A.S.I. may reorganize to save money
By Andres Cardenas
Daily Forty-Niner
To save money and reduce student government
bureaucracy, Associated Students Inc. administrators plan to restructure
A.S.I.-funded commissions.
A.S.I. President Toby Sexton, Administrator
Robert Garcia and Chief Administrator Richard Haller presented the proposal
to the A.S. Senate on Wednesday. The restructuring is pending Senate approval.
The money saved would eventually go toward
A.S.I. programs, such as the Midnight Madness preparty and the student
election poll booths, Sexton said.
Some of the commissions have accomplished
their original purpose and are no longer needed, Haller said.
"Unless they are fulfilling some other
campus need, keeping them around constitutes a costly and unnecessary duplication
of services," he said.
Haller points out that some commissions
are almost identical. Haller wants to consolidate the almost identical
commissions to make the one commission more efficient.
In the 1997-98 academic year, A.S.I. tried
to reduce unnecessary positions by combining the concert and comedy commission
into one entertainment commission.
Another problem is that some of the
commissions cannot attract enough volunteers because they are too narrowly
focused, Haller said.
Haller also said that interests in commissions
also change over time.
Haller graduated from CSULB and said when
he was a student there were such commissions like the research and mass
communication. Now those comissions are gone. |
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