Thanks to everyone who came out to WEEF’s 20th-year celebrations! I was personally quite impressed with UW Catering’s culinary artistry and the karaoke skills of certain unmentionable individuals. With your donations over the last two decades, WEEF’s principal is now over $9,000,000!
The donation refund period wrapped up on the 21st of May. Finance is now processing all the applications to make sure that students who have requested their return do indeed get it. Look in the next Iron Warrior issue for statistics about how many refunds were requested.
WEEF’s governing board of directors met on May 27th to decide the total amount we can allocate to student and faculty spending during the next financial year. We also discussed the progress of our $1,000,000 contribution to E5. Typically this sort of information would be discussed at one of our end-of-term meetings, however a generally poor economy raised some concerns and we wanted to be prudent about our funding decisions for the next fiscal year. The ultimate decision from our meeting is that $60,000 is our spending limit for Spring 2010 allocations.
This brings us to proposals! If you would like to seek funding this term, look for forms at www.weef.uwaterloo.ca/proposals.html – the process is fairly straightforward.
Visit the list of class reps at www.weef.uwaterloo.ca/council.html to see if your class has a rep. If your class does not have a rep, your class collectively gets zero input into where the $60,000 gets allocated this term. Don’t forget, WEEF is designed to be for students by students – it is 100% up to the council of students (reps from each class) to decide where we put the money.
Key Dates for this term are:
June 19: Proposals are Due
June 24*/28*: Proposal Presentations
July 5*: Funding Council Decisions made
*Subject to change. Look for posters and emails.
Please make sure you take the time to prepare your proposal as soon as possible. Questions, concerns, and comments are always welcome – email me at weef@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
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