‘CABsolutely’ fun: Kahoot lightens mood at workshop

This week, CAB held a trip budget packet workshop, led by Vice President of Finance Lily Umeta, in place of its weekly meeting. At the workshop, a member of each club’s executive board and the CAB representative learned how to properly fill out a trip budget packet.  

The purpose of this workshop was to effectively teach members of clubs to fill out their trip budget packets, as well as fundraising packets, so that they pass the correct information along to future members of the executive boards.  

In the 2018-19 school year, the budget for club spending was cut to $135,000 from the prior school year’s budget of $219,395 due to a lack of club spending. In the 2018-19 school year, $103,500 was spent of the allocated budget. Money allocated for club trips was also pulled from this amount. 

“We don’t know why but you guys don’t use your money,” Umeta said.  

Umeta also stated that the biggest reason for this lack of spending was the fact that clubs do not know how much money they have to spend and a confusion on how to request funds.  

It was heavily stressed throughout the workshop that budget packets were to be submitted to AFB two months prior to a trip to allow for AFB and senate to properly review the request and make the correct allocation.   

When requesting seed money for fundraisers, clubs must pay the money back within two months of their fundraisers. These seed money loans have zero percent interest.  

If a club has a negative balance, the money should be paid back within two months of the money being spent. If a club is unable to pay the balance by the end of the fiscal school year, July 1, the club will start out the next school year with  a zero balance, regardless of their budget request in the spring.

After the informational portion of the workshop, CAB members were then put to the test on their recently learned knowledge with a Kahoot quiz put together by a member of AFB.  

The additional fund request form that was approved by senate last week was also introduced to CAB members.   

A make-up workshop was held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday for any clubs that missed Monday’s meeting.