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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.