Although the student general fee committee suggested slashing next year's Student Senate budget more than all other areas, the senate supported the committee's recommendations.
The senate, which will likely receive a 2.35 percent budget cut, agreed on a resolution endorsing the committee's work.
All but one member voted in favor of the recommendations at last night's meeting. Senator Chauncey Jackson, who said he was not opposed to the committee's actual report, voiced the dissenting vote. He said he didn't want to go against previous resolutions the senate made.
It's a little contradictory considering we have been begging and screaming to be allocated more money
and we get it and it's being cut Jackson said.
Chris Diehl, co-chair of the fee committee and commissioner for Academic Affairs, said he understood Jackson's opinion but believed that the senate had to be included among organizations that took losses.
If we're going to ask other people to take cuts
we're going to have to do it ourselves
Diehl said.
In addition, Senate Treasurer Will Wemer stressed the time the committee put into a decision he said he considered difficult.
Am I completely comfortable with this? No
I'm not comfortable with any of these cuts
Wemer said. I'm afraid it was an inevitable situation that we were in.
Budget Planning Council approved the fee committee's recommendations March 21.
In my opinion
(the fee committee) did a great job
Senate President Tim Vonville said. It demonstrates the ability of the Student Senate to produce a document that's thorough and holds everybody throughout the university accountable for its monetary situation.
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