Organizational Fund Requests (ORFs)

1. Anais M Taboas Treasurer Organizational Fund Requests(ORFs)

2. Overview • Process • Important Dates • Budget • Allocation • Principles • Penalties • Appeals

3. Process • Requests Submitted by Organizations • Requests distributed to USGA Senators prior to Presentations Meeting • Presentation Meeting • Appropriations Committee Meeting • Voting Meeting • Post-Event Documentation Submitted • Appeals

4. Important Dates • Funding Requests due 9/13 at 11:59 p.m. • Presentation Meeting 9/20 @ 5:30 p.m. • Voting Meeting 9/27 @ 5:30 p.m. • Post-Event Paperwork Due 14 days after the event, or the end of the semester, whichever is first. • Appeals Due within 7 days of notification of the decision.

5. Budget • Student fees ($10 per student) + leftovers - operations budget - programming budget ---------------------------------- Organizational Fund Requests Budget

6. Allocation • Even if we have enough to cover all requests, it doesn’t mean we fund everything! • Amendments are allowed anywhere in a request • Cannot amend to more money than original request

7. Principles • Will this event benefit all UMB students? • What is necessary for this event to occur? • Will this event occur without USGA funding? • Is this something your constituency would want to spend their money towards? • Charity vs. Social Events

8. Penalties • 10% • Failure to all submit post-event paperwork on time, Failure to submit all paperwork in a complete manner, failure to attend proposal meeting, failure to attend voting meeting, failure to advertise in one USGA Campus News Weekly issues prior to the event; or failure to advertise beyond USGA news. • 50% • submitting an OFR request within 24 hours after the listed deadline in Rule E, failure to apply to all students at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, failure to advertise in more two USGA news issue prior to the event, recklessly misrepresenting to USGA any numbers on any paperwork, orfailure to request funding from at least 1 UMB institution other than the USGA (USGA supported organizations are exempt from this rule).

9. Penalties • 100% • submitting an OFR request more than 24 hours after the listed deadline in Rule E, failure to comply with ALL advertising requirements, Failure to identify USGA as a sponsor on all advertisements, willful misrepresentation on any paperwork, has implied or stated that any view, opinion, or position is supported by the USGA, failure to pick up disbursement of funds within 30 days (or the end of the school year, whichever occurs first) of being informed by the treasurer that a check is ready for pick up. • Any criminal misuse of USGA funds or any use of funds for purposes other than approved by the USGA may also be subject to a ban from USGA for receiving funds as well as subject to actions taken by the School and State authorities

10. Appeals • An organization must submit a written appeal to the Treasurer within 7 days of decision, penalty, or funding allocation. • Appeal goes to Appropriations Committee and E-board for discussion. It may be brought to senate at their discretion. • The decision can be to reduce, increase, maintain or eliminate penalty/funding • Cannot increase beyond original request amount of organization

11. Questions?

12. Contact Information • Anais Taboas- AnaisTaboas@gmail.com