SGA Now Accepting Additional Allocation Requests for next September and October

The SGA Finance Board is now accepting funding requests for events that will be taking place in next September and October. Please fill out an additional allocation request form (either on paper or digitally using Frogger (http://sga.umbc.edu/forms/) for all events that your organization will be having in September and October 2008 (next school year). You can find the PDF version of the Additional Allocation Request here: http://sga.umbc.edu/downloads/allocate0708.pdf.

If your organization already submitted requests for events in September and October of next year during the initial budgeting process this past fall, you will be hearing back regarding those requests shortly. If you have questions regarding what you did request, feel free to email me at indek1@umbc.edu.

Also be aware that there will be at least two treasurer training sessions occurring the first week of May run by whoever the new SGA Treasurer for next year will be and myself. This will be substitute sessions for next year's treasurer training.

Student Orgs and Money

I've just finished contacting a large number of student organizations who turned in budgets but didn't receive a whole lot of their requests in order to remind them that can and should apply for SGA funds by Additional Allocation. Emails went out to the President and Treasurer of all those clubs as listed in their Initial Budget Requests. So my conclusion is if you're a student organization and you have an event that you would like to see happen and need money for it, come ask for it. This is especially true for organizations that haven't receive any money or even very little this year from the SGA. If your president and treasurer didn't get an email from me, but you still want funding for more events please still do apply.

On the subject of Student Organizations and money, it has occurred to me that we are in danger of facing a situation where the fiscal year will end (June 30th) and a lot of funds that were given out for events will come back to the SGA. Some organizations have been contacted by my staff in order for us (the SGA) to try and help you spend your money and make these events happen. If your organization has received a lot of money and is facing difficulty with planning or executing an event please contact me and either I will help you or I will get someone to help you. If you have money left over from events that were less expensive or that didn't happen, reallocate those funds to something else. Let's see this year end with a bang and increase the number of happenings on campus from student orgs.

indek1@umbc.edu