Spring Break
F-Board stops paying Chum's fee
by Michelle Liberman
Staff writer
News | 10/7/08
Posted online at 3:10 AM EST on 10/7/08
/ Last updated at 3:18 AM EST on 10/7/08
The Finance Board will no longer cover Cholmondeley's $50 fee for clubs and organizations to hold a coffeehouse, to the disappointment of some club leaders, because F-board no longer has extra rollover funds to pay the fee for clubs, F-Board Chair Emily Moignard '09 said.
F-Board paid the $50 fee for clubs last semester because of the Free Admissions Policy, whereby F-Board fully funded "theater groups, shows [and] cultural events so that everything could be free for all students," Moignard said. F-Board only gave funding to clubs that did not charge for their events, she said.
She said F-Board could finance the Chum's fee because it was using rollover money, allocated money that had not been spent by clubs in the previous semester and had accumulated.
"It's a culture shock from last semester because we don't have the buffer of rollover," Moignard said, but she added that F-Board never paid the Chum's fee before last semester under the Free Admissions Policy, and clubs should look at how they paid this fee in years past.
Alissa Cherry '10, Chum's events manager, said, "Last semester was the only semester that F-Board included coffeehouse money. Fall semester 2007, it was exactly the way it is now. I agree that this is a problem seeing as some clubs and teams can't raise the money, and I think that the school should really think about that when they decide who to give money to."
In order to get rid of the existing rollover funds, F-Board held a campuswide vote for allocation of these funds, and students voted for a weight room, which some club members like David Drayton '09 of Positive Foundations lamented has not yet been built.
Despite the lack of rollover funds, Drayton said, "The F-Board had over $200,000 left over after Regular Marathon this year, so they had funds for a few $50 fees."
Moignard said F-Board allocated 100 percent of its funds set aside for Regular Marathon, in which clubs request money for that semester, and has additional money that will be allocated for the spring semester. Due to expenses related to creating the weight room, there is no rollover money from last year.
F-Board paid the $50 fee for clubs last semester because of the Free Admissions Policy, whereby F-Board fully funded "theater groups, shows [and] cultural events so that everything could be free for all students," Moignard said. F-Board only gave funding to clubs that did not charge for their events, she said.
She said F-Board could finance the Chum's fee because it was using rollover money, allocated money that had not been spent by clubs in the previous semester and had accumulated.
"It's a culture shock from last semester because we don't have the buffer of rollover," Moignard said, but she added that F-Board never paid the Chum's fee before last semester under the Free Admissions Policy, and clubs should look at how they paid this fee in years past.
Alissa Cherry '10, Chum's events manager, said, "Last semester was the only semester that F-Board included coffeehouse money. Fall semester 2007, it was exactly the way it is now. I agree that this is a problem seeing as some clubs and teams can't raise the money, and I think that the school should really think about that when they decide who to give money to."
In order to get rid of the existing rollover funds, F-Board held a campuswide vote for allocation of these funds, and students voted for a weight room, which some club members like David Drayton '09 of Positive Foundations lamented has not yet been built.
Despite the lack of rollover funds, Drayton said, "The F-Board had over $200,000 left over after Regular Marathon this year, so they had funds for a few $50 fees."
Moignard said F-Board allocated 100 percent of its funds set aside for Regular Marathon, in which clubs request money for that semester, and has additional money that will be allocated for the spring semester. Due to expenses related to creating the weight room, there is no rollover money from last year.
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