By: Kyle Stowe
The Minnesota Student Association passed its budget for the 2014 fiscal year at a Tuesday forum after failing to do so two weeks earlier.
The new budget is almost 17 percent larger than last year’s and includes increased funding for MSA leadership stipends, a contentious point with University of Minnesota students.
MSA failed to pass a budget at its last forum because there weren’t enough voting members to make a decision and there was a fierce debate over stipends — which continued briefly at Tuesday’s forum.