Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 7. April 10 1978
Budget and Priorities
Budget and Priorities
NZUSA went into May Council with a budgetted deficit of $6,650. Yet ruthless cutting of expenditure and a few financial fiddles gave us back a balanced budget. Most of the money came from salaries (there's no IVP anymore and we won't have an EVP or a second Research Officer for a month or two) and an unexpected increase in levy revenue.
Education and administration get a minor increases, National, International and Research have taken minor cuts, WRAC gets a little more while NOSAC gets considerably more.
It wasn't an easy process. From 7.30 pm on Saturday night until 3.30 the next morning the financial whizzes and the various lobby groups fought long and hard.
The session began with the setting of priorities. Each commission had already set priorities in its own area, although voting for priorities is done by delegations.
1. | Unemployment (including student employment) |
2. | Bursaries |
3. | Overseas students |
4. | Abortion |
5. | Civil Liberties |
After a short discussion it was decided that the President would not have any priorities as s/he has already been given the direct responsibility for Overseas students and must be involved in everything anyway,
1. | Unemployment |
2. | Civil Liberties |
3. | Maori Rights (including land rights and domestic racism) |
4. | Energy and the Environment |
5. | Pacific |
The GVP also has specific responsibility until June 16 for Soweto Day activities
1. | Bursaries |
2. | Lecturer Training |
3. | Student Services |
1. | Abortion |
2. | Research on women in universities |
3. | Women Students' Economic position |
4. | Women's studies report. |
The National Overseas Students Action Committee has no priorities but is of course reponsible for all policy relating to Overseas students.