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ASB experiences $15,000 budget cutback
L exi W elp
When the school district
placed the two high schools
on an even playing field by
reducing WLHS's ASB fee to
$40, the $10 cut per student
amounted to an overall budget
of approximately $15,000 less
than previous years.
"What it did was essentially
cut ASB's budget in half, so
clubs can basically expect to
receive half of their budget
from last year, or even less,"
Butch Self, ASB adviser, said.
"Fundraising for clubs has to
not just be an option, but a
requirement."
Along with encouraging
fundraising, ASB is also re
evaluating the budget. This
doesn’t just include clubs, but
also athletics, and financial
contributions to both. Their
plans look at how the budget
will be used.
"We are going to distribute
a smaller percentage of the
budget per group. But saying
that, we are going to have a
process for proposals. After
the groups run out of allotted
money, they can propose a
Photo by Mark Popped
Valorie Wallace, Associated Student Body president, leads the first budget meeting in which representatives
requested funds for their clubs on Oct. 28. ASB plans on holding m onthly m eetings w ith clubs to discuss
news and im portant activities going on w ithin each club.
reason to receive more," Valorie
Wallace, ASB president, said.
"We have also taken a
portion of the funds from ASB
and saved it for future events
throughout the year," Self said.
This plan also allows clubs
to come back to ASB when
they run out of money and
propose a plan of how they
would spend the funds, if they
received them, in an effective
and productive way.
During the first meeting on
Oct. 28, club representatives
tried to understand the
difficulty that the budget cut
was presenting to ASB.
"The ASB meeting was
really well organized. They
are working hard to manage
the reduced budget, "Kristen
Tremaine, International Club
representative, said.
After every group was
heard from, ASB sat down and
tried to work out how best to
give each club its requested
amount with the available
budget, according to Self.
Three of the groups that came,
including sophomore and
junior class councils and the
Debs stated that they were not
Donations total over 380 lives saved
Photo by Libby Kara
M ax M cCann, junior, donates blood at the Blood Drive on Oct. 21. A lthough som e students were deferred
due to low iron or red blood cell count, the am ount of blood donated was enough to save 380 lives.
Unfortunately, this was below the goal set by the Red Cross, but Julie M cLeod, Blood Drive coordinator,
felt that the results w ere great considering how m any students were experiencing illnesses. The next
blood drive will be M arch 31, and will be the last for M cLeod, who is retiring after this year, but is
leaving w ith good m em ories of her blood drive experiences. "I am so im pressed w ith our students who
are alw ays giving of them selves so freely, w hether they're giving blood or volunteering for the Blood
D rive," M cLeod said.
asking for any money from
ASB. Other groups such as
Young Advocates for Peace
simply wanted enough money
to begin to fundraise, and
several groups including GATA
and Kaleidoscope wanted
ASB's help in spreading the
word around school about
what their clubs are about.
The budget for all the
clubs that attended the
meeting (a club won't
receive funding unless they
attended) is $5,076.03 and
will be distributed on a strict
need basis. According to
Self, ASB did not want clubs
collecting funds that may not
be completely used on needs,
while another group would
have to dramatically cut back
because they didn't receive
enough money to meet their
needs.
"It is just more expensive
to run certain clubs," Wallace
said. "Everyone needs to
understand that ASB has
$15,000 less than previous
years. This means that we
don't even have that amount
to give out. To get what they
want they absolutely have to
fundraise."
Eco-friendly primary
school comes to WL
r
E mily R eed
Children need education,
and now there will be a new
and different place for them to
obtain it. The School District
is working on building a new
primary school that will have a
design that will differ from all
other schools in the district.
The design will meld very
advanced building material
and technically advanced
equipment to give students a
chance to gain independence.
"The forts and slides will bring
a very different feel to the
school," Woehl said.
With the new addition to the
district, there has been fear that
this school will replace Sunset
Primary School. Roger Woehl,
Superintendent, reassures
everyone that Sunset will not
be replaced. The building
is very old and needs to be
updated, but that will happen
in addition to the new school
being built.
The contemporary design
of the school will feature a
green, sustainable design that
will keep up with the changing
economic times. The building
will be LEED certified, which
is a sustainability rating system
that measures how "green" a
building is.
Hew Primary School_________
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