The Student Senate Appropriations Committee members will make their decisions on how much money to allocate to each student group by Wednesday.

The committee has a total of $45,000 to allocate to 127 groups who requested a total of $137,808.22, according to Student Body Treasurer David Foxx.

Foxx said the committee advertised to the All Greek Council, the Pan Hellenic Council, the InterFraternity Council, the CALS Agrilife Council, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and through various listservs to student groups.

In addition to this publicity, the committee members have had office hours, which Foxx said is the first time they have done it.

All the groups have come in to present at their scheduled meetings except, according to committee chair Mike Alston, for the Asian Students Association, which missed both its scheduled meetings to present.

As the number of groups on campus and the number of students enrolled increase, the $45,000 does not give each group the amount of money it requests.

“It’s obviously impossible to give them what they want,” Alston, a junior in civil engineering, said.

He did say that while the committee rarely ever gives a group $0, often groups will get less than they requested.

According to Alston, the committee takes into consideration whether a group is coming to the Senate for padding or if it is in deep financial need.

Matt Potter, committee member and senior in political science, said that seemed to be the past trend.

“Last year, it felt like the general sense of the committee … was that we were just putting a couple of drops in all the buckets,” he said.

While he did say he did not think it was a good idea to ignore any groups, he said some groups can probably go without the Senate’s appropriation money, which in turn will allow other groups to receive more of the funding they requested.

In regards to how the Senate would keep groups accountable for the money they receive, Alston said before any group receives funding this year, they have to show how they used their funding from the previous year.

“They cannot receive appropriations if we don’t receive their receipts,” he said.

Potter said groups have taken money in the past and not used it the way they said they would, but that there is not much the committee can do about it.

“There’s always going to be groups that are not going to do what they said they’re going to do,” he said. “To some degree, we expect students to realize they’ve requested money from other students.”

According to Potter, the committee is composed of well-rounded members representing diverse interests.

“If we’re not, we utilize the sponsoring senators to get good representation,” he said.

Although some universities do not have a set appropriations time period, the N.C. State Student Senate has specified times once each semester for groups to request funding.

“This is very standardized,” Alston said. “Everyone fills out the same forms and it’s the same level of playing field.”

With an increase in the number of both student groups and individual students, Potter said he would consider an increase in the Student Government fee or reallocation of the budget if it could be proven that the money would go to appropriations.

Alston said as the number of students increase, SG receives more money from fees anyway, which could potentially be added to the funding.