The first official Apportionment Board meeting, aside from the orientation held two weeks ago, will take place tonight.

During the audience participation part of the meeting, University Board and Student Government are going to give a presentation and talk about different things they will need money for.

Tiffany Turner, student vice president for business affairs said she invited Student Government and UB to the meeting to introduce themselves so new members could become familiar with the two groups.

“We are all new except one staff member and one student, so I thought this was a good idea,” Turner said.

There will also be a request for a line item transfer for UB, where they will take money from one line item of their budget to the other. They are using the money they transfer for marketing.

The Apportionment Board is also going to have an additional allocation at tomorrow night’s meeting.

“The allocation is for staff payroll and, in the past, apportionment board could make up for the additional expenses from the past the following year but now we have to give money to that specific account through our budget this year,” said Turner said.

Apportionment Board’s budget for last year ended in debt, so they are voting to have money from this year’s budget put into last year’s budget.

The money last year was used for the university staff payroll. The amount taken out was $595.64.

A two-thirds vote is required to approve the allocation.

Apportionment Board is meeting at 7 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union.

Heather Holm can be reached at 581-7942 or haholm@eiu.edu.