Let’s go back a little bit. When we first got elected, we sat down. I went to committee and said, Here’s the fiscal picture that we’re looking at; we’re going to need to reduce. I gave a target to Members, and based on that, we made the announcement.

Now, I heard from a lot of Members say that if there’s going to be an impact, you need to limit it on employees. If there’s going to be an impact, notify

them early. In fact, the UNW.... I had meetings with the president, and he said that if there’s going to be impact, let the people know early.

We did make a mistake in the sense of the timing. The package of materials should have been brought to Members before that announcement and the calls went to employees for setting up appointments. That’s been clarified. That won’t happen again in that process. That’s a glitch, for sure. I went to Members, and I apologized for that. We fixed that situation. The fact is the initiatives, the goal, the revenue, the big picture — we went and sat down with Members.

The Member, from what I see, would like to be beside me making some of those decisions. You elected a Cabinet that had to pull some of this stuff together. We fully realize there’s going to be some good and bad to it. I encourage Members.... Let’s do things differently here, and let’s extend it so that we can come up with a full plan with more input to meet the goals. What Members told me is to get a full budget in place by May–June.

I believe this budget sets the course for where we want to go. The rest of the year the business plans coming up will fall back into a scenario of an improved system in the sense of not just your typical business plan. That’s the pattern this one is based on. It is that more interactive approach I went to Members with. We’ll have more input when we sit down and talk about the business-plan process coming up.