Thank you, Madam Chairperson. With the area of the fuel price increases or the request for supplementary appropriation from a number of the departments is...From within FMB, when departments would come forward and they would request money up front for increasing their budgets based on the possibility of price increases, we would send them back and say come back with actuals, because the price of oil would be fluctuating too much.

This amount goes back to 2002. We feel that with this adjustment, we shouldn't have to come back with another request for this next year. However, if the prices of fuel continue to climb, there could be that necessity to come back for further requests for that. Our policy is that we build the budgets to not adjust them for forced growth until they could have the actual numbers, because of the volatility of the price itself. We feel with the adjustments and with the budget adjustments in the budget we just brought forward, that departments should be able to live within what has been appropriated. Thank you.