"It's a comfortable size right now," he said, adding that as the meets grow more funds will be needed.
Officials now say that was optimistic, and more funding will be needed to help them combat the plant's spread.
In fact the fund had a surplus of $5 billion at the end of 2002, and GE does not expect that extra funding will be needed.
The seed money raised from Benchmark should be enough to enable the university to open, but another round of funding will be needed to complete the job.
Additional funding will be needed to make the positive measures in the care bill a reality and to make social care sustainable in the future.
There have been vocal dissidents, many of whom don't like the stadium's downtown location, because it will affect traffic and air quality, or the fact that public funds will be needed to finance part of the project.
Legislation to finance the budget is meeting obstruction, even though more funds will be needed for disaster relief.Even if the authorities were to take more assured control of the crisis, the short-term problems remain immense.
At the end of February, the bailout programme is due to expire, and new funding will be needed; would the Greeks really want to borrow at the current market rate (for three-year bonds) of 10.8%?
But it escapes no one that a considerable amount of funding will be needed to support such transformations, and that somebody will have to weigh just how that funding is allocated.
"This money should not come out of existing aid commitments which are already under pressure in the current economic downturn," said chair of the committee, Malcolm Bruce MP. "Substantial funding will be needed.
