The amendment also stipulates that the council must allocate $5,000 to a reserve account at the beginning of each session of the council.
“The reserve fund is to cover accidental overdrafts,” council treasurer Clay T. Capp ’06.
All representatives present supported the bill with the exception of one abstention and one negative vote. The council members have one week in which they can change their vote before a final decision on the amendment is reached.
The council also passed a grant package for the week despite vehement protest from some quad representatives and council parliamentarian E.E. Keenan ’07.
The disputed grants—one failing to award any money to the Pforzheimer House Movie Club, the other awarding only $150 to the Women and Youth Supporting Each Other—both passed in their original forms despite proposed amendments to each and an invocation of the council’s anti-discrimination statute.
—Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu.