Student Senate will be deciding the fate of the four budgets funded through student fees including the apportionment board, the student government, the University Board and the Student Recreational Center budget.

Despite the $500,000 appropriated to AB to be divvied out to various groups, the proposed budgets only totaled to $498,918.

Student Senate Speaker Brandon Goodman said because the senate had time for questions at the previous meeting, he will only allow for discussion and then voting.

Goodman said there were not many questions asked of those proposing the separate bills. He said this would not hinder the decisions made at the meeting because of the abundance of information given to them in a quick amount of time.

“I would have felt a lot better if the senators have least an hour to go over (the budgets),” Goodman said.

It was understandable there were not questions because they could not make educated decisions in that short amount of time. With a week to look over the budgets, there was plenty of time to grasp the information and there will expectedly be a lot of discussion.

Goodman said he trusts AB and their approval of each budget. They looked through the budget in great detail, he added.

The student government constitution revisions will also be announced to the senate.

One of the revisions made would change the voting process when voting on the AB approved budgets. Currently, the senate can vote for or against the budgets by majority vote. The change would require two-thirds majority.

The Student Supreme Court section of the constitution had also been complete rewritten. The executive positions have also been updated with the student vice president for business affairs has been removed because the duties had been absolved by the student vice president for academic affairs.

The court will also be their to present their opinion on the a case brought up to them this semester regarding the Student Senate Speaker position.

Senate seats are still available next semester

Jarad Jarmon can be reached at 581-2812 or jsjarmon@eiu.edu.