Green Fee, wellness center rejected

The Board of Regents passed the 2010 fiscal year budget, leaving GCSU with an 11.6 percent budget cut, forcing the school to cut the proposed Green Fee and wellness center from the mandatory student fees and reinstate the $100 temporary fee.

Budget cuts also result in bad news for recognized outstanding faculty, leaving less incentive for faculty to surpass their basic responsibilities.

According to an e-mail issued by President Dr. Dorothy Leland, “no funds have been allocated to support new merit raises for faculty and staff University System of Georgia. However, funds were allocated to continue funding the merit raises awarded in January of this year.”

The $100 “special institutional fee” first instated in the beginning of the Spring 2009 semester will return, as before, not covered by the HOPE scholarship. The fee is still considered to be temporary.

“This fee is to be used to support the university’s operating budget,” according to Leland’s statement.

The total allotment for the University System of Georgia is $2.17 billion, $127.7 million less than last year, with $92.6 million stemming from the federal stimulus bill.

In the next one to two years, funds provided by the stimulus bill will be gradually withdrawn. Without these funds, this year’s budget would have been cut by 16 percent.

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