twice per sememster to plan
upcoming events (similar to the way we plan the winter banquet).

4.  Fund raising:  Only four years of funding are assured for our
third staff member; after that, nothing is assured.  Also, the
Center's budget has been frozen for the past 3 years.  To avoid
cutting programs, we will have to cut expenses and raise more money
where we can.  Two possibilities for raising more money are increasing
cost supper fees from $2 to $3 and collecting a $2 donation for dances.
We plan to discuss this issue further, though, before charging more.