While the University Board did not plan on breaking even or turning a profit when it brought Everclear to Eastern, they spent more of the student concert fee on the show than expected.

However, even with the UB’s underestimates, they have spent fewer concert fee dollars on various shows throughout the semester than anticipated.

UB chair Caleb Judy said the UB has calculated estimates from the Everclear concert on Oct. 26 in Lantz Gymnasium, and while some costs may fluctuate, he expects most fees will remain constant or close to predictions.

“If they change it will be very insignificantly, like by a couple of hundred dollars here or there,” Judy said.

The UB used about $29,500 from the student concert fee budget. While the board didn’t make any initial estimates on how much of the budget they would use, Judy said they did not plan to use that much money.

Ticket sales to the general public were lower than he expected, causing the higher costs, he said.

“One of the things I was disappointed with was the general public (ticket) sales,” he said.

The UB sold 1,613 tickets, including 1,389 to students at $10 each and 224 to the general public at $15 each. Revenue from ticket sales totaled about $17,250.

Lantz arena had the capacity to

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facilitate about 3,000 people for the concert. While Judy said student sales were far better than he had hoped, the UB may change their advertising strategies while promoting the next concert to the general public.

“(Low general public ticket sales) was the only fault in the show, I think,” he said.

The total estimated expense of the Everclear concert was more than $46,000. The Gelheads, the opening band, were paid $100 while Everclear was paid $27,500. Caleb said the band fees were definite totals and would not fluctuate.

Other expenses such as catering and advertising were estimated and are likely to go over, but may be offset by overestimates like the cost of the stage crew, Judy said.

“We ended up using less people than we planned (for the stage crew),” he said.

“We did a very good job of estimating.”

Despite the unexpected overspending for Everclear, Judy said the concert committee has spent fewer concert fee dollars throughout the semester than anticipated.

The UB planned to use half of the concert fee budget, which was implemented to bring ticket prices down for students and act as a financial buffer during concert planning. This is the first year students have paid a concert fee and every year it will bring in about $100,000. The UB plans to spend half of the budget every semester. So far this semester, the UB has spent about $5,000 concert fee dollars to bring Lucky Boys Confusion and about $29,500 for Everclear.

The UB made about $3,000 profit from the Family Weekend Jeff Foxworthy show, which went back into the concert fee budget, adding up to total of about $33,000 taken from the concert fee budget.

Judy said the board plans on spending more money and taking more risks next semester because they have done so well spending this semester.