Thank you, Mr. Chair. As I indicated earlier, we did receive forced growth of $943,000 for collective bargaining. I also mentioned that we had some unfunded positions that we were funding from other sources that what we did is we moved the money out of that area into compensation and benefits where it was not reflected before. To be clear, the employee count was there last year. It’s just the source of the compensation and benefits was not showing up in compensation and benefits, so we did that. There were seven positions for a total of $940,000 that that accounts for.

In addition to that, we did some reallocation given that, as Members may know, that when positions are funded, if they’re new funded, they get funded to 23 percent benefits. Many of the old positions or most of the old positions were funded at 17.5, and as a result of that, given that the size of the Department of Finance over the last two fiscal years nearly doubled in size of the department, we couldn’t afford, really, to continue on that way. So, again, we reallocated some money to move that 17.5 percent to 23 percent, and that was for a total of $984,000.

As well, recognizing that we also had, as a result, some positions that changed in terms of either they were changed in the evaluation or they changed completely for an additional about $170,000. That’s really the accounting for the difference in the $3.26 million, an increase of compensation from last year’s main estimates to this year’s proposed main estimates.