The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee heard budget presentations of University Health Services, Recreational Sports and the ASM bus passes Thursday.
Susan Crowley, interim executive director at UHS, said the theme of its projected budget for 2008-'09 with a use of $11.3 million in student fees was change.
Budget increases for UHS include a change in leadership, a move to a new facility at University Square in December 2008 and a conversion from paper to electronic medical records.
Crowley said it was hard to predict the amount of student traffic at the new UHS facility, but staff is anticipating a 10 percent increase because of its proximity to campus.
Lisa Learish, Rec. Sports senior accountant, said major expenses in the 2008-'09 Rec. Sports budget include $75,000 to replace the SERF track and nearly $442,000 to replace SERF lockers.
A large part of the segregated fee that we take in is actually given back to the students in the form of salaries to run the facilities,"" she said.
Rec. Sports' budget estimates the use of nearly $2 million in student fees, which equals slightly more than half its total budget.
The bus pass budget includes funding for an agreement with Madison Metro, daytime campus bus routes, SAFEcab and SAFEbus.
Margaret Bergamini said the university has a three-year agreement with Madison Metro to provide a fixed charge per ride for students. The over $3 million total bus pass budget does not include student fee funding.
The UHS and Rec. Sports auxiliary budgets are partially funded by student university fees. Through shared governance, SSFC has an advisory role, but Chancellor John Wiley makes final budget decisions.
SSFC Chair Alex Gallagher said the group will discuss the budgets at its meeting Monday and will pass any recommendations to Wiley.
