Student Council held the second of its two meetings Tuesday regarding appropriations appeals for this semester. Although several Contracted Independent Organizations were scheduled to appeal at the hearings, only Club Baseball attended.
According to Appropriations Committee Co-Chair Mike Love, only 25 groups wanted to appeal the Committee's decisions, but most of their concerns were handled before they reached the appeals hearings.
In total, CIOs requested upwards of $1 to $2 million, but Council could deliver only $400,000. Consequently, Council funded approximately 25 percent of the requests, Love said.
"Many groups became unhappy because they could not get as much as they requested," he said.
The most common request was for funding Web site and database development. According to Love, most groups wanted $1,000 to $2,000 for such development, but the Committee decided to keep a consistent policy by not appropriating any funds for such expenses.
For most of the appealing CIOs, the Committee dealt with individual line items on their budgets and decided to fund some of them.
"We were trying to correct problems with irregularity," Appropriations Committee Co-Chair Pete Skelley said.
According to Skelley, the Committee made mistakes in the initial steps of the appropriations process by denying certain CIO funding requests. The Committee then attempted to correct its mistakes without involving all of Council.
"We were trying to save everyone time and effort," said Skelley.
Members of Club Baseball decided not to compromise and debated their issues with Council.
Although the Committee stated it would not fund salaries, members of Club Baseball requested $3,000 in funding for umpires' salaries.
The CIO's argument was that the National Baseball Club Organization required each baseball team to provide two umpires, Baseball Club President John Arseneau said.
As the result of a Committee mistake, Club Baseball received appropriation funding last year for referee salaries.
Despite Club Baseball's recent appeal, Council upheld its decision not to fund the salaries in order to remain consistent.
"This is something they should've expected," Skelley said.
Council sets aside $615,000 for annual CIO funding. The Committee appropriated only $400,000 this year, and the remainder was allocated for programs and activities for the upcoming 2005-2006 academic year.
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