Sorry, Mr.
Chair. This is
something we try to deal with on a regular basis. For administrative ease — and dealing with some of the ins and outs of staffing and people moving and people going on transfer assignments — it’s a lot easier, at times, to create positions. Generally, as a department, we work with all of the departments to try to clean that up on an annual basis, so we go through and eliminate these vacant positions that are just on the books. They’re not really doing anything, they’re not costing us anything; it just makes it a lot cleaner, administratively, to remove them from the books.