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Article III: Funding

Section 1: General

A. The Usual Method for Approving Allocations

  1. Unless otherwise specified in the Constitution, the Association By-Laws, or these By-Laws, all allocations of funds shall be made by majority vote of the members of the US.
  2. Decisions involving funds must be made publicly available within one week of the US meeting at which they were made.
  3. Unless otherwise specified in the Constitution, the Association By-Laws, or these By-Laws, the members of the US may, by a majority vote, override any allocation of funds. This may only take place at the first US meeting after the minutes of the meeting at which the initial allocation occurred are made publicly available.

B. Transfer of Funds

Transfers of funds from a group's reserve account to its operating account shall be done by the Usual Method for Approving Allocations.

C. Schedule

  1. The Undergraduate Student General Fee may be disbursed on the first day of the school year in the case of early discretionary funding or within five days of approval of the request by the US for rolling allocations. All Special Fees shall be available on the first day of the school year.
  2. A portion of the USGF shall be allocated during Spring Quarter for the first few weeks of the following academic year. The remainder shall be reserved for quarterly allocations.
  3. Quarterly allocations shall be made on a rolling basis. Funds may be made available for the remainder of the current quarter, for subsequent quarters, or for the remainder of the fiscal year.

==== D. Funding Role and Membership of the Appropriations Committee === =

  1. The Appropriations Committee shall review funding and Special Fee requests from all Voluntary Student Organizations, and present a recommendation on each to the US.
  2. The Appropriations Committee shall consist of a subset of the members of the US.
  3. No member of the US shall formulate a recommendation for a request from a VSO of which s/he is a member.
  4. The procedure for formulation and review of requests shall be specified in the US Funding Policies.

Section 2: Undergraduate Student General Fee

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