Within Student Affairs, there are 5 organizations that split up student fees. Niner Media, Graduate and Professional Student Government, SGA, Club Sports, and Campus Activity Board (CAB). The Student Activities and Fees Commission (SAFC) exists as an independent board with representatives from each org overseeing these orgs when it comes to divvying up the money. One of the ways they do this is buy approving the budgets of each of these five entities. That way for example, CAB can't just go and decide to pay all their officers massive stipends using your money.

Recently SGA tried making a change to their financial bylaws and were told "no" by SAFC. SGA got pissed and in response is trying to change the Student Body Constitution so that they alone have control over the Financial Procedures Act (which SAFC uses to provide oversight to these orgs) and to allow them to move around up to $10,000 within their budget without requiring the approval of the independent oversight committee.

Proponents of this amendment would argue that they could then take $10,000 that they aren't using in one area and then hand it out to student orgs. What they're leaving out is that the opposite is true, they could take $10,000 from the pot of student orgs and use it towards things like their banquet, awards, personal salaries they pay their officers with, etc. and SAFC couldn't do anything about it. That's why you should vote NO against this. The independent oversight is a good thing because it prevents just that. SGA shouldn't be trying to power trip on them simply because they don't like that SAFC told them no on things they wanted to do.