The Student Assembly has approved the order of speakers for next week’s budget hearing, which will be students’ final opportunity to amend the allocations of the student activity fee.

Under the proposed budget, the largest increases of the roughly $2 million budget for 2010-11 school year would go to Off Campus College Transport and the Student Association Programming Board.

The proposed increase for OCCT is $68,244, bringing its funding to $267,144. The SAPB’s funding will increase by $68,082, to bring its funding to $244,882. Both are required by constitutional amendments that were approved by students in a referendum before spring break.

Overall, the amount going to all student groups will decrease by 5.1 percent — about $39,000 — under the proposed budget.

The budget hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, April 19 in the Mandela Room. Like all Assembly meetings, it is open to all students.

Last night the Assembly also censured the vice chair of the Judicial Board for an abuse of power in a vote of 21 for and 17 against, with one abstention.

The censure came in response to a grievance against the Assembly filed just before spring break. Senior Rebecca Kohn, the judicial board vice chair, filed that grievance, arguing that the Assembly had acted unconstitutionally in running the special election for vice president for finance.

Robert Glass, an Assembly representative for Off Campus College Council, was an author of the censure. He reasoned that Kohn, as a sitting member of judicial board, had a “conflict of interest in the extreme.”

She did recuse herself from judicial board for that specific hearing, leaving the board without a chair to oversee the hearing.

Elahd Bar-Shai, the chair of the Assembly, said the implications of the censure were not too severe for Kohn individually.

“Its effect is a deterrent for future J-board reps rather than as a punishment for [Kohn],” he said.

Kohn argued that, as a member of judicial board, she had specialized knowledge about the constitution that most students do not have when it comes to questioning whether the Assembly acted in accordance with the SA constitution and bylaws.

She also asserted that it was her “right as a student” to challenge the actions of the Assembly, regardless of her position on the board.

In her grievance, Kohn argued that the Assembly broke a series of regulations in order to quickly schedule the election for a replacement vice president for finance. Her grievance of the election was rejected.

Kohn said she respected the intent of the Assembly to fill the vacancy as quickly as possible, but she still asserted that it was poorly advertised.

“That’s why this matters,” she said. “It resulted in an election that students didn’t know about.”

Karen Galan, chair of the SA Elections Committee, said the organizational rules of the SA did not adequately address this sort of situation. She affirmed that the constitution provided scant room to hold an election constitutionally under the circumstances of a late-semester E-Board resignation.

“It’s a flaw in the constitution and its bylaws,” Galan said.

In order to address such flaws, Bar-Shai introduced constitutional amendments that account for a late-semester vacancy in an SA E-Board position.

The amendments were passed in the Assembly last night without opposition.

Bar-Shai said they would allow the election to get done quickly “while still maintaining a pretty high level of democracy.”