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Fall 2011

This August,the CAMBAA Board of Directors had our quarterly meeting with the CAMB Officer Council to

discuss current issues that pertain to the CAMB. Not surprisingly, the hot topic of the meeting was the rapidly

approaching football season. Through several hours of candid discussion with the Officer Council, and additional

communication with Tom Slabaugh, the CAMBAA BoD learned about the current and future states of CAMB

football travel. This Fugawe Extra! Edition is our best attempt to relay to you what we learned, plus some. So sit

back, relax, and read on…

Excluding Sac State, Aggie Football will be traveling to 5 away games this season: Arizona State, Montana State, University of Hawai'i, University of South Dakota, and

Southern Utah University. The CAMB will be traveling to only two of those games, Hawai'i and Southern Utah.

While this is certainly a significant departure from CAMB tradition, it’s a vivid reflection of the sign of the times –

times of economic downturn, times of UCD Athletics’ growth, times of change.

So let’s get down to brass tacks. Or woodwind tacks, whichever floats your boat.

The CAMB Budget

The Student Budgetand the Price of

EducationThe University Budget

No one has been immune to the economic downtown we’ve all faced throughout the last several years, and it should be no surprise that the CAMB has not been exempt from the University’s budget woes. The CAMB FY11 operations budget is yet to be released due to the uncertainty of the UC budget, but is expected to be around $18,500. In the past few years that the CAMB has been an entity of Campus Recreation, this allocation has been as high as $24,500. This funding comes directly from the Department of Campus Recreation. Additional capital outlay (Expenditures to acquire, significantly expand, repair, maintain, or renovate fixed assets such as instruments) and endowment interest earned have yet to be allocated. Capital outlay funded by Campus Recreation, have helped the CAMB purchase around $15,000 worth of musical instruments each year since 2009. These purchases have replaced the CAMB’s previously decrepit stock of aging, broken, and irreparable horns. It is expected that the CAMB will receive an additional $8,000 to $12,000 in capital outlay funds this year, but these funds are restricted to the maintenance or purchase of fixed assets.

The CAMB Officer Council recognizes the substantial cost for football travel this season. As the Hawai'i trip is a rare opportunity, the band allocated over $100,000 to take 100 bandsmen to this game. In addition, each student is paying $850.00. This is a huge out of pocket expense for bandsmen and doesn't leave a lot of room for additional trip costs later in the year.

We’re no experts on the California State budget, and we really don’t want to be. But we can tell you this, lawmakers approved a State budget which cut funds to the UCs by $650 million bringing into reality a 40%+ decrease in state funding to our alma mater since 2007. Regardless if you swing right, left, blue, or red, you can surely recognize that this is a huge hit to the University of California. Indeed, this means that UC Davis is faced with prioritizing where money

UC Davis annual California resident undergraduate fees are slated to be a whopping $15,123 per student this year, up 229% from 10 years ago. 229%! Today’s Aggie Bandsmen and their non-band peers are paying nearly as much per year than graduates in the 1990s paid for their entire degree. As the graph below indicates, growth in tuition has vastly exceeded growth in the consumer price index

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is going to be spent. The campus faces a $99 million (17%) budget shortfall in fiscal year 11. Rightfully so, the campus has pledged to not compromise students’ educational opportunities because of these cuts.

However, what this does mean is we should expect that less unrestricted general fund money is going to be allocated to student programs like the Aggie Band. Specifically, the CAMB is no longer receiving any funds from the student registration fees, with the entire program being funded by the Department of Campus Recreation. Within the past four years, almost $80,000 of registration fee funds previously received from university coffers, has been cut. With this loss comes the requirement that the Department of Campus Recreation also assume the entire cost of the Director’s salary and benefits package. In total, Campus Recreation assumes $175,000 annually to support the CAMB. This sum dwarfs past University support and allows the CAMB to survive as a program. However, due to the already very extensive financial support in comparison to years past, additional money for travel just isn’t there from Campus Recreation, and it is not expected to return from other campus sources. If you’re interested in learning more, check out UC Davis Budget Planning Principles and Strategies, and the University of California Budget Basics. They’re interesting, especially if you’ve had too much caffeine before bed.

