The Student Association wants to change the way the Recreation Center is funded.

Over the past three school years, the Rec has only received 57 percent of the funding it has requested from the SA, according to a report from Paul Julion, SA director of Athletics and Recreation. In his report, Julion states the Rec has requested $1,754,308.20 and has only been allocated $997,217 from the SA over the last three school years. In response to these shortcomings, Julion hopes to implement a dedicated fee.

A dedicated fee is a set fee students pay every year that goes to a set building or group. The money the Rec gets comes from the SA through activity fees and from the university through facility fees.

“The funding model has to change, and we need a dedicated Rec fee,” Julion said. “Most university’s rec fee for the entire year is around $300, and we don’t have a fee, period. What we do pay toward the Rec in one year is not even half of that.”

Julion’s report states that in the 2013 fiscal year $628,908 was requested by the Rec, and only $324,425 was allocated. Because the Rec doesn’t have the money to stay open late, it has changed its hours, said Mike Theodore, SA chief of staff.

Julion said the best way for students to make a difference is to voice a complaint if they have a concern; this way, it can be recorded and used as data.

“Definitely talk to me, talk to [Campus Recreation Director] Sandi Carlisle, and voice your concern so it can be recorded and used as data,” Julion said. “If students aren’t happy with something we have got to change it because we make the university live.”

There have been 869 student complaints about the Rec for the 2013-2014 school year, with 29 repeated complaints, according to Julion’s report. Of those complaints, 451 were related to hours only, 127 related to fees only and 281 related to both hours and fees.

“I use the Rec Center to run at,” said Edgar Fajardo, freshman mechanical engineering major. He uses the Rec about once a month. “If it were open earlier then I would use it more often.”

Freshman business major Octavio Renteria said he would like to see an improvement in the hours of operation, especially on the weekend.

“It would be easier to use if there were improvements,” said Renteria, who uses the Rec every day.

Campus Recreation Director Sandi Carlisle did not respond to requests for comment.

The SA’s report on Rec funding is available online at bit.ly/17NZmNs.