The Student Association finance committee spent all of its more than three-hour meeting Wednesday reviewing the Campus Activities Board’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2004.

This is the second day spent examining CAB’s budget, making it a grand total of more than six hours spent.

The committee examined several aspects of CAB’s budget, including the costs to hold events at the Convocation Center, CAB’s fine arts programs, computer costs and the cost of print cartridges and paper, with an emphasis on prioritizing expenditures.

Another major concern of the committee was CAB using funding from one of its budgets to fund expenditures in another budget.

“Your budget is like a contract,” SA Treasurer Shaun Crisler warned of using funds in other ways than originally allocated.

The finance committee will continue examining CAB’s budget in today’s committee meeting. The committee went through the entire budget and will go over the areas it questioned.

CAB’s budget originally was scheduled to be examined Tuesday and Wednesday.

Review of the SA’s budget is scheduled for tonight.

With the proposed 90 percent increase, the reasons for the significant increase will be up for examination by the finance committee.

A possible area of the budget that could be examined is Crisler’s explanation for compensating for the several-year trend of the SA going into debt.

Both Crisler and SA accountant Shyree Sanan confirmed the SA has not gone into deficit this year to date.

Crisler credits himself in avoiding the deficit by cutting some expenditures, like the SA’s National Association of Campus Activities leadership conference, and scaling back paid hours of some SA executive members.

In order to accommodate the increased budget, Crisler said some organizations’ budgets will be cut. He specifically cited organization that he would deem, in the coming finance committee meetings, to be “pre-professional.”

Pre-professional organizations can’t be funded by the SA as a matter of policy. Crisler said he will decide the cuts based on what he saw as pre-professional, even though these organization have received funding in the past.

Crisler said after he and SA President Kevin Miller finished the budget in mid-October, he saw items in the budget that were not being accounted for, like the SA’s NACA Leadership Conference.