The Apportionment Board voted 7-1-2 to reconsider cutting $12,042 from both the student government and the University Board’s proposed budgets at Thursday’s meeting.

Olivia Brauer, a senior music education major, motioned the proposal. She said she reconsidered the proposed budget after last week’s meeting and found an even split to be disproportional.

Brauer said the UB’s proposed budget of $257,918 is much smaller than the student government’s proposed budget of $60,666.

She said the cuts would reduce student government’s budget by 20 percent, while the UB’s budget would only experience a 5 percent cut.

Brauer said she was basing her information purely on numbers.

“I’m not concerned with line items, I’m just looking at what is fair,” she said. “Clearly cutting $24,000 is not fair.”

Ed Hotwagner, a senior mathematics major and student affairs committee chair, said he believed the student government was treated unfairly in the proposed budget cuts because its budget is much less than the UB’s.

“I don’t think they should cut more, but they can’t throw us in the same ring,” he said during audience participation. “It’s unfair that we were tossed in.”

Miriam Torres, a senior political science major and member of the student government, said she was upset with the cuts because they were unbalanced.

Jarrod Scherle, a senior finance major and the speaker of the Student Senate, said they are feeling the affects of the cut.

Scherle said because of the cuts, many programs will have to be cut for the 2011 school year, such as First Night and the Student Action Team.

Lauren Warren, a junior marketing major and member of the AB, said for future years, she would like to see more research done on the events put on by the UB.

“It’s important to know what’s going on,” she said. “We need to be at events to know where to spend students’ money.”

Sara Hall can be reached at 581-2812 or smhall3@eiu.edu.