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Many alumni have inquired about the performance of the CAMB Endowment fund, and more specifically, why the CAMB isn’t able to travel to all away games when that’s what the endowment fund was supposed to ensure. The table below indicates the Friends of the Aggie Band Endowment fund performance since fiscal year 2007. As you can see, the endowment is generating an average of approximately $15,000 in interest income per year. The CAMB reserves this for purchases such as a portion of full dress uniforms in 2009 and instrument replacement and maintenance. The interest earned from the endowment is absolutely critical to future functions of the CAMB, but due to market performance, it is simply not providing ample funds to ensure that travel is safe from cuts. The CAMB is currently strategizing opening the endowment drive again to allow for additional donations to flow in and earn interest. This is a long term goal, however, and funds would not be available in time to change any travel plans for this coming season.

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(CPI), a measure that examines changes in the prices of consumer goods and services over time. Indeed, rising prices and inflation have contributed to some extent to rising tuition, but are by no means solely to blame. On top of that, the American median wage has not risen (when adjusted for inflation) since the 1970s. The bottom line is – high tuition is impacting nondiscretionary household spending now more than ever. Simply put, this means there’s less money that students and their families can put toward things like traveling with the Aggie Band.

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UC Fiscal Year: July-June

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Some of you may recall that the annual Gal-uh! fund-raising event is designed to bring in funds for CAMB travel costs. The past two years this event has been held on a Friday towards the end of football season, and has earned approximately $20,000 to put toward fall travel. This academic year the event will be held on a Saturday in Spring Quarter. This change in dates is due to feedback from CAMBAA members and is designed to increase the attendance from CAMBAA members. The students are working hard to improve the fund-raising aspect of the event and the CAMBAA Board of Directors hopes to work with them to increase the contributions from our members. With our support, the Gal-uh! might be able to mitigate some of the funding difficul-ties for the 2012 football season and all future CAMB travel costs. The CAMB hopes that this event can grow into a large-scale fundraising event that, in the long term, helps sustain CAMB football travel interests. The event is still in infancy stage, but has been a great success and learning experience for the students.

The Athletics DepartmentTom Slabaugh and Campus Recreation have approached the Athletics Department in an attempt to secure additional funding for the CAMB to use when travelling to additional away sporting events. Unfortunately, Athletics is more strapped for cash than Campus Recreation and the CAMB. However, the Athletics department and, more importantly, our student athletes really value the presence of the CAMB at away games. There is no guarantee of additional funding but Dr. Tom and Campus Recreation hope that these discussions might result in additions to the travel budget this year, in future years, or both.

A growing issue, campus-wide, is the sustainability of events that directly affect the campus as a whole. Philosophically, football games, as well as other athletic events, are supposed to benefit the entire campus. However, Intercol-legiate Athletic (ICA) events have cost several campus units a substantial amount of money that is no longer available from campus-wide resources. Campus Recreation and the CAMB’s goal is for ICA to plan for the CAMB’s involvement in such events by making it part of the negotiated contract with the participating school. Such a standard is common throughout University marching bands in the United States.

The TravelAs you may have noticed, all of the away games this year are quite a distance away from Davis – in fact, there is only one in-state home game, and even bussing to Sac State is expensive! The closest games this season are in Arizona and Utah. In absolute terms, that means that if the CAMB were to travel to all of the games, the travel costs this year would be significantly higher than the average from years past. While in the past decades, the CAMB has indeed travelled far and wide, travel is consistently further year 3

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Choosing Hawai’i

over year these days, leaving no opportunity for saving for future years’ travel. Traveling is also more expensive on a per-mile basis than it used to be. Airline travel is significantly more expensive than it was even just a few years ago, with rising ticket prices being supplemented by heavy baggage charges (think sousaphone, bass drum, tenor sax). Gas costs are higher too. For long distances with large numbers of bandsmen, it is actually cheaper and easier now to take a bus. Further, UCOP and UCD policy require permission to use carryalls out of state, a permission that is now rarely granted.

