ASG allocates $100,000 to RSOs
Gentry Lassiter
Issue date: 12/3/07 Section: News
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Some senators on the Appropriations Committee are members of RSOs that received funds from ASG, according to the ASG Web site and e-mails from the senators.
"If [members of the committee] are a member of an RSO, we ask them not to debate [in the decision for their RSO]," Watkins said. "We can still take a vote as long as there are five members of the committee present."
Another part of the allocations process is the appeals process. If RSO's members believe the Appropriations Committee's decision about its funding request is incorrect, they can appeal the decision to the Appropriations Committee.
"I feel that the appeals process is somewhat skewed," Watkins said. "However, after going through the allocations process, I see why it's done that way."
Members of the Appropriations Committee have the most knowledge about the budgets of RSOs, and if a third-party group served as the entity to decide appeals, members would be less knowledgeable about the process, he said.
A good way to go about the appeals process, Watkins said, is to have a certain number of members from the original Appropriations Committee and an equal number of new members.
"That way we have a new idea for appeals," Watkins said.
However, most groups who appeal the Appropriations Committee's decision are RSOs that have missed deadlines, he said.
"If [members of the committee] are a member of an RSO, we ask them not to debate [in the decision for their RSO]," Watkins said. "We can still take a vote as long as there are five members of the committee present."
Another part of the allocations process is the appeals process. If RSO's members believe the Appropriations Committee's decision about its funding request is incorrect, they can appeal the decision to the Appropriations Committee.
"I feel that the appeals process is somewhat skewed," Watkins said. "However, after going through the allocations process, I see why it's done that way."
Members of the Appropriations Committee have the most knowledge about the budgets of RSOs, and if a third-party group served as the entity to decide appeals, members would be less knowledgeable about the process, he said.
A good way to go about the appeals process, Watkins said, is to have a certain number of members from the original Appropriations Committee and an equal number of new members.
"That way we have a new idea for appeals," Watkins said.
However, most groups who appeal the Appropriations Committee's decision are RSOs that have missed deadlines, he said.
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