[Plsfaculty] open discussion request

[Jenks, Matthew - (jenksm)]

Hi Monica,

We’re now assessing responses from the survey we sent out recently to get feedback from the SPLS faculty on SPLS budget priorities.  We’ll have more on this later.

Matt


From: Plsfaculty <plsfaculty-bounces at list.cals.arizona.edu> on behalf of "Schmidt, Monica - (monicaschmidt)" <monicaschmidt at arizona.edu>
Date: Monday, February 28, 2022 at 2:13 PM
To: "Plsfaculty at list.cals.arizona.edu" <Plsfaculty at list.cals.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: [Plsfaculty] open discussion request

Hello Matt and PLS Faculty,

Thank you Amanda for recently provided Furlough financial information (copied below).  From what I understand, there are still some of the furlough-derived salary savings available in this unit.  I would like to request that there be an open discussion at the next faculty meeting about the optimum means that faculty want these funds to be utilized. As I have been advocating since Aug 2021 in this unit, it would go a long way to improve morale if some of the allocation of funds were decided by the faculty and might directly support the current faculty rather than saved for possible future startup funds.

Thank you for your consideration.  Take care
Monica




Furlough- Information:  I wanted to provide an update about the Furlough Funds.  CALS saved a total of $1,473,462 as a result of the Furlough during the last fiscal year. A few other data points: $1.34M was provided from 239 faculty taking 15.9k hours of Furlough, $408k was provided from 268 staff taking 12.1k hours of Furlough.

SPLS saved a total of $193,824 during the Furlough.  These funds were included in the total SPLS cash balance.  During the same year of the furlough, SPLS took an operational cut of $621,125 annually due to the common cost allocation method used by CALS.  In addition, we paid a total of $677,736 of the $3million loan that CALS had to provide to campus.  To date, we have received half of these funds back. Cash balances in SPLS are earmarked for future startups, operational spending and mission investment.



Monica A. Schmidt PhD
Associate Professor
University of Arizona
School of Plant Sciences
BIO5 Institute
1657 E.Helen St.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0240
Tel: (520) 626-1643
Email: monicaschmidt at email.arizona.edu
http://cals.arizona.edu/research/schmidt/


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