ASUO President Emma Kallaway will likely use funds raised by spring term’s ASUO Street Faire to cover the costs of a November conference in Portland that the previous ASUO executive left unpaid.
Kallaway used funding set aside for the Northwest Student Leadership Conference to partially cover deficits former ASUO President Sam Dotters-Katz incurred in paying for on-campus appearances by hip-hop group Blue Scholars and author Greg Mortenson.
After the ASUO Senate authorized Kallaway to use $3,479.20 from the conference’s funding to cover part of the deficit, she discovered that there were still unpaid bills. She said the conference’s expenses still required a roughly $3,000 payment, which would likely come out of funding raised by the Street Faire.
“There was some mismanagement by the past executive on that,” or perhaps some miscommunication, Interim Finance Coordinator Matt Rose said Sunday.
Kallaway also had to reimburse Cultural Forum for expenses from the hip-hop concert, and fill a deficit in the previous executive’s photocopying budget. Invoices from the Cultural Forum showed that the roughly $10,000 in expenses Kallaway paid off were incurred in promoting the events and for additional parking and setup costs for the Mortenson event.
The conference’s unpaid bills push the Dotters-Katz administration’s deficits to nearly $16,000.
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Street Faire will likely cover ASUO debt
Daily Emerald
May 31, 2009
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