If the budgets were purely up to the members of the committee, you could have conflicts of interests right and left, Woodbury said. Since they are not though, the members of the committee do not have the power to throw budgets way out of balance. SFRC s nature as a recommending body provides additional checks and balances, he said. The administrators who approve SFRC s budget recommendations would not approve decisions based on biased reasoning. WSU s President s Council and Board of Trustees, and Utah Board of Regents review SFRC s budget recommendations.
Regents have ultimate say on whether the recommendations get approved.
Bryant Thompson, an at-large student on SFRC, said it benefits students that student government leaders are elected to represent them on SFRC, and he does not think that causes conflicts of interests. In my mind, the fact that they ran for office shows they have the university s best interest at heart. Anand Dyal-Chand, right, sit at Friday s meeting.