Major changes to the way student organizations request and utilizes SGA funding have been approved by the SGA Senate. Major changes to the way student organizations request and utilizes SGA funding have been approved by the SGA Senate.
At Wednesday night's full-senate meeting, Vice President of Business & Finance for the Student Government Association, Robert Hohn, presented a new allocation handbook that changed/added these policies:
1. Online Submissions SGA will no longer accept funding requests via e-mail. An easy-to-use online submission form has been created that allows organizations to upload their budget proposals to the website and also allows student organizations to choose what time they prefer to meet with the SGA Budget Committee, creating an environment where planning ahead has its benefits. Advisors may also submit their approval or rejection of budgets via a new online submission form.
2. Mandatory Fundraising Events Organizations that receive funding from SGA must host at least one fundraising event per semester. The goal of this fundraiser would be to raise funds for your organization so that there is no longer a necessary feeling of reliance by student organizations on outside sources such as SGA or the Tri-Fund. The hope is that organizations can one day be self-sustaining and the funds they utilize to host events are the funds they've previously raised. In the meantime, however, SGA will still be here as a source to support student organizations when the need help.
3. CCES Event Planners for Programming/Fundraising Events Organizations must meet with a CCES event planner before they may request programming or fundraising funds from SGA. There have been many instances in the past where student organizations have made estimates as to how much money they need in order to put on an event but were off in their estimates.
4. Financial Statements These statements are vital to the upkeep of not only SGA's financial account but every organization's account. This year we are requiring that every financial statement be submitted by the date indicated in the original allocation e-mail. These financial statements will also be submitted online via the online submission site. If organizations continually fail to do this, they will eventually lose their ability to request funds for the remainder of the academic year.
5. Advertisement and Propaganda The SGA logo must be displayed on any and all advertisements to events for which SGA funding has been allocated towards. Any organization that fails to display the SGA logo may lose their ability to request funds from SGA.
6. Alterations to Previously Approved Budgets If, collectively, an organization wishes to alter an active budget, they must present their changes to the Vice President of Business & Finance before moving ahead with said changes. If it is discovered that an organization has made changes without first consulting the VP, they risk losing their ability to request funds from SGA for the remainder of the academic year.
7. Fundraising Loans The nomenclature of this budget has been altered to reflect the fact that fundraising budgets must be paid back to SGA.
Please direct all questions to Robert Hohn at sgabusiness@ithaca.edu or visit the SGA website for more information.
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