Budget Allocation

By: Kristi Kopaniasz
Group Members: Jackie, Jenny, Jenn

Taking the role of athletic director seemed fun until we played with the numbers. You can't please everyone and surely with the budget we were given, that was not going to happen.

First we added up all the figures that were bolded since we knew those were must haves for the sports. Our grand total with every sport was $151,350 which was well over our budget of $120,000. We took advantage of sports fundraising. To get the most "bang for our buck" we had the biggest sports fundraise. With Football (75 people), swimming (60), Men's Track (55) and Women's track (60); the total amount fundraised was $15,300. giving us $136,000 needed. We used the donation for the general athletic fund. The amount of $20,000 was divided equally among the sports. That left us with $116,050.

We decided that wasn't enough to give extra money to teams we felt deserved it. Our group decided to make Cheerleading and Field Hockey pay to play sports. By changing those two sports, it freed up $11,250. Once we totaled up everything without those two sports our total budget that we had was $104,800. That meant we had $15,200 left to give to the sports we felt appropriate.

With the extra money left we placed importance on performance. Our group created a Conference Bonus. The Conference Bonus is the left over money given to any or all teams that are 3rd or better in the conference. This year five teams qualified to split that money. Softball, Skiing, W. Track, M. & W. Soccer split that money equally and each received $3,040 to use. We deteremind that if a team is doing well they are more likely to drive in revenue from ticket sales and apparel. By helping our university we gave those teams money back to place importance on performance.