Student Services Finance Committee passed the budget of another student organization Monday by approving Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment’s funding request.
Many student organizations receive some cuts to their proposed budgets, but PAVE, a campus group dedicated to preventing sexual assault and violence, will receive $86,458.01, almost exactly what the group asked for.
The committee subtracted only $200 in travel costs from the group’s original request because the group underspent in that category in last year’s budget.
SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker said the committee had an easy time passing PAVE’s budget because of the group’s fiscal responsibility.
“Their requests were very similar to what they actually spent last year,” Bruecker said. “Their budget was extremely responsible so we were able to pass it with very little lament.”
Also in the meeting, the committee heard budget requests from two other campus groups.
Vets for Vets, a student organization that assists veterans in making the transition from soldier to student, and the Campus Women’s Center, an organization dedicated to educating the community on women’s issues, proposed their respective 2013-’14 budgets.
Both Vets for Vets and the Campus Women’s Center representatives said their groups seek to update their office facilities.
CWC representatives also said one of the group’s goals for the upcoming year is to bring in a well-known speaker, a task that would require an expensive fee.
Vets for Vets representatives said the group wants to fund more outreach programs, such as a military-themed Wisconsin Union Directorate film week, in order to appeal to more students on campus.
Bruecker said both budgets looked “clean” and she did not foresee anything that would be “detrimental” to their approval.
SSFC will decide on Vets for Vets and CWC’s budget proposals Thursday.
