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Student Senate tables EMU's request for funds ■The EMU requested additional money to pay for an earlier-than-expected increase in insurance costs By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald Ideology weaved its way into the debate Wednesday night as the ASUO Student Senate decided whether to grant the EMU nearly $3,000 out of the general surplus. The EMU asked the senate for $2,910 to cover increased insurance costs for all Oregon University Sys tem employees. The increase came five months earlier than expected, and the EMU has been absorbing the costs since February. EMU Board member Christa Shiv ely told the senate that the EMU is running deficits in many sections of its budget, so the money could not 0063601 01 Applications should be submitted to the UHC Director's office. UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER We're a matter of degrees ^ Please call 346-4447, for more information. 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Mary Elizabeth Madden said she was wary of granting the spe cial request out of the surplus, which comes from the money that is left over in program budgets at the end of each year. “I guess I have a slight philosophical problem with giving this money out of sur plus,” Madden said. Surplus money should go to Pro grams Finance Committee groups, she said, not the EMU. Madden instead suggested the money be taken out of the overreal ized account, which holds the extra incidental fee money from higher than-expected University enroll ment of past years. Regardless of where the money comes from, Shively said, it’s im portant that the EMU get the extra funds it needs. “I would urge you to take care of it now,” Shively said. “These are mandated increases, and we can’t get around them.” The senate decided to table the issue until May 16 — the day it will consider all the other requests that ask for money out of the overreal ized account, including another EMU request and the ASUO’s Bucks for Ducks decision. In other business, the senate granted $3,784 to the Asian Pacific American Student Union for the upcoming Asian Heritage month — but only after it cleared out every other account in the group’s budget that was not being used. Madden began asking the group about extra funds. As soon as she asked, the group volunteered to put those funds toward the heritage month, cut ting its special request by $176. The International Student Associ ation also cleared out what remained in its library fund to help pay for this weekend’s International Night. As a result, it asked the senate for only $999 and not the $5,000 it needs. Budget for students’ fee money en route to Frohnmayer’sdesk ■ Included are controversial changes that would move the EMU Cultural Forum to the PFCs jurisdiction By Beata Mostafavi Oregon Daily Emerald The ASUO candidates weren’t the only ones who had their plans put on hold due to the election delay. As the election results remained up in the air for more than a month, so too did parts of the ASUO’s rec ommended budget for the student incidental fee, which could not be completed until students had voted on two ballot measures that requested fee funding. But now that the election is over and the ballot measures have been passed, the ASUO has finally sub mitted the last pieces of the 2001 02 fee budget to the president’s of fice — nearly a month later than planned. And with a May 1 dead line to submit the approved budget to the Oregon University System, the administration has been busy at We're glad that we were able to have the flexibility to accommodate for what's going on in theASUO. Dave Hubin, executive assistant president, University of Oregon work this week working on the fi nal funding details. Even with the piles of work and the shortened timeline for complet ing all of it, however, the office will still meet the deadline, Executive As sistant President Dave Hubin said. Student incidental fee money is divided between three separate com mittees: the Erb Memorial Union, the Programs Finance Committee and the Athletic Department. Those com mittees determine how much mon ey is allotted to help fund student services, such as athletic tickets and student programs, among others. Student groups may also request stu dent incidental fee funding through ballot measures. By April 1, the major budget com mittees had submitted their portions of the budget, but the ASUO couldn’t submit its entire budget until the fate of two ballot measures — OSPIRG’s request for renewed student inciden tal fee funding and the Multicultural Center’s $18,555 request for a cultural programming fund — had been de cided. The administration did not re ceive the final sections of the ASUO’s budget until April 20, Sen. Mary Eliz abeth Madden said, because the elec tion for the ballot measures was halt ed midway through voting and didn’t resume until last week. But Hubin said that because the ASUO had giv en the administration unofficial seg ments of the budget earlier, there was some time to evaluate the major por tions while awaiting the ballot meas ure decisions. “We’re glad that we were able to have the flexibility to accommodate for what’s going on in the ASUO,” he said. One part of the budget that raised concern last term and that is still be ing decided dealt with the ASUO Student Senate’s decision to move the Student Activities Resource Of fice and Jhe Cultural Forum out of the EMU and into the PFC’s jurisdic tion. Senators and EMU board mem bers raised questions about whether such a move was legal under the Clark Document, which governs use of the student incidental fee. Madden said the criteria for how a program can be moved from one budget to another are unclear in the document. As a result, the document itself is under review by the senate. The senate recommended the switch, which would begin in the 2002-03 academic year, because it believed the Cultural Forum and SARO would benefit more from the PFC budget, Madden said. The EMU budget covers groups such as the Outdoor Program, Club Sports and the Ticket Office, while the PFC in cludes groups such as the ASUO Ex ecutive and the student unions. “It would allow for more pro gram growth,” Madden said. EMU director Dusty Miller said Incidental fee budget timeline Fall through March: The ASUO Student Senate works on the EMU, Programs Finance Committee and Athletic Department budgets. March 5: The genera! election, which would have included voting on the OSP1RG and Multicultural Center ballot measures, is halted after an executive candidate files for an injunction. March 7: Concern about getting the ballot measure results in on time causes the ASUO Constitution Court to allow voting on just the ballot measures. Later the same day, voting is stopped again after five senators file a grievance against the MCC measure. April 1: The first deadline to submit the ASUO fee budget to University President Dave Frohnmayer passes. April 16-April 18: ASUO general elections are held, and the measures are voted on. Both pass. May 1: Is the deadline for the University president to submit the budget to the Oregon University System. that although students always have the right to recommend changes such as moving a program into a different budget section, it has rarely occurred. “I’ve been here nine years, and this is the first time it’s happened,” he said. “It could change or require changes to the Clark Document.” University President Dave Frohnmayer has the power to veto any of the recommendations made by the ASUO, but Hubin said that probably won’t happen. The ad ministration has studied the budget extensively, he said, and has not found any problems. If Frohnmayer approves the budget, it will be passed on to the OUS, which makes the ultimate de cision. 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