Thank you, Madam Chair. There is a decrease of $236,000 in that implementation phase that's a -- funding total were taken out $250,000 for external facilitator services. And also there's a $14,000 increase for compensation and benefits for northern union.
We are very serious. We will still use facilitators as necessary. COVID slowed down some of them. But the facilitators, we have facilitators that are needed, negotiators. There's a couple of groups that we promised that could use facilitators. At this point, the groups are not willing to -- at least one of them, not wanting to use facilitators. So until the groups can say we want those facilitators at the table, both groups, then there's no sense putting it in our budget. So if we need more in the next year, then we'll look at implementing more. But at this point, I don't see that we need them. I think we can do the work without. Thank you, Madam Chair.