The ASM Student Council approved its own preliminary $1.2 million budget for next year by a 13-1 vote Wednesday.
The council debated amendments for the budget which was originally proposed by the Finance Committee right up until their midnight deadline.
The biggest amendments came from Rep. Erik Paulson who proposed adding funds for ""housing and tenant services,"" and Secretary Kurt Gosselin, who proposed a series of changes to the original budget.
Paulson's amendment set aside a tentative $50,000 for the housing and tenant services and ultimately was passed by a tiebreaker vote from Chair Tyler Junger.
According to Junger, close to half of the approved budget is allocated to travel operations, events grants and ASM's 11 full-time positions, one of which, the program and campus organizer position, was cut by the committee at the meeting.
The budget will be sent next to the Student Services Finance Committee, for further scrutiny in a multistep finalization process.
Gosselin and Vice Chair Tom Templeton's tactics at the end of the meeting killed a proposal by Rep. Max Love to previously cut funding for disabled student services. Gosselin and Templeton called for several attendance counts and time-consuming roll call votes that prevented the motion from coming to a vote.
Gosselin said he thought the $5,000 increase proposed by Love was unnecessary since the full extent of the money for the same services was not used from last year's budget.
The ASM Student Judiciary also denied Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow's appeal for another eligibility hearing for General Student Services Funds.
SSFC denied CFACT's eligibility this year, and CFACT took its case to SJ last week.
SJ ruled that although SSFC wrongly claimed CFACT violated ASM bylaws, they still did not meet GSSF criteria.
