Sidney-Pacific Controller Committee

Controller: Cheng Ju

What does the Controller's committee do?

• Helps oversee S-P finances
  The Controller is charged with maintaining day-to-day familiarity with S-P's finances and providing financial planning advice to the Sidney-Pacific Executive Council periodically (in particular, during the three yearly budgeting cycles, which typically occur in September, January, and May). In addition, the Controller and SPEC work toward long-term financial planning for the residence with the goal of providing generously for event planning in the present and maintenance of capital resources in the future.
  
  
• Approves, processes, and submits all reimbursement requests
  Have a reimbursement for an S-P expense? Click here. Reimbursement requests generally are approved by committee chair and then a member of SPEC before they are passed to the Controller level. Using the financial portion of SPIDir -- the Sidney-Pacific Information Directive -- the Controller then processes the requests, prints reimbursement forms, and submits the requests to the Student Activities Finance Office (SAFO). Checks are usually ready for resident pick-up within two or three weeks after submission.
  
  
• Works with SPEC to raise funds
  A large portion of the S-P budget comes from our $6/resident per month house tax. However, we have also been very successful in raising money from other sources within MIT, such as the Graduate Student Council Funding Board, the Large Event Fund, ARCADE, and others. The Controller's committee has the responsibility to maintain some institutional memory of these donations and, if need be, to follow up to ensure their safe transfer to S-P's account.
  
  Questions? Suggestions? Complaints? Please let me know!
  

  For more information, please email sp-controller (at mit.edu)

  
  

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