{"id":17322,"date":"2021-02-03T01:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17322"},"modified":"2021-02-03T01:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:52:24","slug":"ifc-moving-towards-final-fee-decision-for-next-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/ifc-moving-towards-final-fee-decision-for-next-term\/","title":{"rendered":"IFC moving towards final fee decision for next term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>IFC announces preliminary budgetary plans for spring 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Sydney Carpenter<\/strong> | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Incidental Fee Committee has announced preliminary decisions for spring 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an email announcement sent out on Jan. 21 by IFC Chair Makana Waikiki, the committee provided a spreadsheet of budgetary allocations and two variations of the IFC fee for next term.\u00a0 During the Jan. 15 meeting, the IFC narrowed down the spring term fee to $115 or $125, to be voted on by students in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdiuyUbBv3cFXfS13Gs-lGzMdlxl-yTyz2aP34auEGubOtOyg\/viewform\"><span>survey<\/span><\/a><span> due Feb. 4. The budget sheet shows that the committee has opted to lower the $150 fee students saw on their bill this term due to lower budgetary requests, explained Waikiki in an open hearing on Jan. 27.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2021\/02\/IFC_SpringAllocation.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17301\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3457\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Under the current proposed fee options, the IFC anticipates collecting either <\/span><span>$462,500 or $502,750, depending on the fee option that is chosen. During fall term, the operating expenses from the 15 areas funded by the IFC totaled around $580,000 <\/span><span>\u23e4 about $400,000 less than last term\u2019s operating budget. For the money allocation, the committee supplied two areas with additional funding: Student Media received $2,750; the Creative Arts department, $1,500.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At this time, the IFC is projected to finalize budgetary evaluations for spring term by Feb. 5.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For students that are interested in the IFC\u2019s process, the committee holds their meetings via Zoom every Friday starting at 9 a.m. All committee meetings are open to the public and the link to the meeting can be found at their website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/ifc\/\"><span>wou.edu\/ifc\/<\/span><\/a><span>. For all other inquiries regarding the IFC, students can email the IFC Chair at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:ifcchair@mail.wou.edu\"><span>ifcchair@mail.wou.edu<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu\">scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFC announces preliminary budgetary plans for spring 2021<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Carpenter | News Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,144,143,652,145,220,39],"class_list":["post-17322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aswou","tag-ifc","tag-news","tag-student-committee","tag-sydney-carpenter","tag-syndey","tag-wou"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}