The Richardson Court Association and the Union Drive Association plan to be completely dissolved by May 1 in response to recent legislation passed by the Inter-Residence Hall Association.

On Thursday, IRHA finalized changes to its bylaws and constitution, which removed representation from the two association governments: RCA and UDA.

“It was felt that [the association level] of government was redundant,” said Drew Larson, former IRHA president.

Larson was seated Monday as a Government of the Student Body College of Business senator. Because of stipulations in the GSB and IRHA bylaws, he was required to seat IRHA president-elect Nathan Taucher as IRHA president early.

Larson said he believed the GSB senators for RCA and UDA should report to the weekly IRHA meetings in place of the association meetings, which had been the case in past years.

As a reason for dissolution, association leaders said they believed there are additional financial benefits to the dissolutions.

“Generally, we feel that the way that dues are set up are somewhat inefficient; dues are being wasted and students aren’t getting a good return on their money,” said UDA President Ross Kelderman. “We are going to distribute our money to the three halls in UDA.”

At Monday’s UDA meeting, the bill to dissolve the association passed unanimously, stating UDA would become non-existent Friday. This date was chosen to accommodate the seating of the new parliament at Thursday’s meeting, Kelderman said.

RCA has also made substantial progress toward the goal of dissolution, and a bill has been passed stating the association is scheduled to be dissolved April 29, the Friday of Dead Week, RCA president Brandon Gray said.

“We’re currently at the stage where we get approval from all the halls,” he said, explaining the process requires unanimous agreement from each hall in RCA.

The removal of RCA and UDA will simplify the dues residents in the halls pay annually to the residence hall governments. In previous years, dues were paid by constituents to both hall and association governments in addition to IRHA, Kelderman said.

Ehren Whigham, GSB senator for RCA, was seated at the GSB inauguration Monday. Two senators represent RCA, and one represents UDA.

This is based on the number of residents in each.

Whigham said he predicts the three senators will report to IRHA.

Active measures to alleviate any representation problems caused by the dissolutions of RCA and UDA have not been taken, as GSB is waiting for official documentation from the respective associations, said GSB President Angela Groh.

Since GSB only has three meetings left before summer, Groh said, if a solution is needed, it may have to wait until next fall in order to allow enough time for multiple readings. Groh said she believes this shouldn’t be an immediate problem, though.

“RCA and UDA are specified as constituencies whether or not the councils actually exist, so no matter what they decide, so until our constitution is changed, there will still be a senator representing [UDA and RCA],” she said. “At this time, the senators won’t need to change at all.”

Kelderman said he is working with GSB College of Engineering senator Brad Weed to create legislation removing the RCA and UDA constituencies from the GSB bylaws and constitution and replacing them with IRHA.