After conducting its financial misconduct investigation, the Student Activities Finance Board announced Wednesday that it won’t punish Associated Student Government’s Executive Board for its handling of the Chicago Weekend Shuttle — although it offered several recommendations for how the group should manage its major initiatives in the future.

SAFB held a hearing Tuesday night to determine whether the Executive Board mismanaged $30,500 allocated for the shuttle, which had been running without a contract for most of January. In past years, the contract was negotiated by the university. When ASG took it over the responsibilities, the contract fell to several different board members and was incomplete until Feb. 3.

SAFB made seven recommendations Wednesday night to the board, including a suggestion that it reconsider negotiating the shuttle contract itself.

It asked ASG to create a plan to ensure that projects such as the shuttle are closely monitored in the transition from one Executive Board to another. It further recommended ASG be more explicit with funding requests and strive for better communication with constituents and SAFB about its budget.

Past SAFB financial misconduct investigations have resulted in groups being derecognized or reorganized.

Jenna Pilat, who administered the Tuesday hearing, said ASG was “very receptive (to the recommendations) and acknowledge that they should be considered.”

Pilat, a Weinberg junior, led the investigation after Le’Jamiel Goodall, ASG financial vice president, recused himself from the hearing citing a conflict of interest. Goodall, a Communication senior, was an interim treasurer, one of the positions that has handled the shuttle contract negotiations.

The shuttle, which ASG planned to start operating early Fall Quarter, was without a contract until current treasurer Edith Rivera picked up the project. The weekend buses began running again last Friday.

Rivera, a Communication junior, said SAFB’s suggestions were valuable.

“The SAFB is continuing to do the good job they’ve always done,” Rivera said. “We had very open communication with them.”

The three-hour hearing Tuesday, though laborious, yielded positive results, ASG President Rachel Lopez said.

“We really appreciated that they fielded unbiased questions and were very thorough,” said Lopez, a Weinberg senior. “We just presented them with all the information that we had and all the communication we’ve had with the shuttle service since this September.”

At Wednesday’s meeting, senators confirmed SAFB’s recommendations with an unopposed voice vote.

Adam Forsyth, a Students for Environmental and Ecological Development senator, said the investigation’s findings were helpful.

“I didn’t really look into the issue before because I knew no matter who I talked to, I wouldn’t get the real story,” said Forsyth, a Weinberg sophomore.

SAFB’s recommendations would foster better organization of ASG’s large projects, he said.

“The most important point they made was about communication,” Forsyth said. “Communication really would be the easiest way to prevent this from happening in the future.”

Anne Locke, a Panhellenic Association senator, said she thought senators quickly approved the decision because it was appropriate.

“It was a miscommunication, and the SAFB addressed that issue,” said Locke, a Weinberg junior. “I’m not surprised that the decision went unopposed — I think everybody felt it was appropriate.”