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."
