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Memorandum
Senators & Freshman Board, & non-senatorial appointees
Internal Affairs Committee CWo"6K'
Institutional history: Accountability (of the administration).
30 March 1999
In the past, SGA has been criticized for not having institutional history. In order to
combat this issue, we will make efforts to raise awareness of our history and
dealings with the administration.
Attached are a group of Red and Black articles describing some funding
issues of the SPACenter.
In 1992, the Office of the Vice-President of Student Affairs (OVPSA) asked SGA
to increase student activity fees. OVPSA made this request without revealing that
the student activity fee surplus had amassed over $1 million.
Meanwhile, UGA officials promised not to charge students "a dime more" for the
SPACenter. In spite of this promise, the OVPSA took $1.5 Million in student
activity fee surplus funds and transferred it to the SPACenter for debt servicing.
This would not be the last time that the OVPSA omitted material information in its
dealings with SGA:
1. In 1998, the Student Activity Fee Review Committee (SARC) formed to
evaluate student fees. SARC was formed under the guidance of OVPSA.
However, an OVPSA official waited until the last SARC meeting to disclose an
essential fact to SARC: OVPSA would automatically take 52% of any student
fee 'increase for administrative expenses.
2.
OVPSA annually submits the student activity budget to allocation committee
members without including the administrative portion of the budget. OVPSA
asks committee members to approve the funding split for 52% of the budget
without ever even showing it to the members. Student members, therefore,
unwittingly approve $ 1. 1 Million 'in expenditures without testimony or any
explanation of need.