Impact 89FM general manager Ed Glazer gave a presentation of the project budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year at this month’s Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, meeting on Wednesday.
Glazer said the station is in the middle of having its audit completed. He said the work on the audit should be completed by Thursday, adding that he expects the audit to be done by mid or late December.
The radio station, which primarily runs on student taxes, hasn’t been getting its taxes since the 2012-13 academic year.
This decision came after ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, and COGS raised their concern about the scarce radio board meetings. The radio board hadn’t been meeting for seven years.
Glazer said the radio board has successfully met once this semester. Once the audit is completed, it should be overlooked by the board in the spring semester.
“Our main problems were student involvement in aspects of the management of the station and the oversight (on the station),” COGS President Stefan Fletcher said.
Glazer said this semester they invited student staff members of the station to participate in the budgeting process.
Fletcher said both student governments requested an audit to be done in a timely manner, which at the time, was not the case.
Glazer said this experience has forced students at the radio station to focus on doing more with less.
He also announced that Impact 89FM will be hosting a live music event in celebration of its 25th birthday tentatively in February 2014.
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