Associated Students, Inc. board members heard a presentation last Wednesday on funding for future CSUS development. In addition, legislation concerning the search for an alternate to the past “slate” elections was passed, and a retention proposal idea was discussed.

Facilities Management Associate Vice President, Matthew Altier, worked off a miniature model of the Sac State campus to highlight future building projects and their associated costs.

“The funding for new facilities is allocated in two ways,” said Altier.

“The first would be through non-state funding, which could be in the form of loans, donations, and fundraisers such as the capital campaign,” said Altier. “The second way would be through state funding which would come in the form of bonds, such as Proposition 47.”

Proposition 47, the Kindergarten – University Public Education Facilities Bond Act, which appears on the Nov. 5 ballot, would give $496 million to the CSU to fund major capital outlay projects at each of the 23 CSU campuses.

Of the $20.6 million to be given to Sacramento State, $18.6 million will be used toward building projects, while the remaining $2 million will be used toward renovations.

“This measure is so important because it would fund 30 of the 250 projects on our priority list.” said Altier. “Without it, it is possible we wouldn’t get a project for two years.”

In order to make running for the next ASI elections more open to the general population, Mohamed Hamada proposed an ad-hoc committee to study past elections and other possible solutions. “Our elections have functioned on the premise that if you are not in a slate, you don’t win,” said Hamada.

A slate is essentially a small political party that pools their funds and works as a collective to campaign. Students who do not have such affiliates are heavily disadvantaged, said Hamada.

The committee is comprised of an unannounced chairperson who will be selected by the committee, Lobby Corps Chair Nannette Farag, ASI Executive Vice President Luke Wood, an ASI staff representative to be named, and three students chosen by Hamada.

The committee will request student input, through advertisement in The State Hornet, to present at their first November board meeting.