Apportionment Board members heard budget presentations from three boards it supports financially Thursday.

Representatives from the Student Recreation Center, Student Senate, and “Players” each detailed their group’s budget proposal for FY2002.

Joseph Sain, the adviser to “Players,” an organization that subsidizes and promotes dramatic performances, asked AB members for almost $9,800, mainly for payroll.

After Sain, Ken Baker, the director of the Student Recreation Center, detailed a $222,000 budget for next year.

Baker said the money would be used to purchase new equipment, pay student workers and other expenses.

The proposal for next year’s senate budget was presented by Speaker of the Senate Adam Weyhaupt.

The Senate made a priority of asking for $30,000, the same amount it received from the AB last year, Weyhaupt said.

This year, the AB is charged with distributing $441,000 in student fees to the University Board, the AB itself, and the three boards that presented Thursday. The UB and AB both presented their proposals to the AB last week.

The AB will now work with each board to revise and trim the budget proposals. The proposals are then submitted to the Student Senate for approval.

Tommy Brewer, AB chair, said the AB will likely begin voting on whether to approve the proposals March 22.