2008 Woodie Awards
Co-Op Board discusses upcoming expenses for year
By Jessica Moore
Rocket Contributor
Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: News
SRU's Board of Cooperative Activities held its first meeting Thursday to discuss how budgets would be spent for the 2008-2009 school year.
The board passed the motion to carry over the budgets from the 2007-2008 school year to the 2008-2009 school year.
The total amount of funds to be carried over is around $45,146; $24,507 for scholarships from athletic income, $2,865 for the Green and Growing fund, $811 for University theater, $14,640 for The Rocket and $2,323 for the Student Government Association.
The Co-Op Board made a motion to use $1,000 of the $2,865 remaining in the Green and Growing fund, and $4,807 from budgetary reserves to purchase furniture for the pavilion.
Previously, the Green and Growing fund had spent $1,098 on bikes and $1,036 on trees.
The total of the proposed furniture was $5,807. Among the furniture were four benches, each costing $498, three hexagonal tables, each costing $798, one message center costing $428 and one trashcan with a lid for $466, in addition to shipping charges.
Larry Brink, Student Government Association president, said the trashcan seemed too expensive, and that the university should be paying for it.
Brink said that he would personally ask President Smith, if the university would be willing to supply a garbage can for the pavilion. If the university refuses, the Co-Op Board will have to get one, Brink said.
Tyson Johnston, SGA vice president of public relations, proposed to separate the trashcan from the list of furniture, and make a decision on it at a later time.
The other pieces of furniture were approved.
The University Program Board asked the permission of the Co-Op Board to take up to $500 from budgetary reserves to purchase a color printer.
Last year, UPB asked the board for permission to use $300 to buy a color printer. The printer arrived eight months later, but it was not a color printer as specified. Berger said that the black & white printer did not fulfill UPB's needs. Brink said that the Co-Op Board would subtract the amount of money used for the printer from the annual increase to UPB's budget.
The board passed the motion to carry over the budgets from the 2007-2008 school year to the 2008-2009 school year.
The total amount of funds to be carried over is around $45,146; $24,507 for scholarships from athletic income, $2,865 for the Green and Growing fund, $811 for University theater, $14,640 for The Rocket and $2,323 for the Student Government Association.
The Co-Op Board made a motion to use $1,000 of the $2,865 remaining in the Green and Growing fund, and $4,807 from budgetary reserves to purchase furniture for the pavilion.
Previously, the Green and Growing fund had spent $1,098 on bikes and $1,036 on trees.
The total of the proposed furniture was $5,807. Among the furniture were four benches, each costing $498, three hexagonal tables, each costing $798, one message center costing $428 and one trashcan with a lid for $466, in addition to shipping charges.
Larry Brink, Student Government Association president, said the trashcan seemed too expensive, and that the university should be paying for it.
Brink said that he would personally ask President Smith, if the university would be willing to supply a garbage can for the pavilion. If the university refuses, the Co-Op Board will have to get one, Brink said.
Tyson Johnston, SGA vice president of public relations, proposed to separate the trashcan from the list of furniture, and make a decision on it at a later time.
The other pieces of furniture were approved.
The University Program Board asked the permission of the Co-Op Board to take up to $500 from budgetary reserves to purchase a color printer.
Last year, UPB asked the board for permission to use $300 to buy a color printer. The printer arrived eight months later, but it was not a color printer as specified. Berger said that the black & white printer did not fulfill UPB's needs. Brink said that the Co-Op Board would subtract the amount of money used for the printer from the annual increase to UPB's budget.
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