There is no money to allocate to Registered Student Organizations who applied for additional funding this fall during the RSO appeals process.

Joyce Newby, Undergraduate Student Government’s Finance Committee Chairwoman, announced at USG’s Wednesday meeting that no money is in the account.

Newby said that although she originally thought money from the Student Organization Activity Fund would be available, she learned otherwise after rebudgeting this fall.

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She also said RSOs who applied for more funding this fall will not be able to get any more money until January. More than 20 RSOs filed for more money during this fall’s appeals process.

Jean Paratore, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said the lack of money for RSOs was caused by the nature of the budgeting process and the excessive amount of RSO funding at USG’s last meeting of the spring 1997 semester.

Whenever we do a budget, we have to estimate what we think is going to come in and then do adjustments later, Paratore said.

In the case of the SOAF account, funded by the Student Activity Fee, Paratore said that in November 1996, the budget showed that about $50,000 would carry over to the spring 1997 semester.

However, after the money was collected from the Student Activity Fee, only $40,000 was transferred. Before that money was transferred, though, USG’s Finance Committee had promised much of the money to RSOs during USG’s final spring meeting.

There was so much allocated in the spring, that when we made adjustments later there was no money left, Paratore said.

Paratore said Larry Juhlin, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, is working on a limited basis to review the SOAF account. Juhlin is recovering from recent surgery.

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Paratore also said that after January, the account again would be reviewed.

At Wednesday’s USG meeting, President Dave Vingren praised Newby’s work for the Finance Committee.

This has put Joyce in a bind, Vingren said. She’s been working very hard this year with very limited resources. She’s doing everything she can to overcome this.