The Student Services Finance Committee approved budget increases for the Greater University Tutoring Services and Student Leadership Program Thursday.
The committee also held budget hearings for Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment and Wisconsin Student Lobby.
After motioning to strike $500 from GUTS' technology budget, the SSFC voted to approve the GUTS budget at $166,398.91 by an 8-0-1 margin.
The budget for SLP was approved at $69,786.
PAVE, a student group focusing on sexual violence awareness and prevention requested a 6.52 percent budget increase from $68,967 this year to $82,616 for 2011-'12.
PAVE Chair Claire Peterson said the largest increase was to raise PAVE peer facilitators' salaries in efforts to ""really customize"" student workshops.
""We're not changing much on our budget because PAVE has been successful,"" Peterson said. ""Ninety percent of the increase would be toward peer facilitator budget.""
SSFC representative Cale Plamann said he thought the PAVE budget was ""largely in line,"" but he questioned the honorarium for some of the group's programming.
""It's more than we've been paying other comparable groups,"" Plamann said.
WSL requested a 5.8 percent budget decrease after failing to use $11,000, a third of the previous year's budget.
Their requested 2011-'12 budget would total $61,811, approximately $4,000 less than their 2010-'11 allocation.
Under the WSL proposal, staff salary allocation would increase despite the budget decrease. The increase caused some SSFC members to question whether the staff salary raise could be justified, given that the group spent only 71 percent of last year's budget.
""There may be actual elimination of positions and reduction in hours. In fact, there almost has to be,"" Plamann said.
The SSFC will vote on PAVE and WSL's proposals Thursday, and will also hear budget proposals from Sex Out Loud and SPILL.
