Groups may come before the LB at weekly meetings and request money for specific events. This means groups with frequent programming, like MacCinema and MJO, will be spending a lot of time with the student government. MacCinema President Jon Beland '02 said he will have to request funding roughly every two weeks in order to keep showing films. It also means that the LB will be spending more time than ever doing the work no one likes to do. We spend the vast majority of our time doing budget requests.
Nobody wants to do it, but it has to be done.
Now we have all these organizations without budgets and they're going to be in here every week dealing with this stuff. Now we have all these organizations without budgets and they're going to be in here every week dealing with this stuff. MCSG by-laws require organizations to renew their charters on a regular basis and to submit to annual Student Services Committee audits. Such audits are technically required prior to receiving budgets. Rahman said that MCSG hasn't been reminding groups to renew charters or conducting SSC audits for years.