A combined amount of $33,273 was cut from the University Board, the Student Recreation Center and the student government at the Apportionment Board meeting on Thursday.

The UB cut $15,000 from its budget, taking funds from each of the eight committees.

UB President Darius White, a senior a family consumer sciences major, said the hardest cut they had to make was in professional services, which is their programming.

“We cut $800 so it was not very high at all but at the end of the day, we never want to take away from our professional services and the $800 really affects us,” White said.

The largest cut the UB made was $2,000 out of scholarships, which is how UB members are paid.

“Members of the University Board receive a stipend position, but we would rather take cuts from our own scholarships than from programming for the students,” White said. “I understand that it is needed and it is unfortunate for us, but we are doing our best to make sure that we keep our money in our programming events so we can continue to provide students with the best events possible.”

The UB also made cuts to traveling expenses, printing, contractual services and commodities, which consists of give-a-ways, decorations and food supplies for events.

The Rec also cut $15,000 from its budget that was $1,800 more than 6 percent of its budget, which totaled $13,200.

Supplies and equipment were both cut, supplies being $2,600 and equipment being $12,400.

Ken Baker, the director of the Rec, said they left all of the money that is going directly to students alone. They also did not make any cuts to repairs.

“We have done away with all of the supplies and equipment,” Baker said. “The money that we are given by the (Apportionment) Board is enrollment-driven so as enrollment goes down, we know that financial support goes down.”

The student government budget was cut $3,273. Some of the areas that were cut include the Student Supreme Court, marketing, professional services, student payroll, copy services, scholarships, lodging for travel and student relation forums.

Student Body President Ed Hotwagner, a senior mathematics major, said the largest amount they cut was $1,340 for 12-credit hour tuition waivers the executives receive.

“I tried to make the cuts from areas I knew we would have money left over in and in areas where I could anticipate how much we spend like cutting $242 on telephone bills,” Hotwagner said.

The student government is affected most by cutting marketing and student relation forums because they want to make sure there is enough in the budget for Student Action Team lobby trips, he said.

“We are not going to be presenting very many bills in (Student) Senate because we want to make sure we have enough to go to Springfield so we have been doing more co-sponsorships like with ‘Pizza with the Pres,'” Hotwagner said. “We can’t be spending as much on marketing as we used to because the money is just not there anymore so we are going to be having flyers with two or three events on them at a time.”

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