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IREfiflN DAILY EMERALD — ^ eF,
IN BRIEF
Student Senate ratifies
PFC budget, finally
After weeks of delay and controver
sy over pay cuts for some student lead
ers, the ASUO Student Senate took less
than 15 minutes to approve the final
budget for the committee that allocates
student money during a meeting Mon
day night.
The Senate voted 11-2-2 to pass a
$5,231,949 budget for the Programs Fi
nance Committee, a 7 percent increase
from last year. Last week, Senators re
jected the PFC’s budget because of
concerns from student leaders that pay
cuts unfairly affected some student
groups.
The finalized budget taps about
$7,800 of unallocated reserves to
provide one paid position each for
eight groups that were initially slat
ed to lose all stipend positions. The
budget also increases monthly pay
for the ASUO president and vice
president from $175 to $400.
The budget includes a note recom
mending that next year’s Senate use
over-realized funds and other reserves
to provide additional stipends for
groups and create a “relief committee”
by April 30 to oversee the allocation of
those funds.
Also at the meeting, the Senate re
called and altered the EMU Board of
Directors’ budget to reflect pay
changes resulting from the finalized
PFC budget.
— Parker Howell
Legislature: Tuition freeze is
subject to state's tax reform
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what’s going to get money to where
it’s most needed.”
Legislators attempted to appeal to
the concerns of both students and oth
er taxpayers.
Rep. Sal Esquivel, R-Medford, said
the state cannot continue raising tu
ition, but he isn’t convinced that a
freeze is possible in Oregon’s current
budget situation.
“(The freeze is) nice and warm and
fuzzy, but the reality is this: Until the
state can stabilize its funding, and I
mean a tax reform, we will not be able
to stabilize monies for the universities,
for higher ed.”
Esquivel added that the plan to fund
K-12 education pitched by House
Speaker Karen Minnis, R-Wood Vil
lage, could be adapted to higher edu
cation as well.
Senate Democrats adopted and
overall revenue forecast in March that
was about $300 million higher than
Republicans’ forecast and pitched a
budget supporting a tuition freeze.
“We’ve been talking about that in
our caucus because a tuition freeze re
ally goes across the board,” Sen. Vicki
Walker, D-Eugene, said. “It benefits
those students who can afford to go to
school, and so we’re having the dis
cussion: Should we put it all into the
Oregon Opportunity Grant, which re
ally targets the kids that need the mon
ey, or do we do a tuition freeze, or
both? I think we’re looking at a combi
nation of both.”
Petkun said he hopes the legislature
can at least compromise to assist stu
dents.
“If worst comes to worst, we’ll meet
in the middle, and students will be bet
ter off for that.”
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