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Senators Debate, Approve $234 Student Activities Fee
Elizabeth Snyder
Issue date: 2/10/05 Section: News
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Senators passed a motion to approve the proposed $234 Student Activities Fee for the next academic year.
ORC Chair Becca Cohen-Taub presented the fee to the senators. The fee is an $8 increase from the $226 fee that is being charged to students this year.
"The decision that we made last week in ORC was that orgs seem to be doing pretty well with the money we gave them," said Cohen-Taub.
"We chose to give them [SGA-chartered organizations] a 2.19 percent increase. Basically, there are a bunch of new chartered org and a bunch that are growing, but a bunch that will be able to stay the same amount. It [the budget] gives room for growth and yet it is not excessive." said Cohen-Taub. "SGA seems to be doing pretty well, so it is staying static as a line item."
The eight SGA vans are the largest source of increased expenditure in this budget. Over the past three years, the funding for the vans has been phased into the SGA budget. Initial funding by the SGA Reserve Fund drained it too quickly and thus was inadequate to maintain the vans.
One senator questioned the $63,067 SGA Budget. SGA Vice President Emily Kalafarski '05 explained that the budget goes towards funds to help organizations, such as the lecture fund and conference fund. In addition, $15,000 goes towards putting cell phones for emergency use in the SGA vans.
Thirty-four senators voted in favor of motion; none voted against the motion. There were two abstentions.
In response to last week's presentation from Smith College for Clean Energy, Jessica Aguirre '07 and Rachel Levi '05 composed a resolution in support of the college purchasing clean energy.
The proposed resolution states that SGA endorses the purchase of clean energy and urges the Smith community to support the college in this effort.
"What Changxin [Changxin Fang '05, chair of Clean Energy] suggested that Senate do is we write up a resolution as a gesture to say that Senate supports purchasing renewable energy," said Aguirre.
ORC Chair Becca Cohen-Taub presented the fee to the senators. The fee is an $8 increase from the $226 fee that is being charged to students this year.
"The decision that we made last week in ORC was that orgs seem to be doing pretty well with the money we gave them," said Cohen-Taub.
"We chose to give them [SGA-chartered organizations] a 2.19 percent increase. Basically, there are a bunch of new chartered org and a bunch that are growing, but a bunch that will be able to stay the same amount. It [the budget] gives room for growth and yet it is not excessive." said Cohen-Taub. "SGA seems to be doing pretty well, so it is staying static as a line item."
The eight SGA vans are the largest source of increased expenditure in this budget. Over the past three years, the funding for the vans has been phased into the SGA budget. Initial funding by the SGA Reserve Fund drained it too quickly and thus was inadequate to maintain the vans.
One senator questioned the $63,067 SGA Budget. SGA Vice President Emily Kalafarski '05 explained that the budget goes towards funds to help organizations, such as the lecture fund and conference fund. In addition, $15,000 goes towards putting cell phones for emergency use in the SGA vans.
Thirty-four senators voted in favor of motion; none voted against the motion. There were two abstentions.
In response to last week's presentation from Smith College for Clean Energy, Jessica Aguirre '07 and Rachel Levi '05 composed a resolution in support of the college purchasing clean energy.
The proposed resolution states that SGA endorses the purchase of clean energy and urges the Smith community to support the college in this effort.
"What Changxin [Changxin Fang '05, chair of Clean Energy] suggested that Senate do is we write up a resolution as a gesture to say that Senate supports purchasing renewable energy," said Aguirre.