Time is winding down inside the Government of Student Body office. On April 12, many of the staffers will leave to make way for the next wave of senators, finance officials and executive officials.

But one major task remains. On Wednesday, the assembled GSB will begin final work on the regular appropriation funds it allocates to ISU student organizations. In most years, it’s a lengthy process, officials said, but this year the senate was given the extra challenge of cutting $402,000 from GSB-funded groups’ requests.

The cuts GSB decided will now go through the regular allocations meeting, in which some groups will be separated out of the main funding bill for specific attention.

With the finance committee’s recommendations finished, submitted and awaiting the approval of the senate, GSB is preparing for a meeting that could last into early Thursday morning. Members from each of more than 100 groups seeking funding from GSB coffers will gather to fight for their portion of student money at 7 p.m. in the Scheman Building.

Attendance at the regular allocations hearing, said David Boike, finance director, is likely to include representatives from nearly every club, which he said was a necessity for groups that want to improve or maintain their funding levels.

“If the senate divides them out and they aren’t there, the senate will have no choice but to act without their presence,” he said. “We don’t have much time to spend rounding the groups up.”

Clark Grinde of the Financial Counseling Clinic said he’ll be in attendance.

The clinic was adopted as a student-funded office earlier this year, which allowed director Mark Oleson, the clinic’s director, and Grinde, a counselor, to continue forming the clinic into a more professional entity, including more staff and free access for all students. However, the funds from the reclassification will not be seen next year. Until then, the clinic will face one of the year’s more decisive cuts, receiving only $27,000 of the $98,000 it requested.

If the finance committee’s recommendations are approved by the senate, Grinde said he’ll no longer be able to work with the clinic, and Oleson said he, too, will move on if the clinic’s wishes are not honored.

“I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but we will definitely be there to defend our interests,” he said. “We just want to make sure the senate knows what students are going to lose if we’re not properly funded.”

For Grinde, the senate’s forthcoming decision represents not only his continued employment, but also the continuation of the policies he and Oleson have begun to develop for the clinic and the work they’ve done.

“I could move on to do other things, but I don’t really want to,” he said. “I care about what we’ve been doing here, and I want to continue it.”

GSB Vice President Ben Albright said he will be there and has made sure the rest of the Senate will be as well, despite a number of requests by senators to be absent from the hearing.

Outside the door to Albright’s office, a white marker board bears the names of student groups that are likely to be “pulled out” of the regular allocation bill — those which senators will request to receive individual consideration before they are passed.

Albright said the list is shorter than he had thought it would be, but added it was not official. The list is meant to give senators a chance to consider the groups before the meeting, which could make for a shorter meeting, he said.

The list is varied, including the bondage and sadomasochism club Cuffs, Engineers Without Frontiers, Team PrISUm, Women in Science and Engineering and the National Association for Interpretation.

“I expect a lot of discussion on the groups that will be pulled out,” Albright said.

“I think it’s unfair that we had to cut so many groups’ funding, but that’s what happens when there’s a shortfall.”