A BETTER FUNDED WSU
Currently your Students’ Union is around 85-90% funded by a Service Level Agreement. Effectively the University meet with the WSU and they decide what the priorities for students are and how much of your Student Services Levy should go toward funding each thing. Then it gives us a contract to deliver some of those things, like O’Week, clubs, advocacy, and Nexus. The much larger pool of money it uses for itself on projects that benefit students like careers services, Lady Goodfellow Church and UniRec.
Since Covid we have been proud to keep that fee the lowest among the big five Universities (and AUT)
But the reality is as a result you guys have probably missed out. Missed out on Bigger O’Weeks, a better modernized student bar, a better funded clubs system, maybe even a bus. The reality is though we can’t and won’t change the fee that much without realigning the transparency.
SO INSTEAD WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS…
– Moving the fee closer to the other Universities
– Releasing a video each year showing the new initiatives your levy funded and how the money was split
– Reporting at each of the three student meetings or forums on what Student Service Money is spent on
– Creating a yearly “STATE OF OUR UNION” survey where we find out about your issues, what you want from campus, and where we can help most
UNIVERSITY
2023 STUDENT SERVICES LEVY
NZ$ (GST inclusive)