Where did the weekend go?
Apparently campaigning wasn’t all the work involved with being a member of the SU Executive. This weekend we had meetings from 9-3PM on Saturday and 9-5PM on Sunday to talk about Executive Committee groups.
An executive committee / group is an entity that past SU Executives have deemed to benefit campus on a large-scale and thus requires a different method of funding. While most groups go through Treasury’s budget committee to get funding, Executive groups (Team 31, KWUR, WUTV, Gargoyle, CPC, Hatchet Yearbook, SHAC, Sports Club Federation etc.) have a more informal funding method. Not say that it’s an easier way to get money, but it definitely does facilitate helping these groups get larger sums because their programming is more expensive (since it is supposed to be targeted at more people).
The group also includes the school councils (Art Sci Council, Engineering Council, Business Schol Council, Art School Council, and Architecture School Council).
We held 30 minute interviews with all the Executive groups and it was very informative. We’re dealing with huge amounts of money (anywhere from 10K to 240K). Last year, about 1/4th of SU’s $2 million budget was allocated to these Executive groups. It’s an important process and we definitely would like your input on this!
E-mail us, call us, stop by and talk to us.
We will most likely submit the entire $2 million budget in about a week. We’ll be presenting it next Tuesday night (not this Tuesday, but next) and Wednesday night at the Treasury and Senate meetings. Remember when we said “probably”? That’s exactly what we mean.
So tomorrow is inauguration. Exciting. 4:30 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.
Be there!
And then we get our offices! Woohoo