In an appropriations appeals hearing held Tuesday night, fewer than 10 percent of the University's nearly 360 Contracted Independent Organizations appealed the appropriations allotted to them by Student Council this semester, according to Rebecca Keyworth, Council vice president for organizations.
During the first round of appeals, representatives from five CIOs unsatisfied with the amount of money appropriated to them April 4, presented an appeals to the main representative body of the Council.
The appealing CIOs sought funding for valued items that had been excluded from their operational or activity budgets by the Council appropriations committee during the committee's deliberations in late March and early April.
Problems that most CIOs found with their allocations from Council were dealt with prior to the appeals because some of the financial discrepancies stemmed from minor oversights on the part of the allocations committee, Keyworth said.
Other CIOs were denied funding for certain line items -- items cut from CIO budgets by the Appropriations Committee -- and resorted to appealing their allocations before Council.
The Media, Entertainment and Sports Club at Darden, one of the CIOs to appear before Council Tuesday night, sought funding to extend its Web site to include an electronic database, which would include contact information for high-profile speakers and thus streamline event planning for club officers who change every year, club President Ken Zamkow said.
"We wanted all this knowledge to be preserved and to not disappear," Zamkow said.
Members of the club were concerned that certain items proposed by CIOs are "categorically denied" by the Appropriations Committee.
Despite this concern, Zamkow said he believed Council fully debated all proposed items after finishing the opening statements and question-and-answer sessions with the CIOs.
Other CIOs present Tuesday night included AGAPE and the Virginia Women's Chorus.
Council will inform appealing CIOs whether or not their line items will receive funding within the next few days.
A second round of appeals will be held next Tuesday, during which Keyworth said she expects five to 10 more CIO's to present appeals for their unfunded line items.
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