If the Institute for Excellence in Selling does not deliver a portion of about $3,000 owed to the Student Association Mass Transit Board for advertisements on the Huskie Bus Line, the board will present the matter to the SA senate asking for sanctions against IES.

The board made the decision Monday after a representative from IES failed to attend the meeting and present a payment.

Board member Matt Kouzes, also an SA senator, said “the money they owe us” should be delivered to either Kouzes or board chairman Phil Kessler by April 24 before the senate meeting. He said if the board does not receive the money by that time then the issue will be presented to the senate. The board agreed with the decision.

Board member Dave Emerick, also an SA senator, said, “Everyday we don’t get a check, it’s less revenue we have to operate the bus system.”

At the April 11 board meeting, Cathy Zeeb, an IES representative, said IES owed the board almost $3,100. Some of the advertising accounts have not been paid in full and the advertisers have until the end of April to pay off their accounts, she said.

Zeeb and IES representative Lorrie Felten could not be reached for further comment Monday.

Emerick said the senate should act on the matter. “By getting the senate’s support we would send them (IES) a message that as an SA committee we want them to abide by our contract.”

Kouzes said an alternative is to go before the SA Supreme Court to tell them IES has not paid the board. “They’ve been given two or three weeks,” he said.

Kessler suggested the senate take away recognition for IES as a sanction.

Kouzes said to “go after the money, not recognition.” He said to inform the senate of the problem the board is having and let the senate decide a sanction.

Graduate Assistant Mary Hermsen said the board should discuss the issue with IES and then take it to the American Marketing Association. “Going to the senate isn’t going to do anything to them,” she said.

Emerick said the SA sanctions might not affect them, but it would show them “the SA does not tolerate a lack of comittment on their (IES) part to the mass transit board.”

Board member Mike Cassman, also an SA senator, said any sanction made by the senate will act as a deterrent for other groups in the future.

Kessler said IES was supposed to pay the board about $400 at the April 11 meeting, but Zeeb said IES needed the money to pay dues to the AMA.