Yet since he took office in 1994, the budget has grown by nearly $40 billion.
The annual budget has grown 25% in past three years.
The budget had grown to $5.5 million in 2009, with government providing just 11% of the total.
Since 1980, the school's annual budget has grown to $1.9 million from $650,000.
The budget had grown to its current $600,000 from $18,000.
There have been difficult times, as the festival's budget grew in the last seven years to $1.6 million from $280,000.
The budget was growing every year, although not always at the rate of inflation.
Its budget has grown more than 20-fold since 1993, to an estimated $85 million this year.
The annual budget has grown to almost $30 million from $300,000.
Its annual budget has grown from $100,000 in 1971 to more than $100 million today.