The UF Student Senate unanimously approved adding $10,000 to fund requests through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 on Tuesday.
The Senate budget started off the fiscal year with $7,000 for these requests, which are almost exclusively for interpreters, said James Tyger, the associate director of Student Government advising and operations. But this year, the budget for these requests ran dry, and senators unanimously approved to transfer $10,000 from SG’s reserves to fulfill the rest of the fiscal year’s requests.
“(The transfer is) making sure we cover the additional requests that come in for the rest of the fiscal year,” Tyger said.
Money leftover from the transfer will rollover into the next fiscal year, he said.
In addition to the transfer approval, Senate also unanimously approved four student organization funding requests.
Senators unanimously approved $922 for the Latino-Hispanic Organization of Graduate Students, $1,350 for Layalena Dabke Team, a student dance team, $490 for Delight Ministries, a women’s Christian organization, and $474 for the Nepalese Student Association.
Allocations Vice Chair Trevor Pope (Impact, District C) said he was happy his committee could provide the funding, especially to the Nepalese Student Association because the organization had to go through the committee several times.
“We’re just really excited to fund them,” he said. “They deserve it.”
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