Campus boards to present budget cuts to AB
Representatives of the Student Recreation Center, the Student Senate and the University Board will present to the Apportionment Board how they are planning to cut 6 percent from their budgets.
The representatives were told to make arrangements to cut 6 percent at the first Apportionment Board meeting on Oct. 20.
Mary Lane, the student vice president for business affairs and a junior elementary education major, said this cut is being made because of the 450-student decrease in enrollment.
“The boards will definitely be taking an impact, but they should be able to make cuts by withholding money from different line items,” Lane said.
Mitchell Gurick, the vice chair of the the Apportionment Board and a freshman business education major, said he thinks the 6 percent cut may affect the ability of the University Board and the Student Senate to do certain programs and events.
Mitchell also said it could affect campus life aspects like hiring less student workers at the REC and not being able to have as many machines.
Lane said the 6 percent cut is a precautionary measure based off of what enrollment might be next semester.
“It is possible that we will return the 6 percent to the boards once we know how many students are enrolling in the spring and how much is received from the student fees,” Lane said. “We should still see the student REC, University Board and student government putting on quality programs and providing beneficial services to students.”
After the meeting today, the Apportionment Board may not meet on a regular basis until the spring semester, Lane said.
The Apportionment Board will meet today at 7 p.m. in the Arcola-Tuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
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