Whereas, the allocation of all ASUCI funds remains the sole responsibility of the Legislative Council;

Whereas, the Welcome Week events are underfunded every year, and are dependent on sponsors,

Whereas, more funding from sponsors is still needed to cover the costs of Welcome Week;

Whereas, the Office of Student Services is in charge of planning Welcome Week events, including but not limited to: the World Record Breaking Event; Whereas, UC Irvine still holds the title of having the World’s Largest Dodgeball Game;

Whereas, the Office of Student Services is planning a new world record event to break: the World’s Largest Water Blaster Battle on Tuesday September 24th;

Whereas, the Office of Student Services is also tasked with creating new events to enhance student life on campus;

Whereas, the Center for Service in Action that put on large-scale volunteering events was consolidated into the Cross Cultural Center three years ago;

Whereas, the Office of Administrative Affairs created Anteaters in Action, a volunteering commission, to assist in creating volunteering opportunities for students;

Whereas, the Office of Student Services and the Office of Administrative Affairs have collaboratively been working on planning a day of service titled UC I Give Back;

Whereas, we have 1,000 open spots in 40 locations in the Santa Ana and Tustin Unified School Districts for UCI students to volunteer on Wednesday September 25th;

Whereas, the scope of the volunteer event is larger than anticipated;

Whereas, it will be continued as an annual tradition;

Whereas, this is the first time that ASUCI is putting on a volunteering event of this scale;

Whereas, we need (in order of priority): transportation, food, t-shirts, for our 1,000 volunteers;

Whereas, many different measures were attempted to fund these events;

Whereas, Professional Staff has a large budget for Furniture & Equipment Purchase;

Whereas, we as ASUCI representatives must always put students’ needs first;

Let it be resolved, that in the future if such volunteering event is accepted as an ASUCI tradition, it will be funded in the annual budget,

Let it further be resolved, that Legislative Council agrees to reallocate from Professional Staff’s Furniture & Equipment Purchase budget to fund these events,

Let it further be resolved, that a report will be presented to Legislative Council on how the money was used,

Let it finally be resolved, that Legislative Council approve to reallocate $15,000 from Professional Staff’s Furniture & Equipment Purchase Budget (6209-7999) into Program Costs of Welcome Week Account (6423-7405) for the Welcome Week events mentioned above: the World’s Largest Water Blaster Battle and UC I Give Back.