{"id":693,"date":"2015-02-09T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T02:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=693"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T02:01:32","slug":"incidental-fee-committee-reaches-preliminary-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/incidental-fee-committee-reaches-preliminary-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidental Fee Committee reaches preliminary decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By JACK ARMSTRONG\r\n News Editor<\/pre>\n<p>The Incidental Fees Committee (IFC) met on Jan. 29 to compile a preliminary<br \/>\nbudget decision for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year.<\/p>\n<p>IFC meets every year to decide on a budget for the money received from students as a part of their tuition. This year\u2019s fees amounted to $322 per term for each student.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the clubs operating budgets remained un-cut, athletics experienced a 5 percent reduction in their overall budget. Most clubs were also granted a few items requested from IFC funds (including athletics).<\/p>\n<p>The current proposed budget, if ratified, will result in fees increasing to $334 per term, a 3.7 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of the IFC process, an initial decision is made on the budget so students and faculty alike can get a sense of the committee\u2019s intentions before<br \/>\nattending the open meetings to present a case for continued or additional funding.<\/p>\n<p>The next open meeting will take place Monday, Feb. 9 in the Pacific Room in the Werner University Center at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals who wish to present on behalf of an organization are offered three minutes, and groups are offered five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open hearings give public chance to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}