During Wednesday night’s Government of the Student Body meeting, the senate voted down a bill that would have funded transportation for a group whose budget was cut in regular allocations.

The Nepal Student Association was asking for $199.80 in order to go to a conference this summer. According to the bill, without this funding, the group will not be able to attend the conference.

At the meeting, Prachand Shrestha, president of the Nepal Student Association and graduate student in civil, construction and environmental engineering, said the group was not able to go to the conference last year because of cuts in regular allocations.

He said this was the biggest event of the year for the organization.

Ryan Myers, GSB finance director and senior in accounting, was against the bill because the group’s cuts were not unique.

“They went through cuts every group had to go through,” he said.

Myers said although the group was only asking for $199.80 out of the $6,500 Senate Discretionary account, it was the principle of allocating the money that was important, not the amount.

Giving money to this group would not have been fair to the other groups that were cut, Myers said.

“I just don’t see the fairness across the board,” he said.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Myers said he was against the bill unless there was a special circumstance.

This meant the group should only be allocated the money if something had changed since the cuts that were made during regular allocations, he said.

Myers said some groups do come and try to get more money after being cut in regular allocations.

“There’s a handful,” he said.

Myers said the money cut from this group was part of the “budget balancing” process in regular allocations.

After cutting all the necessary things that weren’t in accordance with the rules for regular allocations, the finance committee still had to make about $70,000 worth of cuts, he said, and this is why this group had its transportation to the conference cut.

At Wednesday’s meeting, there were a number of senators who agreed with Myers. Alden Peterson, GSB senator and sophomore in industrial engineering, talked about the problem with the precedent that passing the bill would set and said other groups cut in regular allocations would come to senate meetings asking for money.

“I just think that would be a situation we do not want to be in,” he said.