The Associated Students of Madison’s Student Services Finance Committee voted to amend the proposed Badger Catholic budget Monday.

In the past, the student organization had not met SSFC’s requirement of having 5 percent of their total budget in their fringe fund line item, pertaining to the salaries of the group’s paid employees.

To meet the requirement, the committee called for $2,660 to be added to the fund, reallocating money from the student organization’s Evangelical Catholic Summer Training Institute and the Mary House leadership trip.

$1023.71 was also redistributed to Badger Catholic’s undergraduate and graduate groups to fund books to contribute to their faith-based discussions.

“The moves … were done because they equate to the same intent really and the same good,” said SSFC member Tyler Junger. “We didn’t want to set a precedent of micromanaging group’s budgets in the middle of the year.”

After deciding to create their own costumes for their upcoming production of “Godspell,” Badger Catholic also asked the committee to reallocate money from their costume fund to the Mustard Seed spring break retreat, providing both undergraduates and graduates an opportunity to spend a week discussing philosophy and faith.

Badger Catholic member Megan Schmitz said she hopes the influx of money and lower cost for the Mustard Seed retreat will help make the program more attractive to graduate students.

SSFC also heard a formal apology from Badger Catholic for their violation of the committee’s rule against hosting a revenue-producing event without SSFC consent.

“Everyone in the meeting regarded this as a very minor policy violation which is why we only required a verbal apology,” Junger said.

The committee also heard the proposed budget for the Union South project.

After recently learning the project was prepared to move $7 million from the Memorial Union renovation project to the Union South construction project, members of the SSFC said the board of regents to be included in the decision making.

The proposed $7 million monetary move intends to alleviate economic troubles by postponing some of the planned renovations to the Memorial Union, using the money to pay for the new Union South instead.

With the proposed budget move, the new Union South will be able to feature many state-of-the-art facilities for the public to enjoy, including a 350-seat theatre, a coffeehouse and an overall “green” facility.

SSFC Chair Carl Fergus said though the SSFC supports the Union South building project, it is skeptical of the finer points of the budget proposal.

“We were not originally informed of this budget proposal, and we did have questions on the need to charge each student $96 a semester every semester for 30 years,” Fergus said. “By our calculations if each student paid $96 each semester, it would take only 12 years to reach their budget goal.”

SSFC will make formal recommendations about changes to the Union South construction project Thursday.