The Student Fees Advisory Committee has recommended a decrease in the amount of funds given to Student Publications in fiscal year 2013 to $100,000 from last year’s budget of $186,778.
The Daily Cougar will, however, be receiving more fees than were requested, but only as a one-time allocation.
SFAC Chair John Evans said the decrease in base funds — the amount of student fees an organization receives in a fiscal year — is in response to the Cougar not using fiscal year 2011’s allocation the way the committee requested it be used.
The discrepancy was regarding the surplus $90,117 Student Publications used in the fiscal year 2011.
SFAC said the surplus should be given back to the committee, while Student Publications said it was money generated through advertising and, therefore, did not need to be given back.
Instead of granting a continuation of this fiscal year’s base budget or the base augmentation of $43,789 Student Publications requested, SFAC granted the Cougar a one-time allocation of $130,567 to cover all the expenses the previous base budget would have paid for.
If the Cougar would like to increase its base budget to the previous value, it can request for an augmentation for fiscal year 2014 when SFAC meets next year.
