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MSCD Clubs Won't See Money Until Spring Jim Kehl STAFF WRITER
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MSCD clubs may have to wait until the beginning of the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, to get funding from the Club Funding Committee unless the Student Affairs Board approves a request for a $10,000 supplement. According to Lisa Tait, the Club Funding Committee secretary, one-half of the committee's $39,500 budget was gone by the time fall classes began. By Oct. 13, the amount had dwindled to about $1,000, according to the committee's general ledger. ''This is a complete mismanagement of funds," said Marcus Dunn, MSCD clubs coordinator. ''The biggest problem is that the clubs are the ones that get cheated." According to Maggie Miller, acting director of MSCD Student Activities, although the Club Funding
Committee did not meet quorum at the two summer meetings, the committee gave out more than $16,800 in funds to campus clubs. ''There is a history of problems making quorum at club funding committee meetings," Miller said. The decision to award the money was a judgment call that weighed two evils, she said. "By doing what I did, I was letting senate members off the hook," she said. If she did not award the money, she said, many programs would not have happened. Miller said there is a few hundred dollars in the account now, but not enough to merit opening it for funding . She said the committee is expecting more money to trickle in throughout the year from clubs that owe money they borrowed previously for fundraising activities. Once the Club Funding Account accumulates more
than $1,000, the-committee hopes to be able to make those funds available to clubs and to widely publicize that availability, Miller said. Clubs that were not recognized for the fall semester received funds, Dunn said. The Auraria Lesbian and Gay Alliance, a club MSCD did not recognize this fall, received $2,400 for events that occurred during the fall semester. The committee drafted a policy that will allocate portions of the budget to each semester, Dunn said. The policy will prevent the early depletion of funds and will prevent unrecognized clubs from receiving money, he said. The committee will recommend that the MSCD Student Senate ratify and adopt the policy. The Student Affairs Board will decide in two weeks whether or not to give the club funding committee a $10,000 supplement.