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Setting Amounts of General Fees

Each year, in the Spring quarter general election, the students will set the amount of each General Fee for the coming fiscal year in the following manner. For each General Fee:

  1. The Senate must approve a list of percentages by which the General Fee may be raised and lowered; these percentages must specifically include zero and ten percent, and must fall in the range from zero to 100 percent. Senate approval requires a two-thirds vote and notice at the previous regular meeting of the Senate, and must occur no later than the day before the beginning of the Spring quarter general election. If approval does not occur in time, the percentages from the previous year shall be used.

  2. The base amount of a General Fee is the amount assessed for that Fee in the current fiscal year multiplied by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index during the calendar year immediately preceding the general election.

  3. The ballot shall include a list of specific dollar figures for the General Fee, consisting of the base amount as adjusted for changes in the Consumer Price Index as outlined in paragraph B(2) symmetrically raised and lowered by the percentages approved by the Senate.

  4. Each voter may select one figure from the list. The new Fee amount will be set to the median of the voters selections, if at least 15 per cent of the members of the Association cast ballots in the election. Otherwise, the new Fee amount will be set to the current base amount as adjusted for changes in the Consumer Price Index as outlined in paragraph B(2).


donald@
Mon May 9 17:07:17 PDT 1994