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Only with last semester's treasurer, Brian R. Blais '97, did the council make a concerted effort to determine its balance on a regular basis, Smith said.
According to Blais, when he took over as treasurer, the records of the council's finances--a pile of receipts and bank statements--were handed to him in an empty Corona beer box.
"To be frank, it was a mess," Blais said. "We were bouncing checks all the time first semester last year, and nobody ever balanced the checkbook."
In the past, however, all of this money was rolled over into the council's general committee fund for use by the Campus Life and Student Affairs committees the following semester, Blais said.
"It sounds like common sense to do it that way, but we've only been doing it since Brian Blais took over last semester," Smith said. "We can see what we've spent on everything with a click of a button. That was impossible before because we had no records...