Student Government Association members spent more money during Tuesday’s meeting than they did at any other SGA meeting this year.

SGA spent about $16,400 at the meeting, Administrative Vice President Reagan Gilley said.

He said it’s excellent that SGA is spending the money.

“We have all of this extra money and we needed it to be spent,” he said. “We’re spending the money on good projects.”

The senate gave $6,745.22 from organizational aid to support 14 different organizations including Sister 2 Sister, Relay for Life and College Republicans, according to the bill.

The senate also put $5,000 toward sponsoring Western’s first home football game in 2009. The money will allow SGA to promote SGA during the game.

SGA will buy 1,000 t-shirts sporting the SGA logo that’ll be given to the first 1,000 students at the game, according to the bill.

Western officials already approved the sponsorship, Lexington sophomore Jesse Caylor said. Caylor is the student affairs committee head.

Some members questioned reasoning for the bill.

They decided that the event would promote more student involvement at Western athletic events, according to the bill.

“This is a very open-ended bill,” Caylor said. “We can do whatever we want with it.”

SGA also gave $3,496.66 to the Office of Diversity Programs’ Outstanding Black Graduate ceremony, which recognizes minority students for their achievements, Lexington freshman VaShae Swope said.

SGA gave $1,200 to pay registration fees for 60 students to attend the Western Kentucky University Sustainability Conference on April 24-26.

Louisville sophomore Joey Coe said the $20 registration fee was discouraging some students from attending the conference. Coe is the author of the bill.

“We wanted to allow as many people as possible to go,” he said. “With our budget and the registration fee, this was the most we could do.”

Another resolution that passed supported getting Fox News and MSNBC on the campus cable program line up.

The bill is supposed to diversify campus TV, Union junior Shane Noem said.

SGA also voted to officially oppose a proposal to the Board of Regents to charge students $30 per credit hour after 15 hours.

The board will vote on the proposal at its meeting on April 24.

A bill to make Western more accessible was up for first read. If passed, the bill would provide funding for an automatic door opener on campus for students who are wheelchair-users, according to the bill.