The Student Union General Assembly passed five amendments Monday night, including a long-awaited amendment that gives the GA more oversight over budget expenditures.

The budget vote, which passed 17-1-1, requires the Union Executive Board to vote unanimously on any expenditures when the GA is not in session. If a GA has not been elected, then the expenditures require a three-fourths Executive Board vote. In all cases, the Executive Board must report expenditures to the GA as soon as the assembly meets.

The Union also passed an amendment establishing a Student Union advisory council comprised of non-voting members who consult the voting members. Initially, the amendment failed as President Jon Marker called it redundant, but on a revote it passed.

The rest of the amendments passed without discussion, including an amendment eliminating the word “financial” from Article Two of the constitution, which previously stated:

“All undergraduate members of Boston University who are in good academic, financial and judicial standing, according to University Guidelines, are members of the Student Union.”This amendment passed with a vote of 18-1-0.

The second proposed amendment creates the post of “assembly member at large,” allowing representatives from dissolved constituencies, such as the Hyatt or the Holiday Inn, to remain voting members of the GA.

This amendment passed with a vote of 18-1-0.

The office of the Union Vice President was stripped of its unilateral power to call an emergency session of the Union without approval from other Executive Board members. An amendment addressing this issue passed 18-1-0. The vice president will now be required to have a three-fourths majority vote within the e-board to call an unscheduled meeting.

The recycling committee also presented the GA with a request from groups running the Earth Day celebration for the allocation of $900 to Earth Day activities.

The GA went through the requested budget and voted on each expenditure individually. In total, the GA voted to allocate $500 to fund a nylon Earth Day banner, musicians to play in Marsh Plaza on Earth Day and materials to be used to demonstrate.

In his Vice-Presidential Report, Jonah Goldberg said he delivered blue recycling bags to the Towers, Shelton and 575 Commonwealth Avenue Offices of Residence Life on Mar. 24.

According to Goldberg, he notified the GA of his efforts via email, prior to the meeting.

At the end of the meeting, elections committee chairman David Sideman notified the GA that the committee extended the deadline for students to run for the upcoming student union executive board elections.

While the election campaigning began today, Sideman said there is currently one person running for president and treasurer, no one running for secretary and three people running for vice president.

The elections committee also decided to allow the option of a write-in ballot, according to Sideman.