The University of Hawaii athletic department will help underwrite the cost of up to 75 parking stalls for its students at each of the Warriors’ remaining home football games, it told the Aloha Stadium Authority on Thursday.

If all 75 stalls are used, UH will pay $375, the public parking price. There must be a minimum of three student IDs per car to encourage carpooling, and space will be allotted on a first-come, first served basis, said associate athletic director Carl Clapp.

Graduate student Tom Robinson said the students and athletic department would review the number at the end of the season. UH also provides buses to take students to and from the games.

Under the terms of the student-athletic fee imposed in January, 4 percent of the nearly $2 million paid by students each academic year must be used to enhance the student experience at athletic events.

In other news, the authority said a notice of award is being sent to Sodexo as the winning bidder for the facility’s 10-year food and beverage contract. Terms of the agreement were not immediately available. Sodexo, which also operates the concession at the Stan Sheriff Center, will begin operation at Aloha Stadium on Jan. 6, 2012. Centerplate has held the rights for 11 years.

The stadium and UH said they have decided to discontinue an experimental opening of the turnstile gates 2 hours before kickoff and will return to opening 90 minutes prior to kickoff. Stadium manager Scott Chan said not enough fans took advantage of the early opening at the Colorado game to make it worthwhile. He said it cost $1,000 for the early opening "and neither UH nor the stadium is willing to absorb the cost."