Meetings between students and administrators to decide how much control the Student Association has over more than $750,000 of student money are coming to an end.

Final recommendations to Barbara Henley, vice president for Student Affairs, were drawn up by an advisory committee made to set specific steps on how to handle student activity fees.

A full-time undergraduate student (12 hours) paid $40.32 in student activity fees this year.

The committee finished the recommendations Tuesday and will give them to Henley for review, said committee chairman Gary Gresholdt.

Gresholdt added that Henley might call a meeting next week to talk about the recommendations, but he would not say when or if the list will be made public.

Student Regent James Mertes, who is on the committee along with four other SA officials, said the final outcome of the meetings will be made public April 28 at the SA senate meeting.

Mertes said there was no “vocal opposition” against the recommendations by members on the committee, which also includes four administrators.

However, “I do think that the students on this committee did achieve a consensus” toward the draft sent to Henley, Mertes said.

The final results of the meetings will bring an end to a long and controversial process that began when Henley decided to allow $850 in refreshments for student art shows after last year’s senate decided to deny the funding.

The uproar that followed caused Henley to put together an advisory committee that would be closed to the public and determine specific steps on how administrators and the SA will handle student activity fee money.

The SA senate decides which organizations get the activity fee money and how much is given, but the final budget must be approved by NIU.

Activity fees go to student groups like the Campus Activities Board, Students’ Legal Assistance and various ethnic and minority groups.