The Apportionment Board approved budget proposals totaling $441,000 for five fee-funded boards Thursday.

Under the proposals, the University Board would receive $185,000, Sports and Recreation would receive just under $170,000, “Players” – a group that sponsors and subsidizes dramatic performances – would receive $9,773, the Student Senate would receive $30,000, and the AB itself would be budgeted $46,490 for the 2002 fiscal year.

All of the money would come from student fees.

Before approving the proposals, the AB heard revisions made to the Sports and Recreation and UB budgets.

John Smith, assistant director of athletics, talked briefly about cuts made to sports and recreation’s original proposal of $210,000.

Devin Dittrich, UB chair, presented a revised proposal that slashed her board’s budget by $92,000. The revision cut money from UB budgets for movies, events and next year’s Homecoming, she said.

The lone dissenter in approving the budgets was assistant accounting professor Bill Joyce.

Joyce said in approving this year’s budgets, AB members just compared this year’s budget numbers to those from last year.

“It was the process that I took exception to,” he said. “Everything needs to be justified.”

Joyce said he would like to see each board give more detailed numbers during their requests for money, such as cost-per-participant numbers for events the AB subsidizes.

“These are student funds, and where students (go to) most should be funded the best,” he said.

The AB also approved two additional allocation requests from the UB and Sports and Recreation. The UB received $2,300 to help pay for Spring Fling activities, and Sports and Recreation was allotted $3,388 to help the athletic department pay for free student tickets to the Ohio Valley Conference basketball tournament game at Lantz Gymnasium earlier this month, as well as two busloads of students that went to Nashville for the OVC Tournament.