A last-ditch effort by Campus Activities Board supporters at Sunday night’s Student Association Senate meeting failed to reinstate the $78,443 cut from CAB’s budget last year.

An amendment to a bill, proposed by Sen. Philip Stroud, to allocate funds to several student organizations called for the reinstatement of the funds that were line-item vetoed by former SA President Kevin Miller.

“In my opinion, the only organization that should have had an opportunity to appeal their decision was the organization that was cut by President Miller’s veto, that of which would be the Campus Activities Board,” Stroud said in a prepared statement.

At the Oct. 31 SA Finance Committee meeting, the committee voted to uphold Miller’s veto, despite protests from members of CAB present at the meeting.

Andrew Nelms, SA speaker of the senate, said at the senate meeting that the committee determined the cut funding was not necessary for CAB.

CAB President Jennifer Suerth was given an opportunity to speak at the meeting.

“They decided that they could not decide where the money was cut; they decided not to give us any,” Suerth said. The finance committee was unable to determine where the cuts to CAB’s budget were made.

“If we gave CAB the money, we don’t know where it is going to go,” said Sen. Carl Williams, who also is a member of the finance committee. He said the money could go to funding other organizations.

Sen. Donna Dalton defended CAB, saying they are not asking for additional funding.

“They’re just asking for it back,” Dalton said.

The bill, which was to allocate funds for the Intercollegiate Equestrian Club and Veterans Club, was approved after some confusion in the voting process.

Ten senators were confused when voting for the bill and changed their vote. Originally, 15 senators voted in opposition to the bill, while 20 voted in favor of it.

Two senators changed from favoring the bill to not favoring it, while eight changed from not favoring the bill to favoring it.

However, three SA senators failed to report into the senate clerk after coming late to the meeting and were ineligible to vote, Senate Clerk R.J. Gravel said.