Even though classes were not in regular session, Student Council stayed busy planning for the 2009-10 academic year during the summer months.\nCouncil worked with officials from the Student Activities Center and Student Activity Fund to create an appropriations system that members hope will be more efficient in allocating the $600,000 Council has set aside this year for contracted independent organizations. Council President John Nelson said the new system should be "easier to follow and easier to understand."\nTo help guide CIOs through the revised appropriations process, Council Vice President of Organizations Colin Hood also said the Appropriations Committee has been working on a series of short educational videos.\n"We're just educating people so all the [funds] are spent efficiently," he said.\nHood noted that appropriations hearings will be changed and the Appropriations Committee will be more stringent in reviewing CIO budgets.\n"We're re-adjusting hearings to be more user-friendly," he said. "If they don't do their budget correctly, we're not going to accept it."\nOne thing that remains a concern for Council is funding - especially in light of the current recession. Council will meet for the first time this semester next week, but is already planning ways to overcome several financial hurdles.\n"In years past we would get $50,000 in non-[SAF] funds from [the University] Bookstore every year," Nelson said. "This year ... they really can't promise us any money. The bookstore is just doing much worse than expected because of the economy."\nHe added that Council is working to help its committees create budgets that better reflect what they need, as well as eliminating non-SAF funding from their budgets. He is, however, confident that the committees will be able to ride out dwindling sources of non-SAF funding.\n"We're looking both at how we can get funding and how we can eliminate non-SAF funding in our budget," Nelson said. "Fortunately, we're going to be in a position where, because of the planning, it won't be a problem for our committees"
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