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Friday, April 28, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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New method for funding groups planned
By GENE LINN
Staff Writer
A Student Senate Finance and Auditing subcommittee will revise a funding formula this summer that has recently drawn fire from some senators and a number of
The subcommittee, which was appointed by the Finance and Auditing Committee Wednesday, will submit a revised formula to the Senate next fall.
Members of the two of the three committees funded by the formula said it shortchanged them during the Senate budget process this spring. Other senators and some student group members have said that the formula groups for being fecally responsible
The formula divides $1.35 from each student activity fee among the Academic Affairs, Cultural and Services committees, who are responsible for the money to the student groups they fund.
The Services Committee passed a resolution at the end of its busit hearingings on Tuesday. The committee approved a resolution.
THE RESOLUTION STATED that the
committee was unable to properly fund service groups because the formula had dictated a cut of about $4,000 in the amount the committee had been allocated last year.
Phill Cobb, Senate treasurer, said recently Services received less money this year because the International Club had got a large amount of money during the Senate's fall supplemental allocations and had spent most of it before December 31.
This caused the allocation of the Cultural Committee, which funds the International Club, to go up at the expense of Services, Cobb said.
He explained that the formula divided money in proportion to the total allocations and expenditures of the groups funded by each committee during a year and a half period which ends on December 31 before spring budget hearings.
SERVICES AND ACADEMIC Affairs are hurt because the formula does not include expenditures made after December 31, according to the committees' members.
properly during the spring," Kathy Harris, Services member, said recently.
"A lot of service groups, such as Native American Alliance, have large special
The N.A.A. holds its Pow-Wow in the spring, she said.
Susan Regier, Academic Affairs chairman, said many of the groups funded by her committee spent most of their money in the spring when they published journals.
"As far as the International Club is concerned," she said, "I think they have banquets and other events the year count."
The funding formula gave $30,569 to
Services to allocate to 16 groups requesting
$90,581; $9,703 to Academic Affairs to give
26 requests requesting $25,288; and $9,057 to
Cultural to allocate to six groups asking for
$12,491.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE appointed by Finance and Auditing will revise the formula to take into account the number of groups a committee funds and the total of the groups' requests, Craig Templeton, and Auditing chairman, said yesterday.
He said this revision would help Academic Affairs and Services.
He also said that the three committees' share of the $11.10 activity fee might be less than $20.
"The groups the committee fund have grown fast the last couple of years," he said. Another thing that must be corrected, Templeton said, was the formula's tendency to discourage fiscal responsibility among student groups.
Cliff Edwards, Campus Veterans treasurer, attributed this tendency to the policy of including expenditures in the formula.
"We saved the Senate $36 by getting the free use of a typewriter while our typewriter was being serviced twice a year," he said, adding that "the rest be subtracted from our budget request."
SENATE RECORDS SHOWED the Campanus Veterans had $1,500 left unspent when Secretary Committee held budget time that the Corps was one big factor in their status that this was one big factor in their status.
decision to cut the veterans' request from
$7,560 to $1,405.
Edwards said that his records showed the veterans had $800 unsupposed, instead of $1,500, and that officials who had served last year were responsible for the large balance.
"It really upset me when I found out that a request was rejected, we cut it was that we had $8,100 and $8,100."
To prevent having such large balances, Barry Shalinsky, Services member, said some clubs spent money near the end of spring semester on items they didn't need.
"At the club meeting I was at last night they were trying to figure out how to spend several hundred dollars they unexpectedly had left," he said.
IF THE MONEY is not spent it will go into the Senate's unallocated fund at the end of the fiscal year, July 1, and the group might its allocation cut next spring. Shalskiy said.
Templeton said that he did not know now
how the formula could be changed to encourage the groups to be fiscally responsible but that the subcommittee should come up with the proper change this summer.
"It's an important issue," he said.
"We cut the groups' funds so much during budget hearings that usually they don't have a voice," he said.
Other Senate officials agreed that the formula encouraged some groups to spend money on things they didn't really need, but said it did not happen often.
Cobb said all purchases made by Senate-
died groups had to be approved by the
legislator.
OFFICIALS OF ALL FOUR student clubs contacted yesterday said their groups had little or no money left in their Senate accounts.
"We've peep every penny we received," said Mimi Jochsen, Alpha Rho Gamma
Association keeps grads in touch
Once a student clutches a diploma in his hands, it doesn't necessarily mean he has heard the last of the University of Kansas. After his graduation, he can join the KU Alumni Association, which has chapters in 35 states.
Seniors can receive an introduction to the association at the second annual Senior Open House Wednesday in the alumnae office, Room 403 of the Kansas Union.
B. J. Pattet, associate director of the association, said yesterday that it was a chance for seniors to see the alumni in action and to get acquainted with it.
"Once they're gone, we're still here," Pattie said. "We want people to know what our offices look like. We also can keep them safe and connected."
"We have a keeping track of people is our main job."
PATTEE SAID the open house would have refreshments and free gifts from the alumni
From $150 to $500 is being spent for
advertising, refreshments, and various door
prices.
"We will have balloons, stickers, KU swizzle sticks and sample alumni胶片."
The open house will be spread through two rooms, Pattee said.
The Governor's Room of the Union, which is adjacent to the alumni headquarters, will
feature exhibits designed to explain the functions of the association.
The association charges seniors a reduced rate for membership for their first three years after graduation. Seniors wanting to become a member of the association will pay $7.50 for the first three years. Dues will be $10.00 after that.
In the offices, she said, there would be referees in a place where students were registered for a game.
"We're totally nonprofit and self-supporting through dues," she said. "Most students are afraid to come to us because they think we're money raisers. We planned activities like the open house to show these students that we're here for them."
Pattie said that in addition to the staff of the alumni association, officers of the senior leadership group are present.
SHE SAID students attending the open house also would receive pamphlets explaining the origin of the Jayhawk and the function of the alumni association.
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