Student groups unhappy with their 2007-08 budget allocations will have one more chance this week to plead their cases to the Programs Finance Committee.
Budget appeals are scheduled for Thursday and Friday night. GLOSS (a student group in the department of Linguistics), the International Law Student Association and OSPIRG are on the schedule for Thursday night and the Student Bar Association and ASUO Constitution Court are on Friday’s schedule.
OSPIRG is scheduled for two slots on Thursday because its hearings tend to take longer and the PFC does not want to cut into other groups’ time, said PFC Chairman Oscar Guerra.
The regular budget hearing for the Black Law Student Association is also scheduled for Friday evening. Because the BLSA did not turn its budget in by the deadline, the PFC said it would hear the group’s budget only after all other budgets and appeals had been heard. The deadline for appeals was within five business days of the night of the regular hearing. Groups that had their budget hearings Monday have until Friday at 5 p.m. to file appeals. Those appeals would be heard Friday night, Guerra said.
Groups whose budget hearings were Tuesday night have until Monday to appeal. The PFC will schedule a Monday meeting if there are appeals, Guerra said.
The appeals that are scheduled are the times during which the PFC will decide whether to hear the appeal. If the PFC decides to hear the appeal it will probably do so right away. The PFC will not hear a budget appeal unless there is new information to be presented.
“I think we will have an emergency meeting tomorrow at 4 or 4:15 to decide what we will consider new information,” Guerra said. “It gets kind of tricky because it’s something different for every program, so we will just need to have that discussion.”- Jobetta Hedelman