After reviewing the Music Performance Activities budget recommendations for a second time, the Student Association Finance Committee decided Wednesday to keep the budget at $9,405.

The SA Senate asked the committee Sunday to look over the budget again to find any academic-related funding the committee might have overlooked the first time.

SA Treasurer Todd Lipscomb said the committee had to “make decisions about whether any of (the budget) was academic-natured.”

The committee decided to recommend $9,405, the same amount previously recommended, with a rider on the budget to state that any music paid for by SA fees is in no way attached to academic credit in the class or the grade received for the class.

Committee member Michael Fellenzer said, “As a fee-paying student, I don’t want my fees to support somebody else’s credit.”

The committee questioned the policy of the Music Performance Activities because practice time for performances funded by the Student Association took place during class time, Music Performance Activities President Tom Link said.

In some of the ensembles supported by SA funding, the class grade would reflect performances and attendance at the performances, he said, and a grade could be lowered if there was a failure to attend the performances.

Link said he talked to ten out of twelve conductors in the music department and they have agreed to “make the performances not a required part of the class” starting next fall.

Link said that SA funding applied to part of the sheet music the club buys but is a “small part of the music that is played.”

Fellenzer originally motioned to remove funding for any class-related materials.

“I realize it leads to the performance,” but it cannot have anything to do with class, he said.

In other business, the committee approved the Baseball Club’s request of $335 in supplemental funding for equipment including two dozen baseballs, two equipment bags and three baseball bats.