Apportionment Board dishes out final budgets

A total of $48,295.20 was removed from proposed budgets for the University Board, Student Government and Sports and Recreation by the Apportionment Board Thursday.

The AB, which controls budgets for itself besides these three boards along with Dramatic Performances, has a total of $447,375 to divide among the boards. These are funded by student activity fees.

The total amount requested by all the boards was $495,670.20.

The Dramatic Performances budget will remain at $8,614, because that budget is based on ticket sales for the past three years, and that amount subsidizes based on those sales, Sha Woodyard, account technician, said at the meeting.

The AB’s proposed budget will remain at $38,850, which is a decrease from its current budget. The decrease came out of the civil service payroll.

Three thousand dollars were deducted from the Student Government’s proposed budget, which was originally $34,035.

Increases were requested for compensation for executive members, printing of Panther Express schedules, supplies and two annual senate events-Campus Life Night and the Recognized Student Organization Banquet.

AB members felt the $3,000 for the events was not needed because those events do not necessarily take place each year.

The UB’s original request of $203,813.20 will be decreased by $13,937 to $189,876. The UB requested an increase of $18,813.20. This increase accounts for an advertising contract with The Daily Eastern News, tuition waivers for the UB chair and vice chair, the creation of a public relations committee and co-coordinator position for the graphic design committee and stipends to retain and recruit committee coordinators.

Sports and Recreation requested $210,358, but will only have$179,000 to work with. The requested figure was initiated with the hope that replacing and renewing equipment and possibly add a climbing wall would eventually come into fruition.

The five boards will have until March 21 to revise their budgets, which will be presented once more to the AB on that date. Following AB’s approval, proposed budgets will go to the Student Senate for approval and then Shirley Stewart, acting vice president for student affairs, interim President Lou Hencken and then Eastern’s Board of Trustees.