Recommended budgets finalized for fall 2002

The recommended budgets of five boards funded by student activity fees will go before the Student Senate Wednesday.

The Apportionment Board, which oversees the budgets of the five boards funded by the student activity fee, gave the boards their budget amounts for next year before spring break. Last week the boards presented revised budgets to the AB.

Those five boards are the University Board, the Student Senate, Campus Recreation, Players Dramatic Performances and the AB.

After the senate weighs in, the five budgets must be approved by Shirley Stewart, interim vice president for student affairs, interim President Lou Hencken and finally Eastern’s Board of Trustees.

Final budget amounts are $189,876 for the UB, $3,035 for the senate, $179,000 for Campus Recreation, $8,614 for Players Dramatic Performances and $38,850 for the AB. The amounts total $447,375 coming from the student activity fee.

About $48,000 had to be cut from the original budget proposals. The UB, senate and Campus Recreation all had to revise their budget proposals after the AB gave final budget amounts.

The approval of the budgets must be tabled for one week before it can be voted on.

In other business, senate members will recommend to Stewart that a patio area be added to the University Food Court. The old patio was closed in when the new food court was built.

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