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Unfortunately, grant requests are somewhat unpredictable. The largest packages tend to be at the beginning of the semester, but the amounts requested fluctuate from week to week and year to year. The solution, therefore, is to develop a flexible budget??not for FiCom to throw up its hands and refuse to manage its money at all. It could, for example, allocate a weekly target and set aside a small surplus fund to cover particularly large packages. Or, it could use a monthly budgeting scheme to allow for particularly high and low weeks...
...Cambridge School Committee unanimously passed the district’s operating budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year yesterday, but some committee members said they felt the budget??which at $127.7 million represents a 1.86 percent increase from last year—left many questions unanswered...
...expenses. A separate allotment for books is a step in the right direction.Administrators, however, have legitimate concerns about creating stipends for various student expenses. Each student’s needs are unique, and creating exceptions for specific needs could be a slippery slope toward a “shampoo budget?? from the Financial Aid Office. But, already, exceptions are made for special cases like winter coats or the Student Events Fund, which pays for tickets to campus events which students on financial aid might not otherwise be able to attend. We believe textbooks belong in that the same...
Other members of the committee lauded the budget??s creativity in creating new programs while growing only two percent. The budget includes 18 new programs in addition to six new district-wide programs, according to committee member Nancy Walser...
...money is at stake. More than half a billion dollars’ worth of new science buildings are nearing completion behind the Science Center, and billions more are slated to be spent for the planned science-heavy expansion into Allston.“People are going to watch the budget??where does money go, where do new professorships go,” Mendelsohn said. Faust, a scholar of the Civil War and the American South, will be the fifth consecutive Harvard president who is not a scientist. While some Harvard observers have wondered whether her credentials measure...