Why hello there. We hope your term is going well! Not a whole lot is happening on the WEEF front yet, but we have lots to talk about. First, if your class has not elected a WEEF rep yet, GO NOW! If you don’t elect a class representative, then your class has no say in where $60,000 in funding goes this term. WEEF reps are elected the same way your class academic and EngSoc reps are elected (hopefully at the same time!) Remember that all of WEEF’s funding is allocated 100% by students. This means undergraduate students like you are the ones deciding who gets WEEF money! Secondly, if you are your class representative then make sure you email us at weef@uwaterloo.ca so that we can put you on our mailing list.
So with that out of the way, time for some mythbusting. A lot of people believe that student teams and other groups hold a ‘WEEF Account’ that they can use the money for whatever they want. FALSE! Every WEEF allocation (no matter how big or small) is decided by a group of WEEF class representatives. These representatives not only decide which groups get money, but also which items in the request get funding. For example, funding council can choose to outfit computer labs with new monitors, but not new DVD drives, if they believe that monitors will be more useful to undergraduate students.
You can always see exactly where funding has been allocated by checking out weef.ca, under the ‘Proposals’ tab. The only way a group can reallocate money allocated by WEEF is to go before funding council and ask to have the money reallocated.
Have any questions about how WEEF works? Send us an email to weef@uwaterloo.ca anytime! Also, don’t forget that WEEF proposals are due February 15th at weef.ca/new.
Cheers,
Brock & Laurin
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