AS breaks tie for Ag senator, signs off on new budget
By ELIZABETH LEFFALL
During its weekly meeting, Associated Students passed a new budget and
broke the tie in the senatorial race for the College of Agriculture.
Vice president of finance Jennifer Reimer presented AS with 2005-2006
budget recommendations that would put the senate in a $17,000 deficit.
The budget passed Thursday by a vote of 13-1.
“We will be operating with $45,000 less than originally planned,”
Reimer said. “This budget is no different than past years’.
Every year the budget has been in a deficit but has come out on top by
the end of the fiscal year, so this deficit is really not something we
should worry about.”
Reimer said no cuts would be made to intramural sports, but the budget
would cut funding for new programs by $6,000 and club events by $5,000.
AS also voted to allocate $49,000 to The Collegian until the newspaper
begins receiving funding from student fees after the passing of The Collegian
Referendum in last week’s AS election.
By a vote of 6-5, AS selected Kelly Ansaldo as the new senator for the
College of Agriculture. Ansaldo won the senate seat over sophomore Nicole
Richardson, a former AS senator.
Ansaldo, a senior, said she would focus on bridging the communication
gap among the 17 clubs in her college.
“I want to re-establish the executive committee, where all the club
presidents meet once a week to open the lines of communication,”
Ansaldo said.
Along with creating a new school web page, Ansaldo said, as senator, she
will fight to get the national agriculture honors society, Alpha Zeta,
started again and inform students how AS can work for them.
Other AS senators elected in the last election are as follows:
•Social Sciences: Isaac Lopez
•Science and Mathematics: Melissa Gushiken.
•Education: Katie Yeffa
•Engineering: Steve Delsid
•Business: Brent Hansen
•Health and Human Services: Luis Baez.
•Arts and Humanities: Apryl-Joy Pascua.
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