The UFC is responsible for distributing the student activity fee that every undergraduate student pays each term as part of tuition to campus organizations.
COSO transferred $3,500 of its annual allocation to Programming Board; CGB, $3,000; SA, $3,000 and the DOC, $500, according to Premjee. For the 2011-2012 year, the UFC gave COSO, $276,500; CGB, $70,000; SA, $76,250; and DOC, $8,750, he said The UFC allotted Programming Board $320,000 for this academic year, the largest amount awarded to any organization.
Programming Board requested the funds to cover extra costs associated with upcoming spring events, Programming Board Chair Jalea Moses said in an email to The Dartmouth.
"Our members as well as the student body came up with some great ideas for the Spring term," she said. "We wanted to see those events come to fruition."
The UFC's budget for the 2011-2012 academic year was $1,040,000, according to Premjee. This marks an increase from the 2010-2011 budget of $1,002,000.
The funds that the Assembly transferred to Programming Board came from its Academic Affairs budget, he said.
"The four organizations that transferred money did so with their individual organizations' beliefs that the loss of the money transferred would not deeply affect their organization's functioning, activities and events," Premjee said.
Each spring, UFC members deliberate on budget proposals for the following year and distribute the available funds. The UFC works to ensure financial stability among its member organizations and serves as the forum for any potential transfer of funds, according to Premjee.
"The UFC had agreed last spring that a potential re-allocation of funds may occur since we cannot totally predict how each organization will be doing with their funds," he said.
This year's UFC budget was larger because the student activity fee is tied to the amount that students pay for tuition, which the Board of Trustees increased by 4.4 percent in March 2011.
This winter, the UFC held meetings to discuss budget updates in each UFC organization, according to Premjee.
When Programming Board requested additional funds, each organization representative discussed the matter with their respective leadership. Groups decided internally how much they would like to give Programming Board, and Premjee presented the numbers to UFC members, he said.
"No UFC member posed any reservations about the budget re-allocation," Premjee said. "This budget situation is not a problem, not shocking and normal business."
Moses said that Programming Board had remained within its allocated budget despite requesting additional funds.
"[Programming Board] is not over budget, nor are we in debt," Moses said.
In the spring, UFC members will meet to determine budget allocations for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, according to Premjee.
"There is no reason why [Programming Board] might get a higher budget or other organizations might lose funding," he said.
The UFC consists of Premjee as the non-voting chair, 10 at-large members, and nine organizational representatives, he said.
The organizations to which UFC contributes funding include Programming Board, COSO, DOC, CGB, Student Assembly, the Greek Leadership Council, the Special Programs and Events Committee, the Council on Class Officers and club sports, according to Premjee.
Representatives from COSO, DOC, CGB and SA declined to comment.
