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That's okay. But I will say that as part of the budget process, we've started meeting with the directors, and we had a whole day of training workshops with directors and for directors on Monday about budget and how do we interact with the budget, what is our budget process, but also how do we work in SAP and what are these 7 numbers mean all in a row, and how are we supposed to remember all 150 of the fund numbers, etc., etc. And part of that conversation was making sure that all of the directors, because we've had a high turnover in the last 5 years, all of the directors understand that the overtime budgets are adjusted when they request the overtime budgets to be requested. And that's the same for the bulk of their budget proposals, is they are in charge of letting us know when there are challenges with their department. If we see them, we you know, talk to them and sort of consult about it.

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