The ASUO Programs Finance Committee considered the budget proposals of nine more student groups Tuesday night and allocated a total of $383,568 for the 2004-05 school year.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Advocates received $300, the maximum allowed for a group requesting funds for the first time. A large portion of their budget will go to their mediation competition held in the spring.
The Korean Student Association received $1,405, a 6.95 percent decrease. Their budget for the previous school year had a $775 deficit.
KSA accountant Bitnara Park addressed the deficit, saying there is not a big Korean community in Eugene so they had difficulty fundraising.
The Interfraternity Council received $10,756, an increase of 5.2 percent.
Outgoing IFC President Jonah Lee explained the major change in its budget proposal was an increase in funding to pay for speakers.
“The increase for speakers is because nowadays speakers are asking for more money,” he said.
The IFC spends between $2,000 and $4,000 for most speakers.
The largest budget request of the night was for the Co-op Family Center, with a majority of its budget devoted to payroll. The center asked for an increase in the teacher equity line item to compete with other wages in its market.
Co-Director Alisa Stull said the organization provides high-quality child care to University students, faculty and staff.
Several parents came to the PFC meeting to show support for the center, including parent Aaron Lemchen.
“(The Co-op Family Center is) the only place in town we would leave our infant child,” Lemchen said. “She’s in a social environment.”
PFC awarded the Co-op Family Center $263,170, a 2 percent increase.
The International Resource Center had the second largest budget request, receiving $55,571, a 1.2 percent increase from its previous budget.
Representatives of the IRC lowered certain line items of their budget because they found that they had not spent as much in 2003-04 as in previous years.
Interdisciplinary Students for the Progress Arts was the second group asking for first-time funding, and it also received $300.
The Crisis Center received $24,627 from the PFC, a 24.5 percent increase.
Crisis Center Co-Director Karen Paez said most of the increase will go toward staffing more shifts so they can accommodate increased calls from the efforts of the Suicide Prevention Task Force.
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Educational and Support Services Program received $18,810 from the PFC, with an increase in funds allocated to work study. That was a 2.7 percent increase from the previous budget.
The final group to go before the PFC was the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, which has 366 subscribers and produces two journals per year.
JELL’s Business Editor Ivan Gardzelewski explained to the PFC what the organization aims to do.
“We provide a forum for unbiased articles in environmental law,” he said.
Tuesday’s PFC meeting was relatively free of controversy, but tonight’s meeting will include the budget hearing for OSPIRG, an event that has created a lot of controversy in the past.
The Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group hearing is scheduled to take place in the EMU Rogue Room at 8:30 p.m.