The Student Services Finance Committee approved the Multicultural Student Coalition (MCSC) 2011-2012 budget Thursday night.
The committee passed the budget at $220,856 out of MCSC's requested $225,787.
The budget cuts decreased MCSC's funding for airfare, food and speakers' fees, and zeroed funding for the group's Collegiate Union Poetry Slam Invitational.
The committee voted to add $300 to the group's advertising budget, which SSFC representative Cale Plamann described as ""ridiculously low"" for a group MCSC's size.
Following the budget decision, SSFC Chair Matt Manes spoke on his proposed Campus Service Fund.
Manes said he was ""at a loss for words"" after four hours spent discussing the CSF in open forum at Wednesday night's Associated Students of Madison meeting.
""The CSF is in limbo right now,"" Manes said.
However, Manes said he had ""no intention of leaving [the CSF] unfinished.""
He said he intends to personally complete work on the proposal, allowing future student councils to ""step up to the plate"" to implement the CSF if they so choose.
Manes also discussed plans to appeal the Student Judiciary's recent ruling in favor of the Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group's right to appeal their eligibility to the SSFC.
Manes must make his appeal to the Student Judiciary in the next five days. If the appeal fails, the SSFC will have to re-hear the student lobby group's eligibility proposal.
The SSFC will break during Thanksgiving week before reconvening Nov. 29 to hold a town hall meeting soliciting student feedback on the SSFC funding process.
