Proposed Budget

So looking at the budget, these are a few of the proposals:

====FOOD====

- GA Meeting Enhancements       Food    $(4,000.00)      $(4,100.00)
- Committee Meeting Enhancements        Food    $(700.00)        $(1,600.00)
- Executive Meeting Enhancements        Food     $(500.00)       $(1,100.00)

So, proposing $6,800 on food, that is 7% of the total budget.  This year e've had an average of 68 students/ general assembly meeting (including
Exec).  Thus, we are spending about 6,800 on 68 people, that is $100 per erson per year (OK, not exactly, cuz Exec gets food for Exec meetings) on FOOD.
This from an organization who doesn't fund food for student groups.

=====Comm Serv and Student Groups====

- Community Service     Direct and indirect costs of community service
functions       Student Life and Community Affairs       $(2,000.00)     $(2,500.00)

- Group Funding - Regular cycle funding Funding of group functions per
by-laws          $(30,000.00)    $(31,000.00)

So, we spend a lot on group funding, but Community Service is dwarfed by our "meeting enhancers," i.e. food.

What do you think about either:

a) The suggestion that some of the "meeting enhancers" should be
redistributed and spent on Community Service (at the beginning of the year we didn't have "meeting enhancers" for Exec meetings, and I don't feel that our meetings or productivity improved when we did start having food part way through the year.

b) Group Funding should be divided into multiple line-items, so that a ertain percentage has to be spent supporting groups who are doing
Community Service events, certain percentage goes to knowledge evelopment, certain percentage to creating a GnP social environment, etc.

JMW

GPSC Exec Secretary
joshua.wilson@duke.edu
919.684.7978

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