In May 2007 the faculty of Sonoma State University voted no-confidence in President Armiñana, alleging that he underfunded the academic budget and made decisions without consulting the faculty. Faculty charged the spiraling cost of the Green Music Center is taking money from academic programs. The Green Music Center was first proposed as a small choral hall. But after Armiñana visited the famed Tanglewood concert hall in Massachusetts in 1996, he was inspired to think big. The hall went from a $10 million idea presented to Green to a $22 million proposal for the larger concert hall in 1998. Now the initial $22 million price tag has ballooned to an estimated $145 million. The project include four components—the 1,400-seat concert hall, a smaller recital hall, a hospitality center with meeting rooms and a restaurant, and a music education building that will house the arts programs and accommodate community groups. So far about $55 million has been raised through private donations, including a $12 million donation from Joan and Sandy Weill, announced in March 2011, that provided the funds to complete the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall for the fall 2012 opening. Another $18.1 million has come from state construction bonds and $25 million from the state capital program for the music faculty offices and instructional equipment in the academic building. The campus will use taxpayer funds to cover the $934,054 it will cost each year to operate the center. The 250-seat Schroeder's Recital Hall was completed in 2014. Throughout the controversies the CSU Board of Trustees continued to support Armiñana. In August 2015 Armiñana announced he would retire at the end of June 2016.