By
Maya Schechter
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Executive officers add $1K to budget
The steps towards Fall Ball 2000 have been heading in a forward direction since the day it was just the vision of an ASUA senator - and it just took two more.
Fall Ball's budget income was increased by $3,000 at last night's Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate meeting in the Memorial Student Union Tucson Room.
Tickets for the Nov. 4 campus-wide formal, a project proposed by Sen. Matt Bailey in his campaign last spring, began to sell on Monday by various campus clubs and on the UA Mall.
Sen. Tricia Williams began a debate about the $4,000 contribution Bailey had asked for, when said she said she was concerned with funding for future Senate projects because their current budget was about $4,500.
After more than a half an hour discussion, the amount had been changed from the original $4,000 to $2,250 and then again to $2,700.
During the debate, ASUA President Ben Graff announced that the executive officers had agreed on a $1,000 contribution from their own budgets and were giving the money to Bailey without the expectation of it being returned.
"We wanted to alleviate the financial burden of the Senate," Graff said.
After hearing of Graff's donation, the Senate finally decided on a $2,000 amount, and had changed the wording of "loan" to "contribution" in the proposal.
The Senate also approved Bailey's Fall Ball working budget, which outlined the estimated costs of advertising, side events, and club projects for the event.
In other business, the senators approved Laval Malachi, a communication senior, as the new PULSE Team Leader, and business economics freshman Jennifer Rimsza as ASUA's new special events director.
Graff said he created the position of the PULSE team - which would be a group of about 10 students to reach out to the student body's ideas and opinions - when he became president last spring.
"I felt that ASUA always had good intentions but we don't always want to guess what students are thinking," Graff said.
Mathematics junior Chris Frankland addressed the Senate and asked if a time, place, and manner restriction existed on the UA Mall.
"I want to know if there is any action I can take to tone down the activity on the (UA) Mall during academic hours," Frankland said.
He said that he was attending the UA to study and get a degree, and while he does not have a problem with the content of the activity, but with conduct - the time and place it happens.
Sen. Brian Seastone suggested that Frankland speak with Associate Dean Veda Hunn because she is in the process of revising the use of the UA Mall policies.
