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By LOIS LINDSAY
Of the Emerald
The ASUO's new budgeting process has
already gone off schedule.
Only 21 programs turned in initial budget
requests by Monday, the deadline set by
the Executive for submission of those
documents.
An additional 10 programs have com
plied to date. Four have yet to respond.
But, Jim Davis, ASUO vice president,
says no penalty will be assessed against
programs which failed to meet the deadline
if the requests are in by Friday. Despite the
fact that the Executive has stressed the
importance of strict adherence to budget
deadlines, Davis says, we have to be a
little lenient with this one
We kind of expected this, he claims.
So we were prepared to allow programs a
little extra time if they need it. We planned a
two-day leeway.
Although the Executive s official budget
criteria does not substantiate this Davis
says that is because “if we told the pro
grams they had a two-day leeway they
would have just taken that much longer to
finish their work."
He says the Executive is only constitu
tionally bound to meet the “major” dead
lines — Feb. 23, when the final Executive
recommendations must be submitted to the
IFC; and May 14, the deadline for transmit
tal of the formal budget document to the
University president. The other deadlines
are "flexible."
They're just intended to help us meet the
major deadlines. They can be stretched a
little bit either way."
All programs were informed of the dead
line schedule in November. At that time,
ASUO President Jim Bernau defended his
proposal for a new budgeting procedure by
saying it would prevent a foul-up like last
year.
Last year's ASUO budget failed to reach
the University president’s desk by the July 1
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deadline. So Bernau decided to replace the
old budgeting method of extensive hear
ings for each program.
The new process, dubbed budget
counter budget, was to involve a three-way
exchange of written budget requests and
recommendations between the programs,
the Executive and the Incidental Fee Com
mittee (IFC). Its success, the president ex
plained, would rest largely on adherence to
a strict deadline schedule.
There will be no problem with the pro
cess not being completed on time,’ Bernau
told the Emerald. “I’ve outlined each dead
line, set the guidelines and if either the IFC
or the Executive fails to comply, they will
lose their role in the budget process.
The Executive claims it will be stricter
about enforcing compliance with the major
deadlines. It has combined steps two and
three of the schedule (involving the initial
Executive and IFC counterbudgets) so that
the first recommendations will be com
pleted by Wednesday as scheduled.
The two bodies are meeting in joint ses
sions this week and next to insure that.
Their success may depend on whether or
not the remaining programs get their
budgets in by then.
And they will, insists Davis. ‘If they don't,
they will just be out of the budgeting pro
cess. I personally will not favor any type of
Executive recommendation for programs
which do not submit budgets by this Fri
day.”
According to the vice president, two of
the four programs which have not yet re
sponded, Housing and Man and the
Oregon Coast, were “excused ’ because of
technical difficulties. The Political Science
Student Union and the Social Workers In
terest Group, however, were not granted
extensions.
They had no excuse, and as far as I’m
concerned, they will have hurt themselves
even if they respond by Friday,” says Davis.
The fact that they re so late is bound to
affect the response they receive from the
executive.
Programs which have turned in budget
proposals to date have requested a total of
$268,996.19. Last year the same programs
were allocated a total of $149,495.10. a
difference of $119,501.09.
A compilation of individual requests,
compared with last year s allocations, can
be found on page 11.
Resignation launches
IFC candidate search
Veteran member Dave Donley resigned from the Incidental Fee
Committee (IFC) Thursday.
He did so because he will graduate at the end of the term, accord
ing to ASUO Pres. Jim Bernau.
Donley could not be reached for comment. However, in a letter he
stated that he was resigning in order to devote more time to the Mac
Court proposal.
Bernau hopes to select a new member within ten days. The ASUO
constitution states that the ASUO president must fill the vacancy until a
new member can be elected in the spring.
Candidates are being solicited by the ASUO. IFC positions are paid
during the budgeting process, and require a minimum of 20 hours work
per week until budget completion in the spring, according to Bernau.
The IFC will recommend five candidates to fill the opening. Final
selection will be completed after the candidates are interviewed by
members of the IFC, Bernau and Jim Davis. Selection will be influenced
by past performance and familiarity with budget matters.
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