Listed below are areas that will be impacted with the budget reduction for 2008-09. The total for the Department of Athletics is $222,691. In order to accommodate the loss of funds ($222,691), some areas identified may be eliminated or reduced, or transferred to another funding source.

• Eliminate a clerical position within the department. The impact will be adding some additional responsibilities to existing office staff and relying more on student help, possibly creating a disruption in customer service.

• Eliminating $25,000 in printing costs for sport media guides by putting them on cd's or online. Impact will be that this will eliminate an expense, but may also create a hardship for those who don't use computers to be able to download these media guides for reference. These costs are currently through the foundation, but this would allow for a movement of general fund expenditures to be transferred to the foundation, which will also carry a minimum 6% administrative fee.

• Transferring student assistants to the Foundation. Impact is that this will actually carry an additional 11% administrative fee along with any applicable withholding taxes, which will require increasing revenues in order to have foundation dollars to offset this move.

• 2007-08 non-base budget allocations were spent on increased annual maintenance costs for the Paciolan Ticketing System, restoring a clerical assistant position used for external operations, and for support of higher competitive salaries for Men's Basketball. These expenses are committed and such, only a portion will remain in non-base budget, which means across the board sport operating budget reductions, or increased fundraising. Movement of these expenses will result in additional administrative fees associated with the actual expense.