Letters to the editor: Explaining your SAFAC Allocations
Issue date: 5/9/08 Section: Ed-Op
Dear Editor,
The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) met over the weekend of April 26 and 27 and determined the annual allocations for the fiscal year 2009. SAFAC began this year with a total of $1,363,224.00 to distribute. SAFAC funded $337, 523.22 in line item expenses, which left a total of $1,025,700.78 available for student organizations. Student organizations applied for a total of $2,181,797.27 for fiscal year 2009 and were allocated $859,298.89 leaving $166,401.89 for appeals. One hundred and twenty student organizations were eligible for SAFAC Annual Allocations. One hundred and fourteen submitted annual allocation Requests and 112 were funded during annual allocations.
Line item expenses include things such as music licensing which allows student organizations to play music at their events, reserve funding of which $75,620.00 was set aside for student organizations, student organization resources which provides various resources to all student organizations, CEO & CEO II programming offered to the student body, subsidizes the Drexel University Student Technicians (DUST) which allows these services to be free up until midnight at student organization events, as well as more.
The process totaled 20 plus hours between two days. This year the board split up into two groups creating a bicameral system, with each group containing half the allocations.
By doing so, we believe a more fair appeals system has been created. If Group A reviewed your allocation, and you decide to appeal, Group B will be the one to review it. This allows fresh eyes and ears to review the topic and determine whether a larger allocation is in order.
Groups who met with their SAFAC liaisons tended to fare better than those who did not (which was highlighted in the SAFAC Annual Allocation Information Session). Some common reasons things were not funded were lack of a description, lack of documentation, the event or item in question didn't fit with the mission of the organization and the item requested was a "high risk" item.
The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) met over the weekend of April 26 and 27 and determined the annual allocations for the fiscal year 2009. SAFAC began this year with a total of $1,363,224.00 to distribute. SAFAC funded $337, 523.22 in line item expenses, which left a total of $1,025,700.78 available for student organizations. Student organizations applied for a total of $2,181,797.27 for fiscal year 2009 and were allocated $859,298.89 leaving $166,401.89 for appeals. One hundred and twenty student organizations were eligible for SAFAC Annual Allocations. One hundred and fourteen submitted annual allocation Requests and 112 were funded during annual allocations.
Line item expenses include things such as music licensing which allows student organizations to play music at their events, reserve funding of which $75,620.00 was set aside for student organizations, student organization resources which provides various resources to all student organizations, CEO & CEO II programming offered to the student body, subsidizes the Drexel University Student Technicians (DUST) which allows these services to be free up until midnight at student organization events, as well as more.
The process totaled 20 plus hours between two days. This year the board split up into two groups creating a bicameral system, with each group containing half the allocations.
By doing so, we believe a more fair appeals system has been created. If Group A reviewed your allocation, and you decide to appeal, Group B will be the one to review it. This allows fresh eyes and ears to review the topic and determine whether a larger allocation is in order.
Groups who met with their SAFAC liaisons tended to fare better than those who did not (which was highlighted in the SAFAC Annual Allocation Information Session). Some common reasons things were not funded were lack of a description, lack of documentation, the event or item in question didn't fit with the mission of the organization and the item requested was a "high risk" item.
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