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Hi Ana, Ivy, </div>
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This is really disappointing news. We've been strategizing at Green River on how we can use queries to improve the rate with which our Financial Aid office can process student aid. There was no warning that this freeze would occur, no notice in the Query Governance
Group, or College Collaboration, or any other communication forum or meeting space (that I am aware of). If we'd been made aware of the freeze, we could have strategized differently and/or pressed more fervently on existing query requests that are already
in as tickets, especially given that we are coming off of a long freeze in April as well. </div>
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I understand that the FA Support team needs to direct their attention to the matters at hand in terms of the move from PCD to production, but I think there are plenty in the ctcLink FA community and the ctcLink query community who would step in to support query
review during this especially trying time, and be willing to follow whatever parameters are necessary to ensure query integrity. A query freeze of this length prevents many contributors from helping to lift the FA community with their skills and energy. Rarely
am I clamoring for more work! But in this case, I can't just accept this freeze and say nothing knowing that I and others could do a lot of good in this time to help. </div>
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I implore you to reconsider and hope you will. A capable, creative, and motivated community of people is interested in making this happen for our system and our students - surely there are other paths through this particular space that could account for concerns,
limitations, and unknowns. ctcLink governance, and query governance, lean heavily on the value of collaboration - and this is a ripe opportunity to engage our community and use the range of and skills and expertise in our system.<br>
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Sincerely, <br>
Kelsey Denton </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 8, 2024 11:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ctclinkfinaidsupport@lists.ctc.edu <ctclinkfinaidsupport@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ctcLinkfinaidsupport] Query freeze for all FA related queries (May 8 - June 28)</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The FA Support team has requested a freeze on all migrations for FA related queries. This freeze is to help the FA Support team focus on the upcoming FA changes that are moving into production on June 8. FA support sessions for the
colleges are planned for the weeks of June 10th - 14th and 17th - 21st.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The freeze starts today, Wednesday, May 8, and goes through Friday, June 28. Any FA related queries that are currently in work by the Reporting Team or in review with FA Support, will be put on hold until Monday, July 1.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please hold all migration requests for FA related queries until Monday, July 1.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">During the freeze period, production FA queries that are reported to have an error will be reviewed and fixed as soon as possible.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please let me know if you have any questions.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt; font-family:"Script MT Bold"; color:#244061">Ivy Brent</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif; color:#1F3864">Associate Director of ctcLink Business Intelligence</span></b></p>
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