The Student Government Senate voted in their Wednesday night meeting to use student fees to buy new computers for the SG offices.

SG Speaker of the Senate Meredith Westbrook said the decision to use student fees to buy SG new equipment is a valid investment because SG members use the computers to serve students.

“Any student can use those computers if they need to,” Westbrook said.

The money for the computers will come from the SG surplus account, which combines what’s left in each SG account at the end of every year. The bill states that a maximum of $5,123.83 from the SG’s surplus account would be used to purchase a 21.5-inch iMac and updates for other technology.

The newly purchased equipment “would directly impact students’ knowledge of current activities and help to re-bolster Student Government’s efforts to update students,” according to the bill.

SG also created a temporary committee to discuss restructuring its finances and accounts.

According to the resolution for the committee, its membership will consist of SG President Taylor Cox; Westbrook; Chair for the Budget and Appropriations Committee DeAndre Beadle; Vice Chair for the Budget and Appropriations Committee Alex Grashoff; Director of Finance Paul Broussard; Assistant Director of Finance Amelia Burns; SG’s Financial Coordinator Arlette Henderson; and member of Finance and Administrative Services Lane Pace.

The purpose of the committee isn’t necessarily to restructure SG’s accounts, but to update the definitions on their accounts, Westbrook said. Westbrook also said the definitions of their accounts have not been examinedsince around 2006, and that updating the definitions should only take the semester.

“The definitions are just out of date for our accounts and we don’t have anything to look at that tells us exactly, more specifically, what our finances can do for students and what they can do for Student Government,” said Westbrook, who wrote the resolution for the temporary committee.