CAB, Senate discuss spring budget at open forum

CAB and Student Senate members discussed CAB’s spring budget request and Spring Daze events at the open forum Thursday in the Senate office.
CAB Vice Chair of Programming Trista Schell said CAB was requesting $16,050 for four Free Movie Nights, seven small events, two large events, and a contingency fund.
Senate President Katrina Hurley asked how much money CAB used out of last semester’s budget.
CAB Vice Chair of Finance Gavan Archibald said there was $4,173 left over, because they canceled some events last semester that would have clashed with RLA events.
The CAB board was not aware that they retained the unspent money from last semester, so they will be deducting that from their proposed budget request. Hurley said Senate will vote to approve the adjusted request at its meeting Monday night.
Archibald asked Hurley about what weekend events Senate had planned to keep CSC from being a “suitcase campus,” and whether they would be willing to collaborate with CAB to sponsor larger events on weekends. Hurley said Senate has been urging clubs to plan events on the weekends, and would gladly work with CAB on larger weekend events.
Archibald also mentioned that the Friday of Spring Daze weekend, April 21-23, seemed to be overloaded with events.
“They wanted to do Spring Daze as kind of like a deterrence from other events that may happen during The Big Event,” Hurley said. “But we kind of pushed it so Spring Daze would be the day before The Big Event.”
The carnival and club booths are on Friday so everyone, including resident advisers, can attend and because it was suggested people might be too tired from The Big Event to participate in the carnival on Saturday. Hurley said there will be a pool party Saturday as a “relaxing thing” before the concert that night. Sunday afternoon Senate is also trying to plan a small event before Free Movie Night.