And as a state, we could stand tall knowing we weren t trying to fund government off our citizens weaknesses, Paulton said. The money from the video lottery industry is put into the state s general money fund. The money is then divided among various areas, departments and institutions. The five other state universities would also have been affected by the repeal of video lottery. We would have to look at everything.
People get accustomed to the service the money has provided.
When you cut back, something has to suffer, said Don Erlenbusch, vice president of finance and administration. Erlenbusch said that if a program was costing the school too much money and if its output didn t have a good return, it may have to be cut. He said that NSU would have maintained the level of service the students, faculty and staff had previously received. Erlenbusch, Don A. Cozzetto, vice president for academic affairs, and President John Hilpert met together to discuss the possibility of the amendment passing. However, Erlenbusch said that no one was panicking.