Appeals for SAC funding increase - '05-'06 budget remains same
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers the SAC’s 2006 budget and how more registered student groups affected funding.
- The News-Letter reported that the SAC approved its 2006 budget while receiving the same funding amount for the past two years, reducing the average funding available to each group.
- The paper reported that Class C groups linked to the Student Council were excluded from the tighter budget because the University sets their yearly funding.
- The article quotes SAC chair Preeti Balakrishnan saying, "A lot of groups are not going to be happy with the funding they get, but we work well with what we have," and saying that meeting all requests would require twice the available money.
- The reporter writes that funding depends on whether requested expenses can be funded, so a poorly written proposal with eligible expenses may receive more than a well-organized proposal seeking ineligible materials.
- According to the article, Balakrishnan did not expect future financial problems, although the SAC had hoped for more money, and she said the next board’s transition should be smooth.