Budget Allocation: Jay Clark, Brandon Focht, Anthony Cornwell, Ben Mathey

For our budget allocation project, we based the entire process on fairness and equity. We tried to be unbiased in our decision making and think we came up with a very balanced solution to this athletic department's issues. We started with $120,000 in the budget and and added the $20,000 donation to the total to give us $140,000. Then, we decided that for our fundraisers we would use the sports that had the most participating athletes to help us raise the maximum amount of money. This led us to choose football, swimming, men's track, and women's track. With these four sports doing a fundraiser, we were able to bring in an additional $15,300. This brought our total $155,300. We looked at the mandatory expenses and came up with $151,350. The money we had in the community fund ($155,300) covered all of the mandatory expenses and we still had $3,950 left over. We looked at the remainder of the expenses and decided that we did not need to resurface the basketball court because that can typically be done every other year. After cutting out that $15,000 expense, we came up with $64,900 in additional expenses. After allocating $2,400 to the men's and women's soccer teams for new jerseys, we were left with $45,950 in additional expenses. We chose to give the $2,400 to the soccer team because both programs were highly ranked in the conference and that is the one decision we made based on team rank. Finally, in order to come with the last $45,950, we decided to implement a 'pay-for-play' system for all of our athletic teams. We decided to charge each athlete $100 and with 469 athletes, we would be able to generate $46,900 which would cover all of our expenses and leave us with $950.