Following a short investigation, Senate Leader Zack Lindsay announced during Friday’s USGD Senate meeting that he discovered the Student Nutrition Council misspent $1,360 of allocated student fee money during a September trip to San Diego.
The Downtown campus’ two major construction projects are inching closer to the building phase, with officials saying the projects should be underway within the next couple of months.
Four students were appointed to the USGD Judicial Board at Friday’s Senate meeting, filling the board’s vacancies and giving the Downtown campus a working third branch of government.
Candidate applications for April’s student government elections will likely be available this afternoon, and Downtown candidates will be subject to several major election code changes this year.
The Downtown campus Senate froze all funding allocations in a precautionary measure at Friday’s meeting after a week of widely ranging estimation of how much money student government had for the rest of the semester.
The ASU administration estimates Downtown student government will be getting about $19,000 less in available money this semester to allocate to student organizations after a massive student fee overestimation by the administration.