The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee passed the Recreational Sports budget and also heard the University Health Services and Wisconsin Union budget Thursday.

SSFC will recommend to Chancellor Wiley an amendment to the Rec Sports budget to include an employee salary increase to $10.23 per hour, as the living wage for all students referendum passed last semester.

Also incorporating a living wage into its 2007-’08 budget is the Union, allocating $85,000 and an estimated student wage increase to a living wage, which will cost $130,000, according to Union President and UW-Madison senior Shayna Hetzel.

Although the total expense of $632,000 will be covered through reserves for next year, funding from other areas will eventually be necessary, according to Hetzel.

The total segregated fees in the Union’s budget amounts to an increase of 3.9 percent, with a fee for the Union renovations remaining in an isolated account.

According to Union representatives, Union South will be torn down in approximately two years, so the budgetary focus will then shift almost entirely to Memorial Union.

Recommendations for the budget will be suggested Monday by SSFC members.

Executive Director of UHS Kathleen Poi explained the 2007-‘08 UHS budget.

“This is a maintenance budget, no new programs, no new services,” Poi said.

However, the addition of an online appointment system is included in the budget.