Budget Allocation Assignment--John Ruppert, Anthony Tacey, CJ Gilvens, Tad Margolies

After completing the budget allocation assignment our group balanced the budget so that each sport would get all of there wants and needs. To sum up the numbers briefly we have 17 sport programs, 459 student athletes, the bold numbers all together add up to $152,350 and the total to complete everything would be $238,750.  We first stated with a $120,000 budget and we accepted the football player’s donation of $20,000 and allocated it all to the football team for the new tackling dummies. We decided that any donation should be allocated to the specific sport in which the donation came, the reason we decided on this was because if a previous football player’s donation went to support the baseball team or another team that may or may not make the donor upset and decided never to donate again.  Next we decided to have the largest four teams do a fundraiser. (Football, Men’s and Women’s Swimming, Women’s Track and Field, and Men’s Track and Field) The reason for this was because we felt that those teams that had the highest number of participants could raise the most money. Our group decided that each athlete from those four sports would be able to raise $60 each. As of now if you would add up the numbers, $120,000 budget, $20,000 donation, and $15,300 from fundraisers our athletic department would have a total of $155,300 a little over the total we need of $152,350 to do all the bold.

         However, we decided that it would not be fair to favor one team over another, for that reason we decided to provide everything on the needs/cost list. In order to complete everything on the list we would need a total of $238,750, Already having $155,350 we would need to come up with $83,450. After overlooking the needs list we noticed that both men’s and women’s basketball wanted a court resurfacing, however in our high school we have one gym therefore we would only need to resurface one court deducting $15,000 for our total budget. Also, we looked at Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and decided that these teams could share mats together since most Men’s and Women’s teams practice together, however later on their will be an opportunity for each teams to have their own mats. With this it would deduct $6,000 more from our budget leaving us with a grand totally of $62,450 to try and generate.  As a group we decided the best way to raise the $62,450 would be to do a pay to play status.  Each athlete would have to pay $150, this would generate $68,850. In total we would only need $62,450, and with the total generated being at $68,850 we would have a surplus of $6,400.  As stated earlier there would be and opportunity for each Men’s and Women’s Track and Field team to have their own mats. Come to find out if these two teams found it difficult to share mates, out of that $6,400 surplus $6,000 would go to buying a second set of mats so each team could have their own set of mats. This would give every team their needs as well as their wants still leaving the athletic department with a surplus of $400.