![]() During the Friday conversation, Alkhalili mentioned that she plans to introduce a bill to remove the cap on ASPB stipends so that if ECAB salaries are lowered, ASPB would not be affected. Currently, the ASPB chairperson makes $8,736 a year while each director makes between $5,460 and $6,522 annually.Īlkhalili does not seek to alter ASPB’s stipends since it comes out of the ASPB fee, currently $30 and separate from ASUCR. The Associated Students Program Board (ASPB), which hosts events on campus such as Spring Splash and Winter Soulstice, have a board of directors who are also paid stipends which are not allowed to exceed that of ASUCR’s president, the maximum level a representative in ASUCR can be paid. There does remain one caveat in Alkhalili’s plan. “We should not be making this much in student government … it should be free,” she said. “UC Riverside’s president makes more than any of those campuses and they (the campuses) have much more students and their fee is much higher than ours,” said Alkhalili in a phone call on Friday. With an enrollment at 29,311 and a semester fee of $27.50, their president, Zaynab Raynad Abdulqadir-Morris, makes $4,000 a year. The lowest salary of the three universities is at UC Berkeley. At UCLA, with an enrollment of 31,000 and a quarterly fee of $79.04, their president is paid $6,600. Their president, Lydia Natoolo, makes $6,525, $3,375 less than ASUCR’s President Aram Ayra. UC Irvine has 27,331 students enrolled and a student government fee of $18. “This organization exists to represent, advocate for and support students on campus,” Alkhalili writes, “These positions do not exist to provide personal gain and financial stability for elected students but rather to serve the student body.” Alkhalili hopes to save $39,125 annually if her plan is successful.Īlkhalili drew a comparison between three other UC schools ’ Associated Students (AS) governments - UC Irvine, UC Berkeley and UC Los Angeles (UCLA) - which have a much larger student body, higher student government quarterly or semester fee than UCR, but a lower salary for their AS president. In her proposal, Alkhalili calls for no more than 10 percent of ASUCR’s student fee to be allocated to representatives’ stipends. Currently, ASUCR spends over $106,000 paying out student stipends, according to a document provided to The Highlander by Alkhalili. “Currently, stipends account for more than 15 percent of the overall student fees,” said Alkhalili referencing the $12.50 quarterly fee every UCR undergraduate must pay. ![]() ![]() Alkhalili, a second-year political science major, is seeking to lower ECAB salaries to $3,960 a year, a cut of 60 percent. ![]() The final vote in LRC was 5-0-1 to table.Ĭurrently, five ECAB members, the president and four vice presidents, make $9,900 a year, paid biweekly over a period of 12 months. ![]() “They weren’t willing to cut the bill any slack nor were they willing to listen to the proposal or the numbers,” she added. “It was clear that this was just an excuse … with bills that they don’t want to happen … they don’t always follow the rules 100 percent,” said Alkhalili. Alkhalili said that the members of LRC tried to end the meeting early and table her bill before it could be proposed. UCR WINTER SOULSTICE PROCHASS Senator Mariam Alkhalili’s bill would also set the standard stipend for all other officials to $1,485, the current stipend for senators.Īlkhalili said that the chair of the LRC, Senate Pro Tempore Martin Cuenca, argued that the bill was “unnecessary” and it should be proposed next year. At a Legislative Review Committee (LRC) meeting Wednesday, May 16, a subcommittee in ASUCR that reviews and edits bills before they are debated on the senate floor, killed a bill that would have reduced ASUCR Executive Cabinet (ECAB) stipends by about 60 percent. ![]()
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