The student health fund saga could be over as the student senate approved a memorandum of understanding Friday to review the option to have the money pay for the position every year.

While Superintendent-President Dr. Andreea Serban has yet to give her approval, the plan is to have the student health funds restored for the remainder of the current academic year. After that, money from the health services fund may be requested to pay for the position, at which point it would have to be approved by the Associated Student Body.

The agreement will run for four years, and leaves a provision that the health services department will get new facilities by that period.

“Eight years ago I asked for new facilities,” Susan Broderick, director of health services, said to the student senate. “It’s gotten more compacted and more crowded. You can’t provide comprehensive care for more students in the same space.”

Broderick’s rationale for generating reserves of more than $420,000 was to save enough money to pay for her own facilities retrofit. But after noting the large reserve in the student health budget, Serban proposed last year that the department absorb payment for the position, which is normally paid for from the college’s general fund. That idea was not approved by either Broderick or the student senate.

Broderick discovered in March that more than $110,000 was slated to be taken out of her budget to pay for the position. She brought the issue to the student senate last month, where the body determined students should not have to pay for the faculty position. However, the senate agreed they would consider using the fee if the college made a case that the money could not come from anywhere else.

“I think it puts more consultation with the students,” Broderick said after the senate unanimously approved to send the MOU to the president. “I think this will ensure more student involvement in the process.”

Another provision in the agreement is the inability to raise the fee, currently $17, during the four-year term of the agreement.

“That is a really important point in this agreement,” Kevin Fock, vice president of external affairs, said.