Budget Allocation - Michael Berti, Aaron Keyer, Matt Pitzulo, Joey Durant, Mike Frank

The first thing we decided to do was figure out which sports would have a fundraiser to gain $60 a person. Since we were only allowed 4 teams to do a fundraiser, we chose the sports with the most participants. These sports were football, men’s/women’s swimming, and men’s/women’s track and field. Based on fundraisers from these sports we gained $15,300. Our original budget was $120,000 but with the added $15,300 from fundraising and $20,000 from a donation, our final budget came out to $155,300. Next we looked at which sports programs were needed to boost school attendance and which ones were the most popular among students. These programs included football, hockey, baseball, and men’s and women’s basketball. 

We then looked at which sports programs were cost effective and decided on men’s and women’s soccer, softball, and volleyball. After funding all of these programs, the budget we had left was $30,700. Since we can’t fund all of the programs, we decided to make cheerleading, field hockey, and men’s/women’s downhill skiing all club sports. This means that these programs are all pay to play sports. Even though Skiing was 1^st in the division, we decided to make it a club sport because we are making our school a Midwest University so that skiing is not as popular as it would be if our school was set in somewhere like Colorado. Cheerleading costs too much to fund for only 16 participants and we are saying it’s not technically a sport so it will be pay to participate. 

We are also not funding field hockey because of the division rank and it’s not a popular sport among our students. We then had to decide what to do with the remaining money. We decided to pay for court resurfacing for basketball. Since both basketball teams use the same court we are only paying for one resurfacing. After the $15,000 it costs to resurface, our remaining total came out to $15,700.

We then decided to pay for the most cost effective benefits to select sports. We decided to pay for new suits for swimming, new field equipment for track and field, and new landing mats for track and field. Our remaining money came out to $900. This remaining money will be used if any sport team needs something extra during the season. We cut out baseball and softball tournaments in Florida because of the cost. Paying $10,000 for each team to travel to Florida didn’t make much fiscal sense due to our limited budget.