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...College estimated in November that 2,000 people would purchase tickets, and the unexpectedly high attendance greatly increased the cost of providing food for all the tailgaters, McLoughlin said. The total cost for the event...
...Major expenses [were] the HUDS barbecue ($28,829) and alcohol service and set-up ($19,899),” McLoughlin wrote in an e-mail. “Cleaning Ohiri Field on Sunday morning cost $6,109, just to pick up trash and remove all broken glass and furniture...
...costs of cleaning were also unexpectedly high, according to McLoughlin. Furniture had to be broken down and removed and the turf had to be replaced where broken glass had been crushed in. But the cost of repairing the fields was still significantly less the $50,000 spent in 2002 when the tailgates were at Cumnock Fields. The expense of replacing the grass after vehicles drove on the field in 2002 prompted this year’s prohibition of U-hauls and restriction on cars at the tailgate...
...College did not anticipated the difficulties associated with planning the 2004 festivities, according to McLoughlin, and so did not account for the cost of the tailgate in the annual budget. Instead, it allocated money out of the dean’s discretionary fund...
...discretionary funds are not bottomless,” McLoughlin said. “In the future, we might try to hold this as a break-even event...