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By: Alexandra Smith
Issue date: 10/26/06 Section: News
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After eight weeks of difficulty related to issues regarding club funding and filling all of the positions on the executive board, Student Government Association entered the second half of the semester with a short, simple meeting Oct. 24.
President Dee Goines said the current focus for SGA is following through and completing the goals set by the SGA officers at the beginning of the semester.
"It's time to really get the ball rolling with the goals we've set for ourselves," Goines said.
The 30-minute meeting updated the SGA board on the progress within SGA committees that were created to evoke change on a variety of campus issues. Many of the committees are directly related to the seven specific SGA goals that were set at the beginning of the semester.
Breaking the recent trend of SGA allocating large sums of money to multiple clubs and organizations, only one request was granted at the meeting. The SGA Readership Fund was allocated $3,000 from the SGA Allocation Fund. The money is meant to support the Student Readership Program on campus that provides newspapers to students free of charge.
Before the allocation, there was not enough money in the Readership Fund to make it through the month. Comptroller Patrick Vacek said the $3,000 will carry SGA through the next two payment periods for the Student Readership Program. Vacek said plans are being made to possibly find or create a different source to assist with these funds in the future.
The first semester Webster participated in the Student Readership Program, Webster Staff Alliance contributed funds.
Vacek said the fund transfer from the SGA Readership Fund to the Allocation Fund would not have an adverse effect on the Student Allocation Fund. After removing the $3,000 for Readership, about $5000 remains in the account.
Among SGA members, there was support for allocating the funds in order to keep the readership program intact.
"Professors do use (newspapers) in classes, so this is a really great program," Communications Senator Elizabeth Eisele said. "Students are using it, so that's where we come in."
President Dee Goines said the current focus for SGA is following through and completing the goals set by the SGA officers at the beginning of the semester.
"It's time to really get the ball rolling with the goals we've set for ourselves," Goines said.
The 30-minute meeting updated the SGA board on the progress within SGA committees that were created to evoke change on a variety of campus issues. Many of the committees are directly related to the seven specific SGA goals that were set at the beginning of the semester.
Breaking the recent trend of SGA allocating large sums of money to multiple clubs and organizations, only one request was granted at the meeting. The SGA Readership Fund was allocated $3,000 from the SGA Allocation Fund. The money is meant to support the Student Readership Program on campus that provides newspapers to students free of charge.
Before the allocation, there was not enough money in the Readership Fund to make it through the month. Comptroller Patrick Vacek said the $3,000 will carry SGA through the next two payment periods for the Student Readership Program. Vacek said plans are being made to possibly find or create a different source to assist with these funds in the future.
The first semester Webster participated in the Student Readership Program, Webster Staff Alliance contributed funds.
Vacek said the fund transfer from the SGA Readership Fund to the Allocation Fund would not have an adverse effect on the Student Allocation Fund. After removing the $3,000 for Readership, about $5000 remains in the account.
Among SGA members, there was support for allocating the funds in order to keep the readership program intact.
"Professors do use (newspapers) in classes, so this is a really great program," Communications Senator Elizabeth Eisele said. "Students are using it, so that's where we come in."
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