The Badger Herald: Letter to campus from SSFC’s Manes

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Letter to campus from SSFC’s Manes

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Chair Matt Manes introduces SSFC

By Letters to the Editor
Monday, October 11, 2010 12:00 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:19:57 a.m.

To All Interested Parties,

The Student Services Finance Committee (SSFC) is the all-student body charged with overseeing the allocation of nearly $40 million in your segregated fees. Of this, approximately $2 million is made available to Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) in the form of Operations and Event and Travel Grants, as well as General Student Services Fund (GSSF) funding. Over the past few years, numerous concerns regarding how this money is allocated have been raised by the students of this campus, and we have heard your voice. To this end, we are now looking at a comprehensive overhaul of the system to reflect these wishes and concerns.

At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Oct. 11, in the Hearing Room on the 4th floor of the Student Activities Center and continuing on Thursday, Oct. 14, the SSFC will be hearing and answering questions as we present the SSFC Strategic Plan, which will serve to guide the reorganization of the policies and practices concerning the funding of RSOs on this campus. We invite you to join us in this discussion, as the feedback we hope to receive will be used to construct the new systems we put in place and is necessary to ensure these proposals accurately reflect the general student interest.

Sincerely,

Matthew Manes

Chair, Student Services Finance Committee

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