Important announcement from the SGA regarding Fall 2016 budgets

Students all around Stevens dedicate their time to the different clubs and organizations all around campus. Recently, the recognized student organizations held their annual executive board elections. Positions were announced, nominations were made, all that was left to do was hold the actual elections. Nominations were announced before spring break; however, elections were only held in the following weeks. This week marked the first week of the newly student-run e-boards. These new e-boards have control of the budgets allocated to each student-run organization. Each e-board will be responsible for submitting an organization budget request through DuckSync by 11:59 p.m. on April 4th 2016 in order for their budgets to be taken into consideration. The due date for submitting these forms was specifically chosen to be after e-board elections as to give the new e-board a say in deciding the budget.
Once the budgets are submitted, Student Government Association Treasurer Jacob Vanderbilt and the SGA chairman committee of student interests (CCSI) Thomas Daly will spend the next three days reviewing the proposed budgets, as well as making any objective cuts they see fit. They will be going over the budgets from Wednesday the 6th until Friday the 8th. For any questions or concerns, Vanderbilt and Daly are open to discussing them; they will be in the SGA office, located on the second floor of Jacobus, from 1-6 p.m. on Wednesday, 7-10 p.m. on Thursday, and 2-9 p.m. on Friday. Jacob commented, “The goal is to be as open and available to budget requests. It is a cooperative system.”
On April 11th, the SGA will return the budget requests through DuckSync along with their comments and cuts. If an organization disagrees or has questions concerning the budget cuts made by the SGA, they can bring up a dispute with the SGA treasurer, the CCSI, or their SGA Committee Head or Representative. However, disputes must be lodged before 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, April 16th. The SGA will have open office hours on Tuesday from 1 to 6 p.m., Wednesday from 2 to 5 p.m, Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. and again from 6 to 8 p.m., as well as Friday from 2 to 5 p.m., to discuss any disputes. Ultimately the final budget approvals will be made on April 17th 2016. This is the second year the SGA has used this system for determining budget cuts. Last year, no disputes were brought to the SGA, and so they hope everything will go about smoothly as it did last year.
So far, less than 15 clubs have submitted their budget requests. Although there is still a week left until final submissions are due, Vanderbilt encourages all remaining e-boards to get their requests in as soon as possible.