MUSAF SLA gets delayed AGAIN

Details for the Massey students’ associations Service Levy Agreements (SLA) merger are still being finalized, meaning the single agreement won’t begin until next year. Despite months of initially promising that student execs will merge SLAs at the start of the second semester, the merge was subsequently delayed until September after concerns were voiced from Massey. This new announcement marks the second time that the SLA merger’s deadline has been pushed further back, despite the arrangement being in the works for 10 years.  

The SLA merge would mean that, where each executive previously submitted different proposals for funding from Massey and received different funding accordingly, the executives would now submit one combined SLA and receive a pool of funding to be divvied up amongst themselves at executive discretion.  

MAWSA President Tessa Guest said that the university supports most parts of MUSAF single SLA proposal in theory, although she is unable to go into further detail while the process is ongoing. 

“We've been in continual conversations with them smoothing out the details and won't be entering into the single agreement until the start of next year, which will allow us time to sort those out. We've also had affirmation that the university will provide more support to our Māori and Pasifika representatives as part of these changes,” she said.