The Inter-Residence Hall Association is considering drastically reorganizing its structure.

Discussion has begun within the student organization to look into redrafting its constitution and bylaws to allow for personnel and finance changes.

“We have been wanting to do this for a while,” said Drew Larson, president of IRHA. “We just thought this would be the best time with the closing of Towers.”

Legislation is expected to be on IRHA’s next meeting agenda, which would propose the eliminations of association-level government bodies, like Richardson Court Association and Union Drive Association.

Although IRHA cannot write legislation removing the associations itself, representatives are recommending the removal of all representatives within the association.

“We can’t write legislation to remove the association,” said Carl Carlson, vice president of IRHA. “We can strongly recommend it though.”

The closing of Towers will leave IRHA with 17 voting members. Ten of those representatives would be from RCA, posing a potential “unfair representation of voting power and opinion,” according to the proposal.

“RCA has basically volunteered to disband, and I hope that UDA does the same,” said Phil De Koster, Barton-Lyon-Freeman-Fisher/Nickel Hall president and co-author of the proposal. “Essentially we’re just writing the positions representing [RCA and UDA] out of the constitution.”

IRHA has recently faced budget problems because of the unexpected closing of residence halls and a lack of increase in dues during the past several years. The expected closure of Wallace-Wilson would also leave IRHA with a budget shortfall, said Eric Aderhold, RCA treasurer. Because of this, Aderhold has also endorsed the proposal.

To alleviate the budget problems, Aderhold has proposed a budget where the income from dues would be increased nearly $11,000 by raising annual residence dues $3 per person.

According to the proposal, both IRHA and the hall-level government would see revenue increases, giving an opportunity for more local control of money from dues. IRHA would continue to provide funding for larger projects. Executive cabinet stipends would also be decreased to compensate.

Proponents of this proposal hope to have money replaced with credit by offering students one elective credit for participating in IRHA.

“There are a lot of hurdles to getting it done,” De Koster said. “It doesn’t make it a bad idea, but it means that it might not get done as we’ve suggested. It may be a seminar thing, or it might not be happening at all.”

The timing of this restructure has forced IRHA presidential elections to be postponed until proposals solidify, Larson said.