Finance Board is responsible for all budget allocations of Associated Students monies and implementation (education and enforcement of A.S. Financial Policies and Procedures<\/a>). In addition, Finance Board is responsible for approving all travel and entertainment for all A.S., except in certain circumstances. Legislative Council, via the approval of Finance Board minutes, must approve all motions and allocations made by Finance Board.<\/p>\n Finance Board co-hosted an evening “Lean on Me” program with The Community Affairs Board (CAB) during Spring Quarter.<\/p>\n Many students, staff, and faculty at UCSB have dedicated themselves to the service of others and\u00a0to serve as leaders of their organizations, departments, and a variety of groups. The Lean On Me program provided participants time to not only recenter their core, but also to connect with the core of others, and in essence with the core values of UCSB.\u00a0Lean on Me was an evening dedicated to APPRECIATION.\u00a0It was an opportunity for leaders to be uplifted and re-centered in order to continue to do GREAT community work.<\/p>\n The evening included a fully catered dinner and a keynote address by Dr. Calvin Mackie,\u00a0whose extraordinarily rich biography can be found by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a fitting end to a year of serving the IV community, several A.S. groups, including Finance Board, CAB and CAB Foundation, IVCRC, Business Services Committee, and IVTU, participated in the annual IV GIVE drive. The event, which is also sponsored by GIVE Isla Vista, Housing & Residential Services, Office of Student Life, Marborg Disposal, Inc., Goodwill Industries, and The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF), is the culmination of a week of collecting items ranging from furniture to non-perishable foods from students moving out at the end of the year. These items are sold and all proceeds benefit local community service agencies. Items left over from the sale are donated to local \u00a0The food goes to stock the shelves of the A.S. Food Bank. This year GIVE raised $37,260.24. 138 volunteers worked 1,314.5 hours collecting about 30 tons of student donations. This included over 1289 pounds of food for the A.S. Food Bank, and hundreds of pounds of E-waste for A.S. Recycling. 100% of the proceeds were distributed to 14 IV community non-profits, including:<\/p>\n Adopt-a-Block Program:\u00a0Isla Vista Recreation & Park District<\/a><\/p>\n Associated Students\u00a0Food Ban<\/a>k<\/p>\n Breakfast Optimist Club of Goleta<\/p>\n Isla Vista Elementary School Science Camp\u00a0Scholarship Fund<\/a><\/p>\n Isla Vista Initiatives Fund, i.e. Isla Vista Community Network<\/p>\n Isla Vista\u00a0Teen Center<\/a><\/p>\n Isla Vista\/UCSB Liaison Scholarship Fund\u00a0at the Scholarship Foundation of\u00a0Santa Barbara<\/a><\/p>\n Isla Vista\u00a0Youth Projects<\/a><\/p>\n Optimist Club @ UCSB<\/p>\n St. Brigid\u00a0Outreach Program<\/a><\/p>\n Santa Barbara\u00a0Student Housing Coop<\/a><\/p>\n St. Michael and All Angels Church<\/a><\/p>\n THRIVE\u00a0Isla Vista<\/a><\/p>\nLean on Me<\/h2>\n
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