The rush to provide student groups with funding allowed for a connection that could have been questioned by the senate. Then there's the question of whether On-Point qualified for funding in the first place. The senate has changed the SA budget process slightly since On-Point first received its money, and although the unforeseen funding situation that dominated the spring semester has ended, the money and experience for all those involved can't be refunded. A pleasant and unpleasant excess Usually, the SA Finance Committee looks at the spring semester with eyes on the next year. The coming fiscal year's budgets come across and are discussed by committee members.
Some student groups get all the money they ask for, while other budgets remain unfilled.
But this year, the committee had double the workload. Years of fiscal oversights contributed to the sum, adding money to a general fund used for organizations' emergency situations. Now, the SA had an emergency of its own. At first, the treasury attempted to find organizations that were in dire need of extra money, following the rules in the SA Budget Guide. But soon afterward, Caldwell told the finance committee to allow everyone equal access to the money because of a somewhat-remote possibility that the state could take away that money at the end of the fiscal year.