The Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for the Student Activity Center Governing Board and Child Care Tuition Assistance Program Monday.
SSFC, a committee that decides how student segregated fees should be allocated to campus organizations, passed a budget of $385,520 for the SACGB, a $4,000 decrease from the group’s original proposal.
According to SACGB Chair Katie Cary, the group will use the funding to install a speaker system for emergency announcements, remodel smaller student organization offices into medium-sized offices and frost the conference room windows as a safety precaution.
SSFC representatives discussed the necessity of such proposals and ultimately decided to create a reserve fund, which will help the committee build funding for bigger projects over the course of a few years.
SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker explained the importance of such a fund for facilities like the SAC.
“Sometimes the budget can be fluid for building projects,” Bruecker said. “SSFC wanted to [create] a fund where [the SACGB] can access reserved and leftover funding from the year before rather than just putting it in every year and having to keep building.”
SSFC also passed a budget of $1,045,100 for CCTAP, an organization devoted to helping student-parents on campus. CCTAP’s funding is non-allocable, which means SSFC could only vote up or down on its proposed budget. Had the proposal not passed, the group’s funding would have been frozen at the level approved last year.
Also at the meeting, SSFC reconsidered the budget for the Associated Students of Madisn Student Judiciary, which was originally passed last week. Funding for the organization was readjusted to from $34,100 to $40,100, reinstating partial stipends and salaries for the Student Election Commission.
“I think all of the budgets that were submitted to us were extremely responsible,” Bruecker added.
SSFC will hear a budget proposal from University Health Services Thursday.
