With the last budget help session Thursday, and the budgets due Friday, any of the UW-Platteville student organizations or clubs who haven’t prepared a budget to submit to the Segregated University Fees Allocation Commission are facing a time crunch.

The last mandatory budget workshop was Sept. 17 and Thursday, Sept. 24 is the last opportunity to get help with a budget from SUFAC.  The help session will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the University North room of the Pioneer Student Center.

Budgets are due to the SUFAC at the PSC Information Center by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. After bugets are turned in, hearings will be held Friday, Oct. 2 to Sunday, Oct. 4 in the University North room of the PSC.

SUFAC is preparing to allocate aproximently $630,000, $98 from each student, this year to the clubs and organizations on campus that apply for assistance.

SUFAC president Jared Keehn said the organization is working with Student Senate to help promote sustainability on campus. Instead of requiring paper copies of budget requests, SUFAC is requiring organizations to submit them digitally on a CD or jump drive, while contingency and reserve requests will will now be submitted via UW-P Link.* They are also promoting the use of laptops at their meetings and cutting down on paper used for notes and printed agendas.  Keehn said SUFAC previously used two or more 5-inch binders to hold all of the requests submitted by paper in previous years.

AMENDED SEPT. 28, 2009.

*The article originally stated that budgets were to be submitted to SUFAC via UWP-Link. Budgets were actually required to be submitted via other digital formats, such as a CD or jump drive.