MSU to vote again on student housing, dining costs after $4.2M clerical error

EAST LANSING — The Michigan State University Board of Trustees volition clasp a peculiar gathering this week to hole what amounted to a astir $4.2 cardinal mistake successful the university's lodging and eating complaint summation passed connected April 11.

The April 11 solution stated the outgo of lodging and eating for the 2025-26 schoolhouse twelvemonth would emergence 2.9%, from $12,564 to $12,698. However, that dollar magnitude alteration is lone astir 1%. A 2.9% summation would hike costs to $12,979, which was the board's intention, contempt the errant mathematics successful the resolution.

The State Journal raised the question of the discrepancy aft the committee voted connected April 11, and aboriginal that afternoon, assemblage officials confirmed the trustees had voted connected the dollar amount.

The $281 quality mightiness not look similar a melodramatic difference, however, the astir 15,500 imaginable students surviving successful the dorms who would beryllium impacted by the alteration brings MSU's imaginable nonaccomplishment to conscionable implicit $4.2 cardinal if the committee didn't clasp a caller vote.

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The peculiar gathering volition beryllium held April 25, assemblage spokesperson Amber McCann told the State Journal successful an email. The gathering volition beryllium solely to revote connected a corrected resolution, she said.

The April 11 ballot was 5-3, with Trustees Mike Balow, R-Plymouth, Dennis Denno, D-East Lansing, and Rema Vassar, D-Detroit, voting no.

Balow and Denno said they were acrophobic with wealth students paid for lodging and eating going to $1.7 cardinal for spot replacements and accessibility updates to the Breslin Student Events Center. An MSU spokeswoman and committee Chair Kelly Tebay, D-Ann Arbor, initially pushed backmost connected that claim, saying the Breslin renovations were not funded done the Residential and Hospitality Services budget, but aboriginal clarified they successful information were, successful part.

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This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Lansing State Journal: MSU to ballot again connected housing, eating costs aft $4.2M clerical error