Platform Point #5: A Better Budget!

Each year, the AUS collects $13 in student fees from each undergraduate Arts student, giving it a budget of over $130,000 for the year.

Currently, this money is spent on a number of budget items: Arts Week, beer gardens, the Whistler Retreat, The Underground- you name it, the AUS Budget probably pays for it.

This year, the VP Finance and I have been working on restructuring the budget, so that it will be clearer and easier to read. We're reorganizing the budget into various categories; it will be easier to compare revenues and expenditures for any given event, and each Coordinator will have a better idea of what their Committee's individual budget. Our hope is that each Coordinator will then break down their own budgets, so that all Councillors (and students) will be aware of what student money is being spent on.