The Student Association Finance Committee voted Tuesday to loan more than $5,000 from its reserve funds, comprised of student fees, to help clear the 1985 Yearbook Association’s $12,000 debt.

The committee agreed to loan NIU’s Student Affairs the money to get the now-defunct association out of an $11,861.69 deficit, according to SA Treasurer Lisa Schlepp. She said the association has $6,661 of its own.

Former yearbook student editor Gerardo Diaz said the association fell into debt after it was zero-funded by the 1985 SA, after it already had contracted with Herff-Jones Inc., printers of the Gargoyle.

Diaz said the association was supposed to get $8,000 from the SA. When the SA denied that amount, Diaz said the association compromised with $2,400 but was zero-funded.

Vice President for Student Affairs Jon Dalton guaranteed the loan would be repaid by Sept. 1, 1987, Schlepp said. When the fiscal year turns over on July 1, Student Affairs will have the money, but right now they cannot afford to pay the deficit, she said.

Because the finance committee budgeted high this year, there will not be money for other SA-recognized organizations to receive supplemental funding for 1987-88. Schlepp said when the loan is repaid, the money will go into the reserve fund for next year’s budgets, she said.

Committee member Doug Moore said, “I think we should fund this because it would be good to have a reserve fund for next year and there is little doubt that the loan will not be repaid.”

Michael Stumpf, also a committee member, agreed, saying it would be a good idea to have money in the reserve next year, and this is one way to reserve money.

Currently, leftover copies of the 1985 Gargoyle are being sold around campus by University Programming and Activities graduate assistant Mary Hermson.

ermson previously said she would try to sell the books using a new strategy, with the aid of NIU service organization volunteers.

In other business, the committee decided not to fund for the senate speaker’s salary next year, although the SA Senate reinstated the speaker’s salary last semester.

After trying to reinstate the salary two times, the SA finally decided to pay about $600 to speaker Karen Seymour. However, Moore said the senate speaker, along with the minority adviser, academic adviser, welfare adviser, SA Tenant Union adviser, research adviser and recreation adviser should not receive an annual salary.

Moore said the senate speaker is a senator and therefore, should not receive a salary. In addition, he said the SA has to take financial responsibility and set a good precedent for other organizations.

There are other organizations that do just as much work as the SA whose members do not get paid, he said. “People should not need salaries to be good student leaders,” Moore said. They can be good leaders without being paid, he said.

Out of the positions Moore mentioned, only the research adviser and the Tenant Union adviser will receive salaries for 1987-88 of $867 and $1,156 respectively.

Stumpf said the SA needs to pay someone to do research in order to get a quality person for the research adviser position. “The Tenant Union adviser defends the rights of the students, which takes a lot of his time,” said Roger Beith, another finance member.

After little discussion, the finance committee approved the remaining SA budget; including about $24,635 for business and office managers, $13,321 for paid executive positions and for the public relations adviser and various secretaries.

In addition, this budget received $9,150 for advertisements and several election promotion funds, about $6,000 for phone use, $2,500 for photocopying, as well as $1,500 for bookstore purchases.