The Student Services Finance Committee voted to punish the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan's most recent policy violation by striking $3,000 from its budget Thursday.
SSFC members voted to fine MEChA after the group turned in their mid-year report two weeks late.
Although MEChA attributed its tardiness to SSFC Chair Matt Manes sending e-mail reminders to the wrong address, the committee said it was the group's job to notify them of such contact changes.
While some SSFC members debated a temporary two-week funding freeze, Freshman Representative Sarah Neibart argued it would be fairer to fine the group than freeze their funds.
""If we freeze their funding, it freezes their salary; thus, they cannot provide their direct service to campus,"" Neibart said.
Neibart, with support from Representative Jair Alvarez, proposed the $3,000 fine that could be taken from anywhere in the group's budget.
While group members said getting to choose where to take the money from seems fair, they said it's still hard to tell what ""fair"" is in a situation without established procedure.
To address this, Neibart requested that Manes send out an e-mail to all segregated fee funded groups, explaining to them that this would be procedure for such policy violations from now on.
""It's important that every group knows what procedure we'll be taking in the future, and that they should not be careless with their paperwork,"" Neibart said.
The committee also heard the Rape Crisis Center's budget presentation.
SSFC members will also discuss funding for the Union, Recreational Sports and University Health Services at their next meeting Monday.
