Student Government Association executive board receives money from student tuition every year to complete promises they made when seeking election.
Kevin Mullaney, SGA treasurer, said the group is allotted money from the university and the Campus Activities Fund Board, totaling around $111,700. This money is used to complete platform points, co-sponsor other organizations and run SGA.
Provided by the university, $10,800 will go toward completing platform points in the executive board budget.
Alyssa France, SGA vice president, said the strategy for some of the platform points, like community, have changed.
“We are taking new approaches to some of our platform points because we see what is best for that point,” she said. “Once you start doing research, you can step back and look at other approaches.”
For the community platform, the group started promoting Muncie events rather than hosting their own events downtown.
One of the executive board’s main platform points during the campaign was working on relationships with students and organizations.
France said she thinks the situation with the derogatory tweets from Malachi Randolph, SGA former president, gave SGA an opportunity to reach out to other organizations and the student body. In the end, she said the tweets did not harm the platform point.
“It hurt our organization — it put a damper on our reputation and the way a lot of students saw us — but for the first time in my four years of college, students were talking about our organization,” France said. “It became the perfect time for us to seek them out. For once, they wanted to give us their opinion.”
If SGA is able to complete their platform points before the end of their term, France said they are considering other options, like adopting a street or a starting a “Fix My Campus” program.
