Several student organizations will receive funding after decisions made at Wednesday night’s Government of the Student Body meeting.

The regular allocations meeting pulled 17 groups from the original bill and made only a few changes to the Finance Committee’s recommendations.

Six of the 17 budgets pulled at Wednesday night’s GSB meeting were sent back to Finance Committee, and 11 were passed as the Finance Committee recommended them. Budgets for the Student Organic Farm and Ames Science Fiction and Fantasy Association were both sent back to Finance Committee to change lines in their budgets.

GSB Finance Director and graduate student in civil, construction and environmental engineering, Jason Carrol, said the South Sudanese Student Association’s budget was sent back to Finance Committee to receive more money.

The group did not have any funding because it originally did not provide an expected attendance for its food event, he said. Without attendance, GSB cannot fund a food-related event.

The numbers have since been submitted, and it was sent back to Finance Committee to rework the funding with the new numbers, Carroll said.

The budget for the ISU authors’ group, Writer’s Bloc, which had no representatives at Wednesday night’s meeting, was voted back to Finance Committee. Carroll said the committee would find out why no representatives were present and decide its plans for the group.

The International Student Council, which was hoping to get more funding, was sent back to Finance Committee to rearrange its budget in order to receive funding for International Week and transportation for new international students.

However, the bottom line amount was not changed.

GSB Speaker and senior in chemical engineering Jonathan Richardson pulled the group, hoping to get it more funding.

Richardson said after hearing the first few comments made during ISC’s time with the Finance Committee, he predicted the senate was not going to give any more money to the group.

“I can’t say that I’m surprised,” he said. “Once that discussion started, it was fairly obvious that it wasn’t going to happen.”

After the meeting, Carroll said he felt the senate and Finance Committee agreed.

Carroll said this is his fifth regular allocations experience and said it is not typical for the senate to make so few changes to the committee’s recommendations.

International Student Council President and senior in accounting Rachna Kacholia was disappointed with how the meeting went and the suggestions made.

“We are all just pretty mad,” she said.

The two major things the ISC hoped to fund were International Week and transportation for new international students, which falls under nonconference transportation. However, with no additional funds awarded, the group will need to re-work its budget. Kacholia said it was suggested at Wednesday night’s meeting to zero-fund nonconference transportation, have the group try to find other sources for the money and come back to the senate and request money in the form of a regular finance bill if more money wasn’t able to be allocated.

However, Kacholia said she didn’t like the idea and preferred having some money now as opposed to a promise of the possibility of money in the future.

Kacholia said it was brought up at the meeting that International Week had not been funded in the past, and precedent would dictate GSB should not fund it this year. However, she disagreed.

“I just think it’s something GSB should be a part of,” she said.

Kacholia said no money will be transferred to International Week because funding transportation is a higher priority for the group, but some will be moved around to nonconference transportation from “Books, Magazines, Videos and Media: Videos” and a welcome picnic the group usually holds.

Even with the line transfers, Kacholia said students using the transportation will probably still have to pay as much as $25.

Now that the process is basically over, Carroll said, he hoped everything is fair and that groups don’t have problems with the numbers.