Campus Activities Board will have about $10,000 less to provide quality entertainment and programming for students next year.

Last year, CAB received about $40,000 extra in supplemental funding for concerts because the SA had extra money. Now, CAB will receive an increase of $30,319.64 in non-supplemental funding to use in their overall budget.

Pending Student Association Senate approval, CAB will receive the 6.5-percent increase in allocated SA funding for the next fiscal year.

CAB members, who asked for an additional $117,684.63, wanted a 25.2-percent increase in their funds to help regain a strong, dominant position over smaller campus organizations.

“I thought we’d at least have the opportunity to negotiate,” said Lynda Powers, CAB vice president of programming and activities and a Northern Star employee. “There was no number thrown out until it was time to vote. There was no number thrown out last week either.”

CAB president Mike Brady went before the SA Finance Committee last week and proposed the suggested increase as a solution to the lack of funds allocated to CAB during the past several years.

“It would have been a lot easier to deal with something that was more in the ballpark or something that could have been negotiated upon,” Brady said.

Overall, CAB will be faced with a smaller budget next year.

“I think it’s disappointing mostly because we were valid in asking for, and justified in asking for, every increase, because that brought all the things that we need to current costs,” said James Hurley, CAB vice president of finance.

SA senator Jeff Meyer said the amount that CAB was asking for could not be granted without increasing student fees or taking money away from other organizations.

“If their message is to say that the SA is not here to support CAB, that’s not true. The reality is that $120,000 would approximately be 10 percent of our budget,” Meyer said. “We do want to help their program. We want to assist all the other organizations as well; we just can’t do that to the expense of $120,000.”

Meyer said while the SA asked CAB why certain areas of its budget needed increases, CAB said all areas were crucial to the program’s success.

“I wish the communication could have been a little bit more concrete,” Meyer said. “We asked them to prioritize their budgets, they said they couldn’t do that. They said they were all equally important.”

The 6.5-percent increase will bring CAB’s total SA funding to $496,775.64.

“I just see CAB’s role diminishing as the years go on,” Brady said. “Our role on campus is diminishing and this increase is only serving that statement. The Student Association could have stepped up and made a statement tonight and set things straight, but it didn’t happen and I think the administration will be disappointed, the students will be disappointed, CAB is disappointed and hopefully the people in power next year in CAB can get something done to get back on track.”