Student Government Association’s $55,000 bill passed during the summer was against their rules, according to SGA President Darren Beckham.

Beckham made the announcement about the funding bill to the Senate last Wednesday.

The funding bill paid for an additional intramural playing field near the Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex. The field is being constructed to make up for the playing fields lost due to a new parking lot.

According to Vice President of Campus Life and University Relations Wade Robinson, the bill’s passing was time-sensitive due to the work for the other two fields already being started. It would ultimately save money and time to have the vendors work on the third field as well during that time.

He said the bill’s only consequence is that Beckham needed to address the Senate to make them aware of the summer decision.

Beckham, who was out of the country at the time, authorized Vice President Briana Kitchings to act as president during the time the legislation received SGA approval.

The summer senate, which consists of the president, vice president, treasurer and holdover senators, does not have the authority to pass funding bills.

“There are no tools to pay out this money during summer,” Beckham said.

Robinson said that they, “Didn’t have enough time at the end of the spring semester to do a formal proposal, know what the cost would be and make that to senate.”

Beckham said last year’s campus changes caused SGA to move quickly to provide an answer for those changes.

Although it was illegal to pass the funding bill, Beckham believes that it was the right call and blames the SGA Legislative Journal for not accommodating for the summer.

“I would hate that the parking lot didn’t come online and there was a month of terrible parking because the journal is poorly written,” Beckham said. “I’m comfortable with this decision.”

Beckham hopes to address issues within the journal this year. That includes the SGA’s inability to pass funding during the summer.

“One of my goals for this year is a cover-to-cover revision of everything within our power to change,” SGA Legislative Director Andrew Longhofer said.

Robinson suggests that a new process should be added to authorize the newly elected executive team to formally pass funding in unique situations when necessary.

“If it was something that came over the summer period, great, but if it could wait for fall or spring, not under consideration,” Robinson said.

Although the fields have been vaguely talked about since December 2012, they were delayed during spring semester and further delayed by an unusually rainy August.

In case the fields are not ready in time, accommodations have been made for this year’s intramural season, which starts on October 14.