As time passed, the success of the union made it difficult to maintain the aging building, and by the late 1980s, the Union began to lose its charisma to students. A 1986 study found that about $10 million would need to be spent by 1994 to fix the plumbing, roofing and heating system in the union. In 1994 there were plans to renovate the Union, but those plans were defeated in 1996 by a student referendum. Rebecca Park, Director 1994–2001, unable to address the structural issues, instead focused on student programming at the Union, and Tracy Stuck, Director 2001–2010, merged the Office of Student Activities with the Ohio Union staff to support the Union's mission of providing students with the best services and activities and brought a Buckeye theme back to the building by making aesthetic changes and adding scarlet and gray into the décor. Even with the changes, the Union still was outdated.