ASUCD has a $10.7 million operational budget, running over twenty units and other services.  ASUCD employs more students than any other department of UC Davis, providing a great deal of employment for students in addition to services for students.

Many units operate on a break-even basis -- especially the business units -- though a majority of the programmatic units receive a subsidy from the student government.

Every quarter, each ASUCD member pays $41 in ASUCD fees.  Due to fee referenda, this money is split in four ways: $30.50 goes directly to Unitrans, to pay for undergraduate riders; $0.50 goes to Cal Aggie Camp, as ASUCD's philanthropic program; $2.00 goes out of ASUCD to the Educational Opportunity Program, and $8.00 goes to ASUCD's General Fund, money the ASUCD Senate can allocate.  Of this, 25% of ASUCD Fees are returned to students for financial aid. For example, over the course of a year Cal Aggie Camp gets 3x$0.50 = $1.50 from each student, but as 25% goes to financial aid, the actual amount is $1.12 annually.

After all is said and done, these fees generate over $600,000 in revenue for the ASUCD Senate to spend on every other program offered by ASUCD.

Coming soon -- a walkthrough of an individual budget!

Budget by Unit

2007 Budget Hearing Minutes

Notes

• This was the first time in many years that the budget available for subsidy actually went down.  Combined with rising prices, this resulted in a very conservative budget, with focused cuts to overhead where appropriate.
• Copy income is no more, as the contract for photocopiers on campus has expired and no company has sought to pay to provide this service.  This lost $21,000 in income for ASUCD.
  
• The ASUCD Student Government Advisor position was cut from the Student Government budget, freeing up nearly $30,552 in salary and benefits to be spent elsewhere.  The Office Manager position was expanded, and a historian and webmaster were created to help compensate for this loss.
  

• Monies formerly from the UC Student Association fees were transferred to Lobby Corps, University Affairs, and City/County Affairs in the previous budget.  A sum of $15,000 in the Lobby Corps budget is used to pay MB Public Affairs for legislative support.  As a portion was formerly paid by University Affairs, its budget has gone down accordingly.
  
• AGTV was split from Creative Media this year.  As such, Creative Media's budget actually had an increase this year.
  
• Aggie Pack receives its grant in General Programs.
  
• Extra money accrued under the Unitrans referendum this year will support the service in later years.  Unitrans fees are raised every five to seven years by a vote of the student body.
  
• Admin Recharge pays for additional administrative and clerical support (see Admin General); Network Recharge pays for additional computing support (see Creative Media)
• Interest income is generated by unrestricted reserves and capital reserves.  However, the Reserve has dipped in level due to Senate bills which spend from the reserve, thus lowering the income.
  
• Senate reserves are set at 1.75% of the total income available for subsidy, as specified in ASUCD Bylaw 1101E.  This year, the Senate provided slightly more for Senate reserves.
  

For more budgetey goodness, see the UC Systemwide Budget, provided by UCOP.