To take some of the burden off of FiCom, Adams and Glazer proposed a tri-weekly rotation, by which all council members would participate in the grant approval process.

“FiCom will still bear the brunt, but the idea is that once every three weeks, you put in a couple of hours,” Mahan said.

Mahan said that one of his goals for the rest of his term as president would be to establish a permanent solution to handling an increased number of student group grant applications, which has sky-rocketed since the council expanded the Grant Fund with money raised through this semester’s termbill fee hike.

He said that one possibility would be to “separate FiCom, give it more autonomy and give it more people...we’re starting to reach our limit.”

FiCom Chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06 presented the Grant Fund allocations, which awarded $8,023 in cash plus $712 in food vouchers to 29 groups for 35 projects—a total award of $8,735, against requests totaling $17,707. The average grant given was $224—against an average request of $454—and four groups did not receive any money or vouchers.

—Staff writer Elena P. Sorokin can be reached at sorokin@fas.harvard.edu.