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...children in areas that you can’t get to by the T doesn’t rank on their to-fund list and it is disappointing,” wrote Amy S. Morgenstern ’06. The Council chose not to fund the program due to FiCom??s policy of not funding transporation costs. Earlier in the year, the UC overruled FiCom??s recommendation and awarded $2,000 to cover transportation costs to the Mission Hill Afterschool Program. Since that decision, FiCom has reemphasized that it will only subsidize MBTA subway tokens...
...roughly half of its money to cover the cost of transportation between Harvard and public schools in Roxbury. The program is forced to seek UC funding in large part because of its affiliation with PBHA, which precludes it from many federal and state grants designated for other PBHA programs. FiCom??s unexpected denial of funds left the program with no alternate source of money, forcing it to appeal to the UC at last week’s general meeting...
...grants. In an e-mail to The Crimson, FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 explained that Mission Hill’s previous funding was due to “extraneous circumstances with past miscommunication between UC leadership and Mission Hill leadership.” While FiCom??s decision may have been consistent with its unpublished guidelines, the committee’s past record of funding undoubtedly caused confusion for Mission Hill’s leaders...
...don’t receive any UC funding, we would need to severely restructure our programming,” Tannen said before the meeting. Several FiCom members cited an unwritten policy against funding transportation, and they said that creating an exception to this policy could jeopardize FiCom??s financial sustainability. “There’s no question that to fund this would essentially be the death of FiCom,” the committee’s chair, Lori M. Adelman ’08, told the council. “We would have no more money...
...does intend to run for president, he might have been better off not going after a small position within the UC, but rather running as a true outsider like Moore did in ’04. But Wilson says he wants to implement reforms as fast as possible, and FiCom??s the best place to do that, even as a mere commitee member.Rumor has it that if he does make a play for the helm, Wilson would likely garner the support of First Senior Class Marshal Moore. However, he is not expected to win the support of current...