A. To be reviewed by the Funding Committee, funding and Special Fee requests shall contain the following information, in separate sections:
B. To assist organizations in the preparation of applications, the Funding Committee shall publish a guide describing the goals of the GSO partition, terms and conditions for use of funds, and all application procedures, and containing a
sample application and funding agreement form.
C. Applications shall be kept on file and made available by the Financial Officer.
A. Groups applying for GSO partition funds will be notified of the time and location of all relevant meetings at least 48 hours in advance. If either the Funding Committee or the GSC fails to meet the requirement and the group is not able to send a representative to the meeting as a result, the group may, within one week, request that their application be re-evaluated at a time when a member of their organization is able to attend.
B. The Funding Committee shall consider the answers to the following questions when formulating its judgement of an application:
C. The GSC has set the following policies regarding specific types of funding:
D. The Committee shall prepare a brief recommendation to the GSC regarding each proposal. At the first GSC meeting after preparation of the recommendation, the Committee shall summarize the application and present its recommendation.
A. The Financial Manager shall notify an organization when funds become available to it.
B. The Financial Manager may, at his/her discretion, grant extensions to the ending date of an allocation to ensure that all transactions are cleared. No extension may be granted beyond the end of the fiscal year to which the allocation applies.
C. Unless otherwise specified by the GSC, title to all tangible property purchased, in whole or in part, through the use of funds from the GSGF shall vest with the ASSU, and possession shall devolve upon the ASSU in the event of the dissolution of the GSO possessing the property.
D. A GSO shall be considered to be dissolved upon the receipt of a declaration of dissolution by its membership, failure to register with the Office of Student Activities for 15 months, or after a declaration of dissolution by the GSC following reasonable efforts to contact the last known officers of the GSO. All allocations to a GSO shall end upon dissolution of that GSO.
E. Advertisements for events funded by the GSGF shall cite the GSC as a sponsor or cosponsor.
F. The maximum amount of funds from the GSGF that may be allocated to a graduate student organization in a single fiscal year is $6,000.
A. An organization receiving an allocation shall submit a followup report to the Funding Committee within two weeks of the end of the allocation. The followup report submitted by an organization shall indicate an estimate of the number of members of the graduate population participating in the funded activities, and an itemization of actual expenses made by the organization.
B. The Funding Committee may seek independent reports on the success of an organization's activities from those who attended one or more of them. The Committee may arrange to send volunteers to gather information for such a report.
C. Followup reports shall be kept on file and made available by the Financial Officer.
Equal fractions of all fees shall be collected in the Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters. No fee shall be collected in the Summer Quarter.