s es oc pr on ti ra be li de to t ac re s SFRC member By The Signpost Staff During the open Ina meeting that lasted nearly ( seven hours Saturday, the StuNae Fee Recommendation Com‘mittee churned out its proposal talk about the fee ASWSU allocation process budgets,” Barrow said. President Brett until listening to them in the meetingheldonSaturday. | ~ _ Chuggalso said they reviewed the budgets and talked fora couple of hours. He also said they mad¢ nophonecalls to otherSFRC mem: they ~~ 9ut business,” 2 stu- viewed most of the budgets.” Chugg referred to ASWSU Executive Vice ~~ President Nancy Barrow and for the ASWSU Student Senate, the President’s Council and the — talked about this extensively last night.” “IT would bet STUDENT FEES money that at least (Brett) Chugg and of the budgets over the night before,” said Tyson than $4 million dollars in student fees. : Hiatt, student-at-large member of the committee. “It was evident by But some on the committee think there was some pre-discussion between other SFRC members about the budget Friday night. a ts budg dent gov..nment all of the time. I , think it was wrong in principle; not the best way to handle it,” he said. SFRC is responsible for the rec- _ Nancy talked most ommended expenditure of more of course, Brett could answer her But, hesaid, there wereno final decisions made. All decisionsconcerning budget allocation were “Julie was with me (ooh ¢ (Campus Comedy Impro | better understanding of the puad- ing. “He (Chugg) didn’t try to push anything through without Batchelor also said that the meeting went well because the gets. member. Chris Hatch «77 *’ Chugg was prepared a ganized” in the meeti Ni day. “They obviously | * meeting before the 1 From 1C “T don’t know who 1 : ney, editor in © ne prompted Jeff H Haney, ere : media, professors or special interest ab , tf e sg cate. “We decided we couldby edu having student body le who — the an open meeting,’ Hansen | j “i ‘ en | a good thing to . open. the comr 5 for the students to” fos and attend those that it would be ¢\. 1. Ap educate ogg Le of aiethat ~ : ontte before making the” “committee,” * said. he sats : ad jae ot .ces are being a 4 pany Pitas y called theOedecision “fan- dents, not just members of tial i» ‘ , ‘ri|ght decisi e assistants to aced > p-ignpost, saidon.Thom — col Thompson said the pres e vic five of onmade up edcenmte. ta ane Se ¢ a| | nt, an attorney repre- a i afie the ‘ closed agg ra ie legal ’ . are he a bo See MEETING on 2C to make a decision in a wes “ other philosophy iS. he rum, enoronecne ne fie ‘Attorney, OP The committee voted in November to close the meeting, ul - members might be swayed by the | cen Me but it was probably Jul Hinen: to contact the prin ° ments and decided it should be an_ - open meeting,” Thompson said. —_ President’s Council, nonth. sida the Signpost student news mf issue. We considered all the ele- to proceed decision. He decided it| would ing learn fter a it ithout end of the aa be complete by the _and Barrow because the Professional roe “neinorized viously had a meeting1 1ng legal _ is $5,000 for an in- hesaid. Meeting,” : wes “Chu eee et budgets came up.” the committee members were educated about the process and their. SFRC ‘It ‘a | eting | | ty was no clear guidance about the legal issue, so we just decided to focus on the educational - a meeting liked to have been there’ from Hatch said. Student Thompson i: groups. The decision was ratified by the Student Senate and sent to indeed a meeting before t “in student fees. Thompson for final approval. = urday meeting “he wouk ~ Thompson, acting on advice ~ “There was a discussion,” Hiatt said about the open meet- and : | “There Richardson said if the “than $4 million | | he said. He added, many budgets were only settled after discussion discussion.” Business Senator the should open its final Jan. 29 meet-_ SA tee’s decision to close decided aaael Feé Recommendation Committee | “Sol know that she . during which it | will decide how there.” ast to spend more made in the meeting with all of Coo SERCO Wednesday said. the committee members present, in the meeting. “Nancy had a lot of questioris because she deals a lot with the activities instead of budgets, and s e e f t n e d u t s n o g n i meet a stuChugg reviewed the budg reversed gan; commit- ee re- knew Saturday morning Barrow had gone to Chugg’s house to ask questions about some budgets. — Barrow said she visited Chugg Tim Kamenar, student governdebated. Py ae By LORI BONA HUNT ment adviser, said thathe thought © Chugg replied: “That fh _Standard-Examiner staff _ that Chugg and Barrow had talked only one we didn’t go ov | OGDEN =beforehand. a night.” | Weber State “T think there had been some. Brent Richardson, heal University Presi- | discussion the night before, espePaul fessions senator and SFRC agent cially between Chugg and Barber, said he thought Barr« Thompson. has tow,” he said. said. “We n e p o s p e e k t n e d i s WSU pre _ According to notes tak reporter at the Saturday r Kotter announced the pe ing arts would be the first of thing,” Batchelor said. Chugg Julie Batchelor, ASWSU academicvice president, said that she what was said in the meeting. at his house from about 9:30 p.m. They made no secret about it.” ~ until 10:30 p.m. Friday night beHiatt said he did not think cause she had some questions conaaenina cama hi 1daate. fi Chugg and Barrow had me* *- questions because that is his type | “He didn’ttryto _ bers. | 7 | hide it,” Hiatt “Nancy Barrow had some per: said. “By nature of sonal questions and came ovet their p sitions Friday night after some personal said, “Nancy and I Board of Trustees. ) Earlier this month, the President’s Council repealed the SFRC’s six-year policy to close the meeting to the public. The “We were all told to study our meeting, ell | | ||