What is the operating budget of UPAC Cinema, and what does it cover?
Each Spring, UPAC Cinema submits a requested budget to the Union’s Executive Board. The following year’s actual budget is decided by the E-Board after a series of reviews, decisions, and appeals. For the 2004-2005 academic year, UPAC Cinema’s budget is aproximately $62,000. Among the line items this amount covers are: Rental of about 52 Friday and Saturday films; Rental of 3 or 4 Wednesday films (back for 2004-2005 on a trial basis); shipping fees for all films; trailers and posters for as many of our movies as we can purchase; publicity materials such as the weekly posters hung on Campus Notice boards and semesterly schedules printed four times each year; and projectionists’ payroll. All activity-fee paying students are entitled to view the budgets of any Union club. To see UPAC Cinema’s (or any other club’s) budget, go to the Admin office of the RPI Union, and ask to speak with Martha McElligott.
