Carleton College: Carleton Student Association: Spring Allocations April 2012

Spring Allocations April 2012

This document shall be regarded as public posting of the Spring Allocations decisions for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Section V - CSA Bylaws

F. Appeals of the Committee's decision must be made in writing to the Committee within two days of the public posting of the decisions. Any appeals submitted after this time will be considered at the discretion of the Committee. Committee appeals must be held by sixth week.
G. Appeals of the Committee's final decision must be made in writing to Senate within two days of the public posting online of the Committee appeal results. Any appeals submitted after this time will be considered at the discretion of Senate. Senate appeals must be held by seventh week.

Appeals and questions may be directed in writing to Yasin Dara (daray@carleton.edu), CSA Vice President (Chair, Budget Committee).

Student Group	Requested Amount	Recommended Amount	Rationale
Line Item: Local Bus	$7000	$7000	N/A
Lagniappe	$5000	$0	Budget Committee would like the following questions answered: What is the cost of printing in different quantities? Who pays for the rest? How many Lagniappes do you have at the end of the year? What percentage of people use the Lagniappes? Price estimates of how much the printing would be to decrease the overall amount? Do we want to fund just the freshman class?
Line Item: Metro Arts Access Fund	$5000	$5000	N/A
Line Item: 3rd Center / Alt Bev Fund	$4500	$3500	N/A
Line Item: Newspapers (New York Times, etc).	$8000	$8000	N/A
Line Item: SASF (Student Activies Scholarship Fund)	$13000	$13000	N/A
Line Item: Student Work Study	$5568	$5568	N/A
ACT Center: Alt Spring Break	$12911	$0	The Budget Committee supports the position that the money that goes towards the Alt Spring Break should be spent within Northfield, or even in Minneapolis. Additionally, fuel costs are high, and the cost per head for this event is high, when looking at the distribution of the student activity fee. Budget Committee is very receptive to a new local proposal for Alternative Spring Break - this may be submitted as a new Budget Request, and discussed as a regular funding item for the ACT Center as an organization.
ACT Center: Operating Funds	$12000	$12000	Full Bid.
Club Sports	$115000	$105000	As long as there is a moratorium on club sports we will not be increasing our funding as a percentage of our income to club sports. In addition we stipulate that all club sports participants are required to pay a minimum of $40 dollars in dues, if they wish to receive CSA Spring Allocations Funding for their sport. If they choose not to pay club dues, they may come to Budget Committee as a group to receive Special Allocations requests.
American Medical Student Association	$437	$360	Supplies - This is seed money, and as per the bylaws we don't fund this $0/$77 Postage - $30/$30 Printing Copying - $30/30 Transportation - $300/$300 Stipulation: This event must be advertised to the entire campus.
Amnesty International	$130	$130	Full Bid.
ASIA	$2025	$940	$100/$100, Gas for Lunar New Year $600/$135 for Student made food. $152/$152 Soda, Napkins Plates Utensils $128/$128 Table Cloths $0/$1000 Honorarium for Performer - We don't know who this is, fill out a Budget Request when the event occurs. Budget Committee is disinclined to fund Catered Food.
Baking for Little Dough	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Black Stuent Alliance	$75	$0	Blank Form Submitted. (Please Request Operating Budget from Budget Committee).
Baking for Little Dough	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Quiz Team	$2610	$2610	Full Bid.
CANOE	$13192	$9408	Supplies - $700/$1100 - Suggested $700 for supplies. $10 participants pay out of pocket for snowshoes, $6 subsidiezd by the CSA. We cut $400. Ask participants to contribute, and we think it should be the opposite, participants should be asked to contribute the greater amount. Equipment - $1893/$2383 - $800 for climbing gear. We do not want to compromise your safety. $1583 - We're going to give you 2 backpacks, because we think that your phasing out process should be over time. $340 allotted for backpacks, $480 sleeping bags, $120 for 4 sleeping pads, $23 for 3 tarps, $45 and $20 for the trail maps and compasses, and $65 for fuel for stoves. Postage $10/$10 Printing / Copying: $5/$15 - this is our maximum for advertising. Transportation: $6800/$7700 - We are not comfortable with funding the Spring Break trip, because we don't think that the student activity fee should be used to fund a small group of students going to an event that doesn't occur when Carleton is in session. Other $0/$1984 - We are $0 bidding this because the WFR course will not reach enough students for the amount of money spent, and it will not be during the academic term when most students are on campus. Despite the listing of your priorities, we are more likely to fund the dogsledding trip because it has more overall appeal, and it is during the academic term We would like you to submit SEPERATE budget requests for EACH of these events, and come to Budget Committee if you want either of them funded.
Carleton Catholics Association	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton GameDev Club	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Crew	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Democrats	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Emergency Medical Technicians	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Figure Skating Club	$75	$0	Blank Form Submitted. (Please Request Operating Budget from Budget Committee).
Carleton Forensics Debate Team	$4750	$4750	Full Bid.
Carleton Graphic	$3463	$3463	Full Bid
