UNT SGA holds town hall about student service fees

Skipper · November 14, 2019

“Each area that receives funding or that wants to receive funding, comes and presents to the committee each year and talk about what they’ve done, if there was an increase or decrease, what they didn’t do and about requesting funds for the upcoming year,” said With.

Following the meeting between the committee and organization, an executive summary is sent to the account holder of the organization.

The UNT Debate Team spoke out about the continuous cut of funding they have received and have not obtained any sustainable strategies to make up for the gap.

“We really want to know, specifically, what we can do to better prove, not why we are deserving of funding, but have an increase enough funding,” Josiah Atkinson, a UNT Debate Team member, said. “Organizations such as the NT Daily are expected to be phased out and student ran for our funding and that would basically block out a lot of the impoverished communities that can’t access those activities.”

Although With could not speak on behalf of the committee this year, she gave insight about how the committee, in the past, want to fund things that the majority of the students can participate in.

“If there’s proof that a few numbers of students that participate in, there have been less likely to want to fund those entities,” With said. “They [the committee] want those entities to go out and search for other funding, whether it be from a department, the union or if they fundraise.”

The determining factor on if an organization is funded by student service fees or other organizations on campus is from the will of the committee and who they want to adjust funds towards and or continue the process of funding for the organization, according to With.

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