Merge pull request #396 from kelle/kelle-cycle4

Cycle 4: Cruz Leadership and Spectroscopy

Author: aaryapatil

finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/kelle-cycle4

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+### Project Leadership, Finance, and Spectroscopy Work
+
+### Project Team
+Kelle Cruz
+
+### Project Description
+Role on CoCo, Finance Committee and in `specreduce` and `specutils` development
+
+### Project / Work
+Provide leadership on the CoCo (until next election), in the areas of fiscal oversight and implementation, and in the development of specreduce and specutils.
+
+Continue role as member of Astropy Coordination Committee (until the next election)
+ - Participate in bi-weekly telecons
+ - Strategic planning future of the Project
+ - Liason to the Finance Committee 
+
+Continue role as member of Finance Committee
+ - Participate in weekly telecons
+ - Approve payment requests
+ - Keep track of grant budgets
+ - Liase with NumFocus Finance staff
+ - Help get new contracts finalized
+ - Assist with keeping track of Project's expenditures
+ - Assist with new funding opportunities
+ - Assist with reporting for existing grants
+
+Contribute to spectroscopy tool development 
+ - Help coordinate the community of contributors to `specreduce` and `specutils`
+ - Continue to contribute to improvement of specutils reader/writers
+
+### Approximate Budget
+Currency: US $
+The total budget request is for $28k/year for $18k/year of summer salary to be issued as subaward to Hunter College for Summers 2024 and 2025.
+To provide budgeting flexibility, I also include a minimum request of $19k, which is for $12k of summer salary.
+
+| Item | Requested Amount/year| 
+|--------|--------|
+|   Salary | $17,964 |
+|   Summer Fringe (24.9%) | $4,473 |
+|   Off campus F&A (26%) | $5834 |
+| **TOTAL**     | **$28,271** |
+
+| Item | Minimum Request Amount/year |
+|--------|--------|
+|   Salary | $11,976 |
+|   Summer Fringe (24.9%) | $2,982 |
+|   Off campus F&A (26%) | $3,889 |
+| **TOTAL** | **$18,847** |
+
+
+### Period of Performance
+2 years