A referendum allowing the student government vice president to be eligible to receive a salary passed the student body in the fall elections held Tuesday.The referendum — which passed with 61.9 percent — prohibits the vice president from holding a job outside of student government. This restriction makes the position eligible to become a salaried employee of student government.SG Commissioner of Elections Alexis Sarver presented the results of the election at the SG Senate meeting Wednesday.Sen. Chris Sellers, College of Arts and Sciences and co-author of the resolution that put the referendum on the ballot, said current Vice President Martina Scheuermann could be paid if the Senate amends the budget to direct funds now held in a salary reserve to pay the current vice president.Along with the referendum, 28 Senate seats were filled for next semester’s Senate. Four seats on the University court were filled.Michelle Eldredge, SG adviser, said a total of 1,998 students voted. Also at the meeting, Chancellor Michael Martin addressed Senator’s concerns regarding the hypothetical Flagship Fee.”The core budget of the University is about $435 million,” Martin said. “The state cut about $35 million last year … We are now looking at another $25 million cut [next fiscal] year. This gets to the point where it could have significant effects on the quality of the institution.”Martin said there are three ways to relieve budget cuts: become more efficient, cut programs or generate more revenue.Martin said he doubts there is the possibility of saving millions by cutting waste with the fist option because the University is already efficient. He said the last resort would be cutting programs, leaving only the option of generating more revenue to make up the majority of the balance. One example of ways to generate these funds would be a fee increase next year for students to save the University from having to cut from its programming core, Martin said.The winners of the fall election are: — Full seat in the College of Art and Design: Ashley Free.— College of Arts and Sciences full seat: Marcus Alexander, Aaron Caffarel, David Jones, Drew Prestridge.— College of Arts and Sciences half seat: Meighan Brown, Andy Palermo. — College of Basic Sciences full seat: Jared Bourgeois, Kenny Ehrhardt. — Half seat in College of Basic Sciences: Ben Clark.— College of Business full seat: Curtis Elmore III, Tyler Martin.— College of Education full seat: Cory Cortez, Cameron Parker.— College of Education half seat: Tiffany Compagno.— Graduate school full seat: Vinay Amatya, Benjamin Phelan.— Mass Communication full seat: Brooksie Bonvillain.— University Center for Advising and Counseling full seat: Kenn Barnes, Samantha Bates, Kristina Sanchez.— University Center for Freshman Year full seat: Megan Arcana, Serena Pentney, Mallory Richard, Lesli Roussel, Kelli Spahn, Justin Terracciano, Abbey Vaughn.— University Court full seats: Katie Cristina, Lindsay Hadiman, Joshua Hollins, Danielle Rushing.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]