By: Melissa Caceres/News Director
Campus-specific budget deliberations at both the Modesto Maidique and Biscayne Bay campuses were postponed until further notice, according to the Student Government Association.
They were set to take place on Feb. 29 at MMC and March 3 at BBC.
“I feel pretty confident that we’ll be meeting again sometime next week,” said Patrick O’Keefe, president of the Student Government Council at MMC.
With the Activity & Service Fee Committee in discussion about an increase in the A&S fee, it would be difficult to begin any new allocations with funding numbers continuously changing, according to Donovan Dawson, senate speaker of SGC-MMC.
The A&S fee is one of the fees that students pay for with their tuition, along with an athletics and health fee.
“I wouldn’t want to hand anything over to the Senate that is incomplete or isn’t finalized,” said Dawson to Student Media after the U-wide budget deliberations on Feb. 18.
The budget deliberations involve student government leaders deciding the disbursement of the $13 million of A&S fee monies.
Unlike University-wide deliberations, campus specific deliberations are supposed to address the funding of organizations that are exclusive to each campus such as Student Programming Council and Council for Student Organizations.
Recently, the A&S Fee Committee held two public hearings at both campuses to listen to the concerns and opinions of students and faculty regarding the proposed increase in the A&S fee this year.
According to the SGA website, the committee’s final meeting to vote was scheduled to take place Feb. 28.
They are to announce the decision during the coming weeks as to whether the fee will increase and if so, by what percentage.
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