The De Anza College Student Body senate unveiled the proposed 2006-2007 budget Wednesday.
Anna Callahan, president of the senate, said that the budget was unfinished, as there was still $20,000 remaining to be allocated by the student senate.
She expects the next few senate meetings to be hectic, with many programs and organizations lobbying for that money. The proposed budget allocates about $1 million, $132,000 less than this year’s budget.
It would cut funding for the special allocations budget during the school year and numerous programs including La Voz, the student newspaper.
In addition to receiving money from the student senate, many programs also receive money from De Anza.
Despite the smaller size of the student budget, funding would increase for the Tutorial and Academic Skills Center, which received $14,000 more than last year.
The number of students participating in the Skills Center jumped 40 percent this quarter, to over 450, reported in La Voz last week.
The budget would also fund the Cross Cultural Partners program $1,780 more than last year. The program pairs fluent speakers of English with English as a Second Language students, and has expanded 600 percent since its inception in 2000.
Funding was also increased for the DASB marketing and communications committee, special education and various student services. The budget also includes funding for capital for the Open Media Lab and the Environmental Sciences Area. In another action, the senate approved additional funding for these areas.
Capital expenses are those spent towards equipment instead of operating costs, such as new computers for the Open Media Lab.
Athletics funding remained at current level for all sports, except football and water polo, which did not use all of their allocated funds.
Though no programs were cut, several got less funding.
DASB Scholarships and Book Grants lost $2,750 in funding. However, this year there were no applicants in some scholarship categories.
Both the Career Center and the Multicultural Center would lose several thousand dollars in the proposed budget. Additionally, La Voz will lose $4000 in funding because of advertising revenue the newspaper earned, according to a senate handout.
Student Success and Retentions Services also suffered. Not only did funding, but Math Performance Success and Puente will now receive funding from SSRS, and not from individual accounts. When constructing the budget, the budget committee could not fund all requests: there was over $545,000 more in requests than funding.
More information on the budget is available at the DASB Web site at www. deanza.edu/dasb/.
This article appears in the Feb. 13, 2006 print edition of La Voz.
