Thank you, Mr. Chair. With respect to compensation and benefits for the department, the increase is almost $3.2 million of which collective bargaining is about $950,000. Due to some budget true-up exercise and accounting for some collective bargaining and benefits for those positions that came over from various transfers from last year, there’s another $984,000 increase in those benefits from 17.5 percent to 23 percent to capture the total burden cost. Then there were some internal reallocations for some unfunded positions. We just moved the money from other parts of the budget and put it in compensation and benefits to show the true costs of those unfunded positions. So while the position count hasn’t increased, the salary dollars to do that have been increased to match that count.

So, while the Member is correct, it has gone up, but the only real forced growth that we did get incremental money is about $943,000 in total for collective bargaining. Thank you.