The Student Assembly controls more than $300 of our tuition every year by allocating money to byline funds.

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SAFC, a byline funded organization allocated money by Student Assembly, challenges and scrimps funding for 700 student organizations, while also continually approving thousands of dollars for Student Assembly's own budget. But what happens to the SA's thousands of dollars every year? Recently, the SA has struggled to spend all of its SAFC-allocated funds, creating an ever-expanding surplus.

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When the Cornell Daily Sun reports that the Student Assembly is arguing about their large, SAFC-approved budget and expanding surplus (with few students even going to these meetings), it's a big deal because the SA plays an active role in allocating funds to our organizations yet also struggles to spend their own money. It begs the question of whether money allocated to the SA would be better spent (since it's coming from our own tuition, after all) allocated to our own organizations in the first place.