Ronnie Deedrick, student vice president for academic affairs, will ask the Apportionment Board for an additional allocation for Student Government Thursday.

Deedrick will ask for allocation for a trip Student Government took over the weekend of Oct. 6 to Virginia. The requested allocation is roughly $500 and covers the leftover expenses from the conference registration, meals, room and airfare the Student Government did not pick up.

“It should be a short meeting-no more than 10 minutes,” said Amy Leonard, student vice president for financial affairs and AB chair.

The Student Government is one of the five fee-funded boards to which the AB appropriates funds. Dramatic Players, University Board, AB and Sports and Recreation are the other four. A recent bylaw was passed by the Student Government prohibiting the allocation of the AB reserve funds to anyone but the five fee-funded boards. The decision pleased Leonard.

“I was happy with it,” she said. “It makes a lot of sense, and I think it will benefit students in the long run.”

The bylaw will be passed onto Shirley Stewart, vice president for student affairs, and then onto interim President Lou Hencken. Leonard said she thought Stewart and Hencken would both accept the bylaw.

The AB will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.