ASMSU approves furniture, Halloween event funding; tailgating bill fails
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly will receive more than $3,000 for new office furniture, as determined Thursday at the Student Assembly meeting. Student Assembly’s Finance Committee also voted to give funds to a Halloween event for children, but opted not to almost double the tailgating budget.
ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Office furniture
The Finance Committee unanimously voted to spend $3,007.96 on four desks, four chairs and four envelope trays for two empty Academic Assembly offices.
Sandte Stanley, Academic Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, researched the desks and chairs for the rooms, one of which she will occupy. Since the rooms were previously occupied by other university groups, no chairs or desks were left inside.
Stanley said ASMSU was only approved to buy furniture from four stores — Office Max, Office Depot, DBI Business Interiors and University Stores.
Stanley’s choices were from Office Max and DBI Business Interiors.
“The reason I didn’t pick anything from the University Stores is because it didn’t match,” Stanley said at the meeting.
The money will come from the Student Assembly’s special projects portion of the budget because Academic Assembly does not have the funding to afford the furniture.
Safe Halloween
The Finance Committee voted to give $1,090 to Safe Halloween, an annual event sponsored by the greek system. More than 4,000 people attend the event each Halloween.
Tailgating funds
A bill to add $7,000 to ASMSU’s tailgating budget failed in a vote Thursday. The bill, introduced by Kyle Dysarz, Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, proposed an additional $1,000 per home football game to the tailgating budget.
The money would have been used to pay the Physical Plant for post-game cleanup. The current tailgating budget is $8,000, and goes toward a live DJ and blow-up activities.
Dysarz said ASMSU had not been fined for post-game cleanup in the past, but they have been told they could potentially be fined.
Published on Sunday, September 7, 2008
Comments
student
09/08/08 @ 4:12pm
ASMSU leaders are stupid. Instead of buying furniture, why they don’t start be making their web page functional. We are in the academia not in the government. I would like to see some of their actions in favor of improving our education or at least bringing some speakers or something.
T. Scott
09/09/08 @ 12:57pm
It’s tough to make decisions about what you should do for your fellow students if you have nowhere to sit. How would you like it if your classes didn’t have desks or chairs for you to sit in?
another student
09/09/08 @ 6:28pm
I really hope the choice of furniture was based on cost and not some girl’s opinion that “it didn’t match.” Going by this article, it is hard to tell.
Golden
09/14/08 @ 12:19am
ASMSU purchases from the 4 vendors mentioned because there are open accounts with them. ASMSU is able to SAVE MONEY, have faster shipping, and support the university by purchasing items from these vendors. The fact that it didn’t match, has nothing to do with it, and it was likely taken out of context. I am sure it was a consideration along the lines, however, ASMSU has taken many steps over the last couple years to make responsible fiscal decisions. The same cannot be said for all other departments on campus, but nobody seems to mind there.
concerned student
09/19/08 @ 10:41am
I was at the meeting and that’s not the reason the girl purchased the furniture, she said it was the most cost effective. Whoever wrote this article is just a horrible reporter.