On top of that, these days it is not uncommon for the students to attend a football game and then pile back on the bus for the return trip shortly after the end of the game. When they actually do get to stay a night in their destina-tion, they still sleep on gym floors, fighting over wrestling mats and air condi-tioning vents. An exception to this rule is that the students will be staying in a hotel during their time in Hawai'i.

If a bandsman were to participate in all away trips, their annual cost to be a member of the CAMB would be around $4,000. Placing such a financial burden upon the members is not a fiscally sound way to operate the CAMB nor does it allow equal access for all CAMB members.

Such a ‘marquee’ trip is a very big event in the life of the University and for each bandsman. The CAMB leaving on the Wednesday before the game and will be performing until their Sunday return. Further, the Chancellor of UC Davis will be in attendance, at the invitation of past UCD Provost, Virginia S. Hinshaw - Chancellor, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

Besides, this is going to be an epic trip! Imagine the memories created by bandsmen playing a rally on Waikiki, seeing Pearl Harbor, playing several boosters rallies, and playing in the 50,000 seat Aloha Stadium against a BCS team.

Aggie PrideThere is no question that the current Aggie Bandsmen are as dedicated to Aggie Athletics as any of us were in our day. They march high, they yell loud, they bleed blue and gold, and they play their hearts out for the Aggies. When asked, Do you WANT to go to these games? The CAMB council unani-mously replied, “YES!” with their Manager adding that it’s very difficult to make the decisions to cut trips from their schedule, but that the struggle is financing them. The CAMB council has been actively involved in every decision to forego football trips, and should be commended for the maturity of their decisions – breaking tradition is not something they are fond of, nor forced to do by administrative controls.

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The FutureThe good news is that UC Davis Football will transition to the Big Sky Conference starting in the 2012 season. For the CAMB, this means most travel should be west of the Rockies for conference play. This potentially means that travel expenses could decrease for future seasons. While the state economy, tuition rates, and student budgets will not change, the cash that they can pull together may be stretched a bit further. This is by no means an indication that the CAMB will be travelling to every Big Sky game, but could mean that less games are foregone. Additionally, as the CAMB builds its Gal-uh event and opens the endowment for a new campaign of donations, it can hopefully foster more long-term financial stability. Still, we cannot and should not assume that the CAMB will attend every single football game next year, the year after, or for the next decade even. Times have changed, and while the CAMB desires to do everything in its power to see every Aggie touchdown, it may be the case that this is a tradition that may very well fade. As the CAMBAA, we must come to this unfortunate realization and hope for economic growth and recovery ahead.

The obvious answer here is to donate to the CAMB Endowment and attend the Gal-uh! But you knew that already. The CAMB and the CAMBAA Board is extremely thankful to those of you have supported the CAMB financially in the past. Further, on a more recent note, your efforts with our Hawai'i donation campaign have raised $3,740, and will fully fund the CAMB’s ground transportation while on the island. As donations continue to come in, we hope to pay for a meal as well so that the students’ out of pocket expenses are limited.

What the CAMB really needs, however, is your support in their decisions. Alumni comments criticizing the travel schedule are extremely discouraging to the students, who do not like this limited travel schedule any more than we do as alumni. As the CAMBAA, it is our job to support the students, not criticize them. If you have comments and questions regarding the decisions made regarding football travel, please direct them to the CAMBAA Board of Directors, via either Seth (sdbyers@gmail.com) or Sara (sklygren@gmail.com), instead of the CAMB “chat” email list. Additionally, please do not contact Campus Recreation, UC Davis Athletics, the Department of Student Affairs, the Cal Aggie Alumni Association, or Chancellor Katehi if you don’t have anything constructive to suggest. The Board is happy to pass along pertinent suggestions from the CAMBAA membership to the CAAA and the CAMB.

We hope that this long-winded article has helped you understand the CAMB’s decision to forego football games. We look forward to sharing our support of the CAMB, Aggie Athletics, and UC Davis with you during the coming academic year.

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