After reducing projected profits for Fiscal Year 1988 by $35,000, the budget committee of the Athletic Board voted Wednesday to allow the athletic department to cut its budget during the fiscal year instead of before the budget is presented to the board April 29.

Budget committee chairman Gary Glenn said the President’s Fee Study Committee projected in February that the athletic department would earn $2,355,917 in revenues in FY ‘88. Glenn said the budget committee came up more conservatively with $2,295,917 as a revenue projection. After adjustments in expenditures, the committee came up with $35,000 less in profits for FY ’88.

The result is NIU athletic directors Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones will have to cut $35,000 from the budget. But Pembroke-Jones requested Wednesday an additional $7,750 total be added to the budget for women’s basketball, women’s game management and women’s administration.

She said when the Fee Study Committee met with her and Brigham, final figures for these items were unavailable because of costs to the Physical Plant. As a result, revenue projections for these items could not be determined for sure until now. She said the $7,750 would be paid back in the course of FY ‘88

The committee voted against the $2,500 Pembroke-Jones requested for women’s basketball. Glenn said Pembroke-Jones wanted the money for recruiting, an item that can be cut through reduction of recruiting. But the other $5,250 was approved by the committee since Physical Plant costs are not clear-cut.

The addition of $5,250 leaves the athletic department with $40,250 to cut during FY ’88, which begins July 1. This is a process called lapsing, Glenn said. Because Pembroke-Jones made the request, the women’s athletic department will have to take care of the $5,250 on its own. The other $35,000 will be cut the same way the budget is allocated: 60 percent for the men and 40 percent for the women.

As a result, women’s athletics will have to slice out $14,000 of the $35,000 and men’s athletics will have to carve $21,000 of the total. The final tally leaves men’s athletics with $21,000 to cut by July 1, 1988 and women’s athletics with $19,250 to trim.

The committee decided the $40,250 would be listed on the final budget presented to the board as an unallocated reduction, because neither Brigham nor Pembroke-Jones will be required to itemize in what areas the reductions will come. However, Glenn said it will be noted on the budget how the budget cut is to be broken down.

Pembroke-Jones said she does not know what areas can be cut, but one area is definitely not possible.

“Sports medicine cannot be touched every year because we always have deficits there,” she said. “That’s been a real problem for years.”

Brigham was out of town and unavailable for comment.

The committee proposed three other options for dealing with the reduction in the budget before accepting its final proposal. Option one stated lapsing the $35,000 plus Pembroke-Jones’ requested $7,750.

The second option had Brigham and Pembroke-Jones cutting the $35,000 in advance of presentation of the budget to the board. In this option, the $7,750 Pembroke-Jones requested would not even be considered. This was the position the committee held before the meeting.

The third option would have had the $35,000 but not the $7,750 lapsed during FY ‘88. Committee member Earl Seaver was not in favor of giving the $7,750 and having it paid back during the fiscal year.

The committee said one problem that might arise with the final proposal of lapsing $40,250 would be if Brigham already instructed Athletic Business Manager Patti Perkins of the cuts he would make in the budget, before the budget was presented to the board. But Perkins said Wednesday Brigham has not given her any directions about that matter.