Budget and Finance Committee

The Budget and Finance Committee is dedicated to advising the Student Bar Association regarding budget expenditures throughout the course of the academic year.  At the beginning of each semester, the Budget and Finance Committee interviews student organizations about planned events and budget requests, meets to determine how the SBA budget should be allocated, and issues a final budget recommendation for the SBA at large to consider.  The Committee also acts in an advisory capacity to assist the SBA Chief Financial Officer in making discretionary budget decisions up to $500, as permitted by the SBA Constitution, throughout the course of the year.

Membership 2012-2013:

  • Matthew Loftus - SBA Chief Financial Officer & Budget and Finance Committee Chair
  • Franklin Perry - SBA President
  • Nisha Kapur
  • Nisha Vasan
  • James Anderson
  • Alexei Lourie
  • Connor McNamara

Additional Information Relating to SBA Management of the Student Fee Fund: See the following page for additional information on this topic: www.law.uconn.edu/student-bar-association/about-sba/management-student-activity-fee

Budget Request Forms:

Please use the excel format version of the budget request form found on the SBA TWEN page when drafting and submitting budgets.  Budget requests MUST be typed.

Fall 2011 Budget Process:

The SBA Budget Committee will be holding meetings with individual student groups between September 19th and September 22nd. Student group leaders can sign up for these meetings on the SBA TWEN site under Sign Up Sheets.

The SBA Budget Committee will convene to review the budgets on Friday, September 23rd at 9am in Library 416. This meeting is public and anyone may attend.  However, active participation will be limited to official members of the committee, except during specifically designated public comment periods.

Committee Documents:

Budgets for the fall semester are due by 5pm on Wednesday, January 30th. Budgets received after that time will be put at the bottom of the list of Student Organizations when allocations are made and may be subject to $0 allocations with a note to submit supplemental budgets if no funds are available when we reach the end of the list. A new form for spring 2011 is available on the SBA TWEN website (it includes the fall 2011, supplemental fall 2011, spring 2012 and supplemental spring 2012 forms). Please send an electronic copy to SBA@students.law.uconn.edu. Please title your email: "Group Name" Fall 2010 Budget. All budgets must be typed!
 
Please remember that the SBA will not consider on-campus events for funding unless a room reservation has been approved by the administration. Groups are encouraged to reserve rooms as far in advance as possible. Please see Jennifer Cerny (3rd Floor of Chase Hall) to discuss the event planning process and room reservations.
 
All Fall reimbursement requests are due no later than December 15, 2011, at which point all fall allocations will be wiped clean in preparation for the spring semester. Any fall reimbursement requests received after this date will be treated as unauthorized use of funds and taken from your groups discretionary or simply denied.
 
IMPORTANT: if your group was allocated for an event in the fall, but now plan to have that event in the spring, you MUST email the SBA email account (SBA@students.law.uconn.edu) with the details of this event prior to December 15th AND include it in your spring budget (with a note about prior allocation). If you fail to do so, your group will lose that allocation. Please note that this will not guarantee the event is carried over into the spring, as the SBA reserves the right to deny funding to any event, regardless of past allocations.
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Fall 2011 Budget.xlsx28.08 KB
Spring 2012 Budget.xlsx28.33 KB
2012-2013 Budget Guidelines29.59 KB
SBA Reimbursement Voucher.doc70 KB