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Jonathan Mays has been reviewing the FY08 budget using PeopleSoft to get a more accurate view of the actual expenditures of the university’s organizations. He presented his findings thus far to the Budget Committee in our weekly meeting which showed that there will be considerably more carryover than originally projected. The committee discussed various options for what could be done with the extra carryover. The New Student Center is the highest priority, but no official proposals were made. Next week the Budget Committee will present the FY09 budget to the various other MSA committees.

The Budget Committee met and discussed our plan of attack for the 2008 MSA budget season. We reviewed the legislation  approved last year in order to be better prepared  when we have to write up this year’s legislation.  We expect to start reviewing the MSA budget next week when it gets sent to us by vice president Chelsea Johnson.  The SFRC met last Tuesday with representatives from the Student Health Center, Wellness Resource Center, Counseling Center, and the Womens Center to determine what overlap there is between the services offered by each organization and figure out ways to consolidate them. We agreed on a plan to put up a website by July advertising the services offered by each in order to better educate students regarding those services. The SFRC will also be meeting Wednesday with the Student Health Center to review and revamp the original proposal sent to the senate last semester.

The Budget Committee and the SFRC met last Monday with ASUM to present the conclusions reached by the comittee regarding the ASUM budget and student fee. The SFRC decided to recommend a cut in the student fee from $1.36 to $1.28 and to reapportion the amount of money given to the ASUM central budget by the Columbia campus from $30,000 annually to no more than $8,000 annually. The cut in money to the central budget is meant to reflect a recent restructuring of the ASUM organization and to adjust the financial structure of ASUM to match its new organizational structure. Of the reccomended $22,000 cut to the central budget, $13,000 will be budgeted to the ASUM campus budget in order to continue funding the campus ASUM internship program and the other $9,000 will be off-set by the cut in the student fee. The SFRC also discussed the recent discrepencies between the student fee increases proposed to the Board of Curators and the fee increases accepted by the MSA senate.

Chairman Aaron Wynhausen
aaw6z4@mizzou.edu

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The Budget Committee and SFRC met Monday to work on the ASUM audit however we were working with an incomplete budget. Wednesday we recieved the complete budgets for ASUM and have scheduled a meeting with Cathy Hurst on Monday morning and plan to complete the audit at our meeting Monday night.

Chairman Aaron Wynhausen

The Budget Committee met in tandem with the SFRC this week and listened to proposals for a budget increase by Dr. Lucas of Student Life and Dr. Even of the Student Health Center. Dr. Lucas proposed a $2 fee increase in order to fund furnishings for the new student center and create two staff positions to run the website and the network. Dr. Even proposed a health fee increase of 1.9% in order to pay for the predatory drug testing program and cover rising health costs.  The Committee listened to the proposals, asked questions and discussed the necessity of the increases. We also received individual reports from SFRC members concerning groups that didn’t ask for an increase.

Chairman Aaron Wynhausen

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The Budget Committee had an informal meet-and-greet for all of the committee members on the 24th for GPC, Budget and other committee members to get to know one another before official meetings start. Our first meeting should be next Monday (the 1st).

Marianne Clark (last year’s SFRC chair) and I should be meeting with Marjorie later this week to go over certain aspects of the fee reviewing process.

Chairwoman Chelsea Johnson
clj9k9@mizzou.edu

Due to the vacancy of an SFRC chair and GPC Treasurer, I plan on meeting with Cathy Hurst Monday morning to discuss ways to go about the review process as smoothly as possible. Hopefully we’ll have final meeting days and times set up and will get Overview Information sent out to all of the department heads by the end of this week in order to get started.

Chairwoman Chelsea Johnson
clj9k9@mizzou.edu