Students may soon have more of a say when it comes to the way their student fees are spent on University Union operations.

Associated Students Inc. President Jason Bryant has sent a proposal to Sacramento State President Donald Gerth asking that the University Union Board of Directors contain a student majority.

“The management of the facility should be in the hands of students…they pay the fees,” Bryant said.

Currently, an administrative majority holds the Union Board, and has only four student-held positions. Bryant would like to see six students on the board, giving them the majority.According to the proposal, the six students will be elected by the Sac State student body during the general elections held each spring. The six positions will consist of three two-year term positions and three one-year term positions. This will allow for a consistent flow of new ideas into the board, according to Bryant.

Also in the proposal is a request to give the student board members additional input on the board.

“I?m proposing that students have an equal opportunity to become chair of the board,” Bryant said.

Leslie Davis, director of the University Union, is also presenting a similar proposal to the University Union Board of Directors, which will give students the majority on the board.Though the two proposals are similar, they differ on one major point.

Bryant?s proposal states that ASI should be responsible for filling any vacant positions through a recommendation. However, Davis? proposal wants the administrators to fill vacant positions. Bryant feels very strongly that ASI should have the power to fill the positions.

“We feel very firmly that ASI should make the recommendations,” Bryant said. “We are accountable to the students.”

The proposals also differ when it comes to the process of the election of student representatives. While Bryant?s proposal has the student body electing all six students, Davis wants less of the students elected.

“Five of the six positions will be filled through the general election,” Davis said. “And the sixth position will be filled by an ASI recommendation.”

The issue will be taken up at the first meeting of the board on Feb. 1.

Regardless of which proposal is ultimately approved and enforced, the student body will have a loud voice in the operations of the University Union.

“We are going to move to a student majority,” Davis said.