In a vote with no opposition Tuesday night, Student Union Treasury and Senate passed a general budget that saw an increase in W.I.L.D. talent funding but eliminated Bauhaus’ direct funding.

The budget was passed 18-0-0 in Treasury and 18-0-1 in Senate.

The budget of $2,685,109.21 also included an increase in funding to junior, sophomore and freshman class councils and Happy Hour, as well as additional funding for the executive appeals account.

Junior Nick Palermo, vice president of finance, said that SU did not fund Bauhaus through the general budget in an effort to encourage Architecture School Council (ASC) to consider its expenses more carefully. In particular, SU hoped ASC would change the location of Bauhaus away from the Givens Hall parking lot.

According to Palermo, fencing, security and other costs associated with hosting Bauhaus outdoors accounted for up to half of the $26,270 allocated for the event in 2013.

“The big thing about Bauhaus is that while it’s definitely a tradition for the Architecture School to do it, there’s a huge amount of cost associated with having it where it is,” Palermo said. “We are hoping to encourage Architecture School Council to work on finding a location that we think is a little bit more sustainable for long-term funding, a place that doesn’t require so much extra setup and the costs associated with that.”

Palermo added that he anticipates SU will work closely with ASC before its appeal through the executive appeals account in the fall and hopes that a change of location will help draw more students to Bauhaus.

“We’re definitely committed to working with Architecture School Council as soon as this next term starts to help them find a place that is more conducive cost-wise,” Palermo said.

W.I.L.D. funding was also increased by about 23 percent, with an increase of about $40,000 to the talent budget. Members of Social Programming Board said the additional talent funding should allow it to bring higher-profile artists to W.I.L.D., with the rest of the increase going to additional production costs associated with the new talent.

“What [the increase in talent funding] will enable us to do is to bring even higher-quality artists than we’ve been bringing, mostly just in response to student demand to see higher-profile artists at W.I.L.D.,” sophomore Scotty Jacobs, treasurer of SPB, said.

“We would used to book artists who were either just about to release an album or had already released an album, so we kind of got them before or after they were big. So we think that [with] this increase, we’re going to get a lot more relevant artists who are currently big,” sophomore Jordan Finkelstein, president of SPB, added.

SPB also received increased funding for Happy Hour to increase the number of Happy Hours for the 2014-15 year.

Although the 2013-14 general budget included a $13,000 fee to cover the costs of reserving Residential Life spaces, the fee increased to around $20,000 for the coming year. SU decided not to pay the fee, instead increasing the amount of money available to allocate to student groups in anticipation of groups requesting funding for room reservations.