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Volu me 105 Issue 69
Senate Bill 120 aims to gut UH and state funds WILL CARON Editor in Chief
those organizations that would allow them to continue to operate under dire circumstances. “Especially with the way things are going, that cushion is super vital. For KTUH, our tower is getting ancient and there are issues with the wires that go from the KTUH air-room to the tower,” said Wayne Liou, the student general manager at KTUH. “If something does hit the fan, we won’t be able to fix it, because we won’t have that cushion.” The Student Activities and Programs Fee Board might be the most important CSO to students who are part of Registered Inde pendent Organizations. If SA PFB’s
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The future of the University’s Chartered Student Organizations (CSOs) and their co-curricular activities are at stake again as a new Senate bill would eliminate much of the special funds these organizations rely on. “In a sense it almost means we don’t publish Ka Leo. We don’t run a radio station. We don’t have student government unless you guys all do it for free, as volunteers,” said Jan Javinar, Director of the Student Life and Development office at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Senate Bill 120, introduced in January, would slash a myriad of special funds set aside by the state, including the university’s special fees fund, in order to help decrease the state’s $71.6 million projected defi -
cit. The bill is scheduled to be heard by the Senate Ways and Means Committee tomorrow at 9 a.m. in Capitol conference room 211. The 193-page bill was introduced by Sen. Malama Solomon and sponsered by Sens. Clayton Hee, Gilbert Kahele and Pohai Ryan. At deadline, all four senators were unavailable for comment. Their bill targets all revenues received by CSOs and student activity programs. “All the fees that [students] get charged by the university get deposited into that revolving fund. According to [SB120] as of June 30, 2011, at the end of the fiscal year, whatever balance is left there gets scooped and placed into the state’s coffers and then the fund gets deleted,” said Javinar. For CSOs, the univerity’s special fees fund provides a cushion for
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HOW YOU C AN GET INVOLVED Submit written testimony for or against the bill. You can e-mail testimony at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony/. Attend the SB 120 hearing, scheduled to be heard by the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Thursday, February 10th at 9 a.m. in Capitol conference room m 211. Hearing notice: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/hearingnotices/HEARING_WAM_02-10-11_.HTM 02-10-11_.HTM Read the bill at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov /session2011/bills/SB120_.pdf
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