Page 6 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1978
Senate approves budge
By ANDY WILLIAMS
Battalion Campus Editor
Debate over money proposed to
fund awards and a reception for stu
dent senators highlighted the spe
cial meeting at which Texas A&M
University’s student government
budget for 1978-79 was approved
Wednesday night.
In other action, Bill Jentsch was
appointed chairman of the election
commission by student body presi
dent Bobby Tucker.
As approved, the new budget to
tals $27,546.58. Aggie Muster and
participation by Texas A&M stu
dents in the American Student Fed
eration will be paid for from this
money, as will numerous othei
programs and $13,122 of administra
tive costs of student government.
The budget proposals were pre
sented to the senate Monday. They
were amended by senators that
night, then by a committee headed
by Wayne Morrison, vice president
for finance, during the next three
days.
The budget, as revised by the
committee, contained many cuts in
funds. The only increase over a sum
proposed by the senate was one of
$150 added to the origin*!
suggested $700 to pay for aw
and a reception for the senate's J
members. The figure was eventnj
reduced to $675.
"It seems to me the duty oti
senate is not to reward itselfforj
well done,” said senator Mark’ll
in proposing that the $850figiirtJ
reduced.
Dinner presented
to honor senator
No copies of the budget wert*
leased before the meeting Wed^
day. Morrison said that motpi»|,.
made “partly to protect outsekj It
In a budget, any time you mat
cut, someone is going to be Iny.
We wanted a chance to explaini ( ly
fore people could criticize us simi"
for making cuts.
State Sen. Bill Moore promised at
a dinner held in his honor Tuesday
to support the Soil and Water Con
servation Districts. The districts’
goals include lower property taxes
and freedom from government regu
lation.
The 5th District senator called
the SWCDs’ personnel “the only
environmentalists that exist, and
certainly the only ones that I listen
to.”
“Any way I can aid you in the
legislative process, I certainly in-
The Moore appreciation dinner
was given by the Washington
Washington-on-the-
SWCD at
Brazos State Park.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, a guest
speaker, praised Moore for his role
in getting the recent trax amend
ment passed, action which Hobby
credited for making property tax
administration a local affair.
Top state and local officials of the
SWCDs and numerous judges and
commissioners from the 19 counties
in the 5th senatorial district at
tended the dinner.
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“1 would strongly question w l
one who would question lljB'J*
budget,” Morrison said.
He said that at the beginning(■”’
the school year, the senate
$1,055 in outstanding bills dial* 11
could not pay. These have sinM* 1
been covered by money made fjF,
refrigerators rented to students* .
the student government, he said* 1 '
Much of the debate dealt i f n
spending approximately SUOOir
projects connected with the ne«H R
organized American StudentFedi®| l(
ation, of which Texas A6t.M studf:®'*
Jcb Hensarling is president. The!
sociation is a national lobbyii
group for students.
J.C. Colton, vice president(
academic aflairs, and Austin Sle
ling, vice president for rules an
regulations, said they preferred!
see money spent on tradition)
Aggie functions.
"What I’m saying is, whend
time to cut, let’s don’t start »j|
Aggie traditions,” Colton saidimd
erence to a reduction of S-fn
funds for Aggie Muster made bit
committee from the $1,500 a«
nally designated by the senate, lieu
Hensarling said the senatebBrag
previously passed legislation vliidlt C
stated that it will support thefedm [ to
tion.
“Put your money where
mouth is, Hensarling sard. “Ifyoi
want the influence, it’s going to lain Jtn
some money.”
The senate eventually voted
accept the committee’s proposal
$1,1(X) for Muster.
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