Original sentence: "University of Augusta" was preferred locally and in the national telephone survey.Additionally, over $97,000 in renovations had been previously conducted at the president's official home without seeking Board of Regents approval as required.Azziz and senior staff discussed and decided it would not be appropriate to use official vehicles at the event, but did not communicate this to the GRU chief of police–who sought and received approval from his supervisor to use the vehicles.Azziz became a controversial figure locally during the GRU merger due to not supporting including "Augusta" in the new university's name.During the controversy over the wedding, it also became public that a $75,000 carport expansion to the garage at the university president's home had been awarded by GRU without Board of Regents approval.Following a review by the Board of Regents, Azziz and members of his senior staff organized and conducted a six-hour training session on Board of Regents policy as corrective action, and hourly staffers returned their gratuities in order to be paid through the University -- which in turn billed the groom.GRU commissioned a telephone survey during the university naming process, at a public cost of US$45,000.GRU officials cited ignorance of the policy, believing that projects under $1 million did not require Board of Regents approval.In April 2013, GRU used university staff (housekeeper, groundskeeper, and university police) and university police vehicles and a shuttle for a family wedding at the president's official residence.Presidential household staff and university police volunteered their time and were paid in gratuity by the groom, though hourly workers were not legally allowed to do this