Carleton Investment Group	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Microfinance Club	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Robotics	$500	$500	Full Bid.
Carleton Rugcutters	$1200	$1200	Stipulation: For Spring Swing.
CSA - Carleton Student Association	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Carleton Take Back The Tap	$75	$75	Operating Budget. Note: We cannot fund the raffle, as per our bylaws regarding personal property.
Coalition of Hmong Students	$450	$150	We will fund you $150 for facilitites and table setup. If you want to have honorarium for your speaker, you will need to come to Budget Committee, because we do not know who this is, and you don't have the specifics down on the request.
DESI	$160	$60	We will give you $60, for supplies. If you wish to hold events with Indian traditional food, we would require the specifics of the purchase (type, amount, cost). Please come to budget committee with a seperate request for this.
Ebony II	$3715	$3715	Full Bid.
Engineers Without Borders	$2400	$400	The specifics of your other requests are rather vague, including airfare and evaluating your work in Peru - we request that you come to talk to Budget Committee specifically for your travels.
Farm Club	$750	$350	$350 for your hoop house. We would like to know more about why we should hire someone to do tilling. Please submit a seperate budget request and come before budget committee for this.
Folk Music Club	$1600	$800	We will fund one contra dance, at $800. If you would like another one please submit a budget request and come before Budget Committee to answer the question of why the same type of event needs to occur twice within a school year.
Gender Neutral Cheerboys	$75	$75	Operating Budget. We would like someone to paint "Sponsored by the CSA" on their body for us. Thank you.
Carleton Handbell Choir	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Hill of Three Oaks Brewery	$1000	$1000	Stipulation: We would like you to advertise more, and partner yourselves and your products with The Cave, so we have nice drinks there. That would be awesome.
J Street U	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Jewish Students of Carleton - JSC	$2080	$520	Please come to Budget Committee to answer the following questions: Why do we need to have this every week? How many non-JSC and JSC student are at these events? Why would this be better than one big celebration per term? Would you consider an alternative of a large 100+ student shabbat dinner? Please keep in mind that we don't fund religious practices, we fund exposure to regious practices.
Knightengales	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
KRLX	$7888	$4968	Supplies - $520/$520 Equipment - $0/$2920 We would like you to come to Budget Committee with links to the items you're purchasing. Please make a seperate budget committee request for all of your equipment. Printing / Copying - $300/$300 Transportation - $30 Other - $4078/$4078
LASO	~$1800	$710	75% Funding for all Events. $515 - Dia De Lost Muertos - We are cutting the Aztec dancers in favor of some other new performer(s). Please fund them as a seperate request to Budget Committee: "Dia De Los Muertos Performers". $220 - VIVE - This event's funding was edited to be sufficiently in line with Budget Committee's guidelines. $0 - Carnaval - Carnaval will be funded at the precedent that is set at the next CSA Senate meeting (this coming Monday), please submit a request to Budget Committee at the time of this event - unfortunately we don't have precedent to go by. $0 - Latin Heat - We feel that this event is redundant, and the dance element of Carnaval is repeated here. The two events seem very similar, but if you wish to contest this, Latin Heat may be submitteed as a Budget Request, where you can address the question of similarity to Carnaval and other events.
Lenny Dee	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
The Manuscript	+$2600	$2600	No funding for the event that you are planning on happening, we are disinclined to fund catered food and full meals as per our Bylaws.
Nightshade	$200	$200	Full Bid.
Sexuality and Gender Activism	$4146	$4146	Full Bid.
Student Activities Programming Board (SAPB)	$93743	$89898	Student Organizations Fair - $3,500 Spring Concert - $71190/$73635 Tents ok Facilitites ok Ambulance ok Security ok Bands ok Band riders ok Fette Productions ok porta potties ok T-SHIRTS ARE ZERO DOLLAR BIDDED. Snow Cones ok Fireworks ok Photobooth ZERO DOLLAR BIDDED Carnival Fee to MN ok Battle of the Bands ($2050/$3050) Venue ok Sound Equipment Rental and person ok Appetizers ARE ZERO DOLLAR BIDDED Dances: $4000/$4500 DJ Equipment OK Security OK Glowsticks and Glasses ARE ZERO DOLLAR BIDDED Comedy/Improv Show: 3225/3225 Second City or UCB ok Sound equpment ok Slam Poetry 1500/1500 Performers OK Laser Tag 1033/1033 Company Contract OK Fall Apple Picking 1000/1000 OK (Northfield Lines) Super Hero Party - 1800/2300 Venue; OK DJ Equip OK Pizza IS ZERO DOLLAR BIDDED
SOPE Environmental	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
SUMO	$49019	$45472	Outdoor Screenings: We're going to have two Outdoor screenings, one in the fall one in the spring, we don't believe it is beneficial to have more than that, and the winter screening in the REC isn't as popular. Therefore, we will cut the outdoor screenings down to two.
Students for Education Reform	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Team Tibet	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
The Cave	$48630	$48630	Full Bid.
The Lens	$7999	$7999	Full Bid.
Tim Viet	$75	$75	Operating Budget.
Western Archery Club	$425	$425	Full Bid.

Appeals and questions may be directed in writing to Yasin Dara (daray@carleton.edu), CSA Vice President (Chair, Budget Committee).