The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/student-activity-fee/)
The Student Assembly voted to overturn its original decision to decrease the funding of the Gender Justice Advocacy Coalition — which operates the Free Menstrual Products initiative — at its Nov. 16 meeting.
The S.A. Appropriations Committee voted to decrease GJAC’s funding for the 2024-2026 byline funding cycle, sparking debate at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting.
Troublingly, the S.A. has been allowed to allocate and regulate its own finances for far too long. We suggest a simple solution: an independent committee of undergraduates that reviews and approves the Student Assembly’s finances.
Less than two weeks before the S.A. was required to vote on the final Student Activity Fee recommendations for the 2016-18 funding cycle on Dec. 4, the S.A. still had not determined how it would spend its approximately $40,000 surplus.