The GSB Senate voted to allow the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center to carry over its funding to the next fiscal year, if need be, by a vote of 25 to 1.

Renovations on the Women’s Center aren’t scheduled to begin until May, and by allowing the house to keep its allocated money until the next fiscal year it ensures the Women’s Center will be able to buy some furnishings for the structure once the renovations are complete.

Penny Rice, Women’s Center coordinator, attended the meeting to answer any questions. She said that the biggest problem with the house currently is the air quality.

Rice said that an architect came to the house in 2008 and said there were also problems with water and ice damage.

The total renovations for the Women’s Center are expected to total about $120,000.

Facilities Planning and Management is putting up $90,000 for the project. The money comes from an account that goes toward renovating existing buildings on campus.

The provost’s office is matching GSB’s money at $30,000 for the rest of the renovations while GSB allocations are going toward furnishing the house.

The ISU Diversity Network was funded $220 for an ethnic food night.

The president of the group said this is the group’s first year as an official club, but she did hold an event similar to this last year and had about 70 people show up.

This year’s event will be at 7 p.m. March 26 in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

A bill written by Senator Tyler Albaugh and closing a nonexistent loophole was discussed at the meeting.

The bill changes a line in the by-laws to make it clearer that a group that has received funding within the current fiscal year from another constituency council cannot receive money from the GSB in the same year.

There was an amendment proposed by Senator Anthony Maly making it so that stated groups couldn’t receive funding within the same academic semester.

Engineering Senator Dan Finnegan didn’t agree with the amendment and said if the GSB were to make this change to the bylaws the Engineering Student Council wouldn’t even budget for the spring semester and the GSB would see an influx of engineering groups in the spring.

Finance Director Tom Danielson didn’t agree with this because most of the groups would still fall under a pre-professional group, or a group affiliated with a certain major.

The amendment failed, but the bill, which made it a one fiscal year time gap between being able to get funding from a council to receiving GSB funding, passed.

The bill which amended the constitution did take a two-thirds vote to pass and was passed by 18 to 9.

Vice-Speaker Jacob Wilson was out of the room at the time of the vote.

Hallie Satre and Nicole Cortum, copresidents of the Veishea Committee, showed a video to the senate, and said they were excited to showcase Iowa State during this year’s events.