The first of two Apportionment Board meetings dedicated to budget presentations for student-fee funded boards will take place Thursday.

In the first set, the AB and the Student Senate will present their proposed budgets for FY 2002-2003.

Following the presentations, the AB will evaluate the budgets and have cuts ready for the meeting on March 7, Jen Fanthorpe, AB chair, said Wednesday. Boards will then have two weeks to revise their budgets, which will be presented with those revisions on March 21.

When final versions are approved by the AB, they will then need to be approved by the Student Senate, Fanthorpe said.

The AB meets at 7 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

The AB’s proposed budget will include money to be allocated to all the student-fee funded boards along with an amount for the reserve account, allotted for unforeseen circumstances of those boards. The AB’s budget comes from the student activity fee, which is then divided among the